Tamil refugees forced into sex rackets

Sri Lankan military is alleged running prostitution ring using women kept in the Camp. It is further alleged, no action was taken by the senior government officials although it was brought to their attention. "...

Victimization of Tamil Peopel must stop - Elie Wiesel

Holocaust surviver, Jewish icon, and Nobel laureate, Professor Elie Wiesel stated that victimization of Tamil people must stop, and they should be able to live in peace in their homeland. " TAMIL PEOPLE STATEMENT:...

Sri Lanka camp children malnourished

The Executive Director of Sarvodaya reported of high rate of malnutrition at the Menik Farm, Sri Lanka. "Nearly 5000 Internally Displaced children in the Vavuniya camps are malnourished, a charity that works in...

Sri Lanka's forgotten displaced Muslims

Displaced in Sri Lanka dueto late ltte terror. " Sri Lanka's forgotten displaced Muslims By Swaminathan Natarajan ...

Beware of this e- mail vulture

As the Sri Lankan government is reluctant in allowing aid agencies to fully access the Tamil concentration camps and relatives of the Tamils living abroad are unable to help them , a Sri Lankan person is taking advantage of the situation. He is campaigning to get money from...

Barack Obama means "never again"..but

When asked regarding his visit to concentration camp in Buchenwald, as follows: "since the Holocaust, a constant refrain in the United States has been “never again,” but U.S. President after U.S. President has...

Sinhalese hate us, we won't return to Lanka

Tamils who came out from Sri Lanka to India as refugees are afraid to return back. Though Sri Lankan president Rajapakse announced they won the war by destroying LTTE, there is no political solution put forward to address the tamil's issues. Tamils are still hopeful to get...

60 Elderly Persons burried in one mass grave

Deaths at the IDP camps of Sri Lanka gets increasing due to lack of proper food and medicine. Sri Lanka government has not given full access to the aid agencies who are willing to help the people inside the camp.     Elderly people and babies are the...

Up to 30,000 'disabled' by Sri Lankan shells

Sri Lanka's shelling made up to 30,000 tamil people disabled.  A french charity in Batticaloa  producing artificial limbs has got "huge demand". But Mahinda Rajapakse is still claiming his army rescued...

Targeting disease, child abuse prevention in IDP camps

National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) discusses with Sunday Times, the issues at hand regarding children at the IDP camps in the North, what measures are being taken and what more should be done. " From...

Tamil children 'being abducted' from detention camps

Tamil childrens from the detention camps in sri lanka are being abducted by gangs linked to the government. As there is no independent monitors in these fully army controlled camps, the children are under huge...

Glimpse of a WWII POW camp

"Rare footage showing life in British prisoner of war camp is going on display at a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester. There were over 1000 prisoner of war camps in Britain from World War II, but few moving pictures remain. Graham Satchell reports....

Sri Lanka - Atleast four deaths reported in barbed-wire camp

Tamils kept inside the barbed-wire detention camps face humanatarian issues.  The first reported deaths inside the camp was atleast four. There are many such unreported crimes which doesn't get attention....

Jenin music center torched

  Jenin, is a town in the northern part of the West Bank of which Fatah has full control and jurisdiction over with the blessings of Israel. There is a struggle going on in this area between the...

British schoolkids believe Auschwitz is a type of beer

History is dead in the water. No wonder it keeps repeating itself. "A new study shows that around 10 percent British schoolchildren could not identify Auschwitz as a Nazi death camp, and 2 percent believe it is a kind of beer. The poll of 1,000 pupils between the ages of 11...

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