08/28/2011
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The Sunday Leader
A US embassy cable released by the Wikileaks website last week quotes a former US official in Colombo as saying that a group of doctors who were in the Wanni during the war, had been “coached” on what to say at a press briefing in Colombo after they were arrested.
11/21/2010
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Sunday Times
Two doctors who served in the Wanni area up to the end of the war, told the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) of the personal anguish and trying moments they faced during those difficult days, while Maj. Gen. Shavindra Silva, Commander 58 Division during the military operations, in his second appearance before the LLRC, gave details of atrocities committed by the LTTE against civilians in the war zone.
11/12/2010
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BBC
Health authorities in northern Sri Lanka appeal for help in filling an acute shortage of doctors in Jaffna peninsula.
01/08/2010
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Times of London
Accusations of fakery and political bias have been Sri Lanka’s stock in trade in the face of allegations of serious war crimes.
When The Times reported the estimated civilian death toll of 20,000, based on unofficial United Nations figures, the Government responded by claiming that not one non-combatant had perished. When The Times published aerial photographs that had been analysed by defence experts depicting how civilians were caught in government shelling, Colombo dismissed those images too as fakes.
The photographs were taken by a Times reporter and other journalists on Sri Lankan military helicopters flying the UN Secretary-General across the battle zone.
Sri Lanka’s campaign to wage a “war without witnesses” has meant that much of what has emerged about what happened has come from photographs, video and documents, as well as testimony from those trapped there.