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  • Great Expectations - Still

    Sep 29
    Tamil anger is held in check by international commitments.
  • 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The Chairman of MAS Holdings, warned of “very challenging times” ahead, with the prospect of GSP Plus concessions being withdrawn by the European Union.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.
  • Why peace seems elusive in Sri Lanka
    Four months after crushing the Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan government is still unable to define peace, even as it has embarked on the further expansion of an already-large military.
  • Send delegation to Sri Lanka demand Tamil Nadu politicians
    With the political scene in Tamil Nadu hotting up again over the plight of displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka, the main opposition party, AIADMK, led by Jayalalitha Jayaran threatening to launch a mass agitation over the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka, DMK and Congress MPs from Tamil Nadu rushed to Delhi to meet the Prime Minister and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi seeking New Delhi’s immediate intervention on the issue.
  • IMF optimistic, but investors cautious
    The International Monetary Fund said it raised Sri Lanka’s growth target and is “cautiously positive” on prospects as it reviews the island’s economy for the release of a second payment in its $2.6 billion aid package.
  • ‘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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