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Article: Sri Lankan protests – from street to Tweet
Hashtags took on traditional banner-wavers over the issue of Sri Lankan human rights Monday, both in Colombo and in cyberspace. By Richard Walker While pro-government supporters crowded the Sri Lankan capital’s main thoroughfare,...
Article: Dutch Tamil Tiger Five on appeal
Five men jailed for supporting Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers (LTTE) last October began their appeal against conviction Monday in The Hague. The case marks the first time an EU member state has considered the question of whether the Tamil...
Article: Sri Lanka's road to 'reconciliation'
Readers will find no big surprises after reading the final report of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC). By Gibson Bateman, New York It is very much what most people were expecting. A document that looks...
Article: Sri Lanka ex-army chief jailed for three years
A Sri Lankan court Friday jailed former army chief Sarath Fonseka for three years for alleging that the president's brother had ordered the execution of surrendering Tamil rebels. Fonseka, who ran against President Mahinda Rajapakse in...
Article: Judgement awaits the 'Dutch-Tamil Tiger 5'
The trial of five Dutch-Sri Lankan Tamils, accused of raising funds for the separatist group LTTE (Tamil Tigers), is expected to end in The Hague tomorrow. If the men are found guilty as charged of overseeing an international criminal and...
Article: Tempers fray in Dutch Tamil Tiger case
As the Dutch prosecution of five alleged members of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers continued into its third week the defence lawyer for one suspect demanded a new trial in an unusually bad-tempered day in court. By Richard Walker in The...
Article: Tamil Tigers: defence demands Dutch judges step aside
The panel of judges should be removed from the case against five Sri Lankan men, Dutch lawyer Victor Koppe demanded on Monday. The five are accused of supporting the Tamil Tigers (LTTE), listed since 2006 by the European Union as a...
Article: Tamil war machine runs in the Netherlands
The Tamil community in the Netherlands (between 9,000 and 13,000 people) has been “largely annexed” by the Tamil Tigers to the violent conflict in Sri Lanka. Through extortion and sedition, a “climate of fear” has...
Article: Sri Lankan justice plays out in foreign courtrooms
Three cases around the world reflect a new trend in international justice – while Sri Lanka shows no intention of properly dealing with accusations its military committed atrocities in the closing months of the civil war in 2009,...
Article: Tamil Tigers on trial: controversial screening of war crimes documentary
The Dutch prosecution of five Sri Lankan Tamils continues in The Hague today in a trial which now promises to drag Dutch criminal law into conflict with the Sri Lankan government. By Richard Walker and Maike Winters in The Hague
