Documents compiled by Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka (IFPSL)
(available as direct links or pdf-files)
Articles and links for forced evictions and deportations of Tamils
1. Biscuits for LTTE: Suspects remanded – 31 January 2008 - or as [pdf: 215kb]
2. WFP wants story on biscuits rectified - or as [pdf: 88kb]
3. High protein biscuits supplied at government request: UNICEF - or as [pdf: 194kb]
4. Food Supplies to Kilinochchi and Mullaittivu Districts - or as [pdf: 98kb]
5. Is truth also military gear? A question to Sri Lanka media - or as [pdf: 121kb]
6. Norwegian NGO used by LTTE, also delivered arms to an insurgency in Sudan -Walter Jayawardana - or as [pdf: 64kb]
7. WFP food packs meant for LTTE? - 28 January 2008 - or as [pdf: 103kb]
8. WFP biscuit story: Trico Chairman clarifies - or as [pdf: 263kb]
10. The latest Situation Report by Lawrence Christy, Planning Director, TRO - Updated on 02 May 2009 - or as [pdf: 68kb]
11. On the spot report by Lawrence Christy, Planning Director, TRO - Updated on 04 March 2009 - or as [pdf: 1.016kb]
12. On the Spot Report by Lawrence Christy, Planning Director, TRO - Updated on 11 March 2009 - or as [pdf: 322kb]
13. REPORT from the ‘Safe Zone’ / TRO Media Release - 25 April 2009 - or as [pdf: 46kb]
14. Some Notes on Situation Report for the month of February, 2009 - or as [pdf: 240kb]
15. On the Spot Report by Lawrence Christy, Planning Director, TRO – Latter part of January, 2009 - or as [pdf: 768kb]
16. TRO’s Relief Activities in Vanni - Updated on 26th April, 2009 - or as [pdf: 66kb]
17. ‘As the shells fell, we tried to save lives with no blood or medicine’ - [video] - or as [pdf: 97kb]
18. In Sri Lanka the war is over but Tamil Tiger remnants suffer brutal revenge - or as [pdf: 81kb]
19. Disgraceful treatment of LTTE captives - 14 November 2009 - or as [pdf: 1.126kb]
20. uqod fkd.;a m%foaYj, ,CI 3la ck;dj isák nj lSu ujd mEula - flfy<sh - or as [pdf: 58kb]
21. A Profile of Human Rights and Humanitarian Issues in the Vanni and Vavuniya - Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) March 2009 - [pdf: 767kb]
22. m%Ndlrka fírd .ekSug isák uyúre mjq,a isú,a ckhd f,i ie<lsh fkdyelshs - or as [pdf: 45kb]
23. National Leader Prabakaran’s Daughter Dwaraka’s photos released - or as [pdf: 276kb]
24. Sri Lanka’s brutal war takes heavy toll (AFP) – May 9, 2009 - or as [pdf: 100kb]
25. On the operating table, evidence of Sri Lanka’s brutal war - AFP - 10 May 2009 - or as [pdf: 83kb]
26. Sri Lankan Army used Chemical Weapons on Tamils in the war zones - or as [pdf: 590kb]
27. Sri Lanka acquires ‘banned’ weapons - 13 August 2001 - or as [pdf: 75kb]
28. Controversial weapon meant for genocide alleges MP - 17 August 2001 - or as [pdf: 93kb]
29. Recurring Nightmare State Responsibility for “Disappearances” and Abductions in Sri Lanka – Human Right Watch- March 2008- Volume 20, No. 2(C) - [pdf: 6.944kb]
30. New allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka - Mark Leon Goldberg – 26 August 2009 - or as [pdf: 799kb]
31. Sri Lanka: Execution Video Shows Need for International Inquiry - Human Right Watch - or as [pdf: 138kb]
32. Slovak rockets sold to war-torn Sri Lanka - or as [pdf: 441kb]
33. Thermobaric warfare and humanitarian concerns – D.B.S. Jeyaraj - or as [pdf: 121kb]
34. Emergency Relief Coordinator Condemns Killing of Aid Workers in Sri Lanka - 7 August 2006 - or as [pdf: 84kb]
35. United Nations-Department of Public Information, New York - Press Release IHA/1211, 7 August 2006 / Emergency Relief Coordinator Condemns Killing of Aid Workers in Sri Lanka - [pdf: 97kb]
Sri Lanka : Vanni Emergency Situation Reports
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
36. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 1 - 27 April 2009 - [pdf: 184kb]
37. .Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 2 - 28 April 2009 - [pdf: 148kb]
38. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 3 - 29 April 2009 - [pdf: 184kb]
39. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 4 - 30 April 2009 - [pdf: 447kb]
40. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 5 - 03 May 2009 - [pdf: 103kb]
41. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 6 - 04 May 2009 - [pdf: 134kb]
42. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 7 - 06 May 2009 - [pdf: 313kb]
43. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 8 - 07 May 2009 - [pdf: 300kb]
44. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 9 - 11 May 2009 - [pdf: 112kb]
45. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 10 - 12 May 2009 - [pdf: 86kb]
46. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 11 - 13 May 2009 - [pdf: 240kb]
47. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 12 - 14 May 2009 - [pdf: 180kb]
48. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 13 - 15 May 2009 - [pdf: 342kb]
49. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 14 - 18 May 2009 - [pdf: 286kb]
50. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 15 - 19 May 2009 - [pdf: 194kb]
51. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 16 - 22 May 2009 - [pdf: 256kb]
52. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 17 - 25 May 2009 - [pdf: 446kb]
53. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 18 - 27 May 2009 - [pdf: 306kb]
54. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 19 - 30 May 2009 - [pdf: 335kb]
55. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 20 - 01 June 2009 - [pdf: 265kb]
56. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 21 - 11 June 2009 - [pdf: 2.192kb]
57. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 22 - 18 June 2009 - [pdf: 223kb]
58. Situation Report: Vanni Emergency Situation Report # 24 - 02 July 2009 - [pdf: 314kb]
59. Situation Report: Sri Lanka - Flash floods Situation Report # 01 - 17 August 2009 - [pdf: 55kb]
60. Situation Report: Sri Lanka - Flash floods Situation Report # 02 - 21 August 2009 - [pdf: 32kb]
61. Map: Welfare Centre Locations as at 01 May 2009 - Jaffna District - [pdf: 619kb]
OCHA -Joint Humanitarian Updates
62. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts Report #2 - 13 – 26 Feb 2009 - [pdf: 97kb]
63. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts Report #3 - 27 February – 13 March 2009 - [pdf: 109kb]
64. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts Report # 4 - 13 Mar – 27 Mar 2009 - [pdf: 105kb]
65. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts Report #5 - 28 Mar – 30 Apr 2009 - [pdf: 176kb]
66. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts Report #6 - 01 – 15 May 2009 - [pdf: 167kb]
67. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts Report #7 - 16 – 31 May 2009 - [pdf: 175kb]
68. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, and Trincomalee Districts Report # 08 - 29 Aug – 11 Sep 2009 - [pdf: 304kb]
69. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts Report #8 - 01 – 15 June 2009 - [pdf: 192kb]
70. Situation Report : Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts Report #8 - 01 – 15 June 2009 - 26 Jun 2009
71. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts Report #9 - 15 – 30 June 2009 - [pdf: 211kb]
72. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, and Trincomalee Districts Report # 02 - 11 – 17 July 2009 - [pdf: 397kb]
73. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, and Trincomalee Districts Report # 03 - 18 – 24 July 2009 - [pdf: 168kb]
74. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, and Trincomalee Districts Report # 04 - 25 – 31 July 2009 - [pdf: 269kb]
75. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, and Trincomalee Districts Report # 05 - 01 – 07 August 2009 - [pdf: 183kb]
76. Situation Report: Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, and Trincomalee Districts Report # 07 - 15 – 28 August 2009 - [pdf: 247kb]
77. United Nations Condemns Indiscriminate Use of Force in Sri Lanka / November 2006 Press Release IHA/1240 - or as [pdf: 96kb]
78. Transcript of Press Conference by Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon at United Nations Head Quarters , 11 June 2009 - or as [pdf: 158kb]
79. Transcript of Press Conference by Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon at United Nations Head Quarters / 29 July 2009 - or as [pdf: 146kb]
80. On Sri Lanka, UN’s Alston Probes Execution Video, Kaelin Says His Praise Was Misquoted - By Matthew Russell Lee - or as [pdf: 743kb]
81. UN Plaza: Pay Attention to Sri Lanka! - Matthew Russell Lee (video)
83. SG/SM/10304 17 January 2006-Secretary-General very Concerned about Deteriorating Security Situation in Sri Lanka; Urges Resumption of Dialogue, Respect for Human Rights - or as [pdf: 133kb]
84. Battle for water or something else 7 August 2006 Press release By LTTE - or as [pdf: 74kb]
85. “Complicit in Crime: State Collusion in Abductions and Child Recruitment by the Karuna Group”. Human Rights Watch - 23 January 2007 - or as [pdf: 766kb]
86. “Norway regrets the Government of Sri Lanka’s decision to terminate the 2002 ceasefire agreement”. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. - 02 January 2008 - or as [pdf: 92kb]
87. “Unicef: Bombed orphans were not Tamil Tigers”. Mail and Guardian Online - 15 August 2006 - or as [pdf: 75kb]
88. Capture of Vakarai and the Contradictions in Sri Lanka’s Agenda – Update :112 / by Col R Hariharan (retd.) - or as [pdf: 148kb]
89. Destructive tide of a water war - or as [pdf: 169kb]
90. SLMM had entered Mavil Aru area unannounced-Sri Lanka Secretariat for Coordinating Peace (SCOPP) Press Release - or as [pdf: 143kb]
91. LTTE opens Mavil Aru Dam ahead of SL Govt - or as [pdf: 273kb]
92. “Mission Water Shed” continues -By Walter Jayawardhana - or as [pdf: 64kb]
93. Parties want peace, but no consensus on how to achieve it - or as [pdf: 90kb]
94. Bauer drowns in Mavil Aru - or as [pdf: 113kb]
95. Ire after fire - or as [pdf: 171kb]
96. Sri Lanka: Ban Ki-Moon Regrets Termination of Cease Fire Agreement - or as [pdf: 87kb]
97. Hakeem has got wires crossed - Govt. - or as [pdf: 124kb]
98. “Lanka defends expulsion of Tamils”. The Times of India (AP). 2007-06-10 - or as [pdf: 115kb]
99. Amal, Jayasinghe (2007-06-07). “Sri Lanka police evict ethnic Tamils from capital” - AFP/ 2007-06-07
100. “Deportation of Tamils from Colombo is reminiscent of The Holocaust” - 2007-06-08 - or as [pdf: 93kb]
101. Krishan, Francis (2007.06.07). “Sri Lanka accused of ethnic cleansing as over 400 Tamils evicted from capital” - AP / 2007.06.07
102. Lanka SC steps in, halts eviction of Tamils from Colombo -The Times of India - or as [pdf: 117kb]
103. “Tamils return to Sri Lanka capital” / 2007-06-09 - or as [pdf: 98kb]
104. Police evict Tamils from Colomb - BBC / 2007-06-07 - or as [pdf: 58kb]
105. “The United States condemns the forced removal of Tamils” / press release June 2007 (U.S. Department of State.) - or as [pdf: 47kb]
106. Norway condemns enforced removal of Tamils from Colombo / press release June 2007 - [pdf: 277kb]
107. “Sri Lanka media slam Tamil eviction” - AP / 2007-06-09 - or as [pdf: 99kb]
108. “Mass expulsion of Tamils from Colombo denounced” - INAS / 2007-06-07 - or as [pdf: 76kb]
109. “Ethnic Cleansing” in Sri Lanka? - TIME - or as [pdf: 98kb]
110. Apex court halts eviction of Tamils from Colombo / Rediff.com - or as [pdf: 84kb]
111. Ethnic cleansing claim after police move Tamils at gunpoint / The Guardian - or as [pdf: 75kb]
112. Sri Lanka court blocks state deportation of Tamils | Reuters - or as [pdf: 115kb]
113. “Is Sri Lanka “our country?” - 2007-06-09 - BBC - or as [pdf: 58kb]
114. Mallawaarachchi, Bharatha (2007-06-08). “Court: End Tamil Expulsions in Colombo”. (AP)
115. “Sri Lanka Supreme Court orders to stop evacuation of ethnic Tamils from Colombo lodges” - Colombo Page - or as [pdf: 133kb]
116. “SC issues Interim Order against forcible transportation of Tamil lodgers”. LankaeNews / 2007-06-08 - or as [pdf: 205kb]
117. “Those chased from Colombo yesterday brought back to Colombo today”. LankaeNews / 2007-06-08 - or as [pdf: 199kb]
118. “Those chased from Colombo yesterday brought back to Colombo today” (in Sinhala). LankaeNews / 2007-06-08 - or as [pdf: 197kb]
119. “Vacation of lodgings: President asks IGP for immediate report” (in English). Daily News / 2007-06-09 - or as [pdf: 185kb]
120. “Sri Lanka PM expresses regret” - The Hindu - 2007-06-11 - or as [pdf: 57kb]
121. Open Letter to President Mahinda Rajapakse to stop the expulsion of Tamils from Colombo - or as [pdf: 96kb]
122. Forced Evictions of Tamils in Northeast Since 1980’s by Sri Lankan Armed Forces A Report by NESOHR January 2005 - or as [pdf: 395kb]
123. Sri Lanka begins forced eviction of Tamils - is there a human rights violation? - or as [pdf: 276kb]
124. Expulsion of non-resident Tamils from Colombo - or as [pdf: 113kb]
125. Sri Lanka State Terrorism Rape & Murder of Eelam Tamil Women
126. Integration of the Human Rights of Women and the Gender Perspective Violence Against Women / Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women,Yakin Ertürk - or as [pdf: 470kb]
127. Traumatised Tamils live in fear of new crackdown in Sri Lanka - or as [pdf: 174kb]
128. ‘Urgent Appeal: Flight of the Tamils in Sri Lanka’ , Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka (IFPSL) / 19 May, 2009
129. ‘Unlock the Camps in Sri Lanka’, Amnesty International - 17 August, 2009 - or as [pdf: 149kb]
130. ‘Sri Lanka: Free All Unlawfully Detained’ - Human Rights Watch - 24 November, 2009 - or as [pdf: 113kb]