No Progress on Justice in Sri Lanka

26 January 2012

“As the Rajapaksa government has strengthened is grip politically, basic rights protections in the country have deteriorated.” The Panel of Experts report by the United Nations called for an independent international investigation into the abuses committed by government forces during the conflict. However, the government has obstinately refused to allow an international investigation, and in

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Sri Lanka: Women’s Insecurity in the North and East

25 December 2011

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Women in Sri Lanka’s predominantly Tamil-speaking north and east are facing a desperate lack of security in the aftermath of the long civil war. Today many still live in fear of violence from various sources. Those who fall victim to it have little means of redress. Women’s economic security is precarious,

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Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields

21 December 2011

Watch: Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields – Full 49 Minutes Video Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers. With disturbing and distressing descriptions and film of executions, atrocities and the shelling of civilians the programme

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Allegations of Sri Lankan war crimes in the spotlight

21 December 2011

Australian Federal Police have received documentation from the International Commission of Jurist that alleges war crimes were perpetrated by current Sri Lankan High Commisioner to Australia and two other prominent figures from the country.  

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Exclusive: New Sri Lanka ‘war crimes’ evidence

21 December 2011

Exclusive: 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.

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Sri Lanka: Report Fails to Advance Accountability

21 December 2011
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Governments Should Act on UN Panel Call for International Investigation - Human Rights Watch (New York) – The report of the Sri Lankan government’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) disregards the worst abuses by government forces, rehashes longstanding recommendations, and fails to advance accountability for victims of Sri Lanka’s civil armed conflict, Human Rights Watch

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Walk Against Apartheid in Sri Lanka – From Geneva to Brussels

1 September 2010
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62-years-old Jegatheeswaran Arunachalam, an Australian Tamil, who walked across several dead bodies in Tamil homeland in May 2009, Mrs Thevahi Kumar from Swiss and Vinoth from France embarks upon a walk, from Geneva to Brussels, seeking political justice from global humanity against Tamil genocide that continues unabated in the traditional homeland of Eelam Tamils.

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