EU: A Ban on Tamil Rights?

The European Union recently decided to prolong its ban on Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for at least six months. Following similar moves by the US and Canada, the EU included the Tamil Tigers in its list of terrorist organisations in 2006. The group is challenging this move before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg, claiming it is contrary to international law...>

Picking Up the Tamil Tiger's Scent

“The people have used ballots instead of bullets, that’s a great victory for us”, said Sri Lankan Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena last Sunday, even though the ruling party he represents suffered a heavy defeat at the polls in the war-torn north and east of the island-nation...>

Justice, Lies & Videotapes

Sri Lanka’s thirty year war is now more of words than of guns, but it is no less bitter. RNW’s team in the country found fierce resistance in the Sri Lankan government to the current calls for international justice...>

What Happened was Predictable

In his recently published book ‘The Cage’ former United Nations spokesman Gordon Weiss is critical of the UN and points to evidence of the government of Sri Lanka committing war crimes...>

White Vans Deliver Fear

Sri Lanka’s reputation as an Indian Ocean paradise may hold true for determined holidaymakers, but for the sober-minded this image has been shattered in recent months...>

Sri Lanka's main Tamil Party Threatens Reconciliation Talks Walkout

Sri Lanka's main Tamil party threatened on Friday to pull out of reconciliation talks if the government does not within two weeks respond to proposals on devolution of powers, a core issue that fuelled a quarter-century civil war...>

Wanted: Backing from Beijing

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa landed in China on Tuesday in search of support against an aggressive Western push for a probe into war crimes allegations and tighter economic ties in a stormy financial world...>

Fighting for Press Freedom in Sri Lanka

“If you are not with the government, you become an instant traitor to the country. They said I should be killed; very clearly, they said I should be killed.” In his 30-year career as a reporter and editor in Sri Lanka, Sunanda Deshapriya says he was non-political, but his reporting on the 25-year civil war and human rights violations in the country rubbed the government the wrong way...>

Rights Groups File Complaint Against Sri Lanka Diplomat

Two rights groups said Thursday they have brought to Swiss authorities a criminal complaint against a Sri Lankan diplomat and former general, Jagath Dias, over alleged war crimes...>

Sri Lanka To Protest Over Fighter Jet 'Intrusion'

Sri Lanka's foreign ministry plans to protest to the United States after fighter jets intruded into the island's airspace last week, the local Sunday Times newspaper said...>