Posts Tagged ‘Sri Lanka’

Share Over the weekend the Sri Lankan Government declared victory over the LTTE (The Tamil Tigers), who are currently confined to 2.4 km square km’s and are cut off from the coast. Those trapped are the fighting core of the group and their families who number approx 2000. Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the Tigers’ chief of international relations, announced that the rebels were laying down their... Read More »

Share The situation in northern Sri Lanka is now being described as an “enfolding humanitarian tragedy” by a number of reputable international human rights organizations while the World Council of Churches describes the situation as a “humanitarian crisis exceeding all imaginable proportions”. Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group have issued reports recently... Read More »