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UN rights group deplores recent wave of disappearances in Sri Lanka
[UN, 11 June 2008]
11 June 2008 – The Government of Sri Lanka needs to stamp out a recent wave of disappearances in which women and humanitarian aid workers are among those who have gone missing, a group of United Nations human rights experts said today....
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President Rajapakshe will think twice before visiting London next time – British Tamils Forum
[BTF, 10 June 2008]
British Tamils Forum joined forces with NSSP (Nava Sama Samaja Party) UK, TYO (Tamil Youth Organisation), S4P (Solidarity for Peace), Socialist Party, International Socialist Group and South Asia Solidarity Group and very effectively mobilised the masses in London to protest against the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakshe. Mr. Rajapakshe is here in London for a Commonwealth Conference, where twelve other Heads of State are also
present.. [More....] Also
see the Video and Photos
(password-tamilprotest)
UN: Sri Lanka's defeat a victory for Human Rights
Council
[New
York, May 21, 2008]
UN member states enforced the standards they
established for the new Human Rights Council by not re-electing Sri
Lanka to the body today. Domestic and international human rights
advocates who had opposed Sri Lanka’s re-election to the council
said the vote was a victory for human rights standards and for
victims of abuse in Sri Lanka. [More....]
Also
see OHCHR
Report
, UNICEF
UPR submission
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"No right to be there"
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
With a terrible record of torture and disappearance, Sri Lanka doesn't deserve a seat on the UN human rights council. It should be voted out
....(from Guardian Unlimited)
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Statement From The Carter Center on Upcoming
U.N. Human Rights Council Elections
Former
US president Jimmy Carter The Carter Center calls on the General Assembly not to re-elect Sri Lanka to the Human Rights Council in the upcoming Council elections. Recently adopted reforms of the former Commission on Human Rights, including competitive elections, call for the conduct of a government to be a factor in whether it is selected for a seat on the Council.
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NESoHR
Chairman Fr. Karunaratnam killed in DPU attack
[TamilNet,
Sunday, 20 April 2008, 07:57 GMT]
Rev. Father M X Karunaratnam, the chairman of the NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights
(NESoHR), was killed in a Claymore
attack carried out by a Deep Penetration Unit (DPU) of the Sri Lanka Army on Sunday, according to initial reports from Tamileelam Police.
The attack took place on Mallaavi - Vavunikku'lam Road in Vanni around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, according to initial reports”
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"No
solution possible without LTTE "
-South Africa
[TamilNet,
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 03:52 GMT]
Expressing
deep concern over the escalating violence in Sri Lanka, South Africa
this weekend called for renewed negotiations to end the protracted
conflict and emphasized “no solution to this conflict can be found
without the involvement of the two principal parties to the conflict
– the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE.” Speaking in
London
,
South Africa
’s Deputy Minister of Communications Roy Padayachie assured that
his country would render every assistance towards making peace but,
in an implicit criticism of approaches by some other countries,
said: “we will never ever impose our involvement in any part of
the globe.” [More....]
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British
Tamils Forum receives Asian Voice Award for best campaigning
organisation of the year
The British Tamils Forum, celebrated the win of the Asia Voice
Award for best campaigning organisation of the year. The award was presented to the Forum
by the Former Home Secretary, Dr John Reid MP, in the House of Commons that was attended by hundreds of special guests – including leading MPs from all 3 political parties,
Bollywood
stars and British television and radio personalities.
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United States should recognize the right of Sri Lanka's long
oppressed Tamil people to independent statehood - Bruce Fein
Applying the "self-evident" truths celebrated in the Declaration of Independence, the United States should recognize the right of Sri Lanka's long oppressed Tamil people to independent statehood from the racial supremacist Sinhalese.
To deny the statehood right — sought by the Tamil people since 1976 — would mark one of the United States' most ill-conceived hours. Double standards beget enmity or contempt, a steep price even for a
superpower. Washington Times
January 29, 2008
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Rajapaksa
Government, one of world's worst perpetrators of enforced
disappearances - Human Rights Watch
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, once a rights advocate, has now led his
government to become one of the world’s worst perpetrators of enforced
disappearances. The end of the ceasefire means this crisis will
continue until the government starts taking serious measures Elaine Pearson, deputy
Asia director at Human Rights Watch
Full
Report in PDF format
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Mass
Demonstration
Tuesday 10th of
June in London
Boycott Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan Airlines
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