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Editorial: Hope for Change
[ TWG Editorial ] [ 12 Oct 2024 19:55 GMT ]
If a negotiated agreement can be reached with the Sinhala mainstream parties with the support of the Sinhala public, Tamil people will likely have a safe and secure land in which to live in peace and harmony with their Sinhalese neighbours.
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Into the heart of Sri Lanka’s civil war
[ Frontline ] [ 06 Oct 2024 10:00 GMT ]
The civil war in Sri Lanka, which began in 1983 and lasted for nearly three decades, killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced millions, and convulsed the island nation for a generation.
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Presidential Marxism: AKD And The Sri Lankan Elections – OpEd
[ Eurasia Review ] [ 01 Oct 2024 22:30 GMT ]
AKD's presidential victory tickles and excites the election watchers for various reasons. He does not hail from any of the dynastic families that have treated rule and the presidential office as electoral real estate and aristocratic privilege.
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HRW Oral Statement on Sri Lanka at the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 15 Sep 2024 18:59 GMT ]
This Council has mandated the high commissioner’s office to monitor and report on the situation in Sri Lanka, to collect and preserve evidence of serious violations of international law, and to develop strategies for accountability, which are essential to maintain scrutiny on the country’s human rights crisis, give victims and their families hope, and deter future violations.
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Transitional Justice and Terrorism: The Case of Sri Lanka
[ International Centre for Counter-Terrorism ] [ 11 Sep 2024 22:39 GMT ]
The policy brief discusses these conditions in detail, demonstrates their absence in the Sri Lankan context, and the failure of any transitional justice procedure under the current circumstances.
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Escalating land grabs threaten Tamils and Muslims in Sri Lanka
[ NewsIn.Asia ] [ 09 Sep 2024 23:16 GMT ]
'The intensification of Sri Lanka's ethnocratic practices documented in this report compounds the already existing misery, injustice, resentment, and jeopardizes any possibility of accountability and redressal for crimes committed by the Sri Lankan state during the civil war to now.
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UN Report Details Sri Lanka's Dire Rights Situation
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 07 Sep 2024 10:30 GMT ]
The high commissioner calls upon members of the UN Human Rights Council to renew UN mandates for monitoring and evidence collection and for 'the international community to help break the cycle of systematic impunity by using all potential forms of jurisdiction.'
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Sri Lanka: Families of ‘Disappeared’ Persecuted
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 01 Sep 2024 00:02 GMT ]
'Successive Sri Lankan governments have resisted any progress to address the terrible legacy of enforced disappearances, and instead compounded the anguish of victims' families,' Ganguly said.
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Tamil question in Lankan Presidential manifestos
[ News In Asia ] [ 31 Aug 2024 13:49 GMT ]
Taking all these experiences as a lesson, it would be prudent for the leaders of the Tamil parties to adopt a strategy that would ensure full implementation of the 13th Amendment for the time being.
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Sri Lanka: Veteran opposition leader Sampanthan dies
[ BBC News ] [ 01 July 2024 14:02 GMT ]
In 2022, Sampanthan sent a letter to the UN's Human Rights Council alleging that the Sinhalese-led government was continuing to oppress Tamils, indefinitely detaining political prisoners, preventing displaced civilians from resettling on their land.
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2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Sri Lanka
[ U.S. Department of State ] [ 29 June 2024 14:02 GMT ]
Marginalized communities such as the Malayaha Tamils, whose ancestors migrated from India to work on plantations, continue to experience marginalization and discrimination.
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Merry-go-round in Sri Lanka
[ Asia News Network ] [ 24 June 2024 17:35 GMT ]
Between these two extremes—no devolution and 13A plus—it is merry-go-round on the crucial question of Tamil political aspiration in Sri Lanka
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EDITORIAL - The International Criminal Court and beyond
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 04 June 2024 10:32 GMT ]
There must be a concerted effort to ensure Tamil people can exercise their right to self-determination and a long-lasting peaceful solution is finally found. Only then can the abuses and violence that continue to plague the island be halted.
