Sixteen people further remanded over Theldeniya violence

Navy hailed by UNHCR on boat issue

The UNHCR has praised the Sri Lanka Navy for its role in rescuing a group of stranded boat people from Myanmar and providing immediate medical attention to them. UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic said that some 90 people ? believed to be from Myanmar’s Rakhine state ? are said to have died of dehydration and starvation during a boat journey that lasted almost two months. More than 30 survivors were rescued from this vessel last weekend by the Sri Lankan navy off Sri Lanka’s east coast. Earlier i

22 Feb, 2013

Congress MPs call for Indian resolution on Sri Lanka

Seeking to exert pressure on the Centre, Congress MPs from Tamil Nadu today met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that India join western countries like the US in bringing a resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC over the alleged human rights violations during the war, the Indian media reported. The MPs said India should join hands with the United States in bringing out a Resolution against Sri Lanka asking it to categorically implement the recommendations of its own Lessons Lear

22 Feb, 2013

TULF leader says Tamil Nadu helped Lanka

Leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) V. Anandasangaree says India had and has a bigger role to play during and after the war. In a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a copy of which was released to the media, Anandasangaree noted that if the Tamil Nadu police had not been put on alert, thousands of tons of steel balls and chemicals used for the manufacture of bombs and hand grenades would have found their way into various parts of the North and through the North to other parts

22 Feb, 2013