Monthly Archives: November 2012

UN ‘failed Sri Lanka civilians’, says internal probe

UN failed
The United Nations failed in its mandate to protect civilians in the last months of Sri Lanka’s
bloody civil war, a leaked draft of a highly critical internal UN report says.
“Events in Sri Lanka mark a grave failure of the UN,” it concludes.
The government and Tamil rebels are accused of war crimes in the brutal […]

By BBC | Published on November 14, 2012 at 8:05 am

Sri Lanka Opposition Calls Prison Deaths Massacre

NEWS: Sri Lanka’s main opposition party described the deaths of 27 inmates after a prison riot
as a “cold-blooded massacre” and demanded a parliamentary investigation. Authorities have said the prisoners died in a shootout.
Mangala Samaraweera, a lawmaker for United National party, said that he had information that most of the prisoners killed during Friday’s clash had […]

By | Published on November 12, 2012 at 10:18 am

Former LTTE cadre gunned down in Paris by Sri Lankan govt alleges HR outfit

PRESS RELEASE
TAMIL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS – TCHR/CTDH
CENTRE TAMOUL POUR LES DROITS DE L’HOMME
(Established in 1990)
(UN accredited NGO to the World Summit on Information Society and the Warsaw Conference)
www.tchr.net
Ref : HT21/PR/2012 10 November 2012
Sri Lankan state terrorism spreads to Paris, France
“Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts”
Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet and politician 21 October […]

By | Published on November 11, 2012 at 12:35 pm

US Supreme Court to consider overturning vital achievement of Civil Rights Movement

Voting-Rights Law Gets Supreme Court Review
The Supreme Court will consider overturning a signal achievement of the civil rights movement, agreeing to hear a challenge to part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in a case loaded with racial and political ramifications.
Acting three days after minority voters propelled President Barack Obama to re-election, the court Friday […]

By | Published on November 11, 2012 at 6:42 am

Impeachment of CJ: The state ready to ride rough shod over the people of Sri Lanka and create havoc

Sovereignty of the Sri Lankan People under the 1978 Constitution is one and indivisible.
“Sovereignty of the Sri Lankan People under the 1978 Constitution is one and indivisible It
remains with the People. It is only the exercise of certain Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers of the Sovereign People that are delegated to the Parliament, the Executiveand the Judiciary under Article 4. Fundamental […]

By Elmore Perera, Attorney-at-Law | Published on November 11, 2012 at 4:14 am

The Government’s fight against the Judiciary… A necessary evil on an evil journey

“There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.”
– Walt Whitman
Fascinating story
Impeachment motions in Sri Lanka have a fascinating history. It is a story that can be told by
grandparents to their grandchildren, captivating the ever-elusive attention of the […]

By Vishnuguptha | Published on November 11, 2012 at 3:06 am

US Elections:Winner Obama and New America, Loser Republican brand

“I have been thinking that I would make a
proposition to my Republican friends… that if they
will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will
stop telling the truth about them.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson
On a cold, chilly autumn night in 2008, in the State of Iowa that had less than one percent (1%)
of ‘Black’ […]

By Vishnuguptha | Published on November 11, 2012 at 2:44 am

Obama wins Florida

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Four days after the election, President Barack Obama can finally claim victory in Florida. The state finished counting its votes Saturday. Obama was declared the winner, giving him a 332 to 206 final margin in the Electoral College.President Obama carried fewer states in 2012 than he did four years ago. He won […]

By | Published on November 11, 2012 at 2:13 am

Bar Association passes Resolution on Chief Justice Impeachment

By Staff Correspondent | Published on November 10, 2012 at 10:48 pm

To be or not to be Sri Lankan … That is the question

Theruni Sebastiampillai participated at the French-Sri Lankan Diaspora Youth Workshop “Post-War Reconciliation Dialogue for a Sustainable Peace”, which took place in Paris, on October 27th, 2012. She participated as a panelist on the theme “Individual and collective identity(ies): between search and struggle”.
The event was organized by What’s Next!, an independent forum comprising of post-graduates and […]

By Theruni Sebastiampillai | Published on November 10, 2012 at 9:34 pm