“They didn’t believe that anyone in the international community was willing to stop them, and they were right.” That is the lucid explanation offered by John Holmes, the British diplomat and former ...

Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa remained defiant in the face of intensifying calls for an independent war crimes investigation this week. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi ...

Sri Lanka's president went back Wednesday on pledges to the UN Human Rights Council to investigate war-time atrocities, saying he did not want to "re-open old wounds". Sri Lankan government troops ...

Sri Lanka yesterday reiterated its rejection of a US-sponsored resolution adopted at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva last month calling for a comprehensive war crimes probe.

In a further sign that Sri Lanka's newly elected president wants to deal with the country's troubled past, a government spokesman said today that a new probe is planned to investigate allegations of ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s president said on Friday that he wants the United Nations to drop its demand for state accountability over the alleged killing of some 40,000 Tamil civilians by government forces ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military will act against any soldiers who may have committed war crimes or other excesses in the last months of its 25-year civil war, the island nation's influential ...

Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka – On a beach in northeastern Sri Lanka, Krishnan Anjan Jeevarani laid out some of her family’s favourite food items on a banana leaf. She placed a samosa, lollipops and a large ...

Sri Lanka's new government on Monday rejected a call by the United Nations for an international investigation into alleged war crimes committed during its ethnic conflict which claimed over 100,000 ...

The United Nations decided Monday to postpone an eagerly-awaited report on a war crimes probe into Sri Lanka's brutal separatist war to give the country's new government a chance to cooperate with ...

Sri Lanka's government and top military brass were due to hold their own commemoration in Colombo on Sunday. On May 18, 2009 government forces brought their no-holds-barred military offensive to an ...