Aussaresses, Abbott, Rajapaksas, birds of the same feather on torture? TamilNet While Australian Premier, Tony Abbott, whose recent statements on condoning the allegations of torture by Sri Lanka security forces, was condemned by international rights groups, European media reported that one of top French ex-military officers, ...
EPDP paramilitary stricken by internal strife TamilNet The Sri Lankan military intelligence has been using EPDP operatives to exercise control over the occupied Jaffna. Some of these operatives would be deployed as scapegoats when Colombo would be forced to conduct a show of investigations in the near ...
Victims coerced to produce false affidavits on genocidal birth control in Vanni TamilNet Colombo has instructed Tamil health officials in Ki'linochchi district to obtain 'affidavits' from women who were subjected to a controversial coercive population control in three coastal villages of the district. The women are being approached to sign a ...
Reminding Britain of its geostrategic injustice against Eezham Tamils TamilNet ... David Cameron seeking 'engagement' with Tamils needs to be reminded of the root injustice the imperial Britain had committed against Eezham Tamils by making them prone to more than 60 years of genocide in the hands of the unitary Sri Lankan State.
SL Justice System incapable of investigating Moothoor massacre: ACF TamilNet However, deliberate subversion of the investigative process over the past 7 years and continuous harassment of witnesses and journalists who have raised the case have demonstrated that no effective legal action can be taken in today's Sri Lanka in relation ...
Lankan diplomat ducks rights discussions in UK TamilNet The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Britain, Chris Nonis, declined to participate in a rights discussion on Sri Lanka held end of last week at the UK's Frontline club where the author of Sri Lanka's Unfinished War, Frances Harrison, Channel-4's producer of a ...
PPT names panel of judges to hear genocide case against Sri Lanka TamilNet The first session held in January 2010, known as the Dublin Tribunal, was the first independent international undertaking that recognised the need to look into the case of genocide in the island of Sri Lanka. The second session is to take place between ...
Students protest against Colombo's discriminatory closure of Jaffna University TamilNet The Sri Lankan State through its administration kept the universities across the island closed while the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) took place in Colombo. Except the University of Jaffna, other universities were opened before 02 ...
Violent Buddhist monk defies civil administration, steps up Sinhalicisation in ... TamilNet ... (Paddippazhai) Divisional Secretariat, threatening the Tamil Divisional Secretary Ms Vilvaratnam continues the Sinhalicisation project at Batticaloa – Ampaa'rai border village, Kevu'liyaamadu, with the backing of the occupying Sri Lankan military. In the ...
Cameron reneges on Sri Lanka war-crimes investigations TamilNet The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, after returning from Colombo Commonwealth meeting, said in an article that appeared in the Arab News, that there should be a transparent, credible investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. But he ...
