Stuart Munckton
31 October 2009
After more than 120 days of mass resistance by the poor majority against a coup regime that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya, the regime has finally signed an agreement for Zelaya’s reinstatement.
On October 30, Zelaya and the coup regime signed an agreement opening the way for the elected president to take [...]

CRIMES ALLEGED ON BOTH SIDES ‘Those responsible must be held accountable’
By Colum Lynch
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 23, 2009
NEW YORK — The State Department’s top war crimes official called on Sri Lanka on Thursday to conduct a “genuine” investigation into allegations of war crimes by Sri Lankan troops and Tamil rebels during the bloody [...]

By Camille Bains (CP) – 11 hours ago
VANCOUVER, B.C. — Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says the RCMP are investigating 76 Sri Lankan migrants being detained in B.C. to determine if any of them have any connections to terrorist or criminal organizations.
The men were found aboard a rusting freighter off the west coast last Saturday.
“Let me [...]

Canada’s Immigration Minister has signalled that he intends to play hardball with 76 men believed to be from Sri Lanka who arrived on a rusty boat off Canada’s West Coast, as the government battles the perception of Canada as a soft touch for asylum seekers.
While Tamil Canadians have urged Canadian officials to show compassion, Immigration [...]

COLOMBO, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) — The Sri Lankan government said Wednesday that it has completely resettled the war displaced civilians housed in the welfare camps in the Eastern Province.
The Department of Government Information said in a statement that as the final stage 91 families of the Kokuvil welfare village were resettled in Trincomalee district on [...]

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka on Thursday said it accepted much of the United Nations’ recent criticism over its handling of 250,000 Tamils detained in camps since the end of the island’s ethnic conflict six months ago.
Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe pledged the government would address recommendations made by Walter Kaelin, a representative of the United [...]

THE Federal Government was preparing to deport nine Sri Lankan men last night as it clamped down on asylum seekers on Christmas Island.
They will be the first detainees on the island to be returned against their will to their country of origin.
The men swam ashore last November after arriving in Shark Bay, Western Australia, on [...]

Sri Lanka on Thursday brushed aside US secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s comment that rape was used as a weapon of war during the fighting against the separatist LTTE.
Delivering her speech at the UN Security Council on Wednesday, Clinton said that rape was used as a weapon of war in Balkans, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. [...]

The U.N. called Wednesday on Sri Lanka to investigate an incident in which soldiers fired on war refugees held in a cramped displacement camp, wounding at least two people, including a child.
Human rights activists have repeatedly complained about conditions in the northern camps, where nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians forced from their homes by civil war [...]

Sri Lanka is recruiting Tamil police officers from the northern city of Jaffna for the first time in 30 years, defence ministry officials say.
More than 6,500 people applied for 500 police constable jobs in Jaffna, a statement on the defence ministry website said.
A police spokesman said that applicants were being vetted more strictly than recruits [...]