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Although the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) was pushing extremely hard for an international war crimes probe into the alleged accountability issues in Sri Lanka, with a major conference in the UK parliament scheduled for Feb. 27, the Canadian government had emerged as the leading campaigner against Colombo, ministerial sources told The Island. The target of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s campaign was the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka in November this year, Foreign Service sources said last night. Responding to a query, they said that unlike the GTF campaign, the Canadian action had brought tremendous pressure on…

CANADA PARTICIPATES IN OVERSEEING SRI LANKAN PROCESS TO INVESTIGATE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS http://w01.international.gc.ca/minpub/Publ...mp;docnumber=12 The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, today announced the nomination of Professor Bruce Matthews to join the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP), which will monitor the Sri Lankan Commission of Inquiry into recent human rights violations in that country. “I am encouraged by the Sri Lankan President’s initiative to invite foreign experts to participate as observers of the inquiry into allegations of huma…

TamilCulture June 29, 2017 AddThis Sharing 0460 SHARES Share to FacebookFacebookShare to TwitterTwitterShare to MoreMore The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Canada’s largest financial institution, has acquired Wiser Investments, headed by CEO Ajantha Ganeshalingam. The acquisition is part of a $20 million investment that RBC is making towards establishing an in-house Innovation Lab of which Wiser is a foundational component. Wiser’s CEO Ajantha shared the following statement on his LinkedIn page followi…

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not attend the Commonwealth summit in Colombo later this year unless Colombo shows improvement on issues like human rights, judicial independence and more autonomy for the Tamils, the country's envoy to the grouping has said. Senator Hugh Segal, Canada's special envoy for Commonwealth renewal said Canada was not encouraging anybody not to participate in the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Colombo from November 15. "Our own Prime Minister has said that he does not intend to be in Colombo because he has not seen sufficient evidence of the Government producing results on issues like human rights, rule of law, Judicial i…

Canadian Students and Youth Groups Condemn CHOGM in Colombo Thursday, November 14, 2013 For Immediate Release Canadian Students and Youth Groups strongly condemn the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to take place in Colombo, Sri-Lanka. CHOGM has been a venue for world leaders to discuss global and Commonwealth issues including good governance, human rights, international peace and security and equality. Sri Lanka’s track records show complete dissent to the principles and values Commonwealth vows to uphold. The Sri-Lankan Government is accused of the most execrable war crimes and crimes against humanity of our recent history. As part of a sys…

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Carleton Tamil students react to accused terrorist links Written by Alexander Baker Thursday, 14 September 2006 Four University of Waterloo students were arrested for allegedly providing money and weapons to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in August. In a sweeping raid RCMP and FBI officers detained 11 men, including seven Canadians, alleged to have links to the terrorist group. The group is fighting for an independent Tamil state in northern Sri Lanka. The incident generated publicity, including a front-page spread in the National Post Aug. 31 with an image of students raising the LTTE flag. It depicts crossed AK-47 assault rifles. The…

Carnage continues in Vanni [TamilNet, Thursday, 09 April 2009, 19:26 GMT] Indiscriminate shelling and gun fire by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) continued on safe zone Pokka'nai and Valaignarmadam throughout the day on Thursday. Medical officials at Puthumaaththa'lan hospital told media that more than 300 wounded civilians were admitted and 47 of the victims died after admission at the hospital. Many civilians killed in the shelling and gunfire by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) were not brought to the hospital. Total figure of the casualties were not available. 296 civilians were admitted on Wednesday and more than 200 seriously wounded were transferred from the makeshift h…

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Ceasefire Agreement completes its fifth year Statement 22 February 2007 On February 22, 2002, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL), entered into the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) with facilitation by the Royal Norwegian Government. Five years have passed since the signing of this historic agreement by the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Vellupillai Pirapaharan, and the then Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremasinghe. Even though today it exists only on paper, it remains a unique document in the search for an end to the national conflict in the island Sri Lanka. Unprecedented in peace efforts …

As Tamil National reported earlier the Sri Lanka Army has not silenced the gunfire as announced to the world. The Sri Lanka Military attack on no fire zone continues as usual. In today’s attack from midnight till 5 pm, more than 200 civilians were dead and around 300 were injured. Kapilan, a fisherman from Valaignarmadam spoke to Tamil National today. In the interview with us, he narrates the real situation inside the no fire zone. கபிலன் அவர்களின் செவ்வியை கேட்க Courtesy:TamilNational.com

By the time the morning sun had crept above the city’s Soviet-era apartment blocks, the crowd-control barriers lining Suvorov Square in downtown Tiraspol were already three-deep with families dressed in their Sunday (in this case, Monday) best. Their collective excitement was almost palpable on this surprisingly warm September day; anyone would have thought a royal wedding was on the cards. But in Transnistria (also spelled Trans-Dniester), a sliver of land tracing Moldova’s border with Ukraine for 400km, the capital’s Independence Day celebrations are the highlight of the year. Never mind that the tiny Eastern European nation, formally called the Pridnestrovian Mold…

