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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…

What if Periyar had not been born? By P C Vinoj Kumar in Chennai | Friday, 17 September , 2004, 13:44 It is that time of the year when political leaders in Tamil Nadu remember Periyar E V Ramasamy Naicker, one of the world’s all time great social revolutionaries. September 17, 2004, is the 126th birth anniversary of Periyar, the founder of ‘Dravida Kazhagam,’ the parent party of all Dravidian parties. Periyar spearheaded a movement that had such a revolutionary impact on society, which could be understood better, if we imagine for a moment that this man was never born. What if Periyar were not born? Would it have changed the way we live, eat and s…

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…

On 19 January 2007, LTTE decided to pull back from its Pannichchankerni position which is on the access route to Vaharai. People in Vaharai, residents and the displaced, have endured more than six months of denial of humanitarian access. Since October only once a small quantity of food and medicine was allowed into Vaharai. People have been forced to run around from place to place to avoid indiscriminate artillery shelling by the Sri Lankan military since October. Ninety three civilians including several children were killed in November and December in three schools, Kathiraveli, Patchenai, and Vammivedduvan, converted into refugee camps. Many more were severely …

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Fighting erupts in Northern Front [TamilNet, Sunday, 09 March 2008, 20:32 GMT] Heavy exchange of gun and mortar fire was reported Sunday night for at least 3 hours from 10:00 p.m., sources in Thenmaraadchi said. The fighting continued till the latest update from the area at 1:00 a.m. Monday. Further details are not available at the moment.

Sri Lanka to crack down on terror but no rebel ban COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will introduce tough emergency regulations to curb terrorist activities but will not impose a ban on Tamil Tiger rebels, the island's government said on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT The cabinet's decision comes after months of escalating violence between the army and the rebels, including bomb blasts in the capital, and amid fears a ban could sink hopes of avoiding a return to all-out civil war. Last week, a suicide attack in Colombo targeted President Mahinda Rajapakse's brother Gothabaya Rajapakse, who is also the island's Defense Secretary and escaped unscathed. "T…

Sri Lanka says drives Tiger rebels from eastern HQ By Simon Gardner COLOMBO, March 28 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops have driven Tamil Tiger rebels from a key stronghold in the island's restive east, the military said on Wednesday, as the government probed how a rebel plane managed to bomb a base in the capital. Troops seeking to evict Tiger fighters from the eastern district of Batticaloa found late on Tuesday a complex of bungalows they say was a hurriedly abandoned rebel headquarters whose occupants fled to nearby jungle. "We have captured a Tiger headquarters in Kokkadichcholai, south of Batticaloa," said military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasingh…

M. A. Sumanthiran on Daily Mirror's 'On Fire with Easwaran Rutnam' discussed, inter alia, the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the continued need for transitional justice in Sri Lanka and the prospects for it under the current Government, the ongoing consitution-drafting process, Sri Lanka's political relations with India and its impact on the Geneva sessions

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LTTE cadre, civilian killed in Claymore attack in Mannar [TamilNet, January 03, 2006 12:43 GMT] A cadre of Mannar Political Division of the LTTE, Jeyananthan, and a civilian identified as Vinoth, riding in a motorbike in LTTE controlled area at Valaiyankattu in Mullikkulam, 45 km south of Mannar town, were killed when a Claymore mine was exploded by Sri Lankan soldiers, LTTE sources in Mannar said. The attack took place around 4:00 p.m. Tuesday. The political cadre killed in the Claymore attack was a disabled cadre who had lost one of his legs, the sources added. Further details are not available at the moment. Tamilnet.com

Will Phoenix Rise Again? PriyaRaj . It seems to be a very normal day in the battlefield of Vanni, the rattling sounds of the machine guns, the thundering from heavy weapons fire and the cracking of sniper fire, all clearly painted the reality of the situation in black and white. Smoke and dust surrounds the area. Trees and bushes were on fire. Fireballs were raining from the sky. The roars from the diesel engines of the battle tanks and armored personnel carriers, these are all familiar noises from the battle that was raging around Vanni. The situation looked worse than in a nightmare. But suddenly there was a sound from one part of the battlefield, this sound wa…

Sri Lanka is set to buy at least 10,000 tonnes of food from India, to be shipped from Chennai to shortages-hit Jaffna in the island's north, according to informed sources. Arrangements are on to buy a wide variety of food items used in Tamil kitchens and transport them by the sea from Tamil Nadu. Separately, food items may also be shipped from Nagapattinam, also in Tamil Nadu, to Kayts Island, off Jaffna. The decision follows meetings here late last month when President Mahinda Rajapakse and Social Services and Social Welfare Minister Douglas Devananda of Sri Lanka urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to help overcome food shortages in Jaffna peninsula. The Sri L…

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Tamil organization raided in Montreal Last updated Apr 17 2006 12:32 PM EDT CBC News Police in Montreal have raided the offices of a Tamil organization as part of an investigation into terrorist financing. A joint RCMP-Québec and Montréal police team searched the office of the World Tamil Movement April 12, two days after Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced the Tamil Tigers had been put on Canada's list of banned terrorist organizations. Officials told the National Post that no arrests were made at the Van Horne Avenue location, and that documents and information were seized. The Tigers have fought an ongoing battle against the…

