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Colonel Douglas Macgregor sits down with Stephen Gardner for update on the Ukraine-Russia war. Is the war in Ukraine about to hit a turning point because I am starting to see groups like the Washington post and the New York Times finally tell the truth about the strength and condition of Ukraine’s army and the number of casualties they have suffered? Why do you say that Bakhmut has been like a meat grinder? And is it time for Ukraine to fall back, regroup, give themselves a couple days to build up ammunition, and then dig in and try and hold the line again? Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says it’s time for the United States to get serious and show Russia who is …

Colombo battles to sidestep Human Rights focus - Thamilchelvan The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is trying to sidestep International Community's focus on Colombo's worst record of human rights abuses and institutionalized impunity for crimes against the Tamil people, by attempting to use the forum of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit against Tamil people's right to defend themselves, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Political Head S.P. Thamilchelvan told TamilNet when asked to comment on Colombo's focus shift to LTTE's air capability, prior to the 14th SAARC Summit in New Delhi. "It is crucial that the voice of Tamil …

The Colombo stock market yesterday saw Rs. 103 billion in value wiped off with the key price index plunging to a near 8-year low after external shocks-led panic-selling triggered the circuit breaker of S&P SL 20 index, forcing market halt for half an hour. In a day of heightened concern and confusion, the market opened after the Poya holiday on Monday only to suffer a 5% crash of the active S&P SL20 index within 15 minutes of trading. The crash was largely influenced by how global markets reacted on Monday, after oil prices suffered its sharpest drop since the 1991 Gulf war, following action by Saudi Arabia as well as more adverse developments on the corona…

Frances Harrison ‏@francesharris0n 51m Dr Varatharajah - brave #tamil gvt dr in #srilanka warzone - says #lka gvt forced him 2 lie afterwards http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=36833 (twitter) இணைப்பு முழுமையாக... Colombo forced Tamil doctors to lie: Dr. Varatharajah 18 November 2013 Former Regional Director of Health Services (RDHS) for Mullaiththeevu, Dr. Thurairajah Varatharajah, currently in exile in the U.S, says in video documentary aired in India's NewsX TV station that Colombo, after keeping him and four other doctors in prison at the end of the war, forced the doctors to lie to foreign media and to the Organizations accusin…

Colombo forcing refugees to return home- Rights Group Sri Lankan authorities are using threats and intimidation to force civilians who fled recent fighting in Sri Lanka’s civil war to return home," Human Rights Watch said today. "To pressure individuals to return home, government officials and military personnel have threatened to withdraw humanitarian aid, food and other essential supplies," the Rights body further said. http://www.tamilnet.com/

Colombo gets support from US, LTTE from TN PK Balachandran Colombo, January 7, 2006|17:11 IST With the ceasefire in Sri Lanka in danger of being broken, the government and the LTTE are seriously looking for support from overseas for their respective cases. While the Rajapaksa regime seems to have the backing of the United States, the LTTE is counting on increasing support across the Palk Strait in Tamil Nadu. The LTTE is also reasonably sure that New Delhi will remain neutral thanks to the influence of Tamil Nadu. This was stated recently by the LTTE's ideologue, KV Balakumaran, in an interview to the Voice of Tigers radio. Rice's assurance to…

Colombo has plans to colonize North with Buddhist Sinhalese Suresh Premachandran [TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 October 2009, 17:06 GMT] The government of Sri Lanka is actively engaged in colonizing Ki’linochchi, Mullaiththeevu and Jaffna district with Sinhalese Buddhists in order to crush the demand for Eelam in the traditional homelands of the Tamils in the North, Suresh Premachandran, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna parliamentarian, said in a press meet held Monday in his Jaffna office. He further accused the government for not accepting help from International Community in de-mining Vanni as it does not want the persons from foreign countries to see the mass gr…

Share prices at the Colombo bourse were high by 12.30 pm having risen in early trade on Monday with brokers and investors cheering new President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s big victory. The All Share Price Index gained by 1.59 per cent to 6,118.37 by 12.30 pm while the S&P rose by 2.03 per cent. to 3,045.60. Turnover was a resounding Rs. 1.7 billion. The presidential election results remove much of the overhang from political uncertainty, analysts say. They say that the possibility of a stable government could lift private investment, a crucial factor for growth given fiscal constraints. Tourism is also likely to pick up after a sharp slowdown following the East…

