Thursday, 2 February 2012, 10:46 Having difficulty reading this email? View in a browser In March last year, as people were rising up across the region, protesters took to the streets of Syria to demand human rights reforms. Since then over 5,000 have been killed as those in power responded with a bloody crackdown. Thousands have been arrested, hundreds tortured. Journalists cannot... [More]
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION-URGENT APPEAL PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-015-2012 2 February 2012 ------------------------------------------------------ SRI LANKA: School going child missing after torture by principal -- police refuse to investigate ISSUES: Torture; child rights; impunity; rule of law ------------------------------------------------------ Dear friends... [More]
  Published On: Wed, Feb 1st, 2012 By eelamaran   “We know the STF did it, but the bullet and gun evidence shows that they did not. They must have separate guns when they want to kill some one. We need forensic experts. We know who did it, but we can’t proceed in prosecuting them.” President’s advisor and his brother Basil Rajapaksa told US Ambassador Robert O.Blake. Basil – Th... [More]

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  By Jon Burnett 26 January 2012, 4:00pm Remembering a unique campaigner for asylum and human rights. Gill Butler was a dedicated campaigner for the rights of asylum seekers and against the injustices of the asylum system. A trained, specialist nurse until she retired, she brought this knowledge to bear in her work as both Chair of Yarl's Wood Befrienders and as a member of Medical Just... [More]
January 26, 2012 ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION-URGENT APPEAL PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-006-2012 26 January 2012 ------------------------------------------------------ SRI LANKA: Officers of the Thalathuoya Police Station beat and filed a fabricated charge against a soldier who rescued his friend from their assault ISSUES: Torture; impunity; rule of law ------------... [More]
  Published On: Sat, Jan 21st, 2012 By eelamaran   UNITED NATIONS, January 19 — Touting the rule of law at the UN on Thursday, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon claimed to oppose amnesties and support international prosecutions, saying that people want accountability and transparency. But after Ban spoke with Yemen strongman Ali Saleh on November 23, Inner City Press asked him if he ... [More]
  Published On: Thu, Jan 26th, 2012 By eelamaran   While India’s former president Abdul Kalam has real work to do in addressing his own Establishment in New Delhi what brought him to genocidal Colombo and its India-partnered colony in the North and East of the island, wonders genocide-affected Eezham Tamils. Mr. Kalam may not be worried about criticism against him, as his interv... [More]
Equivocation on criminality in the name of peace has made peace ever more remote By Uvindu Kurukulasuriya Sarath Fonseka, Namal Perera after being attacked AND Tamil civilians killed during the war Picture courtesy: www.asiantribune. Any which way one looks at a Fonseka pardon, he is between the devil and the deep blue sea. Speculation is rife whether the former army commander Sarath Fons... [More]
  E Columnista Juan Manuel Velazquez (Corresponsal DLT. Inglaterra) Especial para diario La Tarde ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________... [More]
By Gibson Bateman January 16, 2012 8 Rohan Edrisinha. Source: The International Association of Constitutional Law As promised, the Sri Lankan government made the final report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) public last month. It has also recently released its “National Action Plan for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights: 2011-2016.” The Action Plan was... [More]
  Published On: Mon, Jan 16th, 20 By eelamaran   Bruce Fein, attorney for the three Tamil plaintiffs who have charged Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse of war-crimes in the District Court of District of Columbia, in response to the “suggestion” of immunity for Rajapakse by the US Justice Department, told TamilNet, that he has asked the court to allow the plaintiffs to file a ... [More]
Contributors: Kishali Pinto Jayawardene Transcurrents January 16, 2012 Share | Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Transcurrents, written by Kishali Pinto Jayawardene. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-FAT-003-2012 January 16, 2012 An article from Transcurrents forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Comm... [More]
[TamilNet, Saturday, 14 January 2012, 02:28 GMT] In a clear articulation of US State Department's continuing support of Sri Lanka's President Rajapakse, the US Justice Department, based on a directive from legal adviser Harold Koh, has suggested to the District Court of District of Columbia that Rajapakse has immunity from the suit filed by three Tamil plaintiffs for alleged complicity in wa... [More]
Click below to watch the programme Warning!!   It is not suitable for young children as there were gruesome pictures, live execution and other inhuman images. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sri-lankas-killing-fields/4od 1 Attached files| 5KB Fwd: Channel 4 - Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation.eml Download Attachments Downl... [More]
Thursday, 12 January 2012, 9:37 S-11/1 Assistance to Sri Lanka in the promotion and protection of human rights ......... The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant human rights instruments, Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the United Nations as conta... [More]
Last updated: 08 January, 2012 – Published Rights groups and media organisations have long been campaigning for justice On the third death anniversary of a slain newspaper editor his widow has called on the international community to exert pressure on Sri Lanka government to hold an independent investigation into his murder. Sonali Wickrematunge Samarasinghe, the widow of Sunday Leade... [More]
2 January 2012 The Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) has raised 50,000 Canadian Dollars as a donation to the Amnesty International (AI). This money was raised in a Walk-A-Thon held in Sep.2011 for the express purpose of funding the AI. Among the mission and objectives of the CTC are to “Work with various levels of Governments in Canada to highlight and resolve issues impacting Tamil Canadians,” a... [More]
Published On: Wed, Jan 4th, 2012 By eelamaran In an article published on Countercurrents, an Indian online journal, Janani Paramsothy, a student in a British University, criticized the ICG report on Eezham Tamil women report for having deliberately ignored the real problem of genocide of Eezham Tamils, in which, sexual violence on Tamil women is an essential component. Ms. Paramsothy, who ha... [More]
January 4, 2012 On the 2nd January a man by the name of Mohammad Nistar was abducted by a group who arrived in a white van from San Gartikulam at Puttalam. According to reports at the time of the abduction Mr. Nistar was traveling in a three-wheeler. Sometime later his body was found with bullets wounds to the head. According to reports Mr. Nistar was engaged in the rehabilitation of drug addic... [More]
Monday, 2 January 2012 Faiz Baluch <baluchfaiz@gmail.com The very unfortunate situation in Balochistan seems to have raised little concern in other parts of the country. The ethnic media appears more concerned about the ‘ghairat business’ or events occurred in Karachi or Islamabad. There are dozens of military detention centers in Balochistan, where people after their arrest, are deta... [More]

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