Sri Lanka: Tamil killings 'ordered from the top' Channel 4 report

Channel 4 has released mounting evidence towards the killings of Tamil civilians and surrendering white flagged LTTE cadets in Sri Lanka in the brutal war carried out May 2009 ordered by the Sri Lankan top...

Sri Lankan security forces hooliganize Thillepan memorial pillar

Sri Lankan security forces went on rampage destroying Thillepan memorial pillar in Jaffna. The Sri Lankan security forces dumped the ruins in Jaffna Municipal Council garbage.Thillepan, a former LTTE Lt. Col.,  passed away after fast undo death towards the Indian...

CNN: Sri Lanka's War Survivors - future holds nothing for Tamils.

The CNN coverage on what is left for the Tamil community in Sri Lanka after the war, which ended on May, 2009.

Sri Lanka needs International press as local press is silenced.

Sri Lanka's need for openness and accountability is growing more than ever. After the defeat of LTTE since last may, the tightness and human rights violations have only escalated. The rare opportunity to form a political reconciliation is ignored by the political dictatorship...

Sri Lankan Security forces continue to rape Tamil girls and women

Lack of international investigation and independent monitoring facilitates the Sri Lanakan Security forces to sexually assault Tamil women IDPs by transferring them to Boosa Camp without any official records. Many of these Tamil women victims are tortured, raped and killed...

Gordon Weiss to ABC News: Sri Lanka slaughtered 40000 Tamils.

Former UN official from Sri Lanka, Gordon Weiss reported to ABC news recently, between January 2009 to May 2009, the Sri Lankan government slaughtered over 40,000 Tamils civilians and intentionally reported the war...

Why UN forgot to question its own Vijay Nambiar on Sri Lanka? ICP

UN requested explanation from Sri Lanka for war crimes regarding the shooting of surrendering political wing leaders in May 2009. However, it has forgotten to question its own chief of staff Vijay Nambiar, who...

UN asks Sri Lanka to answer new war crime charges, AFP reports

In a recent letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions, requested explanation for the shootings of surrendering LTTE Political...

My Daughter the Terrorist by Beate Arnestad

Two young, Catholic female LTTE fighters are followed to show the world a rare glimpse of the lives of these young Tamil girls and their live choices.The documentary has been featured in film festivals around the...

Sri Lankan Security Forces's War Crime video is authentic, Times

Recently, a video emerged showing cruel killings of naked Tamil by Sri Lankan Security Forces. However, the Sri Lankan government challenged the authenticity of the video released. On Dec. 15, 2009, Times of UK...

Sri Lanka Army rapes more Tamil women behind barbed wire camps.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women is followed today, November 25, 2009. Rape and threats against young girls are wide spread around the world, specially in war torn areas where...

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...
 

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