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general secretary Vaiko on Tuesday said that the Indian Government’s approach to the Sri Lanka situation amounted to `assisting the genocidal Sri Lankan Government.’ Even as the Tamils in Lanka were dying of starvation, the chief of Lankan Army, Sarath Fonseka was given a red carpet welcome by Indian Government, “with all undeserving honours,” said Vaiko in his letter to the Prime Minister. Indian Navy officials were suppressing the real facts about firing at Indian fishermen, he charged, adding that the failure of the Government to protect fishermen from Tamil Nadu was a betrayal of Tamils. Hitting out at the training given to the armed personnel of Lankan…

Dear Friend, The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, one of the most powerful committees in the US legislature, will hold a hearing on Sri Lanka on Tuesday February 24 and 2:30 pm. The hearings will focus on recent developments in Sri Lanka-- specifically 1. The ongoing military conflict in the north and east 2. The deteriorating humanitarian situation and 3. Allegations of human rights violations by the Government against Tamils. The committee is chaired by Senator John Kerry, who once ran in a US presidential election about five years ago. Kerry just returned after a visit to Gaza. The Committee will hear three witnesses -- Anna Neistat (…

SRI LANKA SCORE SOARS IN `TAMIL BASHING` March fortnight toll: 34 Tamil civilians were killed and 24 were recorded disappeared by GoSL operated forces during the first fortnight of March. No disappearances were recorded in Batticaloa. This highlights the total blackout of information coming out of Batticaloa. This blackout is an extension of the reporting of the refugee crisis there. A Jaffna University student, a Christian pastor and his two adult sons were among those killed and disappeared. A father was shot and killed as he traveled with his wife and young child. The charts below shows the statistics for the fortnight. District …

Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Gotabhaya Rajapakse said that an investigation into Sinhala LTTE cadres had revealed that there were several Sinhala women who underwent training in the handling of arms under the LTTE. They have so far evaded arrest but will be tracked soon, he told The Island yesterday. According to the information divulged by the male Sinhala LTTE cadres, now under the arrest, several female Sinhala cadres had undergone LTTE training in places yet to be disclosed. He said that 19 Sinhala LTTE cadres had been arrested and further arrests would be made, based on the information received through their confessions and statements. …

Mullivaikkal Tragedy - The Growing List of Complicity By: Sridas Sivasambo Ban Ki Moon’s emissary Vijay Nambiar who was dispatched to Sri Lanka, apparently to stop the predictable blood bath in the final days of the conflict met with his brother Satish Nambiar, the Sri Lankan Government’s Military Consultant and, of course, the Rajapakses, Narayanans and Menons directing the Tamil Genocide. The fate of those unfortunate civilians in Mullivaikkal and environs were decided and sealed. Having ‘failed’ in his mission Vijay Nambiar returned to his boss in New York and personally apprised him of the ‘success’ of his mission. Yes, in hind sight that would be the character…

colombo ­­­ De Srilankaanse politie en het leger hebben zaterdag acht wijken in de hoofdstad Colombo afgezet en bij invallen in woningen 920 mensen opgepakt. Ruim vijftig van hen zijn na verhoor in hechtenis genomen. In de betreffende wijken wonen veel Tamils. De operatie volgt op een opleving van het geweld tussen de rebellenbeweging Tamil-Tijgers en het leger in het noorden en oosten van het land, die dreigt het land opnieuw in een burgeroorlog te storten. Bij verscheidene aanslagen vonden in december 45 militairen en zeven rebellen de dood. நன்றி:Trouw krant

Tamil club's alleged links to terrorism concern officials Andrea Bailey, Waterloo (Aug 30, 2006) The University of Waterloo has taken three steps to address the news that one of its clubs may have past links to an international terrorist organization. According to a media advisory released Monday, UW, in full partnership with the UW Federation of Students, has engaged a national accounting firm to conduct a complete forensic audit of the Waterloo Tamil Students Association. The accountants will begin that process immediately. UW will also begin immediately to conduct its own thorough review of policies and procedures regarding overseas placements f…

Power in America More books & articles • An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1% (with link to 2014 update) • The Class-Domination Theory of Power: An explanation of why the wealth and income distributions are so unequal in the U.S., and how the political system works. • The Left and the Right in Thinking, Personality, and Politics: An exploration of the personality differences and psychology behind the liberal/conservative divide. • Social Movements and Social Change: Perspectives based on social science research. Wealth, Income, and Power by G. Wi…

