JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Navanethem Pillay, who on Friday became the first person of Tamil heritage to win the Nobel Peace Prize, said in an address honoring the slain Tamil legislator Neelan Tiruchelvam that over the past 50 years the international community had responded to crimes against humanity with "tolerance of impunity rather than enforcement of the rule of law." The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Ms. Pillay, 85, the prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law, saying she

OSLO — Navanethem Pillay, the South African jurist whose demands for an international investigation into the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war made her a defining figure for war-affected Tamils and a target of the Rajapaksa government, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it was honoring Ms. Pillay, 85, known as Navi, for her work to advance “a more comprehensive global legal order” and to ensure that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocid

By Aruliniyan Mahalingam The president told senior clergy that the drafters of Sri Lanka’s prison regulations may not have expected monks to be imprisoned. Colonial records show monks tried for treason, jailed in Jaffna and Kandy, and executed in their robes before the law was written. A court ruled on a monk stripped of his robes in prison more than a century ago. JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — More than 120 years ago, a Buddhist monk walked out of a colonial prison in Ceylon without his robes. The pris