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Sri Lankan families remember missing lovers
[ UCA ] [ 15 Feb 2019 01:05 GMT ]
Several Catholic priests were killed or went missing during the 26-year war that ended in 2009. Rights groups say up to 40,000 civilians were killed and thousands disappeared.
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He never came home
[ Sri Lanka Campaign ] [ 10 Feb 2019 01:07 GMT ]
Prageeth Eknaligoda was an outspoken critic of the government of Sri Lanka.
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The Puzzle of Proto-Elamite
[ History Today ] [ 03 Feb 2019 01:06 GMT ]
Linguists believe Elamite to be related to the Dravidian languages of South India, which include Tamil, and an Elamo-Dravidian family stretching from the Gulf to India could include the language of the Harappan civilisation in the Indus Valley.
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History of Elam
[ Time Maps ] [ 02 Feb 2019 02:11 GMT ]
The south-west corner of Iran was known in the ancient world as Elam.
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Ancient Tamil People of India
[ Google Books ] [ 28 Jan 2019 00:02 GMT ]
The Tamil people of southern India played an important role in formation and development of early coastal states of Malay peninsula.
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Constitutional reform in Sri Lanka
[ Asia Times ] [ 26 Jan 2019 02:11 GMT ]
The international political struggle to establish an autonomous Tamil state in the Northern and Eastern Provinces continues unabated.
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Will Human Rights turn around in 2019?
[ Amnesty International ] [ 25 Jan 2019 00:34 GMT ]
2018 has been a difficult year for human rights in South Asia. Crackdowns on the Right to Freedom of Expression intensified across the region.
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Sri Lanka: Political Crisis Threatens Justice Efforts
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 17 Jan 2019 18:38 GMT ]
Sri Lanka's political upheaval undermined stalled processes aimed at providing truth and justice for abuses from the country's civil war, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2019.
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Sri Lankan tea workers demand wage increase
[ UCA News ] [ 16 Jan 2019 20:05 GMT ]
'As daily drinkers of tea, we must stand up for the rights of tea workers and support their immediate struggle for a living wage and humane working conditions,' she said.
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Counting the Dead
[ ITJP ] [ 13 Jan 2019 00:42 GMT ]
The ITJP and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group are initiating a worldwide movement to list, name and count the dead from the war in Sri Lanka.
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Kumar Ponnambalam remembered 19 years on
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 07 Jan 2019 00:02 GMT ]
Human rights lawyer and former leader of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC), Kumar Ponnambalam, was remembered today in Jaffna and Batticaloa, 19 years after his assassination in Colombo.
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Some stark reminders for Sri Lanka's east
[ The Hindu ] [ 05 Jan 2019 02:49 GMT ]
Fr. Miller's passing on New Year's day brought to focus his untiring work in Batticaloa for 70 years, and the many distressing episodes he recorded during that time.
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Iravatham Mahadevan Passes Away
[ Harappa ] [ 31 Dec 2018 01:20 GMT ]
India's leading expert on the Indus script, and Padmashri award winner (2009), sadly passed away on Monday in Chennai. He was 89.
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The second freedom struggle (III)
[ FT ] [ 28 Dec 2018 01:32 GMT ]
What the country needs today is not a superficial or deceptive change, but a true change that could effect a wholesome and far-reaching transformation in the overall picture of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka story may not end happily
[ The Pioneer ] [ 26 Dec 2018 00:45 GMT ]
An encouraging outcome, in which Parliament, the courts and the general public behaved better than anybody expected, but of course the story is never really over.
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The Queen's Christmas message
[ BBC ] [ 25 Dec 2018 15:55 GMT ]
The Queen has said the Christian message of 'peace on earth and goodwill to all' is 'needed as much as ever', in her Christmas Day broadcast.'
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Were there more than Three Kings?
[ BBC ] [ 24 Dec 2018 00:24 GMT ]
Just over 2,000 years ago an auspicious star appeared in the night sky. Twelve kings from the East gathered here at Hah. A select three went on to Bethlehem bearing gifts to greet the newborn Christ.'
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Sampanthan more a Statesman
[ Ceylon Today ] [ 22 Dec 2018 23:58 GMT ]
R. Sampanthan he would go down in history as the saviour of democracy and the Parliamentary system in the country.
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Editorial - End Sri Lanka's crisis
[ The Hindu ] [ 15 Dec 2018 02:14 GMT ]
The President's credibility has taken yet another beating after the Supreme Court ruled categorically that his dissolution of Parliament on November 9 was illegal and void.
