[AFP]
An ethnic Tamil journalist in Sri Lanka’s formerly embattled north was brutally attacked with iron bars, police said on Saturday, the latest in a string of assaults on the nation’s media.
Archive for July, 2011
Sri Lankan journalist attacked ‘with iron bars’Saturday, July 30th, 2011 Body of missing Sri Lankan activist ‘found’: UNFriday, July 29th, 2011 [AFP] The body of a prominent Sri Lankan human rights activist missing since February last year has been found, the United Nations said Friday. Sri Lanka: Former Tamil Tigers complain of harassmentFriday, July 29th, 2011 [BBC] Former Tamil Tiger (LTTE) rebels in Sri Lanka say they cannot find jobs or reintegrate into society, a year after they were freed from government “rehabilitation” and detention camps. Former Sri Lankan President speaks out on Killing FieldsWednesday, July 27th, 2011 [Channel 4 News] Former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga delivered a landmark speech in Colombo on Sunday in which she spoke of the horror her children expressed after viewing Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields. Sri Lanka ‘war crimes’ soldiers ordered to ‘finish the job’Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 [Channel 4 News] One of these eyewitnesses, an army officer, accuses Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa - the president’s brother - of ordering Brigadier Shavendra Silva to execute Tamil rebel leaders, whose safe surrender had been guaranteed by the president. The Sri Lankan soldiers ‘whose hearts turned to stone’Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 [Channel 4 News] Over the last two years Channel 4 News has broadcast footage that the UN says constitutes “credible evidence of war crimes” in Sri Lanka. In the final stages of 26 years of civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, and better known as the Tamil Tigers), the United Nations estimated up to 40,000 civilians were killed. Tamils call for change after elections in Sri LankaMonday, July 25th, 2011 [Independent UK] In a set-back for Sri Lanka’s ruling party, the Tamil National Alliance has won a landslide victory in local elections, capturing 20 out of 25 seats it contested in areas formerly held by rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Chandrika Kumaratunga berates Sri Lankan governmentMonday, July 25th, 2011 [BBC] Former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has condemned the current government, saying it has failed to win peace in the country after the war. What South Africa can do to help with reconciliation in Sri LankaSunday, July 24th, 2011 [International Crisis Group] As South Africa knows better than most, a country cannot begin to overcome decades of internal conflict without a sustained effort at revealing the truth of the past and a committed push for reconciliation. If only Sri Lanka could learn that lesson. Tamil party wins elections in Sri Lanka’s ex-war zoneSunday, July 24th, 2011 [BBC] The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) took 18 out of 26 councils in what is being seen as a rare electoral setback for the government of President Rajapaksa.
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