Sri Lankan Defence Ministry named three leading lawyers Srinath Perera, Upul Jayasuriya & S. Sumanthirana as Traitors in its official website, which is usually a first death warning in Sri Lanka. Full Text Traitors in black coats flocked together ? Leader Publications (Pvt) Ltd, publishers of the Sunday Leader newspaper was charged with Contempt of […]
25th July 2009 – Sri Lankan Justice Ministry’s parliamentary consultative committee has taken up the matter of remand prisoners being allegedly stripped naked when they return to the Welikada prison after attending courts. TNA members N. Sri Kantha and Sivanathan Kishor made these allegations at a committee meeting chaired by Justice Minister Milinda Moragoda on […]
Before his murderous assault on the so-called safety zone, Mahinda Rajapaksa has always been maintaining that the number of civilians there was only 70,000. But after the first bout of the capture of civilians last month, until Thursday, 247,908 civilians from the safety zone were registered in the internment camps of Vavuniyaa, Pulmoaddai, Mannaar and Jaffna. After the […]
19 ICRC / Red Cross Staff and their Family Members missing from War Zone in Sri Lanka according to a statement from Paul Castella, the head of the Sri Lanka office of the International Committee of the Red Cross. “These people were together with the population there and taking an active part in the medical evacuations. […]
As at 26th May 2009, UN local office in Sri Lanka has counted 289,915 Tamils ( excluding Sri Lankan intelligence classified screening and interrogation camps ) who escaped Sri Lankan Government bloodbath in the beaches in Vanni in 50 barbed wire detention camps and the list is reproduced below. Local UNHCR & ICRC is refusing to help locating […]
Tow top Government Officials worked in the Warzone Mr Chelliah Dayananda, a grade-I SLAS officer who was Assistant Government Agent (equivalent of Assistant Collector) of Puthukudiyiruppu and Mr Kandasamy Parthipan, Additional Government Agent of Mullaithivu, are among the senior government officials detained in the Vavuniay camp, sources told War Without Witness.
Since September 2008, Sri Lankan Government banned access for all the Independent monitors, Humanitarian Workers including UN and the media to the combat zone (Vanni) and systematically isolated the combat zone (Vanni) from the out side world and waged a genocidal war without any witness. The Times, UK on 30th May 2009 accused Ban Ki-Moon’s Chief of […]
Message from Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator – 23rd June 2009 Arrest of UN staff members Dear colleagues, You may be aware that two UN staff members went missing in Vavuniya on 11 and 12 of June. You may have heard the news from colleagues, or have seen reports in the media. From the facts as we […]
On 8th July 2009, Sri Lankan Government paraded 5 Tamil Doctors (Dr. T.Sathiyamoorthy, Dr. T.Varatharaja, Dr V.Shanmugaraja, Dr. Illancheliyan Pallavan and Dr. S. Sivapalan ), who are currently under Sri Lankan Military Intelligence custody for nearly 2 months, in an effort to cover-up its War Crime Evidences. Those five doctors who acted as the eyes […]
Humanrights Organisations expresses concern about reports from the IDP (Internally Displaced People) Camps in Vavuniya area housing Sri Lankan Tamil about severe flooding of the camps following heavy rains for the last 2 days. Humanrights Organisations apprehends that the IDP camps will turn into `death traps’ unless urgent measures are taken to safeguard lives of the […]
