A Coalition of six US-based Human Rights Organizations in a letter to U.S. President Obama wrote: "[t]o address abuses associated with the recent fighting [in Sri Lanka's north], there is an urgent need for an independent, international commission of inquiry into many credible allegations of laws of war violations, including possible war crimes, by both sides, as well as illegitimate detentions...

A new group of eminent Tamil people in Sri Lanka has made a plea for those held in government camps to be given a timetable for their release.

Sri Lankan authorities appear to be building permanent camps to house many of the 300,000 refugees from the last phase of the war with the Tamil Tigers, despite promising to resettle 80 per cent of them by the end of the year.

THE Tamil National Alliance, the largest Tamil political party in Sri Lanka, has submitted its nominations for the forthcoming municipal council elections in Jaffna and Vavuniya.

An opposition MP in Sri Lanka has condemned the state of the internment camps in which Tamil civilians are being held.

Civil society sources in Jaffna raised accusations against UN Jaffna officials for releasing facts and statistics, related to the detainees held in the SLA internment camps, provided by GOSL and SLA, instead of the true situation prevailing in the camps, to the outer world.

China and Sri Lanka celebrated their increasing closeness during a week in which the island announced an exclusive economic zone for the Asian giant and China responded by promising to take their partnership to new heights.

Sri Lanka's top rights panel said has concluded investigations into the murder of 17 local employees of a French charity and six other high profile cases from the island's civil war, but refused to publish the outcome.

The Sri Lankan Government is trying to siphon off millions of pounds of humanitarian aid by imposing a tax on all funding for aid groups, The Times newspaper reported Monday.

Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse’s office has ordered the closure of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) by the end of July, according to SCOPP Director General Rajiva Wijesinghe.

Noted Indian journalist Satya Sivaraman said his country became just a public relations manager for the Sri Lanka’s Mahinda Rajapaksa government in their war against the LTTE.

ALL the local newspapers of Jaffna that defied publishing an anonymous and defiling notice against the LTTE came under attack by an armed group in the early hours of Thursday.

Three Tamil College students from Canada are on a 1000-mile walk from Chicago to Washington D.C. to "raise awareness with the general American population to what is happening in Sri Lanka,” Illinois Times reported. More than 50 people assembled on the steps of the Capitol Friday, wearing tan, gray and blue T-shirts that carried their message: Break the Silence in Sri Lanka, the paper added.

What kind of violence has the Sri Lankan state been committing against its Tamil civilian population as the island‘s civil war ended; on what scale and with what intentions? Martin Shaw explores the difficult terrain where war, atrocity and genocide meet.