Former Foreign Minister Professor GL Peiris criticised Sri Lanka’s government for allowing the United Nations Working group for Enforced disappearances (WGEID).

Mr Peiris said that no country will allow a foreign group to have access to its Navy camp, and accused the United Nations Working Group of making false claims after visiting the camp.

The Sunday Times has criticised Ambassador Samantha Power and other countries in the west over its Middle East policy and the terrorist attacks in Paris last week.

In its editorial published on Sunday, the paper said, "The US Ambassador to the UN is in Sri Lanka right now. One of those ‘bleeding-hearts’ who advocates human rights ‘values’ and argued passionately against the Sri Lankan military campaign against terrorists in this country, pushing for the UNHRC resolution, is deafeningly silent on the West’s bloody war in West Asia that has caused innumerable deaths and an influx of thousands of refugees to Europe."

Sri Lanka's largest Sunday paper, seen to be close to the ruling UNP, also criticised France for its 'lukewarm' policy on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and linked it to the attacks on Paris on November 13.

A group of Indian fishermen from Rameswaram were attacked by the Sri Lankan navy according to latest reports, as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa wrote to the Indian Prime Minister over the issue.

Sri Lankan military personnel reportedly pelted the group of fishermen with stones and bottles causing several injuries.

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US Ambassador Samantha Power met with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today, where she discussed the issues of resettling IDPs and releasing military held land in the North.

The Sri Lankan president tweeted that he "assured Ambassador Power that we will continue our commitment to redistributing lands in the North and the resettlement of remaining IDPs".

The Jaffna Press Club (JPC) presented a letter to US Ambassador Samantha Power calling on her to push the Sri Lankan government to investigate the murder of Tamil journalists.

“We have endured many obstacles and severe challenges, with several of the journalists attached to our organisation facing threats to their life,” said the JPC. “Some of our colleagues have been abducted, some disappeared and some even killed.”

The letter added that though the press club “expected those who committed these crimes would be brought to justice” with the change of government in Sri Lanka earlier this year, “however, no tangible progress has yet taken place”.

“So far those who had been responsible for the killings and abductions of journalists have never been brought to justice,” it said. “Those responsible are instead able to move about freely in the island as the culture of impunity continues.”

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran called on Sri Lanka’s government allow the memorialisation of Tamil war dead in the North-East.

Labelling the desecration of Liberation Tamil Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cemeteries the “most uncivil” act, Mr Sumanthiran called on the new government to allow Tamils to remember their war dead freely.

Speaking in Sri Lankan parliament he said,

“Those parents and others must remember their children and family during the month of November. They have done them for years and I plead with the government to commit to allowing them to remember their dead in the month of November. We are at a stage where we are not asking for the division of the country. Our people, those people, relatives of the fallen cadres, have voted for that kind of policy. We have said we don’t want to divide the country, we don’t want to take up arms again, but let us remember our children that died fighting for a cause.”

“If you are serious about reconciliation it is important for you to allow memorialisation.The government has agreed that memorialisation will be allowed. Many of the LTTE cemeteries have been desecrated. The most uncivil actions by the previous government. I’ve been to villages where cemeteries were flattened. And families of the dead have showed me where the cemeteries were desecrated and flattened by bulldozers.”