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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…

Singh: 'Civilian deaths of utmost concern and sorrow'

Nov 21, 2006
Indian Prime Minisiter Manmohan Singh has written to Mr. Vaiko, the General Secretary of the pro-LTTE MDMK in Tamil Nadu, sharing his concerns about the Sri Lankan government's attacks on civilians.

Slain aid workers mourned as probe drags

Nov 14, 2006
"In this kind of situation we have to be very cautious because [the investigation] can be manipulated"

‘They want to wipe us Tamils out’

Nov 14, 2006
Daniel Pepper
Thousands flee Sri Lanka on wave of terror.

(video) Sri Lanka 'uses child fighters' - UN envoy

Nov 12, 2006
Sri Lankan government forces are recruiting child soldiers to fight against the Tamil Tigers, UN Envoy Allan Rock says in an interview with BBC.

Story of the Colombo 'safe house'

Oct 18, 2006

The arrest of a Tamil youth, Poobalapillai Kantharajah, 26, from Batticaloa, on September 29, shed light on an abduction and extortion racket that has plagued the eastern city for some time.

Investigations carried out following the arrest show that although several complaints had been made to the police with regard to suspicious activities taking place in highly residential areas in the city, no attention was paid to them and no action taken on the complaints made.

Army-backed milita 'abducting hundreds' in Batticaloa

Oct 17, 2006
The Karuna Group has abducted hundreds of men and boys - some as young as 12 - and is training them for combat in camps operated with the government's consent.

Terror label prolongs Sri Lanka war

Oct 3, 2006
Jared Ferrie
The rhetoric of the war on terror makes it easy to make glib judgments that one form of political violence is justified and another is not justified.'

‘The men spoke irregular and unfamiliar Tamil but fluent Sinhala’

Sep 19, 2006
Asian Human Rights Commission
One of the families in Jaffna peninsula gives a first hand account of what happens when armed men in white vans appear.

Death from white vans: the logic of terror

Sep 19, 2006
‘Security forces have again started killing civilians and quite indiscriminately’

Sri Lanka's war of the words

Sep 19, 2006
Reporters have struggled with synonyms and cliches. “Tenuous”, “crumbling”, “collapsing,” “faltering,” “shaky” and “fragile” have been liberally used to describe the ceasefire.
Singh: 'Civilian deaths of utmost concern and sorrow'
Slain aid workers mourned as probe drags
‘They want to wipe us Tamils out’
(video) Sri Lanka 'uses child fighters' - UN envoy
Story of the Colombo 'safe house'
Army-backed milita 'abducting hundreds' in Batticaloa
Terror label prolongs Sri Lanka war
‘The men spoke irregular and unfamiliar Tamil but fluent Sinhala’
Death from white vans: the logic of terror
Sri Lanka's war of the words
Singh: 'Civilian deaths of utmost concern and sorrow'
Slain aid workers mourned as probe drags
‘They want to wipe us Tamils out’
(video) Sri Lanka 'uses child fighters' - UN envoy
Story of the Colombo 'safe house'
Army-backed milita 'abducting hundreds' in Batticaloa
Terror label prolongs Sri Lanka war
‘The men spoke irregular and unfamiliar Tamil but fluent Sinhala’
Death from white vans: the logic of terror
Sri Lanka's war of the words