- 11 March 2020
No report from Sri Lanka’s rights body on two years old anti-Muslim riots
Sri Lanka’s national human rights watchdog is yet to release its report into investigations on anti-Muslim violence that ravaged the country’s highlands two years ago. In March 2008 over a thousand Sinhalese.........
- 10 March 2020
Threat of ethnic-religious violence in Sri Lanka, warns UN
Sri Lanka has been warned that the government’s failure to rein in Buddhist extremist groups enjoying impunity while unleashing violence against minorities, threatens to propel the country into a vicious......
- 26 February 2020
“Erased” Tamil victims challenge UN rights chief’s latest report on Sri Lanka
More than a hundred Tamils in Sri Lanka and the UK including those tortured by security forces this month, have written to the UN rights chief denouncing her report for being “heavily biased towards the............
- 10 December 2019
Rights watchdog fires salvo on Sri Lanka’s top defence official
Sri Lanka's top defence official came under attack for mass atrocities from an international body investigating human rights abuses in the country, weeks after a new government took office........
- 06 March 2020
Sri Lanka: Nearly 70 dead within three years in search for disappeared
A large number of Tamils in Sri Lanka have died while in protest demanding the government to reveal the fate of their loved ones who are victims of enforced disappearances, the UN heard. As revealed to the..........
- 12 February 2020
More skeletal remains discovered in Sri Lanka's former war zone
A judge has ordered methodical excavations of a site in Sri Lanka’s former war zone after construction workers discovered skeletal remains considered as belonging to humans. The bones were unearthed.....
- 08 November 2019
More skeletal remains surface in Sri Lanka’s former war zone
Skeletal remains including at least one human skull had been unearthed in an area struck by heavy shelling during the final stages of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war that ended ten years ago. Judicial medical..........
