10/09/2011
|
Deccan Chronicle
Colombo, Oct. 9: A new Ceylon Transport bus bearing the Sinhalese symbol “Sri” was burned down in Jaffna in the Tamil-speaking northern province last week on the eve of the bus being put into operation, according to an official statement here today. The Tamil-Sinhalese symbol “Sri” on motor vehicles along with registration numbers.
10/02/2011
|
TransCurrents
A report on BBC Tamil service says, the “1,800 rehabilitated LTTE fighters released on Friday, September 30th after having rehabilitated them with skills development”, are yet to be re-united with their parents.
09/30/2011
|
Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's government on Friday released nearly 1,800 former Tamil Tiger rebels who had been held since the island nation's civil war ended more than two years ago.
09/29/2011
|
Times of India
COLOMBO: A group Sri Lankans, most of them Tamils, who failed in their bid to get asylum in the UK, have been deported back to the country, despite concerns raised by rights groups over their fate.
09/05/2011
|
BBC
US diplomats in Sri Lanka have shown satellite images of damage by shelling in "safe zone" even after the government announced ending heavy artillery and aerial bombing, according to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
08/28/2011
|
Granta
In the case of September 11 2001, communal loss is – comparatively, at least – well understood. Everyone saw or could see those deaths; they were on the news even as they happened; the broadcast was part of their lasting tragedy. Few perceived denial of the deaths as rational. The people who had killed them made sure there was plenty of physical evidence. No one fought the act of mourning and was taken seriously. Not so with what I saw from a great distance eight years later: the deaths of Tamil civilians at the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war.
08/19/2011
|
Al Jazeera
Sri Lanka's long-running conflict was brutal for its women.
More than 80,000 are said to have been widowed in war-affected areas of the island nation.
The peace that came with the end of the civil war has brought little discernible improvement to their lives.
The situation is especially bad for young women, who told Al Jazeera about rapes and sexual exploitation - in some cases by government officials and the military.
Steve Chao was granted special permission to report in the still sensitive area of northern Sri Lanka.
08/10/2011
|
BBC
TNA leader in a special statement to parliament objects the decision to reduce number of seats in Jaffna.
08/05/2011
|
Le Temps
Sri Lanka’s government likes to proclaim that the country has put its bloody civil war behind it. But a visit to the Tamil stronghold reveals open scars everywhere.