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ஐரோப்பிய ஒன்றியத்தில் புலிகள் மீது தடை விதிப்பது தொடர்பில் அதன் அங்கத்துவ நாடுகளையிடையே கருத்து வேறுபாடு ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்த தடை நடவடிக்கைக்கு நார்டிக் நாடுகள் எதிர்ப்பு தெரிவித்து வருகின்றது. இதனால் ஐரோப்பாவில் புலிகள் அமைப்புக்கு தடை ஏதும் ஏற்பட வாய்ப்பு குறைவு என்று தெரிகின்றது. EU divided, may not ban LTTE By M.R. Narayan Swamy, New Delhi: The European Union is sharply divided over outlawing Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas, and indications are a ban is not immediately in the offing despite this week's suicide bomb attack blamed on the insurgents. The 25-nation grouping is debating whether or not it should declare the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam…

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka’s hopes of a quick victory over Tamil separatists looked shattered Thursday after Tamil rebels inflicted the heaviest losses on security forces since pulling out of a truce, analysts said. மேலும் படிக்க ..... http://www.orunews.com/?p=764

Lt. Col. Nalinda Kumarasinghe was killed in Jaffna Thursday The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) currently withdrawing from the Jaffna peninsula delivered a big blow to the army on Thursday Jan 8th as a high – ranking army officer was killed. Lt. Col Nalinda Kumarasinghe RWP, RSP was killed in a booby trap explosion in the Puloppalai area of the peninsula. Lt. Col Kumarasinghe was the commanding officer of 5 Gemunu watch which is attached to the Air Mobile brigade that is a component of the 53 division Lt. Col Kumarasinghe was moving along with his troops from Pallai in a south eastern direction. The carefully booby trap exploded as the jeep t…

Jayadevan forms Youth Organisation in UK Written by Administrator Wednesday, 26 July 2006 Infamous temple thief "Undiyalaan" Rajasingham Jayadevan has formed a Jayadevan Youth Organisation (JYO) in the United Kingdom, reliable sources said. Jayadevan Youth Organisation (JYO), headed by Bahi Jayadevan The organisation formed by Jayadevan aged 52 is headed by his eldest son Bahi, sources added. "The mission of the group is to follow on the footsteps of Jayadevan senior," said one source. Others disputed this claim and said that Jayadevan has a sinister motivation of involving the British-Tamil youths in anti-cultural activiti…

Tamil, one of India's ancient Dravidian languages, is to have its own government-funded institute, Tamil Nadu state's chief minister said. The federal government has agreed to set up the International Institute of Classical Tamil Language in the state capital Chennai, where language politics have often boiled over. M. Karunanidhi told reporters late Tuesday the government had also agreed to several more demands to promote Tamil, including setting up international Tamil prizes and awards for scholars and experts. "These steps will ensure that Tamil gets its due recognition and incentives that have been available for North Indian languages," Karunanidhi sa…

Pranab Dhal Samanta Posted online: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 0000 hrs lSupplies: Colombo says it desperately needs spares for tanks, aircraft, UAVs NEW DELHI, MAY 2: While India grapples with limited options to somehow save the ceasefire agreement in Sri Lanka, a desperate Colombo is gradually looking away, and has approached Pakistan for defence supplies after India dragged its feet for reasons rooted in domestic Tamil politics. While Sri Lanka sought to downplay the issue when its President Mahinda Rajapakse was in Islamabad last month, the fact is that Sri Lanka has given Pakistan a long shopping list which clearly shows the effort is to give …

ANOTHER PRE-EMPTIVE LTTE AIR STRIKE - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR--PAPER NO. 220 By B. Raman In an attempt to pre-empt an apprehended military offensive by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces on the territory controlled by the Lberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, the LTTE Air Force has carried out a successful air strike on the Palaly military base of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in the Jaffna peninsula. The Palaly military base serves as the headquarters for operations against the LTTE in the north. It is also the supply base for the thousands of soldiers stationed in the region. Any serious damage to the base could hamper …

CHRONOLOGY-War and peace: S.Lanka's civil war 07 Jan 2006 04:21:07 GMT Source: Reuters Jan 7 (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attacked and sank a small naval boat before dawn on Saturday in the latest in a series of attacks on the military that have raised fears of a return to a two-decade civil war. Following is a chronology of key incidents in Sri Lanka's civil war, in which over 64,000 people have been killed since it erupted after an anti-Tamil riot in 1983. 1983-84 India trains and funds Tamil groups, including the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), fighting for a separate Tamil state in the island's north and east. …

