Op-ed: A flicker of hope for human rights in South Asia
[ Amnesty International ] [ 16 Dec 2022 19:19 GMT ]
South Asia has a history of strong people�s movements fighting against injustice, so let�s celebrate them and support them in their quest to secure human rights for all. Let�s keep the candle of human rights burning.
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Mullaitivu Tamils fight back against land grabs
[ Tamil Guardian] [ 12 Dec 2022 23:45 GMT ]
One protester told reporters; 'I sold everything I had and purchased this land. Now my land has been grabbed by Government. If I had my land, I could survive by cultivating and selling'.
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Indian model as wayforward
[ The Island ] [ 05 Dec 2022 23:11 GMT ]
Just across the seas from Sri Lanka the world has a good example of a diverse and huge country that has held together as one and is now getting stronger and stronger, both in terms of its economic might, but also its international stature.
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Tamil Nadu also has many islands like Maldives
[ Newsday Express ] [ 04 Dec 2022 10:35 GMT ]
Be it culturally or geographically, Tamil Nadu never gets bored with its stuff. But unlike the way most tourists come to visit the beautiful temples and hill stations of the state, there are many islands which are probably less known.
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Sri Lanka at Brink of Humanitarian Crisis
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 29 Nov 2022 11:20 GMT ]
It is essential that Sri Lanka�s international partners, including the United States and European Union, press the government to fulfill its human rights obligations as an essential step towards addressing the crisis.
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Sri Lanka Should Free Detained Students
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 18 Nov 2022 12:00 GMT ]
The government should introduce a genuine moratorium on the PTA, and ensure that any counterterrorism legislation that replaces it complies with the five 'prerequisites' set out by UN experts to meet international human rights standards.
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Tamil Catholics celebrate three events
[ NZ Catholic Newspaper ] [ 11 Nov 2022 18:00 GMT ]
The association decided to hold the celebration for the feast of Our Lady of Velankanni as well as the canonisation this year of the first Tamil saint, St Devasagayem Pillai, with the anniversary.
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Remembering Raviraj 16 years on
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 10 Nov 2022 23:20 GMT ]
Mr Raviraj was shot in Colombo at close range by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike at around 8:30am on November 10 2006, as he got into his car after giving an interview. The MP died later in hospital. His bodyguard was also killed.
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Sri Lanka: Political Prescription to 22A
[ SL Guardian ] [ 22 Oct 2022 23:10 GMT ]
Any attempt at the arbitrary replacement of the present Constitution with a new Constitution could deprive the Tamils of even the limited powers granted under the Unitary Constitution by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Another Beginning
[ Frontline ] [ 20 Oct 2022 10:09 GMT ]
The story is set in the turbulence of an anti-Tamil pogrom in Sri Lanka 45 years ago.
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Sri Lanka: Draft 'Rehabilitation' Law Would Spur Abuse
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 18 Oct 2022 21:45 GMT ]
'Foreign governments should make clear that they will support the urgent needs of the Sri Lankan people, but they will also take action through targeted sanctions and other measures against those committing serious human rights violations.'
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Sri Lanka: Keeping the Storm at Bay
[ International Crisis Group ] [ 11 Oct 2022 02:04 GMT ]
In this excerpt from the Watch List 2022 - Autumn Update, Crisis Group lays out what the EU and its member states can do to mitigate the risks of needed reforms.
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Erasing Tamil Eelam: De/Re Territorialisation in the Global War on Terror
[ Academia ] [ 10 Oct 2022 11:25 GMT ]
The spatial aspect of Tamil ethno-nationalism has not changed with the GSL's defeat of the LTTE and there is little reason to believe the new strategy of ensuring ethnic heterogeneity and military outposts in the northeast will address the causes underlying the movement for Eelam in the first place.
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Objective Political Climate and Human Rights
[ BTF ] [ 26 Sep 2022 23:55 GMT ]
We request the International Community to work towards a negotiated political solution for the Tamil people through international arbitration and to undertake to implement it in Sri Lanka.
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Ensuring Sri Lanka's Compliance with UNHRC Resolutions
[ Countercurrents ] [ 25 Sep 2022 17:03 GMT ]
Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka and Tamils all over the world are very deeply concerned in relation to Sri Lanka�s past human rights violations including war crimes and the very minimal steps taken to uphold accountability and dispense justice to the victims.
