The Sri Lankan government has imposed an indefinite curfew in a popular tourist area after a group of Buddhists killed three muslims and injured dozens of others. President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government is accused of doing little to prevent this latest violence. It is said to have encouraged the rise of the Bodu Bana Sena, the… Continue reading Who is behind Sri Lanka’s religious violence? – Inside Story
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Peace Studies philosopher advises Tamils to tell the story with a vision
“Let us say you have one million Tamils in the Tamil diaspora. They used to collect money for the LTTE. They collected a lot of money. Let me put it in very plain simple terms: these one million work on the media of the world and make the story better known,” said 84-year old Peace… Continue reading Peace Studies philosopher advises Tamils to tell the story with a vision
UN wants cooperation despite Colombo’s rejection of Geneva resolution: ICP
Having Sri Lanka’s genocidal military commander Major General Shavendra Silva as an adviser to UN Peacekeeping and giving more significance to Syria and North Korea than to the crimes Sri Lanka, the United Nations Secretary General and officials under him are encouraging Sri Lanka to work with the UN Human Rights Council’s mechanisms in Geneva… Continue reading UN wants cooperation despite Colombo’s rejection of Geneva resolution: ICP
‘Victory for Sri Lankan people’: UN to probe ‘war crimes’ – Channel 4 News
The United Nations is to launch an investigation into alleged war crimes and continuing human rights violations in Sri Lanka. Five years after the island’s 26-year-long civil war ended, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva has voted in favour of a US and UK-led resolution mandating the office of the UN High Commissioner for… Continue reading ‘Victory for Sri Lankan people’: UN to probe ‘war crimes’ – Channel 4 News
Guruparan addresses de-Tamilization, dichotomization in Geneva narrative
“Unless we take a critical stance in terms of what is happening in Geneva and unless we move away from the approach that all roads lead to Geneva in terms of how Tamil problems are going to be looked at, we are not going to identify the alternatives,” Tamil civil society activist and Jaffna University… Continue reading Guruparan addresses de-Tamilization, dichotomization in Geneva narrative
UK long blighted cause of Eezham Tamils, contributed to genocide
“The UK’s permanent representative at the United Nations, a man called Sir John Sawers, who was at that time the permanent representative to the UN, stopped any Security Council discussion about the crisis in Sri Lanka in February 2009. This was the exact point, as we know very well from the Petrie Report that the… Continue reading UK long blighted cause of Eezham Tamils, contributed to genocide
Risking even their lives, Tamils demand international investigations: Mannaar Bishop
The rulers of the Sri Lankan State are not prepared to come to light; they continue with their activities in darkness. They are capable of telling bigger lies than Satan’s biggest lies, said Rt. Rev. Dr. Rayappu Joseph, the Catholic Bishop of Mannaar, taking part at a peaceful rally in Mannaar on Friday. Even the… Continue reading Risking even their lives, Tamils demand international investigations: Mannaar Bishop
Geneva press conference to discuss nature of US resolution
Civil society activists and Tamil politicians from the homeland join together with Diaspora activists and exiled journalists to look into the question whether the US draft resolution being framed at the Human Rights Council would be a part of the solution or part of the problem in bringing a solution to the 60-year-old genocide of… Continue reading Geneva press conference to discuss nature of US resolution
Genocidal Sri Lanka sends message to children and families voicing for their missing
The occupying Sri Lanka Army arrested a 13-year-old girl and her 48-year-old mother, the only remaining female members of a family that has lost three men in the war, two of them died in the war and the last one missing after he surrendered to the Sri Lanka Army at the end of war in… Continue reading Genocidal Sri Lanka sends message to children and families voicing for their missing
SLA sets arrest of teen girl and mother figured in British PM’s visit to Jaffna
The occupying Sri Lankan military in Ki’linochchi has arrested a 13-year-old girl and her 48-year-old mother, sending shock waves across the entire Tamil nation on Thursday. The girl, Vipooshika Balendren has become a symbol of young children seeking the whereabouts of their family members, as she used to attend the peaceful protests crying in search… Continue reading SLA sets arrest of teen girl and mother figured in British PM’s visit to Jaffna