Russian President Vladimir Putin hails relationship with "the political forces that control the situation" in Afghanistan during his visit with Tajikistan's President Emomaliu Rakhmon in Dushanbe, adding that Russia is "doing everything to normalize the situation in this country." Source: AFP குறிப்பு: மேற்கு தலைவர்களை அதாவது நேட்டோ தலைவர்களை சந்திக்கும் போது புட்டின் ஏன் நிறைய தூரத்தில் இருந்தார் என்று சொன்னவர்களுக்காக இந்த காணொளி.

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Deal or No Deal - Lebanon June 2008 An appearance of peace has returned to Lebanon; but as Hezbollah grows in power, political tensions are becoming palpable. Has the country finally entered a long-term settlement, or are we witnessing the preliminaries to a new conflict? Thanks to massive financial and military backing from Iran and Syria, Hezbollah has emerged as a powerhouse over the past years. Keen to display its power, it has repeatedly had the upper hand in skirmishes with government forces. A traditional enemy of Israel, Hezbollah has recently shifted its attention to Lebanon. Sunnis and supporters of the government have now become terrified to speak out …

கடந்த கிழமை போக்கி மான் என்ற விளையாட்டை அப்பில் விட்டிருக்கிறார்கள்.இது பிள்ளைகளுக்கு ஒரு உற்சாகமான விளையாட்டாக இருந்தாலும் ஆபத்தும் நிறைந்த விளையாட்டாகவே தெரிகிறது.காடு மேடு பள்ளம் திட்டி வீதி தண்ணீர் என கண்ட கண்ட இடங்களிலும் போக்கி மான் நிற்பதாக காட்டிக் கொள்ள அதைப் பிடிப்பதற்காக வயது வித்தியாசமில்லாமல் பாதுகாப்பற்ற விதத்தில் அலைந்து திரிகிறார்கள்.போற போக்கபை; பார்த்தால் வெகு விரைவில் இதற்கு தடை கொண்டு வர வேண்டும் போல இருக்கிறது. சரி இந்த விளையாட்டை கள உறவுகளாகிய நீங்கள் எத்தனை பேர் விளையாடுகிறீர்கள்?வாகனங்களுக்கு குறுக்கே போய் ஏச்சு வாங்கினீர்களா?உங்கள் அனுபவஙடகளையும் எழுதுங்கள். The release of Pokemon Go last week was far more than your average iOS a…

The Mullivaikkal Massacre was a genocide. This period saw the deaths of 70,000-140,000 Tamil civilians, primarily due to the Sri Lankan military’s intentional shelling of safe zones and extrajudicial executions, the maiming of thousands from that shelling, and at least hundreds of incidents of sexual violence. . In the week ahead of May 18th, PEARL is deconstructing the term genocide. Our series of posts will build on arguments presented in last year’s photo exhibit “Tamil Resistance & Resilience In the Face of Genocide” to demonstrate the final phase of the armed conflict was a genocide committed by the Sri Lankan government against the Tamil people. . It is …

A 15-year-old boy who fell through pond ice near his Scarborough home with a friend eight days ago has died in hospital without ever regaining consciousness. Kishoban Alakeswaran was throwing stones on a frozen pond near Morningside Ave. and Finch Ave. E. with his 11-year-old friend Brunthan Nadarajah when he went through the thin ice. Brunthan drowned while trying to rescue Kishoban, who later remained unconscious in the Hospital for Sick Children while his parents and family kept a constant bedside vigil. He was taken off life support early Sunday as his parents prayed. Sunday night, stricken relatives and friends gathered at the home of Kishoban's parents. "He…

Anuradhapura SLA commander killed in gunfire ambush [TamilNet, Friday, 09 March 2007, 14:15 GMT] Sri Lanka Army Commander of the Anuradhapura area, Colonel Shurawera and three of his men along with national park wardon Wasantha Pushpananda and 3 employees were killed in a gunfire ambush in inside the Wilpattu wildlife sactuary around 10:30 a.m. Friday, military officials in Colombo said. A group of SLA soldiers who went to search for their missing commander had located 8 dead bodies. Two vehicles, including the vehicle of the SLA commander, were missing. The Wilpattu wildlife sanctuary, which remained closed for nearly 14 years due to the war, was r…

