Sri Lankas hosting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting has gotten off to a troubled start, with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh withdrawing his participation over the host countrys human rights record. This follows a decision by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to also boycott the event due to human rights concerns. British Prime […]
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Hot on the heels of the revelation that Sri Lankan soldiers murdered the 12-year-old son of Tamil Tiger leader Prabhakaran in cold blood and last week’s shooting of a journalist in Colombo, the International Crisis Group has released a report deploring what it calls Sri Lanka’s "authoritarian turn". The ICG report calls for international action […]
A leading Australian human rights think-tank has expressed serious concern over the basis of investigations by Australias domestic intelligence organisation, ASIO, into Sri Lankan Tamil refugees. The Director of Deakin Universitys Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights, Professor Damien Kingsbury, has cast doubt on ASIOs investigations. Professor Kingsbury said ASIOs investigation bore the hallmarks […]
When ones expectations are low, it is difficult to be disappointed. But even with almost no expectation that the report of Sri Lankas Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) would seriously address prima facie evidence of war crimes, it has still left a wide range of observers dismayed. The only lesson that appears to have […]
With waves of Tamil refugees now fleeing Sri Lanka, the question has been raised as to whether any among those seeking asylum are members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, better known as the Tamil Tigers, a group proscribed as a terrorist organisation in many countries. This question reflects a Western obsession with ‘terrorism’, […]