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Sri Lanka’s Judiciary: Politicised Courts, Compromised Rights
[ International Crisis Group ] [ 01 July 2009 08:32 GMT ]
Court also intervened at crucial moments in the political process to strike down negotiated agreements designed to address Tamil concerns, thereby strengthening political hardliners among Sinhala nationalist parties and deepening the ethnic divide.
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War's End Hasn't Stilled the World's Young Tamil Voices
[ TIME ] [ 01 July 2009 08:02 GMT ]
While many youth would still like to see the eventual creation of an independent Tamil homeland, their short-term grass-roots lobbying is intended to get Western governments to influence Sri Lanka into resettling the internally displaced Tamils today.
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TIME TO RESOLVE ‘NATIONAL’ CONFLICTS
[ NLP ] [ 28 June 2009 10:25 GMT ]
If an indigenous people are being discriminated against and are unable to preserve their differences e.g. language or worship then the creation of a nation-state within ancient territories is a logical answer.
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Setting the hands of the clock right
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 23 June 2009 09:41 GMT ]
The Tamil request to the civilised world at this juncture is to support their democratic experiment and to listen to their democratic voices.
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The making of a liberal quagmire
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 21 June 2009 15:02 GMT ]
The fiction the Sri Lankan state wanted meaningful political engagement with the Tamils has been destroyed, along with 20,000 more Tamil bodies.
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Sri Lanka 'will face UN inquiry'
[ BBC ] [ 20 June 2009 09:31 GMT ]
Human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC discusses on the Today programme whether the UN should hold an investigation to find out what really happened.
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The disappeared
[ The Guardian UK ] [ 14 June 2009 16:58 GMT ]
At the head of the most recent document from Eaton House Immigration Service in London the words "Liability to Detention" glare out bleakly from the page.
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Humanity failed in Sri Lanka
[ The Guardian UK ] [ 13 June 2009 09:27 GMT ]
The Sri Lankan government has carried out atrocities with impunity – and is now allowed to investigate itself for war crimes
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UN concern over Sri Lanka camps
[ BBC ] [ 11 June 2009 12:11 GMT ]
Bulldozers were working constantly to clear jungle and that phone lines, schools, banks and even a cash machine had been built. He said this was "phenomenal" but described government plans to replace tents with more permanent structures as a "big worry".
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TAMIL RANKS 15TH LINGUISTIC GROUP IN THE WORLD!
[ TCHR ] [ 11 June 2009 07:57 GMT ]
It is surprising that the people who speak one of the oldest languages in the World, which ranks in fifteenth position as most spoken language, do not even have any fundamental political rights in the Island of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka deports Canadian MP: Officials
[ Ottawa Citizen ] [ 10 June 2009 10:18 GMT ]
Canada gave asylum to more than 300,000 ethnic Tamils who left Sri Lanka in the 1980s, and members of the diaspora have held angry anti-Sri Lankan rallies there in recent months.
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Tamil campaigner Euro vote boost
[ BBC ] [ 09 June 2009 18:21 GMT ]
A Tamil rights campaigner won more than 50,000 votes in the European elections - making her one of the most successful independent candidates ever.
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S Lanka turns away Tamil aid ship
[ BBC ] [ 08 June 2009 18:24 GMT ]
Sri Lanka has turned away a ship which came from Europe carrying aid for Tamil civilians displaced in the final months of the civil war
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What price victory?
[ Japan Times ] [ 08 June 2009 10:42 GMT ]
The laws of war and the notion of crimes against humanity are premised on the belief that there are limits to how combatants conduct themselves in conflict.
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UN chief urges Sri Lanka inquiry
[ Al Jazeera ] [ 06 June 2009 11:11 GMT ]
"Whenever and wherever there are credible allegations for the violations of international humanitarian law there should be a proper investigation,"
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Sri Lanka doctors 'to be tried'
[ BBC ] [ 05 June 2009 10:43 GMT ]
Two of them were senior local health directors and the United States has said they "helped save many lives" while the UN called them "heroic".
