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Parliament Square protest ends after 73 days

A 73-day protest involving thousands of people demonstrating over the plight of Tamils ended on Wednesday, June 17. [more]

100,000 Tamils march in London over Sri Lanka’s concentration camps

Over one hundred thousand expatriate Tamils in Britain marched Saturday, June 20, through central London to express their outrage at international inaction over Sri Lanka’s massacre of tens of thousands of Tamils and the suffering of hundreds of thousands more enduring starvation, disease, disappearance, rape and torture in Colombo’s internment camps. [more]

200,000 Tamil civilians imprisoned in Manik Farm camp

“We are in an open jail,” Kumar whispers, his skinny shoulders shaking as he looks around to check who is watching “Help us, we want to be free.” [more]

‘End illegal detention’ – rights group

Human Rights Watch called for the end to the illegal detention of nearly 300,000 ethnic Tamils displaced by the recently ended conflict. [more]

Do not approve IMF loan, Senators tell Clinton

Two influential US Senators have written to the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton requesting that she does not approve a request by Sri Lanka for an IMF loan ‘it would send the wrong signal to approve’ when Sri Lankan government did not need to heed the world community's concerns. [more]

We won’t beg for aid: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka will ‘never go after donor countries or agencies with a begging bowl’ for aid, the country’s Central Bank chief has declared despite waiting for the IMF to approve a loan request for US $1.9 billion. [more]

Sri Lanka hopes for post conflict growth

Sri Lanka is hoping the end of the decades long war will attract much needed foreign investment boosting the ailing economy. [more]

Missing UN staff in military custody

A Tamil staff of United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and another Tamil staff of the UNHCR, both attached to the UN offices in Vavuniya, have been reported missing since Thursday June13 after being arrested by Sri Lankan authorities, the UN announced on Sunday June 21. [more]

Twenty years mandates international commission - Amnesty

An independent international commission must be set up to investigate human rights violations in Sri Lanka over the last 20 years, as successive governments have failed to account for abuses such as torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings during its civil war, Amnesty International said. [more]

Calls for UN to probe war crimes

Calls for investigations into allegations of war crimes by the Sri Lankan government during the final stages of its military offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) appear to be gathering strength. [more]

International war crimes probe needed

The following is the full text of an editorial in the Japan Times titled “What price victory?”. Japan is Sri Lanka’s biggest bilateral donor. [more]

 
 
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