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S.Lanka rebel blast kills 4 soldiers Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:11 AM BST COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed four Sri Lankan soldiers in a claymore fragmentation mine ambush on Monday, an army source said, as violence on the island continued to worsen. "It was a claymore attached to a three-wheeler (auto-rickshaw)," the source said from the northern town of Vavuniya, just south of rebel territory, where the attack occurred. "Four army people were killed." Another army source in the northern town of Jaffna said another claymore mine had exploded prematurely there, killing the suspected Tiger rebel who was carrying it.

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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…

12-Year-Old Girl Charged After Police Chase| Is This Kid Shenanigans or Should She Be Charged? 12-Year-Old Girl Charged After Police Chase A 12-year-old girl and her 14-year-old friend allegedly stole a family member’s car and took police officers on a dangerous car chase through Kitchener, Ontario. According to police, an officer tried an attempt to pull the vehicle over but the young driver refused to stop. The officer continued following with its lights and sirens on. Eventually more police cruisers joined to help in putting a halt to the car chase. When officers finally managed to stop the vehicle, they were surprised to find a 12-year-old gi…

In an exclusive interview to Headlines Today, LTTE political head B. Nadesan has endorsed the position taken by the AIADMK-led alliance in Tamil Nadu on the Sri Lankan Tamils' Issue. AIADMK leader J. Jeyalalithaa has been one of the staunchest critics of the Tamil Tiger rebels in the state and the LTTE has so far rarely made any direct comment about her. Breaking convention, Nadesan praised Jeyalalithaa's recent statements on the situation in Sri Lanka. "Leaders of ADMK alliance are very much involved in the recent upsurge in Tamil Nadu towards our people. ADMK's founder, the legendary leader M.G.R, steadfastly supported the well-being and the political quest for…

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…

Intelligence Chief Zacky in Jaffna to step up campaign [TamilNet, January 24, 2006 12:40 GMT] Director of Military Intelligence (DMI) Brigadier Rizvy Zacky, a hardliner, has been recently posted as Brigadier General Staff Officer (GSO, Intelligence) at the Sri Lanka Army Head Quarters (SF HQ) Jaffna in a major reshuffle of the SLA and Intelligence apparatus. Execution-style killings of five students in Trincomalee and three women members of a family in Jaffna mark a stark change of pattern in the escalation of intensified serial killings of non-combatant civilians in Sri Lanka Army (SLA) controlled areas in the NorthEast. The pattern of violence also marks the ret…

Underage paramilitary recruit attests to SLA-Karuna link [TamilNet, February 03, 2006 11:05 GMT] A 15-year-old boy, recruited by the paramilitary cadres of Karuna Group, later sent on vacation, and who managed to move with his family into the Liberation Tigers held area in Ayithiyamalai, addressed a press meet at Solayaham in LTTE controlled Kokkaddicholai Friday. The underage youth, Arulraj, has revealed details on how he was abducted, transported to Thivuchenai and trained at the training camp of the paramilitary group at Thivuchenai in Welikande. Arularj, who was on leave, managed to escape as his "guardian", an EPDP cadre Rama Ranjan, who accompanied him to Ba…

Saddam must be hanged within 30 days:- Court. Iraq's highest appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein's death sentence and said he must be hanged within 30 days for the killing of 148 Shiites in the central city of Dujail. The sentence "must be implemented within 30 days," chief judge Aref Shahin said. "From tomorrow, any day could be the day of implementation." On Nov. 5, an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam to the gallows for ordering the 1982 killings following an attempt on his life. Under Iraqi law, the appeals court decision must be ratified by President Jalal Talabani and Iraq's two vice presidents. Talabani opposes the death penalty but h…

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Nepal to End Its Monarchy in a Deal With Ex-Rebels Published: December 24, 2007 KATMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) — Nepal’s government agreed Sunday to abolish the centuries-old monarchy in a political deal with Maoist former rebels, but the decision will go into effect only after next year’s elections, party officials said. Three months ago, the anti-monarchy Maoists, who ended their decade-long civil war last year, left the government. They were demanding an immediate declaration of a republic, a step that indefinitely delayed a constituent assembly election that had been set for November. That election, Nepal’s first national vote since 1999, was intended to…

