Around the World, Young Tamil Voices Not Quieted By War’s End

(Time, Wed, Jul 1, 2009 ) - For years, young Tamils have been staging protests calling for international intervention in Sri Lanka’s civil war to help establish a permanent ceasefire. [...]

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SL military shoots dead 2 detainees in Vavuniyaa internment camp

(TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 June 200) - Sri Lanka military personnel opened fire Sunday morning on detainees in an attempt to stop them making way through the barbed wire fence separating [...]

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Lanka issue: AIADMK members evicted en masse from TN assembly

(Times of India, 30 Jun 2009) - CHENNAI: Opposition AIADMK members were today evicted en masse from the Tamil Nadu assembly as they disrupted the proceedings by raising slogans to [...]

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Sri Lanka’s ethnic conundrum: It won the war, but has lost its mind?

(By Martin Regg Cohn, the Toronto Star’s deputy editorial page editor, Jun 30, 2009 ) - It won the war, but has Sri Lanka lost its mind?
After declaring total victory [...]

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Sri Lanka allows aids from disputed cargo ship

(Xinhua, COLOMBO, June 30 ) — A cargo ship carrying humanitarian aid for Sri Lanka’s war-affected civilians has been allowed to unload its goods in southern India after it was [...]

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‘Lanka not doing enough to rehabilitate displaced Tamils’

(PTI, Tue, Jun 30, 2009 ) - India on Monday said Sri Lanka has not done enough to rehabilitate displaced Tamils and asked Colombo to allow the Red Cross to [...]

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Hostages

(Tamil Guardian, Tue, Jun 30, 2009 ) - Sri Lanka is – again – trying to make money through Tamil suffering.
Sri Lanka is demanding international aid whilst at the same [...]

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Stop order to Peace Secretariat

(Daily Mirror, Tue, Jun 30, 2009 ) - The presidential secretariat yesterday directed the closure of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) at the end of next month, [...]

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Sri Lanka-China pact on power project

(Hindu, Tue, Jun 30, 2009 ) - Sri Lanka and China on Monday signed an agreement on the second and third stages of the $891-million Norochcholai Coal Power 600 MW [...]

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Chile on ICC and “Nationalist” Guerrillas in Sri Lanka, UN Mum on Camps It Funds But Claims To Not Control

(By Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UNITED NATIONS, Tue, Jun 30, 2009 ) - As Chile joined the International Criminal Court on June 29, Inner City [...]

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