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India seeks to back non-intrusive resolution against Lanka at UN rights Council DMK workers laid siege to the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner's office in Chennai on Match 5, 2013 demanding United Nations Human Rights Council probe into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. (TOI photo by C Suresh Kumar) RELATED DMK seeks referendum in north, east Lanka NEW DELHI: The US circulated a draft resolution in Geneva against Sri Lanka on Thursday, which, if supported by India, could upend many of the fundamental "no-go" areas of Indian foreign policy and complicate New Delhi's efforts to honour the sentiments of Tamil MPs while maintaining it…

Press release No.: 78/06 Date: 08.06.06 Norway profoundly concerned with grave situation in Sri Lanka The grave situation in Sri Lanka, with escalating violence in breach of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA), is intolerable for the civilian population and a cause of great concern to the international community. As expressed in no uncertain terms by the Tokyo Co-Chairs in their statement of 30 May, the full responsibility for halting violence and giving the peace process a new start, rests with the parties. The Royal Norwegian Government regrets that it was not possible to hold the foreseen and much needed meeting between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL…

US condemns Habarana attack on SL Navy Sean McCormack, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State. The United States Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs, Sean McCormack, has condemned the "suicide attack" Monday near Habarana in Sri Lanka. "Though there have been no claims of responsibility this attack is in keeping with the tactics of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam," a press release issued by the U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka said Tuesday. "Only through the cessation of violence, a renewed commitment to peace talks, and constructive engagement by both sides can a political solution to this conflict b…

37 Million Bees Found Dead After Planting Large GMO Corn Field Millions of bees dropped dead after GMO corn was planted few weeks ago in Ontario, Canada. The local bee keeper, Dave Schuit who produces honey in Elmwood lost about 37 million bees which are about 600 hives. “Once the corn started to get planted our bees died by the millions,” Schuit said. While many bee keepers blame neonicotinoids, or “neonics.” for colony collapse of bees and many countries in EU have banned neonicotinoid class of pesticides, the US Department of Agriculture fails to ban insecticides known as neonicotinoids, manufactured by Bayer CropScience Inc. Two of Bayer’s best-…

Danish aid group says staffer killed in Sri Lanka 23 Jul 2007 10:10:13 GMT Source: Reuters Alert Me | Print | Email this article | RSS [-] Text [+] COLOMBO, July 23 (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead a Sri Lankan staff member of the Danish Refugee Council in the island's army-held far northern Jaffna peninsula, the aid group said on Monday, the latest in a series of killings of humanitarian staff. "One of our national staff in Jaffna was murdered this morning," said Charles Macfadden, head of the group's Sri Lanka mission. "We know nothing. He was on his way to work, we understand he dropped (off) his wife, stopped and had a chat with someone and some…

London-based Global Tamil Forum (GTF) has released a shocking video, from which this photograph has been extracted, to show that many children had been captured and shot dead towards the end of the Eelam war by the Sri Lankan troops. “They killed in cold blood not just LTTE chief Prabhakaran’s 12-year-old son Balachandran but several kids in similar fashion. This video nails the Sri Lankan government for serious war crimes”, GTF spokesman Suren Surendiran told Deccan Chronicle. He said the group in the picture included a little boy and a youth without a hand, all of them with their hands tied at the back. They were all later shot dead as seen in the video being re…

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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599171067/no-fire-zone-impact-distribution No Fire Zone documents the day to day horror of this war in a way almost never done before: Footage recorded by both the victims and perpetrators on mobile phones and small cameras – viscerally powerful actuality from the battlefield, from inside the crudely dug civilian bunkers and over-crowded makeshift hospitals. Footage which is nothing less than direct evidence of war crimes, summary execution, torture and sexual violence. No Fire Zone also brings the story up to date. The Sri Lankan government still denies this all happened - even claiming that what they did was an “humani…

Cholesterol drugs taken by around eight million Britons could slash the risk of death from coronavirus, a new study has claimed. Statins, taken to reduce 'bad' blood cholesterol, were found to cut mortality by 43 per cent compared to non-statin users. The British Heart Foundation says that statins are typically prescribed more than 70 million times a year. Now, a team has analysed 12 studies on the drug's effectiveness, which looked at 110,078 patients who died of coronavirus. Copy link to paste in your message …

(CNN) -- A refugee and mother of three young boys who is being held in indefinite detention in Australia has two days to convince the country's highest court why she should be freed. It's her last shot at overturning a government policy which was recently condemned by a United Nations Human Right Committee report as "cruel, inhuman and degrading." Failure will mean that Ranjini, a 34-year-old Sri Lankan refugee, will continue to be held without trial for the foreseeable future, for reasons that remain a national secret. And she's not the only one. "The core issues in Ranjini's case are common to more than 50 other refugees deemed a security risk and has serious impl…

The Government has ruled out talks with banned Tamil diaspora groups but will instead look at engaging with others. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had told UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during his recent visit to the UN that internal issues of Sri Lanka should be resolved through an internal mechanism of the country and that the Tamil Diaspora would be invited for discussions in this regard. However, in an interview with Daily Mirror, Foreign Minister, Professor G. L. Peiris, insisted that there will not be any direct talks with banned diaspora groups like the Global Tamil Forum. The Global Tamil Forum (GTF), British Tamil Forum (BTF), Canadian Tamil …

Chauvinism In The Age Of Immigration by Walter Trkla (Swans - October 4, 2010) Recent letters to the editor in our local newspaper and reports from the Urban Alliance on Race Relations indicate that many Canadians are xenophobic. Canada has a history of racial intolerance, and even though our multicultural policies promote equality, we continue to see racist comments in the letters to the editor. Some comments in the paper in support of racial harmony and openness have been responded to with vicious attacks -- "People like you will allow anyone and anything into our country and to hell with what the majority of us consider sacred: CANADIAN values!"…

2ND LEAD (CORRECTION, UPDATE) "White van" squad kills TNA MP's bodyguard [TamilNet, Sunday, 24 September 2006, 09:21 GMT] Amparai District Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarian K. Pathmanathan's security official was shot and killed Sunday morning by gunmen riding in a white van at Vinayagapuram in Thirukkovil in Amparai District, Police said. Sri Lankan counter-insurgency Special Task Force (STF) checkpost is located 100 meters from the site where the bodyguard was slain, according to civilian sources at Vinayakapuaram. The deceased, Kunchithamby Kuvendran, 38, a father of two, has been serving as body guard for the TNA M.P for Amparai district K. Pathmana…

A Catholic priest who narrowly survived the final phase of the war in Sri Lanka has been questioned by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) over a book of Tamil poetry he wrote called 'Uyirpathivu' which literally translates as, “Life Records”. The priest was allowed to be accompanied by a colleague and was questioned on Wednesday (03) by three officers from TID in the Jaffna Bishop’s house. The interrogation focused on aerial bomb attacks on churches and schools that the priest witnessed during the last months of the war in 2009 and wrote about in his poems. The significance of an aerial bombing is that it can only have been carried out by the Sri Lankan gover…

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10152907149776133 Lee Rhiannon Today in Parliament I spoke about what November 27 means for the Tamils both in Sri Lanka and in the many countries they now call home. It is a day they remember with deep pain and sadness the 26 year long civil war in Sri Lanka in which over hundred thousand Tamils were killed and the more than 60 years of systematic Sri Lankan state orchestrated brutality towards them. In previous years I have been able to join the community in Sydney in their grieving. The horror of the 2009 war has left deep lasting scars. This year I will be in Parliament. My heart and thoughts are with the Tamils i…

