Surveillance, Harassment and Intimidation of Disappearances’ Activists in the North-East August 30, 2018 I. Background Over the last two years, the issue of enforced disappearances has become an increasingly central topic in the conversation around human rights and transitional justice in Sri Lanka, largely due to the efforts of families of the disappeared from the North-East who have taken to
Tamil people demonstrated in Mullaitivu yesterday against land grab and colonisation by the Sri Lankan government in the region. Please follow and like us:
Reported by BBC By Anbarasan Ethirajan – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45296871 Experts in northern Sri Lanka are trying to identify the remains of dozens of bodies in a mass grave in the country’s former war zone. So far the skeletal remains of more than 90 people have been unearthed in the north-western town of Mannar. The mass grave is the second biggest found
ஜெனீவாவை எதிர்கொள்ளப்போகும் புலம்பெயர் அமைப்புகள் – பிரித்தானிய தமிழர் பேரவையின் செயற்பாடுகள் பற்றி அமைப்பு சார்பாக வசியும் சுதாவும் கலந்து கொண்டு உரையாடிய காணொளி. Please follow and like us:
Latest figures released by an investigative journalist Logathayalan, from Sri Lanka, reveals the extent and the intensity of military occupation in Jaffna district by the Sri Lankan military, Naval, Airforce and Police personnel. He provides the following statistics: CAMPS NUMBER NAVY 93 ARMY 54 AIRFORCE 1 POLICE STATION 30 TOTAL 178 The number of Secret camps established throughout the north
Venue: Room C, No 1, Parliament Street, Westminster SW1A 0AA (Building at the junction of Great George street & Parliament Street, Behind St Stephens Tavern) Date: 23 July 2018 Time: 6 PM – 8 PM Cycle of violence repeats (Pogroms 1958, 1977, 1983, Massacre 2008 – 09); Several commissions set up in the past, but no one held accountable. This culture
March 09, 2018 London, Washington DC, Canberra: The US Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC), the British Tamils Forum (BTF) and the Australian Tamil Congress (ATC) express our deepest sympathies to the victims of the recent anti-Muslim pogrom in the Kandy and Amparai districts in Sri Lanka. We are deeply frustrated that ethnic violence
A joint letter to the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs as this matter is directly relevant to both of those offices. As you may be aware, organisations supporting this request were formed in response to the worsening humanitarian crisis
எதிர்வரும் வெள்ளிக்கிழமை அன்று 09-02-2018 லண்டனில் மாபெரும் போராட்ட பேரணி ஒன்று ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது. இப் பேரணி ஆனது பிரித்தானியாவைத் தளமாக கொண்டு இயங்கும் பல அமைப்புகள் ஒன்றிணைந்து இலங்கை அரசின் பயங்கரவாத செயல்பாட்டை பிரித்தானிய அரசிற்கும் மற்றும் சர்வதேச நாடுகளுக்கும் எடுத்துரைக்கும் வண்ணம் நடாத்த உள்ளனர்.
The British Tamils Forum sincerely thank the members of APPG for Tamils, Rt. Hon Joan Ryan MP, Siobhain Mcdonald MP, Paul Scully MP and Sir Ed Davey MP for writing to the Foreign Secretary Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP calling to withdraw diplomatic papers and remove Sri Lanka’s Defence Attaché Brigadier Priyanka Fernando from the UK. We are yet to see any action by our government for that call.