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Sri Lanka's Chief of Defense Staff General Sarath Fonseka returned home Thursday without being questioned by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about alleged war crimes. Fonseka, a US permanent resident with...

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama objected Monday to plans by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to question military commander General Sarath Fonseka about the alleged war crimes committed during the...

Sri Lankan Minister for Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe announced Monday that President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to appoint an independent committee to investigate allegations of human rights violations in that nation. "Incidents...

Sri Lanka must investigate reports of human rights violations and war crimes during the last months of the internal armed civil conflict by both government and rebel forces and prosecute those responsible, the US Department of State...

UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe on Saturday urged the Sri Lankan government to conduct an independent inquiry into allegations of war crimes during the civil war against the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the government of Sri Lanka to conduct a "proper investigation" of any "credible allegations of violations of humanitarian law" arising from the recent conflict between...

Amnesty International (AI) urged the UN Security Council to establish an international body to conduct an inquiry into war crimes allegedly committed in Sri Lanka , and to press the Sri Lankan government...

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama on Sunday dismissed calls from Amnesty International (AI) to publish the official death toll during the finals weeks of the armed conflict that...

The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution Wednesday "welcoming the conclusion of hostilities" in Sri Lanka, but failing to call for an investigation into war crimes committed during the conflict. Adopted during the 11th...

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday rejected calls for his government to provide full humanitarian access to Tamil displacement camps in the country, saying the camps still needed to be screened for rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE)...