Informes

Ref: CL04-137EN The Presidency of the European Union is concerned about the recent increase in political violence in Sri Lanka, including the political killings in the East and elsewhere and the suicide bomb attack on 7 July, the first since…

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (9 July 2004) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide emergency assistance amounting to US$12.5 million to help rehabilitate transport infrastructure damaged during severe flooding in southern Sri Lanka in May 2003. The assistance will restore roads…

Manila (dpa) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Friday it has approved a 12.5-million-dollar emergency assistance grant to Sri Lanka to help rehabilitate roads and bridges damaged by severe flooding last year. The Manila-based ADB said the money would be…

AI Index: ASA 37/002/2004 (Public) The Tamil Tigers are increasingly turning to threats and violence in a recruitment drive for child soldiers. Families who resist have been beaten with wooden sticks, or had their houses set on fire. "With today's news…

By Lindsay Beck COLOMBO, July 6 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers accused the army on Tuesday of undermining the ceasefire agreement that has given the island its best chance to end its decades-long civil war, saying it had failed…

COLOMBO, July 5 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead one man and wounded three others in Sri Lanka's east on Monday, police said, in violence likely linked to a split within the Tamil Tiger rebels that is complicating the island's…

COLOMBO, Jul 1, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lanka President Chandrika Kumaratunga Thursday called for the early resumption of the peace talks which has been stalled for more than one year with Tamil Tiger rebels. "She stressed that the…

Multi-Ethnic Women Find Common Threads in Sewing Course A six-month sewing course for a multi-ethnic group of women from the Trincomalee District is not only imparting marketable skills but also is connecting Sri Lankans previously divided by conflict. The Al-Hithaya Women's…

ABOUT THE REPORT OBJECTIVE Sri Lanka has experienced over twenty years of internal armed conflict. With a ceasefire agreement in place between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), there is a renewed possibility…

(London, June 29, 2004) -- The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are waging a campaign in eastern Sri Lanka to abduct former child soldiers for their forces, Human Rights Watch said today. Over the last three weeks, the armed…