Image: the tasks encompassed within its mandate have already been performed by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC, 2011)
The recent appointment by President...
Image: by SP Pushpakanthan.
Can the Office of Missing Persons provide answers in a country with the world's second highest number of disappearances?
by Drew...
Mangala Samaraweera.
We are fortunate to witness this moment when the Government led by President Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe has given life to an...
Sri Lanka's president Maithripala Sirisena, pictured after being sworn in at the Independence Square in Colombo, on Jan 9, 2015. — AFP
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka...
Minister for Megapolis Patali Champika Ranawaka has labelled the final report of the Consultations Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms (CTF SL) as a fulfilment...
(Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera speaking at yesterday’s press conference. Picture by Wimal Karunathilake)
Talks progressing on type of mechanism; Of the type all stakeholders...
Muslims will be an integral part of the truth, justice, reparations and non-recurrence process and Muslims’ grievances and concerns will be a part of...
The Full report is here as a PDF.Paranaggama Commission report
Here is what the report mention as possible war crimes:
It is clear to the Commission...
(Justice Maxell Paranagama )
ECONOMYNEXT - The war crimes investigation set up by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa has made startling revelations that senior military commanders...
International Participation, Monitoring Crucial for Reforms.
(Geneva) – The United Nations Human Rights Council should adopt a resolution ensuring a robust international role in Sri...
Opposing the Hybrid Court System proposed by the UNHRC, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) yesterday stressed that justice for alleged war crime victims would...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka Thursday escaped a "hybrid" war crimes investigation involving foreign judges and prosecutors as the United States tabled a watered down...
(Sri Lanka's prime minister on Tuesday (Sep 22) rejected a UN call for international involvement in an investigation into alleged war crimes.- Photo: AFP/Prakash...
Today new battle lines are being drawn in Sri Lanka in relation to accountability, reconciliation and human rights. This issue of Sri Lanka briefing...
( Waiting for justice: Family members of missing Tamils speaking at a UNHRC side event)
The second interim report of the Presidential Commission to Inquire...
Law enforcement bodies, such as Army, Navy, Police and the CID (Criminal Investigations Department) are supposed to protect the country from any kind of...
Overview.
The outcome of the presidential election of January 2015 created expectations of change, hope and reform among considerable sections of Sri Lankan society. For...
AFP.
Sri Lanka's proposed war crimes investigation has been delayed by several months until September as the government focuses on impending parliamentary elections, Foreign Minister...
( Commander Karannagoda )
CID tells Magistrate’s CourtRoshan Thushara Former Navy Commander Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda was aware of the abductions of children by commandos of...
Two additional commissioners will be appointed to the Presidential Commission Investigating Cases of Missing Persons (PCICMP) in Sri Lanka to conduct investigations and prepare...
The government had commenced devising an indigenous mechanism to investigate alleged human rights violations and war crimes said to have taken place during the...
Fort Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage yesterday made a historic order holding that the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) does not suspend the application of the...
Summary
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolution 40/1 which requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...
Image: The High Commissioner is particularly troubled the appointments of Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, as Army Chief and Major General (retired) Kamal Gunaratne, as...
ON the 11th year of Prageeth Ekneligoda abduction and disappearance Sandaya Ekneligoda launched a new initiative launching Ekneligoda Forum and https://ekneligodaforum.org/.
Ekneligoda Forum is a...
