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Aggrieved Sri Lankan Families Request for UN Help Over `Abductions` of Relatives

Enforced disappearances stretch back to the 1980s.

(LONDON ANI) - Family members of missing people in Sri Lanka have urged the UN Secretary-General to intervene and help find disappeared relatives.

They have reportedly sent their appeal to Ki-Moon, marking 1,000 days since the disappearance of an anti-establishment cartoonist-cum-journalist, Prageeth Ekneligoda.

Sri Lanka: Public Threats and Harassment Against Human Rights Defender Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

William Gomes asks Sri Lanka's President to aid longtime human rights activist.

(SALEM) - Posters in Colombo contain threats against Human Rights Defender, Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu.

He is one of those who attended the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to speak out over human rights abuses committed in Sri Lanka.

UN Human Rights Council and the Virgin Speech of the Sri Lankan Ambassador

Sri Lanka is under frequent scrutiny of the HRC.

(PARIS, France) - The 1st session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) was held in June 2006. Its 21st session took place last month.

Even with its horrendous human rights record, Sri Lanka managed to be a member of the HRC for the first two years but when it stood for re-election in 2008, it was not elected.

`Brotherhood - War Alone is the Reason for the Decline of Eelam Tamils!`

ENDLF'S retort to the untrue and poisonous statements of Pazha Nedumaran.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - In his article under the title "The Brotherhood - War was begun by Karunanidhi" written 'Junior Vikatan' - a Tamil weekly - twice magazine - Mr. Pazha Nedumaran has expressed very incorrect reports about our ENDLF (Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front).

For a very long time, he has been in the endeavour of converting history into imagination.

Warrior Monks: The Untold Story of Buddhist Violence (I)

Placing a clear understanding on religious violence means admitting faults...

(WASHINGTON DC) - The basic plank of Islamophobia can be summed up as follows: Islam is uniquely violent compared to other world religions.

Of course, it’s just not true. In previous articles, I’ve taken a Thor-sized hammer to shatter this myth by proving that Judaism and Christianity are scripturally and theologically just as violent, if not more so.

Torture and Murder Ignored: Burma Falls Toward Ghastly Depravity Extremely Graphic Photos

Just Like '09 Sri Lanka Genocide; U.S. stays slient as ethnic cleansing spikes.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Revelations conveyed by new photos accompanying this article and information about Myanmar's ongoing torture programs being forwarded to the U.S. State Dept., could be real game changers for the country formerly known as Burma.

It's an apartheid state where death is handed out like hotcakes to those who aren't the right 'religion' (Buddhist).

The Entrenchment of a Fascist State

With The Sunday Leader silenced, there will be no more exposure of The stock market involvement was Sri Lanka's crooked dealings.

(MELBOURNE Sri Lanka Guardian) - On Friday 21 September 2012 was another ‘black Friday’, The Sunday Leader, the only newspaper critical of the Rajapaksa junta, was ‘killed’ (silenced).

The ‘body’ was quickly ‘cremated’ (handed over to one of Rajapaksa’s stooges), and the ‘ashes’ scattered in the President’s House (Palace) and ‘Temple Trees’ (so that the President and his brother can keep an eye on them to make sure they do not rise again...

Colombo Opts for Anti-Tamil Campaign to Handle Constitutional Case

Devolution of powers is only in the lips of the powers, India and the USA that back the genocidal regime in the island.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - Petitioners of a constitutional case against the ‘Divineguma’ Bill to snatch away even grassroot development and social welfare powers of the provinces in genocidal Sri Lanka are currently targeted through a Sinhala poster campaign.

Using a ‘counterinsurgency’ style, it collectively names the petitioners as ‘Paikiasothy Gang’ aiming ‘separation of the country’.

Planting a Bo Tree in Sri Lanka

Why do they not value the virtue of solidarity?
Or notice that there are dead to be remembered?

(LONDON) - In the aftermath of the publication of Frances Harrison's book Still Counting The Dead the discordant cawing of Sri Lankan male voices seem louder. I am hoping this is because the book is having an effect.

Oscar Wilde said there is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about. So it’s good that Frances Harrison’s wonderful book is being spoken of.

Role of UN`s own Review Panel Head Scrutinized

Petrie’s working for the Norwegian government while at the same time working for the UN panel could be in conflict with the UN Charter depending on how it is interpreted.

(COLOMBO Daily Mirror) - The head of the Norwegian government-funded peace initiative for Burma’s ethnic areas, Charles Petrie, is facing scrutiny after it was revealed last week that he is simultaneously working on an unrelated United Nation’s review panel looking into the Sri Lankan civil war.

An article posted last Friday suggests that Petrie’s involvement with the ambitious Norwegian project may run afoul of UN rules forbidding staff from being employed or under the influence of the governments of UN member states.