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Me and my mother tongue
[ The Michigan Daily ] [ 23 Sep 2022 22:27 GMT ]
As a member of the Tamil diaspora that was forced out of Sri Lanka, the Tamil language is central to our identity.
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Transforming Sri Lanka
[ Policy Forum ] [ 15 Sep 2022 16:11 GMT ]
The mostly Tamil-populated north of the country has been living in continuous protest of land-grabbing, deforestation, and socio-ethnic destabilisation in their traditional homeland for many years.
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Are They Alive?
[ BTF ] [ 14 Sep 2022 10:15 GMT ]
The protests of the mothers and family members are unceasingly continuing in Sri Lanka demanding for the release and/or justice for their loss.
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Obituary: Queen Elizabeth II
[ BBC ] [ 13 Sep 2022 22:00 GMT ]
The long reign of Queen Elizabeth II was marked by her strong sense of duty and her determination to dedicate her life to her throne and to her people.
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Sri Lanka: Rights Groups Urge Strong UN Resolution
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 13 Sep 2022 19:00 GMT ]
The UN Human Rights Council should adopt a strong resolution on Sri Lanka that strengthens current UN mandates on accountability for crimes under international law and monitors the country�s deteriorating human rights situation.
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Sri Lankan Government Appoints Alleged Rights Abusers
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 10 Sep 2022 23:09 GMT ]
The government's egregious appointments this week and its heavy-handed response to peaceful protests should make it clear to UN member countries that Sri Lanka's rights situation is declining rapidly.
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The Emergence of New Tamil Identity
[ Goa Chronicle ] [ 09 Sep 2022 20:25 GMT ]
Tamil language and culture is one of the oldest thriving tradition in the world, as far as oral tradition it dates it back to 6000BCE and archeological evidence has touched 1200BCE so far.
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Tainted Tea: Ensure Welfare of Estate Workers
[ Daily News ] [ 08 Sep 2022 18:02 GMT ]
What about the welfare and rights of thousands of hard-working resilient plantation workers who work in the mist-laden hills? These women and men also have needs, emotions and aspirations like all humans.
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Sri Lanka: No Recovery without Accountability
[ Geopolitical Monitor ] [ 03 Sep 2022 10:55 GMT ]
The biggest challenge for truth and reconciliation will be gaining, and holding, support from the Sinhalese Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka to investigate and prosecute atrocities committed against the Tamils during the civil war.
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Remembering the Sencholai massacre 16 years on
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 01 Sep 2022 22:05 GMT ]
On August 14 2006, four Sri Lankan air force jets flew over the Vanni and dropped sixteen bombs over the Sencholai children's home for orphans, killing 53 school girls and 3 teachers.
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Tamil Party Leaders Letter to UNHRC
[ TNA ] [ 31 Aug 2022 12:00 GMT ]
We submit these facts for your kind attention, consideration, and necessary action and to support your commitment and untiring efforts to ensure justice to the Tamil people of Sri Lanka.
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Chinese ship at Lankan port: More to it than meets the eye
[ Observer Research Foundation ] [ 27 Aug 2022 10:10 GMT ]
Equipping them, instead, to defend themselves against an unkind State back home was tantamount to India invoking the �Responsibility to Protect� (R2P) doctrine, which the UN waited to adopt in 2005, after atrocities in the Balkans and Rwanda, a decade earlier.
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It is time to act
[ BTF ] [ 19 Aug 2022 20:52 GMT ]
The recent events in Sri Lanka have given us a window of opportunity to ensure that the momentum of this process is hastened.
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Roots of the Sri Lankan Crisis and its implications for Australia
[ Australian Institute of International Affairs ] [ 17 Aug 2022 23:29 GMT ]
Positive change could occur in two ways: 1) a Federal restructuring; or 2) a return to the historical structure of the country: Sri Lanka had never been a unified state and perhaps this was at the root of many political and social issues facing the country.
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Promises not kept
[ Frontline - The Hindu ] [ 13 Aug 2022 22:45 GMT ]
People of Indian origin in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad and Fiji, for example, are descendants of these labourers.
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Sri Lanka's Economic Crisis and the IMF
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 07 Aug 2022 09:00 GMT ]
It should also allow credible and independent investigations into corruption and support foreign governments to investigate, and if appropriate, return stolen assets hidden abroad.