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Colombo's perceptions
[ The Hindu ] [ 07 Dec 2018 00:55 GMT ]
India encounters a range of reactions in Sri Lanka: appreciation, support, suspicion and opposition.
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Many Kinds of Guilt
[ India Today ] [ 02 Dec 2018 03:26 GMT ]
Can you still see your own life as one full of happiness even after all these traumatic events?'
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Sri Lanka -- democracy in danger
[ Nikkei ] [ 12 Nov 2018 15:55 GMT ]
The current crisis, however, should not obscure the country's fundamental challenges in relation to ethnic reconciliation, human rights, justice and economic stability.
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Mahinda Rajapaksa: Return of Sri Lanka's wartime strongman
[ BBC ] [ 10 Nov 2018 02:58 GMT ]
The UN's human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said it laid bare grave crimes committed by both sides, including indiscriminate shelling, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, harrowing accounts of torture and sexual violence, and the forced recruitment of children.
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PM's 'sacking' leaves Sri Lanka in turmoil
[ BBC ] [ 26 Oct 2018 18:49 GMT ]
Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has named his predecessor, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the country's new prime minister after the collapse of the governing coalition.
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Sri Lanka: Amend Counterterrorism Bill
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 22 Oct 2018 01:15 GMT ]
The Attorney General's Office should review all PTA prosecutions that are tainted by credible evidence of torture or other abuse and provide redress for violations.
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The Struggle for Justice
[ GroundViews ] [ 18 Oct 2018 22:44 GMT ]
The real indicator of learning about human rights will be from what you do to prevent violations, fight against them, and support the struggles of survivors, victim families and affected communities.
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Sri Lanka: Government Slow to Return Land
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 13 Oct 2018 01:08 GMT ]
The government has adopted an arbitrary, piecemeal approach to land returns, which is fomenting deep distrust among communities wary that the military is still in charge,' Ganguly said.
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Sri Lanka arrests MP for hailing defeated Tamil rebels
[ Straits Times ] [ 08 Oct 2018 20:02 GMT ]
Ms Maheswaran, who represents Jaffna, the capital of the country's minority Tamils, said there was less violence against women and children in areas controlled by the Tigers before they were crushed in May 2009.
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War 'bombshell' backfires on Sri Lanka President
[ AFP ] [ 29 Sep 2018 02:52 GMT ]
While addressing the UN general assembly, Sirisena had asked the world body to leave his country alone to address accountability issues arising from the alleged atrocities in the final months of the war.
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Editorial: Veering backwards
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 28 Sep 2018 20:33 GMT ]
The international community's premature leap into overt engagement has failed to produce sufficient action, and more dangerously, it signals that Sri Lanka's culture of impunity can continue unbridled, with no material consequences internationally.
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How war remembers women and their sacrifice
[ Livemint ] [ 27 Sep 2018 23:49 GMT ]
The story of Devanayaki ranges over Kerala and Tamil Nadu, deep into Ceylon, and even as far as Cambodia and Indonesia: it draws on the vast and gorgeous expanse of Sangam-era imagination.
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Transitional justice Efforts in Sri Lanka Fall Short
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 21 Sep 2018 02:00 GMT ]
To give the Sri Lankan government a further chance to make real progress, the council should insist upon clear, time-bound benchmarks and a monitoring framework. The victims of abuses await justice.
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At last, Delhi asks Rajapaksa for a dance
[ Asian Age ] [ 19 Sep 2018 02:39 GMT ]
And with no LTTE, no separatist sentiment in Sri Lanka and a radically diminished role in New Delhi, shrillness across the Palk Strait in Tamil Nadu too has dwindled.
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Sri Lanka seeks UN reprieve over war crimes probe
[ Daily Mail UK ] [ 14 Sep 2018 14:02 GMT ]
Sri Lanka's president said Friday that he wants the United Nations to drop its demand for state accountability over the alleged killing of some 40,000 Tamil civilians by government forces during a brutal civil war.
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Caritas helps Sri Lankan war victims stand alone
[ La Croix International ] [ 13 Sep 2018 23:57 GMT ]
Sakthivel, a Hindu, appreciates the invaluable assistance rendered by Caritas, which is celebrating 50 years of service in Sri Lanka. "They made a difference to my whole life,"
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Staring at an uncertain future
[ The Hindu ] [ 10 Sep 2018 23:10 GMT ]
Experts familiar with the case say that the possibilities of 'local assimilation' and 'third country resettlement' exist in respect of the four.
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The key moments in John McCain's life
[ BBC ] [ 26 Aug 2018 08:57 GMT ]
He mounted an anti-establishment presidential campaign that presaged the anger and longing for authenticity that would later sweep through US politics.
