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Al Jazeera English - Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers at an Australian detention centre on Christmas Island have been separated after riots broke out over the weekend. The clashes come amid a surge in the number of asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen, who gained rare access to a network of smugglers taking asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia, says the...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
A Tamil Canadian protester chokes back tears as she recalls a cellphone conversation she had several days ago with a cousin detained in a Sri Lankan camp holding Tamils displaced during the country's civil war.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Colombo government bows to international pressure to close internment camps that have held civilians since end of civil war with Tamil Tigers Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the internment camps that are home to more than 130,000 people locked up since the end of the country's bitter civil war six months ago. Two days after the UN's top humanitarian official,...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
While praising the Sri Lankan government for accelerating resettlement of war displaced civilians in the north, a senior official from the United Nations has stressed the need of further improving the conditions of the camps in the north where more than 100,000 Tamil civilians are still being held six months after the conclusion of the island's bloody civil war. UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
There seems no difference between the Colombo Hindu College Ratmalana and any other school, except for the armed police officers guarding the gate. The college in the Sri Lankan capital is a government rehabilitation center established exclusively for former child soldiers of the Tamil Tiger, a rebel group that was defeated by the government troops in May after a 30-year civil war in the southeastern...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Hailed as a hero for ending decades of civil war, Sri Lanka's most decorated general now looks set to challenge for the presidency -- a move that some analysts view with deep foreboding. General Sarath Fonseka led the Sri Lankan army's May victory over the separatist Tamil Tigers, achieved in a brutal showdown that eliminated the remnants of the rebel army and its leadership.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
General Sarath Fonseka, left, wrote a bitter letter of resignation Sri Lanka’s President Rajapaksa ‘Feared Coup’ After Defeat Of Tamil Tigers -- Times Online President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka was so afraid of a military coup after the defeat of the Tamil Tigers that he warned India to place its troops on high alert as recently as last month, according to the former head of the Sri...
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
By Sudha Ramachandran BANGALORE - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's hopes of easily winning re-election have taken a blow with plans for a popular armed forces chief to run against him. The opposition's nomination of a war hero General Sarath Fonseka, the nation's chief of defense staff, may well split the Sinhala-Buddhist vote. The presidential election is not due until November 2011, but there...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Gen. Sarath Fonseka, who led the government’s final push to victory in the nation’s civil war, has been seen as a possible challenger for the presidency.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Mastermind of Tamil campaign Sarath Fonseka steps down to lead coalition against president Sri Lanka's top general, who masterminded the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam after a 25-year civil war, has resigned from his post to enter politics as the head of a coalition against the country's president. Senior Sri Lankan officials told the Guardian that General Sarath Fonseka met President...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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...
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