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Sri Lanka & Democracy
[ Colombo Telegraph ] [ 03 Aug 2022 20:44 GMT ]
Sri Lanka must wait for an 'educated' and 'decent' electorate to create a true democracy.
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Sri Lanka: Heightened Crackdown on Dissent
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 01 Aug 2022 23:55 GMT ]
'The people of Sri Lanka are reeling under an economic crisis that has plunged millions into food insecurity, the closure of schools, and shortages of medicine, fuel, and other necessities,' Ganguly said.
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For Lanka, A Long Road to Democratic Reform Awaits
[ International Crisis Group ] [ 29 July 2022 19:30 GMT ]
Wickremesinghe's use of the army and police commandos and his appointment of several Rajapaksa loyalists to the cabinet have confirmed those doubts, raised tensions and appear to have quashed hopes of political reforms and accountability.
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Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Sri Lanka
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 25 July 2022 02:01 GMT ]
Human Rights Watch submits the following information regarding Sri Lanka�s implementation of recommendations accepted through its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2017, and information about additional international obligations.
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Sri Lanka's multiple crises just came to a head
[ The Washington Post ] [ 23 July 2022 18:53 GMT ]
Can Wickremesinghe broker a bottom-up process of reconciliation and power-sharing between the country's various ethnic communities - as well as restructure the country's external debts and jump-start the economy?
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The Lost REVOLUTION
[ TWG ] [ 22 July 2022 00:15 GMT ]
The current parliamentarians have no clue as to what is on the table with the IMF negotiations.
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Golden or Black July? - the Month of Destiny
[ Ground View ] [ 20 July 2022 21:00 GMT ]
The moment has come for not only one people but all peoples to challenge, resist and overcome the hegemony of a corrupt Third World elite who never served the people but only themselves, pitting the people against each other.
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Sri Lanka's Uprising Forces Out a President but Leaves System in Crisis
[ International Crisis Group ] [ 17 July 2022 23:55 GMT ]
Should a future Sri Lankan government emerge that is committed to tackling impunity, pursuing the recovery of stolen assets and supporting a restructured state with more inclusive governance, the UN and foreign governments should offer targeted forms of support.
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Sri Lanka: Protect Rights During Political Turmoil
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 14 July 2022 17:25 GMT ]
'Sri Lanka's political leaders should use the transfer of power to address the acute economic, political, and human rights problems that have been the focus of months of peaceful protest,' Ganguly said.
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In Frames | Troubled waters
[ The Hindu ] [ 27 June 2022 15:21 GMT ]
From 2012, India has not granted the status of refugee to those arriving from Sri Lanka. As a result, these illegal migrants are now housed in 113 refugee camps in Tamil Nadu.
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The heart of Sri Lankan cuisine at Serendib
[ New Straits Times ] [ 26 June 2022 18:15 GMT ]
The country was an important stop for foreign traders from Asia, Arabia, Africa and Europe because of her deep harbours and strategic location in the midst of the ancient Silk Road.
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Moving Towards True Reconciliation
[ Ground Views ] [ 07 June 2022 18:45 GMT ]
The civil war, its antecedent events and its aftermath have robbed us of much as a nation: life, limb, blood, innocence, trust ... the list goes on. Let it not also rob us of our humanity.
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Revisiting the Jaffna Public Library
[ Deccan Herald ] [ 27 May 2022 22:58 GMT ]
The Jaffna Municipal Council-operated Jaffna Public Library was built in 1933 and burned down in 1981. It was one of Asia's most important libraries, with over 97,000 books and manuscripts.
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Sri Lanka: The stranded state
[ Frontline ] [ 26 May 2022 17:15 GMT ]
The island has faced a series of misfortunes - the wrath of a 26-year-long civil war, a devastating tsunami, the Easter bombings of 2018, the spread of COVID-19, and now the economic crisis.
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TAMIL NADU - Sri Lankan PM thanks Stalin for sending aid
[ The Hindu ] [ 23 May 2022 16:22 GMT ]
The consignment was flagged off from Chennai port by Mr. Stalin recently. 'This is also the first consignment under a larger $16 million commitment of 40,000 MT of rice, 500 MT of milk powder and medicines by Government of Tamil Nadu,' the release said.
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Sri Lanka President declares a state of emergency
[ The Hindu ] [ 06 May 2022 19:38 GMT ]
Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday declared a state of emergency giving security forces sweeping powers for the second time in five weeks to deal with escalating anti-government protests.
