Archive for januar, 2008
Medens den srilankanske hærs (SLA's) forsøg på at
bryde Tigrenes forsvars-linier for at trænge ind på LTTE's territoriumer er
blevet en daglig foreteelse på Mannaar-Madhu krigsskuepladsen, er civile blevet
de tavse ofre, der må stå for skud under SLA's hærgen. Hundreder af familier er
blevet fordrevet og bor i flygtningelejre, og mange er blevet traumatiseret af
kvæstelser og familiemedlemmers dødsfald på grund af luftangreb,
SLA-mortérgranater og vejsidebomber fra SLA´s indtrængnings-enheder(DPUs). Fru
Mary Consulator fra Thadcha'naamaruthamadu flygtningelejr er sådan et
offer.
Malathy tamil kalikudam
- Sri Lanka: West influencing regime-change politics responsible for worsening situation: Fr Sakthivel 22. april 2019The serial terror attacks on the churches and the hotels during the Easter Sunday has sparked fear of repercussions among the Muslims in Colombo, Negombo and the suburbs of the capital. They fear that a preplanned backlash could come from the forces operating among the other communities, Colombo-based human rights activist and Tamil Catholic priest […]
- Sri Lanka: 207 killed, 450 wounded, series of bomb blasts target churches, hotels on Easter Sunday 21. april 2019At least 207 people, including foreign tourists, have been killed in Colombo and Batticaloa in a series of bomb blasts that targeted worshippers, who were attending Easter Sunday services at three Christian churches. Most of the victims at the churches were Tamils. The bomb blasts have also targeted three hotels in Colombo. Thirty-five victims were […]
- Sri Lanka: Tamil journalist released on bail fears targeted persecution by SL military 20. april 2019The SL Police in Mullaith-theevu was acting on a false accusation filed by a Sinhala navy sailor who was blaming Tamil journalist Shanmugam Thavaseelan in Mullaiththeevu as having assaulted him and insulted him on 07th April at Vadduvaakal. It was the intervention by journalists like me that prevented the situation getting into worse when the […]
- Sri Lanka: Colombo closing down schools with less than 50 students tantamounts to educational betrayal 19. april 2019The education of the students living in the rural and remote villages in the North-East would be severely affected if the SL Government goes ahead with the proposed move of closing down schools with less than fifty students in the island, said former Education Minister of Eastern Province S. Thandayuthapani on Friday. The resettlement has […]
- Sri Lanka: Sinhala colonisation escalated in Vavuniyaa North with a multitude of players backing infrastructure 18. april 2019Elected civic members of Vavuniyaa North Divisional Council (PS) complain that the Sinhala colonisation is relentlessly targeting the eastern side of their division. The occupying Sinhala Army and its home-guards paramilitary act as the guardians of the colony while the extremist Buddhist monks coordinate the systematic expansion. Various SL ministries provide the infrastructure. Besides, a […]