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Showing posts with label Tamil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tamil rights. Show all posts
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Sri Lanka: Locals protest against rape of 11y girl by SL navy in Karainagar

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Locals in Karainagar protested on Friday against the rape of an 11 year old girl by Sri Lankan navy personnel in the town earlier this we...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Sri Lanka: Journalists threatened whilst documenting appropriation of Tamil land

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Journalists who went to report on the preemptive surveying of private Tamil land that was in a land appropriation dispute in court, were th...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Sri Lanka: Katchatheevu issue has to be revisited by Centre; BJP endorses Jayalalitha's position

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Katchatheevu, shown by the arrow Virtually endorsing the ruling AIADMK’s demand for retrieval of Katchatheevu, BJP on Sunday said the i...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

'Modi committed to protect rights of Sri Lankan Tamils'

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to protect the rights of Sri Lankan Tamils, Union minister Pon. Radhakrishnan today said.    ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Erasing Identities: Tracing Sri Lanka’s Post-war Journey through the Changing Realities of Trincomalee

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Trinco by sunset (photo : Asia rooms) ''The experience of minorities in the beautiful eastern district of Trincomalee per...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Why should Tamils speaking of the war be such an explosive issue five years after it ended, a war in which neither side owned a monopoly on terrorism?

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Military in Jaffna ( file photo) Jaffna University: In the Shadow of War and Peace on a War-Footing Postwar, Jaffna University has sh...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Sri Lanka: military wants Jaffna University shut down on Mu’l’livaaykkaal Day

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The Registrar of the University of Jaffna Mr V. Kandeepan, has issued a notice instructing the students at the University hostels to vaca...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Sri Lanka ranked 26th in 2014′s Peoples under Threat index and fell five places from 2013′s ranking

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The overall measure for each country is based on a basket of 10 indicators. The number in each row is drawn from the source for that pa...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

More than one lakh Sri Lankan Tamil refugees live on low rations in dingy camps in TamilNadu

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Paramita Ghosh , Hindustan Times Karuna starts each time a car stops outside the door. He shows his wounds at the hands of the Sr...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Colombo stages smokescreen operations to divert global focus on crimes: TNA councillor

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 Sivagi: killings look like a political smokescreen [TamilNet] The so-called revival or regrouping of the LTTE and the arrests made d...

Ministry of defence press release on the killing of 3 Tamils

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PRESS RELEASE : ATTEMPTED RESURGENCE OF THE LTTE AND THE INCIDENT IN THE JUNGLE OFF PADAVIYA ON 11 APRIL 2014    An attempt for resurgenc...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Sri Lanka: 60 Tamils detained for subversive acts . Police

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Tamils protest over detentions Police said today that 60 people including 10 women had been arrested and detained by the Terrorist Inve...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Sri Lanka: A modern version of McCarthyism.; Asset Freeze Threatens Peaceful Dissent

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Overbroad Anti-Terror Law Targets 16 Tamil Diaspora Groups The Sri Lankan government is using vague counterterrorism regulations to tie t...
Monday, April 7, 2014

32 Lankans living in India on the list of banned LTTE remnants

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Thirty two Sri Lankans currently residing in India are among 422 individuals named by the Sri Lankan government as members of the banned ...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Sri Lanka Gazette notice proscribes over 400 Tamil diaspora individuals and Diaspora organisations.

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The Gazette notification printed on Friday by the Government Printer, containing the order issued by the Governm...

The logic of the ban :How the proscription of 16 Tamil diaspora groups will be felt locally and internationally

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Diaspora supported TNA Ranga Jayasuria The government this week banned the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and 15 other Tamil Diaspora...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Diaspora orgs proscription should not be used to stifle free speech and legitimate criticism, UK tells Sri Lanka

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Tamil protesters outside the Sri Lankan consulate in Toronto, May 2009.( Toronto Star) The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) ha...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Banning Tamil Diaspora groups in Sri Lanka: a blatant measure to attack freedom of expression - GTF

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GTF head Rev. Dr S.J. Emmanuel ( GTF photo) GTF criticises proscription of Tamil diaspora groups by Joan Ryan The Government of Sri L...

Banning Tamil Diaspora groups in Sri Lanka: attempt to criminalise the Tamils around the world - BTF

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Tamil Diaspora demo "We reject the baseless allegations and propaganda of the Sri Lankan state branding all Tamil Diaspora organis...

Sri Lanka bans 16 Tamil Diaspora organistions as a response to UNHRC 25 resolution

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The Sri Lankan government has in a decisive move with far reaching implications proscribed as foreign terrorist entities, several oversea...