The inhumane artillery attack on 22.01.2009 has targeted an institution for disabled children, the ‘Sweet Life Home’ (Iniya Vaalvu illam), and the tightly populated settlement in front of ...

SLA targeted the IDP settlements  in Chuthanthirapuram junction on 20.01.2009, around 1:45 p.m, killing two including a boy. Two Eelamtamils killed were identified as 12-year-old Alagan Pirasanth...

On that fatal day of 29 January 2008, the children and others from the displaced community that has taken refuge in the Madhu church complex were returning home, most of them from the Mannar Sinapandi...

Mulliyavalai massacre ‘1985 On 16.01.1985 At 4.00 am, the Sri Lankan military rounded up Mulliyavalai and arrested 17 Eelamtamils.  One of them was a pregnant woman and another was a young ...

“There is no hostile military presence [of the Tigers] in this area. These are innocent civilians who have been living here since 1995. These are people who were driven from Navanthurai in Jaffn...

On 05.01.2000, Kumar Ponnambalam was planning to go out with his son Gajen to inspect a Benz car which he intended buying and adding to his fleet of 19 cars of that make. After hearing about the explo...

Following account is based on the statement given to us by a family member of one of the victims and the descriptions of the attack given by several other residents who faced the Sri Lankan Navy ...

The massacre occurred on 19 December 2000, when nine Eelamtamils including a three year old child in the Yaalppanam district disappeared from their homes in Mirisuvil in the Thenmaradchy area. The nin...

An human rights activist in a leftwing political group said that he with others from the group had gone to Kent and Dollar Farms just after the November 1984. The survivors had told them that the sett...

The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by the Asian Human Rights Commission of the killing of ten supporters of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), in Sri Lanka’s Katugastota distri...