[CPJ]

The U.K.’s Channel 4 has screened amateur footage of the body of Tamil news presenter Shoba, indicating that she was shot and killed during the government’s final military surge in the northeast. Shoba, who went by one name, also reported under the name Isaipriya or Isaippiriya for the media division of the secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according to Channel 4 and the pro-LTTE TamilNet news website. “Her role was as a journalist rather than a direct fighter,” Channel 4 reported.

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[BBC]

The summons is linked to three civil cases filed under the Hague Convention by relatives of Tamil victims of alleged extra-judicial killings.

The alleged killings took place during the Sri Lankan civil war.

The petitioners are claiming financial damages under the US Torture Victims Protection Act.

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[PR WEB]

Tamils for Obama is conducting an internet opinion poll to find a consensus view among Tamils of how to end the bloody Sri Lankan civil war. They are especially concerned with the constitutional ending of the war. That is, what kind of government will the island have at the war’s end? They are also asking what kind of action the new U.S. Administration should take to help end the war. Tamils for Obama explains that in the democratic world, they think that Tamils should decide their future. It is not, they believe, a matter for the Sri Lankan Singhalese government and military to dictate.

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