| Britain deports 500 Lankan Tamils asylum seekers on Wednesday |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 06:32 PM] |
 Two chartered flights bound for Sri Lanka are scheduled to take off next Wednesday, as evidence of human rights abuses mounts. [More] |
| Disfigured body of man found at Jaffna ashore |
[Saturday, 15 September 2012, 06:29 PM] [ ] |
 Completely disfigured body of an unidentified man recovered from ashore at Mankumban beach at Jaffna Velanai area last evening. [More] |
| 21st session of UH Human Rights Council ! TCHR released report to international community |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 04:59 PM] |
 Tamil Centre for Human Rights (TCHR) released a report which shows how Sri Lanka is systematically violating UN Human Rights covenants and conventions to which it is signatory. [More] |
| The not so curious case of Hirunika Premachandra |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 04:40 PM] |
 Hirunika Premachandra is either one confused woman or one shrewd woman. [More] |
| New name for Ratmalana airport |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 04:38 PM] |
 Manager of the Ratmalana airport Sarath De Seilva announced Ratmalana airport is currently named as “Colombo city “airport. [More] |
| Police recovered weapons from Vanni district |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 04:19 PM] |
 Jaffna district IGP Erick Perera announced police continuously recovers weapons from Vanni district. [More] |
| Jayalalithaa moves SC to get Katchatheevu back from Lankans |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 03:53 PM] |
 Tamil Nadu will petition the Supreme Court to immediately take up its case against the gifting of Katchatheevu island by India to Sri Lanka, according to Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha. [More] |
| Request made president to hold election on cancelling 13th amendment |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 03:13 PM] |
 60 Lankan diplomats currently residing in the foreign nations urge President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold election on cancelling the 13th amendment of this country, Sinhala media reports. [More] |
| Two bonus seats for Eastern province: Tamil representative appointed |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 02:50 PM] |
 United People Freedom Alliance received 13 seats and two bonus seats in the Eastern Provincial council electing held last week. One Tamil and Sinhala nationals appointed from the bonus seats. [More] |
| Minister Basil briefs the OHCHR delegates |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 02:39 PM] |
 The Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa briefed the visiting delegation from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Sri Lanka’s latest situation. [More] |
| Radioactive contaminated cargo imported from India |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 02:37 PM] |
 A consignment of stainless steel and aluminum products contaminated with an artificial radioactive element has been detected at the Colombo harbor. [More] |
| SLT Prestige cardholders get discount at lanka hospitals |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 06:13 AM] |
 Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), the national telecommunications service provider recently entered into an agreement with The Lanka Hospitals Corporation PLC which entitles SLT Prestige cardholders to special discounts on hospital services. [More] |
| Opposition Supports PS Chairman accused of child abuse |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 06:10 AM] |
 The United National Party states that they have no objections to Mr. Saruwa Liyanage Sunil, who was released on bail yesterday after being in custody over an incident of child abuse, resuming official duties as Akuressa Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman. [More] |
| Attempt to arrest missing lalitha |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 06:06 AM] |
 A posse of policemen with a warrant for arrest visited the home Lalith Kumar Weeraraj, district coordinator of the Movement for People’s Struggles (Jana Aragala Wiyaparaya), who were abducted from Jaffna last December, it is reported. [More] |
| Hakeem gives sambandan the slip! |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 06:03 AM] |
 The leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Mr Rauf Hakeem who had intimated he would to meet with Tamil National Alliance (TNA) members to discuss the issue of forming an administration in the Eastern Provincial Council yesterday (14) did not turn up, according to TNA leader M. R. Sambandan. [More] |
| Malaka never assaulted an army officer-Mervyn |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 02:42 AM] |
 Minister Mervyn Silva said that his son Malaka Silva did not assault any army officer as reported. [More] |
| SL seeking support of friendly congressmen to defeat US resolution |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 02:25 AM] |
 Sri Lanka is lobbying the support of friendly US congressmen to defeat a resolution tabled in the House of Representatives by seven congressmen demanding an international inquiry into alleged violations of the international humanitarian law during the war in Sri Lanka, officials said. [More] |
| Fonseka lashes out at Army hierarchy |
| [Saturday, 15 September 2012, 02:22 AM] |
 Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka lashed out at those in command in the Army for the alleged inaction to arrest the culprits involved in the assault on an Army intelligence officer. [More] |
Norway has asked Sri Lanka to comply with �well established international rules on diplomatic immunity� after a Colombo Court ruled that the former Norwegian Ambassador and three officials did not have immunity in a huge transaction involving an NGO. [
Members of SriLanka Army continuously warn families of misplaced personals while in the military detention. Group of unidentified personals have threatened to withdraw the case filed at the Vavuniya High Court. [
The Ministry of External Affairs announced they will monitors activities of Canadian government. Previously Canada announced that they will boycott Commonwealth Heads meeting to be held in SriLanka. [
Military spokesman Ruwan Wanigasuriya said we have rescued the body of LTTE leader from Nandikadal lagoon on May 18, 2009. He is not residing in Eritrea. [
Russia decided to donate 8 helicopters to SriLanka. [
Minister Dinesh Gunawardene met Chief Incumbent of the Malwattu Chapters Tibbatuwawe Sumangala thero today. [
Tamil Genocide attack day commemorated at Queens Burg city in Toronto, Canada. [
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Thousands of Tamil national present at the Mulliwaikal mourning organized by the British Tamil Forum. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [