| Channel 4′s Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields |
[ Wednesday, 15 June 2011, 02:10.52 AM ] [ ] |
 New video evidence of the alleged executions of bound prisoners in Sri Lanka has emerged and is to be broadcast in full in Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields on Channel 4, as pressure builds for an international investigation. |
| screens Channel 4 Sri Lanka war crimes film |
| [ Friday, 03 June 2011, 11:16.53 PM ] [] |
 The documentary is an hour-long investigation into the final weeks of the bloody Sri Lankan civil war and features damning new evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
| New wars crime claims - Channel4 |
| [ Wednesday, 01 December 2010, 02:03.15 AM ] [] |
 Channel 4 News reveals new footage of the alleged massacre of Tamil prisoners which promoted a UN investigation last year, as the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse arrives in London. |
| UN Expert Panel call for evidence on alleged violations in Sri-Lanka |
[ Thursday, 21 October 2010, 12:06.55 PM ] [ ] |
 the UN Secretary-General established a Panel of Experts to advise him on the issue of accountability with regard to alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the final stages of the conflict in Sri Lanka . The members of the Panel are Marzuki Darusman, Steven Ratner and Yasmin Sooka. The Panel officially began its work on 16 September 2010. |
| 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. |
| Breaking the deadlock through transnational governance |
| [ Monday, 15 June 2009, 12:49.47 PM ] |
 The need of the time now is the metamorphosis of the existing infrastructure into a democratic and inclusive transnational government of Eezham Tamils to strengthen the diaspora socially, economically and culturally; to achieve the goal of independence and sovereignty of Eezham Tamils in the home country and to meet the international challenges internationally. Many of our readers confuse between the concepts of transnational government and government in exile. While the government in exile is a conventional phenomenon that needs a host country, the transnational government is a novel experiment that has no precedence. |
| 1200 bodies counted, hundreds seriously injured, aerial bombing continues (VIDEO UPDATED) |
| [ Sunday, 10 May 2009, 12:28.20 PM ] [] |
 Rescue workers within the Mullaiththeevu Safety Zone have counted more than 1200 bodies after the large scale slaughter Saturday night and Sunday morning by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) with the use of cluster ammunition, multi-barrel rocket launchers and cannons, sources from Vanni said. The workers fear that there may be additional bodies yet to be uncovered, and the numbers killed will likely rise. Rescue workers also said several hundreds were very seriously injured, and the critical shortage of medicine at the makeshift hospital will lead to many more deaths. |
| 179 civilians including 76 children killed within 3 days inside 'safety zone' (VIDEO UPDATED) |
| [ Sunday, 29 March 2009, 09:16.09 AM ] [] |
 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) attacks have claimed the lives of 179 civilians within the three days of Thursday, Friday and Saturday, according to the casualty figures collected by TamilNet correspondent in Vanni. At least 76 of the slain victims were children below the age of 15. At least 16 pregnant mothers were among the slain. More than 109 children below the age of 15 have sustained injuries. Around 45% of the thousands of shells fired by the SLA have hit the safety zone. Meanwhile, a foreign staff of the ICRC, who came in the ship on Saturday to transport the wounded civilian had a narrow escape when the ship was hit by long distance gunfire by the SLA damaging a window of the ship. On Friday, a local ICRC worker, P. Satheeskumar, was reportedly injured in SLA shelling. |
| Destroy the tigers before April 14th - India to Sri Lanka |
| [ Friday, 20 March 2009, 05:24.49 AM ] |
 The election campaign had started for the forthcoming election from April16th to May 13th. There was a major opposition waves for congress in due course of Sri Lankan war issue. In this situation Congress had made a secret effort to Sri Lankan Government to destroy upto the root of tigers. |
| Eyewitness account on Vavuniyaa internment camps |
| [ Thursday, 19 February 2009, 06:13.52 PM ] |
 "Now, what is happening here is genocide in many forms. Needless to say scattering people all over to unknown and unfamiliar places will ultimately lead to a weak population and result in damages done to our culture, education, and relationships. I can foresee a maimed Tamil generation with no hope in the future. The international community can make statements. But none will pay heed. For me the future looks dark and gloomy," reveals a letter written by a professional eyewitness, who visited the barbed-wired internment camps and hospital in Vavuniyaa couple of days ago. |
