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“No intrepid journalists smuggled their way into rebel territory as they did in Syria, even though an erratic bus service ran across the frontline until mid January 2009″ - Frances Harrison “Every journalist has heard of Srebrenica. But how many have heard of Mullivaikkal where just as many perished?” - Frances Harrison Today marks three years since the end ...
- US prepares for bitter showdown with Sri Lanka over war crimes (Category: Breaking News)
- New film tells story of Sri Lankan journalists forced into exile (Category: Breaking News)
- Senior UN official warns against harassing Sri Lankan human rights defenders (Category: Breaking News)
- What does the US know about alleged Sri Lankan war crimes? (Category: Breaking News)
By Hilal Suhaib A 15-year deal between a little-known company in Singapore and Sri Lanka’s cricket board for the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) has left opposition lawmakers in Sri Lanka outraged. Apart from handing the tournament to Somerset Entertainment Ventures (SEV) for more than a decade, there has also been criticism for awarding local ...
- Sri Lanka Premier League forges ahead (Category: Business)
- Carlton Sports Network And Somerset Entertainment (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Cricket to visit India to discuss the SLPL with BCCI officials (Category: Breaking News)
- SLC Officials To Meet BCCI Officials (Category: Breaking News)
Documentary Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, along with Jamal Osman’s reporting from Somalia, won the awards for the channel Channel 4 documentary Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, which at the time was described by presenter Jon Snow as “one of the most important” stories he had ever reported, collected two prizes at the One World Media Awards last ...
- Channel 4 wins award for Lankan documentary at AI Media Awards (Category: Breaking News)
- Channel 4 documentary on Sri Lanka wins Amnesty Award (Category: Breaking News)
- C4 Wins Award For “SL's Killing Field” (Category: Breaking News)
- Channel 4's Sri Lanka documentary draws 700,000 viewers (Category: Breaking News)
Receipt of aid, both in the form of grant aid and concessional aid, like in the good old days, would give an impetus to development. When there are roads, power plants and power connections, water supply and sewerage facilities and such like built, that would also give a fillip to investments and therewith job creation ...
- Rupee Makes Pyrrhic Gains On Negative Trade Data (Category: Breaking News)
- World stocks, euro rise on hopes Greece ditches referendum (Category: Business)
- EU sovereign debt crisis: Hurling towards the abyss of recession (Category: Business)
- The Magic 2048: What Is To Be Done To Make Ranilnomics A Reality? (Category: Breaking News)
The bulk of the independent media was prevented from covering the arrival of the six Sri Lankan fishermen who arrived at the Bandaranayake International Airport (BIA) earlier today, 10 days after they were rescued by Spanish marines from the captivity of Somali pirates. The free media was informed by a fisheries ministry official at the BIA that there were orders to prevent them from the coverage...
- Conrad Black hints at return to media ownership (Category: Canada, Ontario)
- Holiday 1 puzzle page (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Holiday 1 puzzle page (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Holiday 1 puzzle page (Category: USA, Indiana)
Muslim heavy weights in Mahinda Rajapakse’s government – Urban Affairs (Senior) Minister AHM Fowzie and Governor Western Province Alavi Moulana came out strongly against the government’s plan to relocate the Muslim mosque at Kandalama in Dambulla yesterday. They told the Lanka Standard that under no circumstance will they agree to a proposed plan to relocate the ...
- All Mosques, Kovils, Churches to be paid and evicted from Buddhist Sacred City – ADC (Category: Breaking News)
- No truth to allegations says Minister Tennakoon (Category: Breaking News)
- Muslims came to Sri Lanka by sail boats to trade in groceries fooled our Sinhala and Tamil women... (Category: Breaking News)
- Monks threaten to demolish mosque in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Relatives and friends of Sri Lankan Tamils who risked their lives in search of a better future abroad after the end of the war in May 2009 are desperately seeking information as to their fates. Thousands of Tamils migrated from the country to escape the violence of the 30-year civil war, which ended with Sri ...
- Six fold rise in Lankans seeking asylum in Australia (Category: Business)
- Waves of Sri Lankan asylum seekers arriving (Category: Breaking News)
- Stop the surge (Category: Business)
- 21 Lankans remanded to judicial custody (Category: Breaking News)
By Nita Bhalla It was with a heavy heart I read the press release this morning. A desperately needed aid programme run by the charity Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) – in English, Doctors without Borders – in Sri Lanka’s war-torn North has shut down after only 18 months of operation. I had visited the project ...
