No right to be there - Desmond Tutu
[ The Guardian UK ] [ 16 May 2008 09:06 GMT ]
With a terrible record of torture and disappearance, Sri Lanka doesn't deserve a seat on the UN human rights council. It should be voted out
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Geopolitics shape Sri Lanka’s conflict - study
[ TamilNet ] [ 12 May 2008 08:57 GMT ]
In this context, “the assurance needs to be given that the self-governing Tamil entity in North- Eastern Sri Lanka, which is essential if there is going to be any political settlement to the conflict, is likely to be an entity friendly to India.”
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BOOK: The Charge is Genocide - the Struggle is for Freedom
[ Tamil Nation ] [ 09 May 2008 07:12 GMT ]
Sinhala Buddhist 'ethno nationalism' masquerading as a 'civic' Sri Lankan nation is the genocidal side of democracy. The conflict in the island is about the refusal of the people of Tamil Eelam to submit to alien Sinhala rule.
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Iranian resistance wins ruling against UK ban
[ Reuters ] [ 07 May 2008 11:25 GMT ]
"Western governments and the UK owe the Iranian people and the resistance an apology for this disgraceful labelling. It's time for them to recognise the Iranian people's struggle for democracy."
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Call to evaluate Sri Lanka's violent past
[ UPI ] [ 03 May 2008 16:58 GMT ]
Sri Lanka's Peace Secretariat is war-mongering; it has contributed nothing to the critical self-evaluation by all segments of the political establishment concerning their responsibility for the climate of violence that prevails in the country.
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"Dictatorial Democracy'' in Sri Lanka
[ TCHR ] [ 30 Apr 2008 10:29 GMT ]
Many feel that the recent action in the region of former Yugoslavia by the International community is the best action, because one can see similar symptoms in Sri Lanka.
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Marks & Spencer Criticized for Contributing to Sri Lanka's War Chest
[ TC ] [ 26 Apr 2008 00:05 GMT ]
Sri Lanka is waging a thirty year war on the Island’s Tamil community. The Government of Sri Lanka, under the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapakse, has been criticized for its horrendous human rights record. Over the past thirty years, more than 85,000 Tamil civilians have been killed by Government forces of Sri Lanka.
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Who can clean this mess?
[ KT ] [ 23 Apr 2008 00:05 GMT ]
It looks like even if we use all the waters of the island's rivers, we won't be able to clean up the stink that is Sri Lanka's politics.
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French aid group leaves Sri Lanka
[ International Herald Tribune ] [ 22 Apr 2008 00:33 GMT ]
International aid group Action Against Hunger has pulled out of Sri Lanka saying it has no trust in a government investigation into the massacre of 17 of its workers nearly two years ago, a spokeswoman said Monday.
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Impose sanctions on Sri Lanka, report urges
[ NP ] [ 21 Apr 2008 08:08 GMT ]
Sri Lanka has "effectively eliminated" the rule of law, the report says. Judges who oppose the government are removed, journalists are threatened and killed and opposition politicians are being assassinated, it adds.
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NESoHR Chairman Fr. Karunaratnam killed in DPU attack
[ TamilNet ] [ 20 Apr 2008 14:36 GMT ]
In his latest report, he also said: "NESoHR as the Human Rights body of the Tamil people had high hopes in the UN Human Rights session in view of the buildup of opinion against human rights violations committed by state actors in Sri Lanka."
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Pope urges global unity on crises
[ BBC ] [ 19 Apr 2008 11:58 GMT ]
"Every state has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights," the Pope said.
"If states are unable to guarantee such protection, the international community must intervene with the juridical means provided in the United Nations Charter and in other international instruments."
The real harm, he said, came from indifference or non-intervention.
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EU Greens Criticise Slovakia for Arms Trade Agreement with Sri Lanka
[ TASR-SLOVAKIA ] [ 16 Apr 2008 09:28 GMT ]
"It is very disconcerting that individual member countries continue to sign arms trade contracts without following the code, consulting other member states or reporting to the EP," said the Spanish MEP who is poised to call Slovak authorities to account and turn to the EU Council over the issue.