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'IDPs not protected by law' - CJ
[ BBC ] [ 05 June 2009 10:38 GMT ]
Over two hundred thousand people in refugee camps are not treated according to the law of the land, says the Chief Justice (CJ) of Sri Lanka
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Sri Lankan Puppets in the Hands of Emerging Superpowers
[ Telegraph UK ] [ 03 June 2009 08:56 GMT ]
Now it is time for the civilized to world to decide whether to allow the Sri Lankan government and its friends who had caused so many thousands of deaths, to run these controversial Nazi style concentration camps.
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Slaughter in Sri Lanka
[ The Times UK ] [ 29 May 2009 00:04 GMT ]
The UN has no right to collude in suppressing the appalling evidence of the cost. The truth must be told.
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U.N. urged to press rights of Sri Lanka war survivors
[ Reuters ] [ 25 May 2009 12:00 GMT ]
Amnestry also said the government needed to be held accountable for abuses committed by state forces, who have been accused of killing and mistreating civilians in their quest to destroy LTTE separatists over a long time period.
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EU states sell arms to Sri Lanka while condemning violence
[ EU Observer ] [ 20 May 2009 00:05 GMT ]
A number of EU member states - including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the UK, France, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Poland - have however continuined to arm the Sri Lankan government since the election of hardline president Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2005.
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United Nations urges 'essential' war crimes probe
[ Reuters ] [ 16 May 2009 10:34 GMT ]
Britain, France and other EU states are pushing for the UN Human Rights Council to convene a special session on the conflict, as it has done in the past to examine the occupied Palestinian territories, Burma and Sudan's Darfur region.
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Bloody Sri Lanka
[ Financial Times UK ] [ 15 May 2009 09:32 GMT ]
The Tamil cause will reignite from the embers of this war.
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Britain warns Sri Lankan government
[ BBC ] [ 14 May 2009 21:21 GMT ]
Politicians from all parties urged for harsher measures against Sri Lanka including suspension from the Commonwealth, the withdrawal of the diplomats, direct peace-keeping intervention, a boycott of Sri Lankan made goods and a travel ban on government members and their relatives.
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UN 'grave concern' over Sri Lanka
[ BBC ] [ 14 May 2009 09:16 GMT ]
The United Nations Security Council has asked the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels to ensure the safety of civilians trapped in the conflict.
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Sri Lanka Puts Obama to the Test — and He's Failing
[ TIME ] [ 13 May 2009 08:51 GMT ]
By intervening on behalf of Sri Lanka's civilians, Obama would do more than just save lives — he could help to save the doctrine of liberal interventionism before it ends up in history's warehouse of good intentions.
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UN: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband's Statement
[ UN Webcast ] [ 12 May 2009 00:17 GMT ]
“I am appalled by the reports that have come out of Sri Lanka over the weekend of mass civilian casualties. The UN Spokesman said that there had been a "blood bath" in the North East of Sri Lanka on Saturday and Sunday,”.
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Crossing the line in Sri Lanka
[ Channel4 ] [ 10 May 2009 20:29 GMT ]
The government is intolerant of a critical press. Journalists get killed, most notoriously Lasantha Wickrematunge, an editor assassinated in January.
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Sri Lanka arrests 3 UK television journalists
[ AP ] [ 09 May 2009 18:24 GMT ]
"The report contained claims that dead bodies were left where they fell, shortages of food and water, and sexual abuse."
ITN said it would seek an explanation from the Sri Lankan government for the decision to expel the journalists.
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Sri Lanka: Repeated Shelling of Hospitals Evidence of War Crimes
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 09 May 2009 07:24 GMT ]
Human Rights Watch reiterated its call for the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka to be urgently taken up by a formal meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York and by a special session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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The plight of Sri Lankan refugees
[ BBC ] [ 08 May 2009 11:21 GMT ]
Tamil Tiger rebels holding out in a tiny sliver of north-east Sri Lanka have accused the government of stepping up heavy weapons attacks on them.
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An Urgent Need for UN Action on Sri Lanka
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 07 May 2009 08:58 GMT ]
The failures of the past few months are clear, including the naive or cynical ability of politicians to boast of Sri Lankan "reassurances" that all will now be well.
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Grim scenes at Sri Lankan camps
[ Channel4 ] [ 06 May 2009 09:36 GMT ]
Shocking claims have emerged of shortages of food and water, dead bodies left where they have fallen, women separated from their families, and even sexual abuse.
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Tigers End Game in Sri Lanka
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 04 May 2009 16:11 GMT ]
The bloody fighting on the sandy strip will not be marking the end of the current war, but sowing the seeds of the next one.
