Sri Lankan police have revealed that a crime figure murdered earlier this year in Middeniya was in a vehicle that pursued rugby player Wasim Thajudeen shortly before his death in 2012.

An 86-year-old French woman has lodged a complaint with the Sri Lankan police, accusing a senior Sri Lankan Air Force officer of stealing silver and gold-plated valuables dating back to the reign of King Louis XIV of France.

Today marks the birthday of Balachandran Prabhakaran, the third child of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who was executed by the Sri Lankan military during the final days of the Mullivaikkal massacre.

Sri Lanka’s Fisheries Minister R. Chandrasekar launched a blistering attack on former Sri Lankan presidents Ranil Wickremesinghe and Mahinda Rajapaksa, branding them the island’s “number one thieves” and accusing them of looting state resources and protecting criminals.

Sri Lanka faced sustained scrutiny in Geneva as the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) concluded its first examination of the island’s record under the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance last week. 

Relay hunger strike in Jaffna enters fourth day demanding international justice for disappeared Tamils

The Sri Lankan government has publicly accused prominent Tamil journalist and human rights defender Kumanan Kanapathipillai of “terrorist activities and financial crime” during a UN session, in what has been described as a deliberate smear campaign to intimidate him.

Relay hunger strike in Jaffna enters fifth day demanding international justice for disappeared Tamils

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba hailed former Sri Lankan president J.R. Jayewardene this week, recalling his 1951 address at the San Francisco Peace Conference and describing it as pivotal to Japan’s postwar reintegration into the international community.