Articles related to the current plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka
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Hot Zone: By Kevin Sites. A collection of experiences. (Read more...)

Touched by Tragedy: By Dr Whitehall. An Australian volunteer from Townsville recounts his time spent teaching medicine in the war-torn region of North-eastern Sri Lanka. (Read more...) Note: pdf file.

No middle way for Sri Lanka's militant monks: By Mian Ridge, The Age. Despite war fatigue, Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority want the Tamil Tigers tamed. (Read more...)

Dark days in paradise: By Dylan Welch, The Sydney Morning Herald. Kidnapping and murder are common in Sri Lanka as the teardrop isle slides towards anarchy. (Read more...)

I'm not a Terrorist: By Loga Prasanna Chandrakumar. "The Tamil people have paid a high price for their freedom," a young Tamil writes. (Read more...)

Tamils are forced out at gunpoint amid claims of ethnic cleansing: By Jeremy Page, The Times. The Sri Lankan Government was accused yesterday of ethnic cleansing after armed police stormed workers’ hostels in the capital, Colombo, during the night and forced hundreds of ethnic Tamils to leave town. (Read more...)

Misery and death stalk Sri Lanka's North: By Somini Songuta, The New York Times. The nights are broken again by artillery fire across the black lagoon. The road out of this peninsula has been closed since last August, making the area nearly inaccessible. Today, though food and fuel manage to arrive... (Read more...)

Disappearances in Sri Lanka - Human Rights Watch Report
"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. (Read more...)

Karuna Group Abducts Children for Combat: By the Human Rights Watch. With the complicity or willful blindness of the Sri Lankan government, the Karuna group has abducted and forcibly recruited hundreds of children in eastern Sri Lanka. (Read more...)

Missing bullet mystery over Sri Lanka's murders: By Jeremy Page, The Times. A single bullet could hold the key to last year’s murder of 17 Sri Lankan aid workers, which the government and Tamil Tiger rebels still blame on each other. (Read more...)

And then they came for me...: By a Sinhalese journalist, The Sunday Leader. Secular Sinhalese hung their heads in shame last week as government storm-troopers rounded up the Tamil citizenry of Colombo and herded them into buses, to be taken to God knows where. (Read more...)

A war as strange as fiction: The Economist. An opportunistic president and a dyed-in-the-wool rebel appear to have ended Sri Lanka's best-ever hope for peace. (Read more...)

Sri Lankan Tamils in fear amid Colombo crackdown: AFP. Every time 16-year-old Suresh Subramanium steps out of his home in Sri Lanka's heavily-guarded capital, his father says a silent prayer for his son's safe return. (Read more...)

Sri Lanka: The Endless War: By Simon Robinson, Time. Like her country, Sinnathambi Jeevatharsini is beauty torn. Just 9 years old, she has long black hair tied up in two loose knots on either side of her head, and a smile that explodes across her face, as if someone has switched on a spotlight. (Read more...)

Sri Lanka; Stories from the conflict zone: BBC. The past month has witnessed the worst violence in Sri Lanka since the 2002 cease fire between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels... (Read more...)

Civil War haunts Sri Lanka again: By Chris Morris, BBC. The cease fire declared in Sri Lanka between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebel movement has disappeared in all but name. (Read more...)

Buddhist extremists attack Christian-run children's home in Sri Lanka: By Daniel Blake, Christian Today. Christian Solidarity Worldwide has reported of attacks by extremist Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka on a children's home in the country run by the Dutch Reformed Church. (Read more...)

Sri Lanka won't accept human rights monitors: By Bharatha Mallawarachi, Sydney Morning Herald (15/10/2007). SRI LANKA has rejected calls for a United Nations human rights monitoring mission to the island, as the UN's rights chief voiced concern over alleged widespread abuses. (Read more...)

Sri Lanka rights activists quit panel in protest over killings: AFP (15/10/2007). Four top Sri Lankan activists have quit a human rights panel in protest over the government's failure to stop extra-judicial killings, abductions and illegal arrests, one of them said. (Read more...)

Will the Human Rights Council pull Sri Lanka out of its state of lawlessness: AHRC (20/09/2007). The Asian Human Rights Commission reiterates that "Sri Lankan government is neither willing nor capable of seriously and competently investigating gross abuses of human rights." (Read more...)

Karuna still engaged in child recruitment: SLMM (16/11/2007). A weekly monitoring report by the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission lists a number of events linked to the Karuna group. (Read more...)

Child recruitment continues as hostilities escalate in troubled island nation: UNICEF (27/04/2007). UNICEF press release stating that the Karuna faction is not acting in good faith with regards to ending child recruitment. (Read more...)

Amnesty International calls on UNHRC to address violations: Amnesty International (04/11/2007). Public statement by Amnesty International outlining the growing concerns over press freedom, protecting citizens and combating impunity. (Read more...)

Impunity for enforced disappearances in the Asia-Pacific region must end: Amnesty International (30/08/2007). Amnesty International has documented a worrying increase in enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka in recent months, with at least 21 people reportedly disappeared in August in Jaffna district alone. (Read more...)

Once seen as neutral, aid workers fight perceived bias: By Peter Apps (31/08/2007). In conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan, Western aid workers are at risk because of perceived alignment with coalition forces, while elsewhere in the world, from Ethiopia to Sri Lanka, governments accuse them of backing insurgents. (Read more...)

Damning report on disappearances and killings compiled: By Gihan Chikera. At least 547 civilians have been killed and 396 gone missing in government controlled areas in Sri Lanka this year, a report compiled by three leading Civil Society Organizations has revealed. (Read more...)

Sri Lanka's escalating war of words over aid security: By Peter Apps, Reuters (16/08/2007) Aid workers under threat in Government controlled areas. Sri Lankan officials blame aid agency for the massacre of it's employees. (Read more...)

UN Chief backs relief official against Sri Lanka: By Evelyn Leopold, Reuters (16/08/2007). A Sri Lankan Government official accuses U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs of being a 'terrorist'. (Read more...)

Holmes factually correct - UN: BBCSinhala (16/08/2007), UN Secretary General, Farhan Haq said that Sri Lanka in the year 2006 was placed second worst country in the world for humanitarian work. (Read more...)

Dangers to life posed by the collapse of the rule of law: AHRC (14/08/2007). Statement from the Asian Human Rights Council stating that Sri Lankan Government has failed one of its basic functions; to provide security for the people. (Read more...)

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