The international community has an important part to play in Sri Lanka’s reconciliation process,  said the British High Commissioner whilst visiting the Buddhist Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy.

The parents of a missing LTTE cadre on Monday told the President's Missing Persons Commission in Chavakachcheri their son was one of the LTTE cadres photographed alive under the custody of the Sri Lankan military at the end of the armed conflict.

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Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena is upset with his foreign minister’s openness to international involvement into an alleged war crimes probe reports Ceylon Today.

Labelling Sirisena’s rejection of international involvement as ‘personal opinion’ Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera indicated that international involvement had not been ruled out during a partnership dialogue with the United States in Washington DC.

Amnesty International urged UN Human Rights Council's member states to ensure justice is delivered to victims in Sri Lanka and highlighted the "utmost importance" of international role in justice mechanism.

"Engagement of international judges, prosecutors, defence lawyers, forensic experts, and victim and witness protection experts will be of the utmost importance to maintain the credibility, independence and effectiveness of the process," Amnesty said, in a written statement submitted to the UNHRC ahead of the Council's upcoming session.

The Chief Minister of the Northern Province CV Wigenswaran said that he had sought India’s intervention to set up a federal government system in the Northern and Eastern provinces.

Speaking at an event to welcome back Tamil academics from the Northern Province who went to India to further their studies, Wigneswaran said that India understands that a federal government is the only political solution for the Tamil people.