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HRW welcomes Ban’s resolve, urges war crimes roadmap
[ Monday, 12 July 2010, 11:25.32 AM GMT +05:30 ]
Welcoming UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s refusal to bow to Sri Lanka’s outrage and disband his recently appointed advisory panel on warcrimes in the island, Human Rights Watch said Sunday that the expert panel should provide him “with a roadmap – which should be made public – for an independent international investigation to examine laws-of-war violations by both sides during the final months of the conflict.”
Mr. Ki-moon’s creation of and support for the three-person Panel of Experts on justice mechanisms – despite persistent Sri Lankan government opposition – shows “important new resolve to promote accountability for war crimes”, Human Rights Watch said in a statement. HRW statement was issued in response to raucous demonstrations late last week led by a Sri Lankan government minister, who also went on a short ‘fast-unto-death’, to protest the appointment of the panel. Though Mr. Wimal Weerawamsa resigned his portfolio midway through the protest, the protests are widely acknowledged as government-backed.

“The fracas around the UN headquarters is just the latest episode in the Sri Lankan government’s efforts to ensure nothing is done to bring justice for war crimes,” said Elaine Pearson, acting Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Anyone who ever thought this government would get serious about investigating wartime atrocities should look at the ruckus being raised over three advisors to the UN secretary-general.”

“That Secretary-General Ban is standing his ground against the anti-UN protests in Colombo is a strong endorsement of the need for justice and accountability in Sri Lanka,” Pearson said. “It’s time the Sri Lankan government started working with Ban, rather than against him.” The three-member expert panel, consisting of an Indonesian, a South African, and an American, was appointed in June, though it has not yet convened. HRW said. The Sri Lankan government promptly announced that it would not provide visas to the panel members to visit the country.
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Land mines excavated from Jaffna Vadamarachchci area
[ Friday, 03 September 2010, 09:49.13 AM ]
Sri Lankan government had informed that the land mines excavation in the Jaffna Vadamarachchi area has been done completely. Government believes, the resettlements could be expedited. [More]
89 thousand women had lost their husbands during north and east war
[ Friday, 03 September 2010, 01:16.58 AM ]
Reports states, 89 thousand women living in the north and east provinces have lost their husbands due to war. Out of them 25,000 widows are living in the Batticoloa district is according to statistics reports. Tamil National Alliance Parliament Member P.Selvaraja made this statement. [More]
Southern businessmen grab Vanni people’s assets
[ Friday, 03 September 2010, 01:11.57 AM ]
Reports states, the Sinhalese and Muslim businessmen are in the habit of grabbing the abandoned assets of displaced Vanni people. Towards these activities the military are engaged in duties in the Vanni region are cooperating is according to Vanni information. [More]
Nirupama visits Mullaitheevu and Trincomalee
[ Thursday, 02 September 2010, 01:12.18 AM ] []
Indian External Affairs Secretary Nirupama Rao visited Mullaitheevu today to find the situations in the district. She met the Mullaitheevu Government Agent Nagalingam Vethanayagam at 8.30 a.m. The Government Agent informed in detail about the situation of the resettled persons, and the request for Indian aid. She distributed Indian aid items to the resettled people. [More]
Sarath Fonseka suddenly suffering falls sick
[ Thursday, 02 September 2010, 01:08.45 AM ]
A leading Sinhala website had quoted a news item that Democratic National Alliance Leader Sarath Fonseka had suddenly suffering from ill health. The doctors from the navy forces are examining his health conditions is according to reports. [More]
Weapons flow from India is the main cause for the Tamil people’s devastation – Prof.Chittampalam
[ Thursday, 02 September 2010, 12:58.37 AM ] []
Prof.C.K.Chittampalam made a statement that, arms supplied from India during the internal war in Sri Lanka, is the main cause for the massive devastation of Tamil civilians which is the general opinion from many Tamils. He made this comment while he met Indian External Affairs Secretary Nirupama Rao at the Jaffna Public Library yesterday. [More]
New Zealand Supreme Court decides LTTE a political organisation
[ Monday, 30 August 2010, 12:57.00 PM ]
The Supreme Court of New Zealand Friday dismissed the appeal of the government seeking rejection of the refugee status of an Eezham Tamil who was captaining a ship carrying arms to the LTTE. [More]
More than settlements, government working hard for splits states, Mano Ganeshan
[ Saturday, 28 August 2010, 12:50.03 AM ]
Democratic People’s Front Leader Mano Ganeshan said, the Sri Lankan government does not have any concern to find a settlement to the crisis faced by the Sri lankan Tamils. [More]
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Senior SLA officer: ‘Kill everybody!’ order came from the top (VIDEO UPDATED)
[ Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 09:47.51 PM ] []
A senior Sri Lankan Army commander and frontline soldier have told Britain’s Channel 4 News that point-blank executions of Tamils at the end of the civil war in May 2009 were carried out under orders ‘from the top’. In an extended segment on Sri Lanka Tuesday, Channel 4 broadcast translated video interviews with the two soldiers. [More]