05/19/2011
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The Hindu
India has advised Sri Lanka to take rapid steps domestically to ease international pressure emanating from a report on the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in which the government has nearly been accused of committing war crimes.
05/17/2011
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Ministry of External Affairs, Sri Lanka
4. Both sides agreed that the end of armed conflict in Sri Lanka created a historic opportunity to address all outstanding issues in a spirit of understanding and mutual accommodation imbued with political vision to work towards genuine national reconciliation. In this context, the External Affairs Minister of Sri Lanka affirmed his Government’s commitment to ensuring expeditious and concrete progress in the ongoing dialogue between the Government of Sri Lanka and representatives of Tamil parties. A devolution package, building upon the 13th Amendment, would contribute towards creating the necessary conditions for such reconciliation.
05/03/2011
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BusinessWeek
In April, after reading about a leaked UN report on alleged war crimes by Sri Lanka's army against Tamil civilians, a 23-year-old engineer from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu set himself on fire. His suicide note said he hoped the state's next government's leaders would help their fellow Tamils in Sri Lanka.
05/02/2011
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Indian Express
COLOMBO: Ratnasiri Wickramanayake, a senior minister in the Rajapaksa government and a former Prime Minister, has quit the government delegation now in talks with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) on finding a political solution to the Tamil question.
04/24/2011
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Groundviews
Ensuring ‘accountability’ is important, but doing so is a complex task. Who is to ensure accountability, when, where, how? – are questions which have always aroused serious debate, and will do, in the future. While there may be no ‘independent/internal’ investigations, one need not be starry-eyed about ‘independent/international’ investigations. For example, ‘Nuremburg’ was an important start, but was never a suitable model. What, for instance, is ‘international’ and who decides the form and nature of this mechanism? Can we go with Chinese/Russian investigators, and if so, would they be independent? Can we go with US/UK investigators, and would they be independent? Also, can we simply investigate the ‘last stages’ of the armed conflict? What about India’s role in the conflict, and are we to forget the manner in which India nurtured armed groups hostile to Sri Lanka? Are we to investigate only the leaders (of the present regime) who defeated the LTTE, but not those of previous regimes who may have contributed to the prolongation of the armed conflict for so long?
03/13/2011
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BBC
An international human rights watchdog has called on over 50 invited countries to boycott a conference aimed at sharing Sri Lanka's war experience.
03/04/2011
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The Island
The implementation of a durable political solution to the ethnic issue was the answer to overcoming international calls for a war crimes probe against Sri Lanka, UNP parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella said yesterday. He told a news conference in Colombo that the UNP was willing to support any form aof devolution that would address the aspirations of all communities. The Mahinda Rajapaksa regime’s confrontationist and childish foreign policy with the West, was detrimental to Sri Lanka’s interests and needs to be reviewed urgently, Kiriella said.
03/03/2011
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Sunday Times
A top international bank said this week that while it was encouraged by Sri Lanka’s growth prospects, it was concerned by the lack of ‘concrete programmes’ to integrate the minority Tamil population back into the broader society.
09/12/2010
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BBC, BBC Tamil
The United States says that the latest amendment to Sri Lanka constitution which was passed with a huge majority by the Sri Lanka parliament has undermined the democracy in the island nation.
08/12/2010
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BBC
A panel looking into the final years of the Sri Lankan war has heard that the threat of conflict remains.