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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka warned the United Nations on Thursday that publicly releasing a report on alleged war crimes committed as its civil war was ending could harm efforts at post-war ethnic reconciliation. External Affairs Minister Gamini Peiris told reporters that the U.N. panel overstepped its mandate and became an investigative rather than an advisory body to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The report handed to Ban last week harshly criticized the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels on their conduct and said there were credible war crimes allegations against both sides. The U.N. has not released the report officially, but media rep…

* Hundreds of millions paid to British PR Firm for 2018 Commonwealth Games bid * The Indian government spent $ 8.5 billion to host the Commonwealth Games, which turned out to be a national disaster By Frederica Jansz The Sri Lankan government is reportedly paying a top British PR firm about 3 million sterling pounds (Rs. 545,880,000) a year to try to enhance the country’s post-war image. The Sunday Leader spoke to Central Bank Governor, Ajith Nivard Cabraal who maintained that, “many agencies are terribly tarnishing the country’s post war image. So we have to counter attack by taking steps to boost the country’s image.” Cabraal however refused to divul…

US lawmakers and rights advocates on Friday stepped up calls for an international probe into Sri Lanka's civil war as they screened a British documentary that purports to show war crimes. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Amnesty International helped arrange the US screening of the documentary. Adotei Akwei, the rights group's US managing director of government relations, said the event was meant to "counter an effort to describe the end of the war as neat and precise by the Sri Lankan government." "I think that there has been either a reluctance or an unwillingness by the administration to be a champion on this. This d…

Sri Lanka rebels claim advances Saturday, August 12, 2006 Posted: 0623 GMT (1423 HKT) A Sri Lankan military helicopter fires flares Saturday as it flies over Trincomalee Sri Lanka Civil Unrest or Create Your Own Manage Alerts | What Is This? COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) -- Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said on Saturday they had broken through army defenses in the island's far north and were advancing on the government-held Jaffna peninsula, in the fiercest fighting since a 2002 truce. The Tigers said they had destroyed army checkpoints and were advancing along the main A9 arterial road that connects Jaffna to their stronghold. Ai…

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013 UNHRC: Sri Lanka Resolution finalised ( 3rd draft attached) The meeting in Progress @ Room no 27 Today ( 13.03.2013) an informal discussion on the 3rd draft of the US sponsored resolution on Promoting Reconciliation and Accountability in Sri Lanka was held at the Geneva UN HQ, room no 27. It was organized by the US mission. Russia, China , Pakistan and Cuba proposed to amend the resolution in a way that make it toothless and meaning less. EU countries and Canada wanted to make some of the the wordings more stronger. The most debated issue was 'the dedicated general debate' (No 4)proposed in the resolution on…

COLOMBO, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan authorities on Wednesday said investigations have now found that U.S. jets had not violated the country's airspace last week. Civil Aviation Minister Priyankara Jayaratne informed the island's parliament that not a single foreign aircraft had entered Sri Lanka's airspace. A U.S. aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, with accompanying ships recently transited the Indian Ocean while returning to the Pacific and conducted routine flight operations during the transit. The U.S. embassy in Colombo had said that the jets which were on the aircraft carrier had flown outside of Sri Lanka's airspace. However the Sri…

The Sri Lankan government has stepped up its campaign to discredit footage claiming to show Tamils being executed by Sri Lankan soldiers, which was broadcast by Channel 4 News last month. The footage, obtained by Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS), apparently shows government troops summarily executing Tamil fighters by shooting them in the head. JDS says the footage was filmed in January by another soldier using a mobile phone. Jonathan Miller's report contains extremely disturbing images. http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/poli...ebuttal/3340612

COLOMBO, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Sri Lanka has ordered a number of military transport helicopters and other weaponry from Russia, the country's defense secretary said in an exclusive interview with RIA Novosti. "I have managed to reach an agreement with Russia on a loan to purchase military equipment, primarily helicopters for the air force, and other weaponry," Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said, adding that the helicopters had been already ordered. Rajapaksa did not specify the amount of the deal or the number of helicopters, but said they were needed in the first place "to transport military personnel." "We will need them in the future. We are already using [Russian-made] M…

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Sri Lanka war Survivor: The future holds "Nothing" - By Sara Sidner, CNN Editor's note: CNN's Sara Sidner travels to Sri Lanka to report from ethnic Tamil areas and the victims of nearly three decades of civil war. Watch "Witness to Survival" March 13-16 on CNN International. Jaffna, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Raveendran Jenatha doesn't exude the kind of excitement and wonder young adults often do when it comes to figuring out their future. She is 21 years old and confident about what her future holds. "Nothing," she said softly. Raveendran Jenatha is sure she has no future because of her past and what it has done to her. "Now I can't do anything. That is…

