As Britain goes to the polls on Thursday, a key issue for many British Tamil voters is UK policy on Sri Lanka and the Tamil question there. In this regard, the Tamil Guardian contacted the offices of several candidates last week seeking their views.

Sri Lanka’s elections repeat lessons the lessons of 1956.

There is little doubt the war crimes issue would have any impact on this parliamentary election. The April 8 election has nothing serious on its platforms. It’s all about athletes, film stars, cricketers, journalists and also lumpens, and more about these “wonderful” personalities.

Engaging sections of vested interests in the diaspora to elude righteous causes of struggling people, in order to achieve imperialist goals in war and peace, is a long time strategy of powers. International foundations, firms and other such outfits are created from time to time for this purpose.

A global group for legal professionals, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), joined the growing condemnation of the Sri Lankan Government’s intimidation and harassment of human rights advocates.

Sutirtho Patranobis reports on the plight of IDPs the Sri Lankan Government claims have been resettled.

Sri Lanka violated human rights last year as it dealt a final blow to Tamil Tiger insurgents the US State Department said in its annual human rights report.

CHINA has loaned US$290 million (S$405 million) to the Sri Lankan government to build an airport and expand the island's railway network, according to Sri Lanka's foreign ministry.

Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse has claimed that constitutionally he is above the law.

Federal solution based on shared sovereignty and right to self-determination in a contiguous north and east of Sri Lanka was the highlight of the TNA manifesto released on Friday, March 12, leading to international media, claiming the party has dropped its demand for statehood for Tamils.

Sri Lanka is the only country added on the annual human rights report by Britain this year as a country of concern by the Foreign Affairs Committee, according to British Foreign Office.

Dozens of unidentified men pelted stones at the headquarters of a private television station sympathetic to the opposition UNP in Sri Lanka's capital, causing damage to the building, police said.

Sri Lanka dismissed a U.S. State Department report accusing it of violating citizens' rights, saying the allegations were unsubstantiated and based on reports by unnamed sources.

Sri Lanka's Election Commission has turned down the demand for presence of foreign poll observers at the counting centres for the upcoming parliamentary polls.