http://www.tamileelamonline.com Reliable, up-to-date news reports on the Tamil Struggle in Sri Lanka Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:18:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2959/ http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2959/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:17:52 +0000 TEO http://www.tamileelamonline.com/?p=2959 The Sri Lankan government should end its harassment of journalists and activists and take steps against those making threats, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said in a joint statement today.    Since the January 2010 presidential election, the government has engaged in a campaign to silence and discredit journalists and nongovernmental organizations. A recently leaked [...]]]> http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2959/feed/ 0 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2957/ http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2957/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:16:31 +0000 TEO http://www.tamileelamonline.com/?p=2957 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2957/feed/ 0 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2955/ http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2955/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:14:33 +0000 TEO http://www.tamileelamonline.com/?p=2955 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2955/feed/ 0 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2953/ http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2953/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:11:42 +0000 TEO http://www.tamileelamonline.com/?p=2953 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2953/feed/ 0 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2951/ http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2951/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:09:11 +0000 TEO http://www.tamileelamonline.com/?p=2951 The Palestinian Government has condemned the recent UN Secretary-General’s action against Sri Lanka. Issuing a statement, the Palestinian Government states that the UN was silent when thousands of children were killed in the Gaza Strip and therefore it has no right to comment about Sri Lanka. The statement has requested the UN not to disrupt the [...]]]> http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2951/feed/ 0 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2900/ http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2900/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:09:06 +0000 TEO http://www.tamileelamonline.com/?p=2900     The Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) has demanded the implementation of the 13th amendment soon after the General Elections and has also rejection of the Oslo Declaration, party officials said today. TMVP Spokesperson Azath Maulana told Daily Mirror online that the party’s main election policy mentioned in its manifesto was the implementation of the 13th Amendment [...]]]> http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2900/feed/ 0 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2897/ http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2897/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:06:03 +0000 TEO http://www.tamileelamonline.com/?p=2897 UN chief Ban Ki-Moon with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama during his visit to the island in August 2009. Credit:Amantha Perera/IPS The war of words between the Sri Lankan government and the United Nations has begun all over again, this time over the creation of an experts’ panel on the island’s human rights record. U.N. Secretary-General Ban [...]]]> http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2897/feed/ 0 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2895/ http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2895/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:05:05 +0000 TEO http://www.tamileelamonline.com/?p=2895 There is a view that the UN Organization General Secretary Ban Ki Moon appointed a panel of experts to investigate the human rights (HR)  violations and the war crimes committed during the Sri Lanka (SL) war was  in order to get an extension for  his term in office as Gen. Secretary. It is evident that [...]]]> http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2895/feed/ 0 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2891/ http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2891/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:00:06 +0000 TEO http://www.tamileelamonline.com/?p=2891 The Head of the UK Diplomatic Service, Permanent Under-Secretary Sir Peter Ricketts, who arrived in Sri Lanka on March 10, has called on the government to allow humanitarian organizations to play a full role in the resettlement of IDPs. Sir Peter had expressed the UK’s willingness to support Sri Lanka to restore full freedom of movement [...]]]> http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2891/feed/ 0 http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2889/ http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2889/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:59:04 +0000 TEO http://www.tamileelamonline.com/?p=2889 Family members say they earlier visited Kilinochchi to get imprisoned soldiers released but now visiting Temple Trees for the same purpose   A human rights group representing the families of disappeared military men in Sri Lanka has accused the government of victimising soldiers. Visaka Dharmadasa, convenor of the Association of War Affected Women (AWAW), said her organisation is [...]]]> http://www.tamileelamonline.com/2889/feed/ 0