New Delhi: Amid allegations of Indian indifference towards Sri Lankan Tamils, Indian prisoners serving long sentences in Colombo's main prison say they feel badly let down by Indian authorities. A spokesperson for the 30 Indian men and three women in the Wellikade Jail said that despite the existence of a bilateral pact, New Delhi was making no efforts to take them back so that they could serve their sentences in...
12:05 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: There was ruckus in the Rajya Sabha yet again over alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. AIADMK members staged a walkout after tearing a copy of the statement made by External Affairs SM Krishna after he stressed on India's positive role in reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka. "It is through our constructive engagement with the Sri Lankan government and our assistance that there...
03:32 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Washington: The United States on Tuesday said that unless Sri Lankan government reconciles with minority Tamils and addresses allegations of war crimes it risks renewed conflict. Thousands of Tamil civilians died in the final months of its civil war that ended in 2009. The US has introduced a draft resolution at the UN Human Rights Council, increasing international pressure on Sri Lanka to conduct an independent investigation. The council in...
07:38 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: The government is expected to clear its stand on the alleged war crimes against ethnic Tamils by the Sri Lankan army on Wednesday. After ruckus in Parliament on Tuesday, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is expected to state the government's position on alleged Human Rights violations in Sri Lanka. This after a video allegedly showing LTTE chief Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son's bullet-riddled body created a storm in Parliament on...
06:58 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: In a clear hint of India playing it safe in the Lanka war crime row, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has written to DMK chief Karunanidhi indicating Delhi may not back the UNHRC resolution against Colombo. This has come despite strong protests from Tamil Nadu political parties, including UPA ally the DMK. "What is the Centre's stand on the issue," said DMK MP Kanimozhi. Whether it's a UPA ally...
09:09 PM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: There was uproar in Parliament after Tamil parties demanded that India backs a UN resolution against Sri Lanka's alleged war crimes. Finance Minister and Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee said the government has not decided its stand on the issue as yet. Pranab dropped a hint saying the government normally did not back country-specific resolutions. "PM has written a letter to Karunanidhi and the Tamil Nadu Chief...
02:01 PM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: The second day of the Budget session on Tuesday began with an uproar in both Houses over the issue of alleged atrocities by Sri Lankan forces. MPs created a ruckus in Parliament and showed newspapers carrying reports of a video threatening to expose alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka in Parliament. DMK, AIADMK and the Left parties submitted notices for suspension of the Question Hour to discuss the...
11:29 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Chennai: The DMK is taking up the issue of Tamils in Sri Lanka and is pushing the Centre to back a US resolution that seeks a probe into the alleged atrocities committed by Sri Lankan forces. A new video is threatening to expose alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. "There have been several such atrocities in the Sri Lankan war. All parties in Tamil Nadu must come together. The Centre...
10:45 AM, Mar 13, 2012
All-party meeting is likely to be called soon on the matter of the pending bills such as Lokpal and Higher Education. ...
10:05 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: A shocking new video - released by Britain's Channel 4 - could expose the alleged war crimes against LTTE in Sri Lanka. The video shows slain LTTE chief Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son Balachandran's body stripped to the waist and with five bullet holes to the chest. The video has surfaced at a time when Colombo is fighting off a US resolution at the UN, demanding an immediate probe into...
02:57 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday said India should not join human rights groups at a UN meeting on Sunday in passing a "one sided" resolution condemning Sri Lanka for alleged human rights violations during its war against LTTE. India's participation in the resolution will make it vulnerable to similar resolutions over Kashmir or Manipur, Swamy said and suggested that it should urge Sri Lanka to devolve...
06:31 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Colombo: Succumbing to international pressure to probe alleged war crimes, Sri Lankan Army for the first time said on Wednesday that it will probe accusations that its troops killed civilians and prisoners in the last stage of the bloody war with the LTTE rebels in 2009. A special panel to look at the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) has been appointed by the Army. Army chief...
06:37 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Colombo, Facing an onslaught from the international community for alleged war crimes, the Sri Lankan government released a video on Wednesday which they claimed carries "authentic evidence" of LTTE's atrocities during the last phase of the military assault. The video captioned "Ruthless" claims to have recorded eye witness accounts of LTTE's child recruitment and its violence against Tamil civilians. "These are authentic evidence coming from Tamil civilians who had been...
04:09 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities released a batch of 73 rehabilitated ex-members of the rebel outfit LTTE in the eastern district of Batticaloa on Sunday. "This is another batch to be released from the 11,000 ex-members of the LTTE," said A Dissanayake, the secretary to ministry of rehabilitation. Dissanayake said with the release on Sunday there will only be around 550 who are left to be freed. They are currently being...
04:27 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Colombo: Sri Lanka has accused the LTTE's international fronts of influencing foreign governments, including India, to support their separatist cause. Addressing a public lecture in Colombo on Tuesday titled 'Future Challenges to National Security in Sri Lanka', Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who is the brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, claimed these elements have won over a number of politicians overseas. "The Global Tamil Forum has successfully won over a number...
05:38 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Colombo: A Sri Lankan Appeal Court on Friday rejected a former Army chief Sarath Fonseka's plea against his 30-month jail term. The Appeal Court in a unanimous decision upheld the verdict of the court martial which sentenced Fonseka in September of 2010. The military court martial found Fonseka guilty of following wrong procedure in procurements when he headed the Army between 2005 and 2009. Fonseka was also sentenced to a...
06:44 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Oslo: Even as it publicly advocated peace when the Sri Lankan conflict was raging, India quietly informed Norway that the LTTE must be "put in its place", reveals a Norwegian government sponsored study on why the peace process failed in the island nation. The exhaustive document, released here on Friday, shows that New Delhi's sympathy lay with Colombo vis-a-vis the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as the peace process began...
06:01 PM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: Anguished by what they say is New Delhi's apathy, Indians jailed in Sri Lanka want Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa to intervene and seek their extradition to India. A spokesman for 34 Indian prisoners -- 27 from Tamil Nadu and seven from Kerala -- said they were being ignored though India and Sri Lanka signed a pact in June on exchange of sentenced convicts. An almost sobbing...
03:51 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Colombo: An Indian army team has undertaken a visit to Tamil dominated Wanni region in northern Sri Lanka, which was once a battlefront between the government forces and the rebel LTTE during the three decades ethnic conflict, the military said on Wednesday. The representative delegation of the Indian Army Higher Command Course-2011 is currently touring Sri Lanka, country's Army said. The 16-member delegation is led by Air Commodore P R...
05:03 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Melbourne: Ahead of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, a Sri Lankan man, who migrated to Australia, has filed war crimes charges against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a city court. Rajapaksa will arrive in Australia on Tuesday to participate in the CHOGM to be held at Perth. Jegan Waran, a retired engineer who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka, said before the Magistrate that he witnessed and...
08:42 AM, Oct 25, 2011
