UNHCR launches IDP return support in Northern Sri Lanka

The first Government organised return movement to Musali in Mannar district marks the start of IDP return in Northern Sri Lanka."UNHCR launches IDP return support ...

The Term "Innocent Civilian" Can Have Many Meanings

The web is full of photographs of innocent civilians, some of which are doctored and some are not. As for the "Little Red Book"of Mao Tse-Tung and Tsun-Su's "Art of War", they recommend that warriors (in this...

U.N. council sees no need to punish Sri Lanka

Stunts - conducted by the LTTE supporters in Diaspora - like blocking roads and preventing the normal citizen life in western countries did not yielded the desired result. Completely ignoring the noises made by...

UN Chief welcomes Sri Lanka's two-day truce.

Reiterating that LTTE mush allow civilians to choose whether they stay or leave, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that this terrible conflict must end as soon as possible. Tens of thousands of  people are...

It happened & still happening

Since the end of the 20th Century, the nature of armed conflict in the world is dominated by internal conflicts with civilians making the majority of the casualties than inter-state warfare. The genocides in...

Recent NGO & rights groups coverage on Sri Lankan conflict

" UN calls on Tamil rebels to ensure free passage for world body’s staff 22 January 2009 – The United Nations has issued its strongest possible protest to the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...

Sri Lankan troops shell "safe zone" for civilians

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) unilaterally announced a "secure zone" for civilians on Wednesday 21-Jan 2009. However, in the early hours of Thursday 22-Jan 2009 the “secure zone” came under Multi Barrel Rocket...

Vanni, a humanitarian catastrophe in the making

Since the escalation of hostilities in early 2006, the movement of goods and people into the northern part of Sri Lanka was restricted by the government. Ever since the attention of the government’s military...

Another humanitarian tragedy that fails to hit the prime time

While the war on Gaza preoccupies the attention of international media, human rights organisations international community and public at large another humanitarian tragedy of equal gravity unfolds largely...

Free Journalists Unfairly Held

"(New York, December 3, 2008) - The Sri Lankan government should immediately drop charges and free J.S. Tissainayagam, a prominent Tamil journalist on trial for his writings, Human Rights Watch said today. A Tamil...