India voted against Sri Lanka at UN Human Rights Conference, but failed to make any move to add amendments as proposed to the DMK and other pro-Tamil parties. India supported the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka on human rights violations of Sri Lanka...
In the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, the US has tabled a watered-down version of resolutions on Sri Lanka over its atrocities on the Tamil-speaking population. The resolution calls for an internal probe as against an international one.
The film fraternity in Chennai will join the anti-Lanka stir with a one-day hunger strike. The protest is against alleged genocide in Sri Lanka against the Tamil-speaking population.
A Human Rights Watch report claims that Tamils in Sri Lankan custody were subjected to severe torture and inhuman treatment by the Lankan forces. The report reveals that suspected LTTE members were subjected to sexual atrocities by Sri Lankan Army and police. ...
D Raja, MP, CPI, urges the government to remain truthful to the people of this country and to international communities. What went on till 2009 in Sri Lanka was 'systematic genocide' of Tamil people. After 2009, it was 'structural genocide', he says.
India voted for a US-backed resolution urging Sri Lanka to probe rights abuses in the war on the Tamil Tigers, but quickly underlined that it did so only to enable Sri Lankan Tamils to get justice.
With the DMK serving an ultimatum to the Centre on the UN resolution issue and Mamata Banerjee rejecting the Railway Budget, the UPA government has a lot more reason to worry.
Several instances of police brutality have made headlines over the last few days - from a minor being thrashed to a senior citizen dying after being pushed. Who will rein in the men in khaki?