http://tamilink.org.uk/tl A Tamil human rights news portal Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:12:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (HRW) The Sri Lankan government should release a prominent journalist and two others connected to a website critical of the government, Human Rights Watch said today. The three have been held without charge since March under emergency regulations. The three have spent more than 150 days in custody, yet no charges ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1213 Human Rights Watch research determined that the Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and “disappearances” that are a national crisis. Human Rights Watch urged the government to reveal the whereabouts of the “disappeared,” immediately end the practice, and hold the perpetrators accountable. Please click here to watch this video ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1211 International Human Rights Monitoring Mission Urgently Needed (HRW) The Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and “disappearances” that are a national crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Human Rights Watch urged the government to reveal the whereabouts of the “disappeared,” immediately end the practice, ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1210 Please click on the image for fuether details. http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1209 UN Vote Upholds Council Membership Standards on Rights (HRW) UN member states enforced the standards they established for the new Human Rights Council by not re-electing Sri Lanka to the body today. Domestic and international human rights advocates who had opposed Sri Lanka’s re-election to the council said the vote was ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1208 (HRW) With the complicity or willful blindness of the Sri Lankan government, the Karuna group has abducted and forcibly recruited hundreds of children in eastern Sri Lanka, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Karuna group, led by V. Muralitharan, a.k.a. Karuna, a former commander with the Liberation ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1207 (HRW)The British government today regrettably allowed an abusive former Tamil Tiger leader who had been in its custody to return to Sri Lanka as a free man, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the Sri Lankan government to investigate and prosecute Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, known as Colonel ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1206 COLOMBO, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s office has interfered with a commission probing civil war rights abuses and murders that include some blamed on state security forces, international observers said on Wednesday. The International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) says the presidential probe into abuses, including ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1204 COLOMBO: A public opinion survey by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), a Colombo-based think-tank, has brought to the fore the deep divisions among the majority and minority communities of Sri Lanka on the ongoing undeclared war in the island nation. The 27th in the series of such surveys conducted since ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1203 (ReliefWeb) KANTALAI, Sri Lanka, Aug 10, 2006 (AFP) – Doctor Iranthi de Silva has worked for 15 hours straight, battling fatigue and stress as casualties in Sri Lanka’s strife-torn northeast mounted Thursday. A brief lull in the chaotic, makeshift emergency room at the Kantalai Base Hospital allowed her to sit down. But ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1202 (ABC Online) Sri Lanka’s military has admitted that a four-year-old cease-fire with Tamil Tiger rebels has collapsed in the country’s north-east. A pro-Tamil website is claiming at least 45 civilians have died in fighting around the coastal Trincomalee district. The military says it has lost three soldiers during a day of air ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1201 (Reuters) KANTALE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Three troops died and dozens were injured as Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers fought against what they said was a major military offensive on Thursday. Medics treated more than 30 new army casualties taken to the government-held town of Kantale in the island’s restive east, and ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1200 (Gulf Times) NEW YORK: Former US president Bill Clinton, who is a UN special envoy on tsunami recovery efforts in the Indian Ocean, expressed shock at the killing of 16 aid workers in Sri Lanka. “I was shocked and saddened to hear of the killings in Sri Lanka” of the workers ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1199 (ReliefWeb) TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka, Aug 9 (Reuters) – The brutal murder of 17 Sri Lankan aid workers last week highlights the difficulties faced by relief organisations around the world trying to balance helping people with politics. The massacre, which took place in the northeastern town of Mutur after days of fighting ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1198 (FreeMedia) Deputy Inspector of Police Trincomalee district threaten to baton charge and barred the media personal waiting at Trincomalee hospital to cover the postmortem inquiry of the 15 NGO workers killed in Muttur. 17 humanitarian workers of the French NGO, Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger, ACF was shot ... http://tamilink.org.uk/tl/?p=1197