New evidence of the murder of one man is key to revealing a conspiracy behind mass murder. This evidence, shown and told in The Global Mail’s story, is graphic and confronting. The issue is now being debated by the United Nations. Research by Joel Keep.

This single murder, insignificant of itself, suggests the systematic, large-scale killing […]

Chennai, March 19: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Monday termed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement in parliament on the US resolution
against Sri Lanka as “evasive” and “useless”.
She also accused DMK president M. Karunanidhi of “enacting a deceitful drama” of calling a meeting of the party’s high level committee Tuesday and announcing a hunger strike […]

GENEVA — Even as it faces new demands to act to protect civilians in Syria, the United Nations Human Rights Council will vote this week on an American-led initiative calling on Sri Lanka to account for the carnage that ended its civil war three years ago, a move that has become the focus of a […]

New Delhi:The Prime Minister said today in Parliament that India is inclined to vote against Sri Lanka at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in
Geneva. A resolution against the Sri Lankan government for alleged war crimes and human rights violations has been moved by the US, Norway and France. “We do not […]

Statement made at the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. 20/3/2012
La Rencontre Africaine pour la Défense
des Droits de l’Homme (RADDHO)
Item – 9
General Debate on Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up on and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
20 March 2012
Statement by Visuvalingam KIRUPAHARAN
Madam President
The present […]

Statement
A vote on the US-sponsored resolution aimed at promoting reconciliation in Sri Lanka is scheduled to take place later this week at the conclusion of the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Bitterness
and rancor have accompanied the debate in Geneva.
The thrust of the proposed resolution in Geneva is the implementation of […]

“If Sri Lanka succeeds in defeating the US-sponsored resolution there will be a renewal of government confidence in its policies of governance. It will mean that the government will continue to assert that national security and economic development constitute the pillars of national reconciliation. It may be for these reasons that the government has not […]

After travelling through Sri Lanka and India, American yoga teacher Aubrey Sacco decided to cap her six-month trip of a lifetime with a solo trek in Nepal’s majestic Himalayas.
The 23-year-old told her family she would be hiking in Langtang National Park, on the Tibetan border, and would check back with them in a few days. […]

An Urgent Appeal by Indian Activists and Advocates to the Indian Government to Support the UN Resolution on Sri Lanka at the 19th Human Rights Council Sessions
STATEMENT
We, the undersigned, call upon the Indian Government to take action with regards to the situation in Sri Lanka through supporting the US-sponsored resolution at the on-going 19th Session of the […]

After 30 years of violence, northern Sri Lanka is opening up to tourism
Saying I’m going on holiday to Sri Lanka elicits one of two reactions from my friends. There’s the ooh-elephants-temples-cocktails-at-sunset-lucky-you! brigade. And
then there are my friends who read the newspapers. “Which beach did you say you’re staying on?” emails a friend. “The one where […]