The Sinhala Buddhists in Sri Lanka are celebrating their 71st “Independence Day” that gave them carte blanche freedom to annihilate the Eelam Tamils in the island. The Eelam Tamils continue to languish under a heavily
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The International Council of Eelam Tamils welcomes the High Commissioner of UNHRC for urging UN member states to exercise universal jurisdiction to foster accountability by Sri Lanka
The UNHRC session started on February 26, 2018, with the High Commissioner for UNHRC delivering a scathing interim report on the intransigence of Sri Lank on accountability and urging UN member states to exercise universal
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The oppressed Tamil and Muslim communities inhabiting the north and east should unite — International Council of Eelam Tamils
The International Council of Eelam Tamils vehemently condemns the recent racist violence unleashed by Sinhala Buddhist chauvinists against the Muslim people living in the central highlands of Sri Lanka. The latest racist onslaught on Muslim
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The 21st century war that killed humanity and the plight of the Syrian people — International Council of Eelam Tamils
The international community should step in and stop the genocide of the Syrian people caught in the middle of a war between hegemonic powers. We vehemently condemn the indiscriminate attacks that is killing and maiming
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Zeid Hussein calls on UNHRC to explore other avenues for accountability in Sri Lanka
The February 2018 UNHRC Report finds that Sri Lanka is still not prepared to deliver justice to the Tamils and urges UN member states to exercise universal jurisdiction to foster accountability The High Commissioner for
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Year-long campaign by relatives demanding information on enforced disappeared from the masters of deception ruling under a facade of “good governance”
It has been almost nine years since the end of the war in 2009, the search for justice for those enforced disappeared by the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has remained a mirage. The first
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“SEVENTY YEARS OF OPPRESSION OF EELAM TAMILS BY SRI LANKA” AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EELAM TAMILS IN ROME, ITALY
An international conference on Eelam Tamils organized by the International Council of Eelam Tamils (ICET) titled “Seventy Years of Oppression of Eelam Tamils by Sri Lanka” on Monday, February 5, 2018, at the Hotel Nazionale
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Statement on the case against Tamil activists instituted by Attorney General Department of the Government of Switzerland!
The Attorney General Department of the Government of Switzerland has instituted a case against Tamil activists who were involved in assisting humanitarian, rehabilitation and development activities safeguarding the Tamil people in the island of Sri
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70,000 civilians have been killed in indiscriminate bombing in the area where Sri Lanka plans to build a naval base
Sri Lanka has revealed plans to install a massive military complex on hundreds of acres of traditional Tamil land already occupied by the armed forces instead of returning them to civilians. A senior government official
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Sinhala military silently recruits Tamil teenagers through deceptive ‘cadet training’ in North
Selfies of school-going Tamil children as young as 15-years from Uruththirapuram in Ki’linochchi and from Jaffna, including from the prestigious colleges such as Jaffna Central, have surfaced in the social media revealing ongoing silent recruitment
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