நாட்டில் பாரியளவில் தொடர் போராட்டங்கள் இடம்பெறக் கூடிய அபாயம் காணப்படுவதாக புலனாய்வுப் பிரிவினர் எச்சரிக்கை விடுத்துள்ளனர்.எரிபொருள் விலையேற்றம் மற்றும் ரூபாவின் பெறுமதி வீழ்ச்சி ஆகியவற்றை அடிப்படையாகக் கொண்டு போராட்டம் நடத்தப்பட உள்ளது. சிலாபத்தில் நடைபெற்ற மீனவர் போராட்டத்தை விடவும் மோசமானதாக இந்தப் போராட்டங்கள் அமையக் கூடும் என புலனாய்வுப் பிரிவினர், பாதுகாப்பு தரப்பினருக்கு அறிவித்துள்ளனர். ரூபாவின் பெறுமதி வீழ்ச்சி பொருட்கள் சேவைகளின் விலையேற்றத்திற்கு வழி கோலும் எனவும் இதனால் மக்கள் கடும் அதிருப்தி அடையக் கூடிய நிலைமை ஏற்படும் எனவும் புலனாய்வுப் பிரிவினர் குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளனர். கட்சி பேதமின்றி மக்கள் மத்தியில் அதிருப்தி ஏற்பட்ட…

Sri Lanka: Forgotten prisoners: Sri Lanka uses anti-terrorism laws to detain thousands Thousands of people are languishing in detention without charge or trial under Sri Lanka’s repressive anti-terrorism laws. Sometimes held in secret prisons, they are vulnerable to a whole range of abuses, including torture or being killed in custody. Sri Lanka has been under a state of emergency almost continually since 1971. Successive governments have used national security as an excuse to introduce a range of broad and often confusing emergency regulations. http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA37/001/2011/en/41b0e9c5-4ee9-4c9d-9264-eb8e2add4f44/asa370012011ta.p…

There was no doubt among those watching on the ground as the Sri Lankan army carried out its blitzkrieg across the northeast of the island in early 2009. The loss of civilian life would be mammoth, and those killed would, as often as not, be in “safe zones.” In my last meeting with the chief political spokesman for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2005, there had been an eerie exchange of messages and warnings. S.P. Thamilselvan told me his cause was just and the LTTE would prevail. I told him the international community wanted real negotiations and there were no guarantees that a breakdown of discussions would not lead to renewed conflict. More Related to t…

What is the ICRC's position today with regard to the ongoing hostilities in northern Sri Lanka? The ICRC is calling on both parties to the conflict to offer guarantees of safe passage so that patients can be transferred from the Vanni to hospitals in government-controlled areas. The ICRC is calling on both parties to meet their obligations under international humanitarian law – in particular, to spare medical facilities and activities in all circumstances. There have been reports that Puthukkudiyiruppu Hospital was shelled a third and a fourth time. What is the situation there now? At least nine people were killed and at least 20 others injured as a result …

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Invited Countries Should Stay Home, Press for Accountability (New York) - Governments should decline the invitation to attend a Sri Lankan military conference that seeks to legitimize the unlawful killing of thousands of civilians during the armed conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Human Rights Watch said today. The Sri Lankan government has invited 54 countries to its "Seminar on Defeating Terrorism: The Sri Lankan Experience" from May 31 to June 2, 2011 in Colombo, the capital. The conference website says Sri Lankan military officials and panelists will "share their knowledge on Counter Insurgency and enumerate contributor…

Sri Lanka: new video evidence of grotesque violations today. 6.00 pm in channel4 news!!!!!! சிறிலங்காவின் புதிய போர்க்குற்ற ஆதாரம் இன்று மாலை 18.00 மணிக்கு!!!!!!!!சனல்4 தொலைக்காட்சியில் காண்பிக்கப்பட இருக்கிறது.

Sri Lanka: The Emergence of the Power of the Intelligence Apparatus, Impunity, Criminal Justice and Human Rights - Basil Fernando A Comment By Tapan Bose (April 15, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka Guardian) The book “Sri Lanka: Impunity, Criminal Justice and Human Rights” authored by Basil Fernando and published by the Asian human Rights Commission is about Sri Lanka’s descent into utter lawlessness. The book is not a chronicle of events. The book provides us an insight into “abysmal lawlessness and the zero status of the citizens”, the militarisation of the state, the bypassing of the constitution and the levels of impunity that the executive enjoys.The author inquires in…

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Sri Lanka: UN rights expert calls for probe into video of alleged executions 28 August 2009 " A United Nations human rights expert today called for the immediate establishment of an independent inquiry into the authenticity of a video which purportedly depicts the extrajudicial execution of two naked and helpless men by the Sri Lankan military and the presumed prior executions of others. The Menik Farm camp in Sri Lanka holds more than 200,000 people displaced by years of conflict Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said he was aware that the Sri Lankan Government had categorically denied the allega…