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  • Canada gets tough on Sri Lankan rights abusers?

    Dec 12
    He lives on a suburban street in Ajax in a two-storey brick house with a double garage and fruit trees in the garden.

    The quiet neighbourhood east of Toronto is worlds away from the civil war Raja Kasturiarachchi left behind when he moved to Canada after retiring from the Sri Lankan National Police.

    But if he came to Canada to escape the past, he hasn't.
  • Sign of the Times
    The international community mistakenly hopes war will bring peace to Sri Lanka.
  • 15,000 stripped of livelihood in Batticaloa hinterland
    Half of the affected agriculture-dependent families in Batticaloa district are from Paduvaankarai region, where the major cultivable land of the district, is situated.

    Forced to flee their paddy fields, standing ripe and ready for harvest, the families who returned under the Government of Sri Lanka's (GoSL) resettlement, could only witness the remains of the properties and livestock that had been looted by the Sri Lankan forces.
  • Iran to supply cheap oil and fund Sri Lankan arms buys
    Sri Lanka’s hardline government has approached Iran for a loan to replace aircraft destroyed by the Tamil Tigers in a daring raid last month.
  • Sri Lanka builds police station on LTTE cemetery
    Tamil residents told to use new Sinhala name for village
  • India's fingers crossed as Rajapakse begins third year
    As Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse begins his third year in office, India is desperately hoping that he will unveil a credible power sharing package to end one of the world's most protracted conflicts.
     
    After two years of escalating violence and many political twists and turns, the optimism in New Delhi seems to be slowly ebbing away vis-a-vis an early negotiated solution.
     
    Although Rajapakse chose India as his first destination
  • Indian academic doubts world’s understanding of LTTE
    In his contribution to a recent publication, 'Sri Lanka: Search for Peace', by the New Delhi based Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA), Professor P.
  • A requiem by Karuna: the death of sub-regionalism?
    Vakarai division, largely jungle tracts crisscrossed with 14 or so villages and little hamlets, situated along the northern border of Batticaloa District.
  • No safety for aid workers in Sri Lanka
    ‘The record here is one of the worst in the world.'
  • War budget amid deepening economic crisis
    Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, who also holds the finance portfolio, presented what can only be described as a war budget to parliament on November 7. (It was passed on Nov 19with a comfortable majority). Announcing a record allocation on defence spending, he insisted that “protecting the motherland” took priority over other areas of government spending.
     
    Rajapakse is directly responsible for plunging the island back to civil war.
  • The ultimate form of ‘Right to Protect’ is self rule
    Sri Lanka is not a failed state. It is actually a powerful and stable, if racist, state.
  • Terror in militarized east
    Killings, disappearances and abductions of persons persist in the highly militarized environment of Trincomalee and Mutur, while thousands languish in welfare camps seeking adequate food, shelter and protection, the Law and Society Trust (LST) said in a report.
     
    “Despite claims of liberation and reawakening of the East, civilians in Trincomalee live in a highly militarized environment.
  • ‘Disappearances and killings will continue’ – Army chief
    Disappearances and killings of will continue as long as ‘anti-terrorist’ operations are continuing, Sri Lanka’s Army commander, Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka said last week in a interview to British investigative reporters.
     
    Asked about human rights abuses in the newly captured Eastern province, the commander replied: “This area is not a normal area.
  • ‘Our nation struggles alone for our rights’
    "We tried our best to convince the International Community of our grievances. We are a small nation, struggling all alone to uphold our rights. But the International Community in an uneven judgement in applying its norms, scaled us with Sri Lankan government abounding with military and economic resources. The scale was not fair.
  • TNA condemns US block on TRO
    Sri Lanka’s largest political party has condemned the US action to freeze the US-based accounts of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) saying Washington was deepening the plight of the Tamil people.
     
    “While the Government of Sri Lanka has imposed an effective economic embargo in Vanni, and the sustained bombardments of Sri Lanka Military have made situation difficult for International Non-Governmental Organizations to work amidst the affected local reside
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