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Tamil party implicated in Raviraj shooting November 16th, 2006 [TransCUrrents News Service] Police sleuths investigating the assassination of Jaffna district Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviiraj have uncovered evidence that implicates a Tamil Political Party with links to the Government in the daylight murder. The motor cycle used by the assassins to get away from the scene of crime was last registered in the name of a prominent member of this party. The vehicle was bought from a garage in Tangalle in the Hambantota district. The deal was arranged by a military deserter also from Tangalle. At least five persons from Tangalle have been taken in for question…

Norway says Sri Lanka report on mediator is "lies" Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:45 PM IST Top News Sri Lanka assures India on power sharing with Tamils India nuclear deal likely final by May - U.S. envoy Norway says Sri Lanka report on mediator is "lies" U.S.'s Thorium Power, India in reactor talks - firm India's Christians dig deep for graveyard plot MORE COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Norwegian government has angrily rejected a report in a state-owned Sri Lankan newspaper that its peace mediator and International Development Minister Erik Solheim had given money to a top Tamil rebel leader. The Daily N…

By Nirmala Kannangara Controversy surrounds over how an owner of a small telecommunication centre became a millionaire within a short span of six years. Complaints have been lodged recently with the Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption against the leader of the National Freedom Front and former Minister of Housing and Construction Wimal Weerawansa. After the complaint was lodged, startling revelations have come out how Weerawansa is enjoying a super luxury life and questions have been raised as to how the former minister accumulated such a vast wealth within no time when his sole income was the ministerial salary and the other perks a government minister is e…

Inaugural Chair in Tamil Studies looks to establish U of T Scarborough as a global hub for Tamil scholarship Professor Sidharthan Maunaguru appointed Chair in Tamil Studies at U of T Scarborough (Submitted Photo) FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmail Thursday, November 30, 2023 Don Campbell The newly appointed Chair of Tamil …

At least 20 Canadian hospitals to take part in clinical trials for coronavirus treatment As the death toll from the coronavirus continues to climbs, Canada is one of a number of countries taking part in a global project to find a treatment for COVID-19. At least 20 hospitals across the country will be taking part in an international clinical trial of four medications to treat COVID-19 patients. “Some have been used to treat malaria in the past, some have been used for HIV, some have been used in other viral conditions like the Ebola virus disease,” said Dr. Rob Fowler, a professor of critical care medicine at the University of Toronto, and one of the doctor…

Sri Lanka And The US: A Pogrom And A Black Death At The Hands Of A White Policeman: Salutary Lessons Lionel Bopage on 06/20/2020 The Scene The morning of July the 25th 1983 is etched in my brain. I saw a group of people running or walking very fast away from the environs of Colombo. On enquiring I found they had shut up their shops and were escaping the riots that were taking place. Later in the day I saw the suburbs of Borella and Maradana ablaze. I witnessed mobs looting and burning properties belonging to Tamils and assaulting the inhabitants of those properties with impunity. Lorries a…

2014 01 01 For New Democrats, standing in solidarity with Canadians of Tamil heritage on matters of human rights is part of our shared values as Canadians. I recently arrived in Sri Lanka to visit my extended family and visit the places that were once home for me, during the earlier stages of my life and the civil war in Sri Lanka; but was subject to political intimidation. I was warned I could be subject to arrest and deportation, as several commonwealth MPs from New Zealand and Australia recently faced. I have received word from the Canadian High Commission in Colombo that the Sri Lankan authorities have confirmed that their previous claims of an arrest warr…

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பொழுதுபோகாவிட்டால் இதையும் செய்து பாருங்கள்.. Time to get crafty while in quarantine. BY MARINA LIAO APR 10, 2020 Right when we've exhausted all the ways to keep ourselves busy during self-quarantine—baking banana bread, completing puzzles, trying viral TikTok dances, even growing our own scallions in water—another form of entertainment has popped up. (No it's not a new TV show, although, personally, I've been binge-watching a lot of K-dramas lately.) The creative and new challenge is coming from fashion house Alexander McQueen. The brand has put out a call for everyone to create a three-dimensional flower using any materials they can find in their o…

[size=4][size=6]’There would be replacement of every dead LTTE cadre as long as the idea of Eelam remained’[/size][/size] [size=4][size=5]“There would be prompt replacement of every dead LTTE cadre or leader as long as the idea of Eelam remained,” Brigadier (retd) Ravi Palsokar quotes Lt Gen AS Kalkat, who commandeered the IPKF in Sri Lanka as having said, in ‘Ours Not to Reason Why’.[/size][/size] [size=4][size=5]Pune-based Palsokar, who raises questions on the operational goals of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) 25 years after it was sent to Sri Lanka as part of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord (ISLA) comments, “Do I detect a hint of exasperation and frustrati…

What’s Behind Resignation Of Pope? | by John Newland and Claudio Lavanga, NBC News When the next Papal Conclave meets to replace the retiring Pope Benedict XVI, the United States will have an unprecedented voice in the process. Franco Origlia / Getty Images, file Wisconsin native James Harvey, right, was amongh six new cardinals installed during a ceremony on Nov. 24. Eleven cardinal electors, almost 10 percent of the Conclave, will be Americans -- the largest share the country has ever had, even though it has historically had a large Catholic population. The retiring pope gets credit for the greater influence of the U.S. Last year, he …

INTERVIEW-Rescued sex slave writes to Indian PM with plea to free others "There were many girls like me there. I didn't see any of them escape or leave" By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI, Aug 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 29-year-old Indian woman who was sold into sexual slavery as a teenager has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to rescue hundreds of thousands of other girls who are trapped in brothels and raped daily. In a two-page letter written in Hindi, the woman - who identifies herself as Tavi - described how she was duped and trafficked to a brothel in …

