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International Truth And Justice Project
International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) is a human rights non-governmental organization established in 2013 to gather evidence to hold the Government of Sri Lanka accountable for war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil war. Located in South Africa while being registered in London, United Kingdom as a private limited company, the ITJP publishes its reports and press releases in English, Tamil and Sinhala. Members and funding Its executive director is Yasmin Sooka, who served as a member of the United Nations Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka. Its other directors include British journalist Frances Harrison, Hanif Mohammed Vally and Zaid Kimmie; who have served as the executive directors for the Foundation for Human Rights of South Africa. It has gained grants from the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Initiatives Sanctions against former Sri Lankan officials As of December 2024, it had submitted over 60 sanct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IPKF
Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was the Indian military contingent performing a peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 1990. It was formed under the mandate of the 1987 Indo-Sri Lankan Accord that aimed to end the Sri Lankan Civil War between Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups such as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan military. The main task of the IPKF was to disarm the different militant groups, not just the LTTE. It was to be quickly followed by the formation of an Interim Administrative Council. These were the tasks as per the terms of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord, signed at the behest of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Given the escalation of the conflict in Sri Lanka, and with the pouring of refugees into India, Rajiv Gandhi took the decisive step to push this accord through. The IPKF was inducted into Sri Lanka on the request of Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayewardene under the terms of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. The for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Permanent Peoples' Tribunal On Sri Lanka
The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Sri Lanka refers to three tribunals conducted by the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on the events that took place during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Dublin, 2010 The first Permanent People's Tribunal on Sri Lanka was held between 14 and 16 January 2010 at The Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin organized by the Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka. The tribunal consisted of * François Houtart (chairperson) - Professor Emeritus of Catholic University of Louvain * Daniel Feierstein - Director of the Centre for Genocide Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero and Professor in the Faculty of Genocide at the University of Buenos Aires * Denis Halliday - former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations * Mary Lawlor - Director, Front Line, The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Dublin * Francesco Martone - former Italian Senator in Italy * Nawal al Saadawi - Egyptian writer, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Crimes During The Final Stages Of The Sri Lankan Civil War
War crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil war are war crimes and crimes against humanity which the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) have been accused of committing during the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009. The war crimes include attacks on civilians and civilian buildings by both sides; executions of combatants and prisoners by both sides; enforced disappearances by the Sri Lankan military and paramilitary groups backed by them; sexual violence by the Sri Lankan military; the systematic denial of food, medicine, and clean water by the government to civilians trapped in the war zone; child recruitment, hostage taking, use of military equipment in the proximity of civilians and use of forced labor by the Tamil Tigers.International Crimes Evidence Project (ICEP) Sri Lanka, Island of impunity? Investigation into international crimes in the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil war. (2014) https://piac.as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Genocide
The Tamil genocide refers to the framing of various systematic acts of List of attacks on civilians attributed to Sri Lankan government forces, physical violence and Burning of Jaffna Public Library, cultural destruction committed against the Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil population in Sri Lanka during the Sinhalese people, Sinhala–Tamil ethnic conflict beginning in 1956, particularly during the Sri Lankan civil war as acts of genocide. Various commenters, including the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, have accused the Government of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan government of responsibility for and complicity in a genocide of Tamils, and point to state-sponsored State-sponsored Sinhalese colonisation, settler colonialism, state-backed Black July, pogroms, and List of attacks on civilians attributed to Sri Lankan government forces, mass killings, enforced disappearances and Sexual violence against Tamils in Sri Lanka, sexual violence by the security forces as examples of genocidal acts. The Sri La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; , PLF) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Sri Lanka. The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka: once in 1971 JVP insurgency, 1971 (SLFP), and another in 1987–1989 JVP insurrection, 1987–1989 (United National Party, UNP). The motive for both uprisings was to establish a socialist state. Since then the JVP has entered mainstream democratic politics and has updated its ideology, abandoning some of its original Marxist policies such as the abolition of private property, and moderating its rhetoric. The JVP has been led by President of Sri Lanka, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake since 2014. The JVP was initially a small organisation that became a well-organised party that could influence mainstream politics. Its members openly campaigned for the left-wing coalition government of the SLFP-led United Front (Sri Lanka), United Front; however, following th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bimal Rathnayake
