November 30 2009 – BBC Sinhala
The eyewitness of an alleged police brutality in Colombo says she feared for her life after testifying before courts against police officers.
Renu Gunathilake has witnessed the brutal killing of a psychological impaired person allegedly by police officers off the Bambalapitiya beach in Colombo a month ago
November 30 2009 – wsws
The full scale of the destruction caused to the northern Vanni area in Sri Lanka by the Rajapakse government’s military offensive against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is still not known to the outside world, even though the war ended after the defeat of the LTTE more than six months ago.
A vast area from Mannar on the northwestern coast through Kilinochchi to the Mullaithivu district on the eastern coast was depopulated and properties were destroyed in the military offensive. Thousands of Tamil civilians were killed and tens of thousands maimed in the indiscriminate bombing and shelling. More than 250,000 people fled to government-controlled areas, only to detained under squalid conditions in huge camps near Vavuniya and elsewhere.
November 30 2009 – Press Trust of India
Rameswaram (TN), Nov 30 (PTI) Six fishermen were injured today in an alleged attack by Sri Lankan Navy near the International Maritime Boundary line today, Fishermen’s association said.
The Lankan naval men also snatched their Global Positioning equipment, cell phones, fish and nets worth about Rs 10 lakh, the association president Ramesh told reporters here.
The fishermen were part of a group that were put to sea in 25 mechanised boats, he said.
November 29 2009 – Tamil net
The engagement of Professor Francis A. Boyle, an eminent American expert in international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, during the last years of Sri Lanka’s conflict is traced in a forthcoming book published by Clarity Press of Atlanta. Titled “The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law,” it is the first book to develop an authoritative case for genocide against the Government of Sri Lanka under international law.
November 28 2009 – the Sumday Times
Inmates of IDP camps would be free to leave from Tuesday onwards without any condition being imposed on when they should return, with the camps being declared as ‘open camps.’
There will be no restrictions imposed on the duration of their absence from the camps as well.
The Government has declared that anyone would be able to leave the camps once they have given their personal details to the camp authorities when they would be given a token which needs to be returned upon coming back to camp.
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