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845 matching reports found. Showing 421 - 440 [TamilNet, Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 05:31 GMT]The North East Secretariat on Human Rights has appealed to ex-Sri Lankan military officials living overseas to come forward to help solve the cases of over 70 Tamil youths who were disappeared in the 1990s in Mandaithivu-Alappiddy-Mankumban areas, according to an interim report obtained by TamilNet's Kilinochchi correspondent. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 21 August 2005, 04:07 GMT]The Sri Lanka Tamil Media Alliance (SLTMA) in a news release Saturday said it strongly condemned the grenade attack on the Uthayan newspaper’s office in Wellawatte, Colombo, calling it a “cowardly act,” and urged the Sri Lankan government to take prompt action to stop such attacks. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 13 August 2005, 20:44 GMT]In the wake of the assassination Friday of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party, whilst condemning the killing, accused the government of being lax in providing him with security, particularly amid reports he was close to the renegade LTTE commander who defected to the Army, Karuna. And in its vehement reaction, the ultra-nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Perumana (JVP) mourned Mr. Kadirgamar as one of their own and launched a bitter tirade against the LTTE. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 August 2005, 00:56 GMT]Soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) have started collecting names of displaced persons who are resettled in Nedunthivu, one of the islets in Jaffna peninsula, after the ceasefire agreement came into operation, residents said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 06 August 2005, 10:42 GMT]There has been no proper investigation or punishment of culprits in the many cases of murders of human rights defenders and journalists in Sri Lanka, noted Ms. Deirdre McConnell in an oral intervention on the agenda item 3, "Administration of Justice, Rule of Law And Democracy," at the 57th session of UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human rights on Tuesday. "There has been no progress on the case of the assassination of Mr Kumar Ponnambalam on 5th January 2000, despite ample evidence regarding the alleged perpetrators of the crime," she said citing a number of instances that evidenced "pattern of bias" in the Sri Lankan judicial system. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 30 July 2005, 18:45 GMT] What are the US government’s strategic interests in Sri Lanka? If the US has specific strategic interests in the island, then what are the means and modes by which it was and is securing them? Dharmaretnam Sivaram, popular military analyst and senior editor at TamilNet was working on this feature when he was abducted and killed on 28 April 2005.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 16 July 2005, 23:39 GMT]Mr.Tyronne Fernando, North East Governor Saturday declared open the renovated Tellipalai District Hospital and commissioned the newly installed Cobalt Cancer Treatment Plant in the cancer unit of the hospital. Meanwhile, a decision was taken at a conference held in Sri Lanka Army Jaffna headquarters in Palaly and attended by the Mr.Tyronne Fernando and Major General Sunil Tennekoon, Jaffna SLA commander, to open a new access road to the Cancer Treatment Unit enabling the patients and employees to have easy access to the hospital, sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 16 July 2005, 10:43 GMT] The renovated Tellipalai District Hospital at a cost of about 90 million rupees and the Cancer Treatment Unit at a cost of 55 million rupees are to be commissioned by the North East Provincial Governor Mr.Tyronne Fernando on Saturday morning after a lapse of fifteen years. North East Provincial Ministry of Health has organized the opening event, sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 01:55 GMT]Thirty "Crisis Corps" volunteers sent by the United States Peace Corps will arrive in Sri Lanka over the next two weeks to help tsunami affected Sri Lankans rebuild their lives, homes and communities, sources said
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 10 June 2005, 10:36 GMT]Mr.S.Balakrishnan (60) father of four children was found dead Thursday
night with gunshot injuries along roadside in Thotty Amman Kovil area in
Mirusuvil north in Thenmaradchchi division in Jaffna district. On receipt
of information a the Kodikamam Police rushed to the site and recovered the
body, Police said
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 04 June 2005, 04:58 GMT] More than two hundred activists belonging to civil groups opposed to Upper Kotmale Hydro-power scheme demonstrated in front of Colombo Fort Railway station Friday afternoon, sources in Colombo said. Members of leftist political parties and other related civil groups including Sinhalese and Tamils participated in the demonstration. Upcountry Tamil political parties did not attend the demonstration. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 02 June 2005, 11:02 GMT]"The fact that that not a single person could be held guilty for the mass
murder of 28 Tamils in the protective custody of the State at Bindunuwewa
will further increase the distrust of even the moderate Tamil minorities
with the democratic institutions of Sri Lanka" stated Mr. Suhas Chakma,
Director of Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in a 24 page report issued on Thursday titled "Sri Lanka:Miscarriage of Justice". On 27 May 2005, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka acquitted four accused who were earlier sentenced to death by the High Court. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 30 May 2005, 17:30 GMT]A World Bank (WB) team is scheduled to visit the districts of Trincomalee and Batticaloa on June 1st and 2nd to assess the progress made in the reconstruction of houses in war and tsunami affected areas under the North East Housing Reconstruction Programme (NEHRP), sources in Colombo said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 26 May 2005, 10:11 GMT]Resettled displaced families in Mandaithivu area, a suburb of Jaffna town have been deprived of their basic rights by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) and are also subjected to severe harassment, according to complaints lodged by the civil groups to security authorities. After the ceasefire agreement came into operation about one thousand displaced people are resettled in Mandaithivu, district secretariat sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 04:47 GMT]Mr.Periyapodi Suriyamoorthy, former Chairman of the Trincomalee Urban Council Wednesday early morning around 5.30 a.m. succumbed to gunshot injuries in the Colombo national hospital exactly after a week he was shot
at on May 18 Wednesday night by unidentified gunmen in his Trincomalee residence, family sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 22 May 2005, 13:59 GMT] In the 14th March 1990 issue of Sri Lanka's English daily, Island International, popular journalist and military analyst, late Dharmeratnam Sivaram, provided insight into how the concept of Eelam in its various interpretations were adopted or dismantled as the basis of the armed struggle of different Tamil liberation movements. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 19 May 2005, 07:59 GMT]Mr. P. Suriyamoorthy, former Chairman of the Trincomalee Urban Council, who
was shot and seriously wounded Wednesday was airlifted to Colombo, Thursday
morning as his condition became critical, hospital sources said. Mr.
Suriyamoorthy is now undergoing an emergency operation in Colombo general
hospital, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 06 May 2005, 17:12 GMT] Mr.Peter Harrold, World Bank Country Representative in Sri Lanka, Friday
said in Puttalam, a Muslim dominated town in the north of Western Province,
that the World Bank extends its full support to the implementation of
the Joint Mechanism proposed by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for tsunami rehabilitation in the
northeast.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 01 May 2005, 17:19 GMT]Twenty houses constructed in Thiriyai, a predominantly Tamil village, about 42 km north of Trincomalee district were handed to resettled families at an event held Friday evening. The World Bank funded North East Housing Reconstruction Programme (NEHRP) allocated one hundred thousand five
hundred rupees for each house and the balance money was borne by the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO).
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 29 April 2005, 21:11 GMT] Mark Whitaker, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, U.S.A, is completing an intellectual biography of Dharmeratnam Sivaram’s life and work in a book entitled “Learning Politics from Sivaram.” Prof. Whitaker
summarizes Sivaram’s life and work in this feature. Full story >>
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