Lawsuit filed against Sri Lankan Army General Responsible for Executions, Torture & Attacking Civilians; Currently Living in NYC NEW YORK, N.Y., SEPT. 23, 2011 – This morning, American University Washington College of Law’s UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) against Sri Lankan General Shavendra […]
Australian Federal police have confirmed to War Without Witness that they were evaluating the allegations against Dr Kohona “with a view to determining any potential breaches of Australian law”. AFP further commented, “As the matter is being evaluated it is not appropriate for the AFP to comment further”.
[Julian Vigo] An Independent Report on Sri Lanka and United Nations Human Rights Violations compiled by Julian Vigo, PhD named four senior UN Officers Phillipe Duamelle, Neil Buhne, Andy Brooks and Amin Awad. It says, “According to all twelve informants here, the key players within UN agencies have not suffered any repercussions for the delinquency […]
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 20/09/2012 Reporter: Kerry Brewster A new documentary shows that Sri Lankan refugees are fleeing human rights abuses in their homeland and are not merely economic refugees, as claimed by the opposition. Adobe Flash Player not installed or older than 9.0.115! Transcript TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Many of the most recent asylum seekers […]
The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns and other […]
For this Listening Post feature, we interview one journalist who has recently fled her country, Sri Lanka. Over the past few years freedom of the press has been under attack by the government there. One newspaper in particular has been in the governmental crosshairs, the Sunday Leader. When the Sunday Leader’s editor Lasantha Wickramatunga was […]
Carefully evidenced and powerfully measured, ‘No Fire Zone’ is a feature length film about the final awful months of the 26 year long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who lived through it. It is a meticulous and chilling expose of some of the worst war crimes and crimes against humanity of recent […]
ONE of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world’s collective conscience. We remember and acknowledge the shame of Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. We agonise about the failure to halt the atrocities in Syria. But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war […]
February 4th, 2013 by Bhavani Fonseka Today, the 65th National Day of Sri Lanka, offers a moment to reflect on achievements since independence. Although more than three years have passed since the end of the war in 2009, prospects for justice, peace and reconciliation continue to elude the tiny island in South Asia. More recent developments highlight […]
Posted: 10 July 2009 The statements made to the media by doctors detained by the Sri Lankan government for providing what it says was false information about civilian casualties during the last days of its offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) points again to the need for an independent inquiry into allegations […]