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The world must respond to Sri Lanka
[ The Guardian UK ] [ 29 Apr 2009 09:41 GMT ]
The lack of an international response has emboldened Sri Lanka to continue killing Tamil civilians. Britain must act to change this.
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We cannot Ignore Sri Lanka
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 28 Apr 2009 09:11 GMT ]
Instead of applying pressure, the international community has dithered over Sri Lanka. As a result, civilians continue to die.
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Sri Lanka - the only possible action
[ TWG ] [ 26 Apr 2009 20:23 GMT ]
As the entire civilized world, with the exception of 'patriotic' Sinhalese, is aghast at the mass murder of Tamil civilians in Northern Sri Lanka, by the politico-military junta the 'Sri Lankan Government'.
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Sri Lanka Statement
[ The Parliament UK ] [ 23 Apr 2009 09:20 GMT ]
The fate of the civilians in the conflict area is our most pressing concern.
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Sri Lanka Suffering "Unbearable"
[ Caritas Internationalis ] [ 22 Apr 2009 09:47 GMT ]
"The international community must wake up to the suffering we're witnessing in Sri Lanka. We call on the U.N. to put Sri Lanka on top of its agenda and to use every means to press the warring parties to seek an end to the fighting through negotiation."
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Tamil civilians slaughtered as army shells 'no-fire zone'
[ The Observer ] [ 19 Apr 2009 19:02 GMT ]
Determined to resist international pressure to stop the fighting before it has finished off the hardcore rump of the Tamil Tigers cornered by the military, the Sri Lankan government has kept casualties away from the eyes of the world.
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Is the World Ignoring Sri Lanka’s Srebrenica?
[ The New York Times ] [ 18 Apr 2009 09:10 GMT ]
The Sri Lankan government has “rebuffed international appeals to protect civilians trapped in a war zone in its northeast.” Now some visual evidence of the damage that fighting has caused is coming to light.
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Lankan echo at AIADMK front rally
[ EB ] [ 17 Apr 2009 09:39 GMT ]
“When we come to power, we will take up the Lankan issue as the primary issue and provide immediate relief to Lankan Tamils. It is a key issue in this election,”
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Call for an End to Hostilities in Sri Lanka
[ US State Department ] [ 16 Apr 2009 21:24 GMT ]
The United States government is deeply concerned about the current danger to civilian lives and the dire humanitarian situation created by the fighting in the Mullaittivu area in Sri Lanka.
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Silence on Sri Lanka
[ Tamil Week ] [ 16 Apr 2009 08:58 GMT ]
The very least that Britain can do is halt tourism and any strategic weapons supplies to Sri Lanka and assist in promoting talks and recognition of the Tamil people.
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Colombo uses chemical weapons: LTTE
[ TamilNet ] [ 08 Apr 2009 09:06 GMT ]
Diaspora observers believe that by setting an agenda to finish the war before mid-April to suit its electoral ambitions, the Indian Establishment and a biased few behind it, are largely responsible for Colombo adopting such foul means to win the war.
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Tamils rally outside Parliament
[ BBC ] [ 07 Apr 2009 08:08 GMT ]
The United Nations says more than 2,800 civilians may have been killed and 7,000 others injured in the fighting in the north-east in the last two months.
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Traumatised Tamils live in fear of new crackdown in Sri Lanka
[ The Observer UK ] [ 05 Apr 2009 21:21 GMT ]
The prognosis is likely to be bleak. Charu Hogg, associate director at the international thinktank Chatham House, believes that the destruction of the Tigers as a fighting force will only mark the beginning of a new and ugly phase of civil repression.
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UN appoints Gaza war-crimes team
[ BBC ] [ 04 Apr 2009 16:54 GMT ]
Mr Goldstone is a former UN chief prosecutor for war crimes in Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He is also a former judge at the South African constitutional court.
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Forum to brief Pope on Tamils’ plight
[ ENS ] [ 03 Apr 2009 10:48 GMT ]
“The international community should intervene and stop the inhuman rape of women and young girls. They should not be silent anymore. They should immediately act and stop this torture of Tamils.”