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IMAGE SOURCE,ISRO Image caption, One of the latest images sent by the Vikram lander By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi India's space agency has released images of the far side of the Moon as its third lunar mission attempts to locate a safe landing spot near the little-explored south pole. The pictures have been taken by Vikram, Chandrayaan-3's lander, which began the last phase of its mission on Thursday. Vikram, which carries a rover in its belly, is due to land on 23 August. The photos come a day aft…

Chasing the ghosts of Sri Lanka’s disappeared I’m in seat 67, carriage B on the 0650 train from Colombo Fort station to Kilinochchi, the erstwhile rebel capital of the vanquished Tamil Tigers. My Channel 4 team are scattered around me. For the next six hours we’ll trundle north, crossing coffee-brown rivers, past villages set among clusters of coconut palms, past emerald rice paddies, wading water buffalo and egrets. We saw a long snake swimming across a drowned field. The doors and windows are open and there’s a good draft. Outside, it’s hotting up. Three rows in front, in seats 54 and 55, are the state intelligence agents – or, at least, the men we’re all p…

Chauvinism In The Age Of Immigration by Walter Trkla (Swans - October 4, 2010) Recent letters to the editor in our local newspaper and reports from the Urban Alliance on Race Relations indicate that many Canadians are xenophobic. Canada has a history of racial intolerance, and even though our multicultural policies promote equality, we continue to see racist comments in the letters to the editor. Some comments in the paper in support of racial harmony and openness have been responded to with vicious attacks -- "People like you will allow anyone and anything into our country and to hell with what the majority of us consider sacred: CANADIAN values!"…

Madam President, Excellencies, Heads of State, Heads of government and other government’s representatives, good morning. First, and with all respect, I highly recommend this book by Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious intellectuals in America and the world, Chomsky. One of his most recent works: Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) . It’s an excellent work to understand what’s happened in the world in the 20th Century, what’s currently happening, and the greatest threat on this planet; the hegemonic pretension of the North American imperialism endangers the human race’s survival. We continue w…

Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam was born in Malaysia on 31ST March 1898, one century and fifteen years ago. He received his secondary education at the Union College, Tellippalai and later became a student at St. Thomas’ College, which was at that time situated at Modera. He was a contemporary of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. At the age of nineteen, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree. Soon after his graduation he became a teacher at St. Thomas’ College, which was by then shifted to Mount Lavinia. Later he moved to Wesley College and pursued his studies in law at Law College. He became an advocate in 1923 and the dignity of silk was conferred on him in 1947. He wa…

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.

Posted by: Dexter Roberts on December 15 It’s a big day for cross-Straits relations. Ending an almost 60-year-old ban on direct links that date back to the civil war between the Chinese Communists and Taiwan’s KMT Party, beginning today Taiwan and the mainland are allowing direct trade, transport, and postal links—what the Chinese call “three direct links.” And it’s long overdue: over the last twenty years, economic relations between the former enemies have soared. Today more than 750,000 Taiwanese live and work on the mainland, having invested tens of billions of dollars. Trade is expected to soon reach $100 billion, with Taiwanese electronics components, as we…

China has called on Sri Lanka to “make efforts to protect and promote human rights”, amid continuing debate over the island nation’s hosting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). While calling on other countries to “provide constructive assistance”, the Chinese government, which has in the past been among Sri Lanka’s strongest supporters against the international community’s criticism following the end of the war, said it was important for Sri Lanka to protect human rights. “This is an issue within the Commonwealth, but at the same time I believe that on the human rights issue, dialogue and communication should be enhanced among countries,” Fore…

New Delhi The day Sri Lanka backed out of the joint partnership with India and Japan for the much-hyped East Container Terminal (ECT) project at Colombo port, a move that shocked both New Delhi and Tokyo, Sri Lanka’s Central Bank (CBSL) also returned the US $400 million currency swap to India, foreclosing a key debt, IBN reported. Sri Lanka had availed this facility in July 2020 to meet some immediate expenses during the Covid-induced lockdown. However, both the nations kept quiet about it. After a section of the media and opposition politicians started talking about a “pissed off” India asking Sri Lanka to return its money, Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL)…

China is working on a draft for a law on international seabed exploration that would enable it to explore mineral and other deep sea resources in the Indian Ocean and other seas far from its shores, official sources said. The move is likely to worry New Delhi that keeps a close watch on China's strategic moves in the Indian Ocean with the help of countries like Sri Lanka. Colombo recently supported increased Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean saying China needed to protect its sea trade routes. The proposed law is part of China's efforts to build itself as a maritime power. The country recently launched its first aircraft carrier. The standing committee of …