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Human Rights, LLRC and Visit of OHCHR Expert Team

During the period of the war the Police Force also became semi-militarized.

(COLOMBO) - The visit of a 3 member technical team from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva this week will be a follow up on the March 2012 Human Rights Council Resolution on Sri Lanka that called for the implementation of the recommendations of the LLRC.

The visit has led to apprehensions about the internationalization of the country’s internal problems.

WikiLeaks: Nobody Believes Sri Lanka`s Government Anymore Robert Blake

The Colombo Telegraph found the related US diplomatic cable from the Secretary of State section of the WikiLeaks database.

(COLOMBO Colombo Telegraph) - “Pascoe, who recently visited Sri Lanka, questioned the credibility of GSL officials; no one believes they can meet their current timetable for moving people out of the camps.

A/S Blake agreed, saying he had urged the GSL to demonstrate some real successes on the ground, because nobody believes them anymore.

MOSSAD in Sri Lanka

Article written before the final push and extreme Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils in 2009.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Mossad was accused of being deeply involved in Sri Lanka's politics and actually making money from the war crimes.

Sri Lanka blasted these innocent people to pieces committing the act of 'Total War' which, quite interestingly, one of Israel's favorite pastimes.

20,000 Villagers Occupy Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant

Includes timeline of events unfolding in India.

(CHENNAI Countercurrents) - More than 20,000 villagers have put the Koodankulam nuclear power plant under siege to protest fuel loading in preparation for the commissioning of the plant.

More than 4000 police personnel, including Rapid Action Force (RAF), are deployed around the plant. People are camping in front of the nuclear plant and refuse to go back to their homes.

`Shock and Awww!`

The wounds of Sri Lanka's war are not healed.

(CHENNAI, Outlook India ) - How do you efface memories of the fact that at least 40,000 civilians (Tamils) were killed in the final phase of a genocidal war in Sri Lanka, the majority of them by the Sri Lankan army’s shelling of hospitals and “safe zones”?

How do you move on when 3,000,000 Sri Lankan Tamils were internally displaced—and continue to be treated as suspects by a chauvinist Sinhala regime?

August, a Memorable Month for Tamils for All Wrong Reasons!

The counter propaganda campaign by the government of Sri lanka was a complete fabrication created to justify a war of aggression.

(LONDON) - August 2006 is a very significant and a memorable month for the Tamils in general and Eelam Tamils in particular, for all wrong reasons.

On 14 August 2006 around 7.30 am, Sri Lankan Air Force K fir jets. carried out extensive bombing and managed to kill 52 students, mostly orphans, and two staff.

Kudankulam: Sri Lankans Should Learn to Run and Swim

A nuclear radiation disaster affecting the entire Island could happen after Kudankulam is commissioned.

(COLOMBO The Island) - The potential mind boggling Fukushima, Chernobyl type disaster, from India’s Kudankulam nuclear power plant, has begun to count down.

Currently nuclear fuel (supplied by US & France) is being fed in to the plant, built by the Russians, at the southern tip of India, just 220 KM from Kalpitiya.

No Real Will to Account: Shortcomings in Sri Lanka`s National Plan of Action to Implement Recommendations of the LLRC

Written statement to the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council (10-28 September 2012)

(WASHINGTON DC Amnesty Intl) - Sri Lanka’s failure to account for serious violations of human rights has created a climate of impunity where arbitrary detentions, torture and other ill-treatment, enforced disappearances, and custodial killings continue unchecked.

More than three years after the armed conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended, these violations continue to be reported.

The Dialectics of a Genocide (Graphic Photos of war crimes!)

“When I first escaped, I decided to stop writing. I did not want to ever write again” - Lokeesan, TamilNet

(CHENNAI, India) - By the end of the Fourth Eelam War in May 2009, the genocidal massacre claimed between 40,000 and 100,000 civilian lives and marked the decimation of the Tamil Tigers.

In June, I interviewed TamilNet.com’s chief correspondent who stayed in Mullivaaikkal until just before the end of the war.

Sri Lanka: Torture, Rape Against Women

Tamil Canadian Elders for Human Rights Letter to UN officials illustrates continuing sexual violence toward Tamil Hindu and Christian women and girls.

(TORONTO) - Rape and sex abuse continue to rank among the worst problems facing the Tamil population in the north of Sri Lanka, where people live in the aftermath of a bloody three-decade long civil war.

This ethnic conflict ended when the Sri Lankan Army launched a series war crimes that left 160,000 Tamils dead and missing.