12/07/2010
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Tamil Daily
Sri Lanka Government has directed the United Nations officials to close the UNICEF, UNHCR offices in Ki’linochchi district in the North, and Trincomalee in the East before the end of this year, and to move the administrative functions to offices located outside NorthEast, civil society sources in Jaffna said. The sources fear that Colombo’s action is part of its longer term strategy to rid of all NGO offices in the NorthEast.
During the period of intense war in Vanni, the UN Office functioning inside Vanni was moved south to Vavuniya, outside the areas of combat. However, after the war ended Colombo refused to allow the UN officials to reopen in the previously operated premises.
UNICEF has administrative control over four schools in Pa’lai and Ki’linochchi areas. UNICEF will maintain its functions working from its Jaffna offices, sources said.
World Food Program continues to distribute rations in Vanni area.
Jaffna, Kilinochch, Trincomalee, UN, UNICEF, Vanni, Vavuniya
10/23/2010
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The Star
TRINCOMALEE, SRI LANKA—The weathered wooden bench that serves as an open-air confessional booth at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church doesn’t enjoy much down time nowadays.
It’s not that more people are seeking forgiveness in this seaside chapel. Rather, parishioners have been flocking here just for the chance to sit with Father Cryton Outschoorn, to listen to his soothing assurance that their lives, clouded for so many years by fear and violence, are getting better.
09/01/2010
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AFP
TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka — Fishermen in the Sri Lankan port of Trincomalee hoped the end of the island's civil war would bring prosperity, but dynamite and corruption now threaten their livelihoods.
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.
07/01/2010
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TamilNet
Two Hindu temples in Trincomalee are earmarked for forcible removal by the Colombo government and another temple in Batticaloa is being subjected to Sinhala militarisation, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP for Batticaloa C.Yogeswaran told journalists in Batticaloa on Wednesday.
06/14/2008
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Amnesty
Amnesty International has accused the Sri Lankan government of trapping the country in a vicious cycle of abuse and impunity. A new report published on Thursday by the organization details the Sri Lankan government’s failure to deliver justice for serious human rights violations over the past twenty years.