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The silent horror of the war in Sri Lanka
[ The Times of India ] [ 29 Mar 2009 21:22 GMT ]
There are disturbing but unconfirmed reports that the Indian government is lending material and logistical support to the Sri Lankan government in these crimes against humanity.
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Jesse Jackson calls for ceasefire
[ TamilNet ] [ 28 Mar 2009 15:31 GMT ]
When we fight these battles, there are some rules of the game, he said. “We must affirm international law, human rights, self-determination and economic justice.”
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UN in call for Sri Lanka 'pause'
[ BBC ] [ 27 Mar 2009 10:21 GMT ]
The UN, backed by the US and Britain, has urged the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels to back a "humanitarian pause" in fighting.
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Jaffna Bishops
[ TWG ] [ 22 Mar 2009 18:00 GMT ]
First of all, the Bishop should have asked the Government (GoSL) to halt the attacks on innocent civilians including children, whom the GoSL treat as combatants, in order to allow much needed humanitarian aid into Vanni.
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State Security
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 20 Mar 2009 08:07 GMT ]
The Tamils’ security depends on their own efforts and nothing else.
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PLIGHT OF THE PEOPLE
[ CanadianHART ] [ 19 Mar 2009 09:47 GMT ]
Background to Humanitarian Issues in Sri Lanka: The Government of Sri Lanka has implemented a genocidal strategy.
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Sri Lanka: dispute over how to help civilians in war zone
[ The Christian Science Monitor ] [ 18 Mar 2009 21:18 GMT ]
Far from pressing hard for action, some United Nations officials have muffled internal reporting from the war zone, to the frustration of aid workers and human rights activists who accuse the UN of cowardice in the face of a belligerent government.
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Sri Lanka children 'being killed'
[ BBC ] [ 18 Mar 2009 08:59 GMT ]
The conflict in Sri Lanka has killed hundreds of children and left many more injured, United Nations' children's agency, Unicef, has said.
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Sri Lanka- An Island of Fear
[ TWG ] [ 15 Mar 2009 20:09 GMT ]
The International Community, particularly Japan, US, EU and India, has watched while the Tamils are slaughtered, kidnapped, raped and bled to death due to lack of medical care, like Nero watching from the Tower of Maecenas on the Esquiline Hill singing and playing the lyre while Rome burnt.
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The Diaspora as genocide resistors
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 14 Mar 2009 18:02 GMT ]
But it is the International community’s wilful refusal to prevent genocide, their obstruction of Tamil efforts to resist genocide, their willingness to benefit from the proceeds and even active collusion in it, that remains the real crime.
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EU calls for immediate ceasefire
[ BBC ] [ 13 Mar 2009 09:32 GMT ]
The parliamentarians request that international and national humanitarian organisations, as well as journalists, be granted full and unhindered access to the combat zone and to refugee camps.
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Get tough on Sri Lanka
[ The Ottawa Citizen ] [ 11 Mar 2009 09:59 GMT ]
Canada needs to tell one of its major aid recipients that dispatching thugs to take care of media critics is unacceptable.
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Conflict Risk Alert: Sri Lanka
[ Crisis Group ] [ 09 Mar 2009 17:05 GMT ]
Unable to fire their weapons in a manner that respects the distinction between combatant and non-combatant, most government attacks at this point are by their very nature indiscriminate.
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China fuels Sri Lankan war
[ The Japan Times ] [ 08 Mar 2009 14:14 GMT ]
The United Nations estimates that some 1,200 noncombatants are getting killed each month in a civil war that continues to evoke a muted international response even as hundreds of thousands of minority Tamils have fled their homes or remain trapped behind the front line.
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Warrant issued for Sudan's leader
[ BBC ] [ 05 Mar 2009 12:58 GMT ]
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's president on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
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UN: Sri Lanka war causing civilian 'catastrophe'
[ AP ] [ 04 Mar 2009 16:05 GMT ]
Civilians trapped in the war zone in northern Sri Lanka are dying of hunger and are desperately in need of medicine in what the United Nations described Wednesday as an "unfolding humanitarian catastrophe."
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US troops planning evacuation in Sri Lanka
[ PTI ] [ 03 Mar 2009 09:51 GMT ]
These people have been bombed for months by this genocidal government; evacuating them from Vanni and delivering them to the Sri Lankan government is equivalent to being an accomplice to genocide," PEARL representative Rosha Hebsur charged.
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