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Sri Lanka: The scars of a 30-year civil war

Story of the Victims, coming from their own mouths, reported by the BBC. Some sections of the so-called "international Community" keep refusing to listen to anything that the Sri Lankan people have got to say....

Sri Lanka: Kadiragamar Transitional Relief Village

Kadiragamar Transitional Relief Village – Chettikulam (DC Division 2) Total population : 19380 (Males 9438, females 9942) Number of families : 5750 Total area : 1500 acres ...

I'm only 16. They gave me a rifle. It was heavy.

Former child soldiers undergoing rehabilitation program in Ambepussa, Sri Lanka talks to Gethin Chamberlain of the Guardian. Some of them are impatient to get back to their families, but some are plain relieved...

Breaking News :More than 2000 Civilians feared Killed in Srilanka

In the ongoing battle between LTTE and Srilankan Government  in Srilanka's north , wanni -More than 2,000 civilians feared slaughtered in a single nightMore news from Tamilnet follows. ...

Let My People Go In Peace By Dr Noel Nadesan - Editor, Uthayam

Finally a member of the Tamil Diaspora, once a hardcore Eelam supporter has had a soul search and asking the much needed questions from the rest of them. Parts of his article is quoted here. " Let My People Go...

Soldiers on Wanni battle front

sri lanka Soldiers on Wanni battle frontair force 

'LTTE responsible for every death in Wanni' says TULF leader

"'LTTE responsible for every death in Wanni' says TULF leader (By: Walter Jayawardhana) The Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) President, V. Anandasangaree, told the gallant soldiers who won back 95 percent of the land occupied by the LTTE terrorists that in...

International fears for Tamil civilians caught in Sri Lanka war

As Sri Lankan army is progressing forward and about to completely eradicate the control of LTTE, the future of innocent Tamil civilians have come to fore. Thousands of Tamil civilians have been caught in a...

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)...

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...

Under reported underdogs

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted on 10th December 1948 by the United Nations at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. Since then this day has been celebrated all over the world as...

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...

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