ALERTS:Friday, 6 January 2012, 11:24 am: Sri Lanka: A further report on abductions followed by murder
Dinesh Buddhika Charitanda (25), was abducted on the 3rd January at night and on the morning of the 4th his body was found near the Keleni river close to Grand Pass and his mother identified the body. He had injuries to […]

WASHINGTON DC, DECEMBER 19:  Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Robert O Blake has not always been Colombo’s darling. He has earned the wrath of many an extremist pen-pusher in the government controlled press for his comments on human rights issues and his name […]

WASHINGTON DECEMBER 17: Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse who has consistently avoided the service of summons, yesterday (December 16) filed motion in the war crimes suit against him in the District Court of Washington DC, Lawyers said.
Mr. Rajapakse’s motion filed through Patton Boggs preempted an outstanding motion filed by the Plaintiffs in the case
calling on […]

6 December 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Land Issues in the Northern Province: Post-War Politics, Policy and Practices by Senior Researchers Bhavani Fonseka and Mirak Raheem at the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) is the most recent endeavour by CPA to critique and provide alternatives to land and related issues in the post-war Northern Province in […]

Can I see another’s woe and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief and not seek for kind relief? ( William Blake’s Sorrow)
The story of 17 year old Rizana Nafeek who went to Saudi Arabia on fabricated papers to hide her actual age to serve as a maid in order to bring happiness to […]

 
The Sri Lankan army ordered extra-judicial killings and assassinations during the final days of the country’s civil war,
according to allegations made by a former member of the army. The source made the statements in an affidavit, obtained by The International as a part of an investigative report on the civil war, published today. The allegations […]

Is there more to the sudden death of 40 year old Pitchai Jesudasan, the main suspect in the Lasantha Wickrematunge murder case?
Lasantha’s wife calls for inquiry
Lasantha’s wife Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge told this correspondent there appeared at first glance to be some kind of cover up in keeping with the rest of the botched investigation that […]

OCTOBER 18, 2011: War-torn island’s former navy chief is named by witnesses in documents filed in Perth
Police in Australia are examining a so-called “war crimes” dossier of information that claims to confirm Sri Lankan forces bombed and shelled civilians during the country’s civil war.
And activists have called on the Australian authorities to make use of […]

While the whole nation was shocked by the multiple killings at Mulleriyawa, another set of gruesome murders have been reported from Puhulyaya, Panahakaduwa, in Udawalawe. A father M K Lalith (37), mother R Indrani Gnanalatha (32), son M K Dilan Chathuranga (12), daughter M K Nadeeka Sevuwandi (8) were killed due to a shooting which, […]

Sri Lanka’s current high commissioner to Australia has been named in a submission containing allegations of war crimes.
The submission handed to the Australian Federal Police by the Australian chapter of the International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) contains allegations about war crimes committed in 2009 during the final stages of the Sri Lankan government’s bloody war […]