Law and Order Ministry proposes interdicting DIG Nalaka

Pillay pessimistic after visit (Interview)

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay ? who concluded her seven-day visit yesterday ??said she is happy about post-war developments, particularly in the North, but sounded rather pessimistic about the government?s progress in issues related to accountability. After a series of meetings with representatives of the government, the opposition, civil society and families of the disappeared, she made a statement to the press on Saturday. Later this month, she will also make an oral submis

31 Aug, 2013

Prabarkaran was a psychopath

President Mahinda Rajapaksa says LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabakaran was a psychopath who killed his own people. In an interview with The Australian newspaper, the President said that most of the LTTE’s targeted victims were other Tamils as they set about eliminating any alternative Tamil leadership to themselves. “Prabarkaran was a psychopath who had a delight in killing. He killed his own people, his own relations,” the newspaper quoted the President as saying He also denied his army knowingly

31 Aug, 2013

Maoists reveal LTTE links

Nepal’s CPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has revealed that his party had ties with the LTTE during the decade-long armed conflict in Nepal, the Himalayan Times reported. In the startling revelation, the Maoist leader, who later became the country’s prime minister in 2008, admitted that the Nepali Maoists had sought the Sri Lankan rebel groups. Dahal, also called Prachanda in the party, was speaking at a training programme for the officer bearers of Maoist party’s ethnic and regional organi

01 Sep, 2013