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Sri Lanka profile - Timeline
[ BBC ] [ 02 May 2022 19:22 GMT ]
1972 - Ceylon becomes a republic and changes its name to Sri Lanka. Buddhism is given primary place as the country's religion, further antagonising Tamil minority.
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New Year dawns at protest site for many Sri Lankans
[ The Hindu ] [ 14 Apr 2022 09:00 GMT ]
Scores of Sri Lankans on Thursday marked Sinhala and Tamil New Year at their agitation site in Colombo, as they relentlessly protest the Rajapaksa government�s 'failed response' to the country's crushing economic depression.
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Sri Lanka's Changes to Abusive Security Law Superficial
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 27 Mar 2022 10:20 GMT ]
The Sri Lankan government has attempted to dodge growing international pressure to end abuses under its notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) by rushing cosmetic amendments through parliament this week.
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Know how Chinese dragon swallowed Sri Lanka?
[ India Herald ] [ 25 Mar 2022 23:10 GMT ]
Recently some Sri Lankan tamil citizens have come to india leaving their country by boat, risking their lives. Protests against the government are increasing in Sri Lanka.
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A taste of Yalpanam
[ New Indian Express ] [ 13 Mar 2022 23:40 GMT ]
A group of Sri Lankan Tamil refugee women offer an authentic experience of Eelam cuisine through Yalpanam by Serendip
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Cleansing Sri Lanka of ethnonationalism
[ Daily FT ] [ 27 Feb 2022 23:50 GMT ]
A new foundation of civic nationalism with liberal democracy in which every Sri Lankan, be she/he Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher or whatever group or religion must have the same rights and obligations expected of any citizen.
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UN for foreign prosecutions for Sri Lanka
[ New Age ] [ 24 Feb 2022 22:55 GMT ]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet made the comments a day after British police announced the first overseas arrest over war crimes allegations in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka: End the use of and repeal the draconian PTA
[ Amnesty International ] [ 19 Feb 2022 17:05 GMT ]
43 years since it was first passed as a temporary measure, the draconian PTA continues to be used by the Government of Sri Lanka to target, and harass minorities, activists, journalists and critical voices.
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Sri Lanka: Support for Rights Defender
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 14 Feb 2022 20:45 GMT ]
Instead of trying to silence those who seek to defend human rights, the government should give serious consideration to their input and contributions, and take urgent action to ensure that they can work in a safe environment without fear of reprisals.
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The death of a book
[ Mid-Day ] [ 13 Feb 2022 15:55 GMT ]
Westland's closure will be both, a 'creative and personal tragedy' for her.
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The same old act
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 10 Feb 2022 19:14 GMT ]
The wanton use of the act - including its targeting of Tamils and Muslims, the arbitrary nature of detention, the almost routine reports of torture and the drawn out judicial process - is a marker of the problems inherent within the Sri Lankan state.
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Sri Lanka: Grave Abuses Under Discredited Law
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 07 Feb 2022 17:10 GMT ]
The Sri Lankan government is using the discredited Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to commit prolonged arbitrary detention and torture, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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Online rally demands Tamil self-determination
[ Green Left ] [ 04 Feb 2022 23:49 GMT ]
He called on the international community to: refer Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court, to be tried for the crime of genocide; to recognise the north and east of Sri Lanka as the Tamil homeland and the right of the Tamil nation to self-determination.
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Commemorating Tamil Oppression Day
[ Red Flag ] [ 31 Jan 2022 17:10 GMT ]
Merging the Tamil and Sinhalese homelands together in 1883, the British imposed a unitary state over the entire territory, consolidating historically distinct ethnic and cultural kingdoms into one.
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Human Rights Watch - World Report 2022 - Sri Lanka
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 27 Jan 2022 10:45 GMT ]
In March 2021, the UN Human Rights Council, responding to continuing abuses and the failure of accountability in Sri Lanka, mandated the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to collect and prepare evidence of grave crimes for use in future prosecutions.
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Posturing in Sri Lanka for the March UNHRC session
[ News In Asia ] [ 24 Jan 2022 12:35 GMT ]
The Sri Lankan government is expecting censure following the report of Human Rights Watch for 2021. And the Tamil side is worried as the international community may, as in the past, not walk the talk.
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Sri Lanka's leader vows rights reforms as debt crisis looms
[ Toronto Star ] [ 20 Jan 2022 08:34 GMT ]
According to initial U.N. estimates, about 100,000 people were killed in the quarter-century civil war. Another U.N. expert panel later said about 40,000 ethnic Tamil civilians may have been killed in just the last few months of fighting.
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Visiting UK minister gets wakeup call from Tamil mothers
[ JDS Lanka ] [ 19 Jan 2022 18:15 GMT ]
'Do you really think this government is going to engage seriously with the past through the Geneva process? We want the UK government to help us achieve justice using universal jurisdiction cases as Germany did for the Syrians'.
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HISTORY | The Ceylon Tamils connection
[ Malaysiakini ] [ 07 Jan 2022 23:50 GMT ]
Each ethnic group has made its own contribution towards nation-building, and consequently, our young must be provided with an inclusive and truthful narrative of our nation�s multicultural heritage.
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The Beggar and the Royals
[ FT ] [ 03 Jan 2022 22:25 GMT ]
Just two years into Gotabaya-Mahinda-Basil rule, there appears a greater disconnect between the ruling family and ordinary Sri Lankans.
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2021 - A year of defiance
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 31 Dec 2021 21:10 GMT ]
This year has seen an increase in the number of attacks on Tamil journalists and human rights defenders as well as the number of arrests under Sri Lanka's draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act.
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Friend or foe? China ventures into the Tamil homeland
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 22 Dec 2021 22:05 GMT ]
For Washington and New Delhi, China's latest advancement demonstrates exactly why engagement with Eelam Tamils remains vital if they want to keep Beijing's influence in check. The Tamils remain crucial partners in the region.
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Human Rights in Sri Lanka in 2021
[ Sri Lanka Campaign ] [ 20 Dec 2021 23:25 GMT ]
While this crackdown on dissent in the North and East is neither new nor surprising, throughout the year the government has increased their repression.
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Who are the original inhabitants in Sri Lanka?
[ SL Guardian ] [ 15 Dec 2021 23:55 GMT ]
The Tamils were the Original inhabitants of this Island and there have been several waves of Tamil conquest but they only added to the Original indigenous Tamils who continued to live here from pre historic times.
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Assembly supports Tamil Heritage Month
[ Greater London Authority ] [ 02 Dec 2021 18:52 GMT ]
We call on the Mayor of London and the London boroughs to ensure these occasions are marked and that our much-valued Tamil community is supported across the city.'
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Maaveerar Naal observed across the UK
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 28 Nov 2021 21:50 GMT ]
UK Tamils joined the Tamil nation in observing Maaveerar Naal - Great Heroes Day - to commemorate those who sacrificed their lives in the Tamil struggle for liberation.
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Wartime organic farming lessons for peacetime
[ LBO ] [ 20 Nov 2021 23:45 GMT ]
Wartime solutions are rarely peacetime answers. But the need for high efficiency and high impact during the terrible times of conflict can provide some guidance for the easier times of peace.
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Sri Lanka must be held accountable for war crimes
[ Courier-Journal ] [ 07 Nov 2021 18:20 GMT ]
The only way for this issue to be solved is for the UN to impose sanctions on Sri Lanka, give Tamil Eelam people right to live in their country as a citizen without any laws that discriminate against them.
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What Sri Lanka can learn from India
[ The New Indian Express ] [ 31 Oct 2021 02:33 GMT ]
Federalism would not lead to disintegration of existing states; it would pave the way for the establishment of a state where multiple identities can coexist harmoniously.
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Requiem for a remembrance
[ Himal Southasian ] [ 26 Oct 2021 18:02 GMT ]
'Time never seemed to be heading anywhere but was always circling, returning, and repeating, bringing the self back to itself.'
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A festering crisis in the Palk Strait
[ The Hindu ] [ 25 Oct 2021 14:00 GMT ]
India and Sri Lanka must urgently refocus their energies to address this crisis. As the first step, Tamil Nadu must consider a moratorium on bottom trawling in the Palk Strait.
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OHCHR Sri Lanka accountability project (2021)
[ UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ] [ 22 Oct 2021 07:33 GMT ]
In accordance with this mandate, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights established the OHCHR Sri Lanka accountability project. The team is based in Geneva.
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When Impunity Becomes the Norm
[ Ground Views ] [ 21 Oct 2021 23:10 GMT ]
There is new vigour towards international justice with several processes underway including the evidence-gathering mechanism established via the UNHRC, attempts at universal jurisdiction, and other initiatives where the wheels of justice are starting to turn.
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UK and Sri Lanka discuss bilateral relations and human rights
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 13 Oct 2021 00:30 GMT ]
The meeting with the British authorities comes as senior MPs across the isle have urged the British government to impose bilateral pressure on Sri Lanka to ensure 'accountability for mass atrocities, and a political solution that meets the aspirations of the Tamil people'.
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Sri Lanka needs to walk the talk to make peace with Tamils
[ The Times of India ] [ 30 Sep 2021 22:01 GMT ]
Sri Lanka will have to tone down its majoritarian Sinhala Buddhist narrative, ease militarisation of the administration, and ensure visible progress is made in delivering transitional justice to the affected and resume ethnic reconciliation process.
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Will TN host Tamil conference again?
[ The New Indian Express ] [ 16 Sep 2021 08:00 GMT ]
The preliminary work in organising the 11th World Tamil Conference (WTC), that has been on informally for the past several months.
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Oral Update on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka
[ UN Human Rights Council ] [ 14 Sep 2021 13:25 GMT ]
My Office's work to implement the accountability-related aspects of Resolution 46/1 has begun, pending recruitment of a start-up team. We have developed an information and evidence repository with nearly 120,000 individual items already held by the UN.
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China in Palk Strait
[ The Statesman ] [ 13 Sep 2021 17:25 GMT ]
China's interest in spreading its wings in the Indian Ocean Region is well known.
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Proof of civilisation 3,200 years ago in Tamil Nadu: Stalin
[ Hindustan Times ] [ 05 Sep 2021 19:10 GMT ]
State chief minister MK Stalin said on Thursday, citing scientific evidence for the same - a finding that means a thriving city-based river valley civilisation existed in the state, coinciding with the latter half of the Indus Valley civilisation.
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Britain issues ultimatum as trade spat erupts
[ The Express UK ] [ 15 Aug 2021 22:21 GMT ]
It comes after a report released by NGO Human Rights Watch highlighted increasing police brutality, detentions, and extra-judicial killings being undertaken by the Sri Lankan law enforcement.
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SRI LANKA: A NEW NOVEL REOPENS WOUNDS OF WAR
[ Asia Media International ] [ 07 Aug 2021 01:09 GMT ]
And all will recognize that universal, timeworn, tragic truth: Wars don't end when troops leave. Body counts are just a fraction of the sum total costs of war.
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Sri Lanka: Into the Abyss
[ SL Guardian ] [ 05 Aug 2021 17:29 GMT ]
So perhaps preparation is already afoot to make us a distant province of China in anticipation of where we are heading!
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MUTTUR : 15 YEARS OF INDIFFERENCE
[ Action contre La Faim ] [ 04 Aug 2021 21:14 GMT ]
These men and women, identified as humanitarian workers, were murdered in their offices while working to help the victims of the tsunami.
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A medai for musical musings
[ The New Indian Express ] [ 02 Aug 2021 15:05 GMT ]
The Madras Medai Podcast brings Indian and UK musicians on one platform to help artistes explore the music ecosystem.
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When a Tamil army once invaded Kedah's waters
[ Free Malaysia Today ] [ 27 Jul 2021 07:30 GMT ]
Granted natural access to the Indian Ocean, the Cholas gradually carved out a strong maritime and mercantile empire, leveraging their position as a midpoint between China and Rome.
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Remembering Black July, 38 Years On
[ Pearl Action ] [ 25 Jul 2021 10:20 GMT ]
The international failure to secure criminal or state accountability for historical and recent mass atrocities has reinforced the impunity of the Sri Lankan state for atrocity crimes against Tamils.
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Tamil rights: reconciliation still far away
[ Asia News ] [ 21 Jul 2021 22:49 GMT ]
At present, 'There are still 107 refugee camps in various parts of India and 58,000 people who are not recognized as citizens in either country. This is the legacy of Black July 1983.'
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LISTEN: Kartik Amarnath on community empowerment
[ Environmental Health News ] [ 12 Jul 2021 23:49 GMT ]
Kartik Amarnath joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss his work and advocacy in community self-determination and empowerment, and energy justice.
