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Miliband, Your Slip Is Showing!

[Tuesday, 09 March 2010 20:04] News
[By Munza Mushtaq, The Sunday Leader (LK), 07 March, 2010] Miliband irks Sri Lanka Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband has never been the Sri Lankan government’s favourite, for a number of reasons. But his steadfast decision last week to address the inaugural meeting of the controversial Global Tamil Forum (GTF) in London on Wednesday appears to have only helped widen the diplomatic rif... [More]

GTF campaigns no threat to Sri Lanka - Dr. Amunugama

[Tuesday, 09 March 2010 20:00] News
[By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan, Lakbima News, 07 march, 2010] Business circles have called for speedy action by the Foreign Affairs Ministry to combat malicious economic campaigns carried out against Sri Lanka by a fringe group called GTF (Global Tamil Forum). “Their strategies to boycott Sri Lankan products and the holding of meetings with the participation of local VIPs such as British Foreign Se... [More]

LTTE may seek asylum in UK

[Tuesday, 09 March 2010 19:58] News
[Daily Mirror (LK), 05 March, 2010] The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Pakistan has said that some LTTE leaders in the guise of asylum seekers could take refuge in the UK which could pose a grave threat to regional as well as global peace. “Yes absolutely, if terrorists get asylum in Britain as civilian immigrants, it could pose grave security challenges,” Air Chief Marshal Jayalath Weerakkody ... [More]

Miliband bracing for parliamentary elections: Global Tamil Forum latest LTTE front - Prof. Rohan Gunaratna

[Tuesday, 09 March 2010 19:55] News
[By Manjula Fernando, Sunday Observer (Lk), 07 March, 2010] President of GTF Fr. Emmanuel making his speech at the meeting. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband addressing the GTF inaugural meeting at the British Parliament. Although Britain defended its decision to patronize the inaugural conference of the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) as part of its effort to promote peaceful reco... [More]

FM summons British envoy for second time

[Tuesday, 09 March 2010 19:54] News
[By Manjula Fernando, Sunday Observer (LK), 07 March, 2010] Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama met the Acting British High Commissioner Mark Gooding again on Thursday to stress the need to clear perceptions created following the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) meeting where the British Foreign Secretary made an opening speech. Foreign Ministry sources said the Minister highlighted the need to avoid... [More]

High Commissioner tells William Hague Suspending GSP+ would hurt the poorest of the poor in Sri Lanka

[Tuesday, 09 March 2010 19:52] News
[By Sujeeva Nivunhella in London, Sunday Island Online, 07 March, 2010] Britain’s Conservative Party run the risk of losing votes from Sinhala community in the United Kingdom at the forthcoming General Election after Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague addressed a meeting of the pro-LTTE Global Tamil Forum at the Gladstone Hall in House of Commons recently. A considerable number of Sinhalese... [More]

“Don’t cave into unjustifiable pressures” President urges UN chief to drop war crimes probe Labour accused of looking for Tamil votes

[Tuesday, 09 March 2010 19:51] News
[By Shamindra Ferdinando, Sunday Island Online, 07 March, 2010] President Mahinda Rajapaksa Thursday evening urged UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon not to go ahead with an independent investigation into alleged war crimes during Sri Lanka’s successful war against the LTTE. Government sources said that the President had emphasized that the UN shouldn’t give in to unjustifiable pressure br... [More]

Post LTTE factor; vigilance the key

[Tuesday, 09 March 2010 19:49] News
[Sunday Times Sri Lanka, 07 March, 2010] It was through Defence Secretary Colonel (Retd.) Gotabhaya Rajapaksa that we got to know that the Government of Eritrea, formerly a part of Ethiopia, a country in the Horn of Africa, had refused to accredit the Charge d' Affaires of the Government of Sri Lanka. The Foreign Ministry has so far made no comment. It was the Foreign Minister who proposed in Au... [More]

Minister G.L.Peries' government press conference on Friday, 5 March (Video)

[Tuesday, 09 March 2010 19:47] News
Video Web Link: http://www.virakesari.lk/vira/video/video.asp?key_c=919

Sri Lanka War Crimes letter to UN

[Tuesday, 09 March 2010 19:43] News
[Tamil Araichchi, 07 March, 2010] Dear Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (United Nations) The UN actions over Sri Lanka has been atrocious to date where the UN and IC have failed under international law their mandatory obligation to proactively act to prevent the Genocide and massacre of Tamil Civilians during the final stages of the war in 1H 2009 and IDP's held in Nazi-style concentration camps an... [More]

