05/14/2011
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Amnesty International
The Sri Lankan government failed to effectively address impunity for past human rights violations, and continued to subject people to enforced disappearances and torture and other ill-treatment. The authorities imposed severe restrictions on freedom of expression, assembly and association. Thousands of Tamil people suspected of ties with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remained detained without charge. Both sides in the conflict that ended in May 2009 have been accused of war crimes; Amnesty International called for an independent international investigation.
03/03/2011
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TamilNet
When events similar to what happened and is happening in the island led to international intervention and liberation of the affected in many other instances of the world, the issue of Eezham Tamils is consciously blunted as something concerned to insurgency, counterinsurgency and war crimes investigation of both. In the process, the main culprit of decades, i.e., the Sri Lankan state (not the regimes) escapes unscathed and is being saved by those who have a problem of irregularity with their appetite, writes TamilNet political commentator in Colombo responding to discussions in a live web-seminar conducted by Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research of Harvard University on 24 February.
02/24/2011
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Amnesty International
In this written statement to the sixteenth session of the Human Rights Council Amnesty International expresses its concern that Sri Lanka’s human rights record has not improved since the organization last addressed this Council in May 2010. Impunity persists for past violations and abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law, and new and serious violations of human rights continue to be reported.
01/19/2011
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TransCurrents
(Washington, D.C.) The United States should investigate Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who arrives on a surprise visit to the United States today, for his alleged role in perpetrating torture and war crimes, Amnesty International said today.
12/09/2010
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AP, Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — New video evidence has emerged linking Sri Lanka's military to the execution of prisoners during the final hours of the country's decades-long civil war last year, international human rights groups said Thursday.
12/09/2010
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BBC
International rights groups join Tamil diaspora groups and the UN to call for a full investigation into possible Sri Lankan war crimes.
09/03/2010
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United Press International, UPI
SYDNEY, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Three Sri Lankans expelled by Australia were jailed and tortured after being returned to their home country, Amnesty International alleged Friday.
08/09/2010
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Amnesty International, Washington Post
The Aug. 4 news story "U.S. monitoring Sri Lankans aiming for North America, asylum" quoted a former Pentagon official who advocated summarily sending approximately 200 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers, now on a boat heading toward North America, back to Sri Lanka. This is a dangerous, ill-considered position. (LETTER TO THE EDITOR)
08/04/2010
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IRIN
NEW YORK, 4 August 2010 (IRIN) - The decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka ended more than a year ago, but emergency powers are still in place, sending the wrong message, Amnesty International says.
04/23/2010
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All Voices
Amnesty International (AI) has urged Sri Lanka’s new parliament to end the emergency laws currently in place. The human rights group issued a statement, days before the first sitting of Sri Lanka’s new parliament on Thursday.