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CNN) — Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner announced on Saturday that three statewide races in Florida would head to a recount. With the margin of unofficial results in the Senate, gubernatorial and agriculture commissioner races below less than half of one percent (0.5%), a machine recount will commence. Related Article: Florida recounts begin as tensions escalate across state Barring lawsuits, delays, and local issues that could lengthen the process, here's a quick breakdown of what to expect over the next week and a half. Machine recount Counties can now begin to re-feed ballots into county or central count t…

Three IT professionals from Tamil Nadu are camping in New Delhi, trying to knock on the corridors of power to impress upon the government to stop playing second fiddle on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue and vote in favour of the US-sponsored United Nations Human Rights Council resolution. Sheela Bhatt reports "Do you know thousands of students from over 200 Tamil educational institutions are protesting against Sri Lanka's ill-treatment of ethnic Tamils since the last many weeks?" "Do you know that thousands of students are on a token fast today (Thursday) across Tamil Nadu to put pressure on the UPA government in New Delhi to vote in favour of the US-sponsored United…

Liam Fox, Adam Werritty, Lord Bell, Bell Pottinger And Sri Lanka Let’s summarise what we know so far . Bell Pottinger is the PR firm that has taken, among its clientele , the wife of Syria’s President Assad, the Pinochet dictatorship, the Lukashenko dictatorship, and the Bahraini government. Bell Pottinger is overseen by Lord Bell, who was previously an advisor to Margaret Thatcher. Sri Lanka paid Bell Pottinger £3,000,000 for PR. Bell Pottinger sub-contracted PR work lobbying for Sri Lanka in America, to Qorvis Communications. As Sunday Times Sri Lanka reported last year: The conduct of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy nowadays is more expensive. Not…

Death toll rises to six from Sri Lanka bus blast, 70 injured AFP The death toll from a bomb attack on a packed bus outside the Sri Lankan capital Colombo rose to six with 70 others injured, officials said Saturday, blaming the blast on Tamil Tiger rebels. The blast late Friday ripped through the passenger bus carrying 80 people near Nittambuwa town as it travelled on the Colombo-Kandy highway during the evening rush hour."This is the work of the LTTE," military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarsinghe said, referring to the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which is battling for an independent Tamil homeland in the island nation.. There was no i…

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Iqbal Athas – Journalist Who Exposed MiG Deal Turns Gota Propagandist Inexplicably the journalist that first exposed the 2006 MiG-27 deal, Iqbal Athas has turned propagandist for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa even after he recalled the horrific threats to his life and being forced to flee Sri Lanka as a result of exposing the shady aircraft purchase as recently as January this year. Iqbal Athas In 2006 Iqbal Athas exposed the irregular procurement in the Sunday Times causing ripples in the defence establishment then headed by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. By his own admission i…

Stand with the Victims of Vankalai and Pesalai ! By: World News Today – London Source: International Association of Tamil Academics - June 17, 2006 IATA Appeals to the College of Catholic Bishops Across the World The President of the International Association of Tamil Academics reported that he is mailing out over 3000 letters to all Catholic bishops across the world urging them “to stand on the side of the victims of Vankalai and Pesalai. IATA states that in an organized pogrom perpetrated by the Buddhist government of Sri Lanka where innocent Tamil children and helpless women and unarmed men are being selectively slaughtered, when churches are torched and …

This is what happend today against Tamils by the state terrorism 4 Tamils get killed in trinco 6 abducted today and 19 abducted during the last 2 days 2 arrested 1 get killed in Vavuniya 1 joung girl seriously injured 1 killed and another injured near Colombo Voilence are getting worster than before

Thousands of people took part in Heroes Day amidst SL military intelligence trying to ‘discipline’ the students and the people from not attending the memorial event on Wednesday. The people were determined to proceed with the event despite showering heavy rains at the grounds where Tamil war heroes (Maaveerar) lie buried in the occupied Tamil Eelam. Self-mobilised grassroots organised the remembrance events. Alternative locations were chosen for the war cemeteries (thuyilum-illam) grounds, which the occupying SL military was continuing to use, in an uncivilised manner, as the grounds for their cantonments. Sinhala soldiers were seen snatching the photos from the parents w…

