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From Mullivaikkal to the Foreign Office – Ed Miliband’s record on Tamils and Sri Lanka
Miliband speaking at British Tamil event at the Houses of Parliament in 2013. Ed Miliband, appointed Foreign Secretary on Monday in Prime Minister Andy Burnham's first cabinet reshuffle, arrives at the Foreign Office with a longer record on Tamil affairs than almost any of his predecessors. During his time as Labour leader between 2010 and 2015, Miliband issued statements marking Mullivaikkal…

Donor reps inspect conditions in Northeast

Feb 6, 2007
The summary report of Bilateral Donor Group after their visits to Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Mannar, Vavuniya and Jaffna districts.

Sri Lanka: a graveyard of pacts

Jan 29, 2007
P. K. Balachandran
Most of the pacts abrogated in Sri Lanka have been on the Tamil question.

Civil war haunts Sri Lanka again

Jan 23, 2007
Chris Morris
“I've never known a government which has fallen into ethnic chauvinism so quickly.”

Growth statistics mask deepening economic crisis

Jan 23, 2007
The Economist
There is a growing scepticism about the veracity of Sri Lanka's GDP statistics.

A day of national grief

Dec 26, 2006
All sections of Tamil society came together in common appreciation of the freedom struggle.

Depopulation is part of Rajapakse's genocidal war

Dec 26, 2006
D.B.S. Jeyaraj
The Sinhala supremacist regime of President Mahinda Rajapakse has a major politico - military objective against which the Tamil people are regarded as being of no consequence

Licence to arrest and torture

Dec 12, 2006
The PTA provides an incentive for interrogating police to obtain confessions from detainees by any means, including torture'

US: LTTE is not a threat to region or world

Dec 12, 2006
‘The Tigers are representing the Tamils in negotiations with Sri Lanka’

Divided experts present four different proposals

Dec 6, 2006
The main issues of contention dividing the 'majority' report and other, dissenting reports, are matters like the extent of devolution: the dissenters, all Sinhalese, want to strengthen the unitary state while the majority group want devolution.

Colombo bombing exposes security failings

Dec 1, 2006
Defence Secretary has a narrow escape as his Presidential-style screen is penetrated. Luck, not security, say analysts
Donor reps inspect conditions in Northeast
Sri Lanka: a graveyard of pacts
Civil war haunts Sri Lanka again
Growth statistics mask deepening economic crisis
A day of national grief
Depopulation is part of Rajapakse's genocidal war
Licence to arrest and torture
US: LTTE is not a threat to region or world
Divided experts present four different proposals
Colombo bombing exposes security failings
Donor reps inspect conditions in Northeast
Sri Lanka: a graveyard of pacts
Civil war haunts Sri Lanka again
Growth statistics mask deepening economic crisis
A day of national grief
Depopulation is part of Rajapakse's genocidal war
Licence to arrest and torture
US: LTTE is not a threat to region or world
Divided experts present four different proposals
Colombo bombing exposes security failings