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| CaFFE and CHR condemns the attack on LankaEnews website in Sri Lanka |
| 2011-01-31 |
Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and Centre for Human Rights (CHR) strongly condemns the attack on Lankaenews office in Malambe, Sri Lanka in the morning which destroyed property worth up to fifteen million rupees. This latest attack on media, right after the end of the Galle Literary Festival (GLF,) when the attention of the whole world is focused on Sri Lanka is not only a serious blow for media freedom and right to information but also damns our international reputation.
We believe that Lankaenews
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| Media groups accuse govt. of state terrorism |
| 2011-01-19 |
Media organizations yesterday alleged that responsibility for attacks on the media in the recent past lay with the government because it had failed to bring the culprits to justice.
Holding a demonstration in front of the Fort railway station yesterday to protest the government’s failure to bring the culprits to justice, media organizations accused the government of indulging in state terrorism.Organizations pointed out that culprits would not be brought to justice only if they had the blessing of the
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| Assess situation in Jaffna: Ranil |
| 2011-01-05 |
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Opposition UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe asked Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa to take steps to send an All Party Delegation to assess the situation in Jaffna.
Mr. Wickremesinghe made this request soon after Minister Douglas Devananda raised concern about the rising crime wave in Jaffna.The Opposition Leader said this was a serious development.
Also, he demanded that a full-day debate be conducted in the House in this regard.
He said he would take up the matter at the party leaders’ meeting.
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| Fear psychosis in Jaffna: EPDP |
| 2011-01-05 |
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Government Minister and EPDP leader Douglas Devananda told Parliament yesterday a fear psychosis had gripped the people in the North due to the alarming crime wave prevalent in the area.Mr. Devananda who is the Leader of the EPDP told the House in a statement that people looked forward to a peaceful environment after the end of the war.
However, the Minister said people were in fear whether their areas would slip back to violence again.
“People fear whether their area will be stained with blood again.It is the general fear
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| Sri Lanka: 2011 dawns with killings and abductions |
| 2011-01-05 |
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As the killers of five Tamil students in Trincomalee go unpunished for the fifth year, the number of killings and abductions in the government controlled north of Sri Lanka is alarmingly on the rise.
Manoharan Ragihar, Yogarajah Hemachchandra, Logitharajah Rohan, Thangathurai Sivanantha and Shanmugarajah Gajendran were all shot dead on the second of January 2006 in a High Security Zone in Sri Lanka’s eastern town of Trincomalee. The families, local journalists and international organisations had evidence that the crime was comm
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| Threat to Yarlthinnakkural is a clear indication of compeled self-censorship |
| 2010-11-29 |
The Center for Human Rights (CHR) Sri Lanka releasing a press release emphasis that attacks and the degree of intimidation on Jaffna media have rapidly increased, during the past few days.
The members of the editors attached to ‘Yarl Thirukkal’ news paper informs that during the early hours on 27 November 2010 (today), a mob carrying rods and clubs have gathered opposite the road access to the press office, and lingered over one hour.
It is noted by editors who were statione
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