- 20 July 2016
Families of the disappeared question TNA on Office of Missing Persons
Meeting with families of the disappeared, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) members of parliament and the northern provincial council admitted that they were unaware of any recommendations........
- 12 July 2016
War Victims testifying in Sri Lanka missions abroad ‘cannot happen’
An international human rights organization that has documented many cases of ongoing torture in Sri Lanka has cast doubt over the government’s sincerity in seeking the truth by requesting witness living abroad to testify in......
- 20 June 2016
Tamil asylum seekers given stopgap access to land not allowed to meet UN
Indonesian authorities who provisionally allowed marooned Tamil asylum seekers to come ashore before sending them back to sea have not been given access to the UN Refugee Agency. Neither the......
- 31 May 2016
Sri Lanka will not prosecute those responsible for disappearances
The government of Sri Lanka will not take legal action against those found to have been responsible for enforced disappearances. Sri Lanka's cabinet of ministers gave its approval on 24 May to set up a Office on Missing Persons (OMP) to seek the...........
- 04 July 2016
Abducted and tortured Tamil fearing Sri Lanka state intelligence seeks security
A Tamil man from northern Sri Lanka who was found abandoned with severe torture injuries on the same day the country’s president took to the streets on a ‘Stop Torture’ campaign, has appealed to............
- 16 June 2016
Tamils displaced for 26 years urge president to honour Christmas vow
Sri Lanka president was urged to fulfil his Christmas eve pledge to release land held by the occupying military in the country’s north by Tamils who held religious ceremonies to mark twenty six years since they were..............
- 11 April 2016
UN had early warning of Sri Lanka's military assault against Tamils
Nearly one year before Sri Lanka concluded its military assault against Tamils in a bloody massacre, the country's President had made his intentions clear to the United Nations. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa had informed..............
