- 06 September 2014
Sri Lanka's anti terror squad grills priest, school teachers over Tamil poetry book
A Catholic priest who narrowly survived the final phase of the war in Sri Lanka has been questioned by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) over a book of Tamil poetry he wrote called 'Uyirpathivu' which literally translates as, “Life Records”.
- 07 July 2014
Tamil relative pleas to Morrison: 'Dont harm our baby'
A relative of a three-year-old girl missing on the ‘disappeared’ Tamil asylum-seeker boat has made a personal plea to Australia’s Immigration Minister, Scott Morrison, to protect his family from harm. “I am desperate to know where my family is. I can’t function..........
- 19 June 2014
Victims the real heroes at London sexual violence summit
I had the unusual experience of attending last week’s preventing sexual violence summit in London with a survivor of rape I know. I bumped into him at a play called Unlocked, which is based on the testimony of three survivors of male rape – Congolese,.....
- 21 May 2014
Jaffna University Professors, Deans and students face fresh death threat
In a precarious development which can result in far reaching consequences, Jaffna University Professors, Faculty Deans and Students’ Union representatives on Tuesday (20) have been threatened with death by a hitherto unknown 'organisation' called.....
- 02 July 2014
Remains of the Hate: Anti Muslim violence in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has just experienced the worst communal violence in decades but you wouldn’t always know it from the behaviour of its politicians. Six members of the main Opposition party went on a fact-finding mission to look into the well-being of the animals in Dehiwala .....
- 01 June 2014
Tamil man dies after self-immolating in Geelong
The death through self-immolation of a Tamil asylum seeker in Geelong on Sunday is further evidence that the Australian Government’s refugee policy is killing people, a spokesman for the Tamil Refugee Council said today. “Leo Seemanpillai was just 29 years of....
- 15 April 2014
Tamil man recovering from self-immolation in Sydney
A Tamil asylum-seeker is recovering in a Sydney hospital from burns to 70 per cent of his body after setting himself alight last week. A member of the Sydney Tamil community, Balasingham Prabhakaran, said today, that 29-year-old Janarthanan.............
