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My Brothers` Keepers

In Sri Lanka the grip of the Rajapaksas only tightens.

(COLOMBO The Economist) - THE president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, may well feel pleased with himself.

On the face of it, more than six years after his first election, his prospects are still remarkably rosy. The economy clips along at about 7% a year. Mr Rajapaksa’s coalition controls over two-thirds of parliament, and opposition parties are so weak that a senior minister chuckles about not being held to account.

War Crimes in Sri Lanka

THERE are signs that the international community is gearing up for action to hold Sri Lanka accountable for alleged war crimes committed by its forces at the end of the brutal civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009.

(LONDON) - A preliminary investigation by the United Nations said Sri Lanka’s “conduct of the war represented a grave assault on the entire regime of international law” concluding that up to 40,000 Tamil civilians may have been killed in just five months.

There are indications that the death toll could be even higher.

Misguided Buddhist Zealots

Who is responsible for this blatant disregard for Tamil culture?

(NEW DELHI ) - Since the end of the conflict in 2009, a new phenomena has emerged. That of Buddha statues being erected along the A9 route that leads to Jaffna.

Over 28 Buddha statues have been counted along this route since the war concluded in May 2009. The comedy of this charade (what else can one call it?) is that these statues are placed in areas where little or no Buddhists reside.

Paul Kagame: A General Without Generals

Questions over the recent arrests of four generals remain unanswered...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - On January 17th, 2012 four generals were arrested in Rwanda and placed under house arrest.

Much speculation has been raised as to the reason for their arrest and detainment.

Genocide: The Slaughter of the Tamils in Sri Lanka - Genocide Process

இலங்கை இனப்படுகொலையை தோலுரித்து காட்டும் அர்ஜென்டினா ஊடகம்

(COLOMBO) - When examining the recent Genocide in Sri Lanka committed against the minority Tamil population by the country's Sinhalese Buddhist government, many disturbing facts surface.

The thousand excuses offered by Sri Lanka' politicians mean little, when the facts reveal that the government 'practiced' Genocide in the years preceding it.

The Defeated

Sri Lanka’s Tamils pick up the pieces after a war that defined—and shattered—the lives of a generation.

(NEW DELHI ) - On 19 May 2009, an accountant named Sivarajan ran to the winding lunch queue in the Anandakumaraswami Zone 3 refugee camp to serve food.

Swarna, a former militant, yelled at her mom for revealing to the army that their family was from a region where the war between the Sri Lankan Army and the separatists—“Tigers,” she called them—was still raging.

SRI LANKA: Mine Clearance Could Take 10 Years or More

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) carries out mine risk awareness programmes in the north and east.

(COLOMBO) - Landmine clearance in Sri Lanka's conflict-affected north could take more than a decade, experts say.

"It is expected to take [in] excess of 10 years to fully mitigate all remaining contamination in Sri Lanka," the Mine Action Project of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka told IRIN, citing a lack of resources coupled with the difficult nature of the work.

Britain and United States Condemn Murder in Syria but Condone Murder in Palestine

How about an International Award for Hypocrisy for UK and US?

(LONDON) - Arising out the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist who invented dynamite, the Nobel Prize is universally recognized as the most prestigious award in the fields of peace-making, economics, chemistry, physics, medicine and literature.

How about an international award - without the gold medal, the diploma and the money - for hypocrisy?

Rajapaksa Double-Speak Holds Sri Lanka Captive to its History

Rajapaksa has effectively rejected the 13th amendment as the basis for a political settlement.

(COLOMBO) - Mahinda Rajapaksa appears to be walking away from promises he had made to seek out a political solution based on devolution of powers to autonomous provincial councils.

The modern history of Sri Lanka, centered around the politics of its Tamil minority population and its umbilically bound relationship with India, is one of broken promises...

LTTE`s Balakumar and Yogi Alive

Due to fear of retribution and the operation of the Terrorism Act, the relatives of the victims are fearing to file Habeas Corpus applications to the Supreme Court.

(COLOMBO) - Two senior men with the LTTE, V Balakumar and Yogaratnam Yogi, are reportedly are held in detention with other senior men of the LTTE south of Sri Lanka, under strict military supervision.

This news rings contrary to the government's claim of that both were dead in the battle front.