With US involvement in covert and overt operations, a history of overthrowing democratically elected governments and placing puppets, funding of extremist groups including Al Qaeda and other religious groups, training and even arming them it should come as no surprise that even before an isolated incident is investigated, the US is quick to issue statements […]
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. […]
If international law prohibits violations of human rights and humanitarian law by states against their own citizens why has it not been applied to those applying self-appointed humanitarian intervention and committing the same if not worse violations? Is international laws and their applications selective and the current international laws, regulations, rules are simply to decorate […]
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 […]
“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. […]
More than six months after the historic elections to Sri Lanka’s Northern Provincial Council, its first Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran says he has not been able to do much, for his hands are tied. From a reluctant entrant to Sri Lankan politics to Chief Minister who won a massive mandate in the elections, it has […]
The game of arresting and releasing fishermen needs to end. The drama has delayed resolving the problem for far too long. If bilateral agreements have been signed they need to be honored after awareness of clauses that gives entitlements and sovereignty to each signing nation. We have 2 agreements, the 1974 and the 1976 Agreements […]