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The rebel Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka use suicide bombers and go into battle with cyanide capsules around their necks. The EU has labeled them terrorists, but they say it’s the Tamil people who are being terrorized. By Kevin Sites, Wed Jun 14, 12:26 AM ET KILINOCHCHI, LTTE-controlled Sri Lanka — Formed in Sri Lanka in 1976 amid growing ethnic tensions between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, are known as one of the most disciplined, organized and ruthless rebel forces in the world. They are led by a shadowy figure named Velupillai Prabhakaran who is rarely seen, except in photo…

03.10.2014 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s domestic probe into the disappearance of thousands of civilians during and after the island’s ethnic war is being undermined by serious translation errors, a group of activists said Thursday. Testimony before the presidential Commission of Inquiry was marred by glaring mistakes in translating questions from English-speaking investigators to ethnic Tamil witnesses, the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) said. Sittings this week have been affected by errors that could undermine the quality of testimony before the commission, the CPA said, adding that witnesses were photographed by men said to be military intelligence officers. …

Is a deadly chemical killing off this predominantly black Louisiana town? This 77-year old thinks so.Now he's taking on a giant chemical plant to save his community.

28 Feb 2007 11:37:00 GMT Blogged by: Peter Apps Alert Me | Printable view | Email this article | RSS [-] Text [+] Keifer Sutherland, star of hit TV series "24". REUTERS/Fred Prouser Accusing violent television of promoting violence may be nothing new, but this article by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker brings the debate into the world of geopolitics and human rights. Set in real-time, the TV series "24" pits U.S. federal agent Jack Bauer against a range of conspirators aiming to inflict death and destruction. With the clock ticking to disaster, there is often no time for the niceties. http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/36072/200...28-113722-1.htm The sho…

More Tamil asylum seekers to Norway. (Lanka-e-News-2007Dec.25, 4.20AM) A larger number of Tamil asylum seekers have arrived in Norway this year, compared with last year. Most of them are not allowed to stay, a higher proportion than last year. Around 6200 foreign citizens have applied for asylum this year, an increase by 700 from 2006. When more non-Srilankan foreign citizens are allowed to stay compared with earlier, it is because a higher proportion has a real need for protection, says Ida Boerresen, head of the Immigration Directorate (UDI). The criteria are just as strict as before, Boerresen says. Almost hundred of Tamil asylum seekers including one School…

As Sri Lanka's government is named by Human Rights Watch (HRW) as one of the world's worst perpetrators of enforced disappearances, the father of someone who disappeared tells his story to the BBC. Jude (not his real name) is a young Tamil man who disappeared in the north of Sri Lanka in February 2007. Ever since then, his family have been desperately searching for any clue to what might have happened to him. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My son has been missing for one year. We have been searching for him for all over the place. We never really stop looking. One day he just failed to come ho…

American Jewish World Service American Jewish World Service, an international development organisation inspired by Jewish ideas of social justice, works to alleviate poverty, hunger and disease worldwide regardless of people's race, religion or nationality. Active in the field Funding and other support Region or province: Trincomalee Where exactly:Batukachchiya, Kantale CAFOD CAFOD, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, is the official development and relief organisation of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and has been running projects in developing countries since 1962. Funding and other support Caritas Caritas encompasses 162…

If anyone asked to explain Tamil freedom struggle in Eelam, these two leader's pictures can tell the full history. Since 1948, Tamil leader Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam resisted Sri Lanka's genocide against Tamils using non-violent protests but in 1976, he and Tamils democratically decided to form a separate State Tamil Eelam and reclaim their sovereignty. SJV Chelva also known as Thanthai Selva asked youths to come forward and use force to protect Eelam Tamils. Since 1976, Tamil National leader Veluppillai Prabhakaran, his freedom fighters and people implemented Tamils democratic will and achieved it's goal Tamil Eelam in 2002... The history of Eelam Ta…

