Channel 4 News expose of SL Internment Camps

Posted on May 10, 2009 by vaahai

Channel 4 News reports from a camp in the northern Sri Lankan city of Vavuniya, where Tamil refugees have been taken.
Shocking claims have emerged of shortages of food and water, dead bodies left where they have fallen, women separated from their families, and even sexual abuse.

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Canadians Gather to Conclude Tamil IDP Crisis Awareness Week

Posted on November 10, 2008 by vaahai

Canadians Gather to Conclude Tamil IDP Crisis Awareness Week
Toronto, November 7, 2008 – Human rights activists, Anti-War activists, politicians, leaders from various community groups, and more than two thousand community members rallied in Toronto, under very bad weather conditions, to call for immediate international intervention to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Sri Lanka. The [...]

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    Sri Lanka Government is engaged in a systematic anihilation of the native population of the island - the Tamils. It has been in the top 3 countries from around the world in Government sponsored disappearances consistently for more than 15 years. Over the past 5 years more than 120 media personnel have been killed. More than 6000 Tamils have been killed over the same period by the Government of Sri Lanka. However it continues to receive about $900 million from Japan, about $600 million from China, and $250 million from India, per year. It is time the world community stops aiding a murderous regime.