by D.B.S. Jeyaraj Two pistol shots rang out in the afternoon of Thursday March 13th 2014 at house No. 5 of the Indian Housing scheme in Musalampitty in the Puliyampokkanai area of Tharmapuram region in Kilinochchi district. A fifty year old Police officer named Ratnakumara attached to the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) was injured. The Read More
Sri Lanka claimed on Sunday there was a “division” among members of the UN Human Rights Council over a U.S.-backed resolution and termed it a victory for the country. Sri Lankan President’s Human Rights Envoy and Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe, who returned after addressing regional groups of the UNHRC, said the 47-member rights body stands divided Read More
In separate letters to President Mahinda Rajapaksa and UN Human Rights Chief Navaneetham Pillay, TULF leader V. Anandasangaree has called on Pillay to look for alternative ways to deal with the problem than calling for an international probe.
The search in the Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet resumed just after daybreak on Monday, Australian authorities announced.
The meeting rooms at the Palais des Nations in Geneva have been reverberating with pro-LTTE rhetoric during the 25th session of the UN Human Rights Council sessions which are now underway.
The Presidential Commission to investigate cases of alleged disappearances of persons in the Northern and Eastern Provinces during the period 1990 – 2009 concluded its first public sitting in the East yesterday (March 22) with 129 people from Chenkallady, Vakarai and Batticaloa making submissions.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has blamed opposition parties of trying to engineer his downfall with international support saying his government is being punished for ending terrorism.
The High Commissioner of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Sri Lanka, Maj Gen (R) Qasim Qureshi said that the brotherly and time tested relationship between Pakistan and Sri Lanka is one of choice not compulsion, as it is based on trust and mutual respect, and its strength lies in multifaceted engagement in many fields Read More
The report published by “Sri Lanka Brief” ( http://www.srilankabrief.org/2014/03/sri-lanka-army-says-video-of-solidiers.html ) is misleading. The title that they used deliberately to mislead the reader is ”Sri Lanka Army says video of Solidiers beating Tamil female recruits is authentic”
අවශ්‍ය නම් ස්වාධීන පරීක‍්ෂණ කණ්ඩායමක් පත් කරනවා – ලේකම් චෙන්කලාඩි, වාකරේ හා මඩකළපුවේ පුද්ගලයන් 129 දෙනෙක් නැගෙනහිර පළාතේ සිය පළමු මහජන සාක‍්ෂි කැඳවීමට එක් වූ බවත් එහිදී නව පැමිණිලි 1,289ක් ලැබුණු බවත් පුද්ගල අතුරුදහන්වීම් පිළිබඳ විමර්ශනය කරන ජනාධිපති කොමිසමේ ලේකම් එච්.ඩබ්. ගුණදාස මහතා පැවසීය. කොමිසමට අනුව යාපනයේ හා කිලිනොච්චියේ පැවති සාක‍්ෂි විමසීම්වලදී ලැබුණු පැමිණිලිවලින් කිහිපයක් Read More
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