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Latest victims of a heinous trend: Abduction of political activists Premakumar Gunaratnam and Dimuthu Attygalle
Political activists and leaders of the People’s Struggle Movement in Sri Lanka, Mr. Premakumar Gunaratnam[1] and Ms. Dimithu Attygalle[2] disappeared...
Continue reading »Menik Farm after the cyclone: The continuing misery of IDPs
After a punishingly hot day, the skies seemed to provide some relief to the residents of Chettikulam as they opened...
Continue reading »Horrible rise of disappearances in post-war Sri Lanka continues unabated
Image from Transcurrents [Editors note: Also read New wave of abductions and dead bodies in Sri Lanka] Twenty nine disappearances...
Continue reading »What is the bigger lie? US resolution in Geneva or number of people in Vanni in 2009?
Image from Wikimedia Commons “One of the rankest untruths in the public domain today is that the US resolution is...
Continue reading »New wave of abductions and dead bodies in Sri Lanka
Image from Transcurrents In the past 5 months – October 2011 to February 2012 – there has been a disturbing...
Continue reading »DISAPPEARANCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS & POLITICAL ACTIVISTS LALITH KUMAR WEERARAJ AND KUGAN MURUGAN ON 9TH DECEMBER 2011
Two Sri Lankan human rights defenders and political activists disappeared in Jaffna in the North of Sri Lank on 9th...
Continue reading »42 Political Activists and HRDs Detained and Prevented from Participating in Peaceful Protest in Jaffna Town on Human Rights Day
On December 10th 2011, a group of 42 HRDs and political activists from the South of Sri Lanka were detained...
Continue reading »Post-war situation in Northern Sri Lanka & Prospects for Reconciliation
Changes since the end of the war: 30 months after the end of war, more people travel between the once...
Continue reading »Re-displacement of Menik Farm inmates to Kombavil (Mullativu)
On 20th September 2011 the Government of Sri Lanka had announced that Menik Farm, hosting 7394 persons (2097 families) will...
Continue reading »Grease Devils and Police and Army attacks on civilians in Mannar and Vavuniya
Police attacks on civilians in Komarasankulam (Vavuniya district) 11 men were arrested by the Vavuniya Police in Komarasankulam...
Continue reading »JAFFNA: BRUTAL ASSAULT OF CIVILIANS IN NAVANTHURAI
Around 100 young men from Navanthurai, a village in the Jaffna District, were detained in an operation conducted by the...
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