Northern Provincial Council (NPC) councillor, Ms Ananthy Sasitharan, wrote to the OHRC Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) on 23 October 2014, asking that more time be given for the people on the ground to send their submissions to the OISL. Ms Ananthy has requested to extend the time for submissions by one month or at least to the extent possible, citing an atmosphere of intimidation, threats and …
Tamil Civil Society Forum Opinion on the Appropriateness of the Northern Provincial Council Passing a Resolution on Genocide The Tamil Civil Society Forum issues this statement to state its position on the question of the appropriateness of the Northern Provincial Council passing a resolution identifying the crimes that were …
China does not want to overstep into India’s sphere of influence by bringing Sri Lanka and Maldives into the maritime New Silk Road, according to an official of the Communist Party of China (CPC). “We don’t want to get into India’s sphere,” said Luan Jianzhang, Deputy Director General of Policy Research Office at the CPC Central Committee’s International Department. The International Department is mainly concerned with …
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), in a special statement today, has noted that acts specified in article 2 of the Genocide Convention of 1948 have undeniably been perpetrated on the Tamil people by functionaries of the Sri Lankan state over several decades. The press release went on note that the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) …
In the fishing village of Oori, two mothers await news of their young daughters who were taken to a care home three months ago after their alleged rape by members of the Sri Lankan navy. In a lawyer’s office in the town of Mannar, a middle-aged woman sobs uncontrollably as she recounts her five-year struggle to find her son, one of thousands of cases of young …
European Union judges struck down anti-terrorism sanctions against the Tamil Tigers that were imposed by the EU but said on Thursday that the assets of the Sri Lankan group should remain frozen for the time being. The court said a decision by EU leaders in 2006 to place the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on a list of terrorist organisations had been based on “imputations …
The European Court of Justice will rule on Thursday (16 October) whether European Union leaders were right to include the LTTE – a Sri Lankan nationalist militant organisation – on a list of terrorist organisations subject to an asset freeze. In its 2006 decision, EU leaders noted a number of attacks carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during their conflict with the …
By Dead and Missing Person’s Parents Front NANDANI ‘RAPE’ STORY WINS HER ASYLUM IN UK Sri Lanka’s Unfinished War a BBC Documentary presented by Frances Harrison fulfilled every criteria of an attention-grabbing piece of fiction. Unfortunately, the story that emerges …
Sri Lanka’s record on its adherence to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) will be reviewed in Geneva later today (7 October). Sri Lanka, a party to the ICCPR since 1980, submitted a report in 2012, in which it outlined its “humanitarian operation” and the “progress” it had made on several fronts, including demilitarisation and restoration of civil administration in the North-East. The HRC in response …
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had raised concerns over the Aluthgama incident when he met President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the UN last weekend. Ban’s spokesman Farhan Haq said the UN Chief had raised his concerns with the incident of religious violence that took place in June and noted that he counted on the President’s leadership to keep reaching out to minorities. Haq said Ban also wanted …
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