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ICRC: Hospitals in northern Sri Lanka face increasing challenges
ICRC Operational update on Sri Lanka (17-04-2008).The limited number of staff available to care for routine cases alongside war casualties has become a critical issue for several hospitals in northern Sri Lanka. In addition, the lack of regular deliveries of supplies from the...Watch List on Children and Armed Conflict - Sri Lanka report
April 14, 2008, New York- There is virtually no safety for children in Sri Lanka as the brutal armed conflict there escalates. Every day the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE), the Government armed forces, and...International rights panel quits Sri Lanka
The InternationalIndependent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP), comprising of 11 Members, has been invited by the President of Sri Lanka in 2006 to observe the investigationsand inquiries of the government appointed commission on various killings inorder to ensure transparency...Family of Sri Lanka massacre victims doubt justice
On the 5th August 2006, Action Against Hunger (Action Contre la Faim, ACF) French aide agency’s 15 local staff were massacred in the Sri Lanka’s Eastern coastal town of Muthur. The killings were blamed on the Sri...Geopolitics of Asia: Sri Lanka, the next Burma?
The geopolitics of India and China has helped immensely to sustain the Burmese dictatorial government. The international sanctions have been rendered useless due to the growing economic strength of the Asian rivals....Anger over Lanka civilian deaths - BBC News
" The attack has outraged Tamils The Sri Lankan government has been heavily criticised for an artillery bombardment that killed dozens of civilians in the east of the island. Peace negotiator Erik Solheim said he was "very troubled" by the attack and urged the government and...Kettle Pot Black
"The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran has waged a 20-year armed campaign to overthrow the ayatollahs. Conservative Foreign Affairs critic Stockwell Day said the group, also known as MEK, has confined its attacks to military and regime targets and that Public Security...State Terror Sri Lanka
Tamil aid workers in the Tamil provinces in Sri Lanka killed by Sri Lankan government troops. Hello. Now who are the terrorists?A new twist on Computer Crime
"U.S. prosecutors allege that Sriskandarajah and Mylvaganam used their studies at the University of Waterloo as a cover for terrorist activities.U.S. officials claim the men approached high-tech companies for equipment they claimed was for "school projects" but was...Sri Lanka A Marxist View
"I am posting this as a backgrounder on the crisis in Sri Lanka, between the competing nationalist movements of the Sinhalese and Tamils, from a Marxist perspective, one that is not often heard in the western media."Winners and losers of the tsunami aid jackpot - Telegraph.co.uk
" By Peter Foster in Pothuvil (Filed: 19/08/2006) It is 20 months since the tsunami struck the fishing village of Pothuvil on Sri Lanka's south-east coast but, wandering among its ruins, it looks as if it could have happened only this year. More than 1.75 billion was pledged...lanka conflict
the article describes the current situation in sri lanka clearly and objectively...Sri Lanka general killed in blast
"Reuters - A senior Sri Lankan army general was assassinated on Monday by a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber just east of the capital, police and military said."Paper Tigers
"Ninety percent of the Sri Lankan Tamils living in Canada entered the country as Refugees in fear of the atrocities of the state machinery"Opps forgot about that did we in our rush to outlaw the Tamil Tigers.
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