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Is This Ban’s ‘Never Again’ Moment?

By pearlaction | August 1, 2011 |

[Huffington Post] We failed to prevent a massacre in Sri Lanka. We must not fail to seek justice for it. ‘Never again’ is the promise that has followed the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda and Srebrenica; issued each time with outrage and contrition, and, in recent years, a report on the failure of the international community to…

The Sri Lankan soldiers ‘whose hearts turned to stone’

By pearlaction | July 27, 2011 |

[Channel 4 News] Over the last two years Channel 4 News has broadcast footage that the UN says constitutes “credible evidence of war crimes” in Sri Lanka. In the final stages of 26 years of civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, and better known as the Tamil Tigers), the United…

Chandrika Kumaratunga berates Sri Lankan government

By pearlaction | July 25, 2011 |

[BBC] Former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has condemned the current government, saying it has failed to win peace in the country after the war. [Full Story]

What South Africa can do to help with reconciliation in Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | July 24, 2011 |

[International Crisis Group] As South Africa knows better than most, a country cannot begin to overcome decades of internal conflict without a sustained effort at revealing the truth of the past and a committed push for reconciliation. If only Sri Lanka could learn that lesson. [Full Story]

Black July: Remembering the 1983 Riots in Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | July 23, 2011 |

[Huffington Post] “Shoot! I am telling you, shoot! Shoot and run!”Seelan bellowed. Seelan was demanding that his childhood friend Aruna kill him and escape. Aruna saw tears in Seelan’s eyes as Aruna pointed the gun and fired. Seelan collapsed dead. [Full Story]