The US-tabled resolution at UNHRC, based on the fundamentally flawed LLRC recommendations, is extremely disappointing and counter-productive, said Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, leader of Tamil National Peoples’ Front (TNPF), in a press meet held at the party office in Jaffna on Saturday. The resolution envisages an accused in the violation of international humanitarian law to become the… Continue reading LLRC-based resolution extremely disappointing: Gajendrakumar
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Should England’s cricket team tour Sri Lanka? – Channel 4 News
As England’s cricket team sets off for Sri Lanka, Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben De Pear asks whether the tour should be going ahead given the country’s human rights record? Andy Flower has departed for Sri Lanka today as manager of an England team reeling after a test whitewash in the UAE to Pakistan… Continue reading Should England’s cricket team tour Sri Lanka? – Channel 4 News
Sri Lankan human rights groups and victims of abuses decided not to attend UNHRC out of fear – HRW
Ms. Julie de Rivero, Human Rights Watch, Item 2: General Debate – Thematic reports of the Secretary-General and High Commissioner for Human Rights, 15th meeting 19th Session of the Human Rights Council. Thank you Madame President, In her statement, the High Commissioner noted that the report of the Sri Lanka Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission… Continue reading Sri Lankan human rights groups and victims of abuses decided not to attend UNHRC out of fear – HRW
Sri Lanka slams UNHRC (VIDEO)
Sri Lanka, on Friday, came down hard on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay saying neither had the authority to demand a debate on the report of the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) or the report of the UN panel of experts. Sri Lanka’s… Continue reading Sri Lanka slams UNHRC (VIDEO)
Webcast: Sri Lanka, 2nd meeting of 19th Session, Human Rights Council, 2012
Mahinda Samarasinghe, Minister of Plantation Industries and Special Envoy of the President on Human Rights, Sri Lanka – High level Segment, 2nd Plenary Meeting – 19th Session of the Human Rights Council. Running time: 00:18:56 [Full Coverage]
LIVE: Webcast of UNHRC 19th session
Live webcast of the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.
Alleged War Criminal Silva of Sri Lanka Is At UN Adviser Meeting, "Doesn’t Speak," Statement Promised
Twenty six days ago Inner City Press began asking the UN and then various countries’ missions to the UN how they could accept as a member of the UN "Senior Advisory Group on Peacekeeping Operations" General Shavendra Silva, whose Division 58 is repeatedly named in connection with war crimes in Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s Panel… Continue reading Alleged War Criminal Silva of Sri Lanka Is At UN Adviser Meeting, "Doesn’t Speak," Statement Promised
Build capacity when regime tries to take away all capacity: Prof Gene Sharp
In an exclusive interview to TamilNet on Friday in Oslo, Dr. Gene Sharp, Emeritus Professor of Political Science of the University of Massachusetts, provided some insights on non-violent strategies to be pursued by nations against states and powers that deny them their legitimate rights. “They have to build up some capacity for strength when the… Continue reading Build capacity when regime tries to take away all capacity: Prof Gene Sharp
STF killed Trinco students, Basil Rajapakse told Blake
In a classified memo written by US’s Sri Lanka Ambassador Robert Blake in October 2006 to Washington, ten months after the extra-judicial execution of five students at a Trincomalee beach, Basil Rajapakse, advisor to Sri Lanka’s President and brother Rajapakse, had told Ambassador Blake that Special Task Force (STF) was responsible for the killings, according… Continue reading STF killed Trinco students, Basil Rajapakse told Blake
Sri Lanka worries over US Iran action
The US has started to enforce its sanctions on Iran. That’s likely to have knock-on effects on many countries that depend on Iran for oil. One of the most vulnerable in this regard is Sri Lanka, as the BBC’s Charles Haviland explains from its capital, Colombo. [Full Coverage]