‘A devolution package, building on the 13th A, will help create necessary conditions for genuine reconciliation’

A group of people protests in Trincomalee against disappearances.

The Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF), affiliated to the JVP, is now attacking the government over atrocities allegedly committed by the military in the Trincomalee district during the eelam war IV. The IUSF had thrown its weight behind the campaign spearheaded by an organization called ‘We Are Sri Lankans’

After two years since the Sri Lankan government has declared its military victory over the Tamil Tigers, over one hundred thousand displaced had not returned home says a new UN report.

“Between 1 April and 13 May 2011, 1,139 persons (366 families) departed the Menik Farm and Kodikamam Ramavil camps for their areas of origin in Mullaitivu (Maritimepattu and Odusuddan) and Kilinochchi (Pachchilaipallai and Karachchi) Districts, increasing the total population returned to the Northern Province to 373,593 pers

UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya has handed over a private member’s motion to Parliament for the second time to ensure the people’s right to information, a discussion on the subject jointly organized by the Alliance of Media Organizations, Commonwealth Human rights initiative and Transparency International was told last evening.

Mr. Jayasruiya who was to participate in the discussion sent a word to the organizers that he had handed over a motion once again as the government which ensured it would come up with a

A demonstration was staged in Trincomalee town when concerned people asked the authorities to find the whereabouts of young men and women who were either abducted, or who had disappeared during the military conflicts in the Eastern Province. The ‘We are Sri Lankans’ organisation and the JVP coordinated the agitation. More than 200 people including the wives, children and parents of individuals who had ‘disappeared’ participated. They displayed placards with photos of the disappeared persons and expressed thei

More than 90 per cent of those in university administration countrywide have tendered their resignation letters to the authorities resulting in administrative functions of universities on the verge of a breaking down, Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) said yesterday. 

The FUTA said heads of departments, coordinators of units as well as hostel wardens and centre directors have tendered their resignation letters as part of the trade union action urging the government to give a substantial salary increa

Mr. Ocampo said he was the prosecutor for 115 ICC member states and as Sri Lanka was not a member, asking him about the report on Sri Lanka was like asking a British prosecutor about alleged crimes outside his responsibility.