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By Lee Yu Kyung It seems no one bothers about “them” in Sri Lanka. No lawyer or rights groups in the country dare to talk of “their” basic rights. Do they deserve to be abandoned or “disappeared”? Alleged former members...
- Human rights violations in IDP camps after conflict ended (Category: Breaking News)
- Rehabilitation Minister DEW Gunasekera on complaints of abuse: 'Write letters to me instead of B... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Two ex-LTTE cadres die in army rehabilitation centres (Category: Breaking News)
- Spiritual relief for rehabilitated LTTE cadres (Category: Breaking News)
by Charles Haviland BBC News Nails are being hammered and beams secured in Silavatturai. SJM Shajahan, a good-natured man in his 40s, watches and helps the men at work. Fishing is big business nearby and Mr Shajahan, a boat mechanic,...
- President's Hajj Message (Category: Breaking News)
- The allegation about Lankan Muslims supporting Pakistan against Sri Lanka in World Cup cricket (Category: Breaking News)
- The Brown Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
- 'Government not paying enough attention to facilitate the return process of Muslim IDPs' (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka pays a top PR firm about £3m ($4.7m) a year to try to enhance the country's image, the BBC understands.
The Sri Lankan government is paying a top British PR firm about £3m ($4.7m) a year to try to enhance the country's post-war image, the BBC understands.
The UN panel of experts appointed by the Secretary General on Sri Lanka has called for written submissions. The panel was set up to inquire into the alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka. The BBC has reported
- UN Chief's Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka calls for submissions from interested parties (Category: Breaking News)
- UN panel of experts call for submissions (Category: Breaking News)
- UN panel of experts call for submissions (Category: Breaking News)
- UN War Crimes Panel solicits submissions on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
By Saroj Pathirana Activists have criticised India's decision to invite Sri Lanka's president to attend the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in Delhi. Sri Lanka's government said President Mahinda Rajapaksa would be the guest of honour at Thursday's event. The move...
- Rudd says CHOGM in Lanka still on (Category: Breaking News)
- Next CHOGM in Sri Lanka despite concerns (Category: Breaking News)
- Australia mounts pressure on Sri Lanka over war crimes (Category: Breaking News)
- War crime charges filed against Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
(Lanka-e-News, Oct.11, 2010, 7.50PM) The BBC news service has reported that the wives of LTTE former media spokesman Rasiah Ilantheriyan and Batticaloa LTTE intelligence unit leader...
Two prominent LTTE leaders in Sri Lanka are missing after arrest by the army last year, their wives have told a presidential commission, BBC reports. .
By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colombo In Sri Lanka this year it has well and truly been a case of the mighty falling, as the man that led the military to victory against the Tamil Tigers found himself placed in...
- Heartfelt gifts that she's guaranteed to love (Category: USA, Maine)
- Heartfelt gifts that she's guaranteed to love (Category: USA, Maryland)
- Heartfelt gifts that she's guaranteed to love (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Heartfelt gifts that she's guaranteed to love (Category: USA, Mississippi)
from BBC News Sri Lanka's former military commander has lost his parliamentary seat after a military court sentenced him to jail for 30 months, authorities say....
- 'Hand over' military court report (Category: Breaking News)
- Brigadier 'involved' in Lasantha murder (Category: Breaking News)
- Fonseka to reamain in custody (Category: Breaking News)
- Second military Court finds Fonseka guilty of ALL charges (Category: Breaking News)
(Lanka-e-News, 06.Oct.2010, 4.20PM) The British Foreign Ministry Secretary William Hague had confirmed that the BBC World service is facing cut backs on...
In a rare interview, a former member of Sri Lanka's defeated Tamil Tiger rebels has been speaking to the BBC about his feelings on being released
“Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people…” — Charlie Chaplin The Dictator By Tisaranee Gunasekara President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s speech to the UN General Assembly consisted of the usual banalities and platitudes, with one outstanding exception. That exception was a perniciously riveting idea symbolic and symbiotic of the Rajapaksa ethos, a transformative concept which, if ...
- More freedom for the Rajapaksa means less freedom for the Sri Lankan people (Category: Breaking News)
- Militarizing post -war SriLanka while Rajapaksaizing the military (Category: Breaking News)
- On A Material And Moral Slippery-Slope (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition must counter patriotic narrative of Rajapaksas with socio-economic and political narr... (Category: Breaking News)
(Lanka-e-News, Oct. 04, 2010, 3.50PM) It is reported that despite the fact that the British Foreign Minister William Hogg had confirmed that...
by M.Y.M. Ayub The BBC’s Sinhala service, Sandesaya quoted United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Tissa Attanayake on September 26 as saying that there was no need for a federal political solution in Sri Lanka. This might have disappointed many Tamils especially politically conscious ones who have been demanding more devolution than what had already implemented, for the p...
- UNP to hold May Day rally in Jaffna (Category: Business)
- UNP to hold discussions with opposition political parties (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil parties slam UNPs backtracking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's Oppn Party Backs Government-TNA Talks (Category: Breaking News)
“Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together in new shapes of your own choosing.” -George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty -Four) The end was never in doubt; President Rajapaksa would confirm Gen. Fonseka’s jail sentence and the bête noire of the Ruling Family would be duly incarcerated. Only the blindly optimistic would have...
