Institutions for Ensuring Truth, Justice, Reparations and Non-recurrence- Mangala Samaraweera
Sri Lankans – whether they be children in the North desperate to know if their fathers are alive or not, mothers of soldiers yearning to...
Commission had troubled relationship with international experts
Even as Sri Lanka continues to debate the nature and extent of participation of foreign judges in the proposed judicial mechanism to go into allegations...
Commission Points finger at Police, LTTE
The N.K.Udalagama Commission which inquired into seven cases of grave violation of human rights at the beginning of Eelam War IV, has pointed an accusing...
Eknaligoda case could set a precedent for prosecution
Sri Lankan police have detained 11 people, most of them soldiers or former soldiers, in a widening probe into the disappearance of a cartoonist that...
All Parties Will Meet to Address UNHRC Proposal
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said that the government will take the opinion of all opposition parties on establishing a mechanism to investigate alleged...
We Live in Constant Fear
Sri Lanka’s police forces regularly torture and ill-treat criminal suspects in custody, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today 23 October 2015....
Individuals could have violated International Humanitarian and Human Rights laws
The Maxwell Paranagama Commission on involuntary disappearances and war crimes, whose report was tabled in Sri Lankan parliament on Tuesday, has said that while the...
LTTE killed 51 girls in Naddalamottankulam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been blamed by a probe panel for the killing of 51 schoolgirls in Naddalamottankulam of the Northern...
India should stop treating Sri Lanka as a friendly country
DMK on Thursday demanded that India should stop treating Sri Lanka as a "friendly country" and take steps for a credible international enquiry into allegations...
Paranagama Panel Moots Change of Laws
The report of the Maxwell Paranagama commission on forced disappearances and war crimes, which was tabled in the Sri Lankan parliament on Tuesday, has said...
Credible inquiry into rights violations in Sri Lanka possible
India’s former Union Finance and Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said “credible inquiry” [into alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka] could be achieved...
Paranagama Report
The government's report on the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into complaints of Abductions and Disappearances contains detailed rejection of the allegations against Sri Lanka's military...
Plantation companies for ‘revenue sharing’
In a significant progressive step in the ongoing plantation sector wage discussions, the Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) have put forward their recommendation for a revenue...
Former Japanese judge suggested for judicial mechanism
The name of Motoo Noguchi, a Japanese judge who took part in the Khemer Rouge trials during 2006-2012, has been suggested by Japanese Prime Minister...
Tough economic challenges
Sri Lanka’s new administration is facing a lot of internal and external challenges with the economy received from the former regime and it will take...