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The press that prints the Colombo edition was the target of an arson attack in September. In Jaffna, the newspaper has twice been forced to publish communiqués at gunpoint", RSF said. [67] United States Department of State "As we continue our free the press campaign we will highlight the case of Uthayan, a Tamil language newspaper in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka closed schools on Monday as heavy rain triggered floods and mudslides in many parts of the island nation, leaving at least 10 people dead and six others missing, officials said. The ...
Sri Lanka's Unfinished War is a 2013 documentary examining the alleged genocide and crimes against humanity against Sri Lankan Tamils by the Sri Lankan Government.It was presented by Frances Harrison former BBC correspondent to Sri Lanka, and was first screened on the BBC World News on 9 November 2013.
Sri Lanka's largest Tamil party the Tamil National Alliance condemned the killings as "totally unacceptable". TNA leader R. Sampanthan told the BBC Tamil service: [ 17 ] "I have to regret that the Tamil Tigers did not apologise for the mosque massacre...That was a mistake, but we have no hesitation whatsoever in apologising to our Muslim ...
The Sri Lankan government had designated a no-fire zone in Mullivaikkal towards the end of the war. According to the UN, between 40,000 and 70,000 [1] entrapped Tamil civilians were killed by the actions of government forces, with the large majority of these civilian deaths being the result of indiscriminate shelling by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.
There has been a series of virulent anti-Tamil pogroms in Sri Lanka, the most infamous of which is the 1983 Black July pogrom, which killed more than 5000 Tamils in a single week. [2] [13] The International Commission of Jurists described the violence of the pogrom as having "amounted to acts of genocide" in a report published in December 1983. [9]
Ananthi Sasitharan (Tamil: அனந்தி சசிதரன், romanized: Aṉanti Cacitaraṉ; born 10 September 1971 ) is a Sri Lankan Tamil activist, politician and provincial minister. She is the wife of Velayutham Sasitharan (alias Elilan), the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's political head for Trincomalee. [1] [2]
The 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka. It was fueled by the anti-government protests and demonstrations by the public due to the economic crisis in the country .