• SL slammed in opening discussions of the 24th session of the UNHRC

    Sep 08

    As the 24th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council commenced today, several members of the Council  slammed Sri Lanka over the alleged threats faced by people who met the UN High Commissioner for Human Righst Navi Pillay during her recent visit to Sri Lanka.

  • SL implores Navi Pillay to be unbiased at UNHRC

    Delivering Sri Lanka’s statement at the 24th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Sri Lanka Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Ravintha Aryasinha implored Navi Pillay to take an ‘unbiased’ approach to Sri Lanka in fulfilling her mandate

  • Indian defence delegation visits Sri Lanka

    A 15-member delegation from the National Defence College of India visited the headquarters of the Sri Lankan Navy in Colombo, reported The Island.

  • Only President can reduce militarisation - Basil
    Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Economic Development said on Saturday that the Chief Minister of the Northern Province would not have any authority to reduce military presence in the North.

    In apparent criticism of the TNA, Basil said that only the president could make such a decision which even Parliament did not have the authority to make.
  • GTF calls for leaders to boycott CHOGM 2013
    The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) called on leaders to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) due to take place in Sri Lanka later this year.
  • Scottish training for Sri Lankan police criticised

    British research group Corporate Watch has uncovered that the Scottish Police College has trained over 3,500 Sri Lankan police officers, including some senior commanders, funded by the UK and Scotland.

    Sri Lanka is under scrutiny over hyuman rights abuses and the police is suspected to be involved in killings and disappearances, especially of Tamil speaking people.

    “Investigation by Corporate Watch reveals that, in the build up to this combined police-military offensive, 48 Sri Lankan police officers were trained by the SPC from May 2007 to January 2008. One of these officers, Jayantha Wickremaratne, was then promoted to lead Sri Lanka's police from June 2008 – October 2009, commanding the force at the height of its human rights violations,” the organisation’s website stated.

    UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay concluded a visit to the island last week and was scathing in a statement after her tour of the war-affected areas.

  • Save Tamils conference currently underway in Chennai - watch it live
    09:37 BST
    An international conference, calling for a boycott of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2013 (CHOGM 2013) due to take place in November later this year, by the Tamil Nadu based activist organisation, 'Save Tamils Movement' and 'Student Struggle committee for Tamil Eezham', is currently underway.
  • Rajapaksa warns of false propaganda

    Speaking at the United People’s Freedom Alliance, (UPFA) election rally, Mahinda Rajapaksa warned that foreign forces were plotting schemes to destabilise the country.

  • Those old rascals again...
    Sri Lanka’s Minister of External Affairs, G. L. Peiris, told a seminar that the LTTE was to blame for ‘misinformation’ about the role of the army in the Northeast, which even the UN had bought into.

    Peiris

  • Political forces that cannot understand Tamil aspirations must not mislead the south' - Sampanthan

    The Tamil National Alliance, leader R. Sampanthan, implored southern political actors to refrain from maliciously criticising the TNA’s, recently released, electoral statement.

  • Sri Lanka top source for Freedom from Torture referrals

    The British based NGO Freedom from Torture has revealed that Sri Lanka was the top country of origin for those referred to the organisation for clinical services.

  • Gota angers Muslim allies
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  • Colombo diocese says Pope will visit Sri Lanka

    The spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Colombo, Father Benedict Joseph has said that Pope Francis will visit Sri Lanka.

    State radio SLBC claimed that the dates will be announced soon.

  • Tamil Nadu activists speak out: Save Tamils Movement
    As part of our series - 'Tamil Nadu activists speak out' - on the growing activism in Tamil Nadu on the Eelam Tamil issue, Tamil Guardian caught up with leading activists across the state.

    This week, we publish our interview with the Save Tamils Movement based in Chennai.

    It is the 'democratic wish' of the Tamil Nadu state to support Eelam Tamils, with Tamils across the world supporting a free Eelam, stated the Save Tamils Movement, in an interview with Tamil Guardian.
  • UN ‘fully supports’ Navi Pillay’s work on Sri Lanka

    A UN spokesperson has stressed that the work done by Navi Pillay while she was in Sri Lanka has the full support of the United Nations.

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