Tamil Tigers

Weeks after William Hague’s summit on sexual violence in conflict, the British government is to deport a Tamil woman back to Sri Lanka, despite claims she was repeatedly raped by Sri Lankan soldiers.

Balenderan Jayakumari campaigned to find her son, who went missing during Sri Lanka’s civil war. Now she herself has been arrested, along with her 13-year-old daughter.

After bowling at David Cameron, Sri Lanka’s cricketing legend Muttyah Muralitharan tells Jon Snow that the PM was “misled” over Tamils in the north, and the country must “forget and forgive”.

David Cameron tells Jon Snow Sri Lanka’s leadership has a chance to bring the country together – but he pledges to shine a light on what happened after the civil war and on what is happening now.

In 2009, C4 News was deported from Sri Lanka after reporting on the final days of its civil war. Now hosting the CHOGM conference, protests met the channel as it arrived to cover the event in Colombo.

A Channel 4 News team arrives in Sri Lanka and is mobbed by protesters angry at our reporting of the army’s actions during the final days of the country’s civil war in 2009.

Foreign Secretary William Hague defends the government’s decision to go to a Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka, but says the UK backs the UN’s calls for an inquiry.

Amnesty International says Sri Lanka should not host November’s Commonwealth heads of government meeting unless it stops “systematic violation of human rights”.

The Canadian foreign minister tells Channel 4 News he is “appalled” the Commonwealth heads of government meeting will still take place in Sri Lanka despite concerns over human rights in the country.

The British government plans to deport 65 Sri Lankan nationals – mostly Tamil, and mostly failed asylum seekers – despite earlier admitting that at least 15 Tamils previously sent back were tortured.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay tells Channel 4 News that she is “deeply disturbed” by the shooting of a Sri Lankan journalist and calls on the Sri Lankan government to protect him.

Gunmen shoot and seriously wound a Sri Lankan investigative journalist, drawing the island’s human rights record sharply back into focus.

The UN human rights commissioner didn’t mince her words this week when she accused the Sri Lankan government of “triumphalism” in the Tamil north, home of the vanquished Tamil Tiger insurgency.