05/03/2011
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BusinessWeek
Intensifying conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan pose threats to the lives of journalists, while dangers have eased in Sri Lanka and Nepal with the end of fighting there, a media group said Tuesday.
03/21/2011
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Committee to Protect Journalists
Sandhya Eknelygoda has recently managed to get the attention of the United Nations about the case of the disappearance of her husband, Prageeth, on January 24, 2010. Still, there has been no progress made in learning of his whereabouts.
03/10/2011
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Asia Society
Over the last week, the United States has raised its voice regarding accountability and reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka. A US Senate resolution called for the establishment of an independent international accountability mechanism, and Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake told AFP: "If Sri Lanka is not willing to meet international standards regarding these matters ... there will be pressure to appoint some sort of international commission to look into these things."
03/10/2011
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Asia Society
Over the last week, the United States has raised its voice regarding accountability and reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka. A US Senate resolution called for the establishment of an independent international accountability mechanism, and Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake told AFP: “If Sri Lanka is not willing to meet international standards regarding these matters … there will be pressure to appoint some sort of international commission to look into these things.”
02/24/2011
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Amnesty International
In this written statement to the sixteenth session of the Human Rights Council Amnesty International expresses its concern that Sri Lanka’s human rights record has not improved since the organization last addressed this Council in May 2010. Impunity persists for past violations and abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law, and new and serious violations of human rights continue to be reported.
01/19/2011
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Committee to Protect Journalists
In recent years, January has emerged as Sri Lanka's cruelest month for journalists. To commemorate that ugly fact, 100 journalists and press freedom activists gathered Tuesday outside the Fort Railway Station in the capital, Colombo, demanding that the government expedite investigations into a series of attacks and January killings that occurred in both 2009 and 2010.
10/20/2010
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The Canadian Press
A media watchdog on Tuesday demanded justice for a Sri Lankan journalist killed 10 years ago and called for an end to the impunity enjoyed by those with government connections.
10/19/2010
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BBC
The family of a Sri Lankan journalist murdered 10 years ago express anger over the failure to find those responsible, writes the BBC's Saroj Pathirana.
08/05/2010
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Asian Human Rights Commission
For several decades now the Sri Lankan people have been exposed to extraordinary acts of separation, large scale forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, illegal arrest and detention. This and large scale displacement of people from their homes by way of internal displacement or by leaving the country altogether and the disappearance of even elementary forms of protection available to people within the legal and social sphere are among the many issues that have caused massive forms of trauma in the population as a whole.
07/30/2010
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Hindustan Times
The pre-dawn attack on Siyatha television channel has once again raised questions about the safety of independent journalists and private news enterprises in Sri Lanka. A group of heavily armed men attacked the Siyatha channel’s office early Friday, ransacking it and exploding petrol bombs