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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-121-2009 May 27, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: A few tests to measure the love for the country Mahinda Rajapakse, the president of Sri...
A member of parliament and representative of the opposition, Dayasiri Jayasekara, was assaulted by a group of supporters of the ruling party when he attempted to erect a facilitation board for the pre...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-117-2009 May 25, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Elation over victories and the appalling conditions of displaced Tamil persons UN Secre...
Following the killings of the entire LTTE leadership there is a strongly expressed feeling among Sri Lankans, within the country or outside, that their deaths particularly that of the leader, Prabakar...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-113-2009 May 20, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: IDPs are citizens and censorship of their conditions must stop In a BBC Sinhala Service...
Exactly what made both movements represented by these two leaders (The JVP and the LTTE) abandon the struggle for democracy and rule of law altogether and resort to violence reflects on the limitation...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Amnesty International. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Amnesty International...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-111-2009 May 19, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Wijeweera and Prabakaran – rebels within a dysfunctional democracy          Â...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-110-2009 May 18, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Government must now end the operation of anti-terrorism laws The Sri Lankan government ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEÂ AHRC-STM-107-2009 May 14, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The banality of evil and the Security Council intervention This week’s criticis...
The kinds of punishments that are meted out in Sri Lanka today are not based on the making of distinctions between guilt and innocence. Within any system of criminal justice making distinctions on gui...
We reproduce below the United Nations Security Council resolution of Sri Lanka on 13thMay 2009 which was published by the Department of Public Information – News and Media Division – New York The fo...
Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Human Rights Watch. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Human Rights Watch forwa...
(New York) – The Sri Lankan armed forces have repeatedly struck hospitals in the northern Vanni region in indiscriminate artillery and aerial attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. Commander...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police officers are failing to act on a report made by a young girl, who was abducted and raped on 27 April. ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that two indigenous Papuans have died and three others have been injured after the unrestrained use of lethal fire arms by the Mobile...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the UN General Secretary. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from UN General Secreta...
NAME: SINNAVAN STEPHEN SUNTHARARAJ WIFE’S NAME: VATHANA SUNTHARARAJ Stephen is a B.A. graduate in Sociology from the University of Jaffna. From 2001 to 2003 he worked as Assistant Lecturer in th...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge, widow of Lasantha Wickrematunge and 2009 UNESCO World Press Freedom Laureate on the World Press ...
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