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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is misusing state funds for his reelection - Transparency International
(Transparency International, 31 12 2009) - The Programme for the Protection of Public Resources of Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) released its first report. The report evaluates the integrity of [...]
War-crime allegations piling up in Sri Lanka
(By Feizal Samath, The National - Abu Dhabi, 31 12 2009) - COLOMBO // Seven months after Sri Lanka ended nearly 40 years of bloody insurgency on the island, allegations [...]
Journalist name command officers involved in killing surrendering combatants in Sri Lanka
(War Without Witness, 31 12 2009) - A Journalist has named the brigade and command officers involved in the execution of surrendering LTTE combatants in Sri Lanka, in the early [...]
2009: Mass exodus of journalists from repressive countries such as Iran and Sri Lanka - RSF
(Reporters Without Borders, 31 12 2009) - Wars and disputed elections: The most dangerous stories for journalists - In 2009
76 journalists killed (60 in 2008)
33 journalists kidnapped
573 journalists arrested
1456 physically [...]
Exploring the Myth that the Tamil vote will be the decider at the Presidential Elections
(by Aachcharya, Ground Views, 30 12 2009) - Two Tamil Dailies Thinakkural and Uthayan (Jaffna) carried yesterday a headline report of retired Supreme Court Justice C.V. Wigneswaran’s opinion on whom [...]
Govt. ‘misled’ world powers
(BBC, 30 12 2009) - Two senior leaders of a party that represents Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition have accused Mahinda Rajapaksa administration of misleading the international community to wage war [...]
Sri Lanka’s fragile peace
(BBC, 30 12 2009) - In this week’s Crossing Continents, BBC Colombo correspondent Charles Haviland travels around Sri Lanka - the island nation which saw an epic battle to defeat [...]
Government postpones closure of Tamil refugee camps and investigation of war crimes
(AsiaNews, 30 12 2009) - The Sri Lankan government “can not promise to complete the process of resettlement of displaced persons’ from the camps in Vavuniya by the end of [...]
Sri Lankan refugees leave Indonesia: official
(AFP, 30 12 2009) - JAKARTA — Forty seven Sri Lankan refugees who spent weeks refusing to leave an Australian customs boat in Indonesia have been sent to Australia and [...]
LTTE leaders who surrendered were killed by Army Special Forces
(by D.B.S. Jeyaraj, dbsjeyaraj.com, December 28th, 2009) -
“Who Killed Cock Robin”?
Not I, said the Sparrow
With my Bow and Arrow”
The above lines from an old nursery rhyme recur constantly in [...]
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at the British Labor Party
conference
"Next time you want to buy underwear from Marks & Spencer, you want to buy a t-shirt from Next, you want to go on a holiday of a lifetime in a beautiful island off the coast off India - Do you really want to spend your money on a government that chooses to lock 300,000 people up behind barbed-wire.
A country that is the most dangerous in the world to be a journalist.
A country where we can see on Channel 4 News, young men, naked and bound shot at close range.
Is that what we want for our money, for our democracy?
I ask you to not only support the emergency resolution on Sri Lanka but to use your money and not prop up that government,"
witnessed the bloody conflict
from a Vanni hospital
Video: The Guardian Video: Channel 4
is this evidence of
'war crimes' in Sri Lanka?
25 August 2009 - Channel 4 News shows footage claimed to show Sri Lankan forces executing Tamils earlier this year. Jonathan Miller reports.