Keith Noyahr, Associate Editor and Defence Correspondent of The Nation weekly newspaper is abducted from his home and returned seriously injured.
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The International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP), established to oversee the government's Commission of Inquiry into serious human rights cases, resigns.
Civil rights groups accuse Sri Lanka's Jaffna Military commander of instructing the NGOs and civil society representatives not to refer to human rights issues and to "restrict themselves to issues of humanitarian assistance" before meeting the United Nations Under Secretary General, Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes.
The Special Presidential Commission on Disappearances reports that some 430 Sri Lankan civilians, mostly minority Tamils, were killed between 14 September 2006 and 25 February 2007.
Britain’s Keith Vaz, Labour MP, leads a parliamentary group to look into the Sri Lankan conflict situation and suggest what more could be done to restart the peace process.
Sri Lanka's police chief General Victor Perera admits in a press conference that Sri Lankan security forces have been implicated in abductions, extortions and killings of civilians, and that a "large number" of police officers and troops have been arrested.
In a report to the Security Council, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has - for the first time - recommended "targeted measures" against the LTTE and the Karuna faction due to the groups’ continued refusal to completely cease the recruitment of children.
Allan Rock, the U.N. special representative for children and armed conflict on Sri Lanka, announces that a section of the Government forces has been actively aiding and abetting the Karuna faction in recruiting child soldiers to fight the LTTE.
A Presidential Commission of Inquiry (COI) is appointed to investigate alleged human rights violations.
Facilitated by Norway, the Government and LTTE sign a permanent ceasefire agreement. The Ceasefire Agreement was signed by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. The ceasefire will take effect on 23 February 2002.
In the first criminal prosecution of its type, the Colombo High Court sentenced to death six soldiers and a reserve policeman found guilty of the September 1996 murders of Jaffna schoolgirl Krishanthy Kumarasamy and her mother, teenage brother and neighbour.
Tamil politicians and human rights organisations protest against the security forces’ continued use of homeguards and armed ex-militant Tamil groups to aid in security operations, as 'spotters' to identify suspected LTTE members, and to detain and interrogate suspects. They have been accused of murder, abduction, extortion, assault, illegal detention, torture, and forced conscription.
People's Alliance (PA) Member of Parliament (MP) Nalanda Ellawalla is assassinated. Members of the United National Party are accused of carrying out the killing.
Richard de Zoysa, journalist, author and human rights activist, is abducted and murdered.
On 10 November 2006, Nadarajah Raviraj, human rights activist and parliamentarian, was assassinated in Colombo. Two years on, PACT looks at his life and work and also other notable Sri Lankan activists killed for speaking out.
