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(Srilankamirror) - The European Parliament has called on the United Nations to establish an inquiry into the alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. In a motion for a resolution, the European Parliament has called on the EU presidency, among many other issues, to urge the UN to implement the recommendations of the expert panel appointed by the UN secretary general on Sri Lanka. It comes as US Ass...
- UN Report (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to facilitate UN Panel to make representations to LLRC (Category: Breaking News)
- UN: Reviewing Letter On Journalist Eknaligoda (Category: Breaking News)
- United Nations in Sri Lanka marks 66th UN Day (Category: Business)
THERE are signs that the international community is gearing up for action to hold Sri Lanka accountable for alleged war crimes committed by its forces at the end of the brutal civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009. A resolution is being prepared for next month’s session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva ...
- Sri Lankan Tamil leaders reject commission report, call for international war crimes probe (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka risks forced war crimes probe: US (Category: Breaking News)
- FULL ACCOUNTING TO DEAL WITH WAR CRIMES CHALLENGES (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Calls for war-crimes probe escalate as Tamils commemorate massacre (Category: Breaking News)
“I believe a journalist can change the world,” says exiled Sri Lankan journalist Sonali Samarasinghe, “if not why are we here then”. Sonali is one of three exiled journalists, from the minority Tamil and majority Sinhalese communities, whose stories are told in a new Norwegian film, Silenced Voices, by Beate Arnestadpreviewed last night at the Fritt ...
- Stories of silenced voices – a documentary (Category: Breaking News)
- Silenced Voices speak – the real Sri Lanka story (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Award winning film-maker presents documentary on exiled Sinhala, Tamil journalists (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Arnestads Silenced Voices documentary gains momentum (Category: Breaking News)
Francis Harrison, former BBC foreign correspondent whose book of accounts of survivors from Sri Lankas civil war is to be published this summer, says in an article in the Dawn, that there are "signs that the international community is gearing up for action to hold Sri Lanka accountable
- Reality check for doping in sport (Category: Technology)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Letter: An open letter to anti-maskers (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- How the Amazon rainforest is being saved (Category: Technology)
A UN special envoy arrived Friday for talks with the new administration in the Maldives, as former president Mohamed Nasheed called for fresh elections after being ousted in what he called a coup d'etat, AFP reported. Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco reached the capital Male early Friday and was due to hold talks with new president Mohamed Waheed. “There will be a meetin...
- Nasheed demands election, warns of protests (Category: Business)
- Nasheed Won’t Seek Asylum (Category: Breaking News)
- Arrest warrant issued for M. Nasheed ! President inquires about Nasheed’s safety (Category: Breaking News)
- New president denies Maldives coup (Category: Breaking News)
During a meeting with the media the ousted Maldivian President said he will not consider leaving the country and would fight for a return to power, the BBC reported. Further a video clip on the BBC website captures President Nasheed commenting that should he leave the "
- First poppy flower (Category: Business)
- People’s Bank celebrates International Migrants Day (Category: Business)
- Ananda OBA donates ‘Ananda College four’ for rowing crew (Category: Business)
- Cory Bernardi's wife elected to council (Category: South Australia)
BBC Colombo correspondent Charles Haviland has been injured in a road accident in Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in the South, a report in a Sinhala website said.
BBC Colombo correspondent Charles Haviland has been injured in a road accident in Sri Lanka`s Yala N..
Feb 08, Colombo: BBC Colombo correspondent Charles Haviland has been injured in a road accident in Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in the South, a report in a Sinhala website said.
The extrajudicial killing of civilians, surrendering soldiers and dissident journalists under the direction of the Sri Lankan government has been alleged by a former general in the Army who was extremely well-placed to comment on military activity during the island nation’s bloody civil war. The source, whose name is withheld for reasons of safety, had high-level ...
