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Demonstrating UK Tamils Expose India`s Defiance of International Refugee Conventions

Demonstrators organized by the TCC-UK, supporting the demands of the hunger strikers at Chengalpet.

(LONDON TamilNet) - Tamils in the UK are demanding the release of the detained inmates of the Chengalpet (Chengkal-paddu) ‘special camp’ and for the closure of that facility.

Separate petitions submitted by TCC-UK to the UNHCR and the Indian High Commission called for a revision in the Indian approach to Eezham Tamil refugees in India.

Palestinians, Beware False Friends

The United Nations also prefers lopsided talks to the more difficult task of upholding its own Charter principles.

(LONDON) - A press release has just arrived in my inbox from the Palestinian Mission UK proudly proclaiming Ambassador Hassassian's jaunt to the Labour Friends of Palestine Gala Dinner where he was keynote speaker alongside Labour Party leader Ed Miliband.

Ed of course is the brother of David Miliband, a Blair protégé and foreign secretary under the worthless Brown government and certainly no friend of the Palestinian people.

UN Urges Sri Lanka to Consider Asylum Requests by 300 Foreigners

Immigration officials have expressed concern over foreigners overstaying their visas, saying some have been trying to illegally migrate to Australia via boat.

(NEW YORK CITY) - The UN refugee agency urged Sri Lanka to postpone deportation orders for more than 300 foreigners seeking asylum, a spokeswoman said Monday.

SRI LANKA: `Lot of talking and not much improvement` in the north

Not enough has been done to reach a political settlement between the sometimes antagonistic ethnic groups of Tamils and Sinhalese.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Sri Lankan parliamentarians in favour of acting on the recommendations in a report into the final stages of the country’s civil war by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) are slowly gaining ground over those who are not, says a presidential peace process adviser.

The government’s initial reaction to the LLRC recommendations was positive...

Sri Lanka: Halt Harassment of Media

Websites Blocked, Journalists Face Charges...

(NEW YORK CITY) - The Sri Lankan government should immediately end harassment of media outlets and journalists in violation of the right to freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today.

EDITORIAL: SRI LANKA: What Went Wrong?

In the last hundred years, many laws have been passed and many international conventions have been signed by the government on behalf of the State in acceptance of the prohibition of torture.

(HONG KONG) - Torture is a crime. And, this criminal activity, in all its cruel, inhuman, and degrading reality has been increasing in Sri Lanka.

Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives launched

Torture is the result of a long and systematic process of social control, which uses old tactics of the powerful and unaccountable, without respect for past or present.

(HONG KONG) - The Asian Human Rights Commission has launched its new initiative, Torture: Asian and Global perspectives.

Data Reveals Scheme for Sinhala Military Colonies in Country of Eezham Tamils

The Sinhala genocidal state is nakedly setting a paradigm on how to conduct genocide by openly naming Sinhala military colonisation schemes as ‘War Heroes villages’.

(JAFFNA, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - Details emerging from four divisional secretariats of Mullaiththeevu district in Vanni, indicate a concerted and structural move by the occupying Sri Lanka military establishment there.

20% of Mannaar Faces Genocidal Land Grab, TNA Activists to Protest on 07 July

Some of these lands occupied by the military, have been recently subjected to legal transfer from the owners to the SL military.

(MANAAR, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - The Secretary of Youth Affairs of Ilangkai Thamizh Arasuk Kadchi and a TNA political activist in Mannaar, VS Sivakaran, say Colombo has appropriated at least one fifth of the lands in Mannaar district.

It is being taken for military purposes and a long-term Sinhalicisation and colonisation of the district.

Belgian Left Group Expresses Solidarity with Eezham Tamils` Struggle

The meeting was organized by the Tamil Cultural Organization, Belgium and TYO-Belgium.

(BRUSSELS TamilNet) - Activists belonging to Links Socialistische Partij, a leftist political organization in Belgium and civil society.