Well today we have some very good news about those so called consentration camps in Sri Lanka. Yes they have started to release the prisoners. None I may add have numbers stamped on their arms and the realesed...
That's the way autocracy works, you raise the voice and you are behind bars.That is what happening in Sri Lanka. After the killing of Prabhakaran, several so called pro Tamil journalist are facing direct or...
"Sri Lanka: Floods Threaten Camp Detainees Government’s Failure to Free Displaced Civilians Worsens Situation"The government bears full responsibility for the situation in the...
Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the party ran on the platform of self-determination won a key council in Sri Lanka. The government was expected to do well for the following reasons: The election was held too soon after the end of the war for people to vote and for democracy...
19th july:
Sri Lanka's main pace bowler announced today that he will retire from Test cricket after the third Test against Pakistan, starting on Monday.
The 35-year-old bowler was dropped for the first two Test matches played against the visiting Pakistani team as well as...
Dayan Jayatilleka, Sri Lanka's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, has been told to go home by Aug 20. He is one of Sri Lanka's most outspoken diplomats who consistently argued for devolution of power to the country's minorities.
No reason has been given to...
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...
The Colombo media reported that Sri Lankan government had removed the wartime fishing restrictions. This had come after a fishermen's meeting organized as part of the government's campaign to boost its image. This meeting was attended by several government officials,...
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,...
Enough is enough, killing terrorists are OK, but in the name of terrorists killing Innocent Tamils cannot be justified.Whatever Srilankan Government plan is but recent episode clearly shows that Tamil expulsion...
Douglas Wickramaratne , The president of the UK,s Sinhala Assosiation and a Tamil spokeman Arjun Ediriweerasingham debated the contraversial London demonstration carring the official LTTE flag and blocking...
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Toronto: A forum was organized by South Asians for Human Rights Association (SAHRA) at Markham City Hall, in Canada was attended by the dozens of Tamil community leaders and Oakridges-Markham constituents on February 20th 2009. The forum opened up direct dialogue...
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New York-based right organization Human Rights Watch has slammed both sides in the ongoing conflict in Sri Lanka in its latest report. The group demanded to stop the war on civilians in Sri Lanka. The report quotes James Ross, legal and policy director at HRW as saying This...
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