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Sri Lanka to free most Tamil Tigers
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 1 day ago
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The secretary of the Ministry for Disaster Management and Human Rights, Rajiva Wijesinha, says of the 11,000 Tigers, only 200 are being charged. He says the rest are in rehabilitation for eventual return to society. "The vast majority we believe, even...
Tags: Sri Lankan Army, South and Central Asian, human rights, Our Lady of Madhu, U.S, Madhu Church, tamils civilians, Sri Lanka, Colombo, War Conflict, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Politics, Sri Lankan people, Tamil Eelam, Sri Lankan Civil War, Politics of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Eelam War IV, Sinhalese people, Tamil Sri Lankans, Sarath Fonseka, D. A. Rajapaksa, Social Issues, Rajiva Wijesinha, Gotabhaya, Northern Province Sri Lanka, TamilNet, Sri Lankan presidential election, Refugee camp, Human rights in Sri Lanka, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
Special office in Kenyan refugee camp helps victims of sexual violence
In Hagadera, one of three sprawling refugee camps in north-west Kenya's Dadaab region, there's a group of women who call themselves "survivors." They are victims of sexual violence, a scourge which reaches into the overcrowded camps, home to some 270,000...
Tags: UNHCR, Refugee camp, sexual violence, refugee camps, Violence against women, Gender studies, Sexual assault
Tamils on the road as Sri Lanka opens refugee camps
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 10 days ago
Credibility It's good that they are out of the camps but there is another entire set of problems that will come up if these people are not properly monitored and protected," said Brad Adams, a senior spokesman for Human Rights Watch. "And then there are also the...
Tags: Sri Lanka, sri lankan, Vavuniya, war refugees, Colombo, War Conflict, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Politics, Sri Lankan Civil War, Tamil Eelam, Sri Lankan people, Sinhalese people, Refugee, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sarath Fonseka, Social Issues, Politics of Sri Lanka, Internally displaced person, Provinces of Sri Lanka, D. A. Rajapaksa, Tamil Sri Lankans, Northern Province Sri Lanka, Refugee camp, Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan Tamil people, Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Persecution, Eelam War IV, Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, Tamil diaspora, India ￢ﾀﾓ Sri Lanka relations
Poetry reading helps show solidarity with Palestinians
Beirut :: Lebanon | 10 days ago
Credibility The Gathering for Dialogue at the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared held a poetry reading evening on Monday to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. The event was held at the new section of the camp and was attended by representatives...
Tags: nahr al, Lebanon, Beirut, Refugee camp, Military of Lebanon, Fertile Crescent, Lebanese Armed Forces, Palestinian people, Beddawi, Politics, Social Issues, Palestine refugee camps, Nahr al-Bared, War Conflict
LAF says Nahr al-Bared presence needed for security
Beirut :: Lebanon | 25 days ago
Credibility The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) stressed Monday that checkpoints at the entrance of the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared were aimed at guaranteeing people’s safety and preventing terrorists and fugitives from entering the site. An LAF...
Tags: nahr al, Lebanon, Beirut, LAF, Palestine refugee camps, Refugee camp, Military of Lebanon, Lebanese Armed Forces, Nahr al-Bared, War Conflict, Palestinian militant groups, Fertile Crescent, Lebanon conflict, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Fatah al-Islam
Timeline of the violence in Sri Lanka
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 28 days ago
Credibility 1975: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam group forms. The group demands a separate state for minority ethnic Tamils in the island's north and east. — 1983: Civil war begins. — 1987: Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Junius...
Tags: Sri Lanka, tamils tigers, Colombo, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, S. P. Thamilselvan, Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan Civil War, Tamil Eelam, Tamil Sri Lankans, Politics of Sri Lanka, Politics, War Conflict, Tamil people, Outline of Sri Lanka, Vavuniya, Provinces of Sri Lanka, Refugee camp, Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, Dravidian peoples
Burmese PM to attend UNGA
Yangon :: Myanmar | 2 months ago
Credibility However, it is not yet clear whether he will meet any US officials during his visit. Earlier, a Burmese analyst told Mizzima that he expected a meeting to take place between Burmese Prime Minister, Thein Sein and US officials, possibly even with Secretary...
Tags: Thai-Burma, Meala Burmese, Myanmar, Burmese-born-American, Hillary Rodham Clinton, refugee camp, Washington, political prisoners, Yangon
Murder suspect caught in refugee camp
Sidon :: MS :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility The man was detained in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp near the southern coastal city of Sidon, the source said...For a decade the identities of those behind the attack remained a mystery, although press reports at the time suggested that a small, banned...
Tags: Ain al-Hilweh, refugee camp
MPs, human rights activists and churches rally in support of Iranian refugees in Iraq
MPs, human rights activists and churches on Monday rallied in support of 3,500 Iranian refugees in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. At a press conference in Parliament, three Iranians on hunger strike spoke movingly about the plight of their relatives in Ashraf....
Tags: iran, pmoi, ashraf, iraq, hunger strike, london, human rights, refugee camp, iraqi police
Hunger Strikers in London urge US to live up to its responsibilities
A seriously ill woman is determined to carry on her hunger strike outside the US embassy in London in protest over torture of Iranian exiles at the refugee camp Ashraf in Iraq, she said today. Fatemeh Khezrie, 44, began her protest 17 days ago taking...
Tags: iran, iraq, pmoi, ashraf, refugee camp, us embassy, hunger strike
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