| India mistaken on arms and talks - experts |
| [ Monday, 16 February 2009, 07:51.41 PM ] |
 Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram’s call for the LTTE to surrender arms was not in keeping with international practice on conflict resolution, but an endorsement of the Sri Lankan government’s hardline position, scholars of conflict and peace said Monday. They pointed a number of successful peace processes, including those with the ANC, IRA and Nepal’s Maoists had proceeded without making arms surrender a precondition for talks. There had also been several peace processes involving the LTTE without this precondition, a scholar of Sri Lanka’s conflict pointed out. The Indian government was in effect supporting the Rajapakse government’s efforts to avoid negotiations on a lasting settlement by making talks conditional on a demand unacceptable to any party to a conflict, some academics opined. |
| Opinion Poll: Tamils want Separation, urge new U.S. |
| [ Thursday, 01 January 2009, 07:09.20 PM ] |
 administration to send peace envoy to Sri Lanka Poll shows Tamils internationally favor separation from Sri Lanka as solution to the genocidal civil war, and want quick U.S. support. .." |
| UPFA says confident of PC poll victory |
| [ Thursday, 01 January 2009, 07:02.05 PM ] |
| The UPFA Thursday vowed that it would win the February 14 provincial elections in the Central and North Western provinces with a bigger margin than it won the three previous provincial elections held last year. |
| CID to grill Lalith Kothalawala |
| [ Thursday, 01 January 2009, 06:59.54 PM ] |
| The investigation regarding the 270 billion fraud of the Golden Key Credit Limited has been given to Criminal Investigation Department (CID). |
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| JVP & Australian Labour Party meet |
| [ Thursday, 02 February 2012, 05:17.00 PM ] [] |
 Mr. Mathew Marozzi, the representative of Alex Galacher, the Member of Senate of the Australian Labour Party has had a discussion with the Information Secretary of the JVP Vijithe Herath at the JVP head office today (2nd). [More] |
| The Fog of an Uncivil War in Sri Lanka |
| [ Thursday, 02 February 2012, 02:02.26 PM ] |
 It has been nearly three years since Sri Lankan government troops crushed the separatist Tamil Tigers in a gory, scorched-earth campaign that brought an end to three decades of civil war. The final battles — with some 300,000 civilians caught in the crossfire — were fought on the northern beaches and in the impoverished hamlets of the island nation. [More] |
| Man arrested for cheating 35 women |
| [ Thursday, 02 February 2012, 08:46.27 AM ] |
 Police arrested a person who posed as a lawyer, cheating nearly 35 women by taking their jewellery worth Rs.6 million on the promise that he would marry them. [More] |
| Karuna to release secrets of LTTE |
| [ Thursday, 02 February 2012, 08:29.43 AM ] |
 The Deputy Minister of Resettlement Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman stated he will reveal the secrets of LTTE organization in SriLanka. [More] |
| Couple enaged in the Malysian job scam arrested |
| [ Wednesday, 01 February 2012, 01:17.26 PM ] |
 The police apprehended a Malaysian couple and three others for questioning, regarding a racket where a number of persons were defrauded under the pretext of providing jobs in Malaysia. [More] |
| Birds flu threats in SriLanka |
| [ Wednesday, 01 February 2012, 08:27.40 AM ] |
 The Ministry of Health says there is a threat of a bird flu outbreak in the country, following the death several fowls at a farm in Bingiriya. Kurunegala. [More] |
| Lands of Sinhala people in East take over by Tamil people : Divaina reports |
| [ Wednesday, 01 February 2012, 06:24.51 AM ] |
 Tamil people are robbing lands of Sinhala people in the Eastern province Divaina news paper reports. [More] |
| President Rajapaksa's appeal to Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa |
| [ Wednesday, 01 February 2012, 04:27.59 AM ] |
 Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has a message for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa: “Take care of our people who go there. Ministers, our relations etc.” [More] |
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two Sri Lankans who witnessed the violent final showdown of the country's 26-year civil war claim a top military commander and Sri Lanka's defence secretary ordered war crimes.
The Sri Lankan government should account for everyone who was taken into custody at the end of Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long armed conflict in May 2009 and are feared to have been “disappeared,” Human Rights Watch said today.
The UN secretary general could set up an expert panel to look into alleged violations by the Sri Lankan army after a report found video, first on Channel 4 News, "appears to be authentic". Jonathan Miller reports.
Channel 4 News shows footage claimed to show Sri Lankan forces executing Tamils earlier this year. Jonathan Miller reports.