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  • No more funding for camps’ says UK

    Oct 13
    Britain has announced that it will withdraw all but emergency funding for camps in Sri Lanka.
  • ‘Sri Lanka’s stand not helpful’ - EU Ambassador
    With news emerging that Sri Lanka may still be able to hold on to the GSP+ concessions, EU Ambassador to Sri Lanka Bernard Savage warned that there are still issues to be overcome.
  • Colombo bereft of excuses on internees – Crisis Group
    Andrew Stroehlein, International Crisis Group's Communications Director, during his testimony to the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights on the situation in Sri Lanka Thursday, noted the poor and deteriorating conditions in the internment camps where more than 264,000 Tamils are being held by Colombo.
  • A view framed by barbed wire
    The fate of a quarter of a million interned Tamils is poisoning Sri Lanka’s hopes of ethnic reconciliation
  • IMF issues warning to Sri Lanka
    The International Monetary Fund has issued a statement warning Sri Lanka from building up its foreign currency reserves by borrowing from overseas investors.
  • Tamil Nadu fishermen assaulted, driven naked by Sri Lanka Navy
    Twenty-four fishermen from Keechchaangkuppam in Naakarkoayil area in Tamil Nadu, fishing in Kanniyaakumari seas in five boats Friday night, were brutally assaulted and cast naked in the seas by Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) soldiers, sources in Naakarkoayil said.
  • Sri Lanka’s victory speech to near empty UN hall
    Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka gave a long triumphant speech at the 64th UN General Assembly in New York, to a hall that was more than half empty, reported Inner City Press.
  • Missing the Enemy

    Is the Rajapaksa regime caught in the grips of the ME Syndrome? - Missing the Enemy, that is. Over the last two weeks, the leading lights of the regime have warned of conspiracies to destabilize the regime and even to replace it and have used the state controlled media as well as the defence ministry website to launch propaganda attacks against alleged conspirators, this columnist included.

  • Jayalalithaa threatens of mass agitation over Tamils suffering
    Accusing the Indian and Tamil Nadu governments not acting to curb the "violation" of civil liberties in Sri Lanka, AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa Jayaram has threatened to launch a mass agitation.
  • ‘Political controversy stops World Tamil Conference’
    The Tamil Nadu government has decided to postpone the Ninth World Tamil Conference, it planned to hold in Coimbatore in January 2010, following a political controversy with opposition parties questioning the locus standi of the government to organise such an event as well as its timing.
  • Colombo's paranoid secrecy

    What Ranil, Mangala and Mano Ganesan said on 3 September at a Platform for Freedom Press Conference on the IDP issue was fairly widely covered in the print and electronic media, but three other contributors, Siritunga Jayasuriya, Nimalka Fernando and Herman Kumara failed to attract coverage.

  • Colombo risks squandering Sri Lanka's hard-won peace
    If Sri Lanka is to become a tropical paradise again, it must build enduring peace. This will only occur through genuine interethnic equality, and a transition from being a unitary state to being a federation that grants provincial and local autonomy.
  • “Very challenging times” if GSP plus is denied – Chairman of MAS Holdings
    The Chairman of MAS Holdings, warned of “very challenging times” ahead, with the prospect of GSP Plus concessions being withdrawn by the European Union.
  • War's over, but what about peace?
    Lakhdar Brahimi and Edward Mortimer examine the prospects for peace in Sri Lanka
  • Why peace seems elusive in Sri Lanka
    Four months after crushing the Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan government is still unable to define peace, even as it has embarked on the further expansion of an already-large military.
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