Meanwhile, the AHRC criticised Sri Lanka for becoming a country of lawlessness and urged for changes to the executive presidency system, which it claimed allows security needs to be put above the rule of law.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, criticized the Sri Lankan Government on the issue of "accountability" and for refusing to co-operate “to our many requests for an international investigation of what we say is widespread acts of killing of civilians."
Taking a look into the new political activism of the current generation of diaspora Tamil youths, Financial Times, a premier British Daily, said the "ending [of the war] in Sri Lanka was also a beginning," and many youths experienced a political awakening after devoting a lot of time to the protests and some missing a year of their college.
The Sri Lankan government angrily rejected a US state department report containing allegations of human rights abuses in the final days of the country's civil war, saying the document would fan further conflict.
On a cold autumn day, dozens of mortified Tamils protested in front of the UNICEF office in Toronto at Yonge & Eglinton to show their frustration of UNICEF's lack of action of the crises in Sri Lanka.
Donors are increasingly concerned over the conditions in Sri Lanka’s camps for IDPs and are less likely to provide funding if they continue to restrict IDPs’ freedom of movement, say UN officials.
Thousands of non-combatants, according to the United Nations, were killed in the final phase of the Sri Lankan war this year as government forces overran the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
A small percentage of the Tamil refugees held in camps since May have allegedly been released amid growing international pressure on the Sri Lankan Government over its human rights record. But reports from the island suggested that the civilians were merely moved from one place of confinement to another.
Increasing involvement in British politics and reciprocal openness of the British political parties was marked by a part-televised event held in Essex Sunday where several incumbent and prospective parliamentarians from the British Conservative party reached out to their Tamil constituencies and articulated their positions on the conflict and its consequences in Sri Lanka.
Tamil Diaspora in Germany gathered in Berlin on October 22 to stage a protest march in an effort to draw the attention of the international community to the pathetic plight of Tamils interned in SLA camps
The United States on Thursday October 22 urged Sri Lanka to probe and possibly prosecute those behind war crimes alleged to have occurred this earlier year.
Sri Lanka was ranked 162nd of the 175 countries in the latest press freedom ranking released by the Paris based Reporters without Borders on Wednesday October 21.
