Housing project for plantation Tamils
The Indian government’s housing project for hill country Tamils of Sri Lanka, envisaging the construction of 4,000 houses, will be launched very shortly. The houses...
Missing Persons Panel Seeks An Year’s Extension
The Sri Lankan Missing Persons’ Commission headed by retired Justice Maxwell Paranagama, has requested the government to extend its term by a year from February...
We Can’t Survive in Isolation
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has told Lankan security forces personnel that Lanka was answerable to the international community regarding charges of human rights violations...
Need safeguards against majoritarianism
Jayampathy Wickramaratne, 67, is one of the most keenly watched persons in Sri Lanka at the moment. He chairs the committee appointed by Prime Minister...
US envoy to Geneva insists Lanka needs foreign judges
The US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Keith Harper, says Sri Lanka must have foreign judges in the accountability process on...
The agony of Sri Lanka’s carapace of peace
Our return to Sri Lanka’s killing fields has managed to coincide with two major developments – the first is the President’s announcement that there will...