JAFFNA, Sri Lanka- A magistrate in northern Sri Lanka on Tuesday gave the police more time to investigate an alleged mass grave on Mandaitivu, an island off the Jaffna Peninsula where dozens of young Tamil men disappeared after being detained by the army in 1990. The case has been before the courts for a year without an excavation. Magistrate Aneeba Rajeev of the Kayts Magistrate’s Court adjourned the case until Nov. 10 after officers from the Jaffna District Crime Prevention Police said they n

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A three-judge panel of the Colombo High Court on Tuesday convicted 15 men over the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, in which suicide attackers struck three churches and three luxury hotels, killing more than 260 people and wounding hundreds more. Nine other defendants were acquitted and ordered released. The court adjourned after delivering its verdict and was expected to hand down sentences for the 15 convicted men later on Tuesday, after hearing statements from them. Among t

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka: The office of Northern Province Governor Nagalingam Vethanayahan has acknowledged that the building it occupies does not have a Certificate of Conformity. The governor has repeatedly directed local authorities to act against businesses that operate without one. The admission came in a reply to a request under the Right to Information Act filed on Aug. 20 by Kumaravadivel Guruparan, a Jaffna attorney and former head of the law department at the University of Jaffna. He asked w