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  • Senior Sri Lankan officer provides evidence of war crimes

    Jun 29
    Tamils Against Genocide, a US-based activist group has obtained a 100-page long sworn affidavit from a senior commander of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) who has fled Sri Lanka seeking asylum for himself and his family. The affidavit details many war crimes carried out by the SLA in the closing stages of the island’s war last year.
  • After roaming oceans and continents, Sri Lankan Tamils find home in Oakland
    They were jailed in Indonesia, stranded in Romania and rescued by Australia off the coast of Sumatra, all in the last eight months.
  • U.N. wants economic recovery for north
    With thousands of war affected civilians still without livelihood and an economy still reeling from the aftermath of a decades-long conflict in Sri Lanka’s northern region, plans should be in place to revive local economies and jobs, says a top United Nations official.
  • Tamil Brahmi inscription found in Tissamaharama
    An early historic inscription in Tamil language and in Tamil Brahmi script, dateable to c.200 BCE, has been found in the archaeological excavations by a German team at Tissamaharama in the south of the island of Sri Lanka.
  • Sri Lanka amongst challenges to 'never again' myth - Annan

    The cry of “never again,” raised by so many in the years after the end of the Holocaust 1945, has rung increasingly hollow with the passing decades, Kofi Annan, former secretary general of the United Nations, protested in an op-ed Friday in the International Herald Tribune.

  • ADB to repair Sri Lanka roads
    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing Sri Lanka with financial assistance to rehabilitate roads in the conflict-affected northern region, which will help spur inclusive growth and new economic opportunities in one of the poorest regions in the country.
  • Sri Lanka dismiss EU conditions for GSP+ extension
    Sri Lanka has refused to comply with European Union conditions for the extending of GSP+ trade concessions, calling them ‘insulting’.
  • Colombo schemes Sinhalicised capital for North
    Similar to the Sinhalicisation of Trincomalee, the capital of the East, Colombo plans for a new, Sinhalicised capital for the North at Kilinochchi, administrative sources working for Colombo on the project said.
  • Dismantling Sinhala Utopia
    Global liberalism confronts Sri Lanka’s ethnocracy.
  • UN chief appoints war crimes panel on Sri Lanka
    Despite Sri Lanka’s vehement objections, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has appointed a trio of international experts to examine reports of widespread war crimes during Sri Lanka’s war against the Liberation Tigers.
  • Britain in Jaffna
    Britain must play its role in re-establishing the Tamil homeland’s connections to the world.
  • ‘Kill everybody!’ order came from the top – SLA officer
    Executions of Tamil civilians and surrendered LTTE fighters and their families were carried out under orders ‘from the top’, Sri Lankan Army soldiers have claimed.
  • Friends like these
    The Sri Lanka option: The rush to learn lessons from the obliteration of the Tamil Tigers
  • Sri Lanka dismisses war crimes charges
    The Sri Lankan government has issued furious denials against allegations of war crimes committed by their forces during the final phase of the war last year.
  • Stranglehold
    Sri Lanka will strive to keep the Tamil homeland marginalised.
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