Rapports

COLOMBO, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government has drawn up a new blueprint to convert a truce with Tamil Tiger guerrillas into lasting peace after two decades of civil war, but the rebels must resume stalled talks to…

COLOMBO, Oct 25, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) Japanese special envoy Yasushi Akashi will arrive here Wednesday to push for the early resumption of peace talks between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels, said a statement issued…

COLOMBO, Oct 14, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lankan government has finalised a set of counter proposals to the Interim Self Governing Authority (ISGA) proposal put forward by the Tamil Tiger rebles, the government spokesman said here Thursday. Mangala…

COLOMBO, Oct 12, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The current lack of confidence among Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers is the cause for the hold up in resuming the Norwegian-backed peace process, the visiting Swiss Foreign Minister…

COLOMBO, Oct 9, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lanka's eastern area was the scene of more killings Saturday in the internecine clashes between Tamil Tiger rebel rival factions with two more deaths, defense officials said. A man named Jude,…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (UNHCR) - Appu Kullamma does not remember anything about her motherland in India. Her earliest memories are of the tea plantations in Sri Lanka, where she grew up. "I can remember my father and others working in the…

AI Index: ASA 37/005/2004 (Public) Press release from ICJ, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International At a meeting with a senior Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) delegation visiting Geneva, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists…

COLOMBO, Oct 5, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgesen has urged Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels to "do everything possible" to stop killing their political opponents which has posed a threat to the country's…

Richard Boucher, Spokesman Washington, DC - The United States is committed to supporting the Peace Process launched after the 2002 Cease Fire between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam or LTTE. Only a negotiated…

Program Description USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) program in Sri Lanka assists in generating greater support for a negotiated peace settlement to end the long-standing conflict. To accomplish this aim, USAID/OTI's three objectives are to: Demonstrate tangible benefits of…