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)
09/02/2011
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Lanka Independent, Lanka Standard
Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon told Lanka Independent this week the UNSG was committed to the recommendations in the Panel of Experts Report on Sri Lanka.
05/14/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
It's two years since the civil war ended but a UN report points to the fissures that still exist, writes Ben Doherty in Sri Lanka.
05/09/2011
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Groundviews
The Uthayan newspaper runs a revealing story on its website which suggests that on 8th May, the campaign to collect a million signatures against the UN Panel’s report basically forced people to sign up to the campaign.
05/07/2011
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Minivan News (Maldives)
Maldives Foreign Minister Ahmed Naseem has told journalists in Colombo that the UN report into human rights abuses in the closing days of the country’s civil war is “singularly counterproductive.”
05/07/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka Bar Association passes resolution against \'Darusman Report\'
05/06/2011
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African National Congress
The African National Congress has consistently condemned any act of violation of human rights in all conflict areas. We therefore urge all conflicting parties to resolve problems through peaceful dialogue and negotiation. We have noted, with regret, that breakdown of the ceasefire and the negotiations between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE led to a military solution of resolving the problems.
05/06/2011
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Zee News
Colombo: Sri Lankan Army on Friday rubbished the UN panel report, which says the killing of people in the final stages of civil strife in the nation could amount to war crimes, and termed it as an attempt to "tarnish" the image of the country.
05/04/2011
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Reuters
COLOMBO (Reuters) - The United States urged on Wednesday Sri Lanka's government to hold anyone responsible for wartime rights violations accountable and warned that an international investigation could be an option if it failed to do so.
05/04/2011
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RTT News
The United States has called upon Sri Lanka's Mahinda Rajapakse government to investigate alleged war crimes committed by its troops during the final few months of Sri Lanka's 25-year long war against Tamil Tiger rebels(LTTE), reports said.