Obama Take Action: Sri Lankan Government targets Tamil Children

Tamils children are now the prime target for forced disappearances in Sri Lanka. From the detention camps children are taken away without any explanation or records. Tamils parents are left to grieve in silence...

The Vulgarism of Sri Lankan Army expressed to fallen combatants

The Sri Lankan Army has repeatedly used humiliation and discourtesy towards dead LTTE cadets and leaders. It is a method used to indirectly insult the desire of Tamils' aspiration of Tamil Eelam, which counter...

Sri Lanka destroys evidence, prevents ICRC access - Prof. Boyle

Sri Lankan state terrorism is rushing to remove evidence of its war crimes. The makeshift hospital doctors are abducted at the Omanthai Sri Lankan Army checkpoint. These doctors are the eye witnesses to many...

Urge IC to Protect Heroic Doctors from Sri Lankan government

Amnesty Canada has created an appeal for the makeshift hospital doctors who disappeared at the Omanthai Sri Lankan Army Checkpoint. These doctors and hospital workers are the witnesses for the suffering and human...

Obama fails badly: Unarmed, white flagged LTTE massacred by SLA

In the one and only speech delivered by the man himself, President Obama requested both sides of the Sri Lankan conflict to corporate; Obama asked the LTTE to lay down arms while requesting the Sri Lankan...

Sinhalese chuvanism glorifies Tiger defeat, ignores Tamils plight

The Sinhalese chauvinism focused on glorifying Tamils Tigers' defeat in Sri Lanka, while continue to turn a blind eye on plight of 25,000 wounded Tamils civilians, way over 10,000 Tamil civilians deaths and over...

LTTE admits defeat and requests IC to take care of Tamils

" Cornered into a tiny patch of jungle about the size of a football field, the Tamil Tiger rebels -- who once operated a shadow state complete with a law school, a tax system, a navy and even traffic police --...

Dignity and respect for our people is all we ask, LTTE to Obama

In a latest press release, the LTTE pleaded to to the US, UK and other international community save Tamils in Sri Lanka with dignity and respect. In the latest Sri Lankan Army's assaults, the Tamils...

Sri Lanka rebels offer to lay down arms, Save Civilians pleads

LTTE accepted its defeat after 25 years of war against the Sri Lankan government's oppression towards Tamils in Sri Lanka. In the last  "Sri Lanka rebels offer to lay down armsOn Sunday afternoon, the tattered and nearly defeated rebel group offered to lay down its arms,...

We decided to silence our guns, Save Tamils, LTTE pleads to IC

Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the head of LTTE’s International Diplomatic Relations has said in an urgent statement issued Sunday, that the LTTE has decided to silence our guns and plead with the International Community to save the Tamils in Sri Lanka's brutal carnage.""This we...

US violates Geneva Convention, Professor Boyle said

Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law.  "Pointing to the statement issued by the U.S. Department of State that after an informal meeting at the United Nations that "[t]he United States is deeply concerned by the continued...

LTTE takes heed to Obama's call: Pathmanathan

LTTE's head of International Relations Mr. Pathmanathan said in a press release today that LTTE welcomed the urgent call of President Obama and willing to comply with any internationally mediated solution to save...

'Our Holocaust and the impossibility of peace in Sri Lanka'

As long as Tamils are oppressed in Sri Lanka, "Sri Lanka will never be able to live in peace" and "Tamil militancy will remain the central to Sri Lanka's future." "'Our Holocaust and the impossibility of peace in Sri Lanka'[TamilNet, Saturday, 16 May 2009, 04:17 GMT] ...

"Tigers will regroup with a vengeance", warned Financial Times

Unless the "Sinhala majority shows magnanimity and gives the Tamils control of their own lives" in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers will regroup with a vengeance, warned Financial Times on Thursday.   " At last,...

2009 Tamil Ethnic Cleansing Index in Sri Lanka

"This index is being updated based on firsthand information obtained from Hospital authorities, Police and Judiciary sources in Tamil Eelam and Sri Lanka, The North East Secretariat of Human Rights and...
 

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