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Tamil Nadu Protest on Sri Lanka CHOGM Targets New Delhi, London

The Queen of England, the permanent president of Commonwealth, has failed to expel Sri Lanka from the CHOGM, the organisors of the protest said.

(LONDON TamilNet) - Do not conduct Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka and suspend Sri Lanka from Commonwealth till a referendum on independence of Eezham Tamils is held under UN supervision, demanded protestors belonging to 12 political parties and movements that participated in a protest in front of the British Deputy High Commission in Chennai and the Shastri Bhavan office of the Central Government of India at Nungambakkam on Friday.

Describing the protest as a siege on Indian and the UK offices in Chennai, May 17 Movement, the organisors of the protest, characterised the Sri Lanka CHOGM as a ‘neo-colonial summit’.

New Video of Sexually Assaulted and Murdered Captive Tamil Reporter is Bad News for Sri Lanka

Isaipriya's body positions recorded in photos and video tell a chilling story of war crimes and cover up.
(Warning: disturbing images)

(SACRAMENTO) - Chilling new video evidence has emerged in the gut wrenching story of a young journalist with the Tamil Tigers named Issei Piriya or simply, Isaipriya, who was sexually abused and murdered as a captive of the Sri Lankan Army during the final weeks of the country's civil war.

Video recorded of her alive, half nude and disoriented, sitting in what appears to be shallow water, proves that she was taken as a captive of the Sri Lankan Army.

NO FIRE ZONE - One of the Year`s Most Urgent Documentaries

Beautifully crafted and heart wrenching - The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting

(LONDON) - Next Tuesday, 5th November at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith as part of Between the Lines festival follow ups we will be showing NO FIRE ZONE: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director, Callum Macrae.

The feature-length film is a meticulous and chilling portrayal of the final devastating months of the 26 year long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who lived through it.

Documentary on Sri Lanka Set for International Release

The global broadcast coincides with the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo that has been highly criticised in the face of Sri Lanka’s ever-increasing human rights abuse cases.

(CHENNAI) - Critically acclaimed Indian filmmaker Leena Manimekalai’s White Van Stories, a documentary on enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka with never-seen-before footage, is set for an international release.

The two-hour documentary shows seven characters and the unexplained disappearances of their loved ones in post-war Sri Lanka.

Credible Sri Lankan War Crimes Investigation on the Horizon

More than two years after the Panel's report, the High Commissioner visited Sri Lanka for a week this past August and found, unsurprisingly, that nothing had changed.

(TORONTO) - At the United Nations General Assembly's (UNGA) 68th session in late September, a major stipulation was laid out by UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Navi Pillay, in reference to the shocking slaughtering of tens of thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians in the spring of 2009.

As the last four years have shown, repeated pronouncements by U.S. and numerous other officials recommending that Sri Lanka take proper action have done nothing to bring even the slightest measure of justice for the horrific crimes of 2009.

Expose: Full Text Of Sharma`s Buried 2nd Report: CJ Impeachment Was Unlawful

The whole matter was a complete cover up by Britain with the connivance of India, whose agent was Kamalesh Sharma. it is all an attempt to save Sri Lanka from international investigations into violations of Human Rights, in which India was complicit.

(MELBOURNE) - The Colombo Telegraph fully exposed the burial of the second report on the sacking of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake by Rajapaksa, requested by the Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma. Please read how he justifies his act.

His cover up of both the reports from the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) paved the way for the holding of CHOGM in Colombo.

Sri Lankan Army Chief Unwittingly Admits Committing War Crimes

Army Commander also issues a public warning from the former war zone, that his troops would have no hesitation but to repeat such crimes if separatism rises again in the country.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ) - Inadvertently confirming that his troops have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the name of wiping out the Tamil Tiger rebels, Sri Lanka’s newly appointed Army Commander Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake has said earlier this week that the entire “world has been exhibited the way in which we defeated” the 30-year long separatist armed struggle in the island nation in May 2009.

Army Commander Ratnayake’s controversial speech has come just weeks after the electoral victory of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in the north...

Did Jayewardene Deceive Rajiv Gandhi? - M.A. Sumanthiran

Rajiv Gandhi or his advisers, unlike Indira Gandhi, were the least concerned about the welfare of the Eelam Tamils. If he was, he would not have signed the Indo - Sri Lankan Accord with so many clauses that are disadvantageous to the Tamils.

(MELBOURNE) - On the advice of dubious Indian advisers and the Indian Intelligence, RAW, Rajiv Gandhi embarked on a policy of dismantling the militant movements and disarming them.

This was a 180 degrees policy change from Indira Gandhi, who advocated the freeing of Tamils from the clutches of the Sinhalese by their own effort. The advisers gave Rajiv at least 3 reasons for it.

USTPAC Commends UN Human Rights Chief`s Challenge to Sri Lankan Government

USTPAC welcomes Commissioner Pillay's firm stance on justice and accountability for both sides.

(GENEVA) - United States Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC) thanks UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay and her team for their recent visit to Sri Lankaand the oral report provided on Wednesday to the 24th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Commissioner Pillay's report to the Council, criticizes the heavy military presence in the North, and notes with concern ongoing sexual harassment of vulnerable groups, and the compulsory acquisition of private land.

SRI LANKA: Election Violations in the North

Uthayan faked, SL forces focus on targeting Ananthi on election day

(MELBOURNE) - Despite the psychological intimidation, manipulations and various harassment by the SL military in several places in Jaffna peninsula, the participation of people in the NPC voting has reached almost 50% by 2:00 p.m.

Independent election monitors told media a Tamil National Alliance politician and deputy chairman of Chaavakachcheari Pirathesa Chapai (PS), was almost abducted and tortured by the intelligence operatives of the SL military near a voting booth in Thenmaraadchi. Fellow TNA supporters came in a vehicle to his rescue.