Water poisoned Colombo vavuniya Rain service curtailed Liberty Plaza Bomb Rumerous World Trade centre -free of vehicles No schools http://www.dailymirror.lk/

Justice Wigneswaran should apologize to Tamil Nadu Tamils; TNA should pick another CM candidate, says Tamils for Obama. Issuing a statement Tamils for Obama says; “Mr. Wigneswaran lives in Colombo and has lived there all his life. He is out of touch with the experiences and wishes of the Tamils in northeast Sri Lanka. He was reluctant from the beginning take this office and we urge the TNA should pick someone closer to the northeastern Tamils.” Wigneswaran We publish below the statement in full; Justice Wigneswaran recently gave an exclusive interview to Hindustan Times. There are few things that came out during this interview that worry us. We would lik…

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa rejected British concerns Leaders of Commonwealth nations are to issue final statements at the end of a summit in Colombo overshadowed by a row over alleged human rights abuses. A call by British Prime Minister David Cameron for an independent inquiry into alleged war crimes was criticised by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mr Cameron left the summit in the Sri Lankan capital early. On the final day, leaders are expected to make joint statements on issues like debt management and climate change. Malta has been chosen to host the next summit, in 2015, says the BBC's James Robbins, in Colombo. Mauritius,…

The Commonwealth Secretary-General opened talks with Sri Lanka on Sunday by pushing for judicial independence on the island, as Canada renewed calls to boycott the bloc's summit in Colombo later this year. Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma is holding talks with Sri Lankan leaders in Colombo on the rule of law and the separation of powers after the island defied international appeals and sacked its chief justice in January, the bloc said. Commonwealth Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma, opened talks with Sri Lanka on Sunday by pushing for judicial independence on the island. (Credit: ABC) Mr Sharma's four-day visit to Sri Lanka came as Ottawa urged others in the 54-m…

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By Adam J. Hebert, Senior Editor The Air Force wants to be able to strike mobile and emerging targets in fewer than 10 minutes so that such targets will have no sanctuary from US airpower. Cutting the time needed to strike such targets, known as time critical or time sensitive targets, has been one of Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper’s top priorities. It factored into the decisions to arm Predator unmanned aerial vehicles with Army Hellfire missiles and to establish a high-level warfighting integration office at the Pentagon. Three years ago, while still commander of Air Combat Command, Jumper raised the bar for destruction of emerging targets when he s…

Conflict: India, U.S, China and Iran; or why the Sri Lanka crisis has to be resolved soon By: GeeKay Source: Northeastern Monthly - July 2006 The focal point of contemporary international politics is the Persian Gulf. Globalisation’s future lies in securing the Indian Ocean, for which a contest is on between the United States of America and its allies on the one hand, and the People’s Republic of China and its friends, on the other. An important part of this contest is the steps taken by the US to contain Iran. Therefore, the reason for the US intensifying its aggression towards Iran is not due to any political tangle between the two countries, but because the la…

Confronting the Death of Prabhakaran By Nadesan Satyendra Confronting the Death of Prabhakaran Nadesan Satyendra Velupillai Prabhakaran I have never met Velupillai Prabhakaran. Neither have I ever spoken to him. I did not know him personally. Again, it is not that I have agreed with everything that he said or did. Yet, when he died on 17 May 2009, I felt a deep sense of personal loss. I grieved. In my grief I was moved to revisit the words of Fidel Castro Ruz at his trial in October 1953 – “…The man who abides by unjust l…

Selected Writings by Nadesan Satyendra - நடேசன் சத்தியேந்திரா Sathyam Commentary Confronting the Death of Prabhakaran On 18 June 2009, the 31st Day of Prabhakaran's Death [see also Velupillai Prabhakaran - Undying Symbol of Tamil Resistance to Alien Rule ] I have never met Velupillai Prabhakaran. Neither have I ever spoken to him. I did not know him personally. Again, it is not that I have agreed with everything that he said or did. Yet, when he died on 17 May 2009, I felt a deep sense of perso…

