• Genocidaire on Yale’s campus'

    Tasha Manoranjan, a graduate of Yale Law School and the founder and executive director for People for Equality and Relief in Lanka, has criticised the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies' decision to allow Sri Lanka's ambassador to the UN to speak at the school, calling it 'contradictory to the values that are so actively inculcated in Yale students'.

    See the full piece entitled 'Genocidaire on Yale’s campus' here.

    Extracts have been reproduced below.
    "This Thursday, one of the key officials implicated in the White Flag incident will be speaking at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Sri Lankan Ambassador Palitha Kohona is Sri Lanka’s permanent representative to the United Nations in N.Y., and is the subject of an investigation by the Australian Federal Police. There have also been requests from NGOs to the International Criminal Court that Kohona’s involvement in these extrajudicial killings be investigated."

    "Kohona is the official representative of an authoritarian and oppressive regime. Yale is disturbingly granting him a platform to whitewash Sri Lanka’s genocide against Tamils on the island and normalize Sri Lanka’s role within the international community."
  • India boycott of CHOGM necessary - TNPF
    The Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) in a statement, urged the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to fully boycott the CHOGM due to take place in Sri Lanka and criticised Northern Provincial Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran’s attempts to discourage CHOGM boycotts.
  • No demos allowed around CHOGM - The Island

    The government will prevent any planned protests around the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka next week, according to The Island.

  • Rajiv Gandhi statue vandalised in Tamil Nadu
    A statue of the former Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi was found vandalised on Wednesday morning near the Tirupur district in Tamil Nadu.

    According to PTI a letter was found nearby calling on the Indian government to boycott the CHOGM later this month.
  • More defence of the Commonwealth
    The Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma has gone on the defensive once again in an interview with Channel 4.

    Sharma told Jon Snow of the decision to go ahead with CHOGM in Sri Lanka:
    "In the time to come, I trust that people will see… that indeed very significant advances have been made in the interests of the people of Sri Lanka,"
  • Further unrest in Tamil Nadu over Indian Prime Minister's potential attendance at CHOGM

    Demonstrations against the Centre over its participation at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka continued in Tamil Nadu today.

  • Two Tamil fishermen drown after being pursued by SL Navy

    Two fishermen from Tamil Nadu drowned off the coast of Rameswaram after being chased by the Sri Lankan Navy, reported TOI.

  • Leadership Council of UNP falters day 2

    The Leadership Council of the UNP, a body appointed just yesterday in order to save Sri Lanka's faltering opposition party, lost yet another member today.

  • India denies visa for director of No Fire Zone

    India has denied a visa to the director of No Fire Zone, Callum Macrae. Speaking to TOI, Macrae said:

  • Shock, disbelief, anger - Twitter reacts to #NoFireZone
    British television channel Channel 4's broadcast of No Fire Zone - Callum Macrae's third documentary about the final months of the war in Sri Lanka - on Sunday night sparked an array of social media response pushing #NoFireZone to the top of the UK Twitter trend list.

    Below we've shared a selection of Tweets from among the thousands of twitter responses to the film. Explore fully using #NoFireZone on Twitter.

  • Sri Lankan High Commission promotes island tourism in London

    The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) will exhibit Sri Lanka at the World Travel Market (WTM) this week.

  • CHOGM will alleviate negative views of Sri lanka - G.L Peiris

    Addressing a function at Kandy, the External Affairs Minister, G.L. Peiris outlined that the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting will be a good opportunity to clear negative perspectives of the country.

  • Sharma attempts to defend Commonwealth
    The Commonwealth's secretary-general Kamalesh Sharma told BBC News that the Commonwealth does not "look away from the hard and difficult questions" regarding Sri Lanka, while also writing off calls for an independent investigation into war crimes as "impractical".
  • Sri Lanka rejects Channel 4 evidence ahead of No Fire Zone screening

    Sri Lankan officials dismissed Channel 4 News video evidence that showed LTTE journalist, Isaipriya, alive in Sri Lankan military custody before she was found killed.

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