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Jaffna yet to over come trauma of war
[ Millinium Post ] [ 07 Sep 2017 00:57 GMT ]
Kumaratunga believes this is a 'golden opportunity' for Sri Lanka to address the Tamil question, for both the major parties of the country are in government together.
[Full Story]
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'Fearless' Indian journalist shot dead
[ BBC ] [ 05 Sep 2017 23:45 GMT ]
The Editors Guild of India released a statement calling her murder an 'ominous portent for dissent in democracy and a brutal assault on the freedom of the press'.
[Full Story]
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The Killing Fields
[ Modern Farmer ] [ 12 Aug 2017 00:09 GMT ]
A mysterious kidney disease afflicts an estimated 400,000 people in the province, representing about a third of its population.
[Full Story]
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GATHERING EVIDENCE - UNSTOPPED
[ ITJP ] [ 17 July 2017 03:32 GMT ]
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has made it clear another domestic mechanism will not have the trust of victims after so many have failed to deliver justice.
[Full Report]
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Sri Lanka’s Difficulty With Truth
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 14 July 2017 03:05 GMT ]
Foreign governments watching Sri Lanka’s progress on the resolution need to ask tough questions about why yet another Sri Lankan Government report is banished into silence.
[Full Story]
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Changing perceptions in South Asia
[ The Kathmandu Post ] [ 25 Jun 2017 02:27 GMT ]
Countries in South Asia seem to be embroiled in a never-ending display of confusion, suspicion, misconception and a lack of understanding about each other.
[Full Story]
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Limits of exclusivism
[ The Hindu ] [ 23 Jun 2017 03:05 GMT ]
The Centre also aggravates the dire state of the Tamil community with a terribly flawed reconstruction programme, with no meaningful investment in the local economy or job creation.
[Full Story]
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Sri Lanka’s elusive housing logic
[ The Hindu ] [ 17 Jun 2017 01:25 GMT ]
Activists and a section of northern residents are worried that the proposal to build steel homes will neither regenerate local economy nor employ local labour in the war-torn areas.
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The cost of a cup of tea
[ Church Times ] [ 16 Jun 2017 03:55 GMT ]
'Tea-pickers are considered the lowest of the low, despite being the backbone of the Sri Lankan economy,'
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Sri Lanka’s missing people
[ The Daily Star ] [ 27 May 2017 04:44 GMT ]
As many as 65,000 people, mostly from the ethnic Tamil minority, are still missing in the country.
[Full Story]
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Sri Lanka's Transition to Nowhere
[ International Crisis Group ] [ 17 May 2017 01:25 GMT ]
If current dynamics continue, the country will likely lose a real opportunity to address the roots of its decades of political turmoil. The chances of an eventual return to violence would then grow considerably.
[Full Report]
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Upcountry Tamils set to welcome Modi
[ The Hindu ] [ 11 May 2017 01:02 GMT ]
Senior upcountry leaders deemed the Prime Minister's visit 'historic', after Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru's visits in the pre-Independence era.
[Full Story]
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Feasting on Tamil performing arts
[ The Jakarta Post ] [ 27 Apr 2017 02:45 GMT ]
The event is an annual signature event organized by ITS to showcase cuisine, traditional games and performing arts from the Tamil-speaking community.
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Bend It Like Granny
[ BBC ] [ 26 Apr 2017 00:10 GMT ]
Nanammal is 98 years old and an expert yoga instructor from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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SRI LANKA: 'ONLY JUSTICE CAN HEAL OUR WOUNDS'
[ Amnesty International ] [ 19 Apr 2017 01:05 GMT ]
Amnesty International urges Sri Lanka to seek and accept international assistance where it is needed to ensure the most effective and rigorous process possible, so that all Sri Lankans can finally learn the truth.
[Full Story PDF]
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Sri Lanka’s slow dance on transitional justice
[ Lowy Institute for International Policy ] [ 15 Apr 2017 01:53 GMT ]
The suppression of Tamil rights in a range of areas – including language, education, employment and land – led to the rise of Tamil militancy in the 1970s.
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Why Sri Lanka's past refuses to be forgotten
[ Amnesty International ] [ 09 Apr 2017 03:02 GMT ]
They must commit to a public timeline in order to restore the people’s confidence that justice is on track and assure them that they are serious about taking action.
[Full Story]
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Whither human rights in Sri Lanka?
[ The Hindu ] [ 28 Mar 2017 20:17 GMT ]
The state is at the core of the historical problems, whether it is repressive militarisation, the reinforcement of majoritarian interests or the centralisation of state power in Colombo.
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Martin McGuinness 'was freedom fighter, not terrorist'
[ BBC ] [ 24 Mar 2017 00:05 GMT ]
'We spent a lot of time together when I was President and I wanted to honour him for what he did, for changing from war to peace and to emphasise that, its' one thing to make a peace, another thing to make it work and that's an endless process' - President Clinton.
