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Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they've been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday. Complete Story...
Sri Lanka's top general, who led the battle to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels and ended the island's 30-year civil war, resigned from his post Thursday but declined to discuss his future plans.
Vinojan's boyhood ended when Sri Lanka's civil war reignited.
More than 4,000 ethnic Tamils displaced by civil war left government-run camps Thursday, the latest to be released amid international criticism that Sri Lanka is moving too slowly to let thousands of others go.
A billionaire hedge fund manager charged in a $25 million insider trading case was sued by victims of violence in Sri Lanka who say he helped finance separatist rebels notorious for suicide bombings.
A schoolgirl was killed by a car bomb in northwestern Sri Lanka that also wounded 12 others Friday, mostly students who were about to travel in the vehicle, officials said.
Sri Lankan soldiers fired on a group of war refugees trying to flee a camp in the north of the island, wounding two, the military said Sunday.
Sri Lanka's president promised Friday to send nearly 300,000 Tamil war refugees who are being held in military-run camps back to their homes in the next four months, the government said.
A U.N. rights expert called Thursday for an "independent and impartial investigation" into a video that purports to show Sri Lankan troops killing naked, blindfolded men during the recently ended civil war.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is sending the U.N. political chief to Sri Lanka to press the government to step up the release of nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians who have been detained since the South Asian nation's civil war ended in May.
Sri Lankan authorities sent home nearly 10,000 war refugees Friday amid growing international concern for the nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians still detained in government-run camps.
The United Nations children's agency expressed concern Tuesday about Sri Lanka's decision to expel its spokesman and rejected allegations that it was biased against the government during the recently ended 25-year civil war.
Sri Lanka's government defended a 20-year prison sentence given to a journalist accused of violating the country's strict anti-terror law, saying he was given a fair trial and the decision did not impact media freedom on the island.
A Sri Lankan reporter singled out by President Barack Obama as an example of persecuted journalists around the globe was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison on charges of violating the country's strict anti-terror law.
Sri Lanka's Roman Catholic leaders called for the release of ethnic Tamils held in military-run displacement camps on Saturday, saying they are confined like prisoners behind barbed wire.
A human rights group on Tuesday urged Sri Lanka to release hundreds of thousands of war refugees from camps hit by flooding over the weekend saying their lives were in danger from disease.
Sri Lanka's ruling coalition and an ethnic Tamil party seen as a front for the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels have won the first postwar elections, held near the island's former battlefields.
Sri Lanka hailed elections Saturday near an area once dominated by the Tamil Tiger rebels as the first seeds of democracy sprouting along the former battlefields of its recently ended civil war, but voters largely stayed away from the polls in the violence-scarred region.
The arrest of the Tamil Tigers' new leader has dealt a major blow to the rebels' efforts to regroup and push on with their separatist struggle after being routed by Sri Lankan forces, the government said Friday.
Sri Lanka says that a wanted arms smuggler who recently took over as the new leader of the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels has been arrested overseas.
An international media rights group has expressed outrage at the Sri Lanka's decision to ban journalists from covering the first local elections in the north since the military defeated the Tamil Tiger rebels.
The United States on Monday expressed concern over hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans displaced by war who are currently confined to military-run camps and pledged funds to help their resettlement.
The International Monetary Fund has given final approval for a $2.6 billion loan for Sri Lanka despite calls from human rights groups that the island nation should first address concerns over its human rights record.
In just six months, one of the world's largest camps for war refugees has been carved out of the jungles of northern Sri Lanka, complete with banks, post offices, schools and a supermarket. But no one is allowed out, and hardly anyone is allowed in.
Sri Lanka Minister on First World "Climate Nazism, Climate Racism and Climate Terrorism"Sri Lanka Minister: "So in Copenhagen, developing countries will have a moral high ground... developed countries only have brute force and concepts like Climate Nazism, Climate Racism and Climate Terrorism. "
Sri Lanka to probe alleged wartime human rights abuses" Sri Lanka has responded to mounting international criticisms of its wartime conduct by announcing it will appoint a "homegrown" committee to probe alleged human rights abuses.
Sri Lanka: US War Crimes Report Details Extensive Abuses A US State Department report on possible violations of the laws of war in Sri Lanka made public on October 22, 2009 shows the need for an independent international investigation, Human Rights Watch said today.
Former child soldiers move on in Sri LankaSri Lanka is trying to make patriotic citizens out of child soldiers who just months ago were fighting against the nation.
Letters From Sri Lanka: Does Sarvodaya Hold The Secrets to Systemic Change?There are genuinely amazing things happening in the world. Let's start focusing on them.