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Sri Lanka: Elusive Accountability
[ Sri Lanka Guardian ] [ 28 May 2024 22:15 GMT ]
Ms Callamard addressing a press conference made a fervent plea to the Sri Lanka authorities to meet their national and international obligations to find answers as to what happened to thousands of missing and forcibly disappeared people.
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Sri Lanka: Crackdown Over Civil War Anniversary
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 23 May 2024 21:43 GMT ]
'It is vitally important for the UN Human Rights Council to renew the Sri Lanka Accountability Project’s mandate in September, and for prosecutors around the world to make use of the evidence gathered to bring those responsible to justice.'
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Challenges to Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka
[ US Commission on Intl Religious Freedom ] [ 25 Apr 2024 07:53 GMT ]
Religious freedom conditions in Sri Lanka are on a worrying trajectory. Discrimination and periodic violence against religious minorities - particularly the Tamil Christians, Tamil Hindus, and Muslims - have exacerbated religious tensions.
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'My hell in Myanmar cyber slavery camp'
[ BBC ] [ 23 Apr 2024 02:03 GMT ]
The 24-year-old Sri Lankan found himself trapped in the Myanmar jungle, being tortured for refusing to help trick lonely, rich men out of thousands in so-called romance scams.
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Communalisation of Sri Lankan Tamil politics
[ NewsIn Asia ] [ 13 Apr 2024 23:25 GMT ]
Chelvanayakam led the Tamil political movement against the imposition of Sinhala. His presence as the great helmsman of the Tamil ship saw him charter a course of secular Tamil nationalism centered around language.
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Searching for security
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 03 Apr 2024 22:44 GMT ]
The ongoing intimidation, arrests and torture are to ensure that Tamils live in perpetual fear, never daring to resist Sinhala rule.
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The Sri Lankan Cardinal's change of heart?
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 17 Feb 2024 17:15 GMT ]
Sri Lanka's Archbishop of Colombo delivered a statement at the UN Human Rights Council where he called for an investigation into the Easter Sunday attacks and – for the 1st time – spoke of accountability 'for the atrocities in the North-East.'
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Sri Lankan Laws Threaten Democracy, Warns UN Rights Chief
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 08 Mar 2024 07:10 GMT ]
Fifteen years since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, the government has blocked accountability for grave rights violations, while families of those who 'disappeared' during the conflict face intimidation, arrests and violence.
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Sri Lanka: A journey into the wounds of civil war
[ Vatican News ] [ 01 Mar 2024 19:45 GMT ]
In the northern part of Sri Lanka, the damage of the long and bloody ethnic conflict between Tamils and Sinhalese is still evident. Young people have few prospects in a country where tourism only now seems to have recovered.
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EDITORIAL - Legalising repression
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 10 Feb 2024 23:54 GMT ]
Until Sri Lanka is forced into reform, everyone on the island has their freedom of expression endangered and liberty at risk.
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Sri Lanka: New Transitional Justice Process Lacks Credibility
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 06 Feb 2024 15:34 GMT ]
The Sri Lankan government's proposed law to create another body to investigate wartime abuses replicates previous failed efforts, ignores the needs of victims, and falls far short of meeting Sri Lanka's international legal obligations, Human Rights Watch said.
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Call to Sri Lanka to revise anti-terrorism bill
[ United Nations Human Rights ] [ 24 Jan 2024 12:59 GMT ]
We are seriously concerned by the revised Anti-Terrorism Bill currently being considered in the Sri Lankan Parliament to replace the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act.
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The Ancient Greeks of India's Tamil Nadu Region
[ Greek Reporter ] [ 13 Jan 2024 11:51 GMT ]
Poompuhar, a port city with an important harbour for the Cholas - which actually had a prosperous Greek population - during a time of trade between the seafaring nations and Tamil Nadu.
