Boycott Sri Lanka Releases Second Video in Series “No Blood for Panties”; innovative marketing strategy proves popular, effective
January 18 2010 – PR WEB
On the heels of its successful release of the first episode of No Blood For Panties series, Boycott Sri Lanka released its second episode today. No Blood For Panties is part of a campaign to encourage Americans to boycott products made in Sri Lanka to end Sri Lanka’s violent discrimination against its Tamil population.
(PRWEB) January 14, 2010 — On the heels of its successful release of the first episode of No Blood For Panties series, Boycott Sri Lanka released its second episode today. No Blood For Panties is part of a campaign to encourage Americans to boycott products made in Sri Lanka to end Sri Lanka’s violent discrimination against its Tamil population.
“We are thrilled by the growing success of the No Blood For Panties series,” said Boycott Sri Lanka representative Anjali Manivannan. “The first episode has gone viral, with thousands of views a day, and generating a dialogue about the use of sexuality to promote activism. This is exactly the response we were aiming for: a shocking new way to spread awareness about grave human rights violations,” she continued.
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Dublin verdict: Sri Lanka guilty of War Crimes
January 17 2010 – Tamilnet
Dublin war-crimes tribunal, conducted by Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) based in Milan, which held hearings on Thursday and Friday on war-crime charges on Sri Lanka from eye-witnesses and other material evidence, in the preliminary findings issued Saturday said, Sri Lanka Government is “guilty of War-Crimes” and “guilty of Crimes Against Humanity.” The tribunal also concluded that the charge of Genocide requires further investigations. Eye witnesses included several escapees from the final week of Sri Lanka offensive in the Mullaitivu “No Fire Zone” where more than 20,000 Tamil civilians were allegedly slaughtered by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) training heavy weapons on them.
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Sri Lanka ‘guilty’ of war crime
January 17 2010- BBC Sinhala
The Sri Lanka government was found guilty of war crimes, a peoples tribunal in Ireland has said.
In its preliminary findings, the People’s Tribunal on Sri Lanka (PTSL) that conducted hearings from 14 to 16 January in Dublin has also concluded that the Sri Lanka government is also guilty of crimes against humanity.
However, the-pro Tamil Tiger groups’ accusation that the government carried out Tamil genocide at the last phase of war between the security forces and the LTTE needs to be investigated.
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Weeratunge statement proves India’s complicity in Sri Lanka’s genocide, says Prof. Boyle
January 17 2010 – Tamilnet
If the statement of Lalith Weeratunga, a top aide to Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse, that Sri Lanka’s use of heavy weapons was eventually stopped as part of a political deal with the Indian government, was true, “then it proves India’s complicity in the GOSL’s [Government of Sri Lanka's] genocide against the Tamils,” says Professor Boyle, expert in International Law in a note sent to TamilNet. “The Government of India temporarily stopped the GOSL’s genocide against the Tamils, thus proving it could do so…. India therefore violated its obligation under article 1 of the Genocide Convention “to prevent” the GOSL genocide against the Tamils,” asserts Prof. Boyle.
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‘Sri Lanka lied to UN over heavy weapons’
January 16 2010 – The News International
Sri Lanka’s opposition on Friday accused the government of misleading the UN over the use of heavy weapons during the final stages of fighting against Tamil rebels last year.
Sri Lanka is under pressure from the United Nations and Western nations to submit to a war crimes investigation after a host of allegations about the killing of prisoners and the use of weapons.
A top aide to President Mahinda Rajapakse disclosed on Thursday that Colombo ordered a halt to the use of heavy weapons only in April, two months after a UN envoy was promised that such armaments would not be used.
Former foreign minister and key opposition leader Mangala Samaraweera seized on the disclosure by the aide, Lalith Weeratunga, who said the use of heavy weapons was eventually stopped as part of a political deal with the Indian government.
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