In 2011 Channel 4 exposed damning evidence of atrocities committed in the war in Sri Lanka. Jon Snow presents this powerful follow-up film, revealing new video evidence as well as contemporaneous documents, eye-witness accounts, photographic stills and videos relating to how exactly events unfolded during the final days of the civil war.
The film forensically examines […]

This document provides basic information on the United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC), the proposed resolution on Sri Lanka at the present 19th Session of the UNHRC and its implications. This document aims to clarify some of the basic facts and
developments and dispel any misinformation and myths regarding the resolution and its impact on Sri Lanka and […]

The US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka was formally presented to the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week. The confidence that the Sri Lankan government had evinced that its diplomacy would
prevail and the resolution would be removed from the agenda did not materialize. However, the draft resolution presented by the […]

Even as attention is riveted on the bloodshed in Syria, another conflict, far more deadly, is belatedly attracting the notice it deserves.
Beginning this week, the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva has returned to an issue that has haunted it since 2009 — the bloody finish to Sri Lanka’s civil war. That conflict ended on […]

“Unlike the last occasion, however, this time around the sponsor of the resolution is no less than the United States, which is the world’s dominant political and economic power. This time the resolution that is proposed will also be harder to overcome. The indications are that the resolution will call on the Sri Lankan government […]

Tamara Kunanayakam, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva  gave an interview to a website last week attempting to explain the motivations of the West and mostly the United States for pushing a
resolution against Sri Lanka
Given below are excerpts of the interview with Ambassador Tamara Kunanayakam.
Question: What is the current situation in the Human […]

The US is not the enemy of Sri Lanka and come what may in Geneva, the two countries will continue to have good bilateral relations – outgoing US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives Patricia Butenis told local media
recently.
We publish below excerpts of an interview appearing in Ceylon Today
Q:The Government and protestors are calling […]

Killing Fields follow up film – Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished to air on Channel 4, on Wednesday March 14, 10:55pm
Last year Channel 4 broadcast Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, a critically-acclaimed and RTS Award winning forensic investigation into the events of the last few weeks of the decades-long war between the government of Sri Lanka
and […]

Sri Lanka expects crude imports from Iran to drop by at least 10% this year due to a range of inflation-fighting policies that should cool demand, potentially helping it find a way around US sanctions, a government official said yesterday.
The Indian Ocean island nation is facing one of the biggest squeezes from the impending sanctions, […]

In May, 2003, I travelled around Iraq reporting on its oil industry. Before reaching Baghdad, I got in touch with Marie Colvin, who was there covering the war and its aftermath for the Sunday Times, where I worked from 1986 to
1993. She wrote back to say that she was staying at a hunt club in […]