Ravana is a hero for Sinhala nationalists Balachandran, Hindustan Times Colombo, September 23, 2007 \ The Ramayana is not part of the mainstream Sinhala religious and cultural tradition in Sri Lanka, because Buddhism has been the religion of the majority of Sinhalas for long. But ancient Sinhala works like Rajavaliya and Ravanavaliya identify Ravana as a Sinhala king and extol him as a great one. In modern Sri Lanka, there has been a movement to revive Ravana as a cult figure, who represents Sinhala or Sri Lankan nationalism because he was among the first in the island's history to have resisted an alien/Indian invader. Ravana…

(By Dinesh D. Dodamgoda) (The author of this article started his career as a journalist at LANKADEEPA newspaper and subsequently was appointed as a Member of Parliament when he was 21. He is a lawyer in profession and has obtained an MSc on Defence Management and Global Security from the British Royal Military College of Science (Cranfield University) Shrivenham, United Kingdom. He is reading for a PhD on Terrorism at the Centre for Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) in the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. In this article he expresses his views on today's strategic issues and the views of this article are solely those of the author.) The Sri L…

Vithyatharan attacked by 'abductors' inside white-van [TamilNet, Thursday, 26 February 2009, 17:06 GMT] The wife of Chudaroli (Sudar Oli) Editor who was 'abducted' first and later claimed 'arrested' by the Sri Lankan Police, told media Thursday night that her husband had been attacked on his head and heels inside the white-van by the abductors. Meanwhile, Vithyatharan was dumped at Demattagoda by the abductors, Police told Mrs. Kala Vithytharan Thursday evening. However, Vithyatharan is detained at the Crime Division of the Police in Demattagoda where his wife visited him with their three children with police permission. In the meantime, Sri Lankan President Mah…

Three SLA soldiers injured in Mutur grenade attack [TamilNet, January 08, 2006 14:29 GMT] Three Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were seriously injured when unknown gunmen hurled grenade at their truck in Mutur, Pachchanoor at 7.20 p.m. Sunday, sources said. The injured soldiers have been taken to Trincomalee General Hospital, medical sources said. The SLA truck was heavily damaged in the attack, according to eye witnesses. The SLA returned fire at random. தமிழ்நெற்

ACF workers demand handover of massacred NGO workers' bodies [TamilNet, August 07, 2006 11:39 GMT] The humanitarian workers of the French NGO, Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger, ACF) have urged the support of all NGO workers to excert pressure to release the bodies of the massacred Tamil workers in Muthur, NGO sources said. Fifteen Tamil NGO workers were allegedly massacred by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers who entered Muthur town after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters returned to their original positions Friday midnight after launching a 3-day-long counter offensive following Sri Lanka Army offensive towards Maavilaru. …

Karuna Cadres were captured alive Sunday, 30 April 2006 Sources from Batticaloa said that seven Karuna cadres were captured alive during the early morning raid on paramilitary camps. New information said that 29 paramilitaries were killed, 15 injured and 7 captured. Sources said that Karuna Cadres had gathered at the attacked camp for a planning session. Sources said that the LTTE raid may have been intelligence led, as all the Karuna group cadres were caught in one place. "Karuna Group has lost more than 80% of its capacity," said a military analyst. http://www.tamileditors.com/NEW/

In 1996 they were preschoolers living in Mankulam. Today Jinoshan and Rushanthini are learning Year-11 at Mankulam Maha Vidhyalayam. Their lives in the intervening decade are by no means typical for 15 year olds anywhere in the world. As four year olds they displaced with their families in 1997 as the Sri Lankan military launched an attack on Mankulam. Their families moved to Mallavi and the two started their schooling at Yohapuram Maha Vidhyalayam in Mallavi. One year later in 1998 they displaced again this time from Mallavi to Akkarayan because Mallavi came within Sri Lankan military artillery shell range. They were studying Year-3. In early 1999 they displaced a…

Pro-LTTE website attacks Karunanidhi By M.R. Narayan Swamy, Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, June 15 (IANS) A website that supports Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas has come out with a stinging attack on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi over his government's alleged support to the breakaway faction of Karuna. In a hard-hitting commentary in Tamil, www.webeelam.com has accused the DMK government of allowing Karuna loyalists to recruit members from among Tamil civilians fleeing Sri Lanka to Tamil Nadu and called it a 'very big betrayal'. It has also warned ominously: 'This will not be forgiven by world Tamils.' …

WikiLeaks: EPDP Sold Jaffna Children: Girls To Prostitution Rings And Boys To Slavery author: COLOMBO TELEGRAPH “The children are sold into slavery, usually boys to work camps and girls to prostitution rings, through EPDP’s networks in India and Malaysia. Sunthararaj maintains that children are often smuggled out of the country with the help of a corrupt Customs and Immigration official at Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo.” the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington. EPDP Leader Douglas Devananda and President Rajapaksa The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable f…

