International

Why Canada is mourning the deaths of hundreds of children

By Holly HonderichBBC News, Washington The discovery in May of the remains of 215 Indigenous children - students of Canada's largest residential school - prompted national outrage and calls for further searches of unmarked graves. Since...

Genocide Bill against Sri Lanka passed in Canada

Published 1 month ago  on 2021/05/10 By Shamindra Ferdinando The Influential Ontario Legislative Assembly has resolved that Sri Lanka subjected the Tamil community to genocide during the armed conflict. The Legislative Assembly voted in favour of Bill 104 (aka the Tamil...

US Congress moves ahead with resolution to recognize “traditional Tamil homeland”

On the international front, just two months after the devastating debacle at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Government is facing another challenge. As revealed last week in these columns, this is...

The killing times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront

Special report: Shootings, poisonings and children driven off cliffs – this is a record of state-sanctioned slaughter A massacre map of Australia’s frontier wars – interactive The truth of Australia’s history has long been hiding in plain...