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SL Police threaten Tamils in Colombo to sign petition against UN

[Tue, 26 Apr 2011, 10:18 GMT]

Sri Lanka’s State Intelligence Unit personnel are threatening Tamils walking along roads in Colombo, forcing them to sign petitions prepared by the Rajapakse led government in an attempt to collect one million signatures against the UN Experts panel report. Tamils who refuse to sign are threatened and subjected to bodily harm, Tamil civil sources allege. Full story >>

April 24, 2011

*The Case against Sri Lanka (I) The Ban Ki Moon panel report - Part 7

*The ‘white flag’ incident and other matters

Extracts from the Ban Ki Moon panelreport(Part6)

April 22, 2011, 6:46 pm

*Extracts from the Ban Ki Moon panel report (Part 5)Detention, Executions, Rape and Disappearances

April 21, 2011, 8:27 pm

*Extracts from the Ban Ki Moon panel report (Part 4)

Understating the number of Tamil civilians

April 20, 2011, 8:39 pm Full Story>>>

Extracts from the Ban Ki Moon panel
report(part 3) - Shelling hospitals

April 19, 2011, 9:05 pm

*Shelling civilian targets

(Part 2)

April 18, 2011, 6:36 pm Full Story>>>

*Ban Ki Moon’s Expert Panel Report

April 16, 2011, 7:44 pm(Part 1) Full Story>>>

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April 15, 2011

*Report of the UNSG’s panel of experts on accountability in SL

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

*In Sri Lanka, UN Allowed Sabotage of its Report, Ban Withheld Information.
By Matthew Russell Lee

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- When the UN gave a copy of its long delayed Panel of Experts' report on war crimes in Sri Lanka to the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa while withholding it from the press and public, the next steps were foreseeable. FullStory>>>.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

*US Urges Sri Lanka to “Use” in a “Process of Accountability” the UN Panel Report - Which Ban Ki-moon Still Withholds

 

Govt. 'covered up' Lasantha murder

The government did everything to cover up the murder of Lasantha Wickramatunge says the widow of the slain editor of Sunday Leader.

"I am satisfied that the government did everything possible to cover up his murder and prevent even a rudimentary police inquiry from proceeding," Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge told BBC Sandeshaya Full Story>>>.

*Sri Lankan Journalist Speaks Of Attacks On Media

By Kaleb Warnock

Poddala Jayantha

Toronto Sun

*Ethnic controversies dog Grits and Tories

By Bryn Weese, Parliamentary Bureau

As the federal political leaders headed back out on the hustings Thursday following the debate intermission, both Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and Conservative Leader Stephen Harper were tripped up by ethnic controversies.

 

Lasantha Would Have Turned 53

Lasantha

Wickrematunge the assassinated editor of The Sunday Leader would have turned 53 this year on Tuesday, April 5.
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Saturday, April 9, 2011

The Govt. is not only going to ban Lanka e News but even ‘Lanka’ newspaper –Mangala

(Lanka-e-News -09.April.2011, 1.00AM) UNP M P Mangala Samaraweera addressing a media briefing yesterday (7) said, according to information reaching them, the Govt. is focusing on prohibiting not only the Lanka e news website but also the ‘Lanka’ newspaper .
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Cricket and Politics In LankaThe Sri Lankan team lost the 2011 Cricket World Cup to India but were welcomed home like winners. Was this politics or the true Sri Lankan spirit of embracing losers as equally as they would victors?. ...Read more

Runner-up answer to prayer

The picture herein shows the statue of Ganadeviya (the deity) within the Temple burnt down by setting fire to it using a tire. Runner-up answer to prayer

(Lanka-e-News 03.April.2011, 11.30PM) Mahinda Rajapaksa tossed up a request but Lord Balaji shouldered arms. Sri Lanka’s Buddhist President tried to...

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Protests and step motherly treatment greet President who visited India to witness world cup cricket match

(Lanka-e-News 04.April.2011, 1.30PM) The Indian media had reported that protests were staged in a number of States in India against SL President Mahinda Rajapakse who toured India to witness the finals...

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Despite there being 13 security personnel for every civilian, Jaffna is a city of unabated brutal crimes –50 recorded just last month alone !

(Lanka-e-News -05.April.2011, 2.00PM) According to Jaffna Police reports , just during the last month of March alone , there had been 50 cases of disappearances of men and women...

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JVP undergrads call on UN to help restore democracy in SL

April 2, 2011, 8:12 pm




ByShamindra Ferdinando
In the run-up to the imminent release of a controversial UN report on alleged ‘war crimes’ committed during Eelam War IV, particularly in the final phase of ground battles on the Vanni front, a section of Sri Lanka’s undergraduates belonging to the JVP is seeking UN intervention to restore democracy in the country. They say that the conclusion of the war in May 2009 hadn’t brought about the anticipated change in the country. FullStory>>>
Courts must have notes - CJ

Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice Asoka de Silva says that it is a legal requirement for any investigative body – not only the courts -to keep records of an inquiry.

