Call for Sri Lankan war atrocities investigation

Published: 23 October 2011
By: Paul Dobbyn

RECONCILIATION in post-civil war Sri Lanka is impossible if the country's Government fails to adequately investigate allegations of war crimes committed by its army (SLA) in 2009.

Brisbane archdiocese's Catholic Social Justice and Peace Commission (CJPC) executive officer Peter Arndt made the claim in a talk, A Call for Justice in Sri Lanka, presented in Sydney last week.

Mr Arndt raised this and other issues at an international human rights conference held by the Australian Tamil Congress and the Global Tamil Forum on Thursday (October 20).

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Though a Bihari, Ram Vilas Paswan feels for Tamils in Sri Lanka

19 Oct 2011                                                   

New Spokesperson: Paswan says he will raise Sri Lankan Tamils issue in Parliament and demand the Indian government to spell out its stand on the ethnic issue  The Sri Lankan Tamils have found a new hope in a rustic north Indian voice in their fight for justice against the Sri Lankan government that recently waged a war killing thousands of Tamilians in the garb of ‘war against terror’. This new found support came from Bihar’s veteran socialist leader Ram Vilas Paswan who severely criticised the Mahinda Rajapakse led Sri Lanka government for unleashing violence on the Tamils in the island nation. Speaking in New Delhi at ‘Convention on war crimes in Sri Lanka’, the veteran politician said that his party, Lok Janshakti Party, would raise the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils in the Indian Parliament and would seek concrete answers. Full Story>>>