The Sri Lankan police on Wednesday arrested for Australia by boat illegally.

Of those arrested are 43 minority Tamils and 2 Singhalese nationals, the police said in the north western town of Marawila said.

The police said that the Tamils are all residents of the northern town of Jaffna which was affected by the 30 year war between Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan army.

The police found food, mobile telephones and clothes in the possession of the asylum seekers who we

 With the gradual release of 6700 acres out of the 12,000 acres of land acquired by the Security Forces for expansion of the High security Zone (HSZ) surrounding the Palaly military base in the Jaffna Peninsula the government had enabled thousands of IDP families to resettle in their former lands, Minister of Lands and Land Development, Janaka Bandara Tennakoon said on Monday.

The Minister who visited the Jaffna Peninsula to open a fully fledged branch office of the Ministry of Lands and Lands Development at the Jaffna Ka

A spike in the number of illegal migrants caught up in human smuggling operations, stranded in West Africa and in need of assistance prompted the federal government to double funding for a project that returns those willing to give up their fight for asylum to their country of origin free of charge.

Documents obtained through access to information show Foreign Affairs approved a $4-million funding boost in July 2012 to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) which manages the program, bringing Canada’s contrib

Firing from all cylinders, the Bodu Bala Sena yesterday hit back against Monday’s much-welcomed and harmonious compromise on the Halal controversy and its architects, with the monk-led group claiming it would not rest until the Islamic certification is completely banned.

The hard-line group which started the anti-Halal agitation through the country said the logo was merely the final stamp of a process that was abhorrent to the Sinhalese Buddhist majority in the island. The group said the Halal debate must continue and Si

Arsenic issue, as usual, has taken a political direction. It cannot be helped as there is lot of politics around arsenic. Politics in western Christian colonialism is bound with culture and the fight is not only against those who are responsible for the Chronic Kidney Disease unidentified etiology (CKDu) directly but against the cultural colonialists as well. The UNP, JVP and some three wheeler parties attempt to gain political mileage by accusing the government of not supplying the dialyzing machines and other equipment to the governmen

The general strike called by the Tamil Eelam Supporters’ Organisation (TESO) for the Sri Lankan Tamil cause on Tuesday brought out fundamental differences that have prevented political parties in the State from coming together on a single platform.

Barring the DMK and its ally Viduthalai Chiruthikal Katchi, even political parties such as the MDMK, PMK and other outfits that share the idea of “a separate Eelam” refused to participate in the strike.

DMK’s rivals argue that the party had no locu

Having tasted victory over the Halal certification issue the Bodhu Bala Sena(BBS) organization is to begin another widespread campaign targeting the Muslim community on the issue of attire worn by Muslim women in Sri Lanka.

The co-founder and head of the Ethno-Religious Fascist Organization Ven.Kirama Vimalajothy Thera has announced that the Bodhu Bala Sena will commence a fresh campaign before March 31st the form of dress covering the body that is worn by many Muslim women in Sri Lanka.

Pressure for a war crimes investigation continues to mount. With the sessions of the UN Human Rights Council entering their second week, activists descended on key national capitals, urging governments to pass a resolution that calls for international action.

As usual, India has been the site of the most extreme interventions. As Karunanidhi’s DMK held a meeting of the Tamil Eelam Supporters’ Organisation in Delhi and called for a general strike in Tamil Nadu, a member of Seeman’s NTK self-immolated and

Coupled with media reports that there may be a ‘consensus resolution’ on Sri Lanka at the UNHRC this time round, President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s reiteration of a September deadline for Provincial Council polls in the Northern Province, may be a silver-lining on the otherwise cloudy and confused ethnic front.

Together, they could mean that the clock could still be set back on the ‘political solution’ to the ethnic issue to the days prior to the stakeholders nearer home going on to the ‘UNHRC mo

The European Union (EU) says there has been limited progress on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka last year.

Ireland Ambassador Gerard Corr, speaking at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) today on behalf of the EU said that the current human rights situation in Sri Lanka and accountability and reconciliation should remain on the agenda of the Council.

At the beginning of the 22nd session of the UNHRC last month the Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore