Sri Lanka

Minorities most under threat in Sri Lanka

Mar 28

Sri Lanka is near the top of a global ranking of countries where the situation for minorities has significantly deteriorated in the last year, says a new global survey.

Minority Rights Group International (MRG) said Sri Lanka and Pakistan had shown the biggest rise in this year's ranking of "peoples under threat", a major highlight of the international rights group's annual 'State of the World's Minorities' report.

Sri Lanka rejects foreign rights monitoring

We will protect our sovereignty and will not allow any foreigner to force on us a set-up to monitor rights'

SLA holds Tamil journalist, says RSF

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in a press release issued Friday said the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) was involved in the abduction and disappearance of Subramaniam Ramachandran, a journalist working for the Tamil daily Yarl Thinakural.

Violence round up – week ending 18 March

Summary of incidents – apart from major clashes – since 12 March

Colombo traders shut down in protest against ransom demands

Shops in in the heart of Colombo closed as owners protested the ongoing ransom demands, abductions and death threats they face from paramilitary groups, the milita

Kfirs target school, injure three

Teachers and students took shelter in a bunker as their school was bombed.

Abducted TRO officers final rites held

Photos were garlanded and floral tributes were paid as part of the final rites of seven TRO officials missing for more than a year and now presumed dead.

Refugee situation ‘critical and urgent’ - UN

If donor governments do not come in with fresh funds, supplies will run out by end of April'

Sole representatives: why claim and why oppose?

The impossibility of the Tamil nation and the rejection of the most powerful Tamil actor’s sole representative claim have historical precedents in South Asia.

Early Warning

The LTTE has demonstrated more than simply its air capability.

Karuna doing Colombo’s ‘dirty work’ - HRW

Despite promises to investigate abductions of children by the pro-government Karuna group, Sri Lankan authorities have taken no effective action and abductions continue, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday.

“The Karuna group’s use of child soldiers with state complicity is more blatant today than ever before, ” Brad Adams, Asia director at HRW said in a statement.

Violence round up – week ending 25 March

Summary of incidents – apart from major clashes – since 19 March

Double Exposure

Why this international indifference to Tamil suffering?