Posts Tagged ‘Jaffna’
Sri Lanka: Protest in Jaffna over “disappearances”
[World Socialist] Amid police and military threats, about 200 mothers, wives and other relatives of disappeared persons held a protest on December 10 in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka, to demand information about their loved ones. [Full Story]
Read MoreCall to investigate Sri Lanka disappearances
[BBC] A human rights group has called on Sri Lanka’s government to investigate the disappearance of two activists in the northern city of Jaffna. [Full Story]
Read MoreThe Continued Militarization of Sri Lanka
[Journal of Foreign Relations] Led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, post-war Sri Lanka is a sad place. In May of 2009, the Sri Lankan government achieved a resounding military victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). [Full Story]
Read MoreTamil anger at army’s influence in Sri Lanka
[Al Jazeera] Two years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, many minority Tamils in the north say the military retains too strong a hold over their daily lives. [Full Story]
Read MoreWar over, fear still stalks polls in north Sri Lanka
[Reuters Canada] “Everyone knows certain sections of the military and the political groups operating in Jaffna are behind these (violations),” Keerthi Thennakoon, executive director of the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE), told Reuters. [Full Story]
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