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Sri Lanka Government is Shaking in its Boots

Using genocide to eradicate terrorism will turn out to be nothing less than a fiasco for the violent Buddhist government of Sri Lanka.

(SALEM) - Sri Lanka is one of the most dangerous countries on the fact of the earth.

Ethnic minorities on this island nation are slaughtered en masse, political targets of the government are "white vanned" - (abducted by government forces who terrorize the population with white vans which drive fear in the population), and even tourists are raped and murdered in this place that tends to place a nationalist, twisted form of violent Buddhism in front of any other human rights.

TGTE Urges US/UN Ambassador to Help Initiate Sri Lanka Intl. Investigation Under UN Article 99

TGTE is mobilizing international civil society to apply moral pressure on the UN Secretary General, to appoint an international investigation on Sri Lanka.

(NEW YORK) - In a letter sent to the US Ambassador to the UN Ms. Samantha Power, the Prime Minister of Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)Mr. Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, urged Ms. Power to exercise US diplomatic and moral power to persuade UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to appoint an International Investigation on Sri Lanka, under Article 99 of the UN Charter.

It was pointed out in that letter that UN’s Expert Panel Report on Sri Lanka, the UN Internal Review Report on Sri Lanka and one of the UN Expert Panelist Professor Steven Ratner have all concluded that there is neither the political environment nor the judicial environment in Sri Lanka for dispensing justice domestically.

Rajapaksa Busy Exhausting His Tactics To Prevent A UN Resolution

Rajapaksa will be attending the meeting of the CHOGM to be held in London for fear of being further exposed to accusations of war crimes and human rights abuses let alone genocide leaving the disgraceful secretary Sharma to do the honours.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - Although the war and the related commission of crimes is over the human rights abuses keep recurring with impunity.

Numerous explanations are being attributed by the apologists for human rights abuses and war crimes that it is either too premature and or inopportune to hold an international investigation at this stage basing their arguments on very flimsy grounds.

Mannar Bishop And 204 Tamil Christian Priests Call For International Investigation On Sri Lanka

"...we are concerned about the post war intensification of systematic efforts to destroy the identity of the Tamil community."

(COLOMBO Columbo Telegraph) - 205 Tamil Christian priests have written to the UN Human Rights Council calling for international investigation on Sri Lanka’s war crimes and human rights violations.

The priests call for a strong and action oriented resolution on Sri Lanka at the 25th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Channel 4 Refutes Sri Lanka`s Propaganda Offensive

To counter this misleading attack on its journalism, Channel 4 had taken the unusual step of publishing a detailed 20,000 word rebuttal titled 'The Uncorrupted Truth'.

(MELBOURNE) - This civil war in SL was supposed to be a war without witness, so that the world wouldn't know what crimes the Sinhalese army had committed against the the Tamils, who were led by Prabhakaran and LTTE.

The Tamils' only crime was that they were fighting for liberation from servitude.

Sri Lanka Under Fire for War Crimes at Human Rights Council

The Rome-based Tribunal is an outgrowth of the original war crimes tribunal created during the war against Southeast Asia by Bertrand Russell and Jean Paul Sartre.

(COPENHAGEN) - Geo-politically important Sri Lanka is among several countries, including Syria, under scrutiny at the 25th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva (March 3-28).

High Commissioner Navi Pillay of the Human Rights Council (HRC) will introduce a resolution recommending that Sri Lanka promote reconciliation and accountability with the minority Tamil people.

An Open letter to the President of India

Please take legal opinion on AP Re-organisation Bill, 2014 and return it to Parliament to make it Constitutionally and Legally Valid.

(MUMBAI) - The entire country wants you to take a legal opinion on the undemocratic, illegal, un-constitutional and draconian Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Bill, 2014.

The bill was arbitrarily passed by both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha last week, before giving a final nod on it.

Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka

Full report from Human Rights Council's Twenty-fifth session.

(GENEVA) - Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka.

The Office acknowledges the progress made in reconstruction and the implementation of some of the recommendations made by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission.

Tamils Worldwide Must Not be Complacent on UNHRC Resolution in 2014

"The Sri Lankan government has refused to address its role in the deaths of tens of thousands at the end of the country’s brutal civil war..." - UNHRC Chief Navi Pillay

(MELBOURNE) - A careful study of the first 3 links below reveals the International Community (IC) may not go for independent international investigation.

It may not be fully international, as Tamil Net has pointed out that there may be some loopholes in the resolution.

The Rise of Extremist Buddhism in Sri Lanka

After 30 years of an extremely bloody and vicious civil war, the country still does not seem to have resolved the problem of integrating its minorities.

(COLOMBO Mizo News) - These images, shown on the local television, may date from August 2013, but the attacks on the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka have only increased.

According to Colombo Police, nearly 20 mosques were attacked last year.