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BBC News - UN 'failed Sri Lanka civilians', says internal probe

The United Nations failed in its mandate to protect civilians in the last months of Sri Lanka's bloody civil war, a leaked draft of a highly critical internal UN report says.

Meeting on Alleged Rights Violations by SL in London | news.outlookindia.com

An international conference on Tamils, co-hosted by a British Parliamentary Group, will kick off in London tomorrow during which political leaders would discuss alleged rights violations by Sri Lankan Army in the last phase of the civil war.

Human rights in Sri Lanka take center stage at the United Nations | PRI.ORG

Human rights in Sri Lanka take center stage at the United Nations

World divided on Sri Lanka's human rights

Sri Lanka, whose 26-year-civil war ended in 2009 with the defeat of the separatist Tamil Tigers, was excoriated by a swath of countries, including the US, Britain, France and Canada, at the UN Human Rights Commissioner's universal periodic review...

The Hindu : States / Tamil Nadu : Karunanidhi: India should press UN for referendum in Sri Lanka

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Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War by Frances Harrison – review | Books | The Observer

Survivors of the bloody last months of Sri Lanka's civil war tell a story of injustice and horror that we cannot continue to ignore, writes Steve Crawshaw.

Sri Lanka: Address Rights Rollback at Review | Human Rights Watch

(Geneva) – United Nations members should urge Sri Lanka to act on accountability for abuses at its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on November 1, 2012, Human Rights Watch said today. Sri Lanka must also be reminded of its international obligations...

LTTE Crimes Against Tamils And How Pro-LTTE TNA And Others Simply Watched - OpEd Eurasia Review

The LTTE ground fighting force may be no more but there are plenty of LTTE supporters that exist both locally and internationally. We challenge them to deny whether LTTE did not commit the following crimes and abuses against their own people – the...

Unprecedented diaspora Tamil meeting with young cross party Sri Lankan parliamentarians - Sri Lanka Guardian

In the climate of hate, prejudices, misconduct, misinterpretation and unwanted suspicions rampant in the conflict ridden and polarised Sri Lankan community that has its roots in the un-accommodative politics practice since independence and the...

Sri Lanka hampers legal redress for rights abuses: ICJ| Reuters

Sri Lanka's government has made it all but impossible for victims of human rights abuses to get justice.

Sri Lanka : Sri Lank to hold a dialogue with Tamil Diaspora

The planned dialogue will be held at the BMICH shortly under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Minister, without revealing a specific date, said in response to the questions raised by the media on the current status of former LTTE...

AFP: US concern over Sri Lankan war refugees

COLOMBO — The United States on Thursday expressed concern over "rushed re-settlement" of thousands of Tamil civilians displaced by Sri Lanka's separatist war that ended three years ago.

TNA is the biggest enemy of the Tamils

Tamil National Alliance has a history of depriving the Tamil people their due rights and driving them towards destructive path by whipping up communalism.

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Sri Lanka frees Tamil Tiger leader wanted by India - Channel NewsAsia

The last leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, who is wanted by India over the assassination of former premier Rajiv Gandhi, has been freed from military custody, the defence ministry said Wednesday.

Kiri Westby: Brutality and Violence Escalate in Sri Lanka: Prominent Activists and Journalists Targeted

In Sri Lanka, those who worked tirelessly to help end the decades-long war are losing the very thing they've fought for, peace and reconciliation.

UN Human Rights Council And The Sri Lankan Ambassador's First Speech - OpEd Eurasia Review

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Nadeesha Cabral's answer to Sri Lanka: Why do Tamils and Sri Lankans hate each other? - Quora

The obvious glitch in the question is that it defines Tamils as a mutually exclusive group from Sri Lankans. Sri Lankans include Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and a few other ethnic groups.But for the sake of the argument, the conflict had been between...

BBC News - Sri Lanka: Displaced Tamil families 'left in jungle'

Some Sri Lankan Tamils who left a vast displacement camp this week say they were "left in the jungle" with no means to rebuild their homes and lives.

Britain is returning Tamil refugees to be tortured in Sri Lanka - Asia - World - The Independent

Malar Rajendran is living proof that Britain has sent people to Sri Lanka to be tortured.

| Video | Accused of Tamil genocide, Sri Lankan President due to visit Sanchi in MP | India Videos | - India Today

Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa is going to visit Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh to lay the foundation stone for an International Buddhist University.

