The long awaited showing of a film following a pair of female Black Tigers at the sold out Frontline Club finds the audience in expectant mood given the controversy the film has drawn.

As the SAARC summit comes to an end Ivan Pedropillai, chief editor of the Tamil Writers Guild, argues for international intervention to stop Sri Lanka's "calculated campaign of genocide".

Despite its track record on human rights and contempt for international laws and practices, Sri Lanka received USD 1.05 billion in the first five months of the year in foreign aid according to a fiscal report published by Sri Lanka’s treasury.

Iran is willing to share nuclear technology for peaceful purposes with Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told The Island newspaper.

Sri Lanka must act to prevent human rights abuses including abductions, the intimidation of media personnel and the recruitment of child soldiers as it fights a 25-year civil war against Tamil Tigers.

Asian Center for Human Rights (ACHR), in a rights report covering the South Asian Association for Regional Cooporation (SAARC), said "Sri Lanka ranks South Asia’s No.1 human rights violator,"

Abkhazia and South Ossetia near independence on Russian ‘u-turn’ after Kosovo

Around Hundred Tamils were arrested in cordon and search operations around Colombo and the south of the country in the space of 5 days, as a Supreme Court filing showed that about 1200 Tamils are languishing in Welikade prison without being charged.

The bloody conflict over South Ossetia will have been good for something at least if it teaches two lessons. The first is that Georgia will never now get South Ossetia and Abkhazia back. The second is for the west: it is not to make promises that it neither can, nor will, fulfil when push comes to shove.

Global politics and Kosovo's independence were in the background to conflict in Georgia.

As Sri Lankan artillery attacks continue to impact on civilian areas, Mullaitheevu Government Agents urge the SLA to observe Safety Zones

Amidst intense fighting and spiraling casualties Sri Lankan government in its latest attempts to beef up its security forces numbers announced another amnesty to deserters and warned that this would the last amnesty offered.

Access to thousands of civilians who have fled fighting between government forces and the LTTE in the northwestern Mannar District between June and July was critical to prevent further hardship, according to UN officials.

Documenting that during June and July, an additional 70,800 people registered with the Kilinochchi and Mullaitheevu Secretariats, NESoHR said restrictions imposed by the Sri Lanka Government on taking essential items to Vanni have further hampered assistance given by the humanitarian agencies.