A Metropolitan police probe into alleged war crimes against Tamils civilians by British mercenaries has now progressed to a full investigation, following evidence filed by the Tamil Information Centre.
The Tamil Information Centre (TIC) is concerned that burial methods adopted by the Sri Lankan government during the Covid-19 pandemic are infringing on the human rights of minority communities.
The Tamil Information Centre (TIC) strongly condemns the horrific bomb blasts aimed at civilians in churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, on Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019.
Mr Vairamuttu Varadakumar of the London-based Tamil Information Centre (TIC) died on 12 March 2019 in the Kingston, UK. His sudden exit from our midst has come as a shock to people who knew him and those who depended on his work.
Attacks on media organisations, particularly the Tamil media and intimidation and harassment of journalists continue in Sri Lanka irrespective of assurance given by the police to find and punish perpetrators.
The attack on the Uthayan newspaper office is the fifth attack on the media in the north, since January and the second after the United Nations passed a resolution on March 21 calling on the government to address human rights violations.
India today disapproved of a top Sri Lankan official's reported remark about it regarding terrorism in that country, saying the armed conflict there was a result of Colombo denying rights to Tamils there.
Responding to Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa's reported remark that India could never absolve itself of the responsibility for creating terrorism in his country, Union Minister V Narayanasamy said the statement was not acceptable.
According to new research published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and lower middle income Guatemala, are leading the charge against hunger and undernutrition, whilst economic powerhouses such as India and Nigeria are failing some of their most vulnerable citizens.
Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan has urged the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Naina Lal Kidwai to cancel the proposed trip by a delegation of Parliamentarians to Sri Lanka, “in solidarity with the sufferings of innocent civilian Tamils in Sri Lanka and out of respect for the feelings of the people of Tamil Nadu.â€
Port workers here today threatened to stop handling cargo from south Indian ports to protest the harassment of Sri Lankan monks and pilgrims in Tamil Nadu.
"We can''t silently watch the harassment of our monks and pilgrims in Tamil Nadu. We want to stop handling cargo from Indian ports as a result", Mahesh Samarawickrema, a dock workers'' trade union official told reporters.
The Sri Lankan government must find and prosecute those responsible for the massacre of 17 aid workers during the country's 25-year civil war, French charity Action Contre La Faim (ACF) has said.
The killing of the aid workers, who were shot at point-blank range outside their office in northeast Sri Lanka in 2006, was the worst attack on humanitarians since the 2003 bombing of the United Nations compound in Baghdad.
Three Sri Lankan Tamils, Prasanth (19) of Vallipunam in Mullaitivu, Vijayaraj (24) of North Meesalai near Paruthithurai and Vasantha Kumar (24) of chavakatchery, have been apprehended today by Tamil Nadu Police at Arichalmunai near Dhanushkodi. They were arrested following a tip-off from locals.
They said that they were facing hardships in Sri Lanka and so they have come to India in a boat. They were taken to Dhanuskodi police station for questioning. They have been charged under violation of Indian Passport Act.
Tamil movie stars in India, including superstar Rajinikanth, are fasting for a day to protest what they say is the mistreatment of ethnic Tamils in neighboring Sri Lanka and to demand an international probe into alleged wartime abuses there.
The actors were joined by directors and producers in Chennai, capital of India’s Tamil Nadu state.
Sri Lanka is sending 750 new soldiers to be part of the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in Haiti, the country’s government announced Monday.
A group of 400 soldiers from the country’s Sinha regiment departed for Haiti on Monday to join the MINUSTAH force.
They followed a group of 350 soldiers which already left for Haiti last Thursday.
The Global Tamil Forum's (GTF) demand for justice through an independent international investigation has been strengthened by the fact that the international community wants the accountability issue addressed by Sri Lanka, and until that happens there won't be a let up, GTF Spokesperson, Suren Surendiran said, asserting the Rajapaksa regime must address the disproportionate militarization of the North and reduce the military presence, materially.
Replying to a question about Sri Lankan High Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam Kariyawasam’s reported comments that Sinhalese have their origins in most of the northern states of India, Union Minister of State in Prime Ministers Office V Narayanasamy today said Sri Lankan envoy Kariyavaasam “has exceeded his limits†who was trying to instigate north Indians against the people of Tamil Nadu in his anti-Tamil racists plot.
In a significant development in Lanka – China bilateral trade, China has upgraded Sri Lanka to no less than a Joint Sponsor in the first of its newest international trade event series- the China South Asia Exposition (CSAE), states the Ministry of Industry & Commerce.
Strongly condemning an alleged e-mail that was written by the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Prasad Kariyawasam, that Sinhala people in the island nation were of North Indian origin and that India must aim to protect them more than the Tamils, MDMK general secretary Vaiko on Wednesday demanded that he be arrested and prosecuted.
In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Vaiko alleged that in the e-mail circulated to media houses recently, the High Commissioner had tried to sow the seeds of hatred and rancour in the minds of people of North Indian states by spreading untruths that Sinhala people had their origins in North India and States like Odisha based on the epic Mahavamsa.
A judge announced Wednesday that more than 150 human skulls and bones recovered from a mass grave were buried there about 25 years ago, strengthening suspicion that they belonged to suspected Marxist rebels killed at the time.
Magistrate Chathurika de Silva told a court in the central town of Matale that tests show the skeletal remains found inside the premises of a government hospital dated to between 1987 and 1990. During that period, thousands of men and women suspected of having ties to the rebels disappeared after being arrested by security forces.
The Commonwealth Secretariat Tuesday said Sri Lanka's human rights situation will not be on the agenda of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) meeting next month.
Some countries, especially Canada, had tried to include Sri Lanka on the agenda citing its poor rights record and to push for a change of venue for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in November.
The report into arbitrary detention, prison conditions, the Vavuniya riot, and its aftermath published by the Sri Lankan Campaign for Peace and Justice documents the island's human rights abuses and examines the treatment of detainees in the wake of a riot in the country's Vavuniya detention centre last June, that triggered brutal police retribution.
Commenting on the United Nations Human rights Council’s resolution against Sri Lanka on 22 March, Prime Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam Vishwanathan Rudrakumaran states “the resolution proposed by America at the Human Rights Council related to Sri Lanka was passed by a majority of 13 votes. Out of the Human Rights Council comprising of 47 member states, 26 voted for the resolution, 13 against and 8 abstained taking a neutral position.
The Bodu Bala Sena (BS) says Sri Lanka is not a multiracial or multi-religious country but a Sinhala Budhist country.
Speaking at the Bodu Bala Sena convention in Panadura this evening, the venerable Medagoda Abayathissa thero urged the Sinhalese to protect the nation and not let other races or religions to take over.
In July 2012, the rules for family migration to the UK changed, particularly affecting the right of people to sponsor family members to come and join them in the UK. People now need to earn at least £18,600 per year in order to bring a partner here from outside the European Union, and it is much more difficult to bring elderly dependants to the UK than previously.
