The gruesome treatment of a woman, said to be an LTTE combatant, whose ordeal was recorded by video and published in two websites. The AHRC wrote, that as described in the videos, the naked body of this person is so gruesomely and disrespectfully treated in a manner that too difficult to describe.

"I relinquished my ministerial position because I was not allowed to exercise my powers. I was the only minister without a secretary. Then, how could the work be done? The appointment of ministers is a hoax……. He also said, "Not only for me, it is also the same for the 109 ministers who are still there. The President has the powers. In short, most ministers do not have any say in the appointment of chairmen and directors to institutions. The situation is like that at 99 per cent of ministries. As they had been appointed by the President, they are always above the minister. That is a humiliation of the ministerial portfolio. I also suffered that humiliation. The present Rajapaksa regime is a one-man-show."

Ten year old Nallaih Jesinthan faced enormous loss on 29 November 2008 when suspected cluster bombs were dropped over the IDP settlement where he was living with his mother, siblings and grandparents. This is his voice from the hospital,  “My mother, younger brother, sister and I were living with our grandmother and grandfather because we have no father. We displaced from Paranthan and went to the Kallru camp.

Part of Mullaiththeevu hospital had displaced following frequent artillery fire around the area. Yet, some parts of the hospital were still functioning in the old place. On 15 december and again on 19 december he hospital came under Sri Lankan army artillery fire. Some of the services remained in the old place to provide urgent medical care. NESoHR report says.

The use of sovereignty as a defence against every form of criticism is exposed worse for its hollowness when it comes to the issue of corruption. However, an even deeper issue is at stake here. Can a state be so sovereign as to be above the law? When these questions are considered in the context of Sri Lanka both issues become interlinked. The state being above the law and the state claiming the right not to be questioned on the issue of corruption are two inseparable parts of the same problems.

Prof.Rajiva Wijesinha, Sri Lanka’s peace secretariat secretary – general and secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights , has announced his willingness to engage in public debate with US lawyer Bruce Fein over the “Genocide” issue .

President Mahinda Rajapakse stated “I am less than a magistrate” thus, complaining about the judicial interventions against his decisions. Among his complaints are that two of his officers have been removed from their posts due to Supreme Court rulings. More importantly, perhaps, is the issue of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. The implementation of this amendment was suspended on various pretexts by the government. The Supreme Court intervened and called for the immediate implementation of this constitutional provision.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an incident in which two young men were harassed by air force officers attached to the Koggala Air Force Base on November 4, 2008. Under the influence of liquor, the officers assaulted two villagers and damaged their property. Similar incidents had taken place earlier. Not a single case has been thoroughly investigated and not one officer involved in the harassment has been punished.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) says that a man, who had to endure a court trial over false charges laid on him for assaulting policemen two years ago, has been continuously deprived of medical examination and treatment while in detention. The policemen tortured him in custody after they arrested him again in May 2008.

The Civilian toll for Tamils across the island for November, dominated by the Government of Sri Lanka's offensives to wrest control of Vanni, is 67 killed, 46 disappeared, 73 injured, 733 arrested and 230,000 displaced, a monthly report released by the North East Secretariat on Human Rights (NESoHR). The IDP number increased this month due to the floods in Vanni.

"My husband was a fisherman. About three years ago, when he returned from a fishing trip, somebody checked his identity card and shot him dead," says Jeyarulai Puwanendran, weeping. The single mother, 23, is a resident of Kiran, Batticaloa, in Sri Lanka's eastern region.

Responding to the note on Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) website by the Secretary General Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha on the model genocide indictment against Sri Lanka officials, the former U.S. Deputy Associate Attorney General Bruce Fein, says, the "Professor never denies the Rajapaksa-Fonseka genocides," but, "delivers an indictment against the LTTE as a purported defense to the Rajapaksa-Fonseka genocides.

Bruce Fein, a former U.S. Deputy Associate Attorney General and currently Counsel for a U.S. Tamil Group said in an interview this week that a 400+ page model indictment charging Sri Lanka officials for genocide against Tamils will be ready to be submitted to the U.S. Justice Department first week of January. He added that the document describes the motivational context, catalogues crimes, and constructs legal arguments establishing culpability of a U.S. citizen and a U.S. greencard holder for the crime of genocide against Tamils in Sri Lanka under the U.S. Genocide Accountability Act (18 U.S.C. 1091).

The UDHR forbids arbitrary deprivation of life. In Sri Lanka now the habit of summary executions is a well-entrenched habit and this has claimed the lives of over a hundred thousand people in the recent decades. The state executions outside the judicial process have taken the form of forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, coupled with the suspension of inquiries into such deaths.