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Stan Swamy: Jailed activist dies at 84
[ BBC ] [ 05 Jul 2021 16:30 GMT ]
The son of a farmer father and homemaker mother from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Swamy led a school for training leaders of marginalised communities in Bangalore for more than a decade.
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Sri Lanka: Pardons a Meager Response to Abusive Law
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 30 Jun 2021 02:10 GMT ]
'Sri Lanka's international partners need to keep up the pressure until there is genuine reform to end systemic abuses, and not allow themselves to be deflected with unreliable promises or empty gestures.'
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Systemic Torture - The Dark Stain on Sri Lanka
[ Ground Views ] [ 29 Jun 2021 01:19 GMT ]
Torture survivors have depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances, nightmares and difficulties in concentration. Many suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder where they revisit their torture again and again.
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Our Campaign Against the Web Series Family Man 2
[ BTF ] [ 24 Jun 2021 09:45 GMT ]
We, as victims of the biggest genocide in this century, note with concern the falsification of the just struggle of Eelam Tamils against the state oppression in the above web series and strongly condemn it.
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Fascism, Australian style
[ Red Flag ] [ 11 Jun 2021 00:05 GMT ]
And no way can we continue to tolerate the normalisation of policies that German neo-Nazis seek to emulate.
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One Night In Sri Lanka
[ Madras Courier ] [ 08 Jun 2021 23:55 GMT ]
'What are you Indians doing here? Leave as soon as possible. This is not where you ought to be!'.
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The Precarious Politics and Tamil Eelam in The Family Man 2
[ The Quint ] [ 04 Jun 2021 23:55 GMT ]
The Family Man too is a prolific producer of corpses on all sides, but it always allows some time for an important conversation about family, a dusk time digression on the fight for a homeland and an undead separatist movement, a companionship found under shards of genocide.
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History of Sri Lanka
[ Encyclopedia Britannica ] [ 27 May 2021 10:11 GMT ]
Sri Lanka has had a continuous record of human settlement for more than two millennia, and its civilization has been shaped largely by that of the Indian subcontinent.
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Comparing Zionism and Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism
[ Red Flag ] [ 26 May 2021 19:30 GMT ]
The results are the same: the national oppression of one group at the hands of a supremacist state run by increasingly radicalised far-right politicians who often justify their abhorrent actions in religious terms.
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The Mulliwaikkal divergence
[ The Daily Express ] [ 17 May 2021 23:23 GMT ]
How ceremonies marking the end of the war on May 18 and 19 are keeping up an entrenched conflict between Sinhala and Tamil nationalisms.
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The vice tightens
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 27 Apr 2021 00:07 GMT ]
The placing of sanctions on Sri Lankan officials, the suspending of favourable trade concessions, and the prosecution of war criminals through universal jurisdiction are all tangible and immediate steps that the international community can take in response to Sri Lanka's deterioration.
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Issues in India-Sri Lanka Ties
[ Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses ] [ 25 Apr 2021 12:05 GMT ]
Due to the geographic proximity and people-to-people connect, Sri Lanka's political and security stability is in India's interests.
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Tamil Freedom and Continuing Human Rights Violations in Sri Lanka
[ TWG Editorial ] [ 10 Apr 2021 21:35 GMT ]
The appointment of an Independent International Inquiry on human rights violation in Sri Lanka is urgently needed. This should be followed by a referendum to implement the self-determination to restore of the nationhood of Tamils in North east of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 2020/21
[ Amnesty International ] [ 07 Apr 2021 18:32 GMT ]
There was continued impunity for violations committed during the internal armed conflict, and the government failed to uphold commitments to the UN Human Rights Council around justice and reconciliation.
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Sri Lanka: Landmark UN Resolution Promotes Justice
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 30 Mar 2021 09:45 GMT ]
Resolution 46/1, adopted on March 23, 2021, establishes a powerful new accountability process to collect, analyze, and preserve evidence of international crimes committed in Sri Lanka for use in future prosecutions.
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Wrong signal
[ The Statesman ] [ 29 Mar 2021 23:50 GMT ]
Crucial issues like the plight of Tamil prisoners of war and the families of Tamils subjected to enforced disappearance are ignored.
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British Tamil woman concludes hunger strike after 17 days
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 15 Mar 2021 00:34 GMT ]
Britain's parliament is to hold a debate on the 'UK's Commitment to Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka,' as a resolution on the issue is due to be voted on at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this month.