Selling Women Short The society that we live is framed as a place where women and men have equal rights; however in reality we live in a society that treats women unequally and still looks at women as sexual objects and baby machines. Selling Women short primarily talks about the sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and low wage and pay differentials among workers at all levels at Wal-Mart. The author is telling the story of the true cost of the low price goods at Wal-Mart by mainly interviewing the plaintiffs who filed the "Dukes Vs. Wal-mart" case, which is the class-action suit against Wal-Mart by some of its female employees. Even though the "Dukes Vs. Wal-mart…

SLA informant shot dead in Point Pedro [TamilNet, January 08, 2006 12:52 GMT] Sinnarasa Rasaiah, 47, from Vinayaga Mudaliyar (VM) Road in Point Pedro town, and owner of a bakery, was shot and killed at 3.30 pm.m Sunday by unknown gunmen who forced entry into the bakery located within 100 meters of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) 52-4 Brigade Head Quarters within the High Security Zone (HSZ) encompassing the Point-Pedro harbor, sources said. Residents allege that Rasaiah was a military informant. Point Pedro Police has taken the body to the Point Pedro General Hospital in Manthikai for postmortem examinations. The brazen killing within the HSZ, the third murder to …

2 Tigers, 4 SLA troopers wounded in clash [TamilNet, May 16, 2006 13:01 GMT] Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers who moved beyond the no-man zone and entered the Forward Defence Line (FDL) of the Liberation Tigers at Kandalkadu near Eluthumadduval between Nagarkovil and Muhamalai, shot and wounded two LTTE cadres around 5:45 p.m., LTTE sources in Kilinochchi said. A direct clash erupted after the incident and four SLA soldiers were wounded, SLA sources said. The Liberation Tigers have lodged a complaint on the incident with the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), LTTE sources in Kilinochchi said. The wounded SLA soldiers were rushed to Palaly military hospital…

Suicide Raid on Sri Lanka Navy Base Kills 16 Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a naval base in an apparent suicide mission in the southern city of Galle on Wednesday, leading to at least 16 deaths and triggering brief looting of minority Tamil shops. Wednesday, October 18, 2006 News Photos: See the latest news as it happens with photos on demand! COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a naval base in an apparent suicide mission in the southern city of Galle on Wednesday, leading to at least 16 deaths and triggering brief looting of minority Tamil shops. It was the latest in a series of blows to an already battered peace proc…

LTTE begins aggressive fund raising in Europe. Demands large sums for the �Final War� Special Correspondent in London, October 31. During the last few weeks, LTTE operatives in major European cities have commenced an aggressive fund raising campaign demanding large sums of money from the Tamil expatriate community. In London, LTTE operatives are reported to be demanding 5000 pounds from individuals and 50 thousand pounds from businessmen. Despite the fact that the LTTE is a banned terrorist group and contributing or collecting money for the group is a punishable offense in the UK LTTE operatives are openly visiting business premises and demanding large sums fr…

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the U.S. response the global war on terrorism have changed the world, and the terrorist enterprise that we know as al-Qaeda has changed with it. The current status of al-Qaeda’s network remains unclear, but it is certain that it and other terrorist groups continue to threaten the lives and well-being of Americans, at home and abroad, and the security of our friends and allies. This continuing danger leads to ongoing U.S. and international efforts to monitor, disrupt, and dismantle terrorist groups before they can cause large-scale destruction to our people or our interests. The objective of this RAND Cor…

India's CIA spy scandal India's external intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has launched a major internal investigation for possible moles following the apparent defection of a senior officer recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Indian government fears that the defection of Rabinder Singh, who held the senior rank of joint secretary and who headed the agency's Southeast Asia department, is only the tip of the iceberg in a possible infiltration operation by the CIA and Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service. The focus of the investigation will be RAW, as well as the Intelligence Bureau, which handles co…

Conflicting details are emerging about the attack off the seas of Colombo harbour Saturday morning. An informed source told TamilNet Saturday evening that four vessels were destroyed by the attackers, while the SLN suthorities said they have destroyed 3 “suspisours boats”. SLN sources said Saturday evening that they have captured 9 "suspects" who were "fleeing" from the Harbour area. The port remained shut for 2-and a half hours. The SLN toured reporters inside the High Security inner harbour. However, sources in Colombo confirmed that there were four big explosions off Colombo coast, Saturday morning. The LTTE has not commented on the incident.