Sri Lanka has been in the line of fire over alleged human rights violations against Lankan Tamils for almost four years now. Allegations of war crimes and human rights abuses have swirled and eddied around the Sri Lankan Army since the killing of LTTE supremo Prabhakaran, but the photographs of his teenage son Balachandran gave it an ugly disturbing edge. ...
02:08 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The upcoming Tamil flick 'Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal' will star Udhayanidhi Stalin in the lead role. ...
08:11 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Describing the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka as a "huge humanitarian problem" which has to end, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said on Thursday that India will ask the island nation's government for an independent inquiry into allegations of human rights violations there. ...
05:01 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Amid sustained pressure by political parties from Tamil Nadu, Government on agreed to have a discussion on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue in Lok Sabha on Thursday. ...
03:20 PM, Mar 06, 2013
MDMK and other groups protested outside the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission against alleged atrocities on Tamils in Sri Lanka. ...
03:56 PM, Mar 04, 2013
There were noisy scenes in the Rajya Sabha as the government came under fire from the AIADMK over war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan government in the last days of the crusade against the LTTE in 2009. The AIADMK's V Maitreyan lashed out at the government for not doing anything for the people of Tamil origin living in Lanka. ...
01:42 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Sri Lanka on Tuesday dismissed as "fabricated lies", a report by a leading rights group alleging that its military used rape and other forms of sexual violence to torture suspected Tamil rebels since the end of the island's civil war in 2009. ...
01:06 AM, Feb 27, 2013
The movie will also feature Nayanthara, Udhayanidhi and Saranya Ponvannan and Santhanam. ...
01:20 PM, Feb 25, 2013
The issue of the Hyderabad blasts on Friday resonated in Parliament with the government facing the flak for "failing" to check such incidents despite having intelligence inputs about them. This even as Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde promised "more firm action" to eliminate terror from the country. ...
11:17 AM, Feb 22, 2013
This week on World View: Protests in Bangladesh over war crimes tribunal, a special report from Dhaka and the documentary No Fire Zone has set off a new round of protests over alleged human rights violation by Sri Lanka forces during 2009. Is it propaganda or proof of brutality: Should India act on Sri Lanka photos? ...
03:22 PM, Feb 21, 2013
mid protests over the alleged brutal killing of slain LTTE chief V Prabhakaran's son, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday called off the 20th Asian Athletics Championships scheduled to be held in Chennai in July, saying Lankan players have no place in the state. ...
12:23 PM, Feb 21, 2013
DMK and AIADMK MPs on Thursday shouted slogans over Sri Lankan Tamil issue during the maiden Address of President Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament. ...
11:50 AM, Feb 21, 2013
Sri Lankan High Commissioner Prasada Kariyawasam speaks to CNN-IBN on the allegations of war crimes against the LTTE. ...
11:38 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Sri Lanka is once again surrounded by allegations of war crimes as a video of LTTE chief Prabhakaran's son has re-emerged. The pictures of the 12-year-old son of Prabhakaran have put the UPA government in India in a spot. ...
06:21 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday condemned the alleged killing of LTTE chief Prabhakaran's son by the Sri Lankan army and the matter should be tried in International Court as a war crime. She said the evidences presented by a documentary that has sparked global anger reveal the mindset of the current Sri Lankan government. ...
12:46 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Sri Lankan High Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam on Wednesday rejected claims made by a documentary that showed LTTE's chief Prabhakaran's son dead with five bullet wounds and said the photos in the documentary are "morphed". He added the documentary was the propaganda of LTTE backers and that the Sri Lankan military did not kill Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son. ...
11:31 AM, Feb 20, 2013
The US plans to introduce resolution on Sri Lankan war atrocities at the United Nations meet after report on cold-blooded murder of LTTE Chief Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son. Meanwhile, 'No Fire Zone' documentary maker Callum Macrae told CNN-IBN that he has more evidence of atrocities on tape. ...
08:47 AM, Feb 20, 2013
The Sri Lankan government has rejected a report on the army's cold-blooded murder of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's 12-year old son. A British documentary had earlier shown photos of the late LTTE chief's son being fed while in the Sri Lankan government's custody. The next set of pictures show him shot dead with five bullet wounds. ...
08:11 AM, Feb 20, 2013
Some photographs have shown LTTE chief Prabhakaran's son shot dead with five bullet wounds. ...
09:21 PM, Feb 19, 2013
A British channel has come out with a documentary featuring the pictures of the alleged cold-blooded killing of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son, which was on Tuesday dismissed by Sri Lanka as "lies, half truths and numerous forms of speculation". ...
06:26 PM, Feb 19, 2013
