Fishers of the Mannar district were brutally attacked and humiliated by Sri-Lankan navy personnel in the mid-sea for three hours. This cruel incident occurred...
(12 April 2021)- State Minister Dilum Amunugama said today that the people voted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to power expecting him to play the part...
The Mayor of Jaffna, Viswalingam Manivannan was arrested by Sri Lanka's Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) at around 2.30am on Friday morning.
Manivannan, who is also...
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The government is making arrangements to appoint 18 high ranking military officers of the tri forces who have retired...
Image: The Adani tour of Mandra port in 2019 included Adani Ports boss Karan Adani and Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing. (Supplied: Myanmar’s Office...
Sri Lankan journalist Sujeewa Gamage, who was arrested by police for allegedly making 'false claims’ about his own abduction, was granted bail on March...
Image: N Photo / Violaine Martin 43rd session of the Human Rights Council.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has been given a mandate to collect...
Image: Courtesy of Civil Disobedience Movement.
Journalists in Myanmar face worsening conditions as military crackdowns and violence is compelling many to flee, writes Phil Thornton.
Freelance...
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) wholeheartedly welcomes the adoption of resolution 46/1 at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The Government of Sri...
The UNHRC resolution "Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka" was adopted today with 22 votes. 11 Member states opposed the resolution...
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In a strange tune of events, Sri Lanka chapter of Pakistan based the South Asian Free Media Association which includes well-known Sri...
Image: DMK chief M K Stalin.
Chennai: India must take a stand against Sri Lanka in the United Nations Human Rights Council session vis-a-vis the accountability...
TNA expects New Delhi to vote for resolution, says spokesman Sumanthiran.
Meera Srinivasan
The Tamil National Alliance’s (TNA) “hopes are high” that India will vote for...
UNHRC needs to ensure that human rights and accountability developments in Sri Lanka firmly remain on the international agenda
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) welcomes...
Image: at OMP office 30 Aug 2019. Disappeared in the South (1988-89); (c) S.Deshapriya
The old/new F word: accountability
Accountability is a word that is being...
Image: Wai Wai at a protest (Supplied)
An interview with Wai Wai, a young female protester from Yangon, Myanmar. Interviewed by Sunanda Deshapriya.
Thank you for...
Image: LTTE members in a military-run rehabilitation camp (2016)
The regulation " the Prevention of Terrorism (De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology) Regulations No. 01...
Image: A priest conducts a mass burial for Easter Sunday bomb blast victims in Negombo, Sri Lanka on April 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe/timesofisrael)
As...
Government MP Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa says that he will complain to Sri Lanka’s IGP against threats made to him by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (16),...
Fishers of the Mannar district were brutally attacked and humiliated by Sri-Lankan navy personnel in the mid-sea for three hours. This cruel incident occurred...
