- 31 July 2012
Sri Lanka military to issue death certificates for disappeared
Relatives of the disappeared in northern Sri Lanka have been forced by the military to accept death certificates for Tamils in state custody. Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran informed....
- 23 July 2012
Food embargo enforced to evict war displaced
Thousands of war displaced in eastern Sri Lanka have been denied food in a bid to force them away from their ancestral lands occupied by the military and India’s largest electricity company. Local health workers fear that many children and mothers.....
- 06 July 2012
Sri Lanka: Authorities refuse to handover remains of killed Tamil prisoner
Sri Lankan police and a district court on Thursday refused to handover to bereaved parents the dead body of a Tamil political prisoner, beaten to death inside a prison on Tuesday (03). The request to hand over.....
- 03 July 2012
'Over 15,000 missing in Sri Lanka' : Report reveals
More than fifteen thousand have been reported missing in Sri Lanka by the end of last year, reveal figures released by the International Committe of Red Cross (ICRC). The annual report unveiled in Geneva by ICRC President....
- 13 July 2012
Disappeared Tamil youth found in state custody after five years
A Tamil mother from northern Sri Lanka who had been searching for her son for five years has found him badly beaten, handcuffed and lying unconscious in a government hospital in Colombo.The mother from Iluppaikadavai i....
- 04 July 2012
Attacked Tamil prisoner succumbs to his injuries in Colombo
One of the Tamil political prisoners who was brutally attacked by the army and Special Task Force (STF) personnel during a ‘rescue drama’ in Vavuniya last week, has succumbed to his injuries Tuesday night in a hospital in Ragama.....
- 30 June 2012
Safety of 31 Tamil prisoners feared after “rescue operation”
Amid rising concern over the safety and whereabouts of 31 Tamil prisoners, the prison in Vavuniya has been temporarily shut down after heavily armed army and elite police force personnel jointly carried out a violent operation to ....
