سری لنکا کی ایک عدالت نے سابق آرمی چیف Sarath Fonseka تین سال قید کی سزا سنا دی ہے۔ Sarath Fonseka وہ کمانڈر تھے جن کے زیرتحت فوج نے 2009ءمیں تامل ٹائیگرز کو شکست دی تھی۔تاہم گزشتہ سال صدارتی انتخابات میں حصہ لینے کے بعد انہیں فوجی راز افشا کرنے کے الزام میں حراست میں لیا گیا تھا۔ اسی بارے میں سنتے ہیں جکارتہ انڈونیشیاءکے ریڈیو kbr68h کی آج کی رپورٹ
سری لنکا میں تین دہائیوں تک جاری رہنے والی خانہ جنگی مئی 2009ءمیں اختتام پذیر ہوئی تھی، مگر اب بھی وہاں صحافیوں کو کافی مشکلات کا سامنا ہے۔اس کے خلاف صحافیوں نے شمالی سری لنکا میں اپنے تحفظ کیلئے احتجاج کیا ہے۔ اسی بارے میں سنتے ہیں جکارتہ انڈونیشیاءکے ریڈیوkbr68h کی آج کی رپورٹ
Download The Sri Lankan government has carefully controlled media access for many years and did not allow the foreign media to freely cover the last stages of the civil war.
A United Nations report has painted a brutal picture of the final months of the civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009.
The report accuses the government forces of killing tens of thousands of civilians through indiscriminate shelling.
It also says Tamil Tiger rebels use people as human shields.
Last week on the program we heard details from the Gordon Weiss the former spokesman for the UN in Sri Lanka.
“I believe that government forces for whatever reason shelled UN positions and also shelled dangerously close to international Red Cross positions and importantly the report has said that the government systematically shelled hospitals and medical points that were being used to treat civilians inside the siege zone and it says that the government systematically deprived more than 300,000 civilians were trapped inside this siege of humanitarian aid.”
Sri Lanka's military has denied it deliberately targeted civilian areas.
Lakshman Hulugalle is the media director-general, at Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence.
He is speaking speaking with Sen Lam of Radio Australia.
Download It’s been almost two years since the Sri Lankan army defeated the Tamil Tigers, a rebel group that for a quarter century had waged a bloody civil war.
After the conflict the ruling Sinhalese government interned some 300-thousand tamil civilians into heavily guarded camps, surrounded by barbed wire.
Those trying to escape were shot.
There are still 20,000 Tamils still left in these camps.
One family, the Johnsons, were recently allowed to return home after 18 months of internment.
Our reporter Ric Wasserman met them in their village in Sri Lanka’s northern Mannar district.
A United Nations report has found "credible allegations" that the Sri Lankan Government committed war crimes during the country's civil war, according to Sri Lankan media.
Leaked documents from the UN report include claims that the Sri Lankan Government deliberately shelled hospitals and fired on civilians during the battle with the separatist Tamil Tigers.
The UN report also alleges that Tamil Tiger fighters committed war crimes and used civilians as human shields.
The panel that compiled the report is recommending an international investigation into the claims.
The UN has not released the report officially.
But Gordon Weiss the former spokesman for the UN in Sri Lanka describes what is in it.
