09/11/2011
|
Sunday Leader
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) says the government must keep to its pledge to free all those detained in Jaffna following the recent violence over the sightings of the so called grease devils.
09/04/2011
|
Sunday Times
EDITORIAL: It began in the rural villages, but now it is the 'talk of the town'. Even foreign television channels felt it worthy of reporting -- the 'Grease Yaka' or Grease Demon phenomenon gripping the attention of many throughout the country. Dismissed earlier as one of those weird rumours in a country now bored without war-related news, the incidents that followed, however, took a frightening and even deadly twist.
08/29/2011
|
BBC
A wave of retaliatory violence and vigilante action have taken place in Sri Lanka in response to a series of "grease devil" attacks.
08/26/2011
|
Asian Human Rights Commission
SRI LANKA: Innocent villagers illegally arrested, tortured and charged with fabricated charges
08/25/2011
|
Groundviews
Around 100 young men from Navanthurai, a village in the Jaffna District, were detained in an operation conducted by the Sri Lanka Army around 1.15am on 23rd August 2011. The villagers were severely beaten by the army and dragged to the main road near the Navanthurai Army Detachment located around 300 meters from the village. The men were loaded onto buses and handed over to the Jaffna police around 4 am and taken to the Jaffna courts by 10 am and produced before the Jaffna District Judge at around 1 pm the same day (23rd August).
08/25/2011
|
The Sunday Leader
The Sri Lanka Army has deployed more troops in Jaffna with additional foot and mobile patrols to assist the police in maintaining law and order in the area.
08/23/2011
|
BBC
One hundred people in Jaffna were arrested on Monday evening after the villagers attacked a local military camp in Navanthurai.
08/23/2011
|
BBC
Sri Lanka is to set up committees led by MPs to probe a wave of vigilante attacks in rural areas, sparked by fears of violent nocturnal prowlers known as
08/21/2011
|
Reuters
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Angry Sri Lankans killed a police officer on Sunday in the latest outbreak of violence sparked by a fear of nocturnal prowlers known popularly as Grease Devils that has gripped rural