US Navy holds talks with Sri Lanka on matters of mutual interest

PM says risks of failed peace appearing

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the risks of a failed peace are appearing only now, because since 2009, when the war with the LTTE?ended in an enormous spasm of violence, the government led by former President Mahinda Rajapaska made only the most halfhearted of efforts to bring about reconciliation with Tamil citizens. Wickremesinghe says the reconstruction of war-ravaged Tamil districts, as well as other parts of the?society damaged by years of fighting and terrorism, has barely begun

13 May, 2015

Court issues order against Gota’s arrest

The Supreme Court (SC) has issued an order against arresting former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa until a petition filed by him is heard. Rajapaksa had filed a?fundamental rights petition against the special police unit investigating allegations of serious financial crimes. Earlier today, Supreme Court Judge Buwanaka Aluvihare withdrew?from the bench hearing the fundamental rights petition filed by the former Defence Secretary. As a result the three member bench set to hear the case wi

13 May, 2015

Woman pleads not to send her to Lanka

A Sri Lankan?woman in Cromer, England, who claimed she was raped and then tortured with cigarettes by security forces in Sri Lanka has pleaded with the Home Office not to send her back, the Eastern Daily Press reported. Her husband said he escaped from the soldiers after being shot and wounded and came to Cromer in 1998. The alleged victim recently joined her husband in the seaside town.?The couple?s background was revealed at an Immigration and Asylum Tribunal in Birmingham. The woman appeal

12 May, 2015