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  • UN officials barred from seeing Vanni

    Oct 09
    The Sri Lankan government continued its efforts to deny the Liberation Tigers access to the international community last week by preventing two UN envoys from visiting LTTE –held areas and criticizing an Icelandic diplomat who entered LTTE-controlled territory without Colombo’s permission.
     
    Sri Lanka said last Thursday that it would not allow the United Nation's human rights envoy to visit LTTE-held areas, while at the same time the government criticised the ceas
  • Commandos kill aid worker priest
    Thousands attended the funeral of Father Packiaranjith, an aid
  • Tiger ambushes kill thirteen STF troops in Amparai
    The Tamil Tigers have stepped up attacks on the Sri Lankan security forces in the east of the island, barely two months after the government declared that the LTTE had been completely driven away from the region.
     
    In the last past two weeks thirteen commandos from the Special Task Force (STF), an elite police unit have been killed and at least six injured in separate attacks by LTTE guerillas.
     
    Military analyst Iqbal Athaas writing in
  • Clashes escalate in Jaffna peninsula
    LTTE soldiers pictured in Vanni training with 120mm heavy mortars. Shelling exchanges are a daily occurence in Jaffna.
  • Sign of the times in Tamil Nadu
    74 year old Nedumaran (speaking) has long been campaigning for the rights of Eelam Tamils.
    Veteran Tamil Nadu acti
  • BJP wants food and medicine sent to Tamils
    Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former home minster Lal Krishna Advani.
    Expressing concern over the "deterioration
  • Tamil Tigers still a threat
    Sri Lanka’s most well known defence correspondents warns that whilst the government claims successes against the LTTE, the military balance remains unchanged.
  • Sri Lanka jets hammer Vanni civilians
    Bombs explode near hospitals, schools and markets. Several civilians have been killed and injured in continuing air raids since September 11.
  • Transition
    The effects of today’s dynamics on Sri Lanka’s sociopolitical fabric will be powerful and long lasting.
  • Why Sri Lanka is unfazed by rights criticism
    Despite coming under strong criticism at the 6th session of United Nations Human Rights Council, Sri Lanka is showing no signs of acknowledging rampant abuses by its military or intent to taking measures to rein in the forces.
     
    Instead, Colombo, is bluntly rejecting all charges made against by international human rights organisations.
     
    Since the President Mahinda Rajapakse came to power in November 2005, the number of extraj
  • Sri Lanka ‘lacks credibility’ on rights abuse - critics
    BESET by censure over a rash of civil war human rights abuses, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa set out his case at the UN General Assembly this week -- but critics doubt it will wash.
     
    Rights groups say hundreds of people have been killed or abducted since last year, when the civil war resumed after a near four-year lull. Some abuses have been blamed on state security forces.
  • Rights panel protests ‘cover up’
    A top international panel has accused Sri Lanka of failing to honour promises to investigate grave human rights violations and accused the government of a virtual cover-up.
     
    Miffed, the Sri Lanka's Attorney General's department asked the panel headed by former Indian Chief Justice P N Bhagwati not to issue statements "that affect public confidence" in the country's institutions.
     
    The 11-member International Independent Group of Eminent
  • Sri Lanka warns EU against rights criticism
    Sri Lanka’s security forces enjoy a ‘climate of impunity’ human rights groups protest.
  • ‘Recognize Tamil sovereignty’ – LTTE urges world
    Pointing to the ‘genocidal war’ the Sinhala-dominated state is waging against the Tamils of Sri Lanka, the Liberation Tigers this week urged the international community to “recognise the sovereignty of the Tamil people, and support the peace process in accordance with this principle.”
     
    The world should “provide appropriate opportunities to the Tamil people to express their aspirations, as have been given to the people of East Timor and Kosovo,” the LTTE also said
  • Back Tamil self-determination, Tamil MPs urge world
    Tamil parliamentarians pictured last year protesting against the Sri Lankan state’s indiscriminate violence against Tamils in the east.
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