India unconcerned over US report on human smuggling: ChidambaramNew Delhi, (IANS) India does not attach "too much attention" to a US report saying it is not doing enough to curb human smuggling but should do "what is expected of us as an enlightened nation", Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Wednesday.
Sri Lanka Disputes The Authenticity of This Video, Which Shows Sri Lankan Soldiers Executing Unarmed Tamils [Warning: Extremely Graphic]Sri Lanka's technological refutation of the authenticity of a video of Army (SLA) soldiers executing unarmed Tamil men broadcast by Channel 4 in August is based on a processed video-file taken from the broadcaster's website, rather than the original mobile phone footage, expe …
Cricket team ambush funded in Lanka: Pakistan Cricket team ambush funded in Lanka: Pakistan Saturday, 12 September 2009 - 11:42 AM SL Time
Terrorism in Pakistan : State of denialThis far-fetched analysis, and the refusal to accept the reality of Pakistan's terrorist problem, owes much to the religious-nationalist leanings of many young but influential television presenters.
IMF, EU leaders praise Pakistan's economic performanceWASHINGTON: Finance and Economic Affairs Adviser Shaukat Tareen met with top IMF leaders and ministers of major European powers here Saturday, who commended Pakistan's achievements in a short span of time and assured of their continued support for the country.
UN call for S Lanka video probe A senior UN official has called for an investigation into whether Sri Lankan soldiers violated international law by executing unarmed Tamils.
Peter Mackler Award given to Sri Lankan JournalistJ. S. Tissainayagam, a respected Tamil journalist and editor for the North Eastern Monthly magazine, and contributor to the local Sunday Times newspaper, is the recipient of the 2009 Peter Mackler Award for courageous and ethical journalism.
SRI LANKA Bishop sees little hope of missing priest being aliveCOLOMBO (UCAN) -- The bishop of Jaffna believes the chance that a priest who disappeared three years ago might still be alive is "remote."
India's hidden hand behind Lanka's victory over LTTE: bookEven as it publicly refused to give Sri Lanka any offensive weapons for the war against LTTE, India had a "hidden hand" in the success of the island nation's campaign over the terrorist outfit, says a new book.
Sri Lanka to train Pakistani army. 17:14 GMT, Friday, 21 August 2009 18:14 UKSri Lanka's army has said it will be happy to give training to members of the Pakistani military. It says Islamabad has requested the training because of the country's success in defeating the Tamil Tigers.
Unholy tension in Lanka's Muslim East Both these groups are Sunnis, to which sect the vast majority of Sri Lankan Muslims belong.
India has a booming trade relationship with Myanmar. India has a massive insurgency problem in its north east that can be exploited from Myanmar. India therefore remains silent as the world condemns Myanmar for its treatment of Aung Sun Kyi.
Upset in Sri Lanka post-war pollsInitial results from the first post-war elections in northern Sri Lanka show the governing party has taken Jaffna, the region's biggest city.
Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels say new leader caughtSri Lankan authorities questioned the new leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels Friday after he was arrested in Southeast Asia and flown to this island nation.
Indian Maoists threaten to kill PM Singh, Sonia GandhiIndia's Maoist guerrillas on Tuesday threatened to kill the country's prime minister and ruling party leader in what analysts said was the most aggressive threat yet from an increasingly lethal and widespread insurgency.
Javed Jabbar cautions India against ignoring immediate neigbours in media field NEW DELHI, July 14 (APP) : Javed Jabbar, former Information Minister and media expert has cautioned Indian media policy makers and media leaders from letting India become ignorant of its immediate neighbours even as India aspired to be a new global player.Speaking in the inaugura …
A case study in UN hypocrisy: Bash Israel, ignore everyone elseThe hypocrisy and collective strategy of the UN council's repressive regimes is to cover up abuses in places such as Iran, China, Pakistan, Russia, Egypt and Zimbabwe and instead shine a permanent spotlight on Israel. War-time actions by Sri Lanka were far worse than Israel's.
Transcript: U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon On Nukes, Reform, His ImageUnited Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sat down with Wall Street Journal editors and reporters for a wide-ranging, 90-minute interview last month in New York. In this edited transcript, Mr.
'Pressured' to inflate death toll COLOMBO - SRI Lankan doctors arrested for allegedly spreading rebel propaganda before the defeat of the Tamil Tigers told reporters here on Wednesday that they were pressured to inflate death tolls.
The Hindu : International : Leading light of leftist movement in Sri Lanka deadCOLOMBO: A leading light of the early leftist movement in Ceylon and wife of S.C.C. Anthony Pillai, Dona Caroline Rupasinghe Gunawardena, passed away in Kosogama, on the outskirts of Colombo on Monday. She would have turned 101 on October 8.
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