09/12/2011
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Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a report by U.N. experts who concluded that tens of thousands of people were killed in the last five months of Sri Lanka's civil war, primarily by government troops, to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday.
09/02/2011
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Lanka Independent, Lanka Standard
Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon told Lanka Independent this week the UNSG was committed to the recommendations in the Panel of Experts Report on Sri Lanka.
08/02/2011
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Radio Australia
The Sri Lankan government has formally conceded that civilians were killed by security forces in the final offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009.
The Defence ministry's report entitled Humanitarian Operation -Factual Analysis" follows a damning Channel 4 British television documentary of government atrocities and an earlier UN report that blames both sides for crimes against humanity.
06/25/2011
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Ceylon Daily News
The fabricated Channel 4 video will harm the peace and unity of Sri Lanka and the region. This is a regional issue, said External Affairs Deputy Minister Neomal Perera during an interview with the Daily News.
He pointed out that relations of Tamils who came from India to work in estates still live in India. Therefore, the video creates hatred not only in Sri Lanka but also among countries in the region.
“It polarizes communities and harms regional peace and harmony,” he said.
05/28/2011
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Newsclick
Spokesperson of the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum, Ahilan Kadirgamar talks to Newsclick over phone from New York. He argues that the "Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka" brings about valid recommendations, which if heeded by the otherwise triumphalist and denialist Sri Lankan government could pave the way for true reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka following the brutal civil war in 2009.
05/12/2011
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Sri Lanka Mirror
Radhika Coomaraswamy has said that she would recuse herself if the reference to children in the Lankan conflict as referred to in the UN expert panel report was brought up by a member state.
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).
05/10/2011
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Asia News
The charges are a national issue, and a lesson for all. Christian leaders, human rights activists and ordinary people criticise the government’s opposition to the report, and for failing to translate it into Sinhalese and Tamil, which leaves many Sri Lankans in the dark.
05/10/2011
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Inner City Press
UNITED NATIONS, May 10 -- As Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the UN Palitha Kohona walked out of the UN Security Council on Tuesday, Inner City Press asked him about the European Union's statement on the UN Panel of Experts war crimes report, and about reported “militarization” of Colombo.
05/01/2011
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dissenting dialogues
The entire issue of dissenting dialogues, Issue No 3, May 2011 can be downloaded as a pdf file through this link. Articles in Issue No 3, May 2011 of dissenting dialogues include: Editorial—Two years after the war: justice, reconciliation and the UN Panel Report; Space, time and cricket: from M.C.C to M-C-M’—by Kanishka Goonewardena; Socialism was in the air we breathed, says Wimal Fernando—Interview with dissenting dialogues; The dynamics of caste politics in Jaffna—Interview with dissenting dialogues; The National Question in Sri Lanka: What are we talking about?—Rohini Hensman; War, peace and the Darusman report—Tisaranee Gunasekara