In Haiti on November 10, United Nations peacekeepers from Sri Lanka fired live ammunition resulting in injuries to civilians, reported Inner City Press.
Six months after Sri Lanka's decades-old civil war ended with a final assault, about 200,000 people remain trapped in overcrowded government-run camps that were once safe havens for those fleeing the conflict.
When the Second World War was ending in the Western Theatre in May 1945, the British public made one of its wisest decisions in history in sending Winston Churchill to political retirement and electing Clement Atlee who was able to evoke new hopes about freedom of peoples all over the world by announcing independence to colonies.
The IMF has warned Sri Lanka against issuing government bonds in order to build up foreign currency reserves, as Sri Lanka received the second instalment of a $2.6 billion loan.
Sri Lanka delivered its formal response to a European Union probe that found it in breach of international human rights laws and said it was hopeful of retaining a lucrative trade concession with the bloc
That the Indian government armed and trained the LTTE is well known. But then it switched sides. India has done everything it can, including blocking the demand for an investigation into the possibility that the Sri Lankan government might be guilty of having committed war crimes in this war against the Tamil people of Sri Lanka.
The "tough talk" over the case of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Australia's abrogation of its responsibility to these people in deals with Indonesia (which have turned sour) has left me puzzled and disappointed.
“If you write anymore, we will kill you and slice you into pieces.”
These were the words of “hand written death threats”, received by two female editors of The Sunday Leader, a leading broadsheet in Sri Lanka.
Australia on Sunday, November 8, urged Sri Lanka, having defeated the Tamil Tigers in May, to now embrace political reform and reconciliation to stem the flow of asylum seekers leaving the country
“I viewed what happened on the beach below through the lens of a camera recorder from the seventh floor of a building located next to the Bambalapitya railway station”, Assistant News Editor of TNL News channel
The JHU has justified an attack on the Christian ‘Centre for Hope’ at Koswatte, in central Sri Lanka, resulting in the healing centre being severely damaged.
Meanwhile, the AHRC criticised Sri Lanka for becoming a country of lawlessness and urged for changes to the executive presidency system, which it claimed allows security needs to be put above the rule of law.