- Aid agency denies abandoning traumatized war survivors in SL (Category: Breaking News)
- Aid agency denies abandoning traumatized war survivors in SL (Category: Breaking News)
- Aid agency denies abandoning health project for war survivors (Category: Breaking News)
- MSF ends mental health program in Killinochchi (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lankan batsman Thilan Samaraweera wrote his name into the cricket history books against England by scoring the two millionth run in Test cricket. He brought up the milestone with a nudged four to fine leg off Steve Finn at the end of the 10th over of the day on Tuesday. The 35-year-old went ...
- Sri Lanka Wins Second Test Against South Africa (Category: Breaking News)
- Skipper steadies Sri Lanka to lunch v WIndies (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka add Samaraweera for S.Africa tour (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's Samaraweera is congratulated by his teammate Randiv after scoring his century gainst... (Category: Breaking News)
England lost their last six wickets for 31 runs as they collapsed to a 75-run defeat in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle. Chasing a record 340, England seemed well set as Jonathan Trott (112) and Matt Prior took them to 233-4. But Prior’s dismissal to Rangana Herath (6-97) for 41 sparked ...
- Herath the hero as Sri Lanka beat England (Category: Business)
- England hit back as 17 wickets fall in day 2 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s Herath spins out England (Category: Sports)
- Cup Standing (Category: Business)
A group of world leaders formed by Nelson Mandela has urged Sri Lanka to try and avoid another showdown in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by adhering to the recent resolution adopted by the body, BBC reports.
A group of world leaders formed by Nelson Mandela has urged Sri Lanka to try and avoid another showdown in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by adhering to the recent resolution adopted by the body. Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson told BBC Sandeshaya that The Elders
- Mary Robinson calls on the UN to push for investigations into war crimes (Category: Breaking News)
- Our duty to Sri Lanka, and human rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka objects to comments made by former Irish President Mary Robinson (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka objects to comments made by former Irish President Mary Robinson (Category: Breaking News)
A cultured unbeaten 168 from Mahela Jayawardene lifted Sri Lanka to 289-8 after the opening day of the two-Test series against England in Galle. Sri Lanka were 15-3 after three wickets fell in 10 balls, Kumar Sangakkara out first ball to James Anderson (3-56). The skipper survived four chances, two badly spilled late on ...
- Mahela’s ton frustrates England (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka shocked by Panesar cut (Category: Breaking News)
- Trott and Pietersen keep England in the game (Category: Business)
- Herath the hero as Sri Lanka beat England (Category: Business)
Two hundred bogus asylum seekers from Sri Lanka are reportedly stranded in West Africa, according to a BBC news report.
Women who have lost their husbands and sons in Sri Lanka’s decades-long conflict have been forced to turn to prostitution, say women’s rights activists. Geetha Lakmini of World Fisherfolk Solidarity Movement said over 85,000 women were widowed in the north and east after the war. “One village in Madhu area is infamous for prostitution because ...
- War widows 'forced into prostitution' (Category: Breaking News)
- Widows in the North have been pushed into prostitution (Category: Breaking News)
- Mobile Sri Lankan prostitution rings using Chinese women (Category: Breaking News)
- Nebraska man sentenced to 47 years for sex trafficking teens (Category: USA, Nebraska)
The sports minister in Sri Lanka says that exclusive broadcasting rights of 2012 Olympics obtained by state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) will not be sold to private channel as reported by media. The Sunday Leader newspaper said the Carlton Sports Network (CSN), reportedly owned by President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s family, has sought the broadcasting ...
- Channel owned by the president Rajapaksa has sought the exclusive broadcasting rights of the 201... (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympics Only For SLRC (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas Wrestle For Olympic Rights Muscling Out Rupavahini (Category: Breaking News)
- SLRC To Take Legal Action Against MTV (Category: Breaking News)
Almost three years after the end of the civil war, Sri Lanka is still dogged by allegations of human rights violations. Amid fresh moves in the UN's Human Rights Council to hold Sri Lanka to account, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo reports on a rise ...
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
- Seeking Direction (Category: Business)
Below are excerpts of a 38 page paper by Brian Senewiratne (MA. MD. FRCP.FRACP) of Brisbane, Australia titled UN Human Rights Council Meeting – Another Farce. Excerpts: “This is not a document for easy reading, nor is it meant to be. It is a reasonably comprehensive record of the abysmal record of the UN and the UN ...
- Solhiem Meets Diaspora Ahead Of UNHRC Vote (Category: Breaking News)
- UN under pressure over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: The UN Secretary-General Must Enforce the UN's Own Recommendations for Accountabi... (Category: Breaking News)
- Should India vote for war crime motion on Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
Former UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes has said that the United Nations did not succeed in rescuing the innocent Tamil civilians used by the LTTE as human shields. Mr. Holmes emphasized that the United Nations had no authority under whatever circumstances to forcibly interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign ...
