The NorthEast Secretariat On Human Rights (NESOHR)

Attacks and arrests of Jaffna University students over November 2012 maaveerar day

Published on — 14 Jun, 2013

The maaveerar day incident of November 2012 when Jaffna University students were attacked and arrested provides a great opportunity to understand not only the situation in Tamil Eelam but also[...]

Published on — 6 Jun, 2013

NESOHR was born in the northern part of the island of Sri Lanka in July 2004 during an internationally sanctioned ceasefire and it was destroyed in January 2009 in the[...]

Published on — 18 Feb, 2009

This is the last report NESOHR issued from Vanni before ceasing to function there. In this report it could only list the names of some of the victims with their[...]

Published on — 5 Dec, 2008

This report refers to a Russian made bomb dropped in 2008 that did not explode. Other pieces of the unexploded bombs are also shown in the report. These bombs are[...]

Published on — 18 Aug, 2008

It is easy to dismiss attacks on civilians living inside any war zone as collateral damage and thus eliminate any need to treat it seriously. It is, however, difficult to[...]

Published on — 18 May, 2006

“A TRO vehicle was carrying fourteen TRO accounts staff plus the driver from Batticaloa to Vavuniya. We left around 2:00 pm on 30 January 2006. After making entries at Welikande[...]

Published on — 9 Apr, 2006

In the early morning of October 2nd 1985, Sri Lankan Army (SLA) helicopters descended on the village of Piramanthanaru. Hundreds of armed military personal spread through the town beating, torturing[...]

Published on — 24 Jan, 2006

At 8.00 pm on the night of the murder the family noticed large number of Sri Lankan Army (SLA) soldiers standing in front of their gate for sometime. Their home[...]

Published on — 14 Jan, 2006

One woman resident states, “The fleeing people were stopped by the Sri Lankan Navyand the women were forced to sit on the hot sand with their face to the sand.[...]

Published on — 9 Dec, 2005

In order to explain the human rights aspect of this phenomenon as it has occurred in many parts of Northeast of Sri Lanka we will first explain this phenomenon using[...]