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Introduction In the so-called ‘post-war’ Sri Lanka context, land grabbing, Sinhalization and military occupation of the Tamil nation have become pivotal points in the political development discourse. The deep concerns that exist amongst the majority of the Tamils, which are directed towards their present and future existence, are these same issues. The political discourse within the international community is unable to keep pace with the real-time implementation and effects on the ground. The international community continues to talk about reconciliation and the Sri Lankan state seems keener on Sinhala settlements and militarization in the Tamil nation. All three actors…

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Paramilitary group abducts Muslims, demands ransom 11 Muslim dairy farm workers out of a group of 18, going out to work from the Muslim village of Thambalai, were abducted Saturday by the Karuna paramilitary group on Pollonaruwa-Sunkavil road, 10 k.m. east of Pollonaruwa. The abductees were being held in the close by jungles of Sinnavil, with ransom demands of 1 million rupees, relatives of the farm workers said. Thambalai villagers have managed to collect 100,000 rupees, and paid the abductors who then released 5 farm workers, and demanded 500,000 rupees for the release of the remaining 4. The abductees are detained and guarded by 6 armed paramilitaries in Sri …

The United Nations may become involved in the case of the Tamil asylum seekers who were detained on an Australian customs boat, with a court hearing to take place in Canberra in October. A brief high court directions hearing in Melbourne on Thursday resulted in Justice Kenneth Hayne setting a date of 14 October and 15 October for the full court case. The legal team representing the asylum seekers indicated that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Australian Human Rights Commission were looking to intervene in the case. George Newhouse, a lawyer for the asylum seekers, said the UN and other human rights organisations were 'following the cas…

2 Sri Lankan gunboats destroyed in the seas off Vadamaradchi, Jaffna [TamilNet, Thursday, 09 November 2006, 12:45 GMT] A Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) Dvora Fast Attac Craft (FAC) was sunk by a Sea Tiger flotilla around 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the seas off Point Pedro and another SLN gunboat was damaged around 6:00 p.m. off Valvettithurai by the same flotilla which chased the SLN vessels into Kankesanthurai harbour, eyewitness reports in Vadamaradchi said. Meanwhile, Liberation Tigers Military Spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan told media that the ongoing sea clash erupted when the Sea Tigers were provoked by Sri Lanka Navy vessels in the seas off Nagarkovil in LTTE territorial …

First reported instance of a female Kurdish fighter carrying out a suicide bombing against Isil as jihadists draw within a mile of town on Turkish border A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb attack against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) jihadists outside a key Syrian town on Sunday night, a monitoring group said. The woman, named on social media as Arin Mirkan, reportedly blew herself up at an Isil position east of the border town of Kobane, killing a number of jihadists who have surrounded and are battling to seize it. It was the first reported instance of a female Kurdish fighter carrying out a suicide bombing against Isil, which …

Indian military aid condemned "Indian government, or more specifically the Hindi politicians who dominate the Indian parliament and thus control Indian foreign policy and military decisions, is somewhat afraid of Tamil Nadu's reaction to its military aid to Sri Lanka. [Note: Hindi politicians do not have a majority in parliament but have the highest number of members. They are able to astutely control major decisions in alliance with other groups.] So the Indian government provides the military assistance covertly while issuing public statements that it has a hands-off policy towards the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. If and when such assistance is exposed, India routin…

Sri Lanka: Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) provides refuge to 80 families displaced from Batticaloa Since recently Tamil families moving from the Batticaloa district into Vanni area to escape atrocities in the hands of the Srilanka armed forces keep on increasing to unprecedented levels. Mobilising all the resources at its disposal, TRO Srilanka has geared itself towards meeting the specific needs of the displaced families. From providing food, water, medicines and other essential non food household items to putting up houses on allocated lands to make these people as homely as possible are being looked after by TRO. Local people are seen to have joine…

The Federal Reserve announced an emergency rate cut Tuesday of half a percentage point in response to the growing economic threat from the novel coronavirus. The move was the first such cut since the financial crisis. Markets had been widely expecting the U.S. central bank to take some type of action, with anticipation of a 50 basis point cut by the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting later this month. The move comes the same morning the G-7 announced that it would commit unspecified tools to help the global economy deal with the threat, and as Wall Street was in the midst of another market sell-off. Markets immediately turned higher on the announceme…

View Photo Associated Press/Eranga Jayawardena - In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 photo, Sri Lankan Buddhist monks of Jathika Hela Urumaya, or National Heritage, a coalition political party of the Sri Lanka's ruling party take part in a convention in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The escalation in attacks and anti-Muslim rhetoric has caused fears of a new wave of ethnic violence in the country still recovering from a quarter-century civil war between the government, controlled by ethnic Sinhalese Buddhists, and a mainly Hindu ethnic Tamil rebel group. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) less RELATED CONTENT View Photo In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 … COLOMBO, Sri Lank…

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Putin Says Around 40,000 North Koreans Work in Russia, Casts Doubt on Efforts of Military Strike This combined photo shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (L) (KCNA via REUTERS) and Russia President Putin (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images) Russia President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that a military strike against North Korea designed to destroy its nuclear and missile program might not succeed because Pyongyang could have hidden military facilities that nobody knows about. Putin, speaking at an energy forum in Moscow, made it clea…

