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Release 12 university students in Bussa AUGUST 30—The Jaffna university student representatives gave a petition to S.P. Dissanayaka, Minister of Higher Education requesting to take immediate action to release the students of the University of Jaffna, detained at the Bussa detention camp. More
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Uthayaragavan Vigneshwaran also know as (Rakulan /Ragavan) is a student of Vallikulam Vidyalah, Mullaithivu. The boy living in Thalayadi, Jaffna went missing in Mullivaikal, Mullaithivu during the crossover and was separated from his parents and five siblings. The mother of the victim who gathered information from the Ommanthai Police Station in April 2009 says that the boy has sustained minor injuries on his left leg and was admitted in the hospital (Hospital no.568/61912) on 20.04.2009 and released on 10.06.2009. Victim’s scar on his left thumb could be used for identification purposes. Being the fifth child of his family, he is matured looking for his age and is tan in complexion. The mother of the victim who currently lives in the Kodikamam refugee camp has reported the matter to Human Rights Commission (Vavuniya) where they only took down the details. Though he is 11 years old (02.04.1999) it is mentioned in the police station that he is 12 years old.
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Sri Lanka forces blamed for most civilian deaths NEW DELHI — Tens of thousands of Tamil civilians died in the last, bloody months of Sri Lanka’s civil war, the International Crisis Group said in an investigative report to be released Monday, most of them as a result of government shelling of areas that were supposed to be safe zones. The report, which cites witness testimony, satellite images, documents and other evidence, calls for a wide-reaching international investigation into what it calls atrocities committed in the last months of the Sri Lankan government’s war against the Tamil Tiger insurgency. The war ended a year ago, when the Tigers’ top leadership was killed on a narrow strand of beach in northeastern Sri Lanka, capping a two-decade armed struggle by a group that pioneered some of the ugliest insurgent tactics in the world, including female suicide bombers and child soldiers. Because the government barred independent journalists and most humanitarian workers from the war zone, the death toll of the final months of fighting, when at least 300,000 Tamil civilians were pinned down on a beach, caught between the rebels and government forces, is not known. United Nations workers counted about 7,000 dead in the last weeks of April, just before the last phase of the fighting, but diplomats, aid workers and human rights activists have long argued that those figures far underestimated the dead and did not include the final weeks of battle. Government officials, meanwhile, have repeatedly denied singling out civilians, and have said that the total number of people killed is much lower. more...
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It's been more than a year since Mr. Sinnvan Stephen Sunthararaj, Programme Manager of the Centre for Human Rights and Development (CHRD) was abducted by unknown gunmen in army uniforms in Colombo. For more click here |
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Sarah Malanie Perera 38, was arrested on March 19, 2010 by the Police, over a book she wrote called ‘From Darkness to Light’ which described her conversion to Islam. She was reported to police by an Aramex employee and has been accused of conducting "anti-state" activities and having links to Islamic militants, which she firmly denies. Ms Perera has been charged under two sections of a law that makes it illegal to offend others by insulting their religion. More
Two women were raped and abused in the Visvamadu area. This is an area under post war resettlement plan. The victim aged 22, is a mother of two. A group of army personnel in uniform and civil visited the victim’s house in the morning of June 6, 2010 and on the same afternoon the she was raped and her brother was assaulted by two army personnel. Meanwhile, another army cadre too was involved in an unnatural act. Mankulam Police carried out the initial investigation where statements from the victim’s two children were recorded and six army personnel including a corporal were taken into custody for rape and sexual abuse. More...
Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA): A critical analysis, is an in-depth study of the PTA and its horrendous effects and how the undemocratic piece of legislation contributed to the gross violation of Human Rights in the country during the past three decades. The book may be purchased at a concessionary price of Rs. 500/= at the CHRD office at 6, Aloe Avenue Colombo 3. |
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