Curfew re-imposed in Trincomalee [TamilNet, April 17, 2006 16:21 GMT] Curfew was re-imposed in three police divisions, Trincomalee town, Uppuveli and Chinabay in the Trincomalee with effect from 6 p.m. from Monday till Tuesday 6 a.m. The police said the curfew has been imposed as a precautionary measure. Earlier today, police and Sri Lanka Army personnel cordoned off and conducted a house-to-house search in Varothiayanagar, a Tamil suburb about 3 km. north of the eastern port town. About 50 Tamil residents were detained for questioning. All vehicles, motorbikes and push bicycles passing through the village were stopped and throughly checked by the government tr…

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/01/politics/george-h-w-bush-dead/index.html பழைய அமெரிக்க ஜனாதிபதி புஸ் மரணம் CNN)Former US President George H.W. Bush has died at age 94 in Houston, according to his spokesperson. Born into privilege and a tradition of service, Bush was a son of a senator, celebrated World War II combat pilot, student athlete, Texas oilman, Republican congressman, national party chairman, pioneering diplomat and spy chief. After his own 1980 presidential campaign came up short, he served two terms as Ronald Reagan's vice president before reaching the pinnacle of political power by winning the 1988 presidential election, soundly defeating De…

Hardline Sri Lanka monks mobbed us: Dutch aid group 12 Jan 2007 11:35:14 GMT Source: Reuters Printable view | Email this article | RSS [-] Text [+] Background Sri Lanka conflict More (Updates with fresh Buddhist monk protest) By Simon Gardner COLOMBO, Jan 12 (Reuters) - A Dutch Christian aid group that Sri Lanka suspects of helping the Tamil Tigers said on Friday hardline Buddhist monks allied to President Mahinda Rajapakse had mobbed their office and warned them to leave the island. Monks in saffron robes identifying themselves as members of Jathika Hela Urumaya, the Sinhalese nationalist all-Buddhist monk party (JHU), stormed ZOA Refugee C…

A magnitude-7.7 undersea earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There was no danger of a tsunami, and no injuries were reported. The earthquake occurred in the Banda Sea about 120 miles south of Ambon city, the USGS said. It occurred at a depth of 212 miles. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no destructive tsunami threat existed. Amran, an official at Indonesia's meteorological agency in the capital, Jakarta, said there were no immediate reports of damages or injuries. Like many Indonesians, he goes by only one name. The Internet news portal Detik.com reported from Ambon that people fled their houses in panic when[Relate…

A STORY ABOUT FOUR PEOPLE This is the story about four people named EVERYBODY, SOMEBODY, ANYBODY and NOBODY. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it, Anybody could have done it, But Nobody did it. Somebody got angry with that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody would'nt do it. It ended up that Everybody balamed Somebody when actually Nobody Accused Anybody.

நித்திரை கொள்ளமுடியாமல் தவிக்கும் ராமனின் "அழல்" கருத்துக்கள்.. Paper no. 2182 26.03.2007 LTTE'S AIR STRIKE ON AIR FORCE BASE - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR---PAPER NO. 209 by B. Raman (To be read in continuation of my article dated June 2, 2005, titled "The World's First Terrorist Air Force" available at http://www.saag.org/papers14/paper1398.html. It is annexed below) The Tamil Eelam Air Force (TAF) of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which has been in existence for at least nine years without the Sri Lankan intelligence having the least idea about its location and capability, went into action for the first time since its cr…

Who Cares for Kadirgamar? by Col. R. Hariharan (retd.), SAAG, April 9, 2006 Kadirgamar was believed to be topping LTTE's hit list. Pro-LTTE sections of Tamil Diaspora penned poems on the Internet celebrating Kadirgamar's heinous killing to reinforce the suspicion.... ..... ........... At every step, the findings of police investigation have been shrouded in doubts giving rise to rumours and unconfirmed stories. There were also doubts raised about the veracity of the initial report that a sniper gun was used for the killing. In fact, ballistics had found that a .45 calibre weapon was used. Analysts argued that snipers do not normally use this heavy calibr…

Sri Lanka claims "talks offer" as fighting continues [TamilNet, August 13, 2006 08:11 GMT] As heavy fighting continued between the Liberation Tigers and Sri Lanka’s military in the northern Jaffna peninsula, the government in Colombo claimed Sunday to have received on Friday an offer