Sri Lanka abuses probe substandard, say foreign experts
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A Sri Lankan probe into a series of rights abuses blamed on the security forces and Tamil Tiger rebels is riddled with flaws and fails to meet international standards, foreign observers said on Monday.
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The Sri Lankan government said a wave of killings blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels was undermining confidence in the peace process which has been stalled since April 2003.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern about the safety of aid workers in Sri Lanka after the murder of two Red Cross volunteers, his office said, as Japan's peace envoy began a visit to the war-battered island.
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Independent experts are to re-examine evidence from Northern Ireland's worst atrocity after the acquittal last month of the main suspect, the British-run province's police watchdog said Thursday.
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At least one of 17 Sri Lankan aid workers massacred last year was shot with a type of weapon mainly used by the military, but evidence has been tampered with and the bullet has disappeared, a rights group said.
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Stunned by revelations of police incompetence in the case of a Canadian man deported to Syria, the government launched an investigation on Tuesday into claims by three other men who say they were tortured in Syria because of information provided by Canadian authorities.
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Sri Lanka expressed concern over truce violations by Tiger rebels as a top Norwegian envoy prepared to return home empty-handed after failing to end the island's talks deadlock, officials said.
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The UK "expresses concern" to Sri Lanka over a false diplomatic passport issued to ex-rebel leader Col Karuna.
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Foreign media in Laos for next week&#39;s ASEAN summit should expose rights abuses in the country, an international watchdog says.
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Prosecutors may have given a court incorrect information about links between an Indian doctor detained in Australia on terror charges and failed car bombings in Britain, a report said Friday.
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BOOSSA, Sri Lanka  - Huddled outside a detention camp in Sri Lanka's far south, relatives of civilians held for months without charge say lives are being ruined by emergency regulations amid renewed civil war.
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Pakistan rejected foreign help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, despite controversy over the circumstances of her death and three days of paralyzing turmoil.
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A high-level Norwegian delegation led by Foreign Minister Jan Petersen arrived in Sri Lanka this week as part of international efforts to save the countryâs tottering peace process.
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The United Nations needs greater investigative powers to probe its own activities and root out fraud, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
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An investigator had serious misgivings about decisions being made on the case by senior S.E.C. officials.
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Heavy fighting has gripped Sri Lanka as Tamil Tiger rebels and troops blamed each other for the renewed battles and India sent a top envoy to discuss the worsening violence.
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Colombo: Sri Lanka&#39;s president and top aides were Monday studying the latest Tamil Tiger threat to return to their protracted war amid mounting tension in embattled regions, officials said.