By Tim King According to the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR), allowing children to serve in the military, in a combat environment is a war crime. This is simple for most people to understand. But if it is illegal, why does the US allow children to serve in its military and how is that Read More
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka was militarily dismantled in the May of 2009. To survive and revive, the LTTE’s international network that supported the three-decade terrorist and guerrilla campaign was forced to transform. Throughout the conflict years in Sri Lanka, the LTTE network operating overseas, largely in the West, conducted Read More
The Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) has rejected the call by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navnanethem Pillay’s “to establish an international inquiry mechanism to further investigate the alleged violations of IHRL and IHL and monitor any domestic accountability process in Sri Lanka”, saying “it gives scant or no regard to the domestic processes Read More
Colombo: The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka, H.E Maj Gen (R) Qasim Qureshi along with the Minister for Economic Development Hon. Basil Rajapaksa inaugurated the Pakistan sponsored handloom textile training project and the textile village at Kottala-Meerigama.
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