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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.

Baloch Journalist from Gwadar Shot Dead in Karachi

Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) has strongly condemned his killing and demanded for the immediate arrest of the culprits.

(KARACHI, Pakistan) - A well-known journalist who went to Karachi to attend a two-day media training workshop, was shot dead in Liyari area of Karachi on Friday.

Dilshad Dehani, the Vice President of Gawadar Press Club and a senior reporter of Daily Balochistan Express (English) and Daily Azadi (Urdu), was shot dead at a bus stop in Liyari, Karachi.

The International Day of Disappeared: Baloch Activists Hold Protest Demonstration in Canada

Enforced disappearances; inhumane torture; bodies dumped in deserted areas across Balochistan...

(VANCOUVER, B.C.) - International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons and Baloch Human Rights Council of Canada, held a successful rally in front of the Canadian National Media Building CBC to get their message across.

This emphasized the extra judicial killings in custody by Pakistani security forces and repression and summary execution of innocent Baloch people by Iranian regimes.

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.

Flashback to 12 March 2009: Rape of Tamil Women: Sri Lankan Army`s Weapon of War

Article by Tamiya; written during the peak of war crimes and ethnic cleansing of Sri Lanka Tamils.

(COLOMBO NowPublic) - The Sri Lankan Army has been using rape as a weapon of war in the Tamil regions over 30 years. Currently, most of North East Tamil regions are under Sri Lankan Army’s control.

Forced disappearance of Tamils for torture and rape is the norm in these regions. Most of these Tamils are killed eventually.

I Killed Rachel Corrie...

I killed Rachel Corrie because I did not drop everything and devote my life to making this stop...

(LONDON) - The Other Site is a new German/English promising website. Dedicated to Palestine and truth. Check it out and show your support.

This take on the role of all Americans and Israelis in Rachel Corrie's death is an undeniable slap into reality.

Lies, Lies And More Lies As President Triumphs Over Lies

Will there be a Sri Lanka for the future generation?

(COLOMBO Telegraph) - As another election gundoo (trick) the President requested the Indian government to expose the sacred Kapilawastu relics in Sri Lanka at this crucial stage.

Of course, this too is once again a very thoughtful cunning way to rob the voters so that the attention of the voter is drawn from the burning issues they are faced with.

Non-Aligned Movement Should Sanction War Criminals like Sri Lankan President

"We are urging NAM leaders not to protect him but to support UN Human Rights Council action on Sri Lankan President." - Mr.Thanikasalam Thayaparan.

(LONDON) - As Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) leaders gather in Iran for their 16th Summit, Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) urges leaders not to protect war criminals like Sri Lankan President.

TGTE's Minister for Political Affairs say NAM leaders should know Mahinda Rajapaksa is a war criminal posing as a Statesman.

From The Inside Out: Reconciliation Is More Than Possible

The military conflict is over, but does building relations between Sri Lanka’s ethnicities need to be made a priority?

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - What’s in a name?

We chose our name ‘Voices for Reconciliation’ after much deliberation, because we felt it went to the heart of our aims: the creation of a safe space for the sharing of different viewpoints, to encourage constructive and collaborative dialogue through which people could understand each other better.