அமெரிக்க அதிபர் பராக் ஒபாமா இந்தியா வந்து சென்றதைப் பற்றி நாம் பெருமையாகக் கருதிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறோம். ஆனால், அமெரிக்க மக்கள் அனைவரும் ஒரு தமிழரைப் பற்றி வியப்பாக பேசிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள் என்றால் நமக்கு பெருமை சேர்க்கும் விஷயம்தானே! அந்தத் தமிழர் பெயர் கே.ஆர். ஸ்ரீதர். இவர், சாதாரண தமிழர் அல்ல.. மின்சாரத் தமிழர். சற்று பீடிகையாக இருந்தாலும் மேலே படியுங்கள்... நீங்களும் பாராட்டத் தொடங்கி விடுவீர்கள்... உலகம் முழுவதும் மின்சாரப் பற்றாக்குறை என்பது தவிர்க்க முடியாத நிலையாகிவிட்டதால், மின் உற்பத்தியை எவ்வாறு அதிகரிக்கலாம் என அனைத்து நாட்டு வல்லுநர்களும் தீவிரமாக யோசித்துக் கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள். ஆனால், ஒருவர் தனது வீட்டுக்குத் தேவையான மின்சாரத்தை வீட்டில் வைத்தே உற்பத…

Former Chief justice Sarath N. Silva said today it was illegal and unconstitutional to grant one million US dollars to Palestine without following the proper procedure to do so. Mr. Silva said spending of one million US dollars by the Finance Ministry Secretary and the President as the Finance Minister had violated Section 148 of the Constitution. 'This amount of money had been spent outside budgetary allocations. If the government was spending any money beyond the budgetary allocations or appropriation Bill, they need to submit a special supplementary Bill in parliament. But in this instance the Finance ministry has not followed that procedure,' Mr. Silva said. …

NO. GO. TELL is a short film directed by Jude Anthany Joseph, presented by Nivin pauly, and produced by the Bodhini Metropolis charitable Trust with support from Muthoot Pappachan Foundation to bring about awareness to kids and parents regarding body safety issues. Cinematography : Mukesh Muraleedharan, Music: Shan Rahman, Editing: Rias, Sound & Mixing : Radhakrishnan S the film properly educates the audience in understanding what a child needs to do to keep himself safe and how to ask for help.

[Live Streaming] – May 18th, 2020 @ 6:00 PM Toronto: On May 18th, Tamils across the world come together to commemorate Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day. This year, we mark 11 years since the height of the Tamil genocide that took place in Mullivaaikaal , Sri Lanka, also known as the Mullivaaikaal Genocide. Estimates from the UN and independent sources list the death toll to range from 40 - 75,000 innocent civilian massacred during this time. An independent estimate suggests more than 75,000 innocent civilians were killed. The genocidal pogroms of the Sri Lankan state caused the persecution of innocent people, displaced many and caused many to seek refuge elsewhe…

Take Action Ask the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group to Suspend Sri Lanka Photo: Reuters Sri Lanka's war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against Tamils, which peaked in 2009 and continues today, requires that Sri Lanka be suspended from the Councils of the Commonwealth. The next key Commonwealth event, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2013 (CHOGM), is due to be held in Sri Lanka this November. Holding CHOGM in Sri Lanka, amidst blanket impunity for Sri Lanka's mass atrocities against Tamils in 2009 and escalating human rights violations occurring today, would be an egregious embarrassment to the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Law…

Various political parties in Tamil Nadu are seen campaigning with the images and cut-outs of late Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ahead of the assembly elections, proving that years after his death, Prabhakaran still continues to hold political clout in the state. Shiv Raman from Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK), contesting from Thirumayam Constituency of Pudukkottai district, on Thursday used imaged and cut-outs of Prabhakaran. Apart from NTK, led by Senthamizhan Seeman -- who is a filmmaker turned politician, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) led by Vaiko, who is a Rajya Sabha MP from Tamil Nad…

BUSINESS Sri Lanka needs ‘bridge financing’ to last next six months, says Indrajit Coomaraswamy Published 5 days ago on 2022/04/4 by Sanath Nanayakkare Sri Lanka needs to take steps on getting to a framework programme with the IMF, restructure its external debt and bring some bridge financing to last for next six months until negotiations with the IMF on external debt is completed,”former central bank governor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy said recently, at a forum hosted by CT CLSA. “IMF won’t be able to transact with Sri Lanka until …

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UK universities are finding it hard to recruit overseas Universities face foreign slump By Mike Baker BBC News education correspondent The anxiously awaited university application figures are due next week. They will show that the introduction of "top-up" fees is having an impact on the demand for university places in England. However, soundings suggest they will be down by only a few percentage points which, after last's year spike in demand, will not yet ring alarm bells or suggest school-leavers are abandoning the idea of going to university. This will be a great relief to the government which, with its hands full on schools poli…

Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10576100590950129?src=recsys Tamil Tiger “Martyrs": Regenerating Divine Potency? Michael Roberts Pages 493-514 | Received 27 Jul 2004, Accepted 14 Oct 2004, Published online: 23 Aug 2006 Contrary to claim, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are not overwhelmingly secular in their practices. While their successes as a liberation movem…

Kfir bombers over Vanni, SLA fires MBRL rockets Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir jets, for the fourth day, flew over Vanni from 8:10 a.m. Friday. A reconnaissance aircraft was observed from 7:55 a.m. and continued to fly also after the Kfir jets had left the Vanni airspace. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) began firing Mulit-Barrel Rocket Launcher shells towards Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled territory from 8:20 a.m. The MBRL, artilery fire and explosions were continuing in the Northern front. http://www.goodsrilanka.com/index.php?suba...t_from=&ucat=1&

Leaders of Sri Lanka's main Tamil party are to push their case for full implementation of the contentious thirteenth amendment to the Constitution during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) delegation leaves for India today for their first meeting with the new Indian government. The delegation is expected to meet External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday and hopes to meet Modi on Saturday. Senior TNA parliamentarian M A Sumanthiran said the party will urge India to ensure Sri Lanka fully implements the 13Amendment as the Sri Lankan government had earlier given that assurance to India. Under the 13A amendment…