10/25/2011
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www.theage.com.au
"SRI Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa - who was due to arrive in Australia last night - has had a charge laid against him in a Melbourne court accusing him of war crimes in his country's civil war".
10/18/2011
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www.youtube.com
The Australian Federal Police force has opened an investigation into war crime claims leveled against three prominent Sri Lankans including the country's president.
10/17/2011
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theage.com.au
SRI Lanka's high commissioner to Australia, former navy Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, should be investigated for war crimes, a brief before the Australian Federal Police says.
09/20/2011
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www.theaustralian.com.au
AUSTRALIA'S Greens will launch the first major challenge to Sri Lanka's Commonwealth membership today when the party calls for its suspension pending a full investigation into allegations of war crimes committed in the final months of the country's civil war.
07/11/2011
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BBC
A group of Sri Lankan Tamil migrants attempting to sail to New Zealand are detained by Indonesian officials, they tell the BBC.
05/14/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka: In the frantic confusion of the last hours of the Tamil Tigers' war, some sought a way out. Through text messages and phone calls they offered an unconditional surrender, in return for safe passage out of the war zone.
05/14/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
BEATEN, bloodied and with nowhere left to run, they received the text message just before 9 o'clock on the Sunday morning.
It came, through an intermediary, from the foreign secretary of the Sri Lankan government, apparent instructions for a surrender: "Just walk across to the troops, slowly. With a white flag and comply with instructions carefully. The soldiers are nervous about suicide bombers."
04/26/2011
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TRANSCRIPT: Weiss: Both sides were to blame
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast
Gordon Weiss was spokesman for the United Nation's humanitarian mission in Sri Lanka during the civil war.
04/04/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
Recent reports of an Australian/Sri Lankan citizen's alleged involved in the commission of war crimes at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war raise once again questions about where Australia stands on the question of war crimes allegedly committed either by its citizens or by people who now live in this country.
03/02/2011
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Canberra Times
The war in Sri Lanka is over but peace has yet to break out among the troubled nation's overseas population.