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Global Security (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sri Lanka plans to pour development money into Tamil-dominated provinces that suffered economically during years of civil war. A Sri Lankan cabinet minister spoke at the World Economic Forum's India summit.
JURIST - Paper Chase (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
[JURIST] Sri Lanka's Chief of Defense Staff General Sarath Fonseka returned home Thursday without being questioned by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about alleged war crimes. Fonseka, a US permanent resident with a diplomatic passport and a Green Card, had traveled to the US to visit his daughters in Oklahoma. The Sri Lankan government was concerned that the DHS was seeking testimony...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
[JURIST] Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama objected Monday to plans by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to question military commander General Sarath Fonseka about the alleged war crimes committed during the civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Fonseka, holding a diplomatic passport and a Green Card, is traveling in the US to visit his daughters in Oklahoma....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Immigration authorities want to speak to General Sarath Fonseka over alleged war crimes in conflict against Tamil Tigers Sri Lanka today objected to attempts by the US to question the chief of its army over allegations of war crimes during the final stages of the conflict with the Tamil Tigers. US immigration authorities have told General Sarath Fonseka, who is currently visiting his daughters in...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
This photograph released by the Sri Lankan military on May 15, 2009 shows what the army says are civilians fleeing from the area inside the 'No Fire Zone' that is still held by the Tiger rebels. ( Reuters Photo ) From Voice of America: The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for an independent, international investigation of possible war crimes committed during the last few...
From The Wilderness (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya The support and positions of various foreign governments in regards to the diabolic fighting between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan military, which cost the lives of thousands of innocent civilians, says a great deal about the geo-strategic interests of these foreign governments. The position of the governments of India and [...]
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Which country does this remind us of? The Sri Lankan government today angrily rejected a US state department report containing allegations of human rights abuses in the final days of the country’s civil war, saying the document would fan further conflict. According to accounts said by a senior US state department official to be “credible and well [...]
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The support and positions of various foreign governments in regards to the diabolic fighting between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan military, which cost the lives of thousands of innocent civilians, says a great deal about the geo-strategic interests of these foreign governments. The position of the governments of India and a group of states that can collectively be called the Periphery, such...
Sify (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The office of the UN human rights chief renewed its call Friday for a probe into alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lankan troops and Tamil rebels during the final stages of the country's civil war.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
[JURIST] Sri Lanka must investigate reports of human rights violations and war crimes during the last months of the internal armed civil conflict by both government and rebel forces and prosecute those responsible, the US Department of State (DOS) urged Thursday. The statement from DOS spokesperson Ian Kelly came the same day the DOS released a report on incidents that took place during those final...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
NEW YORK -- The State Department's top war crimes official called on Sri Lanka on Thursday to conduct a "genuine" investigation into allegations of war crimes by Sri Lankan troops and Tamil rebels during the bloody final months of the country's 25-year-long civil war.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
IN FULL: Read the US state department report on Sri Lanka The Sri Lankan government today angrily rejected a US state department report containing allegations of human rights abuses in the final days of the country's civil war, saying the document would fan further conflict. According to accounts a senior US state department official called "credible and well substantiated," government forces...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The legal troubles keep coming for Raj Rajaratnam. Thirty plaintiffs, including a woman whose husband died in a 2007 bombing in Sri Lanka, are suing the Galleon hedge fund founder, saying he bankrolled the Tamil Tigers' "crimes against humanity." WSJ : The suit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey by 30 people who say they are survivors of attacks carried out by the Liberation...
Sify (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The Sri Lankan government Thursday called a US congressional report on the recently ended conflict with separatist Tamil rebels 'unsubstantiated and devoid of corroborative evidence'.
Crikey Politics Etc RSS (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Wilson Tuckey wasn't over-stepping the mark to suggest that, if a large number of Tamils seek to enter Australia after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, their ranks may contain former Tamil Tigers, says Bernard Keane . But of course, he had to take it that one step further...
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