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Sri Lanka will continue to outlaw the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and detain terror suspects indefinitely despite lifting emergency laws, officials announced Thursday. The laws restricting civil and political rights for the past 30...

The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday announced it would lift emergency laws that have been in place for 30 years, though Parliament would renew some provisions temporarily. The emergency laws were established during...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday criticized a report released by the Sri Lankan government for not taking responsibility for alleged violations of the laws of war. The Sri Lankan Ministry of Defense released...

UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns on Monday urged the UN Human Rights Council to conduct further investigations into possible Sri Lankan war crimes after reconfirming the legitimacy of a video of Liberation...

A UN panel of experts said in a report released Monday that the Sri Lankan government and rebel forces may have committed war crimes during the final stages of the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...

A UN panel of experts on Sri Lanka has found credible allegations of war crimes committed during the country's war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) , according to excerpts of a report disclosed...

The UN announced on Tuesday the completion of a report on allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka, but Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the report would not be released until President Mahinda Rajapaksa has time...

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka ruled Tuesday that the court-martial of former army chief and parliament minister Sarath Fonseka was legal and bars him from serving in government. Fonseka had appealed...

The Sri Lankan Ministry of External Affairs announced Saturday that a UN war crimes panel will be allowed to visit the island to look into alleged war crimes in the final stages of the conflict...

Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI) and the International Crisis Group (ICG) , on Thursday declined an invitation from Sri Lanka's Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) to testify before the probe investigating the end...