Despite promises to investigate abductions of children by the pro-government Karuna group, Sri Lankan authorities have taken no effective action and abductions continue, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday. “The Karuna group’s use of child soldiers with state complicity is more blatant today than ever before, ” Brad Adams, Asia director at HRW said in a statement. HRW also accused the LTTE of recruiting child soldiers. “The Karuna group is doing the government’s dirty work,” Adams said. “It’s time for authorities in Colombo to stop this group from using children in its forces.” HRW says in...
Amid changing political and military dynamics, the former LTTE commander contends with his backers´ dislliusionment.
Over 200,000 people have been displaced by the recent spate of violence in the north and east of the country.
They spoke fluent Sinhala. That is why I suspect the army of having taken my husband.
'We'd be delighted to become more involved in helping to facilitate the peace process.'
An investigative report says missing aid workers were executed by paramilitaries of the Karuna Group which abducted them.
The Sri Lankan government is unlikely to heed the advice of donors to resume talks with the LTTE.
The summary report of Bilateral Donor Group after their visits to Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Mannar, Vavuniya and Jaffna districts.
Most of the pacts abrogated in Sri Lanka have been on the Tamil question.
“I've never known a government which has fallen into ethnic chauvinism so quickly.”