Be it Sinhala – be it Tamil- it's a news paper-keep your hands off", hundreds of journalists shouted in front of the Fort railway station in the capital on Thursday. Several Tamil journalists have been detained and questioned during search operations in Colombo and the suburbs. A protesting Tamil journalist speaking to Elmo Fernando said that the police and security forcers disregard the accreditation cards provided by the Director of Information. Dhanaraj Of Thalam FM said, “the authorities say that these accreditation cards could be forged easily, but that's not an acceptable reason to harass Journalist” President of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists A…

Tamil genocide 1 language Tamil Genocide தமிழர் இனப்படுகொலை Part of Sri Lankan Civil War Tamil Civilians are being displaced from parts of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu Districts as a result of the Sri Lanka Army's military offensive in September 2008. Location Sri Lanka Target Sri Lankan Tamils Attack type Genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder, mass shoo…

Braving sea of perils The abundance of fish stock in Mullaitivu seas has provided a life line to fisher families from littoral villages dotting 70km Mullaitivu coast stretching from Kokkilai in the south to Iranaipalai in the north. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has occupied 13km of this coastline from Kokkilai to Nayaaru from 1985. Although fall of SLA's Mullaitivu garrison to Liberation Tigers in 1996 brought relief to fisher families, continued harassment by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) and threats from the SLA camps in the southern coast of the district continue to plague fisher families who brave the seas to earn a living. Nearly 9300 members belonging to 4…

"The LTTE claims that one of the paramilitaries is an Islamic Jihad group with links to Pakistan's security forces." The civil war in Sri Lanka between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) looks set to continue despite upcoming peace talks. Although a ceasefire is in place, violence continues and the LTTE alleges the government is using paramilitary forces in a "shadow war". The LTTE claims that one of the paramilitaries is an Islamic Jihad group with links to Pakistan's security forces. The presence of paramilitaries could derail the peace process. Helen Vatsikopoulos talks to Dr Anton Balasingham, political…

"Prabakaran and I will both die in Sri Lanka"-President (Jan 8, 2.30 pm) The President is reported to have eased his hard line stand on conducting peace talks in Oslo at a discussion held yesterday with Tamil National Alliance parliamentarians. The President has requested TNA members to send a group to talk with the LTTE to persuade them to return to the negotiating process. "Both Prabakaran and I are going to die in Sri Lanka So there shouldn't be any arguments over holding talks in Sri Lanka", " No way will I go to Oslo" President has said However when TNA parliamentarians proposed that Oslo should be the venue of the first round of talks, even thou…

The Washinton Times Declaw the Tamil Tigers TODAY'S EDITORIAL March 1, 2007 In response to mounting international criticism and restrictions, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have tried to change their methods in order to project a more palatable image of a political organization. But in yet another reminder that the Tamil Tigers' only true commitment is to terrorism, the terrorist group launched an artillery attack against a diplomatic entourage that included U.S. Ambassador Robert Blake and envoys from Italy, Germany, Canada, France and Japan, all of whom were on a humanitarian mission to the Eastern part of Sri Lanka. Mr. Blake suffered only minor injur…

Haukland's parting salvo draws Rajapaksa ire Situation Report - by Iqbal Athas The outgoing Head of Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), retired Norwegian Brigadier Hagrup Haukland, who leads the team of Nordic citizens tasked to monitor the Ceasefire Agreement between the Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had some parting words of wisdom to Sri Lankans. Just a week ago, he told Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa that the Sri Lanka Army cannot win the war with Tiger guerrillas. He opined that unlike Al Qaeda, the LTTE was not a terrorist organisation. They were freedom fighters, he declared. Those words ca…

