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Dr. Rajan Hoole Border Aggression and Civilian Massacres – Part 5 As for the Israeli engagement and what it entailed, much valuable information is ob- tainable from By Way of Deception by Viktor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy, which was published in 1990, and the proceedings and report of the Mossad Commission in this country the following year, provoked by the same book. The book was written by the Canadian journalist Claire Hoy on the basis of information Ostrovsky had gathered while serving in the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad from 1983 to 1986, before quitting and flying off to Canada. It caused a sensation in Sri Lanka because of its references to purpo…

Vanakkam Give me your thoughts, opinion, suggestions on doing a protest outside BBC as soon as possible. Subject: Eric Solheim on HardTalk - TO BE CHALLENGED Vanakkam Sleeping Tamils in UK should challenge this with BBC Hard Talk. In this interview with Eric Solheim, the interviewer (Hard Talk) took the anti-government position in all the countries except in Sri Lanka - WHY? This has to be challenged. Where is the question about war crime, crimes against humanity, genocide etc. He never asked any question in favour of Tamils! All the questions on Sri Lanka are in favour of the Sri Lankan government. Please c…

TAMIL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - TCHR/CTDH CENTRE TAMOUL POUR LES DROITS DE L'HOMME (Established in 1990) (UN accredited NGO to the World Summit on Information Society) www.tchr.net Ref : EH074/PR/2006 10 May 2006 Ethnic cleansing and mass murder in the name of Buddhism and tolerance ".. I do not want to hide the fact that I am a Buddhist and remind them the Buddha taught us tolerance of persons of other religious views” said Sri Lanka's former Prime Minister and present President Mahinda Rajapaksa. (www.mahindarajapaksa.com - 1 October 2005) Is it necessary for any President or even t…

Ethnic Sinhalese flee Sri Lanka fighting. A daylong artillery exchange Saturday between Sri Lanka's military and Tamil Tiger guerrillas in the island's east drove thousands of Sinhalese from their villages, an official said. Rebels said 30 soldiers died in the clashes; the military said only two troops had been killed. Both sides accused the other of causing civilian casualties. Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan said the guerillas repulsed a military advance into their territory in eastern Trincomalee district. "We retaliated and pushed them back to their original positions," he said. It was impossible to reconcile the conflicting casualty fi…

Etihad pulling out of Lanka COLOMBO: Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways said yesterday that it was pulling out of Sri Lanka, citing a sharp drop in tourist traffic to the tropical island due to ongoing fighting between government and rebel forces. "After extensive market analysis, we have decided to discontinue our services between Colombo and Abu Dhabi from September 9," the airline's manager for Sri Lanka, Kumar de Silva, said. Tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka plunged 30 per cent to 30,810 in June as compared with 44,066 a year earlier. For the six months through June, overall tourist arrivals were down nearly 25p to 224,791 visitors, compared to the same per…

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…

EU ban unlikely to make LTTE give up its fight Web posted at: 6/4/2006 2:38:20 Source ::: IANS http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_n...06060423820.xml New Delhi - Sri Lanka may be celebrating the European Union's ban on the Tamil Tigers and the co-chairs' warnings to further isolate them, but none of these is likely to halt the group's determination to achieve a Tamil Eelam state. If the past is any guide, the European Union decision, no doubt a major blow to the Tigers, will fail to make the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) give up its goal of carving out an independent homeland in Sri Lanka's north and east. It is even doubtful if the L…

EU says Tamil Tigers 'terrorists' Tamils in Europe are a source of funds for the Tigers The European Union has decided to add the Sri Lankan separatist group, the Tamil Tigers, to its list of banned terrorist organisations. The decision taken by ministers in Brussels means Tamil Tiger assets in the EU's 25 states will be frozen. Recent violence in Sri Lanka has destabilised a ceasefire signed four years ago with the government. Washington earlier took similar action against the Tigers, saying it wanted to cut off their access to arms and money. Correspondents say Europe's Tamil diaspora is a valuable source of funds for the Tigers. Th…

In a landmark victory for the legal initiatives of Eezham Tamils, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ordered the Council of European Union on Thursday to annul the restrictive measures taken against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The case has been won by the LTTE on procedural grounds, said the lawyers representing the LTTE. Commenting on the judgement, Mr Lathan Suntharalingam, one of the initiators of the legal move against EU ban on LTTE said: “More than 40 countries in the world directly and indirectly abetted the Sri Lankan State in its genocidal onslaught on Eezham Tamils. The US paradigm of ‘War Against Terror’ was used to …

