TAG will be using several images of the war area acquired from a Satellite Image vendor at different dates prior to and after May 18th when the Sri Lanka’s war officially ended, and will be processing the data to collect evidence of the massacre by Sri Lanka. Times UK has alleged from aerial photos and […]
28 August 2009 – A United Nations human rights expert today called for the immediate establishment of an independent inquiry into the authenticity of a video which purportedly depicts the extrajudicial execution of two naked and helpless men by the Sri Lankan military and the presumed prior executions of others.Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur […]
A Tamil journalist Tissanayagam who wrote articles criticising the Sri Lankan government’s war against the Tamil Tigers was today sentenced to 20 years’ hard labour under the country’s anti-terrorism laws. Tissainayagam’s defence lawyers said their client would appeal, maintaining he had always fought for human rights. The journalist’s case has attracted international attention, with President […]
The Sri Lankan Defence establishment headed by Gotapaya Rajapaksa is suspicious of the possibility of journalists who covered the northern military operations selling video tapes and photographs to foreign media institutions. Director General, Media Center for National Security, Lakshman Hulugalle has requested the Media Minister to hand over all material related to the military operation […]
24 September 2009 A detainee was seriously injured and had to be hospitalized as a clash broke out between the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and detainees being held at a school in Vavuniya in north-eastern Sri Lanka on Tuesday.The detainee, Sri Chandramorgan from Kanahapuram, Kilinochchi, was initially reported to have been killed by the army […]
Geneva/Colombo (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) strongly objects to misleading public references to its confidential findings on disappearances that were included in a recent statement by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the statement, issued on 15 March in response to the United States Department of State’s 2007 […]
As of today, 246’000 people who fled from the Vanni remain inside camps in the Vavuniya district and there are concerns about the future situation in the coming monsoon despite the ongoing effort mobilized.Regarding health care provision, the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health have mobilized significant resources from all over the country to provide health […]
UNITED NATIONS Press Release Freedom of movement for a quarter of a million displaced, UN Representative discusses with Sri Lankan government GENEVA (29 September 2009) –“Restoration of freedom of movement for more than 250,000 internally displaced persons held in closed camps in Northern Sri Lanka is becoming a matter of urgency, and I remain very […]
Enough is enough. It is well past time to release civilians detained in the camps. Sri Lanka’s international friends should tell the government that they will not accept any more broken promises. – Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights (New York) – The Sri Lankan government’s recent statements that it aims to return only […]
Full Text of the Notice issued by the EU Commission follows: Sri Lanka has benefited from the European Union’s Generalised System of Preferences special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance (“GSP+”) since 2005. GSP+ provides additional tariff preferences – in the form of additional reductions or even elimination of import duties beyond those […]
