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Suicide Raid on Sri Lanka Navy Base Kills 16 Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a naval base in an apparent suicide mission in the southern city of Galle on Wednesday, leading to at least 16 deaths and triggering brief looting of minority Tamil shops. Wednesday, October 18, 2006 News Photos: See the latest news as it happens with photos on demand! COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a naval base in an apparent suicide mission in the southern city of Galle on Wednesday, leading to at least 16 deaths and triggering brief looting of minority Tamil shops. It was the latest in a series of blows to an already battered peace proc…

ER GRIFF EINER SCHÜLERIN (18) IN DEN SCHRITT – DOCH DIE RICHTERIN LIESS IHN LAUFEN: Nur 1 Monat auf Bewährung für Sex-Grabscher Düsseldorf – Es ist ein Fall, der wütend macht: Asylbewerber Sivapalan A. (26) aus Sri Lanka grapschte am 5. März um 3.25 Uhr in der Altstadt einer 18-jährigen Schülerin unter den Rock. Die gute Nachricht: Er wurde schnell gefasst, saß 5 Tage in U-Haft und stand schon Donnerstag vor Gericht. Die schlechte: Die Richterin ließ ihn gleich wieder laufen. Das Kuschel-Urteil: 1 Monat auf Bewährung wegen Beleidigung! Vor Gericht hatte der Staatsanwalt die Sex-Tat des Asylbewerbers (lebt seit dem 2. Juni 2015 in Deutschland) deutl…

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The White House and Senate leaders struck a major deal early Wednesday morning over a $2-trillion package to provide a jolt to an economy struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic, capping days of marathon negotiations that produced one of the most expensive and far-reaching measures in the history of Congress. "Ladies and gentleman, we are done," White House legislative affairs director Eric Ueland said right before 1 a.m. after leaving Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office following negotiations that have gone around the clock since last Friday. "We have a deal." McConnell formally announced the agreement on the Senate floor, saying, "At last, we hav…

US may launch Sri Lanka war crimes investigation 25 March 2013 Last updated at 13:29 ET Help The US has warned that it may be forced to investigate alleged war crimes if the Sri Lankan government does not conduct its own "independent and credible" inquiry. The Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Robert Blake, said it was up to the Sri Lankan government to prove that it was genuine in investigating allegations of war crimes during the last phase of the conflict with the separatist group the Tamil Tigers http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21930556

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…

CNN)Multiple people were killed Saturday in a shooting at a shopping center in El Paso, Texas, according to local officials. El Paso Mayor Dee Margo and police Sgt. Enrique Carrillo said there were multiple fatalities. Authorities do not believe there is an ongoing threat, Carrillo told reporters. One suspect is in custody, according to Sgt. Robert Gomez. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/03/us/el-paso-shooting/index.html

Why Gotabaya Rajapaksa must go & Mahinda may flee to Africa : Sri Lanka MP Sumanthiran ஜனாதிபதி கோட்டாபய ராஜபக்ச புதிய பிரதமராக ரணில் விக்கிரமசிங்கவை நியமித்துள்ள நிலையில் நாட்டில் ஏற்பட்டுள்ள பொருளாதார மற்றும் அரசியல் குழப்பங்கள் குறித்து ThePrint இன் சிரேஷ்ட ஆலோசனை ஆசிரியர் ஜோதி மல்ஹோத்ரா M. A. சுமந்திரனிடம் பேசியிருந்தார். ராஜபக்சக்களின் எதிர்காலம் என்ன, மக்களின் போராட்டங்களுக்கு மத்தியில் மஹிந்த நாட்டை விட்டு வெளியேறுவாரா, எதிர்கட்சிகளின் முன்னெடுப்புத் திட்டம் என்ன என்ற பல விடயங்கள் குறித்து கலந்துரையாடி இருந்தார்.

