ICP asks UN to confirm receiving NPC Genocide Resolution TamilNet The Inner City Press on Tuesday questioned the UN Spokesperson in New York whether the UN would confirm receiving the Genocide Resolution passed by the Northern Provincial Council given to the UN Under-Secretary General Jeffrey Feltman who ...
Families of missing persons under Kumaratunga regime revive protest in Jaffna TamilNet Around 800 Tamil youth were forcefully disappeared in Jaffna peninsula by the occupying Sri Lankan military under Chandrika Kumaratunga's rule between 1996 and 1998 when Tamils returned to Jaffna peninsula, which was seized by the SL military in ...
Domestic investigations, even with external supervision, will not work: NESoHR TamilNet None of the recommendations of the internal Commissions of Inquiry held in Sri Lanka has been implemented, the NESoHR said adding that even the international monitors, as in the case of the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP), ...
Visiting UN official in Jaffna 'questions' Genocide Resolution TamilNet Apart from the NPC resolution on Tamil genocide, the protests in Jaffna against the OISL deferral and the resolve amongst Eezham Tamils to boycott domestic investigations by the Sri Lankan government have forced the UN official to undertake the trip to ...
UN maintains 'genocide without witnesses paradigm' with Eezham Tamils TamilNet When the genocidal war against the nation of Eezham Tamils took place in the island of Sri Lanka, the UN played a major role in keeping it as 'war without witnesses', by not bringing it to the international arena of discussion and action. The UN plays the same ...
Tamils boycott Trinco sittings of domestic commission on missing persons TamilNet Recent reports suggest that one of the international experts so appointed was also hired by the then Sri Lankan Government to advice them on how to handle international community pressure on human rights issues, clearly pointing to a conflict of interest in ...
Bathiudeen dictates affairs of Palmyra Development Board TamilNet The Sri Lankan Minister of Industry and Commerce, Mr Rishad Bathiudeen (Rishard Badurdeen), who has been notorious for causing dissension between Tamil-speaking Muslims and Tamils belonging to other religions in Mannaar and Vanni under the rule ...
Key Tamil organisations to boycott domestic hearings by SL Presidential ... TamilNet The Government of Sri Lanka that took office on the 9th of January 2015 has been campaigning internationally that they will set up a credible domestic mechanism in response to the UN Human Rights Council mandated inquiry into Sri Lanka (OISL).
Tamil activists protest in front of US embassy in UK TamilNet Hundreds of Tamil activists gathered outside US embassy on Tuesday to protest against the OISL deferral mooted by the USA, the key actor behind the UNHRC discourse on Sri Lanka. Endorsing the petition drafted by the Tamil Coordinating Committee - UK, ...
USA, key actor behind deferral of OISL report: Mavai Senathiraja TamilNet ITAK leader Mavai Senathiraja, who attended the demonstration in Jaffna organised by the University society and the public organisations in Jaffna on Tuesday was questioned by the journalists on ITAK/TNA position on OISL deferral and on the reports of ...