The Sri Lankan Army has expanded into yet another previously untouched market in the North; yoghurt production, with the opening of a new yoghurt factory in Jaffna. The newly opened factory in Kankasanthurai (KKS) will add to the army’s previous two yoghurt factories in Anuradhapura and Panagoda, and, as the army put it “thereby saving a fair chunk of expenditure that can be used for erection of wellness resorts for disable War Heroes in the Army.” According to their website “army professionalism” has helped cut down costs of producing the dessert “thereby saving a lot of profits”. See photos from the opening of the KKS factory below, along with the unveilin…

Every sovereign country in the world that can be represented by some complicated combination of the political systems between the two extremities of Autocracy and Democracy, derives its sovereignty from its population periodically. Hence, to retain their legitimacy, the respective governments go to a greater extent to protect their citizenry. In recent decades, Indian Union had successfully transformed itself into a dreadful political system that has effectively nullified the necessity for the transfer of sovereignty from its people through the institutionalization of pre-programmed electronic voting machines. Hence, being the only “Chipocracy” in the world, the Delhi reg…

Received July 26, 2005; accepted for publication November 3, 2005; electronically published December 16, 2005.Although considerable cultural impact on social hierarchy and language in South Asia is attributable to the arrival of nomadic Central Asian pastoralists, genetic data (mitochondrial and Y chromosomal) have yielded dramatically conflicting inferences on the genetic origins of tribes and castes of South Asia. We sought to resolve this conflict, using high-resolution data on 69 informative Y-chromosome binary markers and 10 microsatellite markers from a large set of geographically, socially, and linguistically representative ethnic groups of South Asia. We found tha…

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Two Karuna group cadres shot, injured in internal gunfight [TamilNet, Thursday, 23 November 2006, 18:17 GMT] Two cadres of Karuna paramilitary group were seriously injured in an internal fight ending in an exchange of gunfire Thursday around 3:30 p.m at Vinayagapuram in Valaichenai, Valaichenai police said. Some cadres of Kauna paramilitary group have been hiding due to differences of opinion within the group, and their opponents who had come in search of them started the firefight, the police added. The two injured in the gun fight were admitted at Polanaruwa hospital. The firefight lasted nearly 30 minutes, police said. http://www.tamilnet.com/a…

Rajapaksa challenges Prabhakaran to direct clash Wed, May 7 11:00 AM Colombo, May 7 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Tuesday challenged the elusive leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Velupillai Prabhakaran to 'clash with him directly' and declared that his government would continue in its bid to flush rebels out of their stronghold in the north. 'I will challenge Prabhakaran to clash with me directly if possible without engaging in a killing spree of targeting innocent civilians, parliamentarians and ministers,' Rajapaksa said after inaugurating the Oluvil port project in eastern Amparai district Tuesday. Rajapaksa, who is…

Just a little over a year ago, voters in Sri Lanka rallied to elect a new president, with high hopes that he would usher in a new era of government accountability and bring healing to a country fractured by the brutal civil war that ended in 2009. President Maithripala Sirisena has taken bold steps to fulfill those hopes since his election last January. But the wounds of war cannot be healed until a transitional justice process demanded by the United Nations in a resolution last October moves forward. On that score, Mr. Sirisena says his government will not act “in haste.” This is unacceptable. Atrocities were committed by both Tamil rebel troops and the Sri Lankan A…

Protect from Corona virus Hold your breath for more than 10 seconds. If you complete it successfully without coughing, without discomfort, stuffiness or tightness etc it proves there is no fibrosis in the lungs, basically indicating no infection. In critical times, please self-check every morning in an environment with clean air! Another EXCELLENT ADVICE by Japanese doctors treating COVID-19 cases. Everyone should ensure your mouth & throat is moist, never DRY. Take a few sips of water every 15 mins at least. WHY? Even if the virus gets into your mouth...drinking water or other liquids will WASH them down through your esophagus and into the stomach. On…

By Jonathan Power Foreign affairs columnist for the International Herald Tribune for 20 years and guest columnist for New York Times Not since the early Cold War days, when the US and NATO effectively encircled the Soviet Union, feeding Stalin’s paranoia, has America moved to be so profoundly counterproductive. It is now beginning to encircle China - at least that is how China is seeing it. Of course “encircling” is a bit of an exaggerated notion since the Soviet Union was too large ever to be totally encircled. Likewise today China is content with the state of affairs on its long Russian, Mongolian and North Korean borders. But “encircling” does suggest a proces…