*The Problem with Karma: Notes from the Conflict in Sri Lanka

Amarnath Amarasingam

Doctoral candidate, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada

• Poor Sri Lanka In A Billion Dollar Extravaganza

  
  Mar 27 2011 Sri Lanka is plunging headlong to stage a super colossal sporting event which is considered to be the second biggest sporting carnival in the world after the Olympic Games. Last week the Chief executive of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) was in Sri Lanka to discuss…
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   *Another FP blunder: Lanka loses BIMSTEC Secretariat
  
  *Hypocrisy At The University Of Colombo
  
  

  *India, Arab democracy, and human rights

  
  

  *HSBC concerned by Sri Lanka’s lack of progress on Tamil issues

  Thursday, 03 March 2011 16:43 Feizal Samath

  

  A top international bank said this week that while it was encouraged by Sri Lanka’s growth prospects, it was concerned by the lack of ‘concrete programmes’ to integrate the minority Tamil population back into the broader society.
  “Also, we are troubled that the political institutional framework has been weakened by the parliament abolishing presidential term limits, eliminating the supervisory Constitutional Court and gives the president authority to directly appoint officials,” said HSBC Global Research in a report on Asian bond markets released this week.
  
  HSBC concerned by Sri Lanka’s lack of progress on Tamil issues Full Story...

  *The Duplicitous Disclaimer: GOSL, the UN and Accountability

  *Sri Lanka using fines to beat dengue amid rising climate risk

  

  
  

  *SINKING INTO DEBT WHILE AIMING FOR THE START

  

  *Petition against Rajapaksa in US

  
  
  

  • Thursday, March 24, 2011

    Another Island wide strike

    

    
    

    by Wimalananda Sukumar

  Why Sri Lankan University Teachers are not deserving any Salary Increment?
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  • Wikileaks row: US spokesman Crowley quits over gaffe
    
    US & Canada / 13 Mar 2011 US state department spokesman PJ Crowley has resigned after calling the treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks "stupid".
  • PJ Crowley: Bradley Manning's treatment by US 'stupid'
    
    US & Canada / 11 Mar 2011 The US treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks is "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid", US state department…
    

    

    *SRI LANKA: Older returnees face isolation, poverty Displaced to be resettled by end 2011 - government

    
    
    

    *Sir Ian considers 260 mile charity walk in Sri Lanka

    England’s 1981 Ashes hero Sir Ian Botham says he will consider a walk from Point Pedro to Dondara Point to raise funds to help children in the north rebuild their lives. Botham together with Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan flew to

   

  
  

  
  

*At Oxford: A high degree of conspiracy

*Who’s lying? Peiris or Nepal?

*National Anthem only in Sinhala; Tamil version out

TamilNet

*JDS: State sponsored brutality against opposition- "State sponsored violence against dissenting voices in Sri Lanka"

BBC

*Legal limbo Tamils beg for mercy or trial-BBC

One Island Two Nations -Your War Our Lives

*Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations

*UNROW Calls for Establishment of War Crimes Tribunal for Sri Lanka

TamilNet 

*Schools in Jaffna ordered to ‘sing’ Sinhala Only Sri Lanka anthem.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

*Forced prostitution, sex slavery with GoSL complicity – US cable.

*Lanka-UK ties plunge to sub-zero level.

*Jaffna academics’ confab hauled out.

*hindustantimes-Situation in Lanka beyond bleak - Indian official told US.

*Schools in Jaffna ordered to ‘sing’ Sinhala Only Sri Lanka anthem.

*Forced prostitution, sex slavery with GoSL complicity – US cable.

*'Fear still prevails' in Jaffna (series of killings, abductions and robberies.)

By Matthew Russell Lee*As Sri Lanka Brags of Limits on UN War Crimes Panel, UN Stonewalls Press

*After UN Backtracks on Sri Lanka Visit, Snow Job Even on Secretary's Trip

*Concern over Jaffna disappearances

*Abductions shook Mannaar, relatives of victim confront white van

*Assault on Tamil media personnel continues in East   

*Why the media silence on Sri Lanka's descent into dictatorship?

Friday, January 21, 2011

• Lankan Army detains Chennai lawyer

• UN seeks greater humanitarian access for S.Lanka AFP
• ChildFund Responds to Monsoon Floods in Sri Lanka PR Newswire
• UN official launches Sri Lanka aid appeal AP
• Pamuk, other writers 'legitimising S. Lanka suppression' AFP
• Writers pull out of Sri Lanka event

*Flood victims face mine threat

*UN ramping up aid to thousands of flood-affected Sri Lankans

JDS

*Extra-judicial killings, abductions, burglaries haunt Sri Lanka’s north

Sri Lanka: Stonewalling on Wartime Abuses

Jan 24, 2011--The Sri Lankan government refuses to investigate alleged war crimes despite growing evidence of widespread atrocities during the civil wa r that ended in 2009.

