09/24/2011
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Al-Jazeera
Sri Lanka says it loses more than $50m a year due to poaching by Indian fishermen.
The problem is crippling the country's local fisheries, particularly in the eastern and northern parts of the island, where Al Jazeera shot exclusive photos of Indian trawlers fishing just 4km off the Sri Lankan coast.
India has admitted to "issues relating to the straying of fishermen from both countries into each other's territorial waters" and says it is working to address the problem.
04/13/2011
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Al-Jazeera
The UN says a panel of experts set up to advise the organisation's head on possible war crimes at the end of Sri Lanka's war against Tamil Tiger rebels, has delivered its report to him.
08/18/2010
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Al-Jazeera
The Sri Lankan defence secretary has defended the military against allegations of mass rights abuses during last year's assault on Tamil Tiger separatists.
07/09/2010
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Al-Jazeera
The Sri Lankan cabinet minister who has led several days of rallies against the United Nations has quit his post and started a hunger strike to protest a UN panel investigating alleged war crimes in the island-nation.
03/03/2010
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Al-Jazeera
Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has said he is extending the country's state of emergency and will reconvene the recently dissolved parliament next week to ratify the move.
01/28/2010
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Al-Jazeera
VIDEO: Sri Lanka's Mahinda Rajapakse has just won another term as president. That comes less than a year after the end of one of Asia's longest running civil wars. But how challenging will it be to address post-conflict concerns? And will this election solve all of Sri Lanka's many problems?
12/11/2009
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Al-Jazeera
Fonseka denied the army was involved in war crimes and implied gangs at the behest of political leaders may have been involved in attacks on journalists.
"As far as the army is concerned I don't know there were any war crimes. I monitored every action by the troops," he said.
10/23/2009
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Al-Jazeera
More than 4,000 ethnic Tamils have been released from government-run detention camps in northern Sri Lanka, and allowed to return home.