European Union under Germany may lift Tamil Tiger ban: Sri Lanka. A lifting of the ban on the LTTE by the European Union (EU) is now a possibility because Germany is going to be EU President (for six months) from January 1, says the Colombo-based The Sunday Times. In a Frankfurt-datelined story, the paper said that at the very least, an EU under Germany would put economic pressure on the Sri Lankan government to abandon its military campaigns and return to the negotiating table for meaningful talks with the LTTE. Germany has already stopped its aid for tsunami reconstruction in Sri Lanka. Economic Cooperation Minister Heidmarie Wieczorek-Zeul had to…

Even in an empty Delhi metro coach, middle-class Indians make their maids sit on the floor Photo tweeted by Sanya Dhingra With rising prosperity, more double-income couples and nuclear families, the need for domestic workers is increasing – and so is the class divide. Our reporter Sanya Dhingra tweeted this brilliant, eye-opening picture on Saturday that tells us more than a thousand words on our class differences and the way we treat our domestic workers. Even in a fairly empty metro coach, a maid sits on the floor and not with her employer and her child. The tweet took …

Evergrande: Chinese property giant 'misses another payment deadline' The hugely indebted Chinese property giant Evergrande has missed interest payments to overseas investors for the second time in a week, reports say. Evergrande was due to pay foreign bond holders $47.5m (£35m) by Wednesday. But bondholders told Reuters news agency and Bloomberg that they were yet to receive any payment. Evergrande has not commented publicly on the issue. Once China's top-selling developer, the company is now facing debts of more than $300bn. It has been prioritising its liabilities within China, amid concerns of social unrest. Last week, Evergrande missed an…

Evoking the Undead Tiger, the Eternal Bogeyman: The Consequences of Forgetting the Past Ambika Satkunanathan on 01/10/2021 Photo courtesy of Indian Express “If only they would respect Tamils as humans.” An alleged former combatant who was “rehabilitated”. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is the armed group that the Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa government claim they defeated in May 2009. During the first Rajapaksa regime and after the Rajapaksas returned to power in 2019, even in the midst of the pandemic, their government has held annual events to celebrate its victory over …

Ex-minister accuses Sri Lanka of 'terrorism' 3 hours ago COLOMBO (AFP) — A former Sri Lankan foreign minister accused the government of failing to investigate extra-judicial killings and using "terrorism" to fight Tamil Tigers rebels. Government lawmaker Mangala Samaraweera said an ongoing visit to the island by the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, underlined the international focus on the island's worsening rights record. "Sri Lanka is also being branded a terrorist state because of our policy of fighting terrorism with terrorism," Samaraweera said. "The Arbour visit shows the international concern about what is happening here." …

India is not likely to make a response to the contents of the report of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights on Sri Lanka, as it mainly waits for the language of the resolution being drafted by US and western nations. On Wednesday, the landmark report on the last few years of Sri Lanka’s civil war was tabled in Wednesday, which called upon the setting up of “hybrid” courts with international and Sri Lankan lawyers and jurists to probe and address human rights violations by security forces and Tamil tigers. Incidentally, the UN human rights commissioner Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said that the report does not conclude that a “genocide” had been committed …

Experts say AI scams are on the rise as criminals use voice cloning, phishing and technologies like ChatGPT to trick people By Tom Williams Posted 8h ago8 hours ago, updated 6h ago6 hours ago Artificial intelligence is getting better at replicating a person's voice and generating coherent conversation.(Reuters: Philippe Wojazer) arlier this year Microsoft revealed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system which could recreate a person's voice after listening to them speak for only three seconds. It was a sign of just how quickly AI could be used to convincingly replicate a key pi…

[TamilNet, May 01, 2006 06:14 GMT] Two Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) soldiers and four Tamil civilians were killed in an explosion in Trincomalee town, around 9.45 a.m, Monday. Three SLN personnel and 2 civilians were wounded in the explosion, that occured at at Vidiyalayam Road in Trincomalee town, Trincomalee police said. The police said the blast was caused by a claymore mine fixed to a bicycle, parked on the road side. The bomb went off when the soldiers on a road clearing operation bagan examining the bicycle, ¨the police said. The civilians killed in the blast were identified as Praba, a three wheeler driver, Ms.Chitra Thurainayagam, and her two children- Va…

