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16 May 2012
Mullivaikal 2012: Workers' unity against Rajapaksa regime
Thousands of Tamils will mark the third anniversary of Mullivaikal, the end of the war in Sri Lanka, with a commemorative rally in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 19 May, writes Manny Thain, secretary, Tamil Solidarity.
21 March 2012
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished
It is nearly three years since the Sri Lankan regime declared victory against the LTTE, the Tamil Tigers, writes Manny Thain, Secretary, Tamil Solidarity.
28 July 2011
Media spotlight on Rajapaksa regime's mass murder in Sri Lanka
Channel 4 News has uncovered further evidence of the mass murder and brutality committed by Sri Lankan armed forces against Tamil-speaking people
100,000 strong demonstration calling for an end to the war in the north of Sri Lanka , photo Paul Mattsson
22 June 2011
TV review: Horrifying. Heart-rending. Enraging. Those words can barely describe the reaction to the barbaric acts shown in Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, a Channel 4 documentary aired on 14 June, writes Manny Thain, Secretary Tamil Solidarity.
100,000 strong demonstration calling for an end to the war in the north of Sri Lanka , photo Paul Mattsson
11 May 2011
UN report on Sri Lanka war crimes
How can justice and democratic rights be secured?: A United Nations (UN) report published on 29 April on the final phase of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009 reveals "credible allegations" of war crimes perpetrated by the ruling regime of president Mahinda Rajapaksa...
22 September 2010
'Death of democracy' in Sri Lanka
EIGHTH SEPTEMBER 2010 will be marked as a 'Black Day' in the history of the capitalist democratic system in Sri Lanka, writes Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka).
26 May 2010
Sri Lanka: One year after the war
A CONSTANT stream of Tamils flowed into Parliament Square, London, on Tuesday 18 May. Many thousands assembled to mark the first anniversary of the Sri Lankan government's declaration of victory in the...
21 April 2010
Sri Lanka parliamentary elections: Rajapaksa's clan consolidates its rule
A RECORD 7,680 candidates contested 196 seats in 22 electoral districts in the parliamentary election in Sri Lanka held on 8 April, writes Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party and Senan CWI.
20 January 2010
Sri Lankan government condemned
ON 14 January, the European International Committee on Trade meeting in Brussels, Belgium, heard powerful evidence from Senan, the international coordinator of Tamil Solidarity, and from Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP, Ireland, of gross human rights violations by the Rajapakse government in Sri La...
19 January 2010
European commission to withdraw special trade preferences to Sri Lanka
Senan, international coordinator of Tamil Solidarity, spoke at the EU trade committee hearing on 14 January which was held to debate the removal of the special trade preferences, termed the GSP+ concession, to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka faces charges of human rights violations.
Tamil demonstration in London, photo D. Carr
12 January 2010
Sri Lanka presidential elections: No to the two warmongers!
LAST WEEK Channel 4 TV news broadcast further video footage which appears to show Sri Lankan army soldiers perpetrating atrocities against the Tamil-speaking minority, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity.
Demonstration against the Sri Lankan government's attacks on the Tamils 11 April 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
6 January 2010
Support needed for socialists in Sri Lanka
SRI LANKA'S president Mahinda Rajapakse has called a presidential election for 26 January. At one of the most decisive moments since Sri Lanka's independence 62 years ago, the country's unity, the people's...
11 November 2009
United Socialist Party congress delegates defy difficult conditions in Sri Lanka
The United Socialist Party (USP), the Sri Lankan section of the Committee for a Workers' International, held its eleventh national congress from 31 October to 1 November 2009 in Colombo, writes Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary, United Socialist Party.
Demonstration against the Sri Lankan government, photo Paul Mattsson
13 October 2009
Sri Lanka: Shut down the camps!
The Sri Lankan government's war on Tamil people's basic rights continues. Around 300,000 men, women and children remain incarcerated in camps under the most horrific conditions, months after the official...
8 July 2009
Sri Lanka: Protest over DfID role
TAMIL SOLIDARITY, which campaigns for the rights of all workers and the oppressed in Sri Lanka, organised a protest recently against UK government financial support for the repressive, chauvinist Sri Lankan government, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity.
20 May 2009
Sri Lanka: The guns fall silent but the tragedy continues
"THIS BATTLE has reached its bitter end... We have decided to silence our guns". The dramatic announcement on the website of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on 17 May seemed to...
Sri Lankan speaker addresses Youth Fight for Jobs conference on the plight of the Tamil people, photo Paul Mattsson
13 May 2009
HUNDREDS OF Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka were killed last weekend as a result of heavy artillery shelling in the war zone - a few square kilometres of coastal strip containing around 100,000 Tamil civilians and LTTE guerrillas...
29 April 2009
Sri Lanka war: Rajapakse regime ignores Tamils' plight in renewed army offensive
THE SRI Lankan Army is pursuing a relentless and bloody battle for the last piece of ground held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north-east of the country, writes Elizabeth Clarke.
100,000 strong demonstration calling for an end to the war in the north of Sri Lanka , photo Paul Mattsson
15 April 2009
Sri Lanka: Stop the war - fight for democratic rights
AFTER A week of escalating protests worldwide against the mounting slaughter of Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Rajapakse government announced a two-day halt to the fighting with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, writes Elizabeth Clarke, Committee for a Workers' International.
15 April 2009
Stop the war in Sri Lanka: Protest at India House
SHOUTING "NOT a rupee, not a bullet for the Rajapakse government", 100 protesters marched around India House on the Aldwych in London...
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