| Channel 4′s Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields |
[ Wednesday, 15 June 2011, 02:10.52 AM ] [ ] |
 New video evidence of the alleged executions of bound prisoners in Sri Lanka has emerged and is to be broadcast in full in Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields on Channel 4, as pressure builds for an international investigation. |
| screens Channel 4 Sri Lanka war crimes film |
| [ Friday, 03 June 2011, 11:16.53 PM ] [] |
 The documentary is an hour-long investigation into the final weeks of the bloody Sri Lankan civil war and features damning new evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
| New wars crime claims - Channel4 |
| [ Wednesday, 01 December 2010, 02:03.15 AM ] [] |
 Channel 4 News reveals new footage of the alleged massacre of Tamil prisoners which promoted a UN investigation last year, as the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse arrives in London. |
| UN Expert Panel call for evidence on alleged violations in Sri-Lanka |
[ Thursday, 21 October 2010, 12:06.55 PM ] [ ] |
 the UN Secretary-General established a Panel of Experts to advise him on the issue of accountability with regard to alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the final stages of the conflict in Sri Lanka . The members of the Panel are Marzuki Darusman, Steven Ratner and Yasmin Sooka. The Panel officially began its work on 16 September 2010. |
| Senior SLA officer: ‘Kill everybody!’ order came from the top (VIDEO UPDATED) |
| [ Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 09:47.51 PM ] [] |
 A senior Sri Lankan Army commander and frontline soldier have told Britain’s Channel 4 News that point-blank executions of Tamils at the end of the civil war in May 2009 were carried out under orders ‘from the top’. In an extended segment on Sri Lanka Tuesday, Channel 4 broadcast translated video interviews with the two soldiers. |
| Breaking the deadlock through transnational governance |
| [ Monday, 15 June 2009, 12:49.47 PM ] |
 The need of the time now is the metamorphosis of the existing infrastructure into a democratic and inclusive transnational government of Eezham Tamils to strengthen the diaspora socially, economically and culturally; to achieve the goal of independence and sovereignty of Eezham Tamils in the home country and to meet the international challenges internationally. Many of our readers confuse between the concepts of transnational government and government in exile. While the government in exile is a conventional phenomenon that needs a host country, the transnational government is a novel experiment that has no precedence. |
| 1200 bodies counted, hundreds seriously injured, aerial bombing continues (VIDEO UPDATED) |
| [ Sunday, 10 May 2009, 12:28.20 PM ] [] |
 Rescue workers within the Mullaiththeevu Safety Zone have counted more than 1200 bodies after the large scale slaughter Saturday night and Sunday morning by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) with the use of cluster ammunition, multi-barrel rocket launchers and cannons, sources from Vanni said. The workers fear that there may be additional bodies yet to be uncovered, and the numbers killed will likely rise. Rescue workers also said several hundreds were very seriously injured, and the critical shortage of medicine at the makeshift hospital will lead to many more deaths. |
| 179 civilians including 76 children killed within 3 days inside 'safety zone' (VIDEO UPDATED) |
| [ Sunday, 29 March 2009, 09:16.09 AM ] [] |
 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) attacks have claimed the lives of 179 civilians within the three days of Thursday, Friday and Saturday, according to the casualty figures collected by TamilNet correspondent in Vanni. At least 76 of the slain victims were children below the age of 15. At least 16 pregnant mothers were among the slain. More than 109 children below the age of 15 have sustained injuries. Around 45% of the thousands of shells fired by the SLA have hit the safety zone. Meanwhile, a foreign staff of the ICRC, who came in the ship on Saturday to transport the wounded civilian had a narrow escape when the ship was hit by long distance gunfire by the SLA damaging a window of the ship. On Friday, a local ICRC worker, P. Satheeskumar, was reportedly injured in SLA shelling. |
| Destroy the tigers before April 14th - India to Sri Lanka |
| [ Friday, 20 March 2009, 05:24.49 AM ] |
 The election campaign had started for the forthcoming election from April16th to May 13th. There was a major opposition waves for congress in due course of Sri Lankan war issue. In this situation Congress had made a secret effort to Sri Lankan Government to destroy upto the root of tigers. |
| Eyewitness account on Vavuniyaa internment camps |
| [ Thursday, 19 February 2009, 06:13.52 PM ] |
 "Now, what is happening here is genocide in many forms. Needless to say scattering people all over to unknown and unfamiliar places will ultimately lead to a weak population and result in damages done to our culture, education, and relationships. I can foresee a maimed Tamil generation with no hope in the future. The international community can make statements. But none will pay heed. For me the future looks dark and gloomy," reveals a letter written by a professional eyewitness, who visited the barbed-wired internment camps and hospital in Vavuniyaa couple of days ago. |
