PUCL seeks UNHRC intervention in Sri Lanka

(Indopia, Chennai , Mar 31 2009) - People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), a rights organisation, has appealed to the UN Human Rights Commission [...]

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As Sri Lanka Rejects UN’s Ceasefire Call, No Response from Ban, Help Mulled as Ceasefire Incentive While IMF Extends Visit

(By Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN, March 31 2009) - As Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa openly rejects UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s call for [...]

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SLA attacks kill 88 Tamils, including 21 children on Monday

(TamilNet, Tuesday, 31 March 2009) - Sri Lanka Army (SLA) shelling on Monday claimed the lives of 70 civilians as Fifty Caliber gunfire from the SLA positions across the lagoon [...]

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The Kindness Of Strangers: Toronto’s Global Medic Lands In Sri Lanka

(CityNews, March 31, 2009) - Their job: train those affected by the ongoing war to help themselves.
Global Medic is a sort of Toronto-based version of the Red Cross. It doesn’t [...]

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Case filed to block US vote on IMF loan to Sri Lanka

(TamilNet, Tuesday, 31 March 2009) - Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), a US-based activist group, filed a complaint against Secretary of the US Treasury, Timothy Geithner, and the US Executive Director [...]

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Apply adequate pressure on Colombo for ceasefire and negotiations: LTTE

(TamilNet, Tuesday, 31 March 2009) - The LTTE is not a movement believing that war is the only means to achieve the aspirations of the people it represents. But, political [...]

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Mud slinging Diplomacy of Sri Lanka Government - Latest victim UNHRC chief Navaneetham Pillai

(Letter from Geneva, 31 03 2009) - Recently the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navaneetham pillai in an unbiased way mentioned that the killing of 2800 and 7000 wounded [...]

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SLA attacks kill 53 civilians inside ’safety zone’ Sunday

(TamilNet, Monday, 30 March 2009) - Sri Lanka Army (SLA) continued artillery, mortar and long-distance gunfire throughout Sunday killing at least 53 civilians and causing injuries to around 119. At [...]

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Bullet hits ICRC ferry in Sri Lanka

(BBC, 30 03 2009) - A ship evacuating civilians from the conflict zone in northern Sri Lanka has been caught in the cross-fire.
The International Red Cross says a ferry evacuating [...]

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The horror that is unfolding in Sri Lanka becomes possible because of the silence that surrounds it - Arundhati Roy

(Tamilinsight, 30 03 2009) - Arundhati Roy, the great Indian writer and social activist in an articled published today in the Times of India newspaper says the horror that is [...]

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