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Why Did Sri Lanka Kill So Many Children?

Photos (BBC) tell of a painful, grisly and deadly time in Tamil history. American journalists need to pay attention.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - As the Israelis lay siege to Gaza, killing children by the score, our newsroom received a whole new batch of images from the Genocide in Sri Lanka that ended just a little over three years ago.

The writings and multi-media reports are a sad and terrible tribute for tens of thousands of ethnically cleansed Tamils- the minority group in Sri Lanka forever under the grinding thumb of the Sinhala Buddhist Sri Lankan government.

The Vanni by Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock

The Vanni is a multi media, interactive comic book about conflict and migration focusing on Sri Lanka.

(LONDON) - In one of the most brutal counter-insurgency operations ever mounted, at least 40,000 civilians were killed. The exact number of dead may never be known.

My name is Benjamin Dix and I arrived in Vanni, in northern Sri Lanka, three days after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

What if the UN Had Spoken Out on Sri Lanka? (Graphic Images)

UN staff received from informants in the field: unconfirmed reports of 17,810 killed and 36,905 injured during 2009.

(LONDON) - If today the United Nations announced that it had received unconfirmed reports of 50,000 casualties in a war off limits to journalists - wouldn't the world take notice and try and stop the killings?

We now know the UN system had this information in 2009 about Sri Lanka and suppressed it.

Authorities` Failure to Control Provocations May Lead to Further Violence

“It is certain that the violent attacks will occur for third time if the government will neglect to take decisive actions...” - U Aung Mra Kyaw.

(RANGOON, Burma Mizzima News) - Arakanese villagers in Mrauk-U Township have repeatedly reported unscrupulous destruction of their cultivations to authorities.

However the authorities have still neglected to look into the destruction.

UN Has a Second Chance to Right Wrongs on Sri Lanka

Article by Gordon Weiss of The Australian

(MELBOURNE, Aust) - THERE is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide - and got away with it.

Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone.

Sri Lanka to be Tried for Genocide Against Tamils: How Will Cuba and its Allies Respond?

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal was initiated in 1979 by the left socialist and anti-fascist resistance fighter Senator Lelie Basso.

(HAVANA TIMES) - An unprecedented move by internationalists and activists for human rights and justice, one that could inspire controversy among left oriented governments and peoples’ solidarity committees, will take place next spring.

Since the time of the resolution, Cuba has stepped up closer ties with the Mahinda Rajapaksa family government...

Sri Lankan State Terrorism Spreads to Paris, France

“Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts”

(PARIS, France) - With deep sadness and grief we, TCHR, publish this press release on the assassination carried out by the Sri Lankan military intelligence on a Tamil activist, a French citizen in Paris, France - Nadarajah Mathinthiran alias Parithi, nom de guerre Regan.

There is no doubt that this assassination was carried out by the Sri Lankan military intelligence...

Sri Lanka`s Long Road To Reconciliation & Analysis

For years, the Vanni was cut off from the rest of the country.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Colombo Telegraph) - Genzia Mary, 10, is fascinated by the buses arriving in northern Sri Lanka, their jovial travellers singing in a language that, until two years ago, was completely foreign to her.

Mary lives in Kilinochchi District, part of the country’s northern former war zone popularly known as “the Vanni”.

When all the `FUN` is About Fooling Ourselves

Here in Sri Lanka, there is also polarisation of politics, a reaction to ethnic divisions and frictions within in a post war regime.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” said George Carlin, the American Comedian, Social Critic and Satirist.

“Come on, gentleman; let us drink to our stupidity.” said Santosh Kalwar, the Nepali poet and writer.

`A Newfangled Impeachment Better Should I Have Known!`

A poem verbalized in the context of the current prearranged and equipped “impeachment” by Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa government, against the present Chief Justice (CJ) of Sri Lanka, Dr. Shirani Anshumala Bandaranayake...

(LOS ANGELES) - “Impeachment”, as we all may know…
illicit detached, and off they go…
else if lingered, tragedy may grow…
though slow in pace, the end shall show…
a state in ruin, as crimes galore…
hence, better indict - reprimand them so…