- 23 February 2018
Zeid calls for tougher international action on Sri Lanka war crimes
Noticeably frustrated by Sri Lanka’s inaction on delivering justice to victims of a war concluded nine years ago, the UN human rights chief has called upon international powers to take a tougher stance. Releasing a special report on the...........
- 21 February 2018
Global powers that helped Sri Lanka in war 'should help find disappeared'
Marking a year of continuous protests in search of their loved ones, relatives of forcibly disappeared in the north and east of Sri Lanka called upon international powers to come to their assistance. Tamils from Kilinochchi...........
- 15 February 2018
UN urged to stop sending Sri Lanka commander for Lebanon peacekeeping
The United Nations have come under fire for failing to screen a Sri Lanka military commander before his deployment for peacekeeping operations in Lebanon. Several rights organisations have written......
- 31 January 2018
Sri Lanka: Navy officer in-charge of dumping dead bodies at sea arrested
Probing the abduction of Tamil youth in the capital city of Colombo and its suburbs during the height of the war, Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested yet another Navy intelligence officer.................
- 20 February 2018
UN stops Sri Lanka commander from peacekeeping operations
In a rare acknowledgement of failure in its screening process, the United Nations has stopped a Sri Lankan military commander from going for a peacekeeping mission in the middle east. Up until several rights watchdogs and Tamil...........
- 05 February 2018
UN gets no response from Sri Lanka on role of spy chief in torture
In an apparent rejection of international scrutiny, Sri Lanka has failed to answer questions raised by the United Nations more than a year ago on the role of the country’s spy chief on torture allegations during the bloody civil war..........
- 26 January 2018
Tamils push back bid to legalise Sri Lanka military landgrabbing
A group of war displaced Tamils have prevented state authorities from officially validating the illegal occupation of private owned land in the Jaffna peninsula by Sri Lanka security forces. Government surveyors who arrived at a village............
