Sri Lanka

A government-appointed panel finds the Sri Lankan military did not target civilians in the last stages of the civil war, but admits for the first time a “considerable” number were killed in crossfire.

Sri Lanka adds three years to a former army chief’s jail sentence for “making false allegations” that the defence secretary ordered government forces to commit war crimes.

Sri Lanka’s civil war ended with “credible” evidence that war crimes were committed. Now Channel 4 News can reveal mounting evidence that the government is still torturing Tamil prisoners.

In the wake of Dr Fox’s resignation, foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller reveals the links with private interests that allowed Dr Fox to run what some called ‘a shadow foreign policy’.

On his last trip to Sri Lanka, Defence Secretary Liam Fox called on the country to properly investigate its actions at the end of the civil war. But what, blogs Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben De Pear, was Adam Werritty doing at Mr Fox’s meetings with the regime?

Ahead of the report to David Cameron on Liam Fox’s dealings with adviser Adam Werritty, the defence secretary admits his contact with his friend may have given an impression of wrongdoing.

Labour MPs quiz Defence Secretary Liam Fox about his friendship with a man who allegedly claims to be one of his advisers and has visited him at the Ministry of Defence on many occasions.

A plane chartered by the British Government to return failed asylum seekers to Sri Lanka has landed in Colombo following the failure of last-minute legal efforts to prevent it leaving.

Britain is leaving itself open to allegations it is complicit in torture by sending failed Tamil asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka despite evidence physical abuse is a “daily reality”, a charity warns.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has sent a report highly critical of the actions of government troops in the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war to the UN Human Rights Council.

The Sri Lankan government’s inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during the country’s civil war is “fundamentally flawed”, an Amnesty International investigation finds.

Exclusive: two Sri Lankans who witnessed the violent final showdown of the country’s 26-year civil war claim a top military commander and Sri Lanka’s defence secretary ordered war crimes.

Exclusive: As the Sri Lankan war approached its endgame, 130,000 civilians were trapped along a small strip of beach. An eyewitness recalls the bloodshed that followed and how civilians were targeted.

England take on Sri Lanka amid controversy over alleged war crimes at the end of that country’s civil war. But the English cricket authority tells Channel 4 News it’s sport, not politics.

Lawyers fail in attempts to stop deportations, as MPs, human rights groups and lawyers condemn the removal of failed asylum seekers to Sri Lanka.