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Families seek release of fishermen in Lanka

Aggrieved over the detention of seven fishermen of Threspuram in India by the Sri Lankan Navy, their families and relatives thronged the Collectorate in Tuticorin yesterday?demanding the intervention of the district administration for their early and safe release, The Hindu newspaper reported. They were detained for alleged cross border fishing at mid sea and a country boat, in which they sailed, was also seized. The seven fishermen set out to sea on September 26. The Sri Lanka Navy assisted t

01 Oct, 2015

UNICEF puts focus on children in Lanka’s war

The United Nations agency on children, UNICEF, said that children bore the brunt of the war in Sri Lanka and of the atrocities committed by both sides. It said that children, and people who were children at the time of atrocities and violations, should be given ample voice in all processes proposed by the report on Sri Lanka by the UN and be supported in those processes as witnesses or claimants as if they were still children. It also said that the families of children who were recruited, kill

01 Oct, 2015

Missing persons’ panel chairman rebuts Zeid

Responding to the UN Human Rights High Commissioner Prince Zeid?s call to disband the Sri Lankan Missing Persons? Commission and assign its work to a more credible body, the chairman of the panel, Justice Maxwell Paranagama, contended that nobody else can do the job better. ?We have been very transparent in our functioning. There were no armed forces or police personnel in the room where people testified. We held several sittings in the Tamil-speaking North and East and Colombo and examined 19,

01 Oct, 2015