India and Sri Lanka: Jayalalitha's gambit | The Economist

ARE relations between India and Sri Lanka falling to bits, as various news outlets have suggested in the past few days? On the face of it, tensions are growing...

Sri Lankan Tamils protest attack on pilgrims in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu - The Washington Post

Tamil shopkeepers have protested in Sri Lanka’s capital to condemn an attack on Sri Lankan pilgrims this week in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Sri Lanka and the Pacific Solution

The treatment of Sri Lankan asylum seekers shows that further punishing victims is deemed acceptable if it can score domestic political points.

Minority rights in Sri Lanka aren’t helped by targeting its visiting civilians - Economic Times

The attack on Sri Lankan pilgrims in Tamil Nadu is the awful fallout of competitive grandstanding on the 'Tamil cause' by politicians in the state. Historically, the Tamil issue in Sri Lanka has...

Sri Lanka vote seen as test of Tamil desire for self-rule | CTVNews

Sri Lankans voted Saturday in a provincial assembly election seen as a test of whether ethnic minority Tamils still want self-rule or are satisfied with government-led economic development in a region devastated by a quarter-century civil war.

Rage in India a spotlight on Sri Lanka’s war victims | The Human Impact

Almost four years since Sri Lanka's war ended, rage over the lack of rehabilitation for thousands of survivors of the bloody 25-year-long civil conflict has surfaced - not on the war-torn Indian Ocean island itself, but in neighbouring India.

Sandhya Eknelygoda speaks for Sri Lanka's disappeared - Blog - Committee to Protect Journalists

When I first met Sandhya Eknelygoda in May 2010 in her home outside Colombo, she was a distressed mother of two young boys whose husband had gone missing. He was last seen four months earlier, just prior to the elections that returned President...

World marks day of the missing | CharlotteObserver.com

Tens of thousands of people around the world are missing today because of armed conflicts or human rights abuses such as abductions and illegal arrests and detentions.

Tamils Against Genocide - What You Can't Hide Is Genocide

TAG has submitted a formal complaint to the UK Metropolitan Police today regarding war crimes and crimes against humanity alleged to have been committ

Population plunge in Sri Lanka's Tamil base - NY Daily News

Sri Lanka's first national census in 30 years has shown a dramatic 20 percent drop in the population of the Jaffna peninsula, the long-time base of Tamil rebels during the island's ethnic conflict.According to a preliminary census report released...

New War Crime Videos Surface from Sri Lanka Tamil Genocide | Global Peace Support Group

New War Crime Videos Surface from Sri Lanka Tamil Genocide

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Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law

Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law.

TamilNet: 03.06.12 Syria evokes better response not seen in the case of Tamil genocide

Syria evokes better response not seen in the case of Tamil genocide

TamilNet: 01.06.12 IC role in massacre of Tamils a shame for entire century: Kurdish activist

IC role in massacre of Tamils a shame for entire century: Kurdish activist

The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's government declared victory in May, 2009, in one of the world's most intractable wars after a series of battles in which it killed the leader of the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting to create a separate homeland for the country's...

Plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka miserable: CPI MP, IBN Live News

New Delhi, May 21 (PTI) Describing the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka as miserable, CPI today asked the government as to what steps it was taking to prevent

Tamil Gov't Starts Radio Broadcast to Sri Lanka on May 18th - 3rd Anniversary of Tamil Genocide

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Tamil Gov't Starts Radio Broadcast to Sri Lanka on May 18th - 3rd Anniversary of Tamil Genocide

Tamil Gov't Starts Radio Broadcast to Sri Lanka on May 18th - 3rd Anniversary of Tamil Genocide

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New Statesman - "We had to witness at first cultural genocide and then all out genocide"

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TamilNet: 18.04.12 Indian delegation disappoints civil representatives in Vanni

Indian delegation disappoints civil representatives in Vanni

TamilNet: 15.04.12 Sinhala academic blames US-UK axis for genocide in Tamil homeland

Sinhala academic blames US-UK axis for genocide in Tamil homeland

Carpetbaggers in Sri Lanka: Traitors Terrorize Northern Tamils - Salem-News.Com

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The Hindu envisages India building business over Tamil genocide : Tamil News Network (TNN)

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