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Tamil Tigers unveil latest tactic By Roland Buerk BBC News, Colombo Whatever you may think of their goals and methods, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers have always been innovative. Experts say the technology was rudimentary but effective It was they who refined the suicide bomber, and used them to devastating effect. And what other insurgent groups can boast a naval wing? The rebels have boats armed with guns, known as the Sea Tigers. Now they have confirmed what Sri Lanka's government had suspected for a long time - they have an air capability too. The first mission of what the rebels are calling the Tamil Eelam Air Force, or TA…

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Ground Surveillance Since the earliest days of flight, aircraft have been used to monitor troop movement, to patrol borders, and to prevent smuggling and other illegal activities. Today, Beech King Airs are the ground surveillance platform of choice for several reasons. They are: capable of flying low enough to visually observe ground activities; capable of flying high enough to evade ground weapons defenses; adaptable to carry radars, FLIRs (forward looking infrared), and cameras to document intelligence data and evidence. King Airs have been provided to the US Army, US Navy, and US Air Force as the C-12 military aircraft. They are actively used today to perform s…

THE pitiless success of Sri Lanka’s military offensive delivers one salutary lesson: If you have China as an ally, you can afford to ignore pressure from anywhere else. . President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government has won China’s financial, military and diplomatic support — along with the confidence to brush off Western protests about its behaviour. . In the closing stages of the assault on the Tamil Tigers, the army surrounded about 50,000 civilians inside a tiny enclave. Other governments would have found it difficult to resist outside calls for a unilateral ceasefire, at least to allow the evacuation of wounded innocents. . If the Security Council had thrown …

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Earlier this month, a Chinese surveillance vessel rammed and sunk a Vietnamese fishing boat in the South China Sea — bringing into the spotlight Beijing’s multi-year assertions in the disputed waters. “Fundamentally, China has not let the Covid-19 outbreak dampen its pursuit of foreign policy issues,” said Kelsey Broderick, China analyst at consultancy Eurasia Group. The U.S. hit out at China for sinking the Vietnamese fishing boat, saying that it’s “seriously concerned” by reports of what Beijing did; while China accused the U.S. for attempting to negate its “legitimate claims” in the South China Sea. Further mistrust between the U.S. and China is unne…

பொதுவாக நீங்கள் எத்தனை சொற்களைப் பயன்படுத்தினாலும், ஒரு குறிப்பிட்டளவு சதவீத தொடர்பாடல், சொற்களற்ற செயல்கள் உதாரணமாக - முகபாவங்கள் மற்றும் உடல் மொழி போன்றவற்றின் மூலம் வருகிறது. ஆனால் இதுவே ஒரு புற உலக சிந்தனைகுறைபாடுடையவர்/மன இறுக்கம் கொண்டவராக இருந்தால், இந்த சொற்கள் அல்லாத தகவல்தொடர்புகளின் பல அம்சங்களுடன் போராடவேண்டியிருக்கும்.. Being autistic may amount to a language difference — not an impairment For the neurodivergent, a study on autism and communication is reaffirming some lifelong feelings Matthew Rozsa Experts generally agree that, no matter how many words you use, a large percentage of communication comes via nonverbal actions — facial …

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Ben Wallace: Ukraine has 'tragically become a battle lab' for war technology IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said it would be "foolish" to ignore the war strategies being played out in Ukraine By Paul Adams & Francesca Gillett BBC News Ukraine has "tragically become a battle lab", but lessons learned will inform the future of Britain's armed forces, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said. He was speaking ahead of the release of a revised Defence Command Paper, first published before the wa…

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Best Untranslated Writers: Shobasakthi V. V. Ganeshananthan The Best Untranslated Writers series – in which established writers select and showcase fellow writers from their own languages who are not yet widely translated or read – began with a trio of Brazilians on the writers they love most but are yet to make the leap into English. Today V.V. Ganeshananthan introduces us to Shobaskathi, also known as Anthony X, who writes about Sri Lanka and its diaspora communities, and who was previously involved in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Shobasakthi is also known as Anthony X; he is an ex-militant; he is an expatriate. Based in France, he writes about Sri Lanka…

As battle intensifies once more, 150,000 are forced to live in ramshackle camps Randeep Ramesh in Batticaloa Friday March 30, 2007 Sitting beneath a palm tree, Loganathan points to his new "house": a brown tent with blankets for a floor just outside Batticaloa, a town on Sri Lanka's east coast straddling a blue lagoon. The 34-year-old Tamil labourer says his family have been sheltering under the tarpaulin since November when a mortar shell landed in his garden, which was about 62 miles away from the refugee camp he now calls home. His nine-year-old daughter lost her arm in the blast and his five-year-old son's back was scarred by the shrapnel. "The army…

Bill Gates will never be the same The aura that Gates built over the past two decades may be permanently shattered. By Theodore Schleifer@teddyschleifer May 18, 2021, 10:55am EDT Bill Gates is mired in deep scandal, after decades of bolstering his philanthropic image. Indraneel Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images For decades, Bill Gates has traveled the globe as near-royalty, knighted by Queen Elizabeth and draped in medals by President Barack Obama. And for the last year, the once pugnacious Microsoft founder has reinvented himself as one of America’s clearest, most humane voices on the Covid-19 pandemic. …

