Removing Silva as UN Adviser Addressed Feb 17, Pakistan PR Tells ICP; No Thanks to Ban Ki-moon
Ban shakes with Silva, Kohona back to camera (c) MRLee By Matthew Russell Lee http://www.innercitypress.com/ ——————————————- UNITED NATIONS, February 16 — For three weeks Inner City Press has asked the UN how it could accept as a UN “Senior Adviser on Peacekeeping More...
Sri Lankan General Admits War Crimes; US May Hold Crucial Supporting Evidence
The extrajudicial killing of civilians, surrendering soldiers and dissident journalists under the direction of the Sri Lankan government has been alleged by a former general in the Army who was extremely well-placed More...
Cross party support grows for a call for an International Independent Investigation.
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPGT) in collaboration with the British Tamils Forum (BTF) hosted an exhibition and situation update event in Westminster on 31 January 2012. The event was held to More...
War criminal not Ban’s choice but Asia’s
The selection of Shavendra Silva, Sri Lanka’s deputy permanent representative,who accused of war crimes and torture to an advisory group on UN peacekeeping operations was the subject of a question at the UN’s More...
HRWatch World Report 2012 Sri Lanka
The aftermath of Sri Lanka’s quarter century-long civil war, which ended in May 2009 with the defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), continued to dominate events in 2011. In April United More...
The slaughter of the Tamils in Sri Lanka Argentine newspaper
Sri Lanka genocide story draws 22m visitors, says Argentine paper The Spanish Language Diario La Tarde, an evening journal published by independent journalists in West Argentina said the recent web publication of More...
WikiLeaks: Indians and Americans watched the last phase of war via satellites
“The President remarked at lunch before this meeting that India had satellites and was monitoring the ground situation in Sri Lanka. It will now be equally clear to the Sri Lankan government that we are watching, More...
Sri Lanka: the Committee against Torture follows TRIAL recommendations
In November 2011, the UN Committee against Torture adopted its Concluding Observations concerning Sri Lanka, Bulgaria and Germany, issuing a series of recommendations in line with what TRIAL had called for in three More...
The Kolaveri Trait of Delhi Sonia Junta Aided the Colombo Genocide Rajapakse Regime to commit grave crimes against humanity
The popular ‘kolaiveri’ song (with over 30 million hits) carries the ‘murderous’ or ‘killer’ rage connotation that tempts many to adapt it to lament human sufferings caused by bloodthirsty oppressors. More...
No amnesty for war-criminals, says UN’s Navi Pillay
Granting amnesty to perpetrators of war crimes and human rights abuses under Yemen’s presidential power transition deal would be against international law, the United Nations human rights chief said on Friday, More...
