08/21/2011
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Hindustan Times
A key Sri Lankan panel looking into the LTTE conflict will include in its final report the details of its investigation of the two video documentaries aired by the British Channel 4 TV accusing armed forces of war crimes.
08/09/2011
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Hindustan Times
Sri Lankan government on Tuesday said it would soon lift the draconian emergency laws in force in the country for most of the past 30 years. "Steps have already been taken to lift emergency regulations in consultation with the (National) Security Council," Prime Minister DM Jayaratne told the parliament.
08/02/2011
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Hindustan Times
Manmohan Singh on Tuesday told MDMK leader Vaiko that India cannot afford to restrict economic ties with Sri Lanka — as demanded by Tamil Nadu’s political parties — in order to apply pressure to mitigate the sufferings of Sri Lankan Tamils.
07/05/2011
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Hindustan Times
Last weekend, many Lankans saw parts of the Channel 4 documentary, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields with its gruesome execution footage, for the first time. It was repeatedly telecast on prime time, between serials and Bollywood song shows, on a privately owned but considered to be pro-government channel. With one little difference with the disturbing documentary though - in this "original, unaltered" video those carrying out military-style executions were speaking, laughing and smirking in Tamil and not in Sinhala.
05/30/2011
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Hindustan Times
War crimes were committed by the military during the final days of conflict in Sri Lanka, a UN expert has said after reviewing footage showing unarmed men being shot dead from close range. Agency reports from Geneva quoted UN human rights expert, Christof Heyns, as saying that the shocking footage showed "definitive war crimes."
05/19/2011
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Hindustan Times
As the government begins celebrating two years of its military victory against the Tamil rebels, tens of thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are yet to be permanently resettled in the war ravaged northern districts. Latest updates from the United Nations (UN) reveal that more than 117888 IDPs were yet to be resettled.
04/24/2011
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Hindustan Times
Artillery fire from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) positions targetted civilians inside the `no firing zone’ (NFZ) near the north eastern coast and bombed the United Nations (UN) hub, set up to aid displaced Tamils during the final stages of the civil war, the expert panel report to the UN has claimed. Hindustan Times has a copy of the "Report of the Secretary General’s panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka", which was submitted to the UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s office, earlier this month, but is yet to be made public.
04/22/2011
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Hindustan Times
Wary of volatile protests against the damning expert panel report to the UN, the world agency has asked its employees to be vigilant in the coming weeks. It was also learnt that some staff members have been asked to work from home and UN stickers have been quietly removed from car windshields.
04/22/2011
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Hindustan Times
Wary of volatile protests against the damning expert panel report to the UN, the world agency has asked its employees to be vigilant in the coming weeks. It was also learnt that some staff members have been asked to work from home and UN stickers have been quietly removed from car windshields. These precautions were being taken as the world agency and the Sri Lanka government seemed headed for a diplomatic confrontation with the UN saying the expert panel’s report on human rights violations during the end of the Lankan civil war will be fully published.
04/19/2011
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Hindustan Times
The report to the United Nations on war crimes in Sri Lanka and an online magazine poll on the 100 most influential people kept the buzz alive in a mostly deserted Colombo this past week. The city had literally cleared out and traffic became a trickle as the country went in a holiday mode for the Sinhala and Tamil new year.