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Peoples for Human Rights Volume 11, March 2009
The Struggle for Human Rights and Peace in Sri Lanka

CONTENTS

Preface (Nimalka Fernando)

Part One: An Introduction to Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: The Country and its People (Onoyama Ryo)

Part Two: Analyses and Observations of the War in Sri Lanka

Understanding War and Democracy in Sri Lanka (Kumar David)

Sri Lanka's Continuing Conflict and Crisis (Jayadeva Uyangoda)

Sri Lanka's Escalating Civil War and Japan's Role (Nakamura Hisashi)

Report from the Conflict Area of Jaffna: Experiences of a Foreign NGO worker Stationed in Sri Lanka (Onoyama Ryo)

Humanitarian Crisis in Sri Lanka: Voices of the Internally Displaced (IMADR International Secretariat/IMADR Asia Committee)

Part Three: The Struggle to Uphold the Rights of Minorities in Sri Lanka

The Minority Rights of the Up-Country Plantation Tamil People of Sri Lanka (P. P. Sivapragasam)

IMADR’s Activities in Sri Lanka 2005-2008 (IMADR Asia Committee)

Annex
I Joint Civil Society Report for Universal Periodic Review of Sri Lanka – May 2008
II Submission by IMADR Asia Committee Related to Sri Lanka for the Universal Periodic Review, 2nd Session in May 2008
III Sri Lanka Universal Periodic Review Submission by the Women & Media Collective
IV Internal Displacement Due to Conflict in Sri Lanka
V Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of Sri Lanka (Excerpt)
VI　Response of the Government of Sri Lanka to the Report of the Working Group
VII IMADR’s Public Statement: Termination of 2002 Ceasefire Agreement by Sri Lankan Government Regrettable