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11570 matching reports found. Showing 3701 - 3720 [TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 May 2010, 23:07 GMT]While Sri Lanka's committee probing war crimes acknowledged that "it does not have the legal power to investigate alleged rights abuses during the final stages" of Sri Lanka's conflict, US's UN Ambassador Susan Rice commended Rajapakse for appointing the commission, and acknowledging that "accountability for serious violations of international humanitarian law is a crucial pillar of national reconciliation and the rule of law." Reacting on the committee's lack of judicial power, Professor Francis Boyle commented that "this should satisfy the requirement of complementarity necessary for Ban-ki Moon to open his war crimes investigation. There is now NO excuse left for inaction by Ban-ki Moon. He must move forward and immediately establish that War Crimes Investigation Committee."
Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 23:29 GMT] Louise Arbour, president of the NGO International Crisis
Group (ICG) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "will examine these allegations [of war crimes in Sri Lanka] and make the case for an independent international inquiry as a necessary step in making Sri Lanka's tenuous and bitter peace more just and sustainable," said a note sent to the invitees for a conference on "War Crimes in Sri Lanka" to be held Monday at the premises of the event's joint sponsor, Chatham House, London. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 10 May 2010, 12:57 GMT] Colombo has launched a large scale Sinhala colonisation at Madu Road Junction, located on Mannaar-Madawachchi Road, which branches off the main route to Madu shrine, situated in the middle of traditional Tamil area, by officially claiming to "resettle" 80 Sinhalese families after renovating a Buddhist temple into a large Vihara at the junction. Categorising the Sinhalese settlers as "Internally Displaced Persons," the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry officials said the Sinhalese "IDPs" had met Resettlement Minister Milroy Fernando and G.A. Chandrasri, the former SLA commander of Jaffna, who is serving as the Northern Province Governor, with the Chief Incumbent Buddhist Monk of the Vihara. Caritas, a Catholic agency for justice, peace and development has been pressurised to construct the houses for the Sinhalese settlers. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 10 May 2010, 01:19 GMT]Sri Lankan parliament will be meeting in the evenings in future, according to a proposal by the ruling UPFA government in Colombo. Leaders of the
political parties represented in the Sri Lankan parliament have agreed to the change the sitting time at a meeting held on Friday, media sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 09 May 2010, 23:14 GMT]Sixty percent of dengue patients who died this year up-to April were
adults between the ages of 20-25 years. Last year the victims were
mostly children between the ages of 10-15 years, according to the
Epidemiology Unit of the Sri Lankan Department of Health. Sri Lankan Health Ministry sources revealed a sharp rise of dengue about 200 percent has been noted in the first four months of this year compared to last year.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 09 May 2010, 14:38 GMT] Commenting on Sri Lanka's President Rajapakse's announcement that Colombo will appoint a 7-person commission to "search for any violations of internationally accepted norms of conduct in such conflict situations, and the circumstances that may have led to such actions [in Sri Lanka], and identify any persons or groups responsible for such acts," Francis A Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law said "after it was announced that the ICC was going after Sudan, they hired a British lawyer to advise them on setting up some type of fake internal procedure of investigation/ prosecution in order to head off the ICC, pretending to satisfy the requirement of complementarity. It miserably failed, and Sudan's Al Bashir is now under ICC's arrest warrant." Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 07 May 2010, 22:01 GMT] The country of the Naakar
The island / peninsula of the Naakar (The Jaffna Peninsula) Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 07 May 2010, 15:26 GMT]Two parliamentarians of the main opposition United National Party
(UNP) are likely to cross over to the ruling party shortly, according
to political sources in Colombo. One is Mr.M.A.Abdul Cader and other
is Mr.Ranga Jayaratnam, a well known personality in the electronic media as he was conducting Minnal programme in Sakthi TV of the MTV
organization. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 07 May 2010, 15:18 GMT]Third court martial is likely to be appointed against former Sri Lanka Army Commander (retd.) General Sarath Fonseka, six Colonels and a Brigadier of the SLA over alleged arms deals committed by them when Fonseka was serving as the Commander of the SLA, Colombo media reported quoting Sri Lankan Defence ministry
sources. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 May 2010, 18:07 GMT]Colombo has embarked upon a vicious campaign as though a new power centre of Eezham Tamils had already set in after the elections for the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) last Sunday. Some elements among the diaspora who have been conceiving the TGTE as a ‘high power centre’ also seem to think that it is now ready for their occupation with some manipulations here and there. Both commit serious damages to the cause of Eezham Tamils, the former overtly and the latter covertly. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 May 2010, 17:01 GMT]Ivan Simonovic, Justice Minister of Crotia, who served a government of human rights violations and ethnic cleansing and whose ministry failed to cooperate satisfactorily with UN war crimes investigations, has been appointed as top human rights official to liaise with the Geneva office of Navi Pillai and the UN headquarters. He was selected among more than a hundred applicants in a secret process, after becoming one of the four in the shortlist prepared by Navi Pillai, reports Foreign Policy, Thursday. A couple of months ago Ban Ki-moon decided to make Palitha Kohonna, the war crimes accused ambassador of Colombo and Vijay Nambiar, the UN chief of staff, accused of shady deals during the Vanni War as panel members to advice him on the war crimes in Sri Lanka. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 May 2010, 16:58 GMT]Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Menon Rao will be inaugurating an international conference on ‘Taking the Sri Lankan Peace Process Forward’ in New Delhi, scheduled on May 10 and 11. The conference will be participated by experts from Sri Lanka and representatives of Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, media reports said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 May 2010, 16:20 GMT]The Speaker Chamal Rajapakse Thursday directed that the Court Martial
