Opposition lawmaker Rauff Hakeem slams the Sri Lanka Attorney General’s department that 'has been complicit in many politically motivated prosecutions’ for opposing the establishment of an Independent Public Prosecutors office to handle cases on serious human rights allegations.

MP Thurairajah Raviharan slams Sri Lanka archeology for alleged 'distortion of history and aiding a genocide' by erecting new billboards describing the Kurunthurmalai site as 'Kurundi' - an exclusively Sinhala Buddhist heritage despite Hindus worshipping a Sivan Kovil there

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The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka requests a fortnight's time to inform the government's position on the resolution on Sri Lanka adopted at the Geneva Conference, the steps being taken in response to it, and the recommendations of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

A monument built to the memory of tens of thousands of war dead and forcibly disappeared Tamils near the Chemmani mass grave in Jaffna has been demolished.

UN Rights Chief Volker Turk who visited Sri Lanka last June is among those who have paid tribute there.

Four skeletons found on Saturday (02) brings the total of bodies discovered at Sri Lanka’s Chemmani mass grave complex to 126. 117 of them including infants have been recovered from three forensic excavation sites.

Journalists gathering at the Jaffna Press Club speak of prevalent threats against the media in northern Sri Lanka at the commemoration of Sahathevan Nilakshan, a young Tamil journalist gunned down eight years ago.

As the number of bodies found at Sri Lanka's 3rd largest mass grave in Chemmani goes upto 118, investigators decide to scan the area around the already excavated area on Aug 3 and 4 with help of Jayawardenapura University as ministry of defence had not granted earlier request.

“Appoint international forensic experts to investigate mass graves discovered in Chemmani, Mannar and other places.”

Activists and victims in the Jaffna district join the protest organised by the North East Society Movement (NESM) in the eight districts of the region.

“The International community should act without fail to establish an international justice mechanism to deliver justice for the forcibly disappeared”

Activists and victims in the Trincomalee district join the North & East protest demanding justice for Tamils.

The number of bodies found in the Chemmani mass grave complex exceeds 100. Investigators are awaiting Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence clearance to scan and identify the extent of area that could possibly contain evidence of more bodies, says attorney at law VS Niranjan.

‘A child in Gaza has exactly the same rights as a child in Israel’

UN rights chief Volker Turk on the first day of his Sri Lanka visit, refers to what he calls as 'one of the radical aspirations' of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk in Sri Lanka for a three day visit meets Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath and Deputy foreign minister Arun Hemachandra at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sri Lanka

At least one human skeleton has been unearthed at the most recently discovered Chemmani mass grave in war torn Jaffna. Investigators led by Archeologist Prof Raj Somadeva and Judicial Medical Officer Selliah Pranavan who found seven human skulls earlier suspect more to be buried.