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The 2006 Trincomalee Massacre of NGO Workers, also known as the Muttur Massacre, [3] took place on 4 or 5 August 2006, when 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF) were shot at close range in the city of Muttur, Sri Lanka, close to Trincomalee. [4]
Launches emergency response and reconstruction activities in South Asia following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, with operations in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Acted opens a coordination office in Jordan to support its operations in the Middle East. The NGO responds to the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan. 2006
Sri Lanka is still waiting for the money pledged by the donors. Money pledged by the people has been pledged to the NGOs." Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, stated in a BBC interview, "A lot of aid what has been coming in latterly is I'm afraid – I'm sorry to say – not very useful. For instance there was a container full of ...
According to the UN, an NGO is a private, not-for-profit organization which is independent of government control and is not merely an opposition political party. [65] The rapid development of the non-governmental sector occurred in Western countries as a result of the restructuring of the welfare state.
A BBC News crew filming the BBS rally at Maharagama on 17 February 2013 were surrounded by a mob of twenty young men who threatened them and verbally abused a Sri Lankan member of the crew, accusing him of being a "traitor", having "foreign parents" and working for a "foreign conspirator" who was "against Sri Lanka".
W. Wildlife and Nature Protection Society. Categories: Environment of Sri Lanka. Environmental organizations by country. Organisations based in Sri Lanka by subject. Environmental organizations based in Asia by country.
Black July is generally seen as the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War between the Tamil militants and the government of Sri Lanka. [18] [22] Sri Lankan Tamils fled to other countries in the ensuing years, with July becoming a period of remembrance for the diaspora around the world. [23]
The British Refugee Council noted in its Sri Lanka monitor that between February and July 1999 more than 45 cases of rape by the Sri Lanka Army were reported in the North-East. On 12 July 1999, members of the Sri Lanka Army gang raped and killed Ida Carmelitta (19), a Tamil woman from the town of Pallimunai, in Mannar district. On the night of ...