(In 2000 MV Sun Sea carried492 SL asylum seekers to Canada) Sri Lanka’s government Wednesday decided to end the draconian regulations imposed by the previous regime to deprive passports to nationals who had fled the country fearing persecution. The Rajapaksa administration in 20111 had ordered all Sri Lankan missions not to issue fresh passports to […]
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Committee to Look into Resettlment of Sinhala and Muslim Families in North
(Thousands of houses in Jaffna were destroyed during the war) Cabinet has decided to appoint a ministerial committee chaired by the President and including the Prime Minister and other relevant ministers to look into the resettlment of Sinhalese and Muslims who had to flee the North of the country due to the war. According to […]
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Time for Democratisation of the State and National Reconciliation – PRC Report
( Senior lawyer Lal Wijenayke chaired the committee) The finalized Public Representations Committee report on public submissions to the Constitution submitted to the Prime Minister on 31st May 2016. The report is comprehensive and has 222 pages. It has been released to public in all three offcial languages of Sri Lanka.The full report is attached […]
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Finalize Identifying Land for Resettlement in North by 3rd June – President
President Maithripala Sirisena has given instructions to the relevant officials to finalize the process of identification of lands for the resettlement of internally displaced persons in the North by next Friday (June 03). He gave these instructions during a special meeting on the resettlement of displaced people in North and East, held at the Presidential […]
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Credibility of Transitional Justice Mechanisms in Essential – NPC
(Press release) Among the festering wounds of Sri Lanka’s protracted war that came to its bitter end 7 years ago is the fate of at least 20,000 persons who went missing and whose names have been registered with the Presidential Commission to Investigate into Complaints Regarding Missing Persons (the Commission) which was established in August […]
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Sri Lanka war Crime Probe: President & PM Agree on Local Judges
( Killed in detention by Sri Lanka military: Naked standing man is Col. Vasanthan, A LTTE commander from Trincomalee who fought in the Vanni in 2009. Photo courtesy of British Tamil Forum) by Shamindra Ferdinando/ The Island. President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe were of the opinion that the proposed judicial mechanism to […]
