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Sri Lankan anger over US move at UN rights council

By pearlaction | February 23, 2012 |

[AFP] Sri Lanka on Thursday vowed to hold mass protests against US-backed moves at the United Nations to press for an independent probe into alleged war crimes during the island’s civil war. [Full Story]

Appeal to UN over missing Sri Lanka activists

By pearlaction | January 6, 2012 |

[BBC] Campaigners in Sri Lanka have urged the United Nations to intervene in the case of two activists believed to have been abducted last month. [Full Story]

Sri Lanka to hold first post-war census in March

By pearlaction | January 4, 2012 |

[AFP] Sri Lanka will hold its first post-war census in March which will cover the entire Indian Ocean island for the first time in over 30 years, officials said on Wednesday. [Full Story]

Sri Lanka war probe calls for new inquiry

By pearlaction | November 20, 2011 |

[Al Jazeera] A Sri Lankan government probe into the civil war against ethnic Tamil rebels has concluded that further investigations of alleged abuses committed in the final stages of the country’s 25-year conflict are necessary. [Full Story]

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…