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UN Passes Resolution Against Sri Lanka Rights Record

The UN's Human Rights Council has passed a resolution highly critical of Sri Lanka's conduct during its civil war.

(GENEVA BBC) - The resolution encourages Sri Lanka to conduct an independent and credible investigation into alleged war crimes.

Correspondents say the US-sponsored resolution has been watered down compared with earlier drafts.

INDIA: TN Readies Biers for US Resolution, Demands Genocide Acceptance, Interim Set-up, Referendum

Students demanded India to acknowledge the Eezham Tamils' plight in the island of Sri Lanka as genocide and to call for a UN referendum at Geneva.

(MARINA BEACH TamilNet) - Despite the attempt of Tamil Nadu state to deter the upsurge by closing a section of government colleges, the student movement gained momentum during the weekend.

In the struggle demanding justice, the students' movement prepares biers to take the US resolution to ‘cremation’ on Monday, news sources in Tamil Nadu said.

Richard! You Are Immortal!
(18 March 1958 - 18 February 1990)

Includes never-seen-before-images of the late “RICHARD MANIK DE ZOYSA”, performing Shakespeare Excerpts at Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation.

(LOS ANGELES) - Time has flown-by, in the blink of an eye, Since you were laid to rest, in that fateful night…

Over two decades, have passed, alright,
Three years added, to that era, outright… Twenty three years, since the island lost sight,
Of a ‘being’ unique, brisker than mere daylight…

The Sanitation of Your Local and World News

Will people figure it out before their nation is drug into another deadly war?

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - It is widely accepted that news is edited to meet the needs of advertisers and to help achieve political objectives. Republicans find the news too 'liberal' and left leaning people consider network news to be sold out.

These agencies continually repeat the same old stories; many are simply designed to take us to war.

US Resolution Will Secure About 33 Votes

The remaining 14 will split between pro-Rajapakse votes and abstentions-UNHRC in Geneva.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - This is not me, an irate Lankan alone; here are two quotes form an Indian web site: “The most disturbing aspect of the entire development at the UNHRC is India’s continuing dubious role”.

“A US-sponsored resolution will come up for voting at the 22nd session of the UN Human Rights Council later this month..."

Tamil Nadu Students Burn US Draft Resolution

Student protests and hunger strikes have begun in several towns and cities that are historically and geographically significant in setting trends in Tamil Nadu.

(CHENNAL TamilNet) - Protest have been started by the Loyola College students in Chennai against an empty US resolution on Sri Lanka at Geneva and the Tamil Nadu State Government action against the protest.

They have triggered spontaneous statewide student uprising that is not depending on any political party, news sources in Tamil Nadu said.

TGTE to Japanese Prime Minister: Raise War Crimes with Visiting Sri Lankan President

146,679 Tamils went missing when Sri Lankan forces attacked Tamil people.

(TOKYO) - As Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse begins his State visit to Japan, the Prime Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, urged Japan's Prime Minister to raise war crimes and genocide committed by the visiting Sri Lankan President.

Rajapakse begins his State visit to Japan on March 12, 2013.

Whose Wrong - Reply

A Brief Response to Mr. Sebastian Rasalingham's article on "The 1983 'Black-July' pogram and police inaction" of March 8, 2013.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - I usually agree with Mr. Rasalingam’s stand on many matters relating to the communal problem in Sri Lanka.

However, the article referred to above bothers me much. I raise these issues in point form below...

U.S. Resolution on Sri Lanka

Draft resolution HRC 22: Promoting Reconciliation and Accountability in Sri Lanka

(WASHINGTON DC) - PPI Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant instruments, (PP1 19/2)

SRI LANKA: Still Drenched With the Blood of Ethnic Cleansing and War Crimes.

Ranking member of US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Congressman Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, does not know true definition of 'Human Rights'.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Salem-News.com is the only U.S. news agency that regularly covers the ongoing human and political tragedy in Sri Lanka.

Up to 160,000 Sri Lankan Tamils were massacred in a Genocide that culminated in May 2009 during the end of the country's long-running civil war.