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Australia presses Sri Lanka over war crimes claims

By pearlaction | October 24, 2011 |

[AFP] Australian leader Julia Gillard on Tuesday urged Sri Lanka to address claims of serious human rights violations as a man filed war crimes charges against President Mahinda Rajapakse. [Full Story]

Australia pressured to investigate Sri Lanka envoy for warcrimes

By pearlaction | October 17, 2011 |

[Reuters] The International Commission of Jurists’ (ICJ) Australian section has handed police direct and credible evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Sri Lanka Navy during the last stages of the bloody civil war against Tamil rebels in 2009, The Age newspaper said, citing unidentified sources. [Full Story]

Sri Lanka ‘war crimes’ soldiers ordered to ‘finish the job’

By pearlaction | July 27, 2011 |

[Channel 4 News] One of these eyewitnesses, an army officer, accuses Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa – the president’s brother – of ordering Brigadier Shavendra Silva to execute Tamil rebel leaders, whose safe surrender had been guaranteed by the president. [Full Story]

Have Sri Lanka’s Tamils been forgotten?

By pearlaction | July 13, 2011 |

[Al Jazeera] The civil war in Sri Lanka was one of the world’s most brutal conflicts and lasted nearly 30 years. Both the Sinhalese-majority government forces and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were accused of using dirty tactics. When the war ended in 2009 with the defeat of the LTTE, the Sri…

Why should we care about the suffering of Tamils?

By pearlaction | July 8, 2011 |

[Independent UK] On Tuesday 14 June, a shocking, heart-wrenching documentary was shown on Channel 4. ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’, broadcast just after 11pm, displayed what presenter Jon Snow described as “devastating evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and a powerful case for bring those guilty of these crimes to justice.” [Full Story]