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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.

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).

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’.

National Organizations Launch Open Letter for U.S. Investigation of Israel`s Injuring & Killing of Americans

Already, we’ve collected more than 9,000 signatures.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Cindy and Craig Corrie accepted the prestigious 2012 LennonOno Grant for Peace on behalf of their daughter, Rachel, who was killed by the Israeli military with a bulldozer in March 2003.

Cindy stated that Rachel’s "hope would be that it could somehow contribute to bringing people together to work passionately for justice, and to do so with the utmost respect for the rights and lives of all human beings."

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.

The Broken Survivors of Sri Lanka`s Civil War

It is a story of atrocities that was not fully told at the time - journalists and aid workers were barred from the war zone.

(LONDON) - The Sri Lankan civil war - which claimed 100,000 lives - ended in 2009 when government forces finally crushed a near-40-year-long insurgency by the Tamil Tiger rebel group.

The final months were especially brutal and survivors will not easily forget what happened to them.

My Daughter, The Terrorist

“It’s better that my daughter dies with a gun in her hand than is killed or raped”

(NEW YORK NOUSE) - Destroyed women or monstrous and crazed terrorists? For Beate Arnstead these suicide bombers are victims of war. Women from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought since the 1970s for an independent Tamil state.

In Sri Lanka’s devastating civil war, these rebel women were prepared to sacrifice their lives as suicide bombers.

Attack on Sri Lankan Judge Allegedly by a Deputy Minister

The persons who had attacked Thilekaratne had even taken his mobile phone.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Guardian) - The attack on the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) Secretary Manjula Thilekaratne by four persons this morning had been carried out with the intervention of a higher political office, government sources said.

The JSC Secretary who was injured in the attack is being treated at the Colombo National Hospital.

Protest To Your Own War Criminals?
Call For Their Arrest Prosecution Punishment!

Americans can prosecute their own war criminals or wait until the world prosecutes Americans.

(WASHINGTON DC CounterCurrents) - Those intending to stop fellow Americans from continuing to mass murder in defenseless nations must no longer be silent about fellow peace advocates protesting ad infinitum to divert the rest of us from calling for the immediate prosecution of those responsible for the millions slaughtered.

Perpetrators of homicidal crimes are not normally protested to.