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| UN Chief appreciates GoSL’s invitation to UNHRC |
| 2012-10-04 |
Appreciating the willingness on the part of the Government of Sri Lanka, to engage with the UN system, as demonstrated by the invitation to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the recent visit of the technical team from her office, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, at a meeting in New York on Tuesday with External Affairs Minister Professor G.L. Peiris, stated that it would be a positive step for such engagement to continue at a senior working level in order to be updated on developments in Sri Lanka. <
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| More asylum seekers opt to return to Sri Lanka |
| 2012-10-01 |
Another group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers has asked to be sent home, rather than risk Australia sending them to an offshore processing facility.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says the group consists of 28 men who arrived both before and after the new processing arrangements for Nauru and Manus Island were announced in August, according to an online ABC News report dated Sept 29.
He says the men have come from detention centres on Nauru, Christmas Island, as well as mainland facilities including Villawood and Northam.
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| Miscarriage of Justice |
| 2012-09-30 |
A police constable attached to the Mount Lavinia police has lodged a complaint against Appellate Court Judge Sarath De Abrew, stating the judge has allegedly assaulted him while he was on guard duty at the judge’s residence at Attidiya, Mt Lavinia, police sources said.
According to police sources, the constable had lodged the complaint with the Mt-Lavinia police on Thursday (27).The constable in his complaint has mentioned the judicial officer had scolded him in indecent language and slapped his face several times fo
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| FUTA and the survival of democratic dissent |
| 2012-09-30 |
"Where they burn books, they will afterwards burn people" - Heinrich Heine (German Poet 1821)
The madness fanned by Goebbels and fired by Nazi student organisations, reached a frenzied climax on the night of 10 May 1933 when the nation’s great libraries were stripped of radical, socialist, pacifist, culturally alien and Jewish books, and piled on bonfires, lit as Germany careened to censorship, culture control and eventually the most naked of all Twentieth Century dictatorships. No nation that perm
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| 31 U.S. Congressmen write to Hilary Clinton on Sri Lanka's alleged war crimes |
| 2012-09-28 |
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To maintain the momentum of the September 7 United States House Resolution 177 signed by 53 Congressmen which is now before the House Foreign Relations Committee to force the Obama administration and other principal players of the international community to investigate Sri Lanka at an international tribunal for alleged violation of international humanitarian law (IHL), 31 Members of the House addressed a letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton urging the USG for heightened engagement on Sri Lanka to force this South Asian nation for
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| ‘Significant sign’ but still concerned-UN |
| 2012-09-26 |
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The United Nations today said that closure of the Menik Farm camp in Vavuniya is a ‘significant sign’ of the transition from conflict to sustainable peace in Sri Lanka, but said there are still some people who are unable to return to their homes and a solution urgently needs to be found.
Issuing a statement the United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator in Sri Lanka, Subinay Nandy said “This is a milestone event towards ending a chapter of displacement in Sri Lanka some three years after the civil w
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| Menik Farm refugee camp 'to close' |
| 2012-09-25 |
One of the world's largest refugee camps - Menik Farm in northern Sri Lanka - is shortly to close, the Sri Lankan government has said.
It has announced that the 7,400 people remaining in the camp will be relocated in about two weeks' time.
The government says it will give them good facilities at a new site, including "semi-permanent houses".
But Tamil politicians say that they will have
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| Three arrested over riot in Mannar |
| 2012-07-19 |
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The Mannar police yesterday arrested three protesters who threw missiles at the police building and the Courts complex.
The police were forced to disperse the protesters who had gone berserk by firing tear gas.
According to the police, the Muslim community had launched a protest over a Court decision which banned the occupation of the boat mooring station in the predominantly Muslim area due to Tiger activity.
The protesters said that after the LTTE was defeated the Tamils had started occupying the area.
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| Ferdinandez directed to make statement |
| 2012-07-07 |
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The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) conducting investigations into suspect websites yesterday told Colombo additional magistrate Prasanna Alwis that Ruwan Ferdinandez was not a suspect in the case.At the outset, Senior Counsel Saliya Peiris who appeared for the suspects told court he was surrendering Ferdinandez before court.
At this stage, Inspector Anura Silva of the CID told court Ferdinandez was not a suspect in the case and moved court to direct him to appear before the CID to obtain a statement.
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