inquiry against Sarath Fonseka, parliamentarian from the Colombo
district, should not be held on dates when parliament meets. Former
Commander of the Sri Lanka Army Sarath Fonseka has been facing two
court martial inquiries by the Sri Lanka Army. He is under detention
in the Navy Headquarters since his defeat in the presidential election
held on January 26.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 May 2010, 12:40 GMT]Ranil Wickremesinghe, leader of the opposition and the United National Party (UNP) Thursday informed Sri Lanka' parliament that the European Commission has demanded the release of Sarath Fonseka from detention as a condition for granting GSP+ preferential trade status, parliamentary sources in Colombo said. Meanwhile, Fonseka has told AFP that he would "expose" any war crimes committed during the end of the country's civil war last year and said he would go "out of his way" to assist with a probe, AFP reported.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 May 2010, 11:04 GMT]While on the one hand keeping uprooted civilians subjugated in open prisons and inside internment camps under a military-led administration, engaging in systematic demographic genocide in Tamil homeland in the form of Sinhala colonisation encroachments, abetting cultural genocide by erecting the symbols of Mahavamsa mindset and destroying the Tamil heritage, on the other hand the Sri Lankan President and Commander-in-Chief Mahinda Rajapaksa has come up with the announcement of appointing a commission for truth and reconciliation. Announcing the move, the Sri Lankan Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne said in SL parliament on Wednesday that his government had categorized around 1,350 ex-LTTE members as "criminals who will be dealt with according to the law." Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 May 2010, 13:54 GMT]Sandun Jayasekara, a senior journalist of the Daily Mirror, the English
daily published from Colombo, is said to have been assaulted Wednesday
morning by some security officers who are members of the Sri Lanka
Army (SLA) on security duty at the Maharagama cancer hospital. The
journalist went to the hospital with an official media invitation to
cover an event President Mahinda Rajapaksa was attending
Wednesday morning in the hospital. The matter was reported to the new Media
Minister Keheliya Rambukwella immediately, sources in Colombo said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 May 2010, 12:16 GMT]Mr. Asok K. Kantha, the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanaka, officially opened a branch of Indian Visa handling office Wednesday around 3:00 p.m in a private building on Brown Road in Jaffna. This office will receive applications for visa to India and send them to Colombo Indian High Commission for processing and then deliver the visa to the applicants, it was said in the opening event. Jaffna district Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarians, Suresh Premachandran and Mavai Senathirajah participated in the event. Minister Douglas Devananda, the head of Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP), who usually participates in events of this nature, was a notable absentee as he was not invited, sources in Jaffna said. Jaffna Mayor Ms. Yogeswary Patkunam of ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) though invited turned up only when the event had ended and the guests were leaving. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 May 2010, 08:22 GMT]Democratic National Alliance Parliamentarian Sarath Fonseka Wednesday morning began an indefinite
fast in the Navy Headquarters where he is being detained since his
arrest after the defeat in January presidential election, as the
military forced him to attend the second court martial hearing fixed
on Wednesday. He was prevented from leaving the Navy Headquarters to
parliament on Wednesday morning. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 May 2010, 01:24 GMT] Noting British foreign policy is unlikely to change after the May 6th election, and that United Nations is better at "normative diplomacy than at launching action on the ground," Lord Patton, current chancellor of University of Oxford, and who as European Commission External Relations Commissioner visited Kilinochchi during the ceasefire, said, while having endorsed the principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) to prevent atrocities, "UN was paralysed when political and diplomatic intervention was required to protect Tamil civilians in the Sri Lankan government campaign to wipe out the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam," in an article in Financial Times. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 04 May 2010, 14:22 GMT]Sri Lanka stopped cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara and another player from calling on the Dalai Lama out of fear that a meeting would anger China, AFP reported Tuesday. Sangakkara and former skipper Mahela Jayawardene were advised not to join their Indian Premier League teammates who paid a courtesy call on the Tibetan spiritual leader last month, Sri Lanka cricket secretary Nishantha Ranatunga told AFP. "We were made to understand that we should not upset relations with China," he said.
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