People for Equality And Relief in Lanka (PEARL) is an advocacy group composed of over 1,800 Americans concerned about the crisis in Sri Lanka. PEARL was formed in 2005 after a handful of volunteers worked in Sri Lanka and was exposed firsthand to the egregious human rights violations there. PEARL is dedicated to promoting a fair and balanced perspective of the conflict in Sri Lanka, providing U.S. policymakers with the often-obscured truth of the situation there, organizing constituents to foster positive change, and inspiring political courage in the midst of human rights atrocities in Sri Lanka. PEARL members come from all corners of the United States, and have each bee…

The European Union says it has "serious concerns" about reports of human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. A six-member delegation, representing a range of EU bodies, released the statement at the end of a three-day visit to the country. The EU also criticised the Tamil Tiger rebels over alleged rights violations. Abductions, extra-judicial killings and disappearances have risen in Sri Lanka since the military and rebels resumed attacks on each other in December 2005. The US state department and New York-based group Human Rights Watch have also recently criticised Sri Lanka's rights record. "The EU continues to harbour very serious concerns about c…

Tensions between India and Pakistan cause deep concern internationally, largely because both countries have nuclear arsenals. Both are also relatively new nuclear powers and there are concerns that neither fully understands the nuclear doctrine of the other. India and Pakistan stunned the world with back-to-back nuclear tests in May 1998, sparking fears of an arms race on the sub-continent. Unlike Russia and the United States, they are not bound by any treaty obliging them to reveal the extent of their arsenals. And perhaps most worryingly, no one knows for sure how many warheads each country has. Experts fear that India and Pakistan do not have the mutua…

Princeton prof. says 'No' to Sri Lanka child monks - Kyodo News [ tpahof;fpoik, 16 khHr; 2006 ] [ NahfFkhh; ] A campaign by Sri Lanka's prime minister to recruit 2,000 children into Buddhist monastic orders to cope with a shortage of monks has met criticism from a scholar who says child ordination is against Buddhist doctrine. Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropology professor at Princeton University, says the campaign targets children as young as 5 years even though Theravada Buddhism doctrine states that a boy must be at least 15 years of age to become a monk. The Buddha himself ordained at just 5 years his only son Rahula, but this was regarded an exception rather…

OCCUPATION 101 http://youtu.be/dwpvI8rX72o Occupation 101 – Voices of the silenced majority என்பது பலஸ்தீனப் போராட்டம் பற்றியதொரு ஆவணப்படம். இப்படத்தின் உள்ளடக்கம் பற்றிப் பேசுவதற்கு முன்னால் அது பற்றியதொரு சிறிய அறிமுகம். சுபியான் ஒமைஸ் மற்றும் அப்துல்லாஹ் ஒமைஸின் தயாரிப்பு எழுத்து மற்றும் இயக்கத்தில் 2006ம் ஆண்டு வெளியானது. பாதிக்கப்பட்ட பலஸ்தீன மக்கள் தமது அனுபவங்களை பேச்சு அறபு மொழியில் பகிர்ந்து கொள்ளும் போது அதற்கான ஆங்கில மொழி உபதலைப்பு வழங்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. தவிர அனைத்து நேர்காணல்களும் ஆங்கில மொழியிலானது. பலஸ்தீன் மீதான இஸ்ரேலின் ஆக்கிரமிப்பினால் மேற்குக்கரை மற்றும் காஸாவில் ஏற்பட்ட பாதிப்புக்கள், அநியாயங்களை உலகுக்கு எடுத்துச்சொல்வதே இப்படத்தின் நோ…

Sri Lankan president still for peace with Tiger rebels www.chinaview.cn 2006-01-08 23:55:26 COLOMBO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse said Sunday that he was still committed to the internationally backed cease-fire with the Tamil Tigers despite continued acts of violence perpetrated by the rebel group. Rajapakse was reacting to Saturday's attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on a Navy fast attack craft at the eastern port of Trincomalee. Addressing a religious public gathering at Horana, 38 km southeast of the capital Colombo, the president said the LTTE attack was "a blatant violation of t…