Sri Lankan Police kill mentally challenged Tamil Youth in Colombo

Racism takes many facets in Sri Lanka.Nearly 30,000 Tamils killed in the recent war in the Tamil regions.Over 250,000 Tamil IDPs detained in interim camps under poor living conditions even after 5 months military...

"Tamils rail under Sri Lanka's heel", Guardian

Human rights violations are more than ever in Sri Lanka. After defeating the 26 year armed conflict, the Sri Lankan government could very well turn a minority community into a long path for peace and freedom in Sri...

Should Sri Lanka start to listen ? EU flexes its GSP Plus muscle.

" GSP Plus explicitly obliges Sri Lanka and other beneficiary countries to comply with 27 international agreements on human rights issues. The country last year refused to let an EU team investigate alleged abuses so the EU used independent consultants to examine whether...

99 percent Norway Tamils aspire for Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka

The turn out was high, and they were eager to express the small prototype of what the worldwide Tamil diaspora and Tamils in Sri Lanka would want if they given a fair chance to express themselves. The Norwegian Tamils showed up to an election, 80% turn out for the country, to...

Channel 4 releases video on Sri Lankan Camps

Channel 4 releases latest video on how Tamil IDPs are held in the internment camps in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka: "Let our people go"

Sri Lanka's internment camps continued to hold over 250,000 Tamil IDPs of a war which ended in May 2009. The situation inside the camps is told to be improving by the Sri Lankan government, however it refuted by...

"Sri Lanka, stop !", says Le Monde France Daily Newspaper

France's Daily News Paper Le Monde called on Sri Lanka to Stop its human rights violations. "Mais il a choisi un tout autre chemin : celui de la domination. Plus de trois mois après la fin de la guerre, quelque 280 000 réfugiés tamouls vivent toujours prisonniers derrière...

Sri Lanka "Losing touch with old friends", The Economist

Sri Lanka's continuous ignorance of the opinion of the international community has started to wear off the patience of few western countries. "There is not much high-minded western countries—to whom Sri Lanka once looked for aid money—can do about this. Mr Rajapaksa has...

Sri Lanka jails journalist for 20 years for freedom of expression

JS Tissainayagam is sentenced for 20 years in prison for writing the reality in Sri Lanka. "JS Tissainayagam was the first Sri Lankan journalist to be formally charged (and now convicted) under the country's...

Sri Lanka mocks Obama, Tissainayagam sentenced for 20 years

" J.S. Tissainayagam's articles in the now-defunct Northeastern Monthly magazine in 2006 and 2007 criticized the conduct of the war against the Tamil Tiger rebels and also accused Sri Lankan authorities of withholding food and other essential items from Tamil-majority areas...

Execution Video Shows Need for International Inquiry, HRW

The need for an international inquiry into the war crimes of the bloody war of Sri Lanka is more than ever now, urged Human Rights Watch after the release of a disturbing video by Journalists for Democracy in Sri...

Sri Lanka faces Fresh Calls for Human Rights Inquiry, BBC

" Sri Lanka is facing fresh calls for an international human rights inquiry after video emerged apparently showing extra-judicial killings by troops. The footage was allegedly filmed in January during the final...

www.adaderana.lk - spreading hatred and promoting chuvanism

www.adaderana.lk website has been known to fuel Sinhalese chauvinism within Sri Lanka. If you would visit the site, read news and the allowed comments (which are "moderated" by the site), you can view the...

Sri Lanka''s monstrocity matched only by Nazis, Prof. Boyle

US a silent ally in Sri Lanka's monstrocity, charged Prof. Boyle in his latest interview.By refusing to release the satellite images of war zone and to allowing the IMF loan, US has supported the Rajapaksa's...

"Canada missed opportunity to right Sri Lanka's wrongs" Jo Becker

Canada containing the largest Tamil diaspora from Sri Lanka outside to Sri Lanka , has been ignoring the human rights violations in Sri Lanka. Protests and requests of the Tamil community has been ignored by the...

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