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  Wednesday, 22 May, 2013 5:30 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-097-2013 May 22, 2013 A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission The Fundamental Rights case of Ganeshan Nimalaruban was taken before the Supreme Court yesterday. The Bench consisted of: Mohan Peiris CJ, P. A Ratnayake PC J and S Hettige J. In the course of [...]

KKNPP: Indian Officials’ Exodus Wednesday, 22 May, 2013 10:35 Idinthakarai 627 104 Tirunelveli District Mobile: 9842154073, 9865683735 Email: koodankulam@yahoo.com                                                      For Immediate Release May 22, 2013 The Koodankulam Mystery [1]: Indian Officials’ Exodus It is beyond any doubt that there has been massive theft, financial irregularities, corruption and wastefulness in the Koodankulam nuclear power project (KKNPP). [...]

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Organisation: HM Government, British High Commission Colombo Published: 21 May 2013 World location: Sri Lanka Worldwide organisation: British High Commission Colombo Four young British Sri Lankan doctors explore a neutral platform for challenging deep-rooted ethnic tensions. British Sri Lankan doctors travelled to Sri Lanka to learn about healthcare issues on the island. In November 2012, [...]

Published On:Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Posted by Sri Lanka Guardian Upul Joseph Fernando ( May 22, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Even before Sri Lanka gained independence, the country drew a certain amount of disapprobation from the US and the West due mainly to the Leftist political leaders and their adherence to theoretical political systems [...]

  May 21, 2013, 7:50 pm Tamara Kunanayakam, Sri Lanka’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, was re-elected as Chairperson-Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council’s Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development, which held its 14th session from 13 to 17 May, in Geneva. This is the third time that [...]

Wed, May 22, 2013, 11:33 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 22, Colombo: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka Police has interrogated the Vanni District Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian Sivasakthi Anandan yesterday in Colombo over his involvement in a function held last week to commemorate the Tamil victims of [...]

Sri Lanka’s peace time Army assisting the government’s tourism promotion drive has opened a seafood restaurant in the service plaza on the Southern Expressway. Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya Tuesday opened L?ya Seafood Restaurant, an outlet of Army-managed L?ya Leisure Hotel at Kukuleganga in the new state-of-the-art Welipenna Service Plaza on the E-1 Colombo-Galle [...]

Today’s Date:  Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 The army will shift most of the camps in the Jaffna peninsula to Palaly, Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya said today. He said that apart from three army camps which will remain owing to security reasons, the rest will be shifted to the Palaly army base. The Army [...]

Sri Lanka’s opposition parties and trade unions accused the government on Tuesday of threatening state employees with the sack if they took part in planned street protests against a sharp rise in electricity prices. Only a few hundred people joined the demonstrations, coordinated by the political opposition and trade unions, despite expectations of much larger [...]

  KUMARAVADIVEL GURUPARAN and SIVAKAMI RAJAMANOHARAN  20 May 2013 “Only war makes it possible to mobilize all of today’s technical resources while maintaining the property system.” On the anniversary of the 26-year civil war, the Sri Lankan state celebrates its 2009 victory while Tamils mark the bloody nadir of the campaign to systematically dismantle the [...]

uling the intelligence of the people Written by TCEHR |  Tuesday, 14 May 2013 02:57 |  Published in SRI LANKA NEWS Ceylon Today, Editorial, Looking at how the government is running the country, it appears a lesson on ‘How not to rule a country’ would be timely. Having broken all the pledges it gave the [...]

Written by TCEHR |  Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:00 |  Published in SRI LANKA NEWS UK TamilNews: Racist organisation Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) today said the 13th amendment will influence the LTTE and other supportive parties to fulfill their dream of splitting the country into two and establish Eelam with the assistance of the current [...]

Written by TCEHR |  Wednesday, 15 May 2013 02:29 AI index: ASA 37/011/2013 10 May 2013 Four years have passed since the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka. Sri0 Lankan authorities continue to deny mounting evidence of crimes under international law committed by its forces during Sri Lanka’s protracted armed conflict. They also [...]

Written by TCEHR |  Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:36 |  Published in Eelam NEWS TamilNet: A part of the 50,000 housing aid promised by New Delhi for the war-affected people in the North and East is planned to be used for demographic genocide in the East at the village of Kachchat-kodi in the Paddip-pazhai division [...]