Sri Lanka vowed Wednesday to grant greater autonomy to its Tamil minority in a new constitution after an influential Buddhist monk said the clergy opposed the plan. President Maithripala Sirisena has...
Sri Lanka's President announced Saturday new investigations into alleged secret detention centres as part of a drive to find tens of thousands of people still missing after the country's decades-long...
As many as 40,000 Tamil civilians may have died in the last few months of the fighting The United Nations has condemned Sri Lanka's government for failing to investigate civil war-era atrocities,...
The UN rights chief on Wednesday condemned Sri Lanka's persistent failure to probe war-era atrocities, suggesting the government was afraid of punishing soldiers who committed abuses during the...
President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in Sri Lanka promising justice for war crimes, breaking from his hawkish predecessor and presenting the island with its first real shot at a lasting...
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has rejected a fresh appeal from the United Nations to allow international judges to investigate alleged war-era atrocities, vowing to not prosecute...
Attackers opened fire on a prison bus outside Colombo on Monday, killing five prisoners and two armed guards in the worst gang-related violence to hit Sri Lanka in decades. Police said the gunmen...
