Urgent Appeal for Immediate Medical Assistance & Medical Supplies

Civil sources from the rebel controlled northwest of Sri Lanka describe the aftermath of a Sri Lankan Army's multi barrel rocket & shell barrage on the densely populated area as a carnage with more than 300...

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)...

Sri Lankan troops shell "safe zone" for civilians

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) unilaterally announced a "secure zone" for civilians on Wednesday 21-Jan 2009. However, in the early hours of Thursday 22-Jan 2009 the “secure zone” came under Multi Barrel Rocket...

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...

My Son's Shattered Arm & Future

Another narration by an internally displaced father about a Sri Lankan airforce bombing raid that led to his teenage son’s loss of right arm. My son qualified for faculty of arts through the 2006 university...

How Can My Brother Walk?

Following is a narration by a 4th grader from the northern part of Sri Lanka (Vanni) of the Sri Lanka Airforce attack on an internally displaced hamlet on  29-November 2008. Because we have no father, my mother,...

Free Journalists Unfairly Held

"(New York, December 3, 2008) - The Sri Lankan government should immediately drop charges and free J.S. Tissainayagam, a prominent Tamil journalist on trial for his writings, Human Rights Watch said today. A Tamil...

Sri Lanka: 14.4 million kilograms of bombs unloaded on Tamils

"Mangala Samaraweera revealed in parliament, that the government has unloaded 14.4 million kilogrammes of bombs in the Wanni. ...