Balance of power: West v East Seda Punkt - 4/12/2008 World dominant is in question. West, namely, US, EU, and Canada are on one side, East-namely, Russia, and China, are on the other front, where India is increasingly aligning itself with Russia. The breakup of USSR was one of the US's major foreign policy achievements. Now, the lone Russia with Chechnya, is not much of a threat. Tibet, and Xinjiang can give long term headache to China, but breaking up Russia and China is very difficult. But India. Powerful India is a growing trouble for the West, and the solution is breaking up India. India is very similar to Yugoslavia; the 30% of the Hindi spea…

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Panel calls for 10 year N-E merger Referendum a must at end of period Autonomous regions for Sinhalese, Muslims in East By Ayesha Zuhair A majority of members of the experts panel of the All Party Conference are to submit a preliminary report to the President today recommending maximum devolution of power with the province as a unit and a 10-year merger of the Northern and Eastern provinces as a solution to the ethnic conflict, a source close to the panel told the Daily Mirror yesterday. The report which was handed over to the All Party Representative Co…

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A mesmerising story of innocence and brutality. Gajaani became an LTTE member at 19, and has spent the last 13 years as one of its official war photographers. Scorching in its simplicity, her highly unusual account tracks the making of a soldier I grew up in the 1970s in Kilinoch-chi, Sri Lanka, where I was born. Kilinochchi was a remote area then, a place with a small population and very poor infrastructure. My parents talk of it as a peaceful time, but the problems in my country were already beginning. During the riots in 1983, we had relatives in Colombo who were taken in by Sinhalese friends. But a mob stormed the house where they were hiding — six of my fam…

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[size=5]Immigrants make up 13% of the U.S. population. They come here in pursuit of the American Dream, an opportunity for a better life in exchange for hard work. For many, their unique skills and fresh perspectives lead them to entrepreneurship.[/size] [size=5]1. Josie Natori[/size] Age: [size=5]64 [/size] [size=5]Country of origin: Philippines Occupation: Founder and CEO, the Natori Company Her advice to immigrant entrepreneurs: "There is no better place in the world for an immigrant to succeed than in the U.S. Follow your dream and make it happen." Moving from the Philippines to Westchester, N.Y., to attend Manhattanville College in 1964 was…

EXCLUSIVE - Sri Lanka Tigers add new conditions for talks By Peter Apps Tue Apr 18, 7:20 AM ET COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said on Tuesday they will not attend a new round of scheduled peace talks in Geneva unless violence against ethnic Tamils stops, effectively adding new conditions for their participation. The rebels pulled out of the talks -- already postponed once and now due to take place next week -- at the weekend in a dispute over the transport of their eastern commanders to a meeting of the rebel leadership. The government has agreed that the commanders can be transported to the rebels' northern stronghold …

School girl missing in Jaffna, 3 seek protection [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 December 2007, 15:34 GMT] A ten-year-old girl student of Changkaanai Hindu Primary School was reported missing since Tuesday after leaving to attend school in the morning, according to complaints registered with the Jaffna office of the Human Rights Commision (JHRC) by her family members Thursday. Meanwhile, three family men from different places in Jaffna peninsula sought protection with JHRC Thursday due to death threats from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops and SLA-backed paramilitary men. The girl reported missing is Packiarasa Partheepa, 10, a fourth grade student of Changkaanai Hindu Prima…

BREAKING NEWS Two SLN Dvora vessels damaged in sea clash - LTTE Liberation Tigers officials in Kilinochchi said Sea Tigers retaliated a Sri Lanka Navy flotilla that launched an attackFishermen in Point Pedro said the SLN personnel withdrew and landed in Point Pedro following heavy clashes in the seas. Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) helicopters and Sri Lanka Navy vessels resumed attack on the Sea Tiger flotilla that was returning to Mullaithivu. Sri Lankan military officials in Colombo claimed that they had sunk 3 LTTE boats and killed 20 Sea Tigers. LTTE officials, refusing the SLN claims, said there were no casualties on their side. Meanwhile, the…