On Monday ( 20th April 2009 ) Sri Lankan Army attack targeting civilian areas using cluster bombs, gas bombs and heavy weapons was planned to inflict more damages to people and force evict them in to army controlled areas, said an Eye Witness to WWW. On Monday’s indiscriminate attack on civilian areas more than 1500 feared dead […]
An event organized by a group of activists on international human rights day to highlight the impact of disappearances on society and we will also take a look at what has so far been done to prevent such incidents from occurring in our midst.
Sri Lankan defence secretary Gotapaya Rajapaksa ordered the arrest of 3 UK television journalists working for London-based Channel-4 television news for exposing absuses in detention camps in their recent documentory today on 9th May 2009, reports said. – Nick Paton Walsh, the channel’s Asian correspondent – Bessie Du , Producer – Matt Jasper, Cameraman Link: Grim […]
Date: Sunday, May 10, 2009, 8:46 AM 10 May 2009 Dear Sir / Madam, Due to huge number of injured civilians brought to hospital, the hospital is unable to give the services to all patients. Many wounded civilians are without treatment for more than 24 hours. more than 50 % health staff are not reported […]
A joint statement on the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka issued on 12 May 2009 by the United States and the United Kingdom following a meeting between Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, at the Department of State in Washington, DC. During their meeting today, Secretary Clinton and U.K. Foreign […]
Sri Lankan Defence Ministry named three leading lawyers Srinath Perera, Upul Jayasuriya & S. Sumanthirana as Traitors in its official website, which is usually a first death warning in Sri Lanka. Full Text Traitors in black coats flocked together ? Leader Publications (Pvt) Ltd, publishers of the Sunday Leader newspaper was charged with Contempt of […]
25th July 2009 – Sri Lankan Justice Ministry’s parliamentary consultative committee has taken up the matter of remand prisoners being allegedly stripped naked when they return to the Welikada prison after attending courts. TNA members N. Sri Kantha and Sivanathan Kishor made these allegations at a committee meeting chaired by Justice Minister Milinda Moragoda on […]
July 22, 2009 (New York) – Members of the International Monetary Fund should insist that the government of Sri Lanka address significant post-conflict human rights abuses as part of the approval for a US$2.5 billion stand-by loan, Human Rights Watch said today. The IMF board is expected to vote on the stand-by arrangement on July […]
APRIL 2004 – MARCH 2O09 2004 1. Aiyathurai A. Nadesan – Journalist / 31 May 2. Kandaswamy Aiyer Balanadaraj – Writer / 16 August 3. Lanka Jayasundera – Photo journalist/ 11 December 2005 4. Dharmaratnam Sivaram – Editor / 28 April 5. Kannamuttu Arsakumar – Media worker/ 29 June 6. Relangee Selvarajah – Journalist / […]
“..Gotapaya Rajapakse spoke with the “commander of the army’s 58th division, giving orders not to accommodate any LTTE (Tiger) leaders attempting to surrender and that they must all be killed”, Fonseka said…” Full Text of AFP News S.Lanka rebels killed in cold blood: ex-army chief COLOMBO — Sri Lankan troops shot dead surrendering Tamil Tiger […]
