Rapports

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2002/0141 OCHA Situation Report No. 1 Sri Lanka - Drought 19 July 2002 Situation 1. Drought conditions persist in southern Sri Lanka, particularly in the Hambantota District, where around 400,000 people or 80% of the District's population are affected. Recent…

By Juliana Liu COLOMBO, July 18 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels are still preparing for peace talks to end nearly two decades of war despite a weekend confrontation at sea, a cabinet minister said on…

By Scott McDonald COLOMBO (Reuters) - The head of a team of Nordic monitors watching over a cease-fire in Sri Lanka flew to a Tamil Tiger rebel base for talks on Tuesday after accusing the separatists of briefly abducting two…

By Scott McDonald COLOMBO, July 12 (Reuters) - India threw its weight behind Sri Lanka's peace process on Friday, saying it backed the government's efforts to negotiate an end to one of Asia's longest-running ethnic wars. Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha also…

COLOMBO, July 8 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's nearly five-month-old ceasefire has kept the guns silent despite human rights violations by both the government and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, Scandinavian truce monitors said on Monday. The government has harassed civilians and restricted…

"In our life, the only Sinhalese people we have seen are soldiers with guns." The simple statement sums up the tragic legacy of long-lasting ethnic war in Sri Lanka between the Sinhalese-dominated government and army and the Liberation Tigers…

Colombo (dpa) - Sri Lanka is facing an economic crisis and has to borrow to repay state debts, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Thursday. Responding to increasing protests from opposition parties about the rising cost of living in Sri…

End Child Soldier Use; Dispatch Independent Monitors (New York, July 3, 2002) Human Rights abuses by both the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have fueled the conflict and must be directly addressed in the peace…

COLOMBO, Jul 3, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Japanese government will contribute 1.5 million U.S. dollars to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) country program in Sri Lanka, according to the Japanese embassy here. In addition a…

By Scott McDonald VALAICHCHENAI, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Dozens of heavily armed Sri Lankan soldiers guarded the burned out center of the east coast town of Valaichchenai on Tuesday, with tension still high after clashes between Muslims and Tamils that…