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Eye-witness to Sri Lanka, summer 2010
On May 2009, the Sri Lanka government declared an end to the war on the Tamil Tigers and to the suffering of innocent Tamils who were victims of the war. Yet this simple statement was […]
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Successful protest agaisnt the Indian Government
The Tamil Solidarity Campaign (TSC) held a successful protest outside the Indian High Commission in London on Thursday 4 November against the Indian government’s ongoing attacks on the Kashmiri people and the attack on the […]
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Indian government – End the attacks!
End the attacks on the Kashmiris! End the attacks on Arundhati! Once again the Indian government, the so-called biggest democracy in the world, has exposed its true brutal nature. It not only denies the rights […]
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Rajapaksa’s Day at the Games
So, now Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka with the deaths of tens of thousands of Tamil-speaking people on his hands, has been rewarded with an invite to the Commonwealth Games in India. He […]
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Tamil Tiger’s wife pleads for help in finding him
It is an emotive and highly passionate plea. “My husband surrendered to the Sri Lankan army in front of my eyes on 18 May 2009 after the end of the war,” laments Ananthi Sasitharan to […]
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Sydney rooftop protesters in leap threat: activist
SYDNEY — A group of protesting asylum-seekers Tuesday threatened to leap from the roof of a Sydney detention centre where a Fijian man plunged to his death a day earlier, an activist told AFP. Bala […]
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Resettled families in Jaffna peninsula abandoned by SL government
Non-government Organizations in Jaffna peninsula accuse Sri Lanka government to have abandoned most of the uprooted families resettled in Jaffna peninsula without providing them adequate assistance for rehabilitation. 82,000 uprooted persons had been resettled in […]
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Repercussions of the 18th Amendment and the Decline of Democracy
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton, 1887 The 18th Amendment will fundamentally transform Sri Lanka’s political system, stripping away the façade of democracy. The 18th Amendment will end presidential […]
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Sri Lanka parliament to debate new powers for president
The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka has paved the way for a far-reaching constitutional amendment to go before parliament without a referendum. The change would abolish limits on the number of presidential terms and hugely […]
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Lankan minister ties government servant to tree
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Deputy Minister for Highways Mervyn Silva on Tuesday tied an official of the Samurdhi Poverty Alleviation Department to a tree in full public view for not participating in the department’s dengue control […]