Expression of support to LTTE not an offence: Karunanidhi [TamilNet, Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 16:55 GMT] Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Monday reiterated that mere expression of support to the LTTE was not an offence as per an observation of the Indian Supreme Court. He admonished Opposition leader Jayalalithaa for misleading the people on this issue. He said that when a Congress member C Gnanasekaran had raised the issue and demanded action against Viduthalai Chiruththaikal Kadchi (VCK) leader Thol Thirumavalavan for organising a conference in support of LTTE, the Government could not take any hasty action as the apex court itself had said mere…

Australian of the Year 2020 awarded to eye surgeon Dr James Muecke, with Ash Barty, youth advocate and obstetrician also honoured By Elise Pianegonda An eye surgeon has been named Australian of the Year for 2020 for his work preventing blindness. This year's winners: Dr James Mueke is named Australian of the Year for his work raising awareness of type 2 diabetes and its links to blindness Pro tennis player Ash Barty is named Young Australian of the Year for inspiring young people to follow their dreams Obstetrics specialist Professor John Newnham is named Senior Australian of the Year for …

Eyewitness: 'Trincomalee paralysed' Heavy fighting is continuing in Trincomalee district Heavy fighting has continued between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tiger rebels in eastern Trincomalee district. The violence spread on Tuesday to Trincomalee port. The BBC News website spoke to a Tamil man there who lives close to the navy base which has come under mortar attack from the Tamil Tigers. He wishes to remain anonymous. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trincomalee has been paralysed by the violence. There have been blasts close to the navy camp and people in the surrounding area are evac…

Failed Predictions about the Future of world famous personalities "It will be years --not in my time-- before a woman will become Prime Minister." --Margaret Thatcher, October 26th, 1969. She became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom only 10 years after saying that, holding her chair from 1979 to 1990. But she wasn’t all that wrong since she is the only woman to have held this post. Maybe she should have added the word “again.” ------------------------------------------------------------- “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. It may sound ridiculous now, but the prediction …

False Promises: The Myth of Security and the Prevention of Terrorism Act Ambika Satkunanathan on 07/14/2021 Photo courtesy of Maatram For decades human rights activists have highlighted the draconian nature of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), which promises safety and security, yet in practice makes each citizen vulnerable to being arbitrarily arrested, detained, tortured and even convicted of an offence the person did not commit. Despite the fact it contravenes Sri Lanka’s international obligations and constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights, successive government…

Family forced to pay extra $4,000 for new tickets after Air Canada bars them from flight 'A family of 5 is a no-go,' manager said, although plane had 8 empty seats Shanty Thivakaran, husband Thiva Maheswaran and their son Athiran on vacation in Sri Lanka. The family had to repurchase plane tickets after they weren't allowed on their original Air Canada flight. (Shanty Thivakaran) A Toronto family wants answers after Air Canada barred them from their flight, forcing them to spend an extra $4,000 on new tickets to take the same flight the following day. When CBC News asked Air Cana…

Father, Son, and Nephew Go Missing in Sea at Sangaman Kanda December 26, 2024 A tragic incident unfolded on Wednesday evening at Sangaman Kanda beach, located within the Thirukkovil Police Division, where three family members were swept away by strong waves and are now missing. The missing individuals have been identified as Mayilvaganam Nadarajah (38), his 15-year-old son Dinujan, and his 17-year-old nephew Krishore, the son of Nadarajah’s sister. According to preliminary police investigations, the three had ventured into the sea for a swim as part of their Christmas celebrations. It is reported that …

FBI ம் SCOTLAND YARD உம் தமிழருகு எதிராக நடவடிக்கை Foreign investigation agencies such as the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Britain`s Scotland Yard have set up special units to crack down on Sri Lankans who are involved in financial crimes as most of the cases are connected to the funding of the LTTE. There have been several reports by the FBI and Scotland Yard of Sri Lankans migrating to the US and UK and laundering money for the LTTE which is listed as a terrorist organisation. The Sunday Times learns that now the FBI is keeping a close watch on Sri Lankans who use their credit card to purchase goods worth over US $150 since there hav…