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World Report Chapter: Sri Lanka (PDF)

*Sri Lanka shooting 'kills inmatesHome- BBC NEWS

• Inmates of a prison in north-central Sri Lanka accuse the prison authorities of shooting dead protesting prisoners.

* UN help sought to find Prageeth

A Government Cover-Up

A Government Cover-Up

• Lasantha’s Killers Still Walk Free

By Frederica Jansz

At UN on Sri Lanka War Crimes Panel Deadline, Secretariat on 2 Week Vacation, Ban Ki-moon Silent on Discrimination

At UN on Sri Lanka War Crimes Panel Deadline, Secretariat on 2 Week Vacation, Ban Ki-moon Silent on Discrimination

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, December 15 -- On Sri Lanka, today is the deadline set by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Panel of Experts for written submissions. The Panel, through an automatic e-mail from its Secretariat who says he is “out of the office” through the end of the year, states that it “has a limited time for its work and has therefore chosen to request contributions in the written form.”

At UN on Sri Lanka War Crimes Panel Deadline, Secretariat on VacationFULL STORY

Colombo directs closure of Northern UN, ICRC offices

[Wed, 15 Dec 2010, 11:45 GMT]

Following directives from Sri Lanka Government authorities to close the branch offices of the United Nation agencies and the International Committtee of Red Cross (ICRC) in the North, these agencies are reducing the number of staff, civil society sources in Jaffna said. UNICEF, UNHCR, UNDP, and WFP offices are said to be affected by the directive from Colombo. A number of offices of the said organizations in Vanni area have already ceased operations. Meanwhile, British Members of Parliament raised concerns on the closure of the ICRC offices in Jaffna. Full story >>

DELHI MORE ALARMED THAN COLOMBO OVER THE MULLIVAYKAL MASSACRES AND SRI LANKA (SL) WAR CRIMES

by Vssubramaniam for The Ground Report India    December 05, 2010

The Ground Report India

DELHI MORE ALARMED THAN COLOMBO OVER THE MULLIVAYKAL MASSACRES AND SRI LANKA (SL) WAR CRIMES

In a subtle master stroke Gothabhaya Rajapakse more than anyone else was the principal architect of the defeat of the Tamils in Sri Lanka in May 2009. A greater achievement was his diplomatic coup that bought Delhi’s ‘stilled silence’ on SL war crimes that included the locking away of incriminating RAW evidence on the Mullivaykkal war crimes.

Though details relating to the South Block Delhi’s involvement in theMullivaykkal massacres is in the open now, the ‘personal caprice (Bellamy) of the Sonia Delhi’s ‘in the loop’ proxies that stalled the international community’s war crimes initiatives against SL began to collapse when other (non RAW) incriminating evidence began to unravel. These pointed to SL acting as South Block Delhi’s proxy in the killings of Tamils in Mullivaykkal.

Gothabhaya had reasons to be angry over Delhi’s subtle blackmail using RAW aerial pictures of the massacres when in fact SL acted in good faith on ‘in the loop’ Narayanan-Menon’s instructions during that stage of the war. Though RAW pinpointed the presence of the core LTTE leadership in the midst of heavy civilian concentrations in Mullivaykkal, Narayanan-Menon gave Gothabhaya the go-ahead to launch the massive final assault in the ‘no fire zone’ in Mullivaykkal. The ‘no fire zone’ itself isolated and away from prying witnesses is the brain child of Narayanan.. The final assault according to Fonseka was originally planned for August to avoid heavy civilian casualties but the revengeful Narayanan-Menon (Sonia-proxies) keen on eliminating the LTTE leadership totally acted recklessly to abort the US rescue plans to save the lives of the LTTE leadership and civilians. The result was the massacres that was a precedent setting Delhi-Colombo trade off model for wiping off the entire Tamil militancy/resistance and treating the massive civilians casualties as acceptable ‘collateral’ damage. Accordingly, morally the blame for the massacre was not Gothabhaya’s alone. He acted indirectly as the Sonia Delhi’s proxy then.

Except for the‘tom-toming’ Raman, details on the massacres began to unravel fast (within days) once Delhi unfairly attempted to blame SL for the excessive civilian lives lost brandishing its RAW aerial surveillance pictures. The response of the impetuous SL was swift and smart enough to rattle Delhi that instantly caved in to comply with SL’s key demand that it observes ‘a stilled silence’ on all SL’s war crimes details. This was a diplomatic master-stroke.
DELHI MORE ALARMED THAN COLOMBO ..FULL STORY

War Crime evidence.

Sri Lanka 'war crimes' video: woman's body identified