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The International Human Rights Day 2019 - Remembering Tamils in Sri Lanka

@naam-tamilar@naam-tamilar (42)2451d

As the world observes the International Human Rights Day, human rights violations are going on in Sri Lanka unnoticed and not reported by mainstream media. Relatives of forcefully disappeared persons continue to protest and hold vigil for more than 1000 days.

https://www.tamilwin.com/statements/01/233569?ref=home-feed

The reflections of groundviews.org on the day:

https://groundviews.org/2019/12/10/where-are-we-now-reflections-on-the-international-human-rights-day-2019/

https://groundviews.org/2019/09/04/one-question-two-people-a-shared-pain/

Journalists for Democracy in SriLanka reports:

"Sri Lanka's top defence official came under attack for mass atrocities from an international body investigating human rights abuses in the country, weeks after a new government took office under alleged war criminal Gotabaya Rajapaksa."

http://www.jdslanka.org/index.php/news-features/human-rights/920-rights-watchdog-fires-salvo-on-sri-lankas-top-defence-official

Source credit: https://www.tamilwin.com, https://groundviews.org, http://www.jdslanka.org

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