Lanka And Ltte

Arumuga Lakshmi, tormented by questions about the fate of her two children, missing for years, marched through a town in northern Sri Lanka with a group of women, many holding up photographs, black flags, and burning torches.

The NIA has arrested a Sri Lankan national and former member of the LTTE's intelligence wing for his alleged involvement in arms and drug trafficking from Pakistan to Sri Lanka,

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G L Peiris has told his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar that his country is working to address the post-ethnic war issues, including releasing LTTE prisoners and revisiting a controversial anti-terror law.

Sri Lanka will face a critical resolution at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday which is being seen as an acid test for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, amidst allegations that his government's initiatives had "repeatedly failed" to ensure justice for the victims and promote reconciliation after the end of the armed conflict with the LTTE...

The legislator son of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today indicated that the demand of the Tamil minority community to release all Tamil prisoners may be fulfilled soon, a move aimed at persuading the Tamil legislators to support Mr Rajapaksa. "President Sirisena and Prime Minister Rajapaksa would make a decision very soon," Namal Raj...

Around 195 files including documents relating to relations between India and Sri Lanka at the peak of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) led civil war have been destroyed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), sparking concern among archivists and researchers.

A convict who has spent 26 years in jail for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi has requested the Supreme Court to reopen the case and cancel his conviction. This, after the CBI said in court today that it could not properly investigate the bomb that killed the former prime minister because it "got no help from Sri Lanka" in establishing the origin ...

The United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) should visit Sri Lanka and conduct an independent investigation into the continued abductions, torture and sexual violence committed by the security forces, a former member of the United Nations (UN) special panel has said.

The Tamil Nadu assembly today adopted a resolution for an international probe against Sri Lanka for alleged human rights violations and war crimes committed in 2009, coming just a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Sri Lankan government deciding to renew efforts to resolve the ethic issue in the is...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wished the newly-elected Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and sought lasting peace in the country from the unity government that has pledged for reconciliation and ethnic harmony.

Two Sri Lankan Tamil refugees were among five persons detained after police seized a satellite phone, GPS equipment and cyanide from their car during a vehicle check in the district on monday.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said he wants to re-open investigations into all past murders and disappearances of journalists.

Sri Lanka continues to violate human rights of its religious and ethnic minorities, six years after the end of civil war in the country that resulted in the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according to a new independent report.

Making a historic visit to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, a region once ravaged by strife, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for equitable development and respect for all citizens in the island nation, seen as an oblique reference to Tamils who had suffered during the war between the LTTE and forces.

Alleging that the US was acting against the interest of Tamils in Sri Lanka, a Tamil outfit today sought boycott of its products like KFC, Pepsi and Coca Cola and announced that it would stage a protest infront of the American Consulate in Chennai tomorrow.

Arumuga Lakshmi, tormented by questions about the fate of her two children, missing for years, marched through a town in northern Sri Lanka with a group of women, many holding up photographs, black flags, and burning torches.

The NIA has arrested a Sri Lankan national and former member of the LTTE's intelligence wing for his alleged involvement in arms and drug trafficking from Pakistan to Sri Lanka,

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G L Peiris has told his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar that his country is working to address the post-ethnic war issues, including releasing LTTE prisoners and revisiting a controversial anti-terror law.

Sri Lanka will face a critical resolution at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday which is being seen as an acid test for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, amidst allegations that his government's initiatives had "repeatedly failed" to ensure justice for the victims and promote reconciliation after the end of the armed conflict with the LTTE...

The legislator son of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today indicated that the demand of the Tamil minority community to release all Tamil prisoners may be fulfilled soon, a move aimed at persuading the Tamil legislators to support Mr Rajapaksa. "President Sirisena and Prime Minister Rajapaksa would make a decision very soon," Namal Raj...

Around 195 files including documents relating to relations between India and Sri Lanka at the peak of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) led civil war have been destroyed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), sparking concern among archivists and researchers.

A convict who has spent 26 years in jail for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi has requested the Supreme Court to reopen the case and cancel his conviction. This, after the CBI said in court today that it could not properly investigate the bomb that killed the former prime minister because it "got no help from Sri Lanka" in establishing the origin ...

The United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) should visit Sri Lanka and conduct an independent investigation into the continued abductions, torture and sexual violence committed by the security forces, a former member of the United Nations (UN) special panel has said.

The Tamil Nadu assembly today adopted a resolution for an international probe against Sri Lanka for alleged human rights violations and war crimes committed in 2009, coming just a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Sri Lankan government deciding to renew efforts to resolve the ethic issue in the is...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wished the newly-elected Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and sought lasting peace in the country from the unity government that has pledged for reconciliation and ethnic harmony.

Two Sri Lankan Tamil refugees were among five persons detained after police seized a satellite phone, GPS equipment and cyanide from their car during a vehicle check in the district on monday.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said he wants to re-open investigations into all past murders and disappearances of journalists.

Sri Lanka continues to violate human rights of its religious and ethnic minorities, six years after the end of civil war in the country that resulted in the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according to a new independent report.

Making a historic visit to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, a region once ravaged by strife, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for equitable development and respect for all citizens in the island nation, seen as an oblique reference to Tamils who had suffered during the war between the LTTE and forces.

Alleging that the US was acting against the interest of Tamils in Sri Lanka, a Tamil outfit today sought boycott of its products like KFC, Pepsi and Coca Cola and announced that it would stage a protest infront of the American Consulate in Chennai tomorrow.