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Yazidi Genocide, the Urgent Need for Prosecution
[ International Policy Digest ] [ 23 Aug 2018 02:31 GMT ]
As someone who comes from a genocide victim community and seeking justice for the 146,679 unaccounted Tamils, I understand the pain and agony of the Yazidis over the past many centuries.
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The tempest in your tea cup
[ Himal Southasian ] [ 22 Aug 2018 00:01 GMT ]
Seven decades after Independence, the past and present-day contribution of Sri Lanka's Indian-origin Tamil in building and sustaining an industry, remains unacknowledged and inadequately recompensed.
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Sri Lanka failing on human rights
[ LOWY INTERPRETER ] [ 02 Aug 2018 02:25 GMT ]
Sri Lanka's ethnic tensions remain predictably grim nearly a decade since the end of the country's brutal 26-year civil war.
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Losing Santhia - Part Two
[ Red Flag ] [ 31 Jul 2018 00:41 GMT ]
Santhia's life was extraordinary yet common; her fate bound to the decades-long national liberation struggle of the Tamils.
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Sri Lanka: excavations at mass grave
[ Intl Commission on Missing Persons ] [ 14 Jul 2018 00:05 GMT ]
Anti-disappearance activists and local human rights lawyers believe the grave contains bodies of Tamils allegedly abducted, tortured and killed.
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Kongu epic now Tamil lesson for kids in Canada
[ Times of India ] [ 11 Jul 2018 00:45 GMT ]
An adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, Beck realized the epic with its social and cultural implications would be an apt as a lesson for young Tamil speaking students in Toronto.
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At land's end, remains of a revolution
[ The Times of India ] [ 02 Jul 2018 05:11 GMT ]
Bordered by the blue sea, the fishing village with its unpretentious houses and uncluttered routine had a slice of Sri Lanka's Tamil Eelam war buried on its shores.
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How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port
[ The New York Times ] [ 27 Jun 2018 3:09 GMT ]
The relationship between China and Sri Lanka had long been amicable, with Sri Lanka an early recognizer of Mao's Communist government after the Chinese Revolution.
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Time to heal Sri Lanka's wounds
[ La Croix International ] [ 23 Jun 2018 02:27 GMT ]
Anyone who spoke of peace and reconciliation was considered part of an anti-national movement sympathizing with separatist groups.
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Human Rights Concerns in Sri Lanka
[ Foreign Affairs Committee ] [ 20 Jun 2018 21:05 GMT ]
It is imperative for Congress to exercise leadership on this issue and ensure that a country as strategically located as Sri Lanka doesn't collapse again.'
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Whither reconciliation?
[ Deccan Herald ] [ 15 Jun 2018 03:04 GMT ]
A decade down the line, attempts to find a long-term settlement for the ethnic issue have been cosmetic, largely under pressure from the international community.
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Threatened Sri Lankan priest wins rights prize
[ UCA News ] [ 13 Jun 2018 02:22 GMT ]
He visits police stations and army camps seeking justice, including for the loved ones of ethnic Tamils who disappeared after being taken into military custody during the nation's 1983-2009 civil war.
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Fear of the abaya
[ The Hindu ] [ 12 Jun 2018 00:55 GMT ]
If the two minorities can't stand in solidarity with each other, then the future of the individuals in either community would remain bleak.
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The Plight of Widows
[ Eventbrite ] [ 09 Jun 2018 03:19 GMT ]
There are an estimated 245 million widows worldwide, with almost 50% living in poverty and suffering from social stigmatisation and economic depravation.
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TNA deserves a positive response
[ Observer Research Foundation ] [ 06 Jun 2018 01:59 GMT ]
The TNA will need visible and specific powers that the Tamil people are able to touch and feel in their time, if the duo want whatever votes that the TNA can muster for them in a future presidential poll.
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King-sized game
[ The Hindu ] [ 02 Jun 2018 00:12 GMT ]
All about moves - A chess board used by the last Tamil ruler of Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka Sri Vikrama Rajasingha on display at the Government Museum in Vellore.
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Don't Rehabilitate Sri Lanka's Tarnished Military
[ International Policy Digest ] [ 22 May 2018 03:01 GMT ]
Pervasive militarization and the concomitant lack of accountability for past abuses has ensured that human rights violations in the country's north and east remain widespread.
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Remembrance, Resistance and Resilience
[ Pearl ] [ 20 May 2018 02:08 GMT ]
The Tamil people remember, and resist. Nine years after the most calamitous day in Eelam Tamil history, the nation's resilience is nothing short of remarkable.
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