- Sri Lankan govt gave orders to commit war crimes, new evidence shows — The International (Category: Breaking News)
- Time for a reality check on the Sri Lankan civil war (Category: Breaking News)
- Plaintiffs file opposition to suggestion of immunity in war crimes case against Rajapakse (Category: Breaking News)
- Cuba out voted at UN Human Rights Council over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The 200 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees stranded in West Africa are enduring miserable conditions in Togo, the BBC reported. They say they are living on meagre rations and face the prospect of imminent deportation home. The refugees say they are being detained by the army in an open sports stadium
- Bound for Canada, stranded in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- Smugglers dump Canada-bound Tamils in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- We are cleaning the toilets : Tamil refugees in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- Togo authorities holding 150 Sri Lanka refugees (Category: Breaking News)
In a human smuggling operation gone sour, around 200 Sri Lankan refugee claimants hoping to come to Canada are stranded in West Africa, the BBC reported The BBC reports that 200 Sri Lankans travelled through India and Ethiopia before a smuggler abandoned them in Togo instead
- Expert body to reform the law (Category: South Australia)
- Desal firms in $9m suit strife (Category: South Australia)
- Matara MC Opp. leader leaves meeting in protest (Category: Breaking News)
- First poppy flower (Category: Business)
Two hundred Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka are stranded in West Africa, BBC reports, after the human smuggling ring they hired to bring them to Canada marooned them in Togo. The BBC says the contingent travelled by ship from Sri Lanka to India, then on to Ethiopia before flying to Togo
- Bound for Canada, stranded in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- 200 Sri Lankan refugees stranded in West Africa (Category: Breaking News)
- Smugglers dump Canada-bound Tamils in Togo (Category: Breaking News)
- Togo authorities holding 150 Sri Lanka refugees (Category: Breaking News)
Some two hundred Sri lankan refugees stranded in the tiny West African state of Togo have told the BBC that they fear for their life if they are deported back to their country. .
Stranded refugees from Sri Lanka, in the tiny West African state of Togo have told the BBC that they fear for their life if they are deported .
“Undercover Princes”: If the title makes you think of dashing Hohenzollerns trading secrets in romantic locales, think again. For one thing, the reality dating series of this title, beginning on Tuesday on TLC, is set not in Venice or Gstaad or even London but in the chip shops and seaside pubs of Brighton, England, which looks ...
- Patient SOS for doctor service (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Newlywed Prince William back at work (Category: AU, New South Wales)
- Bypass needs repairs already (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Bypass works peaceful (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
News Pre-premiere of ‘Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile’ and panel debate The Fritt Ord Foundation invites the public to a debate and film screening of Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile on Thursday 9 February 2012, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Vika Cinema (Vika 2) in Oslo. There will be ...
- New film tells story of Sri Lankan journalists forced into exile (Category: Breaking News)
- Silenced Voices speak – the real Sri Lanka story (Category: Breaking News)
- Movie on Sri Lankan journalists in exile (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Unpunished Crimes (Category: Breaking News)
BBC WS speak to Shehan Karunatilaka whose debut novel set in Cricket-mad Sri Lanka won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
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- Road mishaps kill 223 schoolchildren in 2011 (Category: Breaking News)
- Australia slow Sri Lanka charge (Category: Breaking News)
- India Take On Sri Lanka In Asia Cup Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Thalaimannar IDPs 'made refugees again' (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has reportedly ordered 161 foreign Muslim preachers to leave the country for flouting visa regulations. A senior immigration official was quoted as saying that the clerics had no right to preach in mosques because they had arrived on tourist visas, BBC reports. .
It’s December 2010, and two young law students are sitting for their exam. The one is in a hall full of students, who are being monitored closely by the examiner to make sure they’re following the rules: no phones, no electronic devices, no cheating. The other, meanwhile is taken to a private air conditioned room with a computer ...
- Sri Lanka Law college has passed Mr. Namal Rajapakse, failed me (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal was provided with A/C room for exam because there wasnt enough room in the exam Hall L... (Category: Breaking News)
- Law student who opposed Namal Rajapaksha abducted in white Van: released later in dead of night (Category: Breaking News)
- President cast his vallot (Category: Breaking News)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Nothing is closer to the law of the jungle than a system of distorted laws and procedures” Haaretz Editorial (2.1.2012) President Rajapaksa won the Eelam War, with the help of countless others (including the imprisoned Gen. Fonseka). In fairytales, the hero who saves a country from some deadly peril is rewarded with ...
