05/14/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
It's two years since the civil war ended but a UN report points to the fissures that still exist, writes Ben Doherty in Sri Lanka.
05/12/2011
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Defence.lk, Ministry of Defence
The report of the Darusman Committee on the final phase of the operation to defeat terrorism in Sri Lanka is a tendentious document that makes grossly false allegations about Sri Lanka and its security forces. The government will defend the good name of the country and expose the false allegations that are abundant in this report. So said President Mahinda Rajapaksa, speaking to editors of the print and electronic media in Sri Lanka at Temple Trees yesterday (10).
05/07/2011
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TransCurrents
The European Parliament, which represents 27 countries, is to debate on Thursday what it calls violations of human rights and humanitarian laws in Sri Lanka.
05/07/2011
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Aftenposten (Norway)
TRANSLATED FROM THE NORWEGIAN VIA GOOGLE TRANSLATE: In March, warned the U.S. ambassador, Robert Blake, of a humanitarian disaster. In a meeting with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Blake made it clear that if the government forces continued in the same pace they did last time, it would lead to tens of thousands of fatalities, which likely would cause international condemnation and accusations of war crimes.
04/27/2011
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Inner City Press
UNITED NATIONS, April 27 -- On Sri Lanka, UN “staff were not in the position to assess” the number of casualties in 2009, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Martin Nesirky told the Press on April 27, as they had to withdraw because the Government said security could not be guaranteed.
04/26/2011
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BBC
UN panel says both sides in 2009 Sri Lankan conflict were responsible for war crimes.
04/26/2011
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TRANSCRIPT: Weiss: Both sides were to blame
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast
Gordon Weiss was spokesman for the United Nation's humanitarian mission in Sri Lanka during the civil war.
04/25/2011
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Groundviews
In less than two weeks since the Darusman Report (hereinafter referred to as the Report) was handed over to the United Nations Secretary General (hereinafter referred to as UNSG), a large number of articles have been written about the report, its motivations and on its impact on Sri Lanka. Except in several exceptions, the majority of these renderings seem to have lost the plot, in their failure to provide adequate attention to several key issues surrounding the report, or the ‘leaked’ version of it published in the Sri Lankan newspaper The Island. Public reactions to the leaked sections of the Report are best glimpsed from Groundviews, where comments made by readers include rather heated debates on issues such as the number of Eelam War IV casualties raised in the Report.
04/25/2011
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Asia Pacific Forum
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UN sits on Panel of Experts' report on Sri Lanka
UPDATE: As of 5:30 pm on April 25 (the day of this show), the United Nations released the report to the public.
Last Fall, the United Nations assembled a panel of experts to look into accountability with regard to alleged violations of human rights and humanitarian law in the final stages of the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. Early last week, the panel submitted its report, some of which has been leaked to the press. However, the United Nations still has not released the full report. Joining us are journalist Matthew Lee, who covers the UN for Inner City Press, and Sanjana Hattotuwa, founder and managing editor of the citizen journalism website, Groundviews.
04/24/2011
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Hindustan Times
Artillery fire from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) positions targetted civilians inside the `no firing zone’ (NFZ) near the north eastern coast and bombed the United Nations (UN) hub, set up to aid displaced Tamils during the final stages of the civil war, the expert panel report to the UN has claimed. Hindustan Times has a copy of the "Report of the Secretary General’s panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka", which was submitted to the UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s office, earlier this month, but is yet to be made public.