Sri Lanka's president has vowed to set up a war crimes inquiry, sensitive to the "opinions" of UN officials.

A report submitted by the State Intelligence Service ( SIS) of Sri Lanka to the country’s defence secretary indicates there ...

The West slams Pakistan and China for supplying arms used by Sri Lanka in alleged war crimes against Tamils during the civil war but is silent on Israel’s complicity. The report said Rajapaksa ...

Dissatisfied with the Rajapaksa Administration’s halfhearted war crimes investigation, the UN Human Rights Council commissioned one of its own in 2014. Under a withering spotlight, Sri Lanka ...

Both sides were accused of committing abuses in the final stages of the war Sri Lanka is close to completing ... was "far too small" to constitute war crimes. In April, a UN-backed report said ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa: Return of Sri Lanka's wartime strongman Sri Lankan general wanted for war crimes Call for Sri Lanka war crimes court Tens of thousands of Tamils - and the rebel leadership ...

The first systematic attempt to define war crimes was the Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field— known as the “Lieber Code” after its main author ...

At the heart of the concept of war crimes is the idea that individuals can be held criminally responsible for the actions of a country or its soldiers. War crimes and crimes against humanity are ...

Human rights in Sri Lanka remain at serious risk in the face of security force abuses committed with impunity and an economic crisis that reduced the living standards of millions. To silence ...

As part of his clever tactics, the leader of the BJP party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started a diplomatic war with Sri Lanka to win ... to sanction Colombo for crimes committed in its ...

The government has said it is outraged by support for the UN move in Geneva Protests are being held across Sri Lanka against plans ... urging Colombo to investigate war crimes allegations by ...

Sri Lanka regained its preferential trade status under the European Union’s Generalized System of Preferences Plus, enabling many of its firms to export products, including its top export ...