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,...

'Agents of Change' Receive 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom

In a ceremony held today in the East Room of the White House, President and Mrs. Obama participated in a ceremony for the 2009 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Obama presented the 2009...

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...

Milan and Sredoje Lukic, Bosnian Serbs, Convicted of War Crimes

Milan Lukic, 41, and his cousin Sredoje Lukic, 48, were found guilty of war crimes, among them the burning of Bosnian Muslims alive in the town of Visegrad, during the civil war in Yugoslavia in 1992-95. Cousins...

Afghan helicopter crash kills 16 - Updated

" A civilian helicopter has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 16 people, a military official has told the BBC. The helicopter crashed at the Kandahar airfield, Nato's largest base in southern...

Sri Lankan doctors recant death figures

After being in custody for about two months, the doctors say they inflated death tolls. The doctors who stayed with the people till the end now claims that only 350-400 civilians were killed in the last month of...

Failed strategy in Afghanistan

Obama said a surgewould not be successfulin Iraq so now he istrying a surge inAfghanistan"When will the Obama administration stop transplanting the Bush administration's failed methods from Iraq to Afghanistan...

Sri Lanka "runs out of time" for investigation

Sri Lankan government ended the investigation into human right abuses during the war with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). This decision came despite call from various human rights groups request to allow...

Chiba Day

  By, Uwe Paschen. It is Chiba Day here in Narita, Chiba, Japan.  Tomorrow my wife will not have to go and teach in Narita and I have no field work due to much rain and flooding nor any meetings in Tokyo. In...

Up to 30,000 'disabled' by Sri Lankan shells

Sri Lanka's shelling made up to 30,000 tamil people disabled.  A french charity in Batticaloa  producing artificial limbs has got "huge demand". But Mahinda Rajapakse is still claiming his army rescued...

Sri Lanka Says LTTE Killed 2,000 Civilians

The Tamil Tigers havecommitted terrorist actsin the past so it is possiblethey shelled their owncivilians. "The Army said the Tigers have positioned their mortars in previously declared "Safe zone" and fired...

Happy birth day to you, LTTE - Advanced Happy END day wishes too

Today world most dreaded "freedom fighters" organization is celebrating their birthday hiding behind civilian hostages. In this auspicious occasion it is everyone's duty to wish them a very busy birthday and a...

UN says fighting intensified and heavy weapons being used

According to UN report as on 4-May-2009: - > The fighting has intensified and heavy weapons are being used ->  Sri Lanka estimated 50,000 people are trapped in the fighting -> ...

LTTE Announces Unilateral Ceasefire

LTTE announced unilateral ceasefire today to avoid further civilian casualties and after the calls by UN, EU, USA, India and others. Sri Lanka rejected this ceasefire though its unilateral ceasefire. " Full text...

Karunanidhi on reverese gear over Prabhakaran's friendship

After saying that LTTE terrorist leader  Prabhakaran is a "good friend" and his death would cause him great sorrow, Tamilnadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi now says that he LTTE is not started as a terrorist...

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