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Dhaka,
Thursday, May 9, 2013
A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal on Thursday handed down the death penalty to another Jamaat-e-Islami leader for offences committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
The Internat...
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London,
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Accusing Sri Lanka of intensifying a crackdown on dissent, global rights watchdog Amnesty International on Tuesday asked the Commonwealth not to hold its next summit in Colombo unless the country...
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Colombo,
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Any change in the venue of the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM), scheduled to be held in Colombo in November, has been ruled out despite objections from several member-countries w...
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Melbourne,
April 26, 2013
Several prominent Australians, including former prime minister Malcolm Fraser, have asked the federal government to consider boycotting a major Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka later this year.
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Colombo,
April 10, 2013
A Sri Lankan military court of inquiry has said that the Sri Lankan army was not responsible for any civilian casualty in the last stage of the military operations.
Following observations...
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April 3, 2013
The killing of Prabakaran’s son allegedly by Sri Lankan forces has evoked horror, but there can be no forgetting the children who were the LTTE’s cannon fodder
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SARAJEVO,
March 29, 2013
A court in Bosnia has sentenced a Montenegrin man to 45 years in jail for brutal murder, torture, rape and looting during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, the highest sentence ever issued in the country.
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MATALE, Sri Lanka,
March 28, 2013
A judge has announced that more than 150 human skulls and bones recovered from a mass grave in Sri Lanka were buried there about 25 years ago, strengthening suspicion that they belonged to suspect...
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NEW DELHI,
March 22, 2013
AIADMK members throw papers in the air
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Kigali/Johannesburg,
March 22, 2013
Ntaganda — wanted by the ICC since 2006 and accused of recruiting child soldiers, organising sexual slavery and murder — walked into the US Embassy in Kigali this week and asked to be transferred to the court in The Hague.
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NEW DELHI,
March 22, 2013
India’s vote against Sri Lanka on the United States-sponsored resolution for the second successive year in the interests of Sri Lankan Tamils at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has...
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Chennai,
March 21, 2013
Expressing “surprise” over India supporting a “weak and diluted”
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CHENNAI,
March 21, 2013
Form human chain; lawyers attempt to march towards Raj Bhavan; students observe day-long fast
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LONDON,
April 11, 2013
With Angelina Jolie in attendance, foreign ministers of the world’s eight most advanced countries (G8) on Thursday adopted what they described as a “historic’’ declaration committing the internati...
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April 4, 2013
The article “The many Balachandrans of Jaffna” (April 3) throws light on the manner in which children were forcibly recruited by the LTTE to defend the onslaught of the Sri Lankan army. The namele...
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Chennai,
April 2, 2013
They call upon Centre to impose economic sanctions on island nation
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COIMBATORE,
March 29, 2013
The students’ protest against the Sri Lankan Government and demanding international probe into the alleged war crimes continued in the city on Thursday. According to the Coimbatore City Pol...
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TIRUNELVELI,
March 23, 2013
Demanding a referendum on the Tamil Eelam issue and an independent enquiry by the international community into the war crimes in Sri Lanka, over 700 villagers of Kalingapatti, birthplace of Maruma...
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COLOMBO,
March 22, 2013
Sri Lankan Minister for Youth Affairs Dullas Alahapperuma on Friday criticized the United Nations resolution that calls on the island-nation to thoroughly investigate war crimes allegedly committe...
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CHENNAI,
March 22, 2013
Students claim they were lathi-charged by police; fasts, human chains continue
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PUDUCHERRY,
March 21, 2013
With support from various quarters, traders’ shutdown morphs into full fledged bandh
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CHENNAI,
March 21, 2013
The indefinite closure of colleges in the State due to the ongoing protest against Sri Lankan war crimes has put many teachers in a dilemma. While most say the closure is justified, cons...
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CHENNAI,
March 21, 2013
A students’ organisation spearheading ongoing protests against Sri Lanka on Wednesday warned that it would go to any extent to stop Sri Lankan cricketers from playing in IPL matches in Chennai. <...
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