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| LLRC: 2nd day in Trincomalee District 202 Complains from Muttur. People criticize UN and INGOs. |
| 2010-12-05 |
There was a heavy emphasis on land issues during the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) session at Muttur yesterday (December 4.) Furthermore many displaced individuals from adjoining Sampur raised many questions not only about government responsibility but also the inaction of other relevant institutions, including international NGOs and UN said in a press release by Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon, the Executive Director of Center for Human Rights (CHR) Sri Lanka.
Altogether 202 submissions were collected at Muttur, 93 comp
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| CHR Sri Lanka Observations on the LLRC session in Trincomalee Kachchri |
| 2010-12-04 |
The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) is visiting Trincomalee from December, 3 to session at the Trincomalee Kachcheriya. During this session on December 3rd, 136 complaints were lodged by the residents of the area.
67 complaints were on abduction, 40 on missing persons, 17 on detainees while 11 were on other issues. Its disturbing to see nearly 110 cases of disappearances in an area which has been under the government’s control for dec
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| Mistrust, discontent and anger at LLRC North sessions |
| 2010-11-21 |
The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) sessions in Jaffna were a stark contrast to those held in Colombo.
While the gallantry of the security forces, commendability of the government’s attempts at rehabilitation and resettlement and the importance of tri-lingual education for better understanding policy dominate the Colombo sessions, hostility, hundreds of mothers and widows cornering the commissioners to complain about lost family members and accusations of colonizationthe foremo
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| Shavendra tells LLRC: The army killed no civilians; Tigers fought in civilian clothes |
| 2010-11-18 |
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Sri Lanka’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Maj. Gen. Shavendra Silva on Thursday (Nov. 18) said that the Army had had absolutely no reason to target civilians during the last phase of the Eelam War IV on the Vanni east front.
Testifying before the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) at the Kadirgamar Centre, the former General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Task Force I/58 Division said that there couldn’t have been any reason for indiscriminate action at a time the LTTE was clearly on the verg
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| CaFFE and CHR Sri Lanka condemns the systematic intimidation during LLRC sessions at Kaytes Island |
| 2010-11-15 |
Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and Centre for Human Rights - Sri Lanka (CHR) strongly condemns the systematic intimidation of those who wanted to make submissions at the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation (LLRC) sessions at Kaytes Island and the harassment and intimidation of P. Winslow of Yaal Thinakural by an unidentified group during the session at St. Anne’s Church, Kaytes, yesterday (November, 14, 2010.)
Kaytes Island is famous for numerous abductions, disappearances and ass
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| Submission to the LLRC by Harim W. Peiris |
| 2010-10-07 |
By Hand / In Person
7th October 2010
Chitta Ranjan de Silva Esquire, PC
The Chairman
The Commission on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation
24, Horton Place
Colombo 7
Submissions to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission
Mr.Chairman,
Thank you for the opportunity afforded to me today to make oral submissions before this Commission.
Importance and Scope of the Commission
The Commission meets at a time of historic
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