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Month: January 2015

Ban hopes Lanka works with UN

31/01/201531/01/2015 Karu

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hopes Sri Lanka works with the UN on the investigations over the war despite launching a new domestic investigation. Ban’s spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said that the UN is trying to verify […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

Sri Lankan military must be removed from North, Wigneswaran tells UK minister

31/01/201531/01/2015 Karu

The removal of the Sri Lankan military from the Tamil areas is the most important issue at present, the chief minister of the Northern Province, C V Wigneswaran told the UK’s Minister for the Foreign […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

Sri Lanka to Free Tamils and Return Their Land

31/01/201531/01/2015 Karu

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The Sri Lankan government pledged Thursday to free hundreds of minority Tamil detainees and return much of the Tamil land in the north and east that the military seized and continues […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

TNA has no faith in a local probe

31/01/201531/01/2015 Karu

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) says it has no faith in a domestic probe on the war and wants the outcome of the UN investigations to be made public. Cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne had said that […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

Tamils have no trust in local inquiry by Sri Lankan govt says TNA spokesperson

31/01/201531/01/2015 Karu

The spokesperson of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said the Tamil people have no trust in a local inquiry process by the Sri Lankan government into mass atrocities committed against the Tamils at the end […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, UK NEWS, WORLD NEWS

Way To Prosecute US Citizen Gotabaya

31/01/201531/01/2015 Karu

By Ryan Goodman – One Way Sri Lanka Can Shield its ex-Defence Secretary from a U.S. Criminal Prosecution Last week, Sri Lanka’s Justice Deputy Minister responded to an Op-Ed that I published in the New York Times, in which I […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

Sri Lanka to re-apply for EU trade concession

31/01/201531/01/2015 Karu

COLOMBO – The Sri Lankan government on Friday said it will seek to obtain trade concession from the European Union which was withdrawn under the previous government. The EU Trade concession known as GSP plus […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, UK NEWS, WORLD NEWS

“Rajapaksa Govt’s Post-conflict Years Seriously Marred by Oppression of the Tamil Population” – Human Rights Watch

30/01/201530/01/2015 Karu

(New York, January 29, 2015) – The Sri Lankan government stepped up pressure in 2014 on human rights activists and journalists, particularly those urging justice for past war crimes, Human Rights Watch said in its […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

‘Why did the Australian government refuse to listen to us?’

30/01/201530/01/2015 Karu

Kathmandu: Nine Sri Lankans repatriated by Australian authorities last year after their boat was intercepted off Christmas Island have been recognised as refugees by the United Nations in Nepal. Hemantha Kuruppu, 41, says he was […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

Enables The People To Cast Their Votes

30/01/201530/01/2015 Karu

Timely Action By EC By Nirmala Kannangara Timely action taken by the Elections Commissioner’s Department was able to prevent election violations by creating a fear psychosis amongst the voters in the Jaffna Peninsula and in […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS

Dual citizenship potentially available to all Lankans

30/01/201530/01/2015 Karu

Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake presenting the interim budget 2015 today said that the option of dual citizenship would be available to all persons of Sri Lankan origin and granted after due evaluation. A payment of […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS

Sri Lanka says military ‘sabotaging’ post-war reconciliation

30/01/201530/01/2015 Karu

The government says it is investigating allegations that two senior military officers are training 400 troops to provoke unrest in Jaffna COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka’s new government on Thursday, January 29, accused the […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

APPG for Tamils video message from Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP

30/01/201530/01/2015 Karu

Please find attached a download link for the video http://we.tl/2bg6VMqKwG The transcript in English is as below: First of all I want to celebrate the contribution of British Tamils to our country.  Across every walk of […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, UK NEWS

UK minister cites ‘other stakeholders’ in furthering Geneva investigations

29/01/201529/01/2015 Karu

The visiting British Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Hugo Swire in Jaffna said that there was no change in British position on proceeding with Geneva-based war crimes investigations. But, there are […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS, UK NEWS

TNA seeks exclusive body to solve problems faced by Tamils

29/01/201529/01/2015 Karu

By Mirudhula Thambiah The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has made a request to President Maithripala Sirisena to appoint an exclusive body to solve the problems of the Tamil speaking people in the North and East. […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

Sri Lanka’s new government plans fresh war crimes probe

29/01/201529/01/2015 Karu

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka is planning an investigation into accusations of human rights abuses in the final stages of a 26-year civil war amid international frustration at the failure to look into numerous civilian deaths, […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

Political change at provincial level needed – Devananda

29/01/201529/01/2015 Karu

Political change at provincial level needed – Devananda By Pranavesh Sivakumar Parliamentarian and Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) leader Douglas Devananda said the Tamil people should make a change in Provincial politics similar to that […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

Wigi, Swire discuss situ in Jaffna

29/01/201529/01/2015 Karu

Northern Province Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran and British Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire met in Jaffna today and discussed the situation in the north. Wigneswaran said that at the meeting, the issue over the military presence […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, UK NEWS

Sri Lanka’s Tamil party rejects domestic probe

29/01/201529/01/2015 Karu

Colombo, Jan 29 (IANS) Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party Thursday said it would oppose any domestic inquiry into the alleged human rights violations during the final stages of the country’s civil war and reiterated its […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

Government is to make a promise

29/01/201529/01/2015 Karu

The Government is to make a special statement during the 67th Independence Day Celebrations to be held on 4th February, 2015 where is will assure the public that a situation similar to that which occurred during the war […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, UK NEWS

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