08/02/2011
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IBN
CHENNAI: With a view to giving Tamil readers an exclusive insight and a better understanding of the controversial UN Panel report on Lankan war crimes, Chennai-based Manitham Publishers has published a book titled ‘War Criminal’ (Por Kutravali), which has reproduced the whole report in Tamil.
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.
05/13/2011
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The Island
BY SHANIE The thrust of Palihakkara’s lecture was that Sri Lanka, which has in the past enjoyed a diplomatic profile disproportionate to its geographic or demographic attributes and military or economic clout, should be able to show the world that our country, after emerging from an injurious and costly conflict, still retains the strength of character and the political will towards introspection; to look at our own track record and see if we had gone wrong somewhere and if we had, what remedial measures we can, as a civilised society, undertake and what course corrections should be made. We should encourage the building up of a society where peaceful dissent is seen as an enriching experience and an exciting democratic challenge and not an act of treachery or treason.
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).
05/11/2011
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France
ALSO IN FRENCH: From April 2009, France had called for the establishment of an impartial international commission of inquiry to shed light on these alleged violations. We had actively supported the appointment by the Secretary General of the UN panel of experts.
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.
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.
05/09/2011
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TamilNet
Sri Lanka President’s brother and SL Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa made an unannounced sudden visit to Jaffna Monday. Nothing will happen by some welcoming the UN panel report and ‘Tamils should not play treachery by betraying the country for a few thousand dollars,’ Basil Rajapaksa who was carrying a ‘special message’ from Mahinda Rajapaksa to the people of Jaffna said, while addressing a meeting at Maaviddapuram. Basil’s ‘message’ implied a warning against any evidence going out of Tamils in Jaffna on the war crimes and genocide committed on them, news sources in Jaffna said.
05/08/2011
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The Nation
The extension of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) has nothing to do with the Darusman report, the commission’s media coordinator, Lakshman Wickremasinghe said.
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.”