Sri Lanka Tamil refugee camps 'to be opened next month'

Good news from Sri Lanka... " Sri Lanka says people held in special camps since the end of the conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels will be allowed out for short periods from next month. An aide to the president also...

Sri Lanka: attacks on free media put displaced civilians at risk

" Vigil marking the first anniversary of the detention of Sri Lankan journalist Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam, London, March 2008 © Amnesty International" "If you read Sri Lankan newspapers,...

AP writer denied permission remain in Sri Lanka

Ravi Nessman, the Associated Press burea chief in Sri Lanka was denied permission to remain in Sri Lanka. Associated Press had reported extensively on the heavy civilian casualities this year. Nessman also...

Ottawa rips Sri Lanka for deporting ‘security threat’ Bob Rae

The government of Canada has formally registered its "dismay and displeasure" regarding unacceptable treatment of Hon. Bob Rae. and deporing him for Sri Lankan national security threat. " “It is absurd to suggest...

How climate change is affecting the Royal Bengal Tiger

Migration induced by climate change is driving the Royal Bengal Tiger from its natural habitat, and into closer, more-and-more tragic contact with humans, according to experts quoted in a report by bdnews24. This has led to the number of Royal Bengals still in the wild...

SL Military shoots dead 2 detainees in Vavuniya internment camp

Sri Lanka Army shot at detainees today at the detention camp when they were making way through the barbed wire fence to meet their relatives in the otherside,  killing two of them.  The identities of the...

Rights Groups Want Probe Into Sri Lanka War Abuses

Human Rights groups called for international investigation of war crimes of Sri Lanka in the recent brutal war.      "(AP)  Human rights groups called Thursday for an...

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...

Tamil Tiger leader fought to the death: rebels

Hmmmmm. I thought he was captured and tortured???n hm....." A newly formed front of the defeated Tamil Tigers on Thursday rejected media reports that their former leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had surrendered or was taken alive before being killed. A group calling itself...

Channel 4 Undercover Investigation - Interviews Eyewitnesses

Channel 4 did an undercover investigation in Sri Lanka and interviewed few of the eyewitnesses who talks about the civilian deaths when government forces advanced on the tamil tiger's final strong hold. They told...

Sri Lanka camps a 'national disgrace'

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Sri Lanka's treatment in the detention camps a national disgrace. " "For more than a year, the Sri Lankan government has detained virtually everyone, including entire families,...

Tamils fear bout of ethnic cleansing

As the powerful rebel group fighting for Tamils is now destroyed, tamils are now fearing of the ethnic cleansing.      " In the wake of President Mahinda Rajapakse's declaration of...

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...

20,000 Tamils killed on the beach - The Times got evidence

Sri Lanka being guilty of war crimes managed to get majority of countries to block the probe at the UN. For those countries the massacres, shelling on hospitals, concentration camps are all considered as...

The Eight Stages of Genocide in Sri Lanka

Gregory H. Stanton, President of Genocide Watch explained genocide in below eight stages: 1) Classification 2) Symbolization 3) Dehumanaization 4) Organization 5) Polarization 6) Preparation 7) Extermination 8)...

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