War and Suppression Against Media(Sinhala)

Sourece : Vikalpa
Lawyer and Media Activist K.W.Janaranjana Speaks about War and Media Suppression in Sri Lanka.
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Civil war threatens elephants in Sri Lanka

The renewed civil war in Sri Lanka has claimed many victims, among them the island’s wild elephants.
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“Can Sinhalese live in peace when minorities suffer?”

- Shobasakthi
Source :- LakbimaNews
“I subscribe to the theories on nationhood set out by great theorists like Marx - who is an internationalist and says that a worker has no nation - all the way down to Benedict Anderson, who has described nations as imagined communities. I have no theoretical affinity to Tamil nationalism.”
“However, in [...]

Child soldier turned author HITS OUT

Source : LakbimaNews
A former LTTE child soldier turned revolutionary writer is urging the Tamils to revolt against both the Tigers and the Sri Lankan state, saying the intention of each was to oppress people.
Shobasakthi, the 40 year-old author of Gorilla - a fascinating and ground-breaking novel - now lives as an exile in France, filling [...]

Say no to Sri Lanka’s Bid for U.N. Rights Council Seat

Source :- Say no to Sri Lanka
Joint NGO Letter to Member States
NGOs for an Effective Human Rights Council
www.hrw.org/effectiveHRC/SriLanka
6 May 2008
Your Excellency,
We are a coalition of nongovernmental organizations from all parts of the world.
We write to urge that your government not vote for Sri Lanka for membership in the U.N. Human Rights Council in the election [...]

Statement From The Carter Center on Upcoming U.N. Human Rights Council Elections

Source : Carter Center Presse Release
16 May 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Carter Center calls on the General Assembly not to re-elect Sri Lanka to the Human Rights Council in the upcoming Council elections.  Recently adopted reforms of the former Commission on Human Rights, including competitive elections, call for the conduct of a government to be a [...]

Tamils’ Right to Self Determination

Source :- Tamilcanadian
Tamils have a De jure State - An interview with Karen Parker
Proceedings of the International Conference on the Conflict in Sri Lanka:
Peace with Justice, Canberra, Australia.
studied Law at Harvard University and is now a practising Attorney in USA Political Adviser to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s International Unit
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Eastern Provincial Council Elections - May 2008 - CMEV Press

Source : CMEV

Sri Lanka - CMEV Election Violence Map through Google Maps

Google Maps

Getting off with the wrong bag

Source : LankaDissent
We of the Centre for Social Democracy (CSD) take pleasure in responding to a posting in the official website of the “Secretariat for Co-ordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP)” in Sri Lanka on 08th May, 2008 captioned “CAFFE Anyone ? The link between Opposition Politicians and Human Rights Activists” under its Secretary General (SG), [...]