Catalonia held provincial elections on Sunday (November 25) at which the main issue was whether a referendum should be held within a few years to test if it should be independent from Spain and aspire for EU status as a separate nation. There are few parallels with a hypothetical Eelam scenario but secession issues anywhere in the world put everyone, on all sides, on the alert. Hence I will present here an analysis of the outcome and draw, but not overdraw parallels and anti-parallels with the Eelam hypothesis; more in respect of processes than outcomes. The number one difference of course is that there has been no civil war and no recitation of mutual hatred between Ca…

Conflicting details are emerging about the attack off the seas of Colombo harbour Saturday morning. An informed source told TamilNet Saturday evening that four vessels were destroyed by the attackers, while the SLN suthorities said they have destroyed 3 “suspisours boats”. SLN sources said Saturday evening that they have captured 9 "suspects" who were "fleeing" from the Harbour area. The port remained shut for 2-and a half hours. The SLN toured reporters inside the High Security inner harbour. However, sources in Colombo confirmed that there were four big explosions off Colombo coast, Saturday morning. The LTTE has not commented on the incident.

Sri Lanka faces constitutional crisis as president sacks chief justice Sri Lanka is facing a deepening constitutional crisis after President Mahinda Rajapaksa went ahead and sacked its most senior judge – a move that critics say undermines the independence of the country’s judiciary. In step many have claimed was inspired by a desire to remove someone who had blocked several government bills, Mr Rajapaksa on Sunday ratified a vote by the parliament to remove chief justice Shirani Bandaranayake. “President Mahinda Rajapaksa signed this morning the order removing chief justice Dr Shirani Bandaranayake from office with immediate effect in accordance with the resolutio…

Controversial article on Sri Lankan defence website removed after it kicked up a storm in India [Friday 2014-08-01 15:00] An article on the frequent detentions of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy was removed from the Sri Lankan defence website on Friday, hours after its headline and an illustration that accompanied it kicked up a storm in India. The headline and the illustration raised a furore among political leaders in Tamil Nadu. However, hours after the "objectionable" content, that centred around Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's many letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention in the fishermen issue, was posted o…

Conversations with Kishani Alanki | M.A Sumanthiran அண்மையில் கிஷானி அலங்கி அவர்களின் யு டியூப் தளத்திற்காக பாராளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் கௌரவ M.A சுமந்திரன் அவர்களுடன் இடம்பெற்ற கலந்துரையாடலின் சுருக்கம் தமிழில் :ஐக்கிய நாடுகளின் உயர் ஸ்தானிகரின் அறிக்கையில் பொறுப்புக்கூறல் மற்றும் ஒப்புறவு போன்ற பல்வேறு விடயங்கள் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளன. ஆனாலும் இலங்கை அரசாங்கம் தமது இறைமையில் வெளி சக்திகள் தலையீடு செய்வதாக குற்றம் சுமத்துகிறது. இது தொடர்பாக உங்கள் நிலைப்பாடு என்ன என்று கேட்கப்பட்ட கேள்விக்கு பதிலளிக்கையில்இப்பிரச்சினையானது மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ச அவர்கள் ஜனாதிபதியாக இருந்த காலத்தில் இறுதி யுத்தத்தின் போது மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்ட மனித உரிமை மீறல் தொடர்பாக விசாரணைகளை முன…

COP26 Cop26: Rude awakening as Tamils tracked foe to Dunblane Sri Lankan president was not the only world leader holed up in the sleepy town’s hydro Under the cover of darkness Tamil activists marched on the DoubleTree Hilton where Gotabaya Rajapaksa, president, was staying TAMIL GUARDIAN Marc Horne Friday November 05 2021, 12.01am, The Times Share …

இந்தோனேஷியா இந்த கொரோனா வைரஸை பற்றி இவ்வளவு காலமும் ஒன்றுமே கூறவில்லை என யோசிப்பதுண்டு.. Coronavirus COVID-19 has now reached Indonesia, President Joko Widodo confirms By Alan Weedon Posted Yesterday, updated 22h hours ago President Joko Widodo confirmed the country's first cases earlier today.(AP: Achmad Ibrahim) Indonesia has recorded its first cases of COVID-19, after two nationals tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday. Key points: Two women tested positive for COVID-19 and are being treated in a Jakarta hospital President Joko Widodo says the country is well prepared for the outbreak …