LTTE urges sports boycott of Sri Lanka. The Tamil Tigers Tuesday backed an Amnesty International awareness campaign that has embarrassed Sri Lanka's government during the cricket World Cup and urged a full sporting boycott of the country, AFP reported. Amnesty’s campaign to build support for international human rights monitoring in Sri Lanka, using the topical theme of cricket, has drawn the fury of the Colombo government as well as the main opposition Sinhala parties. Capitalising on the interest around the World Cup, Amnesty International last week launched a publicity campaign - using the slogan ‘Play by the Rules’ - to urge Sri Lanka’s warring parties to r…

Well-Known Businessman in Spice Trade Mohammed Ibrahim In Custody After Two of his Sons Were Identified As Suicide Bombers Who Attacked Two Hotels and Daughter in Law Set Off Explosion at Dematagoda Residence. Posted by Administrator on 24 April 2019, 10:47 pm By Chathuri Dissanayake and Uditha Jayasinghe The Government yesterday said a new splinter group of the National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) had been identified as having links to the Easter Sunday attacks, as the number of arrested grew to 60 and the death toll rose to 359, with the country’s security remaining on high alert. The number of arrested rose to 60 on Wednesday with 32 of them in Crimi…

Sri Lanka’s 30-year war would be remembered, in part, for the crucial role played by Norway. The Norwegians managed to secure peace talks between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the LTTE and the peace process continued for a number of years under successive Governments. Though Norwegian peace envoy Erik Solheim mediated between the GoSL and the LTTE under three Sri Lankan leaders, in the end attempts made by him and many others to ensure that the peace process continued failed. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mirror online, Solheim revealed details of some of his discussions with the rebels and the GoSL as well as the role played by the inte…

14 November 2013 Sri Lanka's civil war is officially over, but people are still being "disappeared" - vanishing without a trace, often, allegedly, in the state's unmarked "white vans. After Iraq, Sri Lanka has the highest number of enforced disappearances in the world, the United Nations has said. The latest report from the UN's working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances, set up in 1980, says that there are 5,676 outstanding cases of enforced disappearances, though the actual number of disappeared could be much higher. The majority of cases date back to Sri Lanka's civil war between the government and the LTTE, commonly known as the Tamil…

“1978 Constitution places me above the Law” - Sri Lanka's President [TamilNet, Thursday, 18 March 2010, 11:15 GMT] “Republic Constitution of 1978 brought by the then J. R. Jayawardene government places me above the Law. Accordingly judiciary cannot take action against me. The consititution empowers me to punish any soldier of the Sri Lanka Army who works against the country,” Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse said Tuesday while addressing an election rally in support of Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollogama held at Kotte, according media reports from Colombo. “The Foreign Ministry and Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama acted firmly and responded decisi…

Tamils and the difference between immigrants and refugees By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun August 28, 2010 A common refrain regarding the arrival of the Tamil refugees aboard the MV Sun Sea is that they have "jumped the queue" and taken the place of "legitimate" immigrants who await entry to Canada. The accusation is emotive but it is just plain wrong. Immigrants and refugees are entirely different groups. Each has its own stringent set of rules for admission to Canada. Immigrants are people who want to come to Canada and have the opportunity to meet with officials at a Canadian embassy and apply under the criteria established by law. They must me…

President Loses His Cool What could be bugging Mahinda Rajapaksa? By Munza Mushtaq in Kandy President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been known for his friendly and supposedly down to earth nature, but during a meeting with representatives of several English and Tamil language newspapers, his usually charming traits made a quick vanishing act as journalists prodded him with questions resulting in the President replying the journalists in the most unfriendliest of tones. Probably due to election stress, the President who in the past was often known to greet journalists individually when invited for similar meetings, neglected his usual greeting style except for a n…