At UN Despite Ban's Claims, Doubts on Yemen, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Buckpass on S. Sudan

UNITED NATIONS, January 19 -- Touting the rule of law at the UN on Thursday, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon claimed to oppose amnesties and support international prosecutions, saying that people want accountability and transparency.But after Ban spoke with Yemen strongman Ali Saleh on November 23, Inner City Press asked him if he had raised to Saleh his push for the immunity he is now in the process of obtaining. Ban replied that "I have not discussed in detail on that matter. pls follow the link

The LLRC has failed to fulfill the expectations of the Tamil community

The LLRC has failed to fulfill the expectations of the Tamil community, while also falling dramatically short of international standards. However, accountability remains an urgent and important need to help victim communities overcome trauma and rebuild their lives, to bring closure to our collective and personal grief, to ensure genuine reconciliation, to break the cycle of impunity in Sri Lanka, to insure against a return to violence, and to prevent historical revisionism by narrowing the range of permissible lies about the last stages of the war

Sri Lanka's Game of Diplomacy

What Will Happen in Geneva? In theory, Rajapaksa's administration has plenty to worry about. Lobbying and debate surrounding the next session of the HRC has already begun. Many foreign governments recently made strong statements that the LLRC's final report does not touch on the question of accountability. The Sri Lankan government refuses to look into credible claims that violations of international humanitarian law occurred at the end of the war; government officials are unwilling to go into any detail about what actually happened during the last phase of the conflict.

Sri Lankan army commanders 'assassinated surrendering Tamils'

Sri Lankan army commanders were ordered by the country's leaders to assassinate surrendering Tamils in the final phase of the long and brutal civil war, according to a senior former military officer. The claims are contained in a sworn deposition, seen by The Daily Telegraph, made by a career officer who rose to the rank of major general before he fled the country in fear of his life to seek asylum in the United States.

Sri Lanka: Women's Insecurity in the North and East

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Women in Sri Lanka's predominantly Tamil-speaking north and east are facing a desperate lack of security in the aftermath of the long civil war. Today many still live in fear of violence from various sources. Those who fall victim to it have little means of redress. Women's economic security is precarious, and their physical mobility is limited.

Sri Lanka's Civil War (Complete)

Documentary filmmaker Callum Macrae, Malinda Seneviratne, Editor-in-Chief of Sri Lanka's The Nation, and Bob Templer of the International Crisis Group present and assess both the Sri Lankan government and international community's perspectives on that country's decades-long sectarian conflict. Tunku Varadarajan, editor of Newsweek International, moderates the discussion. http://asiasociety.org/video/policy/sri-lankas-civil-war-complete

Fear grips survivors of Lankan war

Tamil survivors of the Sri Lankan civil war still live in fear, in one of the most densely militarised zones of the world, devoid of any hope of ever getting justice. Story http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/video/sri-lankan-war-tamil-survivors/1/147592.html

Inside Sri Lanka's killing fields

Headlines Today travels undercover to Vani only to find that Tamil survivors of the civil war still live in the fear of the Sri Lankan army. http://headlinestoday.intoday.in/site/headlines_today/programme/sri-lanka-army-war-against-civilians-ltte/1/147526.html