Tamil civilians – People for Equality and Relief in Lanka

Searching for the boy with the violin

By pearlaction | December 23, 2011 |

[BBC] As Sri Lanka’s civil war came to a bloody end in May 2009, the BBC’s Priyath Liyanage was struck by video footage of a boy walking through the war zone holding a violin. Two years on, can this boy be traced and why did he make such a perilous journey with only a musical…

Building a new life after the war in Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | July 21, 2011 |

[BBC] Hundreds of thousands of displaced Tamil civilians are returning to their home villages in the north two years after the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka. [Full Story]

The Full Story: PM’s Questions

By pearlaction | January 14, 2009 |

[BBC] 13:04-14:01 “Hundreds of thousand of innocent Tamil civilians are currently under siege in Sri Lanka because of aerial bombardment by the Sri Lankan government,” Mr. Vaz told Parliament. “Last Sunday (sic) the editor of a leading newspaper was assassinated. He said in an [editorial] written before he was killed that this was due to…