SLAF personnel being trained in Tamil Nadu

" SLAF personnel being trained in Tamil Nadu [TamilNet, Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 18:13 GMT] Eight pilots of the Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) are presently undergoing training at the Indian Air Force base at Thaamparam (Tambaram) near Chennai in Tamil Nadu, highly placed...

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...

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...

Colombo steps up bombardment on Vanni

Sri Lanka's ongoing military campaign has reached a genocidal proportion with the deliberate targeting of civilianareas aimed at driving the civilians out of the LTTE held regions. The region has been crippled...

My Son's Shattered Arm & Future

Another narration by an internally displaced father about a Sri Lankan airforce bombing raid that led to his teenage son’s loss of right arm. My son qualified for faculty of arts through the 2006 university...

How Can My Brother Walk?

Following is a narration by a 4th grader from the northern part of Sri Lanka (Vanni) of the Sri Lanka Airforce attack on an internally displaced hamlet on  29-November 2008. Because we have no father, my mother,...

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