In a statement released Monday, the Indian High Commission in Colombo dismissed reports made in a Sri Lankan newspaper that there were LTTE training camps in Tamil Nadu.
Gary Anandasangaree, monitor for Sri Lanka at Lawyers' Rights Watch, and legal counsel for the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC),writes in the Sunday Leader on the recently passed resolution at the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council.
Sri Lanka will eagerly be awaiting the outcome of Monday’s meeting of the International Monetary Fund, as they look to be granted a desperately needed $800 million tranche of a recently suspended $2.6 billion loan.
An international Tamil diaspora organisation has launched legal action against the British Foreign Secretary William Hague, over the failure to declare a senior Sri Lankan diplomat accused of war crimes a ‘persona non grata’.
The Sri Lankan government has raised taxes on cigarettes, alcohol and automobiles in an attempt to meet conditions for an instalment from an IMF loan, according to an opposition MP.
Addressing journalists and media workers in Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa asked the country's media to 'broadcast true information and render its service for the country with its great power of truth', the Colombo Page reports.
Rajapaksa added that it was the responsibility of the country's media to safeguard the country from the unnecessary challenges it faces from foreign media.
Rajapaksa made this address at the opening ceremony of yet another state orchestrated media project - the Media Development Center of the Department of Government Information Department.
Writing in his online blog, the British news anchor, Jon Snow from Channel 4 questions whether the England cricket team should be playing in Sri Lanka on tour, whilst war crimes and crimes against humanity remain unaccounted for.
Addressing international buyers at Sri Lanka Expo 2012, the country's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, remained defiant in the face of the recently passed resolution at the UNHRC.
Questioned over the country's decision to abstained on the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka, Malaysia's Foreign Affairs deputy minister, Richard Riot, stated that Sri Lanka's problems were too complex to solve in a short time, however, reiterating that "if during the period of reconciliation, that they don’t achieve peace, then the international community will meet and vote whether they will interfere or not.”
Military advisor to India's National Security Council Secretariat, Lt. Gen. (Retd) Prakash Menon said that India's decision to vote in favour of the resolution tabled at the UNHRC was a "calculated" vote in the national interest.
Former UNHRC High Commissioner and current member of the Elders, Mary Robinson, emphasized the need for accountability in Sri Lanka in a recent interview with BBC Sandeshaya.
UK Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne has welcomed the passing of a resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council and continued to urge Sri Lanka to implement the recommendations from its Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission.
In a statement welcoming “landmark resolutions on key countries of concern”, the Minister stated,
Sri Lanka’s Public Relations Minister Meryvn Silva remained obstinate on Tuesday in his pledge to “break the limbs” of those who work against Sri Lanka, as he continued to threaten those labelled as “traitors” to the country.
