Four Sri Lankan men have been jailed in the UK for their part in a conspiracy to supply fraudulent identity documents, the British High Commission said in a statement today. The last of the four men was sentenced to 13 months’ imprisonment on 3 February after he pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to [...]
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed resigned on Tuesday following overnight protests and demonstrations, the Maldives High Commission in Colombo said. A spokesman at the High Commission said that the Vice President of the country, Dr. Mohommad Wahid, was now the acting President. A spokesman for the Maldives opposition Dhivehi Qaumee Party (DQP) told The Sunday Leader [...]
A Bomb has been found near the Aluthkade Courts complex, police spokesman Ajith Rohana told The Sunday Leader a short while ago. He said that the bomb disposal squad has been sent to the location. UPDATE: The police spokesman later said that several hand grenades were found at the location.
Maldives was tensed on Tuesday following opposition moves to remove President Mohamed Nasheed from power. A spokesman for the Maldives Dhivehi Qaumee Party (DQP) told The Sunday Leader this morning that the Maldives Vice President was now running the country following overnight violence, Mohamed Maleeh Jamal said that a majority of the police and army [...]
Three American nationals were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in fell off a bridge in Puttalam today. According to the police, the Americans were heading to Mannar after visiting the Norocholai coal power plant when the accident occurred. The vehicle they were travelling in had veered off the road and fallen off the [...]
The US State department has confirmed that US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake, Jr. will travel to Sri Lanka next week. Earlier the US Embassy in Colombo and the External Affairs remained tight lipped over his visit to Colombo despite details being leaked to the media. However [...]
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake says Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission had laid the groundwork for continued reconciliation following Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long conflict with the LTTE. “The LLRC offers a very promising way forward to help Sri Lanka become again the Island of peace and prosperity,” Blake said. “The U.S. will [...]
Sri Lankan defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has stoutly denied he was militarising the northern region and insisted troops “are maintaining absolutely essential presence” and were spread across all 22 districts on the island. He was responding to the charge by Tamil parties and the diaspora that army camps flooded the north even after the government [...]
The South African Government has noted the release of the final report of the Sri Lankan Commission of Inquiry on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation (the Commission of Enquiry) and the positive recommendations contained in the report relating to human rights, the return and resettlement of displaced communities, restitution and compensatory relief for the affected people, [...]
The British government has noted that there are some gaps in the final report of the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) which was presented to parliament in December. The British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka John Rankin, in a video posting on the High Commission website, said that the LLRC left a number of [...]
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