A top editor of the Jaffna-based ‘Uthayan’ newspaper has been brutally attacked and seriously wounded by unknown armed men on Friday (29) in the heart of the heavily-guarded northern Jaffna town. According to media sources in Jaffna, the news editor of ‘Uthayan’, Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan (59) was on his way home by foot from the office [...]
Several Tamil political prisoners in the Kandy Bogambara prison were severely attacked by the prison officials on 14.06.2011 and admitted in the prison hospital in Kandy According to the sources, prison officers who came to prison to investigate about the clash between two groups of Sinhala prisoners for allegedly engaging in the drug smuggling in [...]
පුරවැසි මාධ්යවේදියකුගේ සටහන් සුනන්ද දේශප්රිය උතුරු ජන්දයේ අභියෝගය අවසානයේ දී දෙමළ ජනතාව කතා කළහ. ඒ පසුගිය 23වන සෙනසුරාදා පැවැති පළාත් පාලන ජන්දයේ දී ය. මෙයට පෙර දෙමළ ශ්රාස්ත්රඥයින් සහ දේශපාලනඥයින් විසින් රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවට එල්ල කරන ලද චෝදනා දැන් දෙමළ ජනතාව විසින් ද සනාථ කර තිබේ. උතුරෙහි දෙමළ ජනයා රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුව කෙරෙහි විශ්වාසයක් නැති බවට දැන් [...]
The workshop for the priests and religious organized by the Human Rights office in Kandy
The workshop for the priests and religious organized by the Human Rights office in Kandy with the theme ‘Voiceless as the Basis for Dialogue in Life’ was held at Retreat House Lewella from the 18th – 21st July 2011 with 29 participants from the north and south of Sri Lanka. The participants were also exposed to the dysfunctional judicial system as they attended the Rape case of Jresudasan Rita, a rape victim, who struggle for Justice since 2001 August 12th. The participants sat at the High court at Nuwara-Eliya on the 19th July on the second day of the workshop to witness the cross examination of the witness Jesudasan Rita by the counsel of the accused.
What would you feel if the pet dog you were rearing in your home for companionship as well as for security was brutally killed and decapitated, its body left lying on the street and its head paced on your gate? What would you feel if your pet dog was killed, its body bundled up and [...]
ලෝක නීතියෙන් හෙවත් අන්තර්ජාතික යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා වලින් නිදොස්වීම සඳහා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජනාධිපති තුමාත් පොදුවේ ආණ්ඩුවත් දැවැන්ත උත්සාහයක යෙදී සිටී. මෙම චෝදනා එල්ල වන්නේ සමස්ත යුද්ධය පිළිබඳව නොවේ. යුද්ධයේ අවසාන දින කීපයේ දී සිදු කර ඇතැයි කියැවෙන අන්තර්ජාතික නීතියට පටහැනි ඇතැම් ක්රියා සම්බන්ධයෙනි. පවතින අන්තර්ජාතික නීති වට පිටාව ඇතුළත එම ක්රියා ඔප්පු කොට ජනාධිපති තුමාට [...]
Justice Sathya Hettege must explain why heinvited President Rajapakse to his daughter’s wedding to sign on behalf oftheir family, it being unlikely Rajapakse imposed himself as a witness. What ishis relationship with the President? Is it appropriate that a Supreme Courtjudge should continue to have personal and social relations with the executivebranch, especially of a government whose behaviour is extremely questionablefrom the viewpoint of democracy and the Rule of Law?
විසි එක් වියැති කම්කරු තරුණයකු බිල්ලට ගනිමින් ද, තවත් වසර දෙකක් තනතුරේ රැුඳී සිටීමේ සියලූ ‘ශක්යතාවන්’ හා ‘ලැදියාවන්’ පෙන්වූ මහින්ද බාලසූරියගේ පොලිස්පති ඇඳුම ගලවා ගෙදර යවමින් ද, නිදහස් වෙළෙඳ කලාප සේවක සේවිකාවන් සිය ගණනකගේ ඔලූ පලමින් ද, යෝජිත පෞද්ගලික අංශ සේවක විශ්රාම වැටුප් පනත කල්තැබීමට ආණ්ඩුවට තීරණය කර තිබේ. කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල තීරණයක් වූ පෙන්ෂන් පනත [...]
A British TV documentary and a United Nations-commissioned report have confirmed long-standing Tamil allegations that the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) committed large-scale war crimes in the course of its May 2009 victory over the pro-independence Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
”Just look at what is happening in Jaffna today. There is military rule. I was personally present when the army came and broke up an academic meeting on preserving ancient books. Our group is now scared of meeting again.
by S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole
