01/06/2011
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Washington Post
Ethnic Tamil lawmakers say mystery killings, rape resurface in Sri Lanka's former war zone
01/05/2011
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The Hindu
Politicians and non-governmental organisations have expressed serious concern over the “deterioration” of law and order in the northern districts.
01/02/2011
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Sunday Times
An increase in armed robberies and murders has rocked Jaffna, with residents calling for additional security measures in the area. At least four murders, two abductions and 15 robberies took place in Jaffna last month, according to Police.
11/03/2010
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BBC
At least two Catholic priests have gone missing in Sri Lanka in the past four years, one of them after questioning by security forces, a bishop says.
09/30/2010
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BBC
What really happened in the closing stages of Sri Lanka's civil war? There's been a chorus of international demands that the final months - January to May last year - be the subject of an international investigation, with allegations that both the government and the Tamil Tigers committed war crimes causing the deaths of thousands of civilians. But the island's victorious government has defiantly rejected such calls and has instead launched its own inquiry into the last years of the war which it says will establish important facts, promote reconciliation and prevent future wars. Some of its witnesses have testified in private, but our correspondent in Sri Lanka Charles Haviland has been attending its public hearings.
09/27/2010
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BBC
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) says Sri Lanka has failed to adhere to international law in detaining suspected Tamil Tigers.
09/24/2010
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IRIN
MULAITUVI, 24 September 2010 (IRIN) - Sixteen months after the end of the civil war in northern Sri Lanka, thousands of former rebel fighters are still missing or in government detention, according to the government and a local NGO, Law and Trust Society.
09/23/2010
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BBC
A business leader in Sri Lanka has called on the government to apologise for itself and on behalf of previous regimes for suffering during the war.
09/20/2010
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BBC
People in northern Sri Lanka have told a war inquiry that family members who served with the Tamil Tigers disappeared after surrendering.
09/19/2010
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TamilNet
Ananthi Sasitharan, wife of Elilan, former Trincomalee political head of the LTTE, told BBC Tamil service that she and her three daughters witnessed her husband and hundreds of other LTTE members surrendering to the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers on 18th May 2009, after the war has come to an end. "I have been trying to trace my husband and has not been successful to locate his whereabouts. I have no doubt that Sri Lanka's president knows where my husband and others who surrendered are being held," she told the BBC.