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Sunday, June 29, 2014
Saturday, June 28, 2014
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Sri Lankan Muslims describe brutal communal violen...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Sri Lankan Muslims describe brutal communal violen...: World Socialist Web Site reporters this week visited the Sri Lanka coastal town of Aluthgama, 60 kilometres from Colombo, where Buddhist...
Thursday, June 26, 2014
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Sri Lanka:Law and order: gone to the dogs
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Sri Lanka:Law and order: gone to the dogs: Ceylon Today The Police Spokesman, SSP Ajith Rohana, was quoted by Ceylon Today on Monday as saying the police officers are afraid to man ...
Monday, June 23, 2014
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Communal Violence instigated by BBS in Aluthgama:...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Communal Violence instigated by BBS in Aluthgama:...: The blood of the victims COMMUNAL VIOLENCE CANNOT BE PERMITTED - NPC The mob attack on Muslim owned shops and homes in Aluthgama and B...
Saturday, June 14, 2014
SRI LANKA BRIEF: The UNP calls on the government to cooperate with ...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: The UNP calls on the government to cooperate with ...: STATEMENT ISSUED BY UNITED NATIONAL PARTY The Rajapaksa regime is once again playing politics with the national question and toying wit...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: JVP calls for domestic independent inquiry into th...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: JVP calls for domestic independent inquiry into th...: (AFP photo) JVP proposes amendment . The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today submitted an amendment to the Government motion, whi...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: JVP calls for domestic independent inquiry into th...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: JVP calls for domestic independent inquiry into th...: (AFP photo) JVP proposes amendment . The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today submitted an amendment to the Government motion, whi...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Switzerland: Fast track asylum process given good ...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Switzerland: Fast track asylum process given good ...: Jo Fahy, swissinfo.ch and agencies A pilot project to slash the length of time taken to process asylum applications has received a posit...
Friday, June 13, 2014
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Clear lack of commitment to address gender equalit...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Clear lack of commitment to address gender equalit...: (photo: World Bank blog) Recent statements made by certain government ministers indicate a lack of importance in addressing issues of ...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: "Bloody journalists! Don't they have something bet...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: "Bloody journalists! Don't they have something bet...: Deputy Minister at the press conference Hemal Gunasekara Now Says He Can't Remember The "Forged" Number Plate Respond...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: "Bloody journalists! Don't they have something bet...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: "Bloody journalists! Don't they have something bet...: Deputy Minister at the press conference Hemal Gunasekara Now Says He Can't Remember The "Forged" Number Plate Respond...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: "Bloody journalists! Don't they have something bet...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: "Bloody journalists! Don't they have something bet...: Deputy Minister at the press conference Hemal Gunasekara Now Says He Can't Remember The "Forged" Number Plate Respond...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: SRI LANKA: Drunken police officers gun down 24-yea...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: SRI LANKA: Drunken police officers gun down 24-yea...: Subash Indika Jayasinghe A statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission On the night of June 11, officers attached to the Nittambuw...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: 'Amnesty cannot be granted for torture, disappeara...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: 'Amnesty cannot be granted for torture, disappeara...: Excerpts form an interview with Sandra Beidas, [Head, OHCHR investigation on Sri Lanka ] A Truth and Reconciliation process should pro...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Sri Lanka; UN says women in N-E feel unsafe
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Sri Lanka; UN says women in N-E feel unsafe: Women in North ( file photo) The United Nations (UN) says based on available research nearly 40% of women in former conflict zones in S...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Sri Lanka takes on UN SP Beyani’s report
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Sri Lanka takes on UN SP Beyani’s report: IDPs in Sri Lanka (UNHRC file photo( The Government has raised objections to some comments made by Dr. Chaloka Beyani, the Special Rapp...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Conclusions and recommendations of the Sri Lanka r...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Conclusions and recommendations of the Sri Lanka r...: IDPs in Sri Lanka ( file photo/UN) Summary The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Chaloka Beyani...
Thursday, June 12, 2014
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Can Prince Zeid be labelled a Tiger?
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Can Prince Zeid be labelled a Tiger?: Prince Zeid Al-Hussein Upul Joseph Fernanda President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited Jordan on a special official tour early this year. He...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Can Prince Zeid be labelled a Tiger?
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Can Prince Zeid be labelled a Tiger?: Prince Zeid Al-Hussein Upul Joseph Fernanda President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited Jordan on a special official tour early this year. He...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Saturday, June 7, 2014
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Crime among Sri Lanka soldiers on rise; 18% report...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Crime among Sri Lanka soldiers on rise; 18% report...: [Photo: Dinouk Colombage/Al Jazeera] Experts say desertion and crime in armed forces has spiked five years after civil war end due to a...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Death threats to Ruhuna University lecturers
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Death threats to Ruhuna University lecturers: Thugs led by MP Jayasuriya University teachers question as to whether S.B. Dissanayake is the minister in charge of higher education, o...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Sri Lanka Panel Receives over 18,000 Complaints of...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Sri Lanka Panel Receives over 18,000 Complaints of...: A Sri Lankan panel probing the disappearance of people during the country's nearly three-decade long civil strife has received nearly...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Rajapaksa home town Tangalle has become the latest...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Rajapaksa home town Tangalle has become the latest...: Namal Rajapaksa : the killer company? UNP leadership council member Mangala Samaraweera says the ‘godfather, god son and god uncle’ a...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: My Office has now put in place a staff team for th...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: My Office has now put in place a staff team for th...: All set for the SL inquiry ''I note also that last month marked the fifth anniversary of the end of the war in SriLanka, whe...
Friday, June 6, 2014
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Repression of Dissent in Sri Lanka - INFORM repo...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Repression of Dissent in Sri Lanka - INFORM repo...: ''Government Ministers, MPs, politicians, supporters and groups backed by the government appeared to behind almost all the repo...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Rajapaksa family run the state airline 'SriLankan'...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Rajapaksa family run the state airline 'SriLankan'...: The SriLankan Airlines incurs a loss of nearly Rs. 60 million a day, reports by the Central Bank point out. The airlines’ losses are incr...
Monday, June 2, 2014
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Govt. doesn't seriously apply itself to tackling N...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Govt. doesn't seriously apply itself to tackling N...: Five years after the end of the armed conflict in the North and East, legitimate political aspirations of the Tamil speaking people in Sr...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: UN drafts Sri Lanka probe team; will consists 13 m...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: UN drafts Sri Lanka probe team; will consists 13 m...: OHCHR office Palais Wilson Dharisha Bastians UN (OHCHR)The UN team probing major human rights abuses by both sides during the last se...
Sunday, June 1, 2014
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Shocker: Brazen attack on traffic policeman by pol...
SRI LANKA BRIEF: Shocker: Brazen attack on traffic policeman by pol...: His vehicle on fire ( Lankadeepa) A traffic policeman assigned to the Southern Expressway was attacked by goons of a local politician b...
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