Navy arrests 24 people on illegal migration charges
Sri Lanka Navy has arrested 24 people after conducting a special raid in Kurakkan Hena, Kalpitiya.
Sri Lanka Navy has arrested 24 people after conducting a special raid in Kurakkan Hena, Kalpitiya.
The 46th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is currently in session in Geneva, with a report on human rights violations in Sri Lanka being discussed and a group of countries, including the United Kingdom, planning to pass another resolution against Sri Lanka.
A group of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) parliamentarians have reportedly told Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa that the recent actions of the leader of the National Freedom Front (NFF), Minister Wimal Weerawansa, have been detrimental to the policies of the government and have issued a warning that they will move to defeat the expenditure head of the Ministry of Industries if no action is taken against him, 'Anidda' reported.
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP M.A. Sumanthiran backed the call by Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith for an international investigation saying successive governments have failed to mete out justice to the victims of the terror attacks.
Opposition and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) leader Sajith Premadasa, along with a group of SJB MPs, arrived at the Criminal Investigation Department this morning (11).
Police repression against Tamil mothers who have been protesting for years trying to find their missing family members continue unabated, Northern media reported.