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Sri Lanka and the United States
[ Sangam ] [ 09 May 2012 01:35 GMT ]
The political benefits of economic development will be much stronger if it is supplemented by concrete moves toward addressing war-related grievances and political integration.
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UNHCR Global Appeal 2012-2013
[ UNHCR ] [ 23 Apr 2012 02:22 GMT ]
Some IDPs,mainly in the Jaffna and Vavuniya districts in northern Sri Lanka, are still unable to return home even after their
lengthy displacement.
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Lost kingdoms
[ Financial Times ] [ 13 Apr 2012 01:25 GMT ]
The kingdom of Jaffna was destroyed by the Portuguese in 1621 and today the country is a republic.
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Lessons to learn from Geneva
[ The Hindu ] [ 08 Apr 2012 01:33 GMT ]
Unless it makes a genuine attempt to reach out to the Tamil political leadership and people, the international community will continue to look unfavourably at it.
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Cricket Amid War Crimes Unpunished
[ Channel4 ] [ 01 Apr 2012 01:55 GMT ]
There is a bad light that stopped play altogether – play amongst the children women and men who died in the closing weeks of Sri Lanka’s civil war.
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Sri Lanka needs to change says diplomat
[ BBC ] [ 29 Mar 2012 01:09 GMT ]
Sri Lanka should take the resolution passed by UNHCR seriously because that would not be the end and those countries which brought it may push it through in the future.
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Betraying Tamils
[ Deccan Herald ] [ 26 Mar 2012 02:24 GMT ]
Delhi refused to use the power of Indian diplomacy to eliminate the reasons that had led to the Lanka civil war.
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A wake up call for Colombo
[ The Hindu ] [ 23 Mar 2012 02:04 GMT ]
Thursday's resolution is the first real sign that the world will no more let itself be guided solely by Sri Lankan claims.
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Resolution of the Sri Lanka conflict
[ The Guardian UK ] [ 21 Mar 2012 01:38 GMT ]
The militarisation of the Tamil majority areas in the north of the island, and the curtailment of their economic, political and social rights, continues to increase tensions between already polarised communities and undermines prospects for peace.
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U.N. Panel Seeks Vote on Carnage in Sri Lanka
[ The New York Times ] [ 20 Mar 2012 00:02 GMT ]
Sri Lankan nongovernmental organizations have complained of intimidation by Sri Lankan delegates photographing their members even inside the human rights council chambers.
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Sri Lanka’s North I: The Denial of Minority Rights
[ International Crisis Group ] [ 17 Mar 2012 00:32 GMT ]
The slow but undeniable movement of Sinhala settlers into the fringes of the north and other forms of government-supported “Sinhalisation” are reigniting a sense of grievance and weakening chances for a real settlement.
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Sri Lanka's Killing Fields
[ The Huffington Post ] [ 14 Mar 2012 01:24 GMT ]
Around the world a generation of Tamil youth are burning with anger. If the world does not take action to find the truth and make the perpetrators face justice, that anger may find its expression in a tragic, awful, repetition of history.
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India’s Sri Lanka Policy Under Fire
[ The Wall Street Journal ] [ 13 Mar 2012 08:44 GMT ]
The issue disrupted Parliament on Tuesday as Indian lawmakers from the south, which has a large Tamil population, criticized New Delhi’s failure to pressure Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka: A child is summarily executed
[ The Independent UK ] [ 11 Mar 2012 12:35 GMT ]
Amnesty International's Asia director, Sam Zafiri, is in no doubt that the operation was deliberate - and illegal: "International law bans medieval sieges - you can't subject a population to hunger, famine or plague as a means of military victory."
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Sri Lanka against itself
[ The Hindu ] [ 05 Mar 2012 01:47 GMT ]
Sri Lanka must realise that its own interests require it urgently to address these twin bases of national reconciliation.
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Revisiting Sri Lanka's Bloody War
[ The New York Times ] [ 03 Mar 2012 00:02 GMT ]
The international community must now assume its duty to ensure that Sri Lanka fulfills its responsibilities to all its people and to the rest of the world.
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The Resettlement Report
[ TNA ] [ 20 Feb 2012 01:25 GMT ]
This report provides an overview of the return or resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who were displaced during the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka.
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Helpers in a hostile world: the risk of aid work grows
[ The Christian Science Monitor ] [ 11 Feb 2012 00:25 GMT ]
Local MSF staff made judgment calls, at times deciding to overlook a government's inhumane actions – such as the aerial bombing of civilian areas in Yemen in 2009 or the shelling of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in 2009.
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War crimes in Sri Lanka
[ Dawn ] [ 10 Feb 2012 07:05 GMT ]
Human rights groups now want an independent investigation, arguing that accountability is a requirement under international law, not an optional extra.
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TNA Response to the LLRC Report
[ TNA ] [ 16 Jan 2012 01:24 GMT ]
The TNA therefore calls on the international community to acknowledge the consistent failure of
domestic accountability mechanisms in Sri Lanka and take steps to establish an international
mechanism for accountability.
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Sri Lanka’s Ghosts of War
[ The New York Times ] [ 31 Dec 2011 00:42 GMT ]
The government says there are too many land mines to allow resettlement; critics say there are too many bodies in mass graves.
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No holds barred
[ The Hindu ] [ 30 Dec 2011 00:31 GMT ]
She has constantly taken the side of the oppressed, fought the system, gone against the tide.
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The Peace Dividend
[ The Pioneer ] [ 09 Dec 2011 00:41 GMT ]
It would be unforgivable if New Delhi abandoned its quest for devolution of power to the Sri Lankan Tamils.
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Losing clout in Colombo
[ Economic Times ] [ 08 Dec 2011 00:02 GMT ]
India has steadily lost its clout in Sri Lanka by default and as elsewhere getting lost in a tunnel.
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