| India mistaken on arms and talks - experts |
| [ Monday, 16 February 2009, 07:51.41 PM ] |
 Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram’s call for the LTTE to surrender arms was not in keeping with international practice on conflict resolution, but an endorsement of the Sri Lankan government’s hardline position, scholars of conflict and peace said Monday. They pointed a number of successful peace processes, including those with the ANC, IRA and Nepal’s Maoists had proceeded without making arms surrender a precondition for talks. There had also been several peace processes involving the LTTE without this precondition, a scholar of Sri Lanka’s conflict pointed out. The Indian government was in effect supporting the Rajapakse government’s efforts to avoid negotiations on a lasting settlement by making talks conditional on a demand unacceptable to any party to a conflict, some academics opined. |
| Opinion Poll: Tamils want Separation, urge new U.S. |
| [ Thursday, 01 January 2009, 07:09.20 PM ] |
 administration to send peace envoy to Sri Lanka Poll shows Tamils internationally favor separation from Sri Lanka as solution to the genocidal civil war, and want quick U.S. support. .." |
| UPFA says confident of PC poll victory |
| [ Thursday, 01 January 2009, 07:02.05 PM ] |
| The UPFA Thursday vowed that it would win the February 14 provincial elections in the Central and North Western provinces with a bigger margin than it won the three previous provincial elections held last year. |
| CID to grill Lalith Kothalawala |
| [ Thursday, 01 January 2009, 06:59.54 PM ] |
| The investigation regarding the 270 billion fraud of the Golden Key Credit Limited has been given to Criminal Investigation Department (CID). |
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| Implementation of 13plus would not solve problems of people in North and East: Diplomats |
| [ Sunday, 05 February 2012, 02:56.14 PM ] |
 Religious leaders and diplomats of this country revealed it’s difficult to solve problems of people in the North and East by implementing the 13th or 13th plus amendment in this country , Divaina news paper reports. [More] |
| Basil A Traitor ?or Fonseka Traitor ? : Sunday Leader questioned |
| [ Sunday, 05 February 2012, 02:41.21 PM ] |
 It is important for us to brief them about measures we have taken, and plans for the future,” President Mahinda Rajapaksa told the Cabinet at a meeting on Wednesday. [More] |
| Anyone with a heart would never approve celebrating independence : Anoma Fonseka |
| [ Sunday, 05 February 2012, 02:30.39 PM ] |
 Anyone with a heart would never approve celebrating independence after imprisoning the Army Commander who eradicated terrorism and achieved freedom for the country for the second time says Ms. Anoma Fonseka. [More] |
| 100 rpiah ATM card rackerters arrested |
| [ Sunday, 05 February 2012, 02:07.16 PM ] |
 Police say they have arrested two Sri Lankans who are suspected of stealing hundreds of millions of rupiah using fake ATM cards. [More] |
| ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ to be screened in California |
| [ Saturday, 04 February 2012, 04:17.10 PM ] |
 ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ is a powerful documentary produced by UK Channel 4 Broadcasting Corp. It is scheduled to be screened at Ventura Community Centre, 3990 Ventura Court, Palo Alto, California on Saturday, February 18, 2012 between 7-9 pm Truthdrive news website reports. [More] |
| President urges people to show courage amidst economic woes |
| [ Saturday, 04 February 2012, 08:41.47 AM ] |
 President Mahinda Rajapakse marked Sri Lanka’s national day on Saturday by appealing to the country to show “strength and courage” in the face of a worsening global economic crisis. [More] |
| The 13th Amendment has become law of the Constitution, says M.A.Sumanthiran |
| [ Saturday, 04 February 2012, 08:33.42 AM ] |
 The Tamil National Alliance says the government has no necessity to hold discussions with any party to put the 13th Amendment to the Constitution into action. [More] |
| Soosai’s wife recalls drama in the high seas |
| [ Friday, 03 February 2012, 04:51.20 PM ] |
 The LTTE boss Velupillai Prabhakaran once bragged that the next Eelam war would be fought on the high seas. His braggadocio emanated from the fact that the so-called Sea Tigers with their varied vessels and craft had become a menace to the Navy in the north and east. [More] |
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two Sri Lankans who witnessed the violent final showdown of the country's 26-year civil war claim a top military commander and Sri Lanka's defence secretary ordered war crimes.
The Sri Lankan government should account for everyone who was taken into custody at the end of Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long armed conflict in May 2009 and are feared to have been “disappeared,” Human Rights Watch said today.
The UN secretary general could set up an expert panel to look into alleged violations by the Sri Lankan army after a report found video, first on Channel 4 News, "appears to be authentic". Jonathan Miller reports.
Channel 4 News shows footage claimed to show Sri Lankan forces executing Tamils earlier this year. Jonathan Miller reports.