On Sri Lanka, UN's Ban Restates Concern on Lack of Progress, Unaware of Job Request - Inner City Press

[Monday, 08 March 2010 19:10] Featured, News
By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, March 8 -- After a weekend during which Sri Lanka's president and ruling party attacked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for saying he will name a panel to advise himself about possible war crimes in Sri Lanka, Inner City Press asked Mr. Ban for his side of the story.   Ban said " I am concerned with the lack of progress of the joint statement wh... [More]

War of words between UN and Sri Lanka- Hindustan Times

[Monday, 08 March 2010 18:52] News
Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times Sri Lanka on Saturday said that the decision of the UN Secretary General to constitute a special committee to advise him on the island nation's accountability issues was unwarranted and the aid agency should not interfere with the internal affairs of any country. In a telephone conversation with President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday evening, UNSG Ban Ki-moo... [More]

GTF resolution inspires Tamil polity

[Monday, 08 March 2010 18:44] News
Whereas the Tamils democratically gave the mandate for the independence of their own country Tamil Eelam by endorsing the Vaddukoddai Resolution of 1976, in the 1977 general elections, the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) calls upon the international community, governments, leaders and the UN to conduct a UN monitored referendum in the North-East region of Sri Lanka and among the displaced Tamils living i... [More]

US honours displaced Sri Lankan Muslim woman

[Saturday, 06 March 2010 10:45] News
[BBC News, 02 March, 2010] Picture: Ms Jensila's organisation has grown significantly since 1992. A Sri Lankan Muslim woman who has been internally displaced in the north of the country for 20 years has won a top award from the US state department. Majeed Jensila is one of 10 worldwide recipients of the state department's International Women of Courage award for 2010. She heads a group cal... [More]

Govt rejects Pillay’s call for probe

[Saturday, 06 March 2010 09:17] Human Rights Articles, News, Featured
By Roel Raymond. The government today rejected a fresh call by UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay for an investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, saying that Pillay should respect the decision made by the inter-governmental UN Human Rights Council last year. Human Rights and Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe speaking to Daily Mirror Online said that Pillay should... [More]

On Sri Lanka War Crimes, UN's Ban to Name Panel to Advise Only Him, No Pascoe, Nambiar Nepotism Follow Up

[Saturday, 06 March 2010 09:15] Genocide, News, Human Rights Articles, Featured
By Matthew Russell Lee UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has informed Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa that he will "name a panel of experts to advise him, the Secretary General, on the way forward on accountability issues related to Sri Lanka." Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky included this information in a March 5 response to questions from Inner City Press, about war crimes, att... [More]

Unacknowledged suffering can return to haunt history, says NPR

[Saturday, 06 March 2010 09:04] News
During the popular Diane Rheme show in Washington's National Public Radio (NPR) Friday, responding to a question on the muted response of Obama administration to the slaughter of civilians in Sri Lanka, NPR's commentator Gjelten said, "When people feel that their suffering is not acknowledged and recognized by the international community, they tend to develop grudges, and they remember this.... [More]

French UN comments wrong, misleading, says Prof. Boyle

[Saturday, 06 March 2010 08:58] News
Responding to United Nation's France Ambassador, Gerard Araud's, comment on UN inaction on Sri Lanka's civilian slaughter that the UN Secretary General cannot intervene against the wishes of a UN member state, Professor Boyle, an expert in International Law and a professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, told TamilNet that the French statement is "simply wrong and deliberately ... [More]

More than 100,000 children traumatised: Norwegian aid worker

[Thursday, 04 March 2010 20:30] News
[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 March 2010, 18:03 GMT] Redd Barna (Save the Children) aid worker from Norway, Vidar Strøm, has said that there are over one hundred thousand children who have been traumatised, to a greater or lesser degree, after being exposed to the war and then for the internment camps in the North. Redd Barna has gained access to the camps only after December 01 and is working to crea... [More]

Tamils rail under Sri Lanka's heel

[Thursday, 04 March 2010 18:51] News
[Guardian.co.uk, 02 March, 2010] When the Sri Lankan government routed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on the sandy beaches of the country's north east, few would have predicted that the government offensive would continue. Yet in the months that have followed there has been little magnanimity, let alone reconciliation. Tens of thousands of Tamil civilians are still being kept in camps surro... [More]

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