08/02/2011
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Newsclick
Ahilan Kadirgamar, spokesperson of the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum, suggests that the Tamil National Alliance's victory combined with international pressure after the Channel 4 Documentary and the UN Special Panel Report have brought upon added impetus for the Sri Lankan government to proceed with steps towards a "political solution" in that country. The peoples' mandate in the Northern Province in the local body elections held there in July this year, were clearly a rebuff to the Rajapaksa regime's efforts to limit the discourse to "development".
03/27/2011
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Sunday Observer
Prof. S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole was recently appointed as the Coordinator for the University of Jaffna’s Engineering Faculty by the University Grants Commission. Prof. Hoole who had to leave the country due to the threats he received from the LTTE is now back in Jaffna with the intention of establishing an Engineering Faculty for the University of Jaffna. Professor Hoole shares his views with the Sunday Observer in establishing an Engineering Faculty in Jaffna.
03/14/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka's Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarians have complained to the Supreme Court today that the government is continuing with the forcible registration of residents in the North despite an undertaking given to the Supreme Court to suspend it.
03/05/2011
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The Island
Two events that occurred last week are pertinent to the lessons learnt and reconciliation process which the powers-that-be loudly proclaim is in progress. The first of these relate to the Attorney General’s undertaking to the Supreme Court that the allegedly forced registration of Jaffna and Kilinochchi residents undertaken by the security forces will be suspended. This was a result of the TNA filing a human rights petition. The second was the non-binding resolution adopted by the U.S. Senate about the situation in Sri Lanka.
02/10/2011
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Daily Mirror
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to provide financial assistance approximately Rs.10 billion (US$ 90 million) for the implementation of Jaffna and Kilinochchi water supply and sanitation project in line with the government's target of providing safe drinking water for all citizens, Director Information, M.G.Jayatissa said yesterday.
09/22/2010
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IRIN
KILINOCHCHI, 22 September 2010 (IRIN) - More than two years after she fled her home and 16 months after the decades-long Sri Lankan civil war was declared over, Chandra Jayakumar has one wish.
08/01/2010
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Reuters
The war's over, but men with guns remain in Sri Lanka's former battle zone in the north, where recovery is wobbling along despite few basic services and too little lending. Small, green shoots of Sri Lanka's recovery from a 25-year war are beginning to show in the form of microfinance loans for people displaced by the climax of the battle between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
07/16/2010
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Office of the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sri Lanka, ReliefWeb
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Ι. SITUATION OVERVIEW & HIGHLIGHTS
Return update
- Approximately 20,600 IDPs were released / returned during May mostly from Menik Farm and, to a lesser extent, from host families. As of 20 May, 60,900 IDPs await resettlement in Menik Farm.
- Humanitarian actors continue to support the Competent Authority for IDPs to determine the mine contamination status of proposed return locations. Some IDPs are accommodated in secondary transit centres until the completion of demining operations allow for access to their lands. Advance notice of return movements assist IDPs in Menik Farm to make preparations for their return.
- Local administrations have adopted different arrangements for IDPs from host families returning to their places of origin. IDPs travel from Vavuniya District to Mullaitivu District in organized convoys, allowing authorities to receive them and check documentation. Returnees to Kilinochchi District find their own transport to the Central College transit site, where registration and onward movements to villages are organized.
07/16/2010
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GoSL
The Commission of Inquiry on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation will meet public officials in Kilinochchi later this month. The eight-member Commission has already met four times to discuss modalities of work and it was decided to hold sittings in the affected areas in the North and East to enable the public to have easy access to the Commission and enhance awareness of its work.
07/15/2010
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All-India Radio
A special meeting of the Sri Lankan cabinet chaired by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa held at Kilinochchi town in the northern province yesterday approved a proposal for an emergency loan of 150 million US dollars from Asian Development Bank (ADB) for re-construction of the damaged power and water infrastructure in the northern and eastern provinces.