Floods threaten camp detainees: SL Govt’s failure to free them Worsens Situation
“The government bears full responsibility for the situation in the camps, locking families up in squalid conditions and then blaming aid agencies for their plight is downright shameful,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
Abduction of KP shows state terrorism goes on unabated
The Sri Lankan government came out last week with its own military intelligence agents to Malaysia to kidnap the head of LTTE’s International Relations Department. They escorted him in a plane to Colombo and his whereabouts and his destiny are still unknown.
AAAS Satellite Image Analysis Points to New Graves, Shelling, and Human Displacement in Sri Lanka
Beside a green lagoon on Sri Lanka’s northeastern coast, on a sandy spit of land less than 8 miles long, violence reportedly erupted 9-10 May as military soldiers clashed with rebel Tamil Tigers.
Now, a detailed AAAS assessment of high-resolution satellite images seems to confirm descriptions of intense fighting within Sri Lanka’s “no-fire zone”—revealing a landscape scarred by freshly dug graves and artillery explosions.
Sri Lankan State Terror extends boundaries: BTF
The Sri Lankan Government has once again exposed its arrogance as a ‘democratic state’ apparently unbound by international law and order, extending their practice of illegal abductions, kidnap, disappearances and violations of human rights with impunity, this time across international borders, says British Tamil Forum in its press release yesterday. The military establishment’s disrespect and disregard to international law and order in Sri Lanka is now being permitted internationally, it seems.
KP’s arrest is against international law – Amnesty International
Commenting on the arrest of LTTE leader, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, in Malaysia, Amnesty International’s Asia Pacific Director Sam Zarifi told media that if any country arrests LTTE members the detainee should face charges in the country that they had been arrested.
KP arrest: Malaysia being accused of violating international law
Human rights activists have accused Malaysia of violating international law by handing over new leader of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to Sri Lanka.
Commenting on the arrest of LTTE leader, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, in Malaysia, Amnesty International’s Asia Pacific Director Sam Zarifi told media that if any country arrests LTTE members the detainee should face charges in the country that they had been arrested.
Jaffna University students speak to WSWS
Jaffna University students and staff recently spoke with WSWS correspondents over the run-down state of the campus, its desperate lack of basic facilities and the ongoing military repression in the northern Sri Lankan town of Jaffna.
Despite the military defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May, Jaffna remains under heavy army occupation with extensive roadblocks and constant patrols. The names of the students have been withheld to protect them from persecution by the security forces.
UK Parliament committee says Britain should push for international probe into Sri Lanka war crimes
The UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee wants Britain to press for the setting up of an international war crimes inquiry into the conduct of the war in Sri Lanka.
The Committee said Britain should use the leverage at its disposal to end the “prevalent culture of impunity” regarding rights abuses in Sri Lanka.
The purported arrest by Sri Lanka has shocked and dismayed Eelam Tamils – Headquarters, LTTE
Headquarters,
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
09–08–2009
Mr. Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the duly appointed head of Department of International Relations Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by Honorable V.Prabaharan Head of Liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam, who recently undertook the immense task of leading the Tamil freedom struggle by political and diplomatic means was kidnapped and forcibly removed from Malaysia on August 5, 2009 by the Sri Lankan government.
PTGTE requests Malaysian Govt to announce details surrounding the abduction of KP
In the case of Mr Pathmanathan’s abduction, the rule of law has once again been violated by international actors with respect to Tamils. The proper procedure would have been to secure the extradition of Mr. Pathmanathan if he had broken any law, rather than taking action outside the law and seizing a person in a manner that could be compared to those performed by bounty hunters, posses or even criminal gangs.
