News Source: Gulf News
| 2 months ago
New York-based Human Rights Watch urged leaders to raise the issue with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake when he participates in the UN General Assembly sessions this week. "The civilians locked up in these detention camps have a...
News Source: Tamil Net
| 2 months ago
Tamil youths arrested in Up-country [TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 September 2009, 17:00 GMT] Sri Lanka police took into custody four Tamil youths in a search operation Wednesday morning in Bogawantalawa and Kotagala in the up-country where Tamils live...
News Source: Tamil Net
| 2 months ago
Civilians clash with SLA in Vavuniyaa internment camp [TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 September 2009, 12:09 GMT] Additional police and Sri Lanka Army troops were brought into the College of Education internment camp in Vavuniyaa after clashes erupted...
News Source: Tamil Net
| 2 months ago
Tamils protest in New York, say Ban ineffective, lacks leadership [TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 September 2009, 04:08 GMT] Several dozen American Tamils assembled near the United Nations building between 1st Avenue and 47th Street Tuesday around noon and...
News Source: Tamil Net
| 2 months ago
US leadership in rights issues questioned [TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 September 2009, 02:27 GMT] Noting that the "[Obama] Administration has pursued a low profile approach to Sri Lanka, where a military offensive against rebels is believed to have...
News Source: Tamil Net
| 2 months ago
Poor conditions, overcrowding, and inadequate medical care increases the risk of serious health problems during the coming monsoon season," and noting that "the authorities are not being open and honest with camp residents about when they may go home,...