09/13/2011
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Sunday Times
The pro-government EPDP members today held a protest in Jaffna against the US ahead of the visit of US Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake to Jaffna.
09/13/2011
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TruthDive
Colombo, Sep 13 (TruthDive): US Assistant Secretary of State, Robert O Blake’s efforts to meet student representatives of Jaffna university to hear first hand account of human rights violation were blocked by supporters of Rajapakse – the EPDP paramilitary cum political party. Police were mere spectators. Geneva indicated that Sri Lanka’s war crimes report produced by Ban appointed UN panel of experts has been submitted to the UN’s Human Rights Commission. The placards displayed by EPDP supporters asked Blake as to how much dollars he paid or vodka he gifted to get the information from people he met.
08/19/2011
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Sri Lanka Guardian
Time of events leading to his departure from Sri Lanka, by Dr. Hoole
08/14/2011
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The Sunday Leader
By S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole As I enjoy a well-deserved rest in London, having fled there because of harassment and threat of arrest, TamilNet has issued a description of my travails with inaccuracies and the claim that I have fallen out with the President.
08/13/2011
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TransCurrents
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Ratnajeevan Hoole, University Grants Commission coordinator for engineering, Jaffna University , fled the country last week after the EPDP leader, Douglas Devananda initiated legal proceedings against him. He granted an interview to LAKBIMAnEWS from his temporary base in London . Excerpts:
07/23/2011
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Sri Lanka Guardian
(July 23, Jaffna, Sri Lanka Guardian) The EPDP, supposedly a former armed group which continues to be represented by gun-toting cadres led by Minister Douglas Devananda, is the main Tamil ally of President Rajapakse. The violent EPDP seemed the only way in which the President can show Tamil support and therefore it has become his most crucial ally in warding off calls for war crimes inquiries on the grounds that Tamils support him.
07/13/2011
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BBC
UPFA and EPDP are accused of intimidating TNA supporters and breaking election laws in the run up to next week's polls.
02/22/2011
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Sify
Chennai, Feb 22 (IANS) Thol. Thirumavalavan, a member of the Indian parliament and leader of the VCK party, was denied entry into Sri Lanka by the island-nation's immigration officials Tuesday and was forced to return.
09/03/2010
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BBC
The commission entrusted with the task of examining the last phase of the Sri Lankan war has experienced severe procedural problems with a key witness complaining that his words were not being properly translated.