Way back in 1983, Velupillai Prabhakaran, on the alert, rode a bicycle through Jaffna to oversee a spot near the university his colleagues had picked to ambush Sri Lankan troops. Few people knew him then, and fewer had heard of the Tamil Tigers. A quarter century later, the same man, now a legend, has made history by using Tamil ingenuity to transform two light aircraft into stealthy bombers to target the air base of his enemy right in the heart of Sri Lanka. From the humble bicycle then to the breathless display of air power in 2007 - this is the extraordinary achievement of a man who has presided over a sharp and intelligent growth of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil…

The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy warship HAI YANG 24 HAO arrived at the port of Colombo on a formal visit this morning, the Navy said. The 129m long ship which arrived in Colombo is manned by a crew of 138 and it is commanded by Commander Jin Xin. Meanwhile, the ship is scheduled to depart the island on August 12. Chinese warship arrives in Colombo - Breaking News | Daily Mirror

Land Below Sea Level By David K. Lynch, Thule Scientific The Dead Sea is located in a deep valley at the transform boundary between the African and Arabia Plates (shown as a black line on the map above). At over 400 meters below sea level, it is the land area with the lowest elevation. The motions of the African and Arabian Plates, combined with the motion of shear-zone faulting has resulted in the formation of the deep Dead Sea Depression. Image by the United States Geological Survey. Introduction: Dozens of land areas of the Earth sit below current sea level. The lowest land area is the shoreline of the Dead Sea Depression i…

China, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan: Asia Local Bond Preview By Wes Goodman Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The following events and economic reports may influence trading in Asian local-currency bonds today. Yields are from the previous session. China: The inflation rate in August may top July's 10-year high of 5.6 percent, Bi Jingquan, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said yesterday. Bi, who spoke after a press conference in Beijing, declined to give a specific forecast. The commission is China's top economic planning agency. The yield on the 2.66 percent note due August 2010 was little changed at 3.45 percent, according t…

November 1, 2011 ------------------------ Reuters Alertnet - Sri Lanka to make post-war report public-foreign minister <http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/sri-lanka-to-make-post-war-report-public-foreign-minister> MSN News - Lanka war commission report to be made public <http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5560406> United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) - The forgotten returnees <http://www.unric.org/en/sri-lanka/27124-the-forgotten-returnees> Truth Dive - Lanka’s TNA files a FR petition against land registration by govt <http://truthdive.com/2011/10/31/lanka%E2%80%99s-tna-files-a-fr-p…

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…

Couple sues realtor over sale of house where double murder occurred Published on Tuesday November 20, 2012 The Star. VINCE TALOTTA/TORONTO STAR Eric and Sade-Lea Tekoniemi stand in their home, where a gruesome double murder took place in 1996. They are suing the real estate firm, agent and former owners. Tony Van Alphen Staff Reporter 99 Comments Eric and Sade-Lea Tekoniemi thought they had bought their dream home in Bowmanville last fall. But it turned into a house of nightmares after they learned it had been the scene of a horrific double murder 15 years earlier. That discovery has n…

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not attend the Commonwealth summit in Colombo later this year unless Colombo shows improvement on issues like human rights, judicial independence and more autonomy for the Tamils, the country's envoy to the grouping has said. Senator Hugh Segal, Canada's special envoy for Commonwealth renewal said Canada was not encouraging anybody not to participate in the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Colombo from November 15. "Our own Prime Minister has said that he does not intend to be in Colombo because he has not seen sufficient evidence of the Government producing results on issues like human rights, rule of law, Judicial i…

சிங்கள அரசாங்கத்தின் கைய்யில் முழுதான கலாச்சார அழிவை எதிர்நோக்கும் தமிழர்கள் - ஆசி பா. உ Tamils facing “cultural annihaliation” by SL Government: Australian Senator [TamilNet, Thursday, 08 October 2009, 05:10 GMT] “It may be argued that the Tamil people have a legitimate right to self-determination but what is essential now is that we must see an end to the oppressive and discriminatory policies of the victorious Sri Lankan Government” urged Greens Senator Ian Cohen in an address to the Australian Parliament on September 24th. Highlighting the “potential humanitarian catastrophe” faced by almost 300,000 refugees who “despite their desire and capacity to return h…