Rapports

Muslim Aid (Sri Lanka Field Office) and UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) have distributed hygiene kits, clothes and Non Food Items (NFI) worth $350,000 to about 10,000 displaced people of Mutur in camps located in Kanthale and Mullipotana.…

Trincomalee District #13 I. Situation up-date There has been exchange of artillery shelling into and out of Trincomalee. The town remains tense and some organizations have staff temporarily relocated out of the district. On the evening of 16th the LTTE…

Overall Situation Due to the prevalent uncertain security situation in most districts in the North-East routine relief operations are limited. On Wednesday there was a harthal (work stoppage) in the districts of Trincomalee, Ampara, Batticaloa and Vauvniya. On the same…

Colombo, 17 August 2006 - More than 300 children, teachers and parents will witness today the opening of a new building at Balapitiya Siddartha Primary School in Galle, southern Sri Lanka. This is the first school building completed under…

I. Situation up-date Continuous artillery shelling was being heard during the day in the direction of Muttur division. A hartal (closure of offices & shops) has been called by the Rising Tamil Community in Trincomalee for the 16th August. The District level…

I. Situation up-date From 2.45 a.m. there was artillery shelling of the Navy and Air Force bases in Trincomalee town by the LTTE. There were no direct hits on civilian targets. For its part, the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) fired…

I. Situation up-date Sri Lankan Army (SLA) operations in the vicinity of the Mawilaru sluice gate are ongoing, which continues to restrict the access of humanitarian agencies. The District authorities have accepted the consolidated list of IDP sites compiled from information…

Cologne/Colombo - Malteser International and FC Bayern Munich temporarily stop their program "Reconciliation thanks to football" in the district of Trincomalee due to the escalating violence in the north-east of Sri Lanka. "The program was meant to start this…

By Kun Li NEW YORK, 9 August 2006 - The recent killing of 17 Sri Lankan aid workers has sent shock waves through the global humanitarian community. UNICEF Representative in Sri Lanka Joanna Van Gerpen called the execution-style killings "unprecedented,…

We condemn the massacre of Humanitarian Aid workers in Sri Lanka. Countries have so far shown little motivation to do what needs to be done. The situation has been made grim by the collapse of the United Nations Small Arms…