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  • Judicious political pressure saves journalist

    Sep 06
    Political pressure from Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP), parties allied with Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse, including the paramilitary Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) and the timely action by the top leadership of the Asian Broadcasting Coorperation to mobilise political pressure saved the life of Kuruparan Nadarajah, the Tamil news manager of Sooriyan FM, who was being interrogated after being abducted by the Special Counter-terrorism Unit of Sri Lankan mi
  • Karuna Group child recruits, government links worry HRW
    “The linkages between the Karuna group and the government... seem to be very clear.”
  • ‘Coordinated, deliberate’ SLA campaign in LTTE areas – SLMM
    Series of attacks provoked LTTE retaliation
  • ‘Mission impossible’ for SLMM
    The new head of Sri Lanka’s truce monitors takes over a team cut by nearly half this week amid warnings by his predecessor of “mission impossible” to satisfy both sides in the vicious conflict.

    Former Norwegian army chief Lars Solvberg will run a 30-strong group after members from the European Union were ordered to quit by the end of the month by the Tamil Tigers.
  • Aid workers targeted in Sri Lankan clashes
    “Even in a war, there are certain (groups) that are not touched, such as the Red Cross symbol and NGOs.”
  • Sri Lanka defiant over aid massacre charge
    ‘One of the most serious recent crimes against humanitarian aid workers worldwide’
  • ‘War not way to peace’ - India
    As Sri Lanka’s military launched a new offensive against the Liberation Tigers this week, India re-iterated that war was not the way to resolve the island’s conflict.
  • Pakistan ‘guiding’ Sri Lanka’s war
    “About 12 to 15 members of the Pakistani Armed Forces, including four or five from the Pakistan Air Force, are stationed in Colombo to guide the Sri Lankan security forces in their counter-insurgency operations” - Mr. B. Raman
  • President vows to ‘fight terrorism’
    Rajapaksa told fellow party men at the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) convention that the government has already proved “brave enough” not to be threatened by “LTTE terrorism in the north east”.
  • 60,000 Tamils despair
    An estimated 60,000 Tamils displaced by Sri Lankan military attacks in the eastern province are caught in a humanitarian crisis which aid workers say is being deliberately deepened by the Colombo government.
  • No Fear
    The arrests in the United States and Canada last month of a handful of Tamil expatriates in connection with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) shocked the Tamil Diaspora communities there and elsewhere. Those arrested were charged with a number of crimes, including attempting to buy missiles and rifles for the LTTE and, incredibly, with attempting to bribe US officials to lift the ban on the LTTE.
  • Just not good enough
    So much for international standards.
  • Watching the watchdog: the politics of extrajudicial killings
    The UN could have prevented the deterioration in human rights security in Sri Lanka this year. But it had another political priority.
  • The Crunch
    What are international guarantees worth now?
  • In memory of the lives lost at Sencholai
    Milk and clear honey, wild rice and lentil
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