Archive for marts, 2011
Brug som kontekst til kvartal finalen mellem co-værter Sri Lanka og England af Kricket Verdens Cup , TYO-UK (tamilsk Ungdom Organisationen) på lørdag gennemførte en oplysningskampagne om Sri Lanka i London, på en dag præget af store protester fra den TUC (Handel Unions Kongres) mod offentlige nedskæringer. Som op til 500.000 demonstranter marcherede gennem det centrale London, TYO medlemmer i periferien uddelte foldere og indsamlede underskrifter til et postkort kampagne fot at opfordre at England og Wales Kricket bestyrelsen (ECB) til at boykotte Sri Lanka som en sportslig partner. Indsatsen er en del af en større kampagne for at fremme den internationale boykot af Sri Lanka som et turistmål, og som producent af varer, sagde TYO. Sri Lankas cricket hold skyldes at turnere England denne sommer.
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- Sri Lanka: Despite ending Emergency, Sirisena keeps SL military empowered with police powers 24. august 2019SL President Maithiripala Sirisena has re-issued a Gazette notification calling out all the members of the SL Army, SL Navy and SL Air Force for the maintenance of public order in all the 25 districts of the island, including the eight districts of the occupied country of Eezham Tamils in the North and East. The […]
- Sri Lanka: SL Forest Department remains unmoved by uprooted Tamils demand for resettlement 23. august 2019The uprooted people of Kanakar-kiraamam village, a Tamil settlement located 7 km north of Poththtuvil in Ampaa'rai district, are yet to see any change in the attitude of the SL Forest Department, which has seized their lands violating the law of the SL State itself. The people have been staging a continuous protest since 13 […]
- Sri Lanka: 40 parents of missing persons die within 915 days of protest 22. august 2019A fifty-six-year-old father of a Tamil man subjected to enforced disappearance at the hands of the occupying SL military since May 2009 passed away due to hypertension on Tuesday. Velayutham Selvarasa was admitted at the district hospital in Vavuniyaa with high blood pressure. With his demise, the number of parents passing away since the beginning […]
- Sri Lanka: Death certificates issued to 500 of 3,500 Tamils subjected to enforced disappearance in Ampaa'rai 21. august 2019The families of around 500 Tamil persons subjected to enforced disappearance at the hands of the occupying SL military and the paramilitaries operated by it have been utilised with false death certificates in Ampaa'rai district. The death certificates claim that the victims were abducted by terrorists and that their dead bodies were not found. It […]
- Sri Lanka: Wigneswaran warns of bleak future for Tamils, urges planning for next step 20. august 2019SL President Maithiripala Sirisena appointing Shavendra Silva as the SLA commander is the logical outcome of the Sinhala thinking that remains unchanged. Secondly, he may also be thinking that if Gotabhaya Rajapaksa were to come in as the president next, Shavendra Silva would be an ideal lieutenant to him, because they have worked together in […]