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Iconic of the times
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 15 Apr 2008 06:55 GMT ]
The Tamils are not going to accept a subordinate place in a Sinhala chauvinist order that has accorded itself a privileged position as overlords of the island.
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Vaiko asks EU to press Sri Lanka on Tamil ethnic issue
[ The Hindu ] [ 11 Apr 2008 08:02 GMT ]
Rejecting the possibility of a "military solution" to the ethnic problem, Vaiko said that unless Tamils were accepted as a "separate nation" and their inhabited zones were regarded as their "traditional homelands, no negotiation would lead to a solution.
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Attack on arms sale to Sri Lanka
[ BBC ] [ 10 Apr 2008 15:33 GMT ]
The Saferworld organisation says that the sale constitutes an unethical violation of the spirit of the European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports.
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ASIA: Sri Lanka at the brink
[ NW ] [ 10 Apr 2008 00:10 GMT ]
On the side of the LTTE would be much of the Tamil population in Sri Lanka's north-east who are fighting for their survival from the perceived threat of genocide.
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Tamil Tigers appeal over shrine
[ BBC ] [ 08 Apr 2008 07:28 GMT ]
More than 20,000 civilians were sheltering in the Madhu area, but as the fighting worsened recently they fled further north, and for the first time the statue of Our Lady of Madhu also had to leave the church.
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Kosovo Freedom: Guidance or Warning?
[ Global Politician ] [ 08 Apr 2008 07:28 GMT ]
In every zone where conflicts have been on for self-determination, there have been a lot of blood-letting and destruction and the state sponsored terrorist forces evade human rights without hindrances and ignoring the warnings from the international community and organizations.
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The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of the Tamils
[ Sangam ] [ 05 Apr 2008 01:40 GMT ]
The question is whether the International Community and India, which contribute to the military option of Sri Lanka, don’t understand or don’t want to understand the fact that if there is anything to be defeated militarily in Sri Lanka, it is the chauvinism of the Sri Lankan State.
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Number of Missing Sri Lankan Tamils Increasing, Human Rights Groups Say
[ Voice of America ] [ 03 Apr 2008 01:35 GMT ]
And, now the government can say we have restored self-government to the people of the Batticaloa District and it has not been done," Miller said. "This is the government's program. And, with this they proclaim to the world that they have liberated and restored democratic government to the people of Batticaloa. It is a falsity."
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Asylum system 'shameful for UK'
[ BBC ] [ 28 Mar 2008 00:07 GMT ]
Overall, the treatment of asylum seekers fell "seriously below the standards to be expected of a humane and civilised society," said the report.
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No solution possible without LTTE – South Africa
[ TamilNet ] [ 25 Mar 2008 10:05 GMT ]
“The International Community needs to take a balanced account of this conflict, it also needs to give diplomatic support to the LTTE to negotiate with the Sri Lankan government. If the International Community wants peace in this part of the world it must encourage this particular process.”
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An Easter Message to a Crucified People
[ TWG ] [ 23 Mar 2008 00:03 GMT ]
We Tamils have been much misunderstood, unjustly accused, heaped with death, destruction and displacements - all these in the hands of Tamil-Judases betraying one another for few silver-pieces, of governments proclaiming to be democratic and sovereign, of soldiers claiming to be liberators and protectors and of religious leaders professing to follow a peaceful religion.
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LTTE’s political and military strategy
[ BL ] [ 19 Mar 2008 00:04 GMT ]
Current political chief P. Nadesan, in a 3-hour discussion told the TNA group that the LTTE was prepared to resume negotiations with the government if it agrees to a ceasefire. “We are asking for ceasefire because we cannot talk while fighting,” he said.
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THE WAR IN SRI LANKA
[ TWG ] [ 17 Mar 2008 00:21 GMT ]
It is a war of national liberation of the Sri Lankan Tamils (12.5% of the population) in the defence of their right of self-determination.
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