World Bank, ADB, UN representatives to meet LTTE Political Head [TamilNet, January 31, 2006 01:21 GMT] Representatives of multilateral donor agencies, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP and IMF, will travel to Kilinochchi on Friday to discuss with the leadership of the Liberation Tigers issues related to the rehabilitation, reconstruction and development activities in the NorthEast, according to LTTE officials in Kilinochchi. Mr. Peter Harrold from World Bank, Mr. Alessandro Pio from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Mr. Jeff Taft-Dick, acting UN Coordinator, and Mr. Mr. Luis Valdivieso, representing IMF, are scheduled to meet Political Head of the Libera…

Wakely Paul's letter to the UN Secretary General May 18 2006 The Secretary General, United Nations, NY, NY 10017 Sir, I write regarding the shocking possibility of Mr Jayantha Dhanapala, a representative of the Government of SRI LANKA, being considered as a candidate to succeed you as Secretary General. of this very august organization. Sri Lanka has for years been ruled by governments that have violated every concept of democracy. They have discriminated against the Tamils to such an extent, that the Tamils now have their own independent regime in a region of the Northeast of the island known as the Vanni. In short, there is no such entity a…

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இந்த வார Hardtalk இல் Carne Ross பங்கு பற்றுகிறார். நல்லதொரு நேர்காணல். http://www.eelamist.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=804#804

பகத்சிங்கின் கடைசிக் கடிதம் 1930 அக்டோபர் 7ம் நாள் விதிக்கப்பட்ட தூக்குத்தண்டனையை எதிர் கொள்ள தீரமுடம் காத்திருந்தனர் புரட்சியாளர்கள் மூவரும். ஆனால் அவர்கள் விடுதலை செய்யப்பட வேண்டும் என்று இந்திய நாடே ஒருமித்த குரலில் கோரிக்கை எழுப்பியது. லட்சக்கணக்கான கையெழுத்துகள் கொண்ட மனுக்கள் பிரிட்டிஷ் அரசாங்கத்திற்கு வந்து குவிந்தன. அநேகம் பேர் இரத்தத்தினாலும் கையெழுத்திட்டு அனுப்பியிருந்தனர். அப்போது காந்தியடிகளுக்கும் வைஸ்ராய் இர்வினுக்கும் இடையே எட்டப்படவிருந்த காந்தி - இர்வின் ஒப்பந்தத்திற்கான பேச்சுவார்த்தைகள் நடந்து கொண்டிருந்தன. எனவே ஒப்பந்தத்தின் நிபந்தனைகளில் ஒன்றாக பகத்சிங், ராஜகுரு சுகதேவ் ஆகிய மூவரின் தூக்குத் தண்டனையை ஆயுள் தண்டனையாக…

UHN's Toronto General ranked No. 3 hospital in the world மற்றும் மருத்துவ மனைகளின் வரிசைப்படுத்தலை இந்தப் பகுதியில் பார்த்து செல்லுங்கள்... February 28, 2024 “At UHN, we are honoured and appreciative to once again be recognized as an international leader in patient care,…

1989 - First Maaveerar Naal Nihalvu [size="2"]LTTE Leader's First Maaveerar Naal Address[/size] From 'Tamil Eelam', (Voice 17) November 1989 - A journal published by the Political Section of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. English translation. [courtesy Eelamweb.com] It was the first time the Tamil people commemorated Heroes' day. So far, 1,307 LTTE fighters have sacrificed their lives for the advancement of the Tamil Eelam liberation struggle and for drawing world attention to it. The courageous death of each and every one of these fighters is a heroic chapter in the story of the Tamil Eelam liberation struggl…

From my seat in the Telegraph's Westminster hutch, I can look out over Parliament Square to the spot where several thousand British Tamils are now into their third day of protest over the Sri Lankan government's offensive against the Tamil Tigers. For three days, varying numbers of Tamils have been out there, banging drums, blowing horns, chanting and singing. They're accompanied by scores of police who have effectively surrounded them. Now, you can say a lot of bad things about this protest. The police say it's illegal, because it wasn't authorised in advance. London travellers, me included, could complain about the traffic disruption caused on the first day …

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Sri Lanka Govt is Trying to Undermine My Credibility - Allan Rock [by Admin , Jan 29,2007] Former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations and Windsor lawyer Allan Rock says the Sri Lankan government is trying to undermine his credibility with an apparent smear campaign as he prepares to present a report to the UN on child soldiers in the war-torn country. Rock travelled to Sri Lanka in November on behalf of the UN's special representative on child soldiers to meet with militia leaders, government officials and families of children who were abducted and forced to fight on the front lines. The former federal cabinet minister said his find…

Heavy Fighting 'kills 38' in the North Heavy fighting erupted near Vaunia FDL's Sri Lankan military say thirty eight people have been killed in the fighting in the north. Heavy fighting erupted near the Forward Defence Lines in Vaunia between the Government Forces and Tamil Tigers continued till Thursday evening, correspondent Dinasena Ratugamage said. A spokesman for Sri Lanka army told him more than 45 people from both the army and the LTTE were injured. According to the military 33 LTTE cadres were killed and 36 injured in the fighting and it has lost five soldiers and nine soldiers were injured. But LTTE claims it has killed 10 soldier…

Halton deputy chief Nish Duraiappah selected as new chief of Peel Regional Police Peel Police Service Board selects Halton deputy chief after seven-month search Halton Regional Police Deputy Chief Nishan (Nish) Duraiappah. - Torstar file photo Peel Regional Police has chosen its new chief. Halton Deputy Chief of District Operations Nishan (Nish) Duraiappah has been selected as the incoming Chief of Peel Regional Police. He will assume his role effective Oct. 1. Duraiappah has an extensive record with the Halton Regional Police Service, where he serve…