Colombo twists facts, stops excavation of Mannaar mass grave TamilNet A person of social leadership living at Maanthai in Mannaar for more than 50 years categorically told TamilNet on Saturday that there was never a burial site at the locality near the historic Thirukkeatheesvaram temple as being claimed by the Sri Lankan...
Weak resolutions embolden Colombo: civil society activist TamilNet When the TSCF members met a senior foreign diplomat visiting the island, we pointed out that following the weak 2013 March resolution, the Sri Lankan State seized more than 6,000 acres of lands in Valikaamam North on 26 April. Similarly, when the ...
IC has deceived Tamils on international investigations: Ananthi Sasistharan TamilNet “The International Community has deceived the genocide affected Tamils on delivering international investigations,” said Ananthi Sasitharan, a councillor of the Northern Provincial Council, at a press conference held in Jaffna on Thursday. “The draft ...
Tamil academic compares Pakistani-Sri Lankan 'counterinsurgency' TamilNet “The genocidal oppression faced by the Baloch people and the Eelam Tamil people gains little if any attention in international media. Whatever is represented seems to be permeated by a tendency to absolve genocide and represent a state-centric, ...
USA ignores requests of Mannaar Bishop on UNHRC Resolution TamilNet “Please see attached a proposal for a draft resolution in the upcoming UNHRC sessions in Geneva on accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka. The draft has been put together by Tamil civil society activists and is being sent to you to provide a ...
BIMSTEC having Eelam territory gets secretariat in Dhaka TamilNet A career diplomat of Colombo will be its first Secretary General. Originally formed in 1997, as Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand Economic Cooperation (hence BIMST-EC), and was joined by Nepal and Bhutan in 2004 to become known as ...
Journalists blocked from inspecting alleged massacre site in Trincomalee TamilNet Following the discovery of a human skull near Muttave'li playgrounds situated in front of the historic Thirukkoa'neasvarar shrine in Trincomalee on 13 February, the occupying SL military has been deployed at the site to hide the issue from the attention of ...
US draft stops at Navi Pillai inquiry into HR crimes of 'both parties' TamilNet A draft resolution on Sri Lanka that is to be tabled at the UNHRC later this month by the USA, UK, Montenegro, FYR of Macedonia and Mauritius was put to circulation on Monday. Contrary to the trumpeting by sections among Tamils expecting US-UK justice ...
Tamil politicians demand international investigation at Jaffna protest TamilNet Tamil prisoners are treated like animals in Sri Lankan prisons, he said. “But, the so-called progressive Sinhalese and Bhikkus are fighting against the slaughter of cows for meat in the South,” Bhaskara observed. TNA Councillor Ananthy Sasitharan, said the ...
Britain neglected British Tamil suspiciously died in Sri Lanka's prison TamilNet The relatives of a 43-year-old British Eelam Tamil, Gopithas Visuvalingam, who died in the Sri Lankan jail under suspicious circumstances on 24 February, blame Colombo for torture of Tamil political prisoners. Mr Gopithas, a British national and father of two, ...
