Sri Lanka urged not to deport Pakistani family

Key discussion held on meeting target to make Sri Lanka mine free

Minister of Prison Reforms Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Hindu Religious Affairs DM Swaminathan held a meeting today with the mine action operators to discuss about the Government?s target of making Sri Lanka free of mine impact by 2020. The meeting focussed on achieving the set demining target specified in the Sri Lanka National Mine Action Strategy Report which was released on 25th May. The mine operators directed Minister Swaminathan?s attention towards the importance of Sri Lanka becomi

03 Jun, 2016

Government will resettle all war-displaced by year-end

The Government?will by year-end resettle all people, including the minority Muslims and the Sinhalese, who were displaced during the nearly three-decade-long war against the LTTE, a senior minister said on Sunday, according to the Press Trust of India. “We have six months to go, we will resettle all in the north by end of the year,” Minister of National Dialogue Mano Ganesan said, adding that even the Sinhala and Muslim minority communities who were chased out by the LTTE would be given their l

05 Jun, 2016

Government insists domestic process on war probe underway

The Government today insisted that the domestic process on investigating incidents related to the war was underway. Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said that the Cabinet approval given to create an office on missing persons was part of the domestic accountability process. He also dismissed claims that 40,000 civilians were killed during the war. Samarasinghe said that a former Colombo based UN official had made the claims about the?40,000 death toll and this was quoted as the source in a?UN pan

03 Jun, 2016