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The Grease Devil Is Not Real

An old wives’ tale returns, revealing post-war Sri Lanka.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - During my first two days on Sri Lanka’s Jaffna Peninsula, I heard about the Grease Man from everyone who spoke English.

New Film Shows Sri Lanka`s Media Battered, but Not Beaten

The New York premiere of Silenced Voices was Monday night, it will show again Tuesday, June 26, at 4:00 pm, and Wednesday, June 27, at 7:00 p.m.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Silenced Voices, a film about the fate of Sri Lankan journalism, is being screened in New York this week as part of the 2012 Human Rights Watch film festival.

Colombo Schemes Military Enclave in Maanthai, Grabs 1,500 Acres of Land

The LTTE-led Tamil civil administration had distributed the lands to land-less people in the region.

(MANAAR, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - The Sri Lankan military grabbed 1,500 acres of land at Channaar Velimaruthamadu in Maanthai West of Mannaar district.

They are hurriedly putting up a large cantonment with houses for military personnel from the South, according to news sources in Mannaar.

Colombo`s Military Instructs Civil Officials Not to Voice Against Land Grab in Vanni

The British fort in question was attacked and the weapons there were seized by the last Tamil king of the Vanni, Pandara Vanniyan.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - The occupying Sri Lanka Army's 59-1 Brigade took over one third of the five acre land that belonging to Mullaiththeevu District Secretariat during the war.

Now they are refusing to relocate their base from the land situated in the town.

Sri Lanka Can`t Deny This Disturbing Video Proves Sri Lanka Army Committed War Crimes

One casualty of war was Shoba, also known as Issapria, a reporter from TamilNet.

(SALEM) - Issapria, even in death, tells a story of sex abuse, murder and mass deception by the Sri Lankan Army.

She was captured alive, bound, raped, then staged to appear as a dead combatant. Video recorded of her alive, half nude and disoriented, sitting in what appears to be shallow water, proves that she was taken as a captive of the Sri Lankan Army. However there is no question that she died as an army prisoner and the position her body was left in leaves no question that she was sexually assaulted.

The Essay: In Search of the Art of Enchantment

Roma Tearne's 'The Road To Urbino' will be published by Abacus on 5 July.

(LONDON) - During a childhood in Sri Lanka, a glimpse of an unknown painting printed on a biscuit tin plants a seed of wonder. Decades later in Tuscany, after grief and upheaval, that seed will bear rich fruit as beauty returns to the world.

Plight of 10,000 Captured LTTE Fighters: A UN Sequel to Rwanda?

Amongst the surfaced footage were of women’s bodies stripped naked.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Just over a week prior to World Refugee Day 2012, damning evidence of grave human rights abuses, and war crimes committed against captured members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by Sri Lankan security forces came to light.

On June 9, 2012, this was brought to the attention of the Ministry of Refugees, IDPs, and POWs of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam.

Voice of America Complaint to Get ICP Out of UN Violates 1st Amendment

It is now apparent that the UNCA "Board of Examination" process has been a set-up.

(UNITED NATIONS) - As five Big Media members of the UN Correspondents Association started a board to investigate Inner City Press, they claimed getting ICP thrown out of the UN was not the goal.

But the executive editor of VOA, along with Reuters, Bloomberg, Al-Arabiya and Agence France Presse, asked the UN to "review Mr. Lee's status as an accredited U.N. correspondent."

TESO Conference Will Discuss Tamil Eelam, says Karuna

DMK has always been with the Lankan Tamils and the revival of TESO should be a step in this direction.

(CHENNAI Press Trust of India) - Insisting on non-violent means to achieve a separate Tamil Eelam, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today said the now revived Tamil Eelam Supporters' Organisation (TESO) will discuss ways and means to fulfill it.

Karunanidhi said his party had stood by the Sri Lankan Tamils for the past 50 years and his government had even faced dismissal for the Lankan cause.

At UN on Sri Lanka, Ban Sat on Hands Six Months, Now Petrie Panel End in July?

Why did Ban Ki-moon leave the promised panel on Sri Lanka War Crimes dormant for six months?

(UNITED NATIONS) - Amid questions about the UN's role as 40,000 civilians were killed in Sri Lanka in May 2009, the Secretary General said that a four month panel to review what the UN had done, would start in September 2011.