The former chief of Sri Lanka's armed forces was jailed Friday for three years, after he was found guilty of implicating the country's defence secretary in war crimes. The high court found Sarath Fonseka breached Sri Lanka’s emergency law.
A Dutch court on Friday convicted five ethnic Tamil men on charges that they extorted money from the Sri Lankan diaspora in the Netherlands and laundered money to help finance the separatist Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka.
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged the UN to investigate possible human rights abuses committed by Sri Lanka during its 2009 defeat of Tamil separatists after a UN report Monday found "credible allegations" of violations of international law.
Sri Lanka's government appealed to the United Nations on Thursday to not publish an imminent report detailing alleged war crimes committed during the country's decades-long ethnic conflict, saying it could hurt reconciliation efforts.
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Twenty three people were killed and more than a million displaced by monsoon flooding in Sri Lanka. The center and eastern parts of the island were worst hit, affecting many homes that were devastated by the 2004 tsunami.
Sri Lanka's ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka (photo), who unsuccessfully challenged Mahinda Rajapaksa for the presidency in 2009 and was later stripped of his title, is likely to be jailed for three years for fraud, pending approval by Rajapaksa.