Sri Lanka blocking access to TamilNet, deeply disturbing: Free Media Movement. Noting that the access blocking of TamilNet in Sri Lanka is a significant turn in the erosion of media freedom in Sri Lanka and clearly demonstrates the extent to which media is censored and the free flow of information curtailed, without any accountability, transparency or judicial oversight, the Free Media Movement (FMM), in a media release issued Wednesday, called upon the Sri Lanka Government and relevant State authorities to immediately rescind the orders to block the access to TamilNet. Full text of the press statement by the Free Media Movement follows: The Free Media Movemen…

Call for immigrant amnesty in UK Half a million illegal immigrants should be given the right to stay in Britain, a think tank has said. The Institute of Public Policy Research says such an amnesty would bring in £1bn in extra taxes, and save costs of £4.7bn needed to deport people. It is urging Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to adopt the move, saying a large scale deportation would never happen. The Home Office said an amnesty was unnecessary and would create "a strong pull for waves of illegal migration". It is not known how many illegal immigrants are in the UK, with estimates varying widely from 300,000 to 900,000. We would notice it …

WikiLeaks: EPDP Sold Jaffna Children: Girls To Prostitution Rings And Boys To Slavery author: COLOMBO TELEGRAPH “The children are sold into slavery, usually boys to work camps and girls to prostitution rings, through EPDP’s networks in India and Malaysia. Sunthararaj maintains that children are often smuggled out of the country with the help of a corrupt Customs and Immigration official at Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo.” the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington. EPDP Leader Douglas Devananda and President Rajapaksa The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable f…

நினைவேந்தல் உரிமை குறித்து இன்று பாராளுமன்றில் திரு கஜேந்திரகுமார் பொன்னம்பலம் அவர்கள் இன்று சமர்ப்பிக்கவிருந்த எழுத்துமூல கேள்விக்கான அனுமதியை சபாநாயகர் தடை செய்தமையை எதிர்த்து பாராளுமன்றில் கஜேந்திரகுமார் - தினேஸ் குணவர்தன ,ஜோன்ஸ்டன் பெர்னாண்டோ ஆகியோரின் குறுக்கீடுகளுக்கு பதில் வழங்கியபடி தமிழர் தரப்பு நியாயத்தை எடுத்துரைத்தார் கஜேந்திரகுமாருக்குத் தென்னிலங்கை நா.உறுப்பினர்கள் சபாநாயகர் மூலமாக முட்டுக்கட்டை போட்ட வேளையில் சுமந்திரன் குறுக்கிட்டு சட்ட ஆதாரங்களை சாதுரியமாக முன்வைத்து கஜேந்திரகுமாரின் உரிமைக்காக வாதாடினார்!

Raman’s war and his historical analogies By Neville de Silva The other day a journalist friend of mine (more a TV person than a print journalist) emailed me an article by B. Raman, a former additional secretary of India’s cabinet secretariat and currently the director of the Institute For Topical Studies in Chennai. Given the political turbulence in Tamil Nadu over Sri Lanka and the pressure by Chennai politicians on India’s central government to take positive action to ensure a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, it was useful to read what a Chennai-based analyst whose writings appear regularly in the Colombo media had to say about the military conflict. More so since…

LTTE activists threaten to kill Indian leaders Bala's phone numbers changed in London: Dushy Ranetunge in London UNITED KINGDOM: The Balasingham interview has brought the LTTE lunatic fringe out of the woodwork. One has threatened to eliminate the Indian Prime Minister. His posting in a well-known web newspaper reads as follows: "We Tamil LTTE don't care who it is in India that we kill. If we can kill Mahatma Gandhi, LTTE Tamils will kill him. I don't know why Bala apologised to India. India is a poverty stricken hell hole. LTTE Eelam is better. Manmohan is next on Prabhakaran's list." Rasam is expressing the LTTE hardcore view, whic…

Hillary Clinton urges nuanced approach to ‘terrorists’ [TamilNet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 21:47 GMT] US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton this week urged a more nuanced approach to armed non-state actors, arguing “the bottom line is, you can't lump all terrorists together. …what the Tamil Tigers are fighting for in Sri Lanka, or the Basque separatists in Spain, or the insurgents in al-Anbar province may only be connected by tactics.”Senator Clinton made her comments to Michael Tomasky of Britain’s ‘The Guardian’ newspaper in an interview which covered Iraq, the legacy of the Cold War and ceding executive powers. When asked “do you think that the terroris…

