Posts Tagged ‘Sri Lankan Government’
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished
Channel 4 broadcast Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, a critically-acclaimed and RTS Award winning forensic investigation into the events of the last few weeks of the decades-long war between the government of Sri Lanka and the rebel forces of the Tamil Tigers (LTTE), presented by Jon Snow.
Read MoreUK ‘to deport 100 Tamils’ as Sri Lanka fights UN resolution
[Channel 4 News] A plane chartered by the British government is to deport about 100 Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka, according to a human rights charity. Human Rights Watch claims the aircraft will fly the Tamils back to the country where they could face interrogation and torture. [Full Story]
Read MoreSri Lanka: new test of India’s global influence
[Global Post] The Sri Lankan government’s efforts to erase from history the final months of its 25-year-long war against Tamil separatists hit a snag this week, as humanitarian organizations blasted the report of an internal probe into alleged human rights violations and possible war crimes as a whitewash. [Full Story]
Read MoreSri Lanka: Ban voices hope Government will take steps on accountability
[UN News Centre] Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced hope that the Sri Lankan Government will move forward on its commitments to deal with accountability concerns in the wake of the long-running civil war in the Asian country. [Full Story]
Read MoreSri Lanka ‘still torturing’ Tamils
[Channel 4 News] The UN has already found that evidence of the killing of up to 40,000 civilians amid allegations of serious human rights abuses amounted to “credible allegations” that war crimes had been committed during the last days of the civil war in 2009. [Full Story]
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