11/20/2011
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BBC
EDITOR'S PICK: In 2009, a young boy flees Sri Lanka's civil war carrying a violin. In 2011, BBC reporter Priyath Liyanage tries to find him. Follow links for the full radio clip.
08/25/2011
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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.
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.
03/05/2011
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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.
03/04/2011
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Zee News
Colombo: Sri Lankan Army said on Friday they are handing over a landmark hotel in Jaffna to its owners as part of the military's initiative to return private properties they occupied 15 years ago.
03/04/2011
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TamilNet
A three-member bench of the Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court Thursday terminated the proceedings in the Fundamental Rights application filed by five Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarians against the forced registration of resident in the Jaffna district and Killinochchi district by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) after Sri Lanka's Attorney General (AG) informed the Court that SLA will stop forced registration, legal sources in Colombo said. The Deputy Solicitor General, Buvaneka Aluvihare, on behalf of the AG gave the undertaking said that the forced registration would be suspended until a procedure that passes constitutional muster is developed to collect information pertaining to the two districts.
03/04/2011
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BBC
President Mahinda Rajapaksa received a phone call from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, officials say.
03/03/2011
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Daily Mirror
The Attorney General today made an undertaking in Supreme Court to suspend the forced registration of residents in North by the military.
03/02/2011
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Sunday Times
The Defence Ministry has set up a hotline to complain on cases of corruption, abductions and cases of demanding ransom mainly in the north and east, Director General of the Media Centre for National Security Lakshman Hulugalle said.
03/01/2011
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TamilNet
In a draconian order, the SL military occupying the country of Eezham Tamils has asked the people of Valveddiththu’rai, a densely populated town in the northern coast of Jaffna, to register themselves with the military, along with family photos, before 10:00 a.m. Wednesday. The shocked Eezham Tamils wonder whether their country is fast turning into an open concentration camp for them. The order comes even as there is a case against such registrations filed by TNA is pending in the court. The notice to the public to register within 24 hours and forms for that are distributed by the SL Army to local shops. On the order of the Army, the local village officials were seen carrying out the work even during the night. People feel that the show of terror is a revenge for the participation of the people of VVT in the funeral of Parvathi Amma, despite military harassment.