Welcome to Sri Lanka (0)
6/02/09 •
Sri Lanka, also known as Ceylon, is an island separated from her nearest neighbour India by just 29 km across the Palk Straits in the Indian Ocean. (located south / south east of the Indian peninsula). Sri Lanka is a land of a varied sceneries. No other country can boast of such varied natural landscapes, [...]
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Doctors extract nails stuck into Sri Lankan maid (0)
8/27/10 •
Thirteen nails and five needles removed from woman who says they were hammered into her by Saudi employers
Doctors have removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan maid who said her employers in Saudi Arabia had hammered them into her.
LG Ariyawathi, who returned home from Saudi Arabia on Saturday and was hospitalised in [...]
Saudi couple hammered 24 nails into Sri Lankan maid, say officials (0)
8/26/10 •
LT Ariyawathi says her employers hammered the nails into her after she complained that her workload was too heavy
A Saudi couple tortured their Sri Lankan maid by hammering 24 nails into her hands, legs and forehead, after she complained of a too heavy workload, officials said today.
Nearly 2 million Sri Lankans sought employment overseas last [...]
Canada’s illiberal turn on asylum | Heather McRobie (0)
8/23/10 •
Populist politicians have seized on the Sun Sea Tamil refugees to ramp up anti-immigrant rhetoric, reneging on human rights
Earlier this month, a boat carrying 492 Tamils claiming to be refugees from Sri Lanka’s recently ended 26-year civil war arrived in Canada on the MV Sun Sea, having set sail two and half months earlier. Canada’s [...]
Canadian navy boards ship carrying Tamil migrants from Sri Lanka (0)
8/13/10 •
MV Sun Sea intercepted after Sri Lankan official warns vessel is part of human smuggling operation linked to Tamil Tigers
Canadian security officials yesterday boarded a cargo ship carrying hundreds of Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, including some Canada has said may be terrorists.
The country’s public safety minister, Vic Toews, said the MV Sun Sea [...]
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