The Economist April 14, 2011 SRI LANKA’S government has got its retaliation in first. On April 12th a panel of experts delivered a report to the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, assessing whether war crimes were committed when the nation’s army bloodily won a long-running civil war against Tamil Tiger rebels early in 2009. The report [...]
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SRI LANKA: Keep Quiet and Carry on; a crackdown precedes new report on the end of the civil war
Posted in Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Fact Finding, Government, NGOs, South Asia, Sri Lanka, United Nations, tagged Civilian Casualties, NGOs, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan government, Tamil Tigers, United Nations on April 15, 2011 |
SRI LANKA: Older returnees face isolation, poverty
Posted in Displacement, Health Care, Internal Displaced Persons, Sri Lanka, United Nations, tagged Displacement, LTTE, Sri Lanka, Tamil civilians, Tamil Tigers, United Nations on April 1, 2011 |
COLOMBO, 30 March 2011 (IRIN) – Thousands of older returnees to Sri Lanka’s conflict-affected north feel marginalized and need medical care, experts say.
SRI LANKA: Older returnees face isolation, poverty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged civil war, civilian, displaced, elderly, LTTE, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers on March 30, 2011 |
COLOMBO, 30 March 2011 (IRIN) Thousands of older returnees to Sri Lanka’s conflict-affected north feel marginalized and need medical care, experts say.
SRI LANKA: Disease, hunger and mines threaten flood-hit Sri Lankans – UN
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged civil war, flood, landmines, natural disaster, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers on January 18, 2011 |
Source: AlertNet/Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI- Hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans face risks from disease, hunger and landmines as they begin to return home after flooding caused by the heaviest rains in nearly a century, a U.N. official said.
SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka Still Denying Civilian Deaths
Posted in Body Count, Civilian Casualties, Fact Finding, Government, Insurgents, Laws, Trials, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Uncategorized, United Nations, tagged Civilian Casualties, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Tamil Tigers, UN on September 7, 2010 |
By: Peter Bouckaert, The Guardian 5 September 2010 All attempts to investigate atrocities in the Tamil Tiger conflict have been stifled, despite promises made to Ban Ki-moon. During the Vietnam conflict, the US military developed some creative ways to increase the numbers of Viet Cong insurgents it claimed to have killed. “If they’re dead, they’re [...]
