The four people named above were taken into custody by the security forces in the northeast of Sri Lanka between 2 May and 4 June 1995. Their whereabouts remain ...
Consists of chapter 13 of a major AI report on "disappearances" and political killings, to be published in early 1994 by the Dutch Section of AI. This chapter discusses ...
A detainee was seriously injured and had to be hospitalized as a clashbroke out between the Sri Lankan Army and detainees being held ata school in Vavuniya in north ...
A father of five, Gulam Mohideen Mohammad Zakariya, has been arrested at a navy checkpoint in the eastern district of Trincomalee, and the navy has since denied ...
Professor Sivasubramanium Raveendranath, the Vice-Chancellor of Eastern University, was reportedly abducted while at a conference in the capital, Colombo, on 15 ...
There is concern for the safety of journalist and editor Lasantha Wickrematunge whose house was fired upon with anti-tank bullets on 17 June 1998. The Sri Lankan ...