This new animation provides a short explanation for why the US drove the destruction of the EU's peace initiative in Sri Lanka which formally began in 2002, but effectively ended with the US pushing the EU to ban the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2006. That gave the green light for...

Sutha is a Tamil man held in the deportation prison in Pforzheim in the south of Germany. He is scheduled to be deported to Sri Lanka on the Wednesday 3rd of May, accompanied by medical personnel and police officers. This is not the first time that they tried to deport him.The first time his deportation was attempted,...

Stop Germany rewriting history by erasing its support for the Sri Lankan Peace Process! Oppose Germany’s prosecutions of supporters of LTTE! Germany’s use of terror legislation to prosecute Eelam Tamil activists for their support of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the period 2007 – 2009 erases Germany’s own legacy...

On Monday, September 27 - one day after the German Federal elections - there will be another mass deportation of Tamil and Muslim asylum seekers to Sri Lanka. The first of this unprecedented wave of mass deportations to Sri Lanka took place this year for the very first time on March 30, the second being on June 9.

8:30AM, 9 June 2021, Pforzheim - Germany — After 70 hours of a continuous demonstration activists supporting IMRV's call to halt the deportations of Tamils to Sri Lanka today are trying to block the gates of the deportation prison in Pforzheim. The police have physically split the activists into two parts. They have also cut off...

On the 9th of June, the German government is planning to deport more than 10 Tamils to Sri Lanka. At the moment there are 8 or more Tamils imprisoned in the deportation prison in Pforzheim. To prevent a second “secret” deportation to Sri Lanka and furthermore deportations to Afghanistan the Human Rights Association Bremen...

On the 30th March, exactly a week after the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed the resolution accusing the present Sri Lankan regime of ‘increased marginalization of persons belonging to the Tamil and Muslim communities…. arbitrary detentions, alleged torture and other cruel, inhuman degrading treatment, inhuman degrading treatment or punishment, and sexual and gender-based violence’, the German...

The Tamil refugee community in Germany has been subjected to a wave of dawn raids and arrests during the past few days. Relatives and friends do not know their whereabouts, the detained have had their phones taken away from them and communications severed. Some people have been lured to come to the foreigners’...

Resistance to genocide is not a crime! The International Human Rights Association Bremen (IMRV) is launching a major political campaign in support of Eelam Tamil activist Nathan Thambi, who is currently facing criminal charges in Germany for financially supporting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The German authorities demanded that Nathan pay...