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  • ‘From one prison to another’: Sri Lanka’s ‘resettlement’

    Sep 29
    Under international pressure as the monsoon looms, the Sri Lanka government is hastily engaged in relocating some of the displaced Tamils being held in militarised internment camps in Vavuniya.
  • 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.
  • Alston refutes ‘impartial’ investigation into footage
    Sri Lanka’s purported investigation into the footage of soldiers shooting unarmed, naked men is neither impartial nor reliable, a UN representative has said.
  • Vaddukkoaddai and Thimphu
    Calling for the creation of independent and sovereign Tamil Eelam, based on Vaddukkoadai Resolution was the last spontaneous and definite mandate by Eelam Tamils in a totally free and democratic atmosphere.
  • Send delegation to Sri Lanka demand Tamil Nadu politicians
    With the political scene in Tamil Nadu hotting up again over the plight of displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka, the main opposition party, AIADMK, led by Jayalalitha Jayaran threatening to launch a mass agitation over the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka, DMK and Congress MPs from Tamil Nadu rushed to Delhi to meet the Prime Minister and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi seeking New Delhi’s immediate intervention on the issue.
  • ‘Paranoid Colombo machinates IDP human shield’

    A whole world is duped in what Colombo is machinating in the name of resettlement of IDPs, Tamil circles in Jaffna commented, citing Sri Lanka Navy’s new internment camps around its installations in the island sector of Jaffna.

  • Karunanidhi promises citizenship to all Sri Lankan refugees in India
    In a significant decision, the Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi, on Saturday, September 26, said he would take steps to ensure that the Centre granted citizenship to the more than 100,000 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in the state if they desired so.
  • Army shoots civilians in internment camp
    Six civilians, including 2 women and 3 children, were wounded as the Sri Lankan Army opened fire on them at the Cheddikulam internment camp.
  • 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.

  • Army to play key role in Sri Lanka’s development
    After successfully defeating the LTTE, the Sri Lankan army is ready to play a significant role in the development of the country, Sri Lankan Army Chief of Staff Major General Mendaka Samarasinghe has said.
  • As the shells fell, we tried to save lives with no blood or medicine'
    The young mother was standing by the side of the road, clutching her baby. The baby was dead. Damilvany Gnanakumar watched as she tried to make a decision. Around them, thousands of people were picking their way between bodies strewn across the road, desperate to escape the fighting all around them.
  • Sri Lanka asks UN not to interfere
    Sri Lanka has made it clear that it would not allow the United Nations to meddle in its post-conflict affairs.
  • Great Expectations - Still
    Tamil anger is held in check by international commitments.
  • IMF optimistic, but investors cautious
    The International Monetary Fund said it raised Sri Lanka’s growth target and is “cautiously positive” on prospects as it reviews the island’s economy for the release of a second payment in its $2.6 billion aid package.
  • 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.
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