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Between 14 and 16 January 2010 the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal held a Tribunal on Sri Lanka in Dublin, Ireland to investigate allegations that the Sri Lankan armed forces committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during its final phase of the war, and to examine violations of human rights in the aftermath of the war and the factors that ...
The Sri Lankan Civil War was very costly, killing more than 100,000 civilians [334] and over 50,000 fighters from both sides of the conflict. Around 27,000+ LTTE cadres, 28,708+ Sri Lankan Army personnel, [335] 1000+ Sri Lankan police, 1500 Indian soldiers were said to have died in the conflict.
By Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in ...
Wijikala Nanthan and Sivamani Sinnathamby Weerakon are Sri Lankan Tamil women who were allegedly raped and tortured on March 19, 2001, in Mannar, Sri Lanka. Background [ edit ] Human rights groups [1] have documented that women have been allegedly targeted by members of the Sri Lankan security forces with impunity with acts of violence ...
The Jaffna hospital massacre occurred on October 21 and 22, 1987, during the Sri Lankan Civil War, when troops of the Indian Peace Keeping Force entered the premises of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, an island nation in South Asia, and killed between 60 and 70 patients and staff. [4] The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil ...
Radhika Coomaraswamy. Deshamanya Radhika Coomaraswamy (born 17 September 1953) [1] is a Sri Lankan lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate who served as an Under-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict from 2006 to 2012. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed her to the position in April 2006. [2]
T. Premini Thanuskodi. Rajani Thiranagama. Chelvy Thiyagarajah. Categories: Violence against women in Asia. Violence against women by country. Women's rights in Sri Lanka. Violence in Sri Lanka.
Amnesty International and other human rights organizations like Women for Peace launched a sustained campaign to pressure the Sri Lankan government to arrest and prosecute the soldiers. Six soldiers who were directly involved in the raping were sentenced to death by the court of the government of Sri Lanka.