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Sri Lanka: Resolution in Geneva Will Go Through

The Rajapaksa government may be good at vote-rigging and manipulating the counting, but are they capable of doing this in the HRC?

(PARIS) - It has taken more than three decades for the International community to understand the attitude of Sri Lanka, which is unbending and characterizes each and every Sri Lanka government through history. Better late than never, two consecutive resolutions have been passed on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council – HRC.

Now there are rumours, talks and discussions about a resolution on Sri Lanka in the forthcoming 25th session of the HRC. If so, this 3rd resolution may call for an ‘international independent inquiry’. Well and good.

NPC Passes Resolution to Probe War Crimes Committed in Sri Lanka

A motion submitted by NPC member Ananthi Sasitharan on people reported missing in the North was also adopted on the same day.

(MELBOURNE) - On the 27^th January 2014, the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) passed a resolution seeking an international war crimes investigation in Sri Lanka.

Submitted before the NPC, the resolution also approved a proposal that an NPC member attend the March session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Mannaar Killing Reaches 43, But the Depth of the Killings Had Not Been Fully Fathomed

On 22 January, when the exhumation continued for the 11th time, 3 skeletons were recovered. (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

(MANNAAR, Sri Lanka) - The Mannaar killing had been carefully hidden away from public. The truth is now revealed, probably after six or seven years.

The international independent investigation into war crimes in Mullivaaikkal should also include Mannaar killings. TamilNet reported that 43 human skeletons have been recovered till 22 January 2012 at Thirukkeatheesvaram mass grave in Mannaar, news sources in Mannaar said.

Human Rights Watch World Report 2014: Sri Lanka

The year saw an escalation in attacks by militant Buddhist groups against Hindus and Muslims.

(NEW YORK) - The Sri Lankan government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa made little progress in 2013 in addressing accountability for serious human rights abuses committed during the country’s nearly three-decades-long civil war, which ended in 2009.

In March, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted a second resolution in as many years that called on Sri Lanka to implement the recommendations made by its own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and provide accountability for alleged war crimes committed by both sides in the civil war.

SRI LANKA: Rajapaksa Lies Through His Teeth While Continuing With His Human Rights Violations

While they appear to be worried about the impending UNHRC resolution in March 2014, they were not about to give up the colonisation of the North-east of Sri Lanka.

(MELBOURNE) - Sri Lankan President and Commander-in-Chief of the Sinhala military, Mahinda Rajpaksa, put the figure of the SL soldiers in the North as 12,000 in responding to a plea by Northern Provincial Council Chief Minister CW Wigneswaran, at the same stage in Thellippazhai, where a cancer hospital was declared opened on 19 January 2014.

Credible sources put the figure of the occupying military at minimum 136,000.

SRI LANKA: Government Census Inadequate or Fallacy?

Ruling autocracy that comprises the hypocrites of politics, military and the overjoyed wider proponents who oxygenate the misdemeanors of this pathetic regime is making Sri Lanka a mockery and projecting it worse than a banana republic.

(LONDON Sri Lanka Guardian) - The census of human and property damages undertaken by the Government of Sri Lanka has been a downright sham from its birth.

The government is determinedly trying to downplay a fair assessment and stubbornly endeavouring to falsify the full extent of the three decades old war through a facade of official process.

Sri Lanka and UNHRC Resolution March 2014

The following is an open letter to the Consulate of the Cuban Embassy in Sri Lanka...

(MELBOURNE) - Human rights activists are consistently appalled that countries with rich revolutionary histories fail to support modern, similar movements.

Case at hand, Cuba's decision to join countries like Israel in embracing the bloody state terrorism government of Sri Lanka, under the leadership of President Majinda Rajapaksa and his three brothers.

Vaiko`s Appeal Letter to Manmohan Singh to save 46 Eelam Tamils Stranded in Australia

"It is a painful tragedy that many of the Eelam Tamils perished in the waves of the ocean when they sailed in boats."

(NEW DELHI) - This is Vaiko's appeal letter to Manmohan Singh to save the 46 stranded Tamils in Australia. Vaiko is a prominent politician in Tamil Nadu, in south India.

He is the founder of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, a political party that espouses the cause of the Tamil people and Tamil nationalism.

In Sri Lanka, Muslims Replacing Tamils as Perceived Enemy

The Muslims are replacing the Tamils as the future enemy. With that they hope to convert Sri Lanka into a Buddhist state.

(MELBOURNE) - The Sinhalese leaders had a clear plan on how to convert Sri Lanka from a multiracial country into a Buddhist country.

At the time of independence in 1948, there were three distinct races. The majority were Sinhalese Buddhist composing about 69%, Then came Tamils, most of whom were Hindus,but were classified as Indian Tamils and Sri Lankan Tamils. both of them made up about 22% of the population.

Colonization Schemes: What Did The B-C Pact Say?

These are lands on which these people have lived for generations and centuries.

(COLOMBO) - I am happy to follow the Minister, the Hon. Janaka Bandara Tennakoon, who, I think, in the course of his statement referred to the multifarious problems that exist in the North and the East pertaining to State land. I will be dealing with some of these issues in the course of my speech.

Lands, Sir, is a fundamental issue. It has enormous influence on vital aspects of human activity and it is crucial, particularly from the point of view of the affected people, like persons displaced during the war and so on. There are private lands.