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  • President Rajapakse will give nothing to Tamils – Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam

    Aug 04
    “Tamils should be vigilant of Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse’s intentions. He says that there is no minority race in the country but only a majority race. It is clear that his intention is to assimilate the Tamil race into the Majority Sinhala race in Sri Lanka,” Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna district parliamentarian, told TamilNet Saturday, in an interview in Jaffna.
  • 65,000 army deserters at large
    Around 65,000 soldiers deserted their ranks during Sri Lanka’s brutal war against the Tamils and are at large, according a Sri Lankan Ministry of Justice and Law Reforms official.
  • ACF seeks wide probe of staff massacre
    A French charity accused the Sri Lankan government of "lacking the will to establish the truth" about the massacre of 17 aid workers in 2006 and called for an international inquiry.
  • "Break the Silence" begins 1000 mile journey to Washington D.C.
    Three Tamil College students from Canada are on a 1000-mile walk from Chicago to Washington D.C. to "raise awareness with the general American population to what is happening in Sri Lanka,” Illinois Times reported. More than 50 people assembled on the steps of the Capitol Friday, wearing tan, gray and blue T-shirts that carried their message: Break the Silence in Sri Lanka, the paper added.
  • UN Jaffna officials accused of misreporting in favour of Sri Lankan State
    Civil society sources in Jaffna raised accusations against UN Jaffna officials for releasing facts and statistics, related to the detainees held in the SLA internment camps, provided by GOSL and SLA, instead of the true situation prevailing in the camps, to the outer world.
  • Wholesale attack on Tamil newspapers, Journalist kidnapped
    ALL the local newspapers of Jaffna that defied publishing an anonymous and defiling notice against the LTTE came under attack by an armed group in the early hours of Thursday.
  • Devananda to contest elections under Rajapakse's ‘Betel Leaf’ symbol
    SRI LANKAN Minister and General Secretary of EPDP, Douglas Devananda, announced that his party will contest the local government elections of Jaffna Municipal Council (JMC) and Vavuniyaa Town Council (TC) under ‘Betel Leaf’ symbol, the common symbol of the ruling United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance (UPFA), sources in Jaffna said
  • ‘India did PR for Rajapaksa govt’
    Noted Indian journalist Satya Sivaraman said his country became just a public relations manager for the Sri Lanka’s Mahinda Rajapaksa government in their war against the LTTE.
  • Sri Lanka receives aid from Asian friends
    In the latest demonstration of Sri Lanka’s strengthening relationship with Asian and anti-Western regimes, Myanmar has donated US $ 50,000 as relief aid to Sri Lanka to the 300,000 internally displaced people in the north of the island.
  • ICRC suspends aid operations
    ICRC which was involved in evacuating injured civilians, announced on Wednesday May 27 that it was suspending its aid operations due to difficulties caused by “additional restrictions” placed upon it by the Sri Lanka government.
  • Time for Witness
    The UN Secretary-General must speak out about civilian deaths in Sri Lanka wrote The Times in an editorial on 1 June.
  • Fresh calls war crimes probe in Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka faced fresh allegations on Friday, May 29, that its army had killed huge numbers of civilians during its offensive against the Tamil Tigers, as well as complaints it was continuing to block aid workers.
  • Sri Lanka rules out outside probe
    Sri Lanka has dismissed calls for an independent inquiry into claims of human rights abuses by the military, saying its own courts will investigate.
  • ‘'This is too much to take. Why is the world not helping?’
    The report filed for The Guardian newspaper by UK medic Vany Gnanakumar, who is currently detained in Menik Farm camp, on 12 May.
  • … as Sri Lanka rejects aid access
    Sri Lanka's president on rejected a call by the UN Secretary General to lift restrictions on aid delivery to overcrowded displacement camps, saying the army must first finish screening the hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians held in the internment camps in north of the island.
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