The International Crisis Group (ICG) which last week co-hosted the screening of the Channel 4 video Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields on Capitol Hill in its latest report (Asia Report No.20918)released today (July 18) says reconciliation in Sri Lanka seems like a distant Dream. Blaming the emergence of  the authoritarian Rajapakse in the country and the […]

The unedited Statement below is from women in Sri Lanka, but individual and organization names are not used because of the potential danger for the women who are working on these issues.
* Women not allowed to grieve by LLRC
* 28 reported cases of death in Jaffna in the last six months
* Rape victims forced […]

The harrowing documentary Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields was screened on Capitol Hill Friday July 15, 2011 in conjunction with the Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.
The Documentary screening which was shown in New York last month is co hosted by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International-USA, the International Crisis Group, and The Open Society Foundations and […]

Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader met UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon today (July 5) at 3.30pm to brief him on the Opposition’s views on the Advisory Report of the Secretary General’s Panel of Experts on accountability in Sri Lanka.
Speaking with Lanka Independent minutes after the meeting, Opposition Leader Wickremasinghe said he had reiterated to the […]

June 26 is the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Torture is a crime under international law. According to all relevant instruments, it is absolutely prohibited and cannot be justified under any circumstances. This prohibition forms part of customary international law, which means that it is binding on every member of […]

There is paranoia in Sri Lanka of an international conspiracy against it. What seems prevalent is not a conspiracy, but serious cultural/behavioral issuesThe Sri Lankan security forces are without doubt, one of the best fighting forces in the World. At the height of the conflict, an officer from a British security agency informed this writer, […]

The attempt to trivialize the campaign on the disappearance of Prageeth Ekneliagoda
There are discussions about Prageeth Eknaliagoda’s abduction and disappearance that go something like this:
Was he a journalist or was he not a journalist? Was he a great journalist or was he a lesser journalist? Was he abducted and made to disappear due his activities as a […]

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It’s been just two years since some resemblance of peace returned to the island nation of Sri Lanka, with its 25-year civil war drawing to a close. But now, Britain’s Independent Television News charges that government forces herded thousands of Tamil civilians into a “no-fire zone” and […]

 
David Cameron calls for an investigation into Sri Lanka allegations as the FCO says “convincing evidence of violations of human rights” were aired in the Channel 4 documentary Killing Fields.
The film Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields documents the final bloody weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war, in which at least 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed. […]

A special investigation by Channel 4 featuring devastating new evidence of alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka was screened at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Friday (June 3) as pressure mounts for action.
The documentary is an hour-long investigation into the final weeks of the bloody Sri Lankan civil war and features damning […]