- Rajapaksas have rendered the judiciary as subservient as the armed forces or the police (Category: Breaking News)
- UPFA MP Says Hakeem Will Lose (Category: Breaking News)
- We will create an education system that protects dignity of labour – President (Category: Breaking News)
- We will create an education system that protects dignity of labour – President (Category: Breaking News)
Below is an interview with Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleke published in the French Diplomatic Review – La Lettre Diplomatique (The Diplomatic Letter) Two years after the end of a three decades conflict, the lifting of the emergency rule in late August 2011 confirmed the beginning of a new era for Sri Lanka. With the recent discovery of ...
- France assures assistance to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt (Category: Breaking News)
- French President Emmanuel Macron pledges strong support for debt restructuring in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- France continues support for Sri Lanka’s renewable energy plans (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has denied the Sri Lankan government was under pressure from India to devolve more powers to the provinces. "No no no no, there was no pressure. Neither India nor other country can dictate how our country is governed," he has said. Mr. de Silva, who is heading the SLFP delegation to talks with the TNA, was responding to a question...
- Khuram Shaikh murder suspects remanded further (Category: Breaking News)
- Bodhi Pooja to invoke blessings on Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP leadership raises Sajith group’s absence at protest (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Kusa Paba’ screening from Jan. 21 (Category: Breaking News)
The head of a UK charity that sent a consignment of wheelchairs to Sri Lanka has condemned the decision to impose customs duties of over $8,000 (£5,180), the BBC reported. Peter Thompson, of the Yorkshire-based PhysioNet charity, said the shipment for Tamil war victims
- UK charity condemns 'wheelchair tax' by Lankan authorities (Category: Breaking News)
- Salman to help rehabilitate child soldiers in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Chicken and eggs imported to Sri Lanka to be distributed tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan government distributes four million imported eggs among Lak Sathosa outlets (Category: Breaking News)
“…by clever and persevering use of propaganda, even heaven can be represented as hell to the people, and conversely the most wretched life as paradise”. Hitler (Mein Kampf) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Impunity is illimitable. If the law was allowed to take its normal course after the Kolonnawa mini-war, the Christmas Eve murder of a ...
- Strong parliament vital to accelerate development (Category: Breaking News)
- Tourist activities not affecting fishing industry Basil (Category: Breaking News)
- Foreigner killing - three arrested, wanted politician still at large (Category: Breaking News)
- New Year parties in hotels in Sri Lankas Southern city of Tangalle cancelled (Category: Breaking News)
The head of a UK charity has condemned the imposing of a customs duty of over US$ 8000 for a consignment of wheel chairs that were sent to Sri Lanka for war victims, the BBC website reported. Peter Thompson, of the Yorkshire-based PhysioNet charity, said the shipment for war victims
- UK charity condemns wheelchair tax (Category: Breaking News)
- Chicken and eggs imported to Sri Lanka to be distributed tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan government distributes four million imported eggs among Lak Sathosa outlets (Category: Breaking News)
- Food Imports (Category: Business)
More than 26,000 displaced people are yet to be allowed to resettle in their ancestral lands occupied by high security zones (HSZ) in Jaffna, according to Sri Lanka's main Tamil political party, the BBC reported. The BBC reported that the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has submitted a report
Tributes have been paid to a "committed" Red Cross worker who died after being attacked on Christmas Day while on holiday, the Press Association reported Khuram Shaikh, 32, from Manchester, a physiotherapist working for the International Red Cross in the Middle East, was killed in the tourist resort of Tangalle, about 100 miles south of the capital Colombo. Unmarried Mr Shaikh was t...
- Hamas says 13 Israelis handed over to Red Cross (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan deportee blames UK for repeat of torture ordeal (Category: Breaking News)
- Booklet recalls most damaging SC wildfire (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Foreign Minister meets High Commissioner for Human Rights (Category: Breaking News)
The Tamil hit song ‘Kolaveri di’ has become a hit in India and Sri Lanka thanks to its catchy beat and words. Now a Sri Lankan born British singer Arjun Coomaraswamy has released an English remix of the track in London and it has reached almost 2 million hits on YouTube. The English version of ...
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