Sri Lanka: extra-judicial executions of Tamils by Sri Lankan army

"By Jonathan Miller - Just three months after the Sri Lankan government declared the country liberated from the Tamil Tigers, video footage has emerged apparently showing government troops summarily executing...

Second Language Acquisition: Pre-teen Children

Second Language Acquisition (SLA) suggestions for any parents of 9-12 year old monolingual children moving to a new country when none of the family speaks the language of their new location. Learning the Local...

200 gas masks were transported by the SLA to Vadduvakal

Sri Lankan army is getting ready for another massacre with heavy weapons including the prohibited chemical weapons. They are preparing themselves with gas masks for the next attack with such chemical weapons....

Tamil Group condemn Tokyo Co-Chairs' Bias in Sri Lankan issue

Tokyo Co-Chairs is a group of four countries - Norway , Japan, U.S and E.U who brokered ceasefire between LTTE and Sri Lankan government. This Tokyo Co-Chairs consistantly were working on positions favourable to...

Sri Lanka : Why is United Nations so inactive ?

In a press conference today 22-Apr-2009, a reporter from Inner City Press (ICP) asked United Nations as when NGOs are thrown out of sudan an enormous noise was made but in Sri Lanka which did the same thing and UN...

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...

The day cricket came back to Jaffna! Aravinda in Jaffna!

It was so heartening to hear about Aravinda De Silva, the world famous SL cricketer getting involved in training Jaffna children. It very much looks like Northern people are eagerly waiting to live their new life...

LTTE "Finance Minister" Tamilenthi has been killed - SL Army

The financial head and the overall incharge of LTTE's vast financial network Tamilenthi was killed by Sri Lankan Army. SLA calimed that he was killed in a mortar attack. Millions of dollars were collected worldwide  to LTTE "war effort" throught contributions from tamil...

Hospitals, ambulances hit by Sri Lankan Army shelling - ICRC

Hospitals, ambulances hit by shelling, hundreds killed - ICRC [TamilNet, Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 10:20 GMT] "Hundreds of people have been killed and scores of wounded are overwhelming understaffed and ill-equipped medical facilities in Sri Lanka's northern Vanni region,"...

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...

SLA shelling targets densely populated Vanni regions

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) fired Sri Lanka Army (SLA) fired artillery shells killed four displaced civilians, including the parents and the daughter of a family, residing in the settlement located behind the hospital of...

LTTE claims to have killed 43 Sri Lankan soldiers

The millitant group of SriLanka , who is fighting its last bid to survive Army assult, today claimed to have killed 43 Soldiers.Both side claim that they are killing each other in great numbers but one cannot belive these numbers because of secrecy and modus operandi. " ...

Ford's Close Call

"12-26) 21:26 PST Washington -- But for some quick action, Gerald R. Ford's presidency, and his life, could have ended amid gunshots outside San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel on the afternoon of Sept. 22,...

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