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Human Rights Watch World Report 2014: Sri Lanka

The year saw an escalation in attacks by militant Buddhist groups against Hindus and Muslims.

(NEW YORK) - The Sri Lankan government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa made little progress in 2013 in addressing accountability for serious human rights abuses committed during the country’s nearly three-decades-long civil war, which ended in 2009.

In March, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted a second resolution in as many years that called on Sri Lanka to implement the recommendations made by its own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and provide accountability for alleged war crimes committed by both sides in the civil war.

SRI LANKA: Rajapaksa Lies Through His Teeth While Continuing With His Human Rights Violations

While they appear to be worried about the impending UNHRC resolution in March 2014, they were not about to give up the colonisation of the North-east of Sri Lanka.

(MELBOURNE) - Sri Lankan President and Commander-in-Chief of the Sinhala military, Mahinda Rajpaksa, put the figure of the SL soldiers in the North as 12,000 in responding to a plea by Northern Provincial Council Chief Minister CW Wigneswaran, at the same stage in Thellippazhai, where a cancer hospital was declared opened on 19 January 2014.

Credible sources put the figure of the occupying military at minimum 136,000.

Myanmar Forces Kill, Rape Rohingya Muslims

Rohingya Muslims have been denied citizenship rights since an amendment to the citizenship laws in 1982 and are treated as illegal immigrants in their own home.

(CAIRO IINA) - Human rights activists have accused the Burmese police forces of killing at least 16 Rohingya Muslims and kidnapping 100 more in a village located in an isolated corner of Burma to cover-up a recent discovery of a mass grave, International Business Times UK reported.

“The villagers were shocked because a worker had found the bodies of eight Rohingyas in a dump,” Tun Khin, human rights activist and president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation in the UK, said.

SRI LANKA: Government Census Inadequate or Fallacy?

Ruling autocracy that comprises the hypocrites of politics, military and the overjoyed wider proponents who oxygenate the misdemeanors of this pathetic regime is making Sri Lanka a mockery and projecting it worse than a banana republic.

(LONDON Sri Lanka Guardian) - The census of human and property damages undertaken by the Government of Sri Lanka has been a downright sham from its birth.

The government is determinedly trying to downplay a fair assessment and stubbornly endeavouring to falsify the full extent of the three decades old war through a facade of official process.

Sri Lanka and UNHRC Resolution March 2014

The following is an open letter to the Consulate of the Cuban Embassy in Sri Lanka...

(MELBOURNE) - Human rights activists are consistently appalled that countries with rich revolutionary histories fail to support modern, similar movements.

Case at hand, Cuba's decision to join countries like Israel in embracing the bloody state terrorism government of Sri Lanka, under the leadership of President Majinda Rajapaksa and his three brothers.

US Urges Myanmar to Probe Attacks on Muslims
Numbers of Unconfirmed Dead Ranged from 10 to 60

The United States said that it is deeply concerned about reports of fresh violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

(RANGOON World Bulletin) - The United States on Friday urged Myanmar to investigate reports that security forces and Buddhist mobs attacked members of the Rohingya Muslim minority this week, killing as many as 60 people.

Rights groups reported attacks by security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs against Rohingya in a village in the Maungdaw township of western Rakhine state over the past three days.

PRESS TV: No End in Sight to Rohingya Muslims Plight

Dozens of children reportedly killed by Buddhist extremists in Burma...

(SALEM) - Sectarian violence, which has gripped Burma since the summer of 2012, is back in full swing, leaving an untold number of Rohingya Muslims dead in this latest flare up near Maungdaw. They are being targeted by Rakhine Buddhist extremists, who are operating with local Buddhist political leaders.

Earlier this week, Rakhine mobs and security forces known in Burma as Lun Htein, entered the settlement of Kiladaung Village East. As it turned out, the men entering the village were police who didn’t wear uniforms.

OIC`s Response to Rohingya Massacre in South Maungdaw (English and French)

The Secretary General urged the government of Myanmar to adhere to the framework it agreed to, to enforce the rule of law and to keep it's assurances to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms.

(RIYADH, Saudi Arabia) - Iyad Ameen Madani, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the OIC, expressed deep concern regarding the recent events of 14th January, 2014 in which looting, raping and killing of Rohingya Muslim civilian citizens in southern Maungdaw, Rakhine State took place.

These events, stressed The Secretary General, violate the basic rights of the Rohingya Muslims to be protected as citizens and as a minority by their own government.

Vaiko`s Appeal Letter to Manmohan Singh to save 46 Eelam Tamils Stranded in Australia

"It is a painful tragedy that many of the Eelam Tamils perished in the waves of the ocean when they sailed in boats."

(NEW DELHI) - This is Vaiko's appeal letter to Manmohan Singh to save the 46 stranded Tamils in Australia. Vaiko is a prominent politician in Tamil Nadu, in south India.

He is the founder of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, a political party that espouses the cause of the Tamil people and Tamil nationalism.

At Least 8 Rohingyas Shot Dead at Kiladon village near Maungdawin in Latest Round of Sectarian Strife

We will carry more information on this development, for now the severe tense situation is still prevailing in the area.

(SALEM) - Sources in Myanmar report that police shot and killed eight Rohingya people in a new round of sectarian strife in Kiladon village near Maungdaw. Sheerrsha News in Dhaka and The BBC report that a meeting is taking place in Godusara today.

Nurul Islam with Grassroots Welfare Association, Bangladesh (GWAB), says they received news from a reliable source from Maungdaw that the exact death toll could be higher. At this point, people Kiladon village are still trying to determine the number of casualties.