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Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister Gamini Lakshman Peiris said Thursday that members of a recently-appointed UN panel will not be permitted to enter the country to investigate allegations of human rights abuses during the last...

The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday strongly rejected the appointment of a UN panel to investigate allegations of human rights abuses during the last months of the Sri Lankan civil war . UN...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday appointed a three-member panel to investigate allegations of human rights abuses during the last months of the Sri Lankan civil war . The panel will be investigating...

The Sri Lankan government announced Friday that the country's Cabinet has voted to remove presidential term limits that restricted presidents from serving more than two terms in office. The Cabinet also approved changes to the Sri Lankan...

UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay on Monday called for an international inquiry into the conduct of the Sri Lankan government during its civil war . Pillay, speaking at the opening of the fourteenth...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced Friday that it has acquired new evidence to support allegations of wartime abuses against civilians by both the government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [JURIST news...

The International Crisis Group (ICG) on Monday accused Sri Lankan security forces of war crimes during the last months of the Sri Lankan civil war . The ICG claims that the violence of...

Canadian resident Prapaharan Thambithurai pleaded guilty Tuesday to raising money for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the nation's first case involving fundraising for a banned terrorist group. Thambithurai admitted raising between $2,000 and...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that he would not delay his plan to set up a UN panel to investigate allegations of human rights violations during the Sri Lankan civil war ....

The former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on Monday criticized the government's treatment of detained opposition leader General Sarath Fonseka . Sarath Nanda Silva, who retired from the Sri Lankan Supreme...