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Saturday, August 6, 2011
Sri Lanka's Tamil question: Justice, Lies and Videotape
5 August 2011
Sri Lanka’s thirty year war is now more of words than of guns, but it is no less bitter. RNW’s team in the country met with fierce resistance from the Sri Lankan government to the current calls for justice from the international community.
But the problem is that the international community’s presence in the country is dwindling, a fact witnessed when travelling across the east of the island – where once there were distinctive white NGO vehicles on every corner, the sight is now rare.
With the help of one remaining NGO which requested anonymity, RNW met nine freshly ‘reintegrated’ former Tamil Tiger guerillas who spoke of their desire for justice for all Sri Lankans. But people in the heavily militarized north and east live in fear of reprisal if they openly criticise the authorities – which is why a vociferous Tamil diaspora, the foreign media and a UN investigation have stepped in. The Sri Lankan government is now hitting back. More >
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Recovery of Disappeared's Body Raises Hopes
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO, Aug 5, 2011 (IPS) - The details would have done credit to the plot of a spy thriller, except they are chillingly real.
A human rights activist is last seen stepping into a vehicle voluntarily. His family receives ransom demands from his mobile phone and some of his belongings are deposited in a mosque – enough leads for the police to act on.
Pattani Razeek’s case would merely have added to the ranks of the ‘disappeared’ in Sri Lanka but for a sustained campaign to get the police to act mounted by his colleagues, rights groups and a mosque committee in his hometown of Puttalam, in northwest Sri Lanka.
It helped that Razeek, 54, was the managing trustee of the Community Trust Fund, a national rights body, and executive committee member of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development. MORE >>
COLOMBO, Aug 5, 2011 (IPS) - The details would have done credit to the plot of a spy thriller, except they are chillingly real.
A human rights activist is last seen stepping into a vehicle voluntarily. His family receives ransom demands from his mobile phone and some of his belongings are deposited in a mosque – enough leads for the police to act on.
Pattani Razeek’s case would merely have added to the ranks of the ‘disappeared’ in Sri Lanka but for a sustained campaign to get the police to act mounted by his colleagues, rights groups and a mosque committee in his hometown of Puttalam, in northwest Sri Lanka.
It helped that Razeek, 54, was the managing trustee of the Community Trust Fund, a national rights body, and executive committee member of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development. MORE >>
