Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the government will appoint a committee to seek how best to integrate the Tamils of Hill Country origin further into the Sri Lankan society Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the government will appoint a committee to seek how best to integrate the Tamils of Hill Country origin further into the Sri Lankan … Read more
By Maj Gen Jagatbir Singh, VSM (Retd) “Theirs is not to reason why, it’s but to do and die’ can sum up India’s experience during Operation Pawan. To quote Lieutenant General SC Sardeshpande; “the IPKF had to strive between strategic perceptions and tactical reality of vicious and sudden counter insurgency action. Being the combat leader … Read more
A Passage North delivers a powerful image of the horrors of state-sponsored violence and the human necessity to help its victims. The quarter-century long civil war in Sri Lanka ended with the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in 2009. The brutality of the final push by the Sri Lankan army created a humanitarian crisis, the … Read more
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Sunday said the recent UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka was the doing of “local and foreign forces” which do not want the country to progress, and vowed that his government would not succumb to such pressures. The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution against Sri Lanka’s rights record on … Read more