| Tributes to war reporter Colvin at London service | Published On: 16 May, 2012 , AFP | 
War reporter Marie Colvin was described as the "bravest of the brave" at a memorial service in London on Wednesday for the Sunday Times journalist who was killed while covering the conflict in Syria. The packed congregation at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square heard Sunday Times editor John Witherow describe the American correspondent as the "greatest war correspondent of her generation". |
| Refugee limbo spurs suicide attempts | Published On: 16 May, 2012 , SMH | 
REFUGEES with no prospect of being released or resettled after secret Australian Security Intelligence Organisation assessments branded them security threats have suffered a spate of suicide attempts inside detention centres. |
| Former Sri Lanka Tamil Tiger rebels 'disappear' | Published On: 16 May, 2012 , BBC | 
Three Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels who took part in a rehabilitation ceremony last year may subsequently have been taken away by the authorities, a rights campaigner has said. It has emerged that parents saw photos of their children at the ceremony attended by President Rajapaksa but now know nothing of their fate. |
| Jailed Sri Lanka leader Sarath Fonseka 'to be freed' | Published On: 17 May, 2012 , BBC | 
Jailed Sri Lankan presidential candidate and former army commander Sarath Fonseka may be freed this weekend, his wife has told the BBC. Anoma Fonseka said she received the news from President Mahinda Rajapaksa after meeting him for two hours on Wednesday. |
| Colombo unwilling to give grounds to Tamils, says NY Judge | Published On: 18 May, 2012 , Tamilnet | 
Accusing the international community for being "unwilling or incapable of objective fact finding on the issue applied to the Tamils and what has happened in Sri Lanka," Judge Dearie, Judge for the District Court of the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), said during the sentencing hearing of Karunakaran Kandasamy,........ |
| Tamil boy shot by Sinhala military for cattle mangling ‘Buddhist’ decoration | Published On: 08 May, 2012 , Tamilnet | 
At the height of a show of ‘victor's supremacy’ in the country of Eezham Tamils, a 17-year-old Tamil boy, S. Krishnakumar of Kumaarasaami-puram village in Visuvamadu in Mullaith-theevu district, was shot and fatally injured by the occupying Sinhala military, for his cattle damaging the ‘Vesak’ decorations commemorating 2600 years of Buddha at an SL military camp. |
| Top SL military hand alleged in killing Canadian Tamil in Vanni | Published On: 09 May, 2012 , Tamilnet | 
Circumstantial evidences point to the hands of top level Sri Lanka military in the brutal killing of a Canadian Eezham Tamil who came to Vanni to claim his properties appropriated by the occupying military, news sources in Vanni revealed to TamilNet. |
| Colombo harasses Mannaar Bishop | Published On: 12 May, 2012 , Tamilnet | 
Rt. Rev. Dr. Rayappu Joseph, the Catholic Bishop of Mannaar, who boldly voiced for the number of people went unaccounted in the Vanni war, is being harassed by Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) this week under instructions from the genocidal regime, informed sources in Mannaar told TamilNet. |
| Resettled Tamils without assistance affected by mini-cyclone in Paduvaankarai | Published On: 10 May, 2012 , Tamilnet | 
At least 90 families in Oottuch-cheanai, a village situated 75 km north-west of Batticaloa city, have been displaced and sought asylum in a school following a mini-cyclone that hit Paduvaankarai area in the Koa'ra'laip-pattu South division of Batticaloa district on Monday. |
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