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Wednesday, 03 August 2011 19:41 |
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A leading human rights group is calling for an international investigation into the execution-style killing of 17 aid workers in Sri Lanka five years ago.
New York-based Human Rights Watch says the Sri Lankan government's failure to bring the killers to justice highlights what it called “a broader lack of will to prosecute soldiers and police for rights abuses.” The Sri Lankan employees of Paris-based aid agency Action Against Hunger were found dead in August 2006 in the eastern town of Mutur. Human Rights Watch said Wednesday the killings followed fighting between Sri Lankan government forces and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels for control of the town.
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Friday, 01 July 2011 23:16 |
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Stewart Bell Jul 1, 2011 – 3:30 PM ET | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2011 3:40 PM ET
A Canadian man has returned to Toronto after spending three years in the custody of Sri Lanka’s anti-terrorism police, whom he said detained him until he signed a false confession saying he had smuggled equipment to the Tamil Tigers rebels.
Roy Manojkumar Samathanam, 40, said that while visiting Sri Lanka, where he was born, he was arrested by the country’s Terrorist Investigation Division. He said he was beaten, threatened and witnessed torture while imprisoned at three locations.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 14 July 2011 23:41 |
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Monday, 09 May 2011 20:58 |
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MAY 9, 2011
Dear Prime Minister Harper,
Canada has a celebrated and respected history as a leading advocate for human rights on the international stage. Unfortunately, in recent years, Canada's voice as a champion of these principles has become muted. In light of your re-election, we hope that you will work for this trend to be reversed.
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Wednesday, 03 August 2011 19:34 |
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — An international human rights group urged the United Nations on Wednesday to investigate the execution-style slaying of 17 workers for a French aid agency in Sri Lanka five years ago, after a government probe did not identify the killers.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said the government's failure to bring the killers to justice "highlights a broader lack of will to prosecute soldiers and police for rights abuses."
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Monday, 13 June 2011 22:20 |
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It is a moment that speaks volumes. While the Kfir combat jets of the Sri Lankan airforce scream overhead and the heavy artillery of the Sri Lankan army maintains a remorseless barrage on the ground below, a family of terrified Tamil civilians huddle in a shallow trench.It is January 2009, and the beginning of the end of the 25-year war for an independent state of Tamil Eelam. The increasingly battered remnants of the secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are on the run and along with perhaps 400,000 Tamil civilians, they are being herded into an ever smaller area of land in north-east Sri Lanka.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 14 July 2011 23:42 |
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Friday, 03 June 2011 21:01 |
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A special investigation by Channel 4 featuring devastating new evidence of alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka is screened at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, as pressure mounts for action.
The documentary is an hour-long investigation into the final weeks of the bloody Sri Lankan civil war and features damning new evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Titled Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, Jon Snow presents the investigation which was shown to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday.Disturbing footage in the film includes the apparent extra-judicial massacre of prisoners by government forces, the aftermath of targeted shelling of civilian hospitals and the bodies of female Tamil fighters who appear to have been sexually assaulted.
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Last Updated on Monday, 13 June 2011 22:02 |
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011 14:44 |
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Exclusive: two Sri Lankans who witnessed the violent final showdown of the country's 26-year civil war claim a top military commander and Sri Lanka's defence secretary ordered war crimes.
One of these eyewitnesses, an army officer, accuses Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa - the president's brother - of ordering Brigadier Shavendra Silva to execute Tamil rebel leaders, whose safe surrender had been guaranteed by the president.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:05 |
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Monday, 13 June 2011 21:43 |
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Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers. The programme features devastating new video evidence of war crimes - some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast.
Captured on mobile phones, both by Tamils under attack and government soldiers as war trophies, the disturbing footage shows: the extra-judicial executions of prisoners; the aftermath of targeted shelling of civilian camps; and dead female Tamil fighters who appear to have been raped or sexually assaulted, abused and murdered.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 14 July 2011 23:42 |
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:34 |
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Sri Lanka's effort to whitewash the charges of war-crimes during the final stages of war received a set back at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) annual session as Navaneetham Pillai, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said she supported special UN panel's recommendations in the war-crimes report made public on 14th April.
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