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Assassinated Tamil MP remembered in Batticaloa
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 27 Dec 2023 14:50 GMT ]
Pararajasingham, who was a senior Tamil National Alliance figure, and the MP for Batticaloa district, was shot and killed by two armed paramilitary men, whilst he was attending Christmas Eve midnight mass in 2005.
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Emerald Plight
[ India Legal ] [ 09 Dec 2023 09:52 GMT ]
Sri Lanka has always supported China over India. China is the preferred partner.
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Young Reporter: Maaveerar Naal, A Tamil remembrance
[ Local London ] [ 03 Dec 2023 11:15 GMT ]
The military still have much control over the country and Tamils are still oppressed, trying to get justice for all those who sacrificed their lives for freedom and for all the innocent lives lost.
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UNHRC Chief Suggests Targeted Sanctions On Sri Lanka
[ The Citizen ] [ 27 Sep 2023 01:15 GMT ]
The lack of accountability at all levels remains the fundamental human rights problem in Sri Lanka, according to the latest report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T�rk on the island nation.
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'If We Raise Our Voice They Arrest Us'
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 18 Sep 2023 12:40 GMT ]
Countless thousands of Sri Lankans await justice and accountability for serious human rights violations and war crimes committed during decades of civil unrest and armed conflict.
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India at HRC reiterates calls for implementation of 13A
[ Daily FT ] [ 14 Sep 2023 10:30 GMT ]
Progress on the commitments is inadequate and we urge the Government to work meaningfully towards early implementation of its commitments to ensure fundamental and human rights of citizens are fully protected,' he said.
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Sri Lanka - Release International Report
[ Release International ] [ 11 Sep 2023 10:40 GMT ]
One on-going project provides scholarship support for children from persecuted and marginalised families, providing spiritual support as well as helping the children with their education.
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India pushes, Sri Lanka resists
[ Deccan Herald ] [ 22 Aug 2023 23:05 GMT ]
The Tamil diaspora and the refugees living in the refugee camps of India are looking forward to a comprehensive package that accepts their demand for an international inquiry, the setting up of a Peace and Reconciliation Commission on the lines of of South Africa.
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Stalin calls for retrieving Katchatheevu
[ The Hindu ] [ 20 Aug 2023 00:40 GMT ]
Retrieving the Katchatheevu islet from Sri Lanka alone, would put a permanent end to the problems of fishermen in Tamil Nadu, said Chief Minister M. K. Stalin.
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Tamil temptations
[ Midland Express ] [ 13 Aug 2023 22:02 GMT ]
Niro, a Sri Lankan Tamil who had himself sought asylum in Australia to escape violence and persecution in his home country, now runs a successful catering business.
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Nation cast out of paradise reemerges
[ New Age ] [ 11 Aug 2023 22:30 GMT ]
The broader truth commission needs to include the trail of death from Talaimannar to Matale, and the need for accountability, reparations and institutional reforms to rectify the wrongs of the past, including the colonial period.
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Difficult Empathies
[ Public Books ] [ 10 Aug 2023 20:48 GMT ]
A Passage North testifies to Arudpragasam's unfailing empathy. But reading Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field instead reveals this author�s jarring lapses in empathy.
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Diplomats meet with Families of the Disappeared
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 06 Aug 2023 08:30 GMT ]
Tamil Families of the Disappeared have protested for over 2,300 days demanding an account for their missing loved ones and for the international community to pursue an international mechanism.
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Sri Lanka: Black July After Four Decades
[ SL Guardian ] [ 31 July 2023 00:05 GMT ]
History will judge, if it has not already done so, President J.R. Jayewardene, elected six years earlier with an unprecedented mandate, for this colossal failure.
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Soppana Sundari - Engine trouble
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 13 April 2023 23:58 GMT ]
Film 'Soppana Sundari' hails from the 1989 film 'Karakattakkaran,' a film with a densely packed and iconic comedy track.
