Category: Local News

Ven. Watareka Vijitha  thera  who was reportedly abducted and beaten, was found from Bandaragama area this morning. He was admitted to the Panadura hospital and was later transferred to Colombo National Hospital for further treatments. […]

Dilanthan Vithanage, Bodu Bala Sena spokesman, talks to Al Jazeera, about the role of his group in the ongoing violence in Sri Lanka. […]

The Ampata District came to a standstill yesterday as the people observed a full scale hartal in condemnation of the violence unleashed on Muslims in the Aluthgama, Beruwala, Dhargaha Town and Welippenna areas in the South. […]

The President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Mr. Takehiko Nakao called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning at the President’s House. […]

Sri Lankan authorities must act immediately to end anti-Muslim violence in the country, and to rein in groups that violently target religious minorities, Amnesty International said. […]

Navi Pillay, the outgoing United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed deep alarm on Monday at the inter-communal violence in Sri Lanka. […]

Canada condemns the outbreak of communal violence against Muslims, which resulted in the loss of lives and extensive damage to property in the south of Sri Lanka on June 15, 2014, the Canadian Government said in a statement. […]

The Australian government in its latest travel advisory issued today adviced its citizen travelling to Sri Lanka to exercise a high degree of caution in Sri Lankan at this time because of the unrest situation in some part of the country. […]

The debate on the motion, submitted by nine MPs from the government, asking that the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) not conduct an investigation into human rights allegations in the country, is expected to be a heated debate government and opposition MPs said yesterday. […]

“However much we talk of economic growth, not enough money is going into the hands of the people. Decision making on development has become limited to just two or three people.” In 2005, Wimal Weerawansa’s platform oratory was one of the highlights of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s presidential election campaign.  In 2007, even as a JVP parliamentarian, […]

A UN-led investigation into the war in Sri Lanka will begin this month, a UN official said. The investigation is being launched in accordance with a resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in March this year despite strong objections raised by the Sri Lankan Government. […]

A police curfew was clamped in Alutgama and Beruwala to quell clashes that erupted in Aluthgama and then spread to Beruwala area last evening between two groups. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday evening attended the opening ceremony of the Golden Jubilee of the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Group of 77 and China (G77+China), held at the Expo Cruz Center in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The Summit was organized under the theme “For a New World Order for Living […]

The United National Party (UNP) today said that by refusing to engage with the team of investigators appointed by the UN Human Rights Commissioner, Sri Lanka is admitting guilt and depriving itself of an opportunity to make its case. […]

“We must work together to overcome obstacles including unjustified external forces,” President Mahinda Rajapaksa told the Namibian Prime Minister Hage Geingob. “The situations of the countries which were subjected to foreign interferences are worse today than before. Those countries are more chaotic, and it is the only thing that had happened.” […]

The appointment of Sandra Beidas as Coordinator of a 12-member UN team to investigate alleged war crimes and human rights violations in Sri Lanka during and after Eelam War IV, signals the beginning of the investigation process, United Nations officials told Express on Friday. […]