A human race in the verge of extinction. Can we stop the devastation of our motherland and save our own species? Priya Raj, 25th January 2007. Death, mayhem, rape, molestation, psychological trauma, malnutrition, displacement and disappearances in the Tamil nation are slowly but steadily pushing the native Tamil race towards extinction. Every second that passes by in the north and east of Sri Lanka confirms this horrific fact and unfolding a story that is beyond the civilized world’s wildest imagination. Of all the species that have lived on the Earth since life first appeared here 3 billion years ago, only about one in a thousand is still livi…

The final days of our war: Zero or 40,000 casualties? It is Monday 25 February 2020 as I hunt-and-peck my computer keyboard at Colombo International Airport Terminal 12 awaiting my flight to New York with my wife to attend a family funeral. I had been catching up on yesterday’s ‘The Sunday Times’. It announced that the Government, with cabinet approval, will withdraw from Resolution 30/1 of the UNHRC, solemnly co-signed by our Government in 2015. The UNP’s Sajith Premadasa has also promised to back the Government, following Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who promised during the presidential elections to protect soldiers who might be charged. I cringe in fear because t…

Sri Lanka: a paradise lost? By Irfan Husain AS THE fighting in Sri Lanka’s unending civil war has intensified, there has been a steady erosion in civil rights and democratic values. President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government, bent on crushing the LTTE, the Tamil militant group, has not been above using emergency powers to silence dissent. The latest victim of this authoritarian tendency is Keith Noyahr, a highly respected journalist and associate editor of The Nation. As he was about to open the gate to his house in Colombo at 9pm last week, a white van pulled up behind his car, a couple of men bundled him in, manacled him in handcuffs, and sped away…

தமிழர்களின் உரிமைகளை வலியுறுத்து - கனடாவின் மிகப்பெரிய பத்திரிக்கை ஆசிரியர் தலையங்கம் Sri Lanka must address war crimes charges and show respect for Tamil rights Three years after bringing Sri Lanka’s bitter 25-year civil war to an end, President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his triumphalist government risk becoming pariahs. At the United Nations they are under fire for not fully probing what the UN calls “credible allegations” of war crimes, and for not healing the broken nation. In Geneva this week Canada is co-sponsoring an American push at the UN Human Rights Council to demand that Rajapaksa’s Sinhala-dominated government set up a “credible and independent” p…

Unspoken Genocide: Convention on War Crimes and Genocide in SriLanka Speech by Kolathur T. S. Mani (President, Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam) 15 April 2010 – Jawaharlal Nehru University – New Delhi Esteemed guests and dear friends... We have come together to open up a discussion on the 'Unspoken Genocide' in SriLanka. First I would like to thank the organizers for opening up such a discussion for the first time in the country. They have…

--Sinhala Army kills Tamil father of four in Valaichenai-- Sri Lankan Sinhala Army troopers shot dead a Tamil family man, father of four, Saturday evening around 3:00 a.m. at Nasivanthivu in Valaichenai police division. The victim was identified as Murukesu Sivarasa, 30, medical sources said. The body of the deceased is lying at Valaichenai hospital, added the sources. Sinhala Police in Valaichenai claimed that the victim was an attacker who had launched an ambush on SLA patrol with a T-56 automatic rifle and a hand grenade. Nasivanthivu is located 30 km northwest of Batticaloa town.

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…

Human Rights Watch: Security agencies shutting down civic space in Sri Lanka Citing 15 Sri Lankan human rights activists working in different parts of the country, Human Rights Watch raised concern yesterday over allegations of surveillance, harassment, and threats against human rights activists and journalists. Since the election of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as president in November 2019, the rights watchdog said in a statement, there has been a “rapid closing of civic space and freedom of expression”. In its statement, HRW referred to what it called consistent accounts of increased surveillance and pressure from security agencies. “Se…

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will adopt the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report on Sri Lanka during the 22nd session of the UNHRC which begins next month in Geneva. According to the agenda of the session Sri Lanka’s UPR report is among a list of UPR reports of countries listed to be adopted at the council session. The UPR on Sri Lanka was held last November in Geneva, during which, Sri Lanka rejected 98 and accepted 111 recommendations submitted by countries at the UPR. Sri Lanka is expected to face severe criticism during the UNHRC session in Geneva in February and March. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay had said last week that sh…

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…