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  • New Delhi calls for resettlement following pressure from Tamil Nadu

    Sep 29
    India is pressing Sri Lanka for a for quick rehabilitation and resettlement of the 300,000 Tamils held in barbed wired camps, according to Colombo media.
  • War's over, but what about peace?
    Lakhdar Brahimi and Edward Mortimer examine the prospects for peace in Sri Lanka
  • Tamil Nadu fishermen assaulted, driven naked by Sri Lanka Navy
    Twenty-four fishermen from Keechchaangkuppam in Naakarkoayil area in Tamil Nadu, fishing in Kanniyaakumari seas in five boats Friday night, were brutally assaulted and cast naked in the seas by Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) soldiers, sources in Naakarkoayil said.
  • Sri Lanka’s victory speech to near empty UN hall
    Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka gave a long triumphant speech at the 64th UN General Assembly in New York, to a hall that was more than half empty, reported Inner City Press.
  • 40 civilians disappear from camps daily - Samaraweera
    “In George Orwells 1984, the Ministry of Peace dealt with war, and the Ministry of Love with torture. Likewise we witnessed in Sri Lanka how the Peace Secretariat justified excesses carried out in the name of war against terrorism. And the so-called welfare camps are virtual prisons,” Daily Mirror said quoting Mangala Samaraweera's charge against the Sri Lanka in the parliament, adding that about 30 to 40 persons are abducted on a daily basis from IDP camps in the North.
  • Sinhala political party calls for probe into US human rights abuses
    A Sinhala political party led by hard-line Buddhist monks has called for a United Nations led probe into human rights abuses committed by the United States of America.
  • Colombo's paranoid secrecy

    What Ranil, Mangala and Mano Ganesan said on 3 September at a Platform for Freedom Press Conference on the IDP issue was fairly widely covered in the print and electronic media, but three other contributors, Siritunga Jayasuriya, Nimalka Fernando and Herman Kumara failed to attract coverage.

  • “Very challenging times” if GSP plus is denied – Chairman of MAS Holdings
    The Chairman of MAS Holdings, warned of “very challenging times” ahead, with the prospect of GSP Plus concessions being withdrawn by the European Union.
  • Tamil refugees going home to an open prison
    In villages in Mannar district, the government’s ‘Northern Reawakening’ programme has not brought promised changes. Homes are still broken; services are non-existent, and freedom of movement still limited by heavy military presence.
  • Time running out for Sri Lanka’s IDPs
    Everywhere in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, posters featuring smiling soldiers holding rocket launchers and machine guns celebrate the recent end to the nation's 26-year civil war.
  • Colombo risks squandering Sri Lanka's hard-won peace
    If Sri Lanka is to become a tropical paradise again, it must build enduring peace. This will only occur through genuine interethnic equality, and a transition from being a unitary state to being a federation that grants provincial and local autonomy.
  • ‘Paranoid Colombo machinates IDP human shield’

    A whole world is duped in what Colombo is machinating in the name of resettlement of IDPs, Tamil circles in Jaffna commented, citing Sri Lanka Navy’s new internment camps around its installations in the island sector of Jaffna.

  • As the shells fell, we tried to save lives with no blood or medicine'
    The young mother was standing by the side of the road, clutching her baby. The baby was dead. Damilvany Gnanakumar watched as she tried to make a decision. Around them, thousands of people were picking their way between bodies strewn across the road, desperate to escape the fighting all around them.
  • Vaddukkoaddai and Thimphu
    Calling for the creation of independent and sovereign Tamil Eelam, based on Vaddukkoadai Resolution was the last spontaneous and definite mandate by Eelam Tamils in a totally free and democratic atmosphere.
  • ‘From one prison to another’: Sri Lanka’s ‘resettlement’
    Under international pressure as the monsoon looms, the Sri Lanka government is hastily engaged in relocating some of the displaced Tamils being held in militarised internment camps in Vavuniya.
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