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Sri Lanka: Ballot Vs Bullet
[ SL Guardian ] [ 20 Mar 2017 05:11 GMT ]
It is the mode and the manner of Governance that decides the Choice between the Ballot and the Bullet.
[Full Story]
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Sri Lanka: Many misunderstood our advocacy
[ SL Guardian ] [ 16 Mar 2017 05:47 GMT ]
Former President Chandrika, whom I earlier criticised for her 'War for Peace' as now having the potential to become the mother of a united rainbow nation of three ethnic groups and four religions.
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Return land, restore dignity
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 14 Mar 2017 06:22 GMT ]
Forcible appropriation of land not only attacks the socio-economic well-being and livelihoods of the people to whom it belongs.
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Editorial: Elusive reconciliation
[ The Hindu ] [ 08 Mar 2017 02:02 GMT ]
The Sirisena-Wikremesinghe government should seize the moment and start addressing the core issues, keeping reconciliation and the future of Sri Lanka in mind.
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Sri Lanka: UN Human Rights Council
[ UK PARLIAMENT ] [ 03 Mar 2017 02:07 GMT ]
Many of the key promises made by the Government of Sri Lanka in 2015 - justice, accountability, human rights protections, reconciliation - have not been fulfilled.
[Full Story]
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Key elements for a follow-up resolution on Sri Lanka
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 27 Feb 2017 05:17 GMT ]
Anything less would fall substantially short of the expectations of victims, and risk undermining faith in the process long before the promises of reconciliation, justice and reform have been translated into reality.
[Full Story]
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Are Tamil leaders losing patience?
[ The Hindu ] [ 25 Feb 2017 01:24 GMT ]
The tone and content of his address, moving an adjournment motion, signalled a possible shift in the Tamil leader's engagement with the government.
[Full Story]
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Sri Lanka's constitution making process is in the doldrums
[ The New Indian Express] [ 18 Feb 2017 02:44 GMT ]
Samaraweera said that priority will be given to drafting a new constitution because the new constitution will be the ultimate guarantor of equality, justice, and non-recurrences of the ugly inter-ethnic incidents of the past.
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Sustained Concerns About Torture in Sri Lanka
[ The Huffington Post ] [ 17 Feb 2017 04:14 GMT ]
The obligation to prevent torture is that of the state; if they don’t tackle institutional reform and security sector reform seriously then the international community must start to put them on terms.'
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Treasures of the Indus - Of Gods and Men
[ BBC iPlayer ] [ 13 Feb 2017 01:02 GMT ]
In a journey across the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Sona Datta traces the development of the Hindu religion from its origins as an amalgamation of local faith traditions to its dominant position today.
[Full Story]
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Lankan Tamils want a political settlement
[ Daily News & Analysis ] [ 12 Feb 2017 02:25 GMT ]
Wigneswaran alleged that President Maithripala Sirisena had misled the opposition and Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R Sampanthan by not settling the Tamil question as pledged by him in 2016.
[Full Story]
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Maithripala Sirisena And Sri Lanka's False Dawn
[ Forbes ] [ 04 Feb 2017 00:33 GMT ]
The transitional justice process has been marred by opacity, an absence of leadership, a lack of inclusivity and a reneging of previous commitments pertaining to robust international participation.
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SRI LANKA: REFUSING TO DISAPPEAR
[ Amnesty International ] [ 31 Jan 2017 00:03 GMT ]
Until parents, wives, siblings, and children know the truth about the fate of a missing family member, they can find it almost impossible to seek justice and reparation for crimes they have suffered.
[Full Report PDF]
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Sri Lanka: Justice is paramount
[ SL Guardian ] [ 27 Jan 2017 03:11 GMT ]
With a backlog of over 100,000 alleged enforced disappearances since the late 1980s, there is no shortage of examples of frustrated justice.
[Full Story]
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Why did no one see the bull hit?
[ The Tribune ] [ 26 Jan 2017 04:28 GMT ]
Many believe that one of the images unearthed during excavations of the Indus Valley civilization is an image of a person fighting a bull during Jallikattu.
[Full Story]
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Sri Lanka braces for trouble ahead
[ The Manila Times ] [ 21 Jan 2017 15:02 GMT ]
Signs of growing grassroots opposition to the central government are cropping up in Tamil areas, mostly in response to the enduring presence of Sri Lankan forces there and their continued occupation of land.
[Full Story]
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Sri Lanka: Adopt Task Force's Justice Proposals
[ Human Right Watch ] [ 12 Jan 2017 01:55 GMT ]
The government should recognize that its commitments were not only to concerned governments in Geneva, but to its own citizens seeking justice and reconciliation after a terrible war.'
[Full Story]
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Time for a political solution
[ The Hindu ] [ 11 Jan 2017 01:00 GMT ]
For lakhs of Tamils still struggling to rebuild their lives since the island's brutal war that ended seven years ago, the wait has been long and painful.
[Full Story]
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