Bimal Rathnayake is a Sri Lankan politician who serves as the Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation and Leader of the House since November 2024. A longstanding member of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Rathnayake is member of the JVP Politburo, a national executive member of National People's Power (NPP) and a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka for the National List. He studied at Tangalle Primary College, Ananda College, Colombo and was selected to study civil engineering at the University of Moratuwa in 1993, however did not complete his degree. His academic qualifications have been listed as BSc. Engineering Undergraduate in parliament. Rathnayake was first elected to parliament from Kurunagala in 2001 and served till 2010, when he lost his seat and had served as the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation from 2004 to 2005 under President Kumaratunga’s government. He was appointed to parliament in 2015 after Sarath Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranil Wickremesinghe
Ranil Wickremesinghe (; ; born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the ninth president of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. He has also served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1993–1994, 2001–2004, 2015–2018, 2018-2019 and in 2022. Wickremesinghe has held several ministerial roles, including Minister of Finance (Sri Lanka), Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence (Sri Lanka), Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology (Sri Lanka), Minister of Technology and Ministry of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment, Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment. Wickremesinghe has led the United National Party (UNP) since 1994. Born into a Wijewardene family, political family, Wickremesinghe graduated from the University of Ceylon and qualified as a lawyer from the Ceylon Law College in 1972. He entered politics in the mid-1970s with the UNP, first being elected to Parliament in 1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 1977. Over the years, he hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batalanda Detention Centre
The Batalanda detention centre was an alleged Internment camp, detention centre located within the Batalanda Housing Scheme of the State Fertiliser Corporation in the village of Butalanda, situated in the Biyagama Electorate. It was used by the Counter Subversive Unit of the Sri Lanka Police during the 1987–89 JVP insurrection to detain persons who were linked to or suspected to have links to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), as part of the counterinsurgency campaign launched by the United National Party (UNP) Government of Sri Lanka, government led by President of Sri Lanka, President Ranasinghe Premadasa. Background Unlike in the 1971 JVP insurrection, previous uprising, the JVP relied heavily on the use of List of people assassinated by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, assassinations of important religious and political figures, subversion, and terror attacks. The government responded just as brutally; the government has been accused of using detention camps in several locat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (Sri Lanka)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sinhala language, Sinhala: විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශය ''Vidhesha Katayuthu Amathyanshaya''; Tamil language, Tamil: வெளிநாட்டலுவல்கள் அமைச்சு) (also known as the Foreign Ministry or External Affairs Ministry) is a Cabinet of Sri Lanka, cabinet List of ministries of Sri Lanka, ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka responsible for conducting and managing Foreign relations of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka's foreign relations through oversight of its missions abroad via the Sri Lanka Overseas Service, as well as drafting and general implementation of the nation's foreign policy. History The ministry was formally established in 1948 following the independence of Ceylon as the Ministry of External Affairs and Defence, coming under the direct control of the Prime Minister of Ceylon. In 1977 the government led by Junius Richard Jayewardene, J.R Jayawardena divided the mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karuna Amman
Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan (''nom de guerre'': Colonel Karuna Amman; , ''Vināyakamūrtti Muraḷitaraņ''; born 22 June 1966) is a Sri Lankan politician and former militant. Formerly a fighter for the Tamil separatist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), for over 20 years, Muralitharan later rose to prominence after defecting from the LTTE and forming the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP), a breakaway faction of the LTTE. After giving up arms and entering politics, he was appointed as a National List Member of Parliament in 2008 for the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), the party of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa,Renegade sworn in as Sri Lanka MP BBC BBC News – 8 October 2008 and was sworn in as Minister of National Integration on 9 March, 2009. He lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
