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Lanka makes compensation plea in UN climate pledge

In 2004, a calamitous tsunami killed an estimated 36,000 people as 30-metre high walls of water lashed its low-lying coastal plains. Triggered by an earthquake near the Indonesian island of Sumatra, that can?t be blamed on climate change. But it underlined the country?s vulnerability to natural disasters, some of which will be stoked by warming temperatures in future. That concern suffuses a seven-page document delivered to the UN on Thursday. ?Sri Lanka is largely affected with climate indu

24 Oct, 2015

Government will investigate white flag case

The Government says it will investigate the ?white flag? case where LTTE officials who surrendered to the army during the final stages of the war with white flags in their hands, had later been found dead. Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera told Parliament today that just as much as the Government?has investigated the murder of 600 policemen who surrendered to the LTTE in the Eastern Province, there is a need to investigate the white flag case and other cases identified by the UN report on Sr

23 Oct, 2015

Police accused of torture, ill-treatment of suspects

Sri Lanka?s police forces regularly torture and ill-treat criminal suspects in custody, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The authorities should create an independent oversight authority and adopt concrete steps to end police abuse that has had such corrosive effects across Sri Lankan society. ?The Sri Lankan police treat the use of torture as an ordinary way of obtaining confessions,? said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. ?The police regularly get away wit

23 Oct, 2015