New York (CNN Business)Joe Tsai, the billionaire co-founder of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, and his wife Clara Wu Tsai, have donated 2.6 million masks, 170,000 goggles and 2000 ventilators to New York — the US epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. The supplies were split into two shipments. The first arrived on Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport, while the second arrived on Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport. "We kept hearing cries for (personal protective equipment) from our community and wanted to help," Clara Tsai told CNN in an interview. The state will allocate the second shipment but "it's our intention to help the most …

பிரியா நடேஸ் தம்பதிகளின் இரண்டாவது மகள் கிறிஸ்மஸ் தீவுகளிலிருந்து அவசர மருத்துவ உதவிகளுக்காக பேர்த் வைத்தியசாலையில் அனுமதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.. Biloela child 'diagnosed with pneumonia' A child flown to hospital in Perth from Christmas Island now has pneumonia, campaigners say, as the Home Affairs Minister maintained the Australian government is "investigating resettlement options" for detainees. Karen Andrews said she "didn't want to disrupt negotiations" regarding the family, who currently are detained on Christmas Island after they were deported from Biloela, Queensland. . "We are going through the process now of investigating a range of res…

By Ranga Sirilal MAILAPITIYA, Sri Lanka, June 8 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan mother-of-two Chandi Rajamanthree says she would rather see her two young sons starve to death than fight in an ethnic conflict that left their father disabled. Her husband has made a partial recovery since he was badly injured in one arm and one leg when the feared sea arm of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) sank his Israeli-made naval fast attack boat in 2000. .... ....... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL127967.htm

The years of toil have paid off and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is on the ascendance in Tamil Nadu, looking at bright yet challenging days ahead. Propelled by the "Modi wave", the party used the support base of six regional players it had aligned with as a launch pad to perform creditably in the Lok Sabha election. BJP's pre-poll alliance with the DMDK, PMK, MDMK, KMDK, IJK and NJP raked in 19% of the votes polled and the coalition picked up two Lok Sabha seats. The remaining 37 seats went to the AIADMK, while the Congress and the DMK drew a blank. The BJP, which contested 18 seats in 2009, more than doubled its vote share from 2.34% to 5.48% in 2014 d…

Tamil Tigers: Suicide Bombing Innovators May 21, 2009 1:00 PM ET Robert Pape, director of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism, examines the decades-long war in Sri Lanka with the Tamil Tigers. The group is reported to have invented the suicide vest, and made suicide bombing their trademark. LYNN NEARY, host: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels didn't invent the suicide bomb, but they pioneered it as a tactic in war. For three decades, the rebels fought for an independent homeland with hundreds of suicide attacks, more than al-Qaida or any other group. All told, more t…

Blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms Thursday, 03 August 2006 Hon. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European External Relations Commission (Sri Lanka) Honoured Madam, Re: “I am deeply concerned at the blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms,” European External Relations Commission Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in a statement. You were not concerned at the disruption of the peace process to the extent you are concerned, that also deeply, at the blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms. You were not concerned at least on humanitarian grounds, when the implementation of the "Joint Mecha…

New York (CNN Business)Boeing will pay out $100 million to help support the families and communities of the 346 people who died in two 737 Max crashes in the last year. The company said the money will be given to local nonprofits and community groups who will help distribute the funds. They'll be used to support education, including college tuition or other schooling expenses for children of victims, and "hardship or living expenses for impacted families," Boeing (BA) said in statement. Victim families that accept funds from this pool of money will not be required to give up the right to pursue legal action against the company, a Boeing spokesperson said. The c…

Bomb attack on Nittambuwa bus kills at least five. COLOMBO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a bomb in a bus in western Sri Lanka on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding 30, the military said, as fighting raged in the north and east of the island. Around 80 people were aboard the bus when the blast occurred in the town of Nittambuwa, 36 km (20 miles) north of Colombo, during evening rush hour. "It was a bomb inside the bus, very powerful, the bus caught fire," said military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe. "The Tigers are targeting civilians." He said the bomb was place beneath a passenger seat. There was…

Title: A History of the Up-Country Tamil People in Sri Lanka Author: S. Nadesan Rating: Published: 1997 Description: Reviews and Description of this book Title: An Appeal for the Right to Life, Right to Liberty, Right to Security for the Tamil People Author: Tamil Centre for Human Rights Rating: Published: April, 1997 Description: Title: Broken Promises Author: M. Thirunavukkarasu Rating: Published: 1997 Description: Description of this book Title: By Way Of Deception - The Making And Unmaking Of a Mossad Officer …

A UK parliamentarian of Sri Lankan origin Ranil Jayawardena has been appointed as the Trade Minister in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government, British media reported. Mr. Jayawardena was promoted to the Department of International Trade on Tuesday after UK’s Trade Minister Conor Burns, one of Boris Johnson’s closest allies, was found to have attempted to intimidate the member of the public. Mr Jayawardena, the MP for North East Hampshire, was promoted in Mr Burns' absence in the department, although to the more junior role of parliamentary under secretary of state, reports said. Mr Burns, who represents Bournemouth West, quit on Monday after the parliam…

Boris Johnson handed the EU a stark warning that a vaccines blockade of Northern Ireland could kill British pensioners in 'spicy' late-night phone calls with Ursula von der Leyen. The Prime Minister told the European Commission president that plans to stop 3.5 million doses from the Pfizer factory in Belgium the UK risked preventing people from receiving the second injection, forcing it into a hurried climbdown. While a single vaccination gives some protection from coronavirus, both are needed to achieve the maximum impact and Mr Johnson told Ms von der Leyen the EU's hardline plan could lead to the deaths of the most vulnerable, including elderly grandpare…

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