- Sleuths uncover hidden trove of Isaac Newton's world-changing Principia - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Sleuths uncover hidden trove of Isaac Newton's world-changing Principia - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Sleuths uncover hidden trove of Isaac Newton's world-changing Principia - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Sleuths uncover hidden trove of Isaac Newton's world-changing Principia - CNET (Category: Technology)
The director of a British documentary on last stages of Sri Lanka’s civil war has accused the West and the UN of failing to take any “effective action” to prevent alleged war crimes by the country’s security forces BBC Sandeshaya reports.
In May, 2003, I travelled around Iraq reporting on its oil industry. Before reaching Baghdad, I got in touch with Marie Colvin, who was there covering the war and its aftermath for the Sunday Times, where I worked from 1986 to 1993. She wrote back to say that she was staying at a hunt club in ...
- Marie Colvin killed in Syria (Category: Breaking News)
- War reporter Marie Colvin laid to rest in New York (Category: Breaking News)
- Marie Colvin remembered by Jaffna journalist (Category: Breaking News)
- Family remembers Marie Colvin (Category: Breaking News)
Girls as young as seven have been sexually abused and sexual violence against women is on the increase in northern Sri Lanka, say health officials. According to a senior health official in Jaffna peninsula 32 incidents of child abuse and sexual abuse have been reported during the last two months. Dr S Sivaruban, the ...
- Man charged with child sex offences (Category: South Australia)
- Push to reform sex laws (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Morcombe inquest: 'sensitive' evidence (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Man charged over child sex abuse (Category: Western Australia)
Sri Lanka s human rights issue are causing huge divisions in the United Nations. The member st..
The British Embassy in Colombo today monitored the return of a group of failed asylum seekers who had been deported from Britain. According to the Embassy, the British Deputy High Commission in Sri Lanka Robbie Bulloch monitored the return of 52 failed asylum seekers at the Katnayake airport. “I visited Colombo airport today to observe ...
- McLaren urges no Fury for Fowler (Category: Western Australia)
- Kruse to start against Tianjin (Category: Australia, Victoria)
- Embassy monitors return of deportee (Category: Breaking News)
- Over 100 maids to return (Category: Breaking News)
Britain has questioned concerns raised by two charities which say that Sri Lankan Tamils deported from the UK are at danger of being tortured or raped. Another charter flight returning people to the island nation, including Tamil and Sinhala failed asylum-seekers, is due to leave on Tuesday. But Human Rights Watch and Freedom from Torture ...
Reporters Without Borders calls on all members of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council, which began its 19th session yesterday, to pass a resolution condemning the Sri Lankan government’s violations of freedom of information and to demand an end to threats and violence against news media and human rights defenders in Sri Lanka. “For ...
- Alarming Increase in hostile rhetoric, threats of reprisals against exiled journalists from Sri ... (Category: Breaking News)
- U.N. to investigate Prageeth Eknelygoda's disappearance (Category: Breaking News)
- UN urged to contact wife of missing Sri Lankan cartoonist (Category: Breaking News)
- Media Freedom In Sri Lanka; Why Are Journalists’ Murder Investigations Being Avoided? (Category: Breaking News)
A teenager has admitted to killing a Sri Lankan shop worker on Merseyside, the BBC reported. Mahesh Wickramasingha, 30, a father of two suffered fatal stab wounds while working at Stanley News in Huyton on November 29. Sam Harrison, 19, of Salerno Drive, Huyton, appeared by video
- 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)
British journalist Marie Colvin, who was contacted by the LTTE to broker a surrender during the final stages of the war, has been killed in Syria while she was covering the fighting in that country, the BBC reported a short while ago. Colvin and photographer Remi Ochlik both died in the attack
- President Said Use White Flags – Nambiar (Category: Breaking News)
- Marie Colvin killed in Syria (Category: Breaking News)
- Tributes paid to Marie Colvin (Category: Breaking News)
- War reporter Marie Colvin dies in Syria (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - Mr. Rajitha Seneratne, the Cabinet Minister for Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development, when answering a question to a BBC Sinhala Service correspondent regarding the shooting of a fisherman at a peaceful demonstration in Chilaw stated that the shooting of demonstrators
- Shooting of ‘Kusa Paba’ complete (Category: Breaking News)
- Executive presidential system and the supremacy of T56 - AHRC (Category: Breaking News)
- Police search on for Tangalle PS chairman (Category: Breaking News)
- Funeral of fisherman killed in shooting on Feb. 18 (Category: Breaking News)
Students of the Buddhist Pali University in Sri Lanka have accused university authorities of failing to take action against corrupt officials despite parliament damning the university, BBC reports. .
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