09/30/2011
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BBC
Sri Lanka delegation managed to thwart a conspiracy against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC, claim ministers.
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)
09/12/2011
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Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a report by U.N. experts who concluded that tens of thousands of people were killed in the last five months of Sri Lanka's civil war, primarily by government troops, to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday.
09/02/2011
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BBC
A crucial project to reunite family members separated in the last phase of Sri Lanka's civil war is being expanded, the United Nations Children's Fund says.
08/16/2011
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The Hindu
Two years after defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and eliminating it as a military entity, Sri Lanka is still struggling to emerge from the woods on some important fronts. Two issues are predominant. One is the nature of the peace, and the efforts by the Sri Lankan government towards a political reconciliation between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. The military victory over the LTTE, and President Mahinda Rajapaksa's strength in parliament, gave the government an unprecedented opportunity to put in place a progressive political framework to heal the wounds of a 30-year war, and address Tamil grievances that predate the war. That it has taken only nominal steps in this direction is a matter of concern even to friends of Sri Lanka, such as India, which stood by its military efforts against the LTTE. The second issue, which has found strong voice in a recent documentary by a British television station, Channel 4, and in a United Nations report, has to do with the nature of the military operations in the final stages of the war in 2009. Both make allegations of war crimes against the Sri Lankan Army, accusing it of knowingly aiming fire at civilians such that thousands lost their lives, of killing captives in cold blood, and of possible sexual assault. It is shocking that instead of addressing these issues in the right spirit, a high-ranking official of the Sri Lankan government, Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a brother of the Sri Lankan President, has chosen to vitiate the atmosphere even more with his intemperate remarks against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, and by attributing motives to the adoption of resolutions on Sri Lanka by the State Assembly.
08/12/2011
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The Hindu
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) general secretary Vaiko on Friday urged the Union government to impose economic sanctions on Sri Lanka and cancel all India-Sri Lanka trade and commercial agreements for “human rights violations” against the Tamils there by its army during the war.
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.
07/31/2011
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The Sunday Leader
“We hope that investigation and prosecution of this crime will now be expedited, and that there will be similar progress in resolving the many thousands of outstanding cases of disappearance in Sri Lanka,” the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said.
07/29/2011
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BBC
UN calls for speedy investigation over the mysterious death of a prominent rights activist.
07/03/2011
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The Sunday Leader
Although there is mounting pressure internationally against Sri Lanka (SL), with Western countries and the European community taking a tough stand against it, the President of SL however reposed immense confidence in India and the Commonwealth countries that they would stand by SL.