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Sri Lanka: Reject New Counterterrorism Bill
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 09 April 2023 11:20 GMT ]
'The Anti-Terrorism Bill needs to be seen both in light of Sri Lanka's abusive history of counterterrorism powers and the current government's repression of peaceful dissent,' Ganguly said.
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Sri Lanka: IMF Loan Risks Eroding Rights
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 06 April 2023 12:30 GMT ]
'The government should recognize that the public deserves real accountability, whether it's for past war crimes or ongoing misgovernance and repression of critics.'
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UN Paints Bleak Picture of Rights in Sri Lanka
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 02 April 2023 17:12 GMT ]
The report describes the targeting of minorities, notably Tamils and Muslims, by 'land grabs,' 'hate speech and misinformation,' and 'attacks against places of worship.'
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Canada sanctions ex-Sri Lanka presidents Mahinda, Gotabaya
[ Aljazeera ] [ 24 March 2023 15:00 GMT ]
Canada has imposed sanctions on four top Sri Lankan officials, including former presidents Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, over 'gross and systematic violations of human rights' during armed conflict in the island nation from 1983 to 2009, the Canadian foreign ministry has said.
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Sampling Sambol in Sri Lanka
[ The New Indian Express ] [ 22 March 2023 19:50 GMT ]
In the 'up country', as Sri Lankans refer to hill stations such as Hatton, one can find a few Tamil cuisine-influenced sambols like ash plantain.
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Should India abolish its state governors?
[ BBC ] [ 21 March 2023 19:25 GMT ]
Last week India's Supreme Court fretted that the country's governors could end up undermining democracy if their actions triggered the fall of a functioning state government.
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Pope Francis: 10 moments from 10 years as Pope
[ Cafod ] [ 13 March 2023 19:45 GMT ]
Whether it's the witness he's shown to the Gospel in his encounters with the most marginalised members of our global family, or his words of wisdom for young people and world leaders alike, Pope Francis has inspired countless people to work for a better world.
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EU ACTION PLAN ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY 2020 - 2024
[ EU�s Special Representative for Human Rights ] [ 27 Feb 2023 23:02 GMT ]
Defending human rights and democratic principles is a collective exercise, not a unilateral endeavour. No country, no matter how powerful and influential, can match the credibility of the international community acting through its institutions.
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China Should Rethink Its Position on Debt
[ Human Rights Watch ] [ 25 Feb 2023 18:52 GMT ]
Should the Chinese government genuinely value the rights it claims to promote at the United Nations, it needs to urgently reassess how it manages the unsustainable debt it holds.
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UNHCR's gratuitous advice on Sri Lankan refugees
[ The Leaflet ] [ 16 Feb 2023 18:50 GMT ]
The UNHCR has been aiding and abetting the Indian and Sri Lankan governments' efforts to send Sri Lankan Tamil refugees back to Sri Lanka, with a campaign of disinformation, enticement and skulduggery.
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Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past
[ BBC ] [ 15 Jan 2023 00:05 GMT ]
Zeinab Badawi is in Sri Lanka to talk to one of the country�s most influential artists and archaeologists Jagath Weerasinghe. What does his art tell us about Sri Lanka�s bloody and difficult past and its prospects for a more peaceful future?
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Newsnight Global: Sri Lanka
[ BBC ] [ 13 Jan 2023 14:30 GMT ]
What might the future bring for Sri Lanka, and what lessons can be learned for other nations facing potential financial disaster?
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India befriends Sri Lanka as China�s shadow looms
[ Japan News ] [ 06 Jan 2023 23:05 GMT ]
India provided about $4 billion in rapid assistance between January and July, including credit lines, a currency swap arrangement and deferred import payments, and sent a warship carrying essential drugs for the island�s 22 million people.
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Trincomalee Massacre 2006
[ Counter Currents ] [ 03 Jan 2023 16:06 GMT ]
The killings came a month after then Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa assumed office and the island began to slide towards all-out war.
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