Jaya writes to PM on Lankan Navy attack on Indian fishermen Source: UNI - January 8, 2006 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today urged the Centre to take the Katchatheevu Island on lease in perpetuity to solve the problem of frequent attacks on Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a copy of which was released to the press here, Ms Jayalalithaa referred to the firing on Indian fishermen by Sri Lankan Navy early this morning and asked him to take up the issue of ''indiscriminate attack on poor fishermen belonging to Tamil Nadu on high seas with the Government of Sri Lanka and register a strong pr…

OSLO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan rebel Tamil Tigers want European Union members withdrawn from a five-nation truce monitoring mission, mediator Norway said on Thursday. The EU last month listed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a banned terrorist organisation after an upsurge in violence on the Indian Ocean island. "The LTTE has informed us that individual members of the EU cannot be members of the Nordic monitoring mission," Erik Solheim, Norway's minister for international development who brokered a 2002 truce, told a news conference. ... ..... http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08062006/325/tige...ors-norway.html LTTE continues dialogue with Norwegia…

Somali sex gang groomed and raped underage British schoolgirls saying it was 'part of their culture' Men ranging in age from 18 and 22, encouraged girls, one of who was just 13, to have sex with them in a flat and hotel rooms http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/somali-sex-gang-groomed-raped-4706033?ICID=FB_mirror_main This is the shocking moment a member of a brutal prostitution gang checked into a hotel to rape a 13-year-old girl. In the sickening CCTV shot, twisted Jusuf Abdirizak, 20, is seen at the reception of the Premier Inn in Bristol where he and Said Zakaria, 22, attacked the terrified girl. The teenager had been traffic…

UK arrests in Tamil Tigers probe Three men have been arrested by counter-terrorism officers in the UK as part of an investigation into the Tamil Tigers, police say. The arrests are said to be part of a long-term investigation into the Sri-Lankan-based group. Two men, aged 39 and 46, were arrested in dawn raids at separate addresses in Newtown, Powys, and a third, aged 33, arrested in Mitcham, south-west London. A raid also took place in Surrey, Scotland Yard said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7372883.stm

New Zealand Expresses Regret over Sri Lanka’s unilateral Ending of CFA Jan 17, 2008, 00:15 Digg this story! Wellington - New Zealand’s Duty Minister Rick Barker, expressed regret over the Sri Lanka’s decision of unilateral abrogation of the internationally supported, Norway inspired, February, 2002 Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the government of Sri Lanka (GoSL). He said through a Media Statement that, New Zealand is concerned about the deterioration of the security situation in Sri Lanka and the very serious implications for the civilian population. "New Zealand is concerned about the…

The latest leads in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner suggest that the plane turned west and then flew for at least four hours after its last confirmed location between Malaysia and Vietnam. Based on military radar data, this evidence makes it seem increasingly likely that the jet was commandeered along with its 239 passengers, whether by terrorists or crew members. Now people are discussing the possibility that the plane landed somewhere and is part of a larger plan. There are many places that Flight 370 could have reached in four hours - its fuel could have taken it approximately 2,530 miles in any direction - even if it is thought to have flown we…

Eelam war IV rages on several fronts- Situation Report *** Tigers use long-range artillery to attack Palaly base *** Tigers occupy Army bunkers in Muhamalai but troops fight back Plans by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to lay siege on the Jaffna peninsula began to unravel on Friday evening as Eelam War IV raged for a second successive week. The most disturbing development came when guerrillas directed artillery fire at the Security Forces Headquarters (SFHQ) in Jaffna. It fell on many places including the runway at the Palaly Air Force base located in the same complex. A Bell 212 helicopter was damaged. Military officials said the guerrilla…

Ireland and Tamil Eelam The nation of Eelam Tamils are conjoined with the Irish due to similar British supervised counter-insurgency and geo-politics of imperialism. By Athithan Jayapalan In a historic battle against the might of the British Empire during Easter week in 1916, hundreds of Irish nationalist revolutionaries who made up the vanguard of the Republican movements’ struggle for Irish sovereignty, took positions in and around Dublin, attacking and occupying government buildings and strategic locations. Although the rebellion in itself was quelled with the execution of 15 of its leaders and imprisonment of the rest, the determination, heroism and …

சிங்கள பாதுகாப்பு அமைச்சு இப்படியொரு செய்தியை வெளியிட்டுள்ளது. LTTE terrorists launched a mortar attack targeting VIP air movement carrying Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe along with few foreign diplomats around 9 this morning. Defense sources said that the mortars were launched as the two helicopters landed at the Webber stadium in the Batticaloa town. Sources further confirmed that Minister suffered no injuries in the attack. However, few people including a foreign diplomat have suffered injuries. A helicopter belonging to a private airliner was slightly damaged in the attack. More information will follow.