31 March 2010 DailyMirror A leading election monitoring group said yesterday it would take up with Elections Chief Dayananda Dissanayake and Police Chief Mahinda Balasuriya the alleged attack on one of its officials by supporters […]
Transparancy International 26 March 2010. Field Monitors of the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) have reported several instances of illegal canvassing near postal voting centres. Cut-outs of Nation Building Minister Rohitha Abeygunawardene and another […]
On Thursday 18 March 2010 Tamil Solidarity published an article describing how the British New Labour government chose not to attempt to prevent the bloodbath in Sri Lanka (British government chose not to prevent bloodbath […]
“If Sri Lanka refuses to investigate war crimes does the UK think the UN should name a panel of inquiry, as in Guinea?” This question was put to the UK foreign secretary, David Miliband, during […]
On 8th of January Tamil Solidarity asked Labour MP Ivan Lewis for the government’s response to some of our campaign demands. Please read the report (Manchester Rally at Ivan Lewis MP office- Lawrence Arokianathan and Paul Gerrard.) […]
Thursday 11 March 2010 The Cambridge city group of Amnesty International invited Manny Thain, Tamil Solidarity national secretary, to address its meeting last Thursday. Manny explained the origins of Tamil Solidarity – set up as […]
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ACTION SRI LANKAN ACTIVISTS THREATENED On 2 March, a Sri Lankan news website, Lankanewsweb, published the names of human rights defenders and journalists featured on a list it alleged was compiled by […]
by James Naish http://www.student-direct.co.uk/2010/03/sri-lanka-a-crises-overlooked/ Between 1983 and 2009, Sri Lanka was engulfed by the raging civil war between the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The World Health Organisation […]
**UPDATE: Indonesian police have reneged on undertaking that the two Tamil asylum seekers arrested on Thursday night would be released (main story below). The two arrested asylum seekers have been taken to immigration detention in […]
Here we publish a press release from Safecom. If this represents a change in policy by Kevin Rudd’s Labour government then it is a positive development. However, as the statement is unclear, no one should […]
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