| 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,........ |
| SLA expands occupation of Mannaar with two new camps | Published On: 16 May, 2012 , Tamilnet | 
The occupying Sri Lankan Army in Mannaar has started constructing two new large camps in Murungkan in appropriated lands, civil groups in Mannaar mainland complain. Hundreds of SL Army soldiers have come into agricultural settlements occupying water supplies and appropriating lands adjacent to lakes. |
| Military GA constructs Buddhist stupa at historic Saivite site in Trincomalee | Published On: 16 May, 2012 , Tamilnet | 
The Sri Lankan Government Agent of Trincomalee Major General (retd) Ranjith de Silva has appropriated 15 acres of land that belongs to the Trincomalee District Young Men’s Hindu Associations Federation (TDYMHAF) in the traditional Tamil village Kanniyaa, situated 7 km north of the east port city, for the construction of a Buddhist Vihare. |
| Uprooted Tamils in Ampaa'rai district languish without resettlement | Published On: 15 May, 2012 , Tamilnet | 
Tamil villages in the DS divisions of Poththuvil, Chammaa-thu'rai and Akkaraippattu in Ampaa'rai district are still in the state of complete destruction. Out of 427 families uprooted from Thangkavealautha-puram, only 70 have been resettled. |
| New York Judge frees another Tamil man accused of aiding terrorism | Published On: 15 May, 2012 , Tamilnet | 
Ramanan Mylvaganam, 35, accused by the U.S. prosecutors of trying to buy night vision goggles and assisting in the purchase of computer equipment, electronic components and communications equipment for the Liberation Tigers, was allowed to go free after Eastern District of New York Judge Drearie sentenced Ramanan to time served, rejecting the request by the Prosecutors who sought a 15-year sentence. |
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