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Enforced Disappearances - the 'White Flag Surrenders'
[ Independent Online ] [ 10 Mar 2021 23:27 GMT ]
The UN Human Rights Council, reformed to amplify the voices of victims, is now the terrain of powerful member states who oppose the cries of victims for justice and accountability, making a mockery of human rights.
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A Growing Rights Crisis in Sri Lanka
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 17 Feb 2021 23:55 GMT ]
Indian leaders have committed to supporting the rights of minority Tamils in Sri Lanka to 'live with equity, equality, justice, peace and dignity'. The Indian government has also vowed to uphold global human rights.
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A New Beginning for USA - A New Hope for Tamils?
[ TWG Editorial ] [ 03 Feb 2021 00:05 GMT ]
What is needed is a major and concerted international intervention to bring about peace between the Sinhalese and Tamils, who have not enjoyed peaceful co-existence since their independence in 1948.
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Erasing Tamil Legacy in Sri Lanka
[ Jurist ] [ 02 Feb 2021 21:45 GMT ]
The crimes committed against the Tamil community were so heinous that they have been labeled as genocide and ethnic cleansing, with former President Barack Obama recently describing it as an 'ethnic slaughter'.
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Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
[ Government of United Kingdom ] [ 22 Jan 2021 10:40 GMT ]
The CSSF works to build peace and stability in countries at risk of instability as well as in regions suffering from long running conflicts.
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Ties with Sri Lanka: A fine balancing act
[ India Legal ] [ 15 Jan 2021 09:55 GMT ]
India had been keenly following the issue in the UNHRC as it is intimately linked to the ethnic reconciliation process, underwritten in the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement in 1987.
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India Seeks to Counter China in Sri Lanka
[ The Citizen ] [ 07 Jan 2021 23:10 GMT ]
Anxious to be relevant for Sri Lanka's security, Jaishankar said: 'As maritime countries in the Indian Ocean, India and Sri Lanka have a shared interest in ensuring maritime security and safety.
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Pope urges coronavirus vaccine access for all
[ BBC ] [ 25 Dec 2020 15:00 GMT ]
'May the Son of God renew in political and government leaders a spirit of international cooperation, starting with health care, so that all will be ensured access to vaccines and treatment,' he said.
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Sri Lanka remains a human rights priority for the UK
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 21 Dec 2020 23:50 GMT ]
This statement comes in advance of the 46th UN Human Rights Council session set for March. Tamil parliamentarians are calling not just for a renewal of the UN human rights resolution, which Sri Lanka has abandoned.
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Do Tamils want to fight, and for what?
[ Colombo Gazette ] [ 17 Dec 2020 22:59 GMT ]
After three decades and more, the community is where it began, minus a decent and dignified living, minus the political strength and mental stamina to fight the Sri Lankan State.
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Forced cremations in Sri Lanka
[ Amnesty International ] [ 15 Dec 2020 01:09 GMT ]
In a country where minorities are marginalized and discriminated against, Muslims who fall victim to COVID-19 are unjustly prevented from being laid to rest in accordance with their religious beliefs.
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Sri Lanka - Speaking for the Dead
[ MenaFn ] [ 08 Dec 2020 11:20 GMT ]
Cut short to Shanakiyan, the Batticaloa TNA parliamentarian's name seems to be in the mouth of every Sinhala politician and possibly media-watchers, too, after his powerful speech in the House, the other day.
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Righting wrongs
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 07 Dec 2020 02:31 GMT ]
Indeed, it is the Tamil mothers on the roadsides of the North-East who have been most unrelenting in their calls for justice.
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How stolen Hindu idols were discovered in UK
[ BBC ] [ 06 Nov 2020 22:08 GMT ]
They belong to a 15th Century temple built during the Vijayanagara empire, located in Anandamangalam village in Tamil Nadu state. Vijayanagara was once one of the most important trading centres in the world.
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Editorial - Missed opportunities
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 02 Nov 2020 23:55 GMT ]
For the Tamil people, from the families of the disappeared to those still struggling for their land and those still under military occupation, Pompeo could have, and should have, shed light on their suffering.
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Sinhalization of the North-East
[ Pearl Action ] [ 29 Oct 2020 11:41 GMT ]
A crucial element to the Sinhalization of the North-East is the increase of Sinhala Buddhist religious symbols in predominately Muslim & Tamil areas.
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