Old footage of an aircraft firing missiles over a remote area has been misrepresented online as a recent military operation ...

Excavations in Chemmani, on outskirts of Jaffna, will continue for another 7 weeks. Among objects recovered are tiny socks ...

Archaeologists uncover mass grave in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, sparking controversy and revealing hidden wartime atrocities.

The United Nations Human Rights Commission convenes no fewer than three times a year, during February- March,  June-July and ...

The Human Rights Watch (HRA) has urged the National People’s Power (NPP) government to support a resolution at the upcoming UN Human Rights Council session, scheduled to begin on 8 September, to renew ...

Kurukkalmadam Massacre, directed by British-Sri Lankan filmmaker Baazir Kaleelur Rahman, has brought renewed attention to one of Sri Lanka’s most tragic and overlooked episodes of the civil war. ..

When former President Ranil Wickremesinghe emerged from hospital after securing bail, he did not walk out empty-handed. In his grasp was Boris Johnson’s flamboyantly titled memoir, Unleashed: The ..

The 26-year-long conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the state security forces has left an indelible ...

Core Group insists Sri Lanka remains on the UNHRC agenda, despite global humanitarian crises (Afghanistan, Gaza, Yemen, Ukraine, Sudan) being far more severe but sidelined. UNHRC refuses to apply 46/1 ...

GLOBALLY, counterterrorism (CT) is a policing function, focused on prevention, investigation and law enforcement. In Pakistan ...

Photo courtesy of the New Yorker My journey through the shadows of the Sri Lankan civil war was not one I chose but one that ...

Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...