Yasmin Sooka, a rights lawyer involved in a civil ... Sri Lankan government. The new resolution gives more powers to the UN human rights chief to ensure accountability for the alleged war crimes ...

During the 1980s KMS trained the Special Task Force, an elite unit of the Sri Lankan police, and also taught the country’s air force British mercenaries who were involved in the Sri Lankan civil ...

The lagoon of Nanthi Kadal, on the island’s north coast, was, in 2009, the scene of atrocities in the Sri Lankan army’s final push against ... memorials to the civil war.