A Brazilian man accused of killing 16 people in a remote part of the country was captured after a two-day police pursuit ended on September 13, with investigators revealing that he had
UN experts have urged the Government of Sri Lanka to take immediate steps to ensure accountability for the killing of 17 humanitarian workers in the eastern town of Muttur, marking 20 years
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by Durga Velayudham “Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.” — Gordon Hewart The question confronting Sri Lanka extends far beyond whether criminal
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The violent clash between two groups of Chinese nationals at the Colombo Port City premises, the abduction of injured individuals, and the recovery of firearms—including a Glock pistol loaded with live ammunition—along
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The killing of Oaxaca journalist Francisco Alejandro Leyva Aguilar has become the latest in a string of murders that, according to press freedom organisations and reporting by El País, reveal a persistent
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Former IGP Chandana Deepal Wickramaratne, 63, succumbed to gunshot injury he received at his residence at Parakrama Mawatha, in Thalahena, Malabe, on 17 July. Wickramaratne, the 35th IGP (25 November, 2020, to
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Editorial The reported decision to dispatch officers of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and the Criminal Investigation Department to Australia in connection with the SriLankan Airlines aircraft procurement
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Former Inspector General of Police C.D. Wickramaratne has been found dead at his residence in Athurugiriya in what has been reported as a suspected suicide, according to sources. Reports indicate that the
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Prison riots in Negombo have claimed 27 lives including those of seven officers and left more than 100 others injured. It is believed that a clash between a group of drug peddlers
More Editorial Negombo Prison is not merely the scene of another prison riot. It is the scene of a state failure. Twenty-six people are now reported dead. More than hundred have been injured.
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Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauff Hakeem, MP, recently expressed concern over the alleged way Balachandran Prabhakaran, 12-year-old son of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed, in cold blood, on 19
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A “river of blood” is how one survivor described the aftermath of an attack on Htan Shauk Khan village in western Myanmar. “I saw shooting. I saw mass killing,” another survivor recalled,
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British national Kayleigh Fraser, who became known during Sri Lanka’s 2022 anti-government unrest for her social media coverage of attacks on protesters at Colombo’s Galle Face Green, is now seeking to have
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The United Nations Organization for Human Rights (OHCHR) has expressed grave concerns over the alleged Amendment to the recent transgender law. Indian President Droupadi Murmu made the decision, and the bill was subsequently
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo In a striking disclosure that has reignited discussion around the final moments of Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war, former Army Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has stated that
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Thousands of people marched in Montevideo and other cities across Uruguay on Wednesday, demanding the full declassification of military archives related to 205 people who disappeared during the civic-military dictatorship from 1973
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