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Lanka May Miss Chance to Heal its War Wounds

“Relations with India are essential and crucial” - former PM Chandrika Kumaratunga

(NEW DELHI Hindustan Times) - Sri Lanka has a “marvellous opportunity” to heal and reconcile its twin populations after 25 years of civil war, says Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka’s former prime minister and president.

Which is why she is more than a little baffled at the slowness with which the Mahinda.

Sri Lanka Orders Probe on Attack on Indian Statue

According to the police, two other statues of local figures had also been attacked on Thursday, which appeared to have been a coordinated crime.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Xinhua) - Sri Lanka's government ordered an investigation into the vandalism of several statues including that of Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi.

There were fears the attack on the Indian icon's statue may have been in retaliation to India's decision to vote against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council recently.

Gandhi Statue Vandalized in Sri Lanka

Attackers beheaded the statues of Gandhi and Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout movement.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka AFP) - Statues of Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi and Britain's Robert Baden-Powell have been vandalised in Sri Lanka amid an anti-Indian and anti-Western campaign on the island, police said on Friday.

Anti-Western graffiti appeared in many parts of the country after the UN human rights council last month adopted a US-led resolution urging Sri Lanka to probe alleged war crimes.

RPP: The Remembrance of the 18th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide

One million people, all innocent...

(GOTHENBURG, Sweden) - Fellow Rwandan and friends of Rwanda today is 18 years since the 1994 genocide that visited our country and people.

This is not a week for a political statement but for the Rwandan people to display unreservedly their unified strong stand in denouncing the grim horror of the 90 days of relentless and inexorable attacks and assaults that was inflicted on our country and people.

The Life of a Sri Lankan Tamil Bishop (and others) in Danger

A plea for the safety of Christian clergy in the embattled island nation.

(BRISBANE, Aust.) - This is an urgent appeal to prevent the possible assassination/ ‘disappearance’ of the outspoken Roman Catholic Bishop of Mannar and others, who are the only voices of the Tamil people in that part of Sri Lanka.

It is hoped that the followers of Christ, such as Bishop Rayappu Joseph, his fellow priests (and others), are not murdered...

`Public awaking against injustice` - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Salem News interviewed one of the exiled journalists of Sri Lanka.

(CHENNAI / COLOMBO) - Nilantha Ilangamuwa is an ambitious young journalist purged by the government for his conviction to uphold freedom of speech and independence of media in the island nation.

He was taunted by the agents of the government and its secret service for fearlessly managing the Sri Lanka Guardian that is continuing to expose several sensitive news that is causing major irritation to the government.

Force of 150 Tamil Tigers Reportedly Deployed to Sri Lanka
India Says Not True

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne believes a conspiracy is underway to create a new civil war in Sri Lanka.

(SALEM) - The Sri Lankan police on Monday denied claims that Tamil Tiger rebels had infiltrated the island through southern India.

Local media reports quoting police intelligence said that 150 Tamil Tigers had infiltrated the north and east of the country after receiving training in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Sri Lanka Genocide: Mass-Rape Alleged in Theavipuram Amid Civilian Slaughter

More evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sri Lanka Genocide against Tamils.

(WASHINGTON DC TamilNet) - The US-based activist group Tamils Against Genocide, that seeks legal redress to Tamil war victims, is piecing together evidence of mass rapes near the village of Theavipuram, in April 2009.

Eye-witnesses testified that up to 20 women were alleged to have been raped by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers near the village in this event.

Sri Lanka Under Pressure After UN Rights Body Adopts U.S. Bill

With pressure from within and outside, the government is yet to announce its road map to tackle the UNHRC resolution.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The recently concluded 19th session of UNHRC in Geneva has brought Sri Lanka to a position where the country is under the microscope on accountability for its wartime conduct and steps it takes on ethnic reconciliation.

The United States -sponsored resolution was adopted with 24 out of 47 countries voting for and 15 against...

The Unhurried Dawn

And so I will continue to conduct the pointless rituals, and speak the passing words, on the corpses all around me, and I will not wonder on the purpose of it all. For, impossibly, death has never had dominion, and it never shall.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - The first dead Indian baby I ever saw was also the first one I ever baptized.

His name was Albert Gomez. That’s what his mom and dad called him, at least, because he died in the womb and finally emerged the morning I arrived at Port Alberni General Hospital to pretend to console the shattered couple.