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...
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...
" 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...
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...
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...
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'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...
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...
" 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...
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 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 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...
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 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...