Two housing complexes, two areas in Wellampitiya out of bounds

Sri Lankan maid rescued in Bahrain

A 25-year-old Sri Lankan has been rescued after allegedly being held against her will by her sponsor for almost 18 months in Bahrain, the Gulf Daily News reported. Velusundaram Manjula arrived in the country in 2009 to work as a housemaid for a Bahraini family. Activists say she was promised a salary of BD85 a month, but got only BD60 when she arrived. She was also forced to work around 21 hours a day in two separate households. Manjula reportedly went to the police after two years, but was a

13 Nov, 2012

Two charged with Paris murder

Two Sri Lankan men were charged Tuesday with the murder of a former commander of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers rebel group in Paris, a French judicial source said. Nadarajah Mathinthiran was gunned down Thursday night as he was leaving the headquarters of the Tamil Coordination Committee in France (CCTF), an organisation regarded as a front for what remains of the Tigers. The two suspects, both born in Sri Lanka in 1979, were arrested Sunday and are being held in custody in Paris. According to the

14 Nov, 2012

UN ‘failed Sri Lanka civilians’, says internal probe

The United Nations failed in its mandate to protect civilians in the last months of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, a leaked draft of a highly critical internal UN report says. “Events in Sri Lanka mark a grave failure of the UN,” it concludes. The government and Tamil rebels are accused of war crimes in the brutal conflict which ended in May 2009. The UN does not comment on leaked reports and says it will publish the final version. The 26-year war left at least 100,000 people dead. There are

13 Nov, 2012