December 8, 2010 : (New York) – New evidence links the Sri Lankan army’s 53 Division to the alleged summary execution of prisoners on May 18, 2009, during the final hours of the 26-year armed conflict in Sri Lanka, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch repeated its call for the United Nations to undertake […]
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/108763 Friday, 18 May 2007, 09:22 S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 06 COLOMBO 000728 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/INS MCC FOR S GROFF, D TETER, D NASSIRY AND E BURKE EO 12958 DECL: 05/18/2017 TAGS PGOV, PREL, PTER, PHUM, MOPS, CE SUBJECT: SRI LANKA: GSL COMPLICITY IN PARAMILITARY FACTIONS’ HUMAN RIGHTS […]
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/111710 Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 03:23 S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 COLOMBO 000830 SIPDIS SIPDIS XXXXXXXXXXXX EO 12958 DECL: 06/11/2017 TAGS PTER, PHUM, MOPS, PGOV, CE SUBJECT: SRI LANKA: TAMIL TIGERS SIPHON OFF PART OF INTERNATIONAL RELIEF FUNDS Classified By: Ambassador Robert O. Blake, Jr., for reasons 1.4(b,d). 1. (S) […]
Vanni Narratives A population of 300,000 underwent multiple displacements, deaths, injuries, deprivation of water, food, medical care and other basic needs caught between the shelling and bombings of the state forces and the LTTE which forcefully recruited men, women and children to fight on the frontlines and held the rest hostage. The exposure to massive, […]
Amnesty International Press Release Thursday, February 10, 2011 Amnesty International Calls on Sri Lankan Government to Act on Enforced Disappearance Contact: AIUSA media relations office, 202-509-8194 (Washington, DC) On the eve of the one year anniversary of the disappearance of Sri Lanka human rights defender Pattani Razeek, Amnesty International renews its call for the Sri […]
A senior U.N. official says 5,000 suspected ex-combatants remain in Sri Lankan camps 21 months after a quarter-century civil war ended. Neil Buhne said Friday those ex-combatants are suspected loyalists to separatist Tamil Tiger rebels defeated in May 2009. He says they remain in camps beyond reach of U.N. and Red Cross officials, but another […]
“..Despite the end of the bloody civil war that has decimated the country for decades, the repression of dissident voices continues, and may well become commonplace…” To download the full report – http://www.warwithoutwitness.com/images/stories/PDF/internet_enemies.pdf
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