Court orders release of 15 elephants for Kandy perahera

Subramanian Swamy’s office attacked over Lankan issue

Unidentified miscreants pelted stones on the office of India’s Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy, in Madurai in protest over the Sri Lankan issue, the Times of India reported today. Police suspect that it could be the handiwork of students of the Government Law College in Madurai, who were staging a protest in the wake of Swamy’s recent meeting with President Mahinda Rajapakse in Colombo. Police said that the name board in the office was damaged. The protesters also lowered the party fla

06 Mar, 2013

No formal complaints on most disappearances

The government informed the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) today that there have not been formal complaints for over 60 percent of those alleged to have disappeared in the country. In a statement issued during the interactive dialogue with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, the government said that during the past year the Ministry of Defence has created a database to clarify cases referred by the working group. The government told the Council it has transmitted clarif

06 Mar, 2013

Demonstrators heading to Colombo blocked

The police blocked a group of people heading to Colombo from the north to take part in a demonstration over the disappeared, Tamil politician Mano Ganeshan said. He told the Colombo Gazette that some 10 bus loads of people mainly from Vavuniya and Mannar, which were preparing to leave Vavuniya today, were blocked by the police. Ganeshan said that the police had warned the people that there was information the buses may come under attack when heading to Colombo. ?The police had also threatened th

05 Mar, 2013