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

Activists and journalists have been campaigning calling for investigations into Lasantha's 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.
Apr 3 2011 Read More »

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

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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