- Sarath Fonseka is the victim of act of political persecution and personal vengeance (Category: Breaking News)
- Every grandiose noun and flowery adjective in Sinhala will be used to describe the Rajapaksas an... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa project of establishing familial control over the State Army and the SLFP (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition must counter patriotic narrative of Rajapaksas with socio-economic and political narr... (Category: Breaking News)
by Tisaranee Gunasekara “Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people…” — Charlie Chaplin ~ The Dictator President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s speech to the UN General Assembly consisted of the usual banalities and platitudes, with one outstanding exception. That exception was...
- Promoting Tyranny (Category: Breaking News)
- Militarizing post -war SriLanka while Rajapaksaizing the military (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition must counter patriotic narrative of Rajapaksas with socio-economic and political narr... (Category: Breaking News)
- Fall of Fonseka indicates that Rajapaksas cannot be beaten at their own game (Category: Breaking News)
By Karu Jayasuriya As a Sri Lankan ex-Army Officer and a person who believes strongly that those who have contributed towards the welfare of this nation should be shown unending gratitude, Thursday was one of the saddest days of my...
- Former Army Commander of Sri Lanka calls for a strong common opposition (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's former Army Commander calls on people to establish a new political culture (Category: Breaking News)
- There is a Army Commander who collects ransom from LTTE : Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- We need to gather against the unlawful activities: Anoma Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
from BBC News online Sri Lanka's president has endorsed the 30-month jail term of former army chief Sarath Fonseka, an official in the president's office has told the BBC. Mr Fonseka was found guilty of breaching arms procurement guidelines on...
- Fonseka won't care about power and position: Daughter Apsara (Category: Breaking News)
- Audio: He will move forward- Apsara (Category: Breaking News)
- Anoma makes statement at Fort police -Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- President Meets Anoma Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's president endorses the 30-month jail term of former army chief Sarath Fonseka, the president's office tells the BBC.
Sri Lanka's president endorses the 30-month jail term of former army chief Sarath Fonseka, the president's office tells the BBC.
There is no need for a federal political solution in Sri Lanka, BBC Sandeshaya quoted UNP General Se..
By Saroj Pathirana BBC Sinhala in Colombo Nilmini Jayasinghe says she is determined to take part at the London Olympics despite her failure at the most recent world championships. Nilmini Jayasinghe - pic: SundayObserver.lk...
- Sri Lankan boxer eyes 2012 glory (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ring Is A Women’s World (Category: Breaking News)
- Anusha Hits Road To London (Category: Breaking News)
Government of Sri Lanka says that suspected Tamil Tiger detainees cannot be treated under the same law as everyone else. Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardhana told the BBC
By Swaminathan Natarajan BBC Tamil The temple has number of statues and stone carvings depicting the life of Buddha. Official celebrations are taking place in southern India for the 1,000th birthday of one of the grandest temples ever built on...
- Keerimalai~A Land of Sacred Springs & Spirituality (Category: Breaking News)
- AlJazeera Video: India expresses concern over China's contruction projects in South Asia (Category: Breaking News)
- "Little Jaffna" of Tamils in Paris is often mistakenly called "Little Bombay" (Category: Breaking News)
- Ancient temple stitched back together (Category: Breaking News)
by UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic American University Washington College of Law INTRODUCTION Justice and accountability are of utmost importance following mass atrocities such as those committed in Sri Lanka during its 25-year civil war. An estimated 80,000–100,000 people...
- Huge civilian toll in Lanka war: Indian doc (Category: Breaking News)
- US Senate Resolution calling for an Independent International Investigation in Sri Lanka passes ... (Category: Breaking News)
- International community seriously misapprehended the facts when it failed to call for an investi... (Category: Breaking News)
By BBC Sandeshaya Prsidient Mahinda Rajapaksha has engaged in constructive bilateral talks with a number of heads of state now in New York, says Presidential media co-ordinator Vijayananda herath. President Rajapaksa is in New York to attend the United Nations...
- Kokua Line: Hawaii jobless looking for $300 plus-up, other federal aid extensions (Category: USA, Hawaii)
By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colombo People in northern Sri Lanka have told a war inquiry that family members who served with the Tamil Tigers disappeared after surrendering. They said their loved ones went missing at the end of the...
- My sister is my best friend, plase bring her back to me (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricketer Murali Is On A Sticky Wicket – On Tamil Nadu Turf (Category: Breaking News)
- The “See-Saw” battle between the UN SG and the SL Govt (Category: Breaking News)
- 1000 children still missing since war (Category: Breaking News)
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” — Voltaire Where do we go from here? The paranoia increases by the day. First came the reported disappearance of Prageeth Eknaligoda (missing since January 24 this year), then the statement made recently by reinstated Deputy Minister Mervyn Silva who reportedly stated at a ...
- Lanka denies holding any Tamil political prisoners (Category: Breaking News)
- Fonseka supporters further detained (Category: Breaking News)
- DNA to protest to C'wealth (Category: Breaking News)
- Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels 'abused in detention' (Category: Breaking News)
While the forthcoming hearings by Sri Lanka's Lesson and Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) at the former LTTE stronghold Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu are to be held in public, BBC has been "blocked from covering the public hearing," BBC said Friday. "A senior defence ministry official
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