By Shamindra Ferdinando Manohara de Silva, PC, says the rejection by the US of a visa application by Gotabaya Rajapaksa towards the tail end of the latter’s presidential term may allow Western powers to arrest him in terms of the Geneva Resolution. The President’s Counsel emphasised that the Geneva Resolution authorised universal jurisdiction by accepting […]

Some of the protesters said India should not use Sri Lanka's vulnerable position to take advantage in business deals.

Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...

Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...

Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...

Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...

When the crisis story of Dayan Anthony's deportation to Sri Lanka by the Australian federal authorities hit the headlines in late July the so-called FACTS retailed by the reporters of the Australian and Ian Rintoul, as spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition, were riddled with discrepancies. (i) They also believed his relatives' claim that Anthony had been tortured when originally arrested in 2...

When the crisis story of Dayan Anthony's deportation to Sri Lanka by the Australian federal authorities hit the headlines in late July the so-called FACTS retailed by the reporters of the Australian and Ian Rintoul, as spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition, were riddled with discrepancies. (i) They also believed his relatives' claim that Anthony had been tortured when originally arrested in 2...

By Amanda Morrow It’s often mistakenly called “Little Bombay”, but the lively neighbourhood that stretches from the rue du Faubourg-St-Denis north to La Chapelle is actually home to Paris’s Tamil community. The air is often fragrant in this quarter –...

by Associated Press More than three years after federal agents locked up a Sri Lankan immigrant they say was the top U.S. representative of the Tamil Tigers, his fate may hinge on a complex question: Was the rebel group a...