01/11/2012
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Groundviews, Lanka Solidarity
***LANKA SOLIDARITY STATEMENT*** We welcome the Report’s contributions to political discourse, but even its most critical conclusions reveal its irredeemable limitations: like the many commissions of inquiry before it, it is neither a truly investigative body, nor empowered to hold political elites to account. Nevertheless, the Report, which contains the testimony of thousands of citizens and surveys the political challenges confronting Sri Lanka, invites further discussion and debate.
09/28/2011
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The Globe and Mail
With 300,000 Tamils living in Canada, the demand that Colombo reconcile with its minority is based on a mixture of principle and politics
09/25/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka President and UN Secretary-General discuss accountability issue (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)
09/15/2011
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The Economist
THE United States is not in the business of threatening its friends, said Robert O. Blake, US assistant secretary of state, in Colombo on September 14th. But, he added, smiling placidly, there will be pressure. If a domestic commission appointed by Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, does not provide credible answers to allegations of war crimes committed by the military, demands for “some sort of alternative mechanism” will mount.
09/04/2011
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The Hindu
Coming down heavily on countries that demanded accountability for the civilian deaths in the last stages of the Eelam war IV in early 2009, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that for most of those who demand accountability, it was only a
05/17/2011
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Straits Times
NEW DELHI - INDIA broke with past practice on Tuesday and called on Sri Lanka to investigate allegations of human rights abuses during the island's civil war, upping pressure on President Mahinda Rajapakse.
05/17/2011
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Ministry of External Affairs, Sri Lanka
4. Both sides agreed that the end of armed conflict in Sri Lanka created a historic opportunity to address all outstanding issues in a spirit of understanding and mutual accommodation imbued with political vision to work towards genuine national reconciliation. In this context, the External Affairs Minister of Sri Lanka affirmed his Government’s commitment to ensuring expeditious and concrete progress in the ongoing dialogue between the Government of Sri Lanka and representatives of Tamil parties. A devolution package, building upon the 13th Amendment, would contribute towards creating the necessary conditions for such reconciliation.
05/12/2011
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Defence.lk, Ministry of Defence
The report of the Darusman Committee on the final phase of the operation to defeat terrorism in Sri Lanka is a tendentious document that makes grossly false allegations about Sri Lanka and its security forces. The government will defend the good name of the country and expose the false allegations that are abundant in this report. So said President Mahinda Rajapaksa, speaking to editors of the print and electronic media in Sri Lanka at Temple Trees yesterday (10).
05/10/2011
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Asia News
The charges are a national issue, and a lesson for all. Christian leaders, human rights activists and ordinary people criticise the government’s opposition to the report, and for failing to translate it into Sinhalese and Tamil, which leaves many Sri Lankans in the dark.
05/10/2011
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Inner City Press
UNITED NATIONS, May 10 -- As Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the UN Palitha Kohona walked out of the UN Security Council on Tuesday, Inner City Press asked him about the European Union's statement on the UN Panel of Experts war crimes report, and about reported “militarization” of Colombo.