145. Since April 1995, there has not been any voluntary repatriation movements of Sri Lankan Tamils from India due to the breakdown of peace talks and the resumption of the conflict between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

390. The minority Tamil and Muslim communities in Sri Lanka have every right to practise and enjoy their culture.

The Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation runs its programmes in Sinhala, Tamil and English.

The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation has three distinct services catering for Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim listeners.

For over two decades, Sri Lanka has been under sustained assault by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an armed group that employs brutal methods and suicide bombings in its campaign of terror to obtain a separate State.

1.1 The complainant is Mr. P.A.C., a Sri Lankan national of Tamil ethnic origin born on 15 March 1976 and, at the time of submission of the complaint, detained in immigration detention awaiting removal from Australia to Sri Lanka.

Information was requested on the status of some 85,000 stateless Tamils of Indian origin currently in the country.

Although one of the main goals of reconstruction must be the creation of a democratic system that the Tamils regard as their own, establishing effective governance, and fast, in Sri Lanka s north matters just as much. Order must be restored rapidly, with zero tolerance of looting and other crimes.

its causes and (Sri Lanka) consequences

As an eight year old, he and his parents fled the Sri Lankan capital because Singhalese mobs were roaming the city, looking for Tamils like Renu to murder.

A 53 145 (Signed) Baboucarr Blaise Ismaila Jagne Permanent Representative of the Gambia (Signed) Robert E. Millette

The minority Tamil and Muslim communities

Mr. S. W. B. Wadugodapitiya (Sri Lanka)

409. The Sri Lanka Sahitya Mandalaya was set up by Act No. 31 of 1958 for the express purpose of the advancement of literature in the national languages, i.e. Sinhala, Tamil and English.

Ms. Hewavitharana (Sri Lanka) said that her delegation associated itself with the statement made by the representative of Qatar on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.

The tsunami hit India, Indonesia, Kenya, Maldives, Madagascar, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Thailand, and claimed thousands of lives.

Bhutan, India, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Qatar, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Yemen subsequently joined the sponsors.

Subsequently Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy (Sri Lanka), was appointed as Special Rapporteur.

60. In Sri Lanka, according to Ms. Gunewardena, the National Education Commission had accepted the integration of the Sinhala and Tamil languages as an objective of education in that country.

Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka.

Bhutan, India, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, New Zealand, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Qatar, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Yemen subsequently joined the sponsors.

Not as far as Molière, Racine, Rabelais. Pascal, Stendhal, Voltaire, Montaigne and all the others

Commends the IDB for its donation of 500 million US dollars to assist the victims of the earthquake and the Tsunami in Indonesia, Maldives, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka.

Abstaining Argentina, Bhutan, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Gabon, Mauritania, Nepal, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Togo.

Abstaining Argentina, Bhutan, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Gabon, Mauritania, Nepal, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Togo.

Hungary Switzerland

Asian Forum for Human Rights and

Adoption of the agenda

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka . 110 142 25

The settlement area of the northern Frisians is situated on the west coast of Schleswig Holstein (county of North Frisia with the islands Sylt, Föhr, Amrum as well as Heligoland).

This number includes approximately 25 films produced in the Sinhala language in Sri Lanka and 80 English, 30 Tamil and 5 Hindi films imported to Sri Lanka by the National Film Corporation. Theatres

In Sri Lanka, according to Ms. Gunewardena, both the national languages, Sinhala, the language of the majority, and Tamil, that of the minority, had been used as a medium of instruction at primary schools.

In Malaya, ethnic Chinese fought British and Malay regiments and police, which is roughly comparable to the Tamils' fight against the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. Like the Tamil Tigers, the Malayan Communists were also damned as terrorists, but the casualties they inflicted were small compared to the mass killings caused by both sides in Sri Lanka's war.

Sri Lanka LKA

Sri Lanka 180

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka 1996

Sri Lanka Sahitya Mandalaya

113. Sri Lanka

He's in there.

Abstaining Bhutan, Burkina Faso, China, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo.

Sri Lanka.

b There are two vacancies in this group for members whose terms would begin on the date of election and expire on 31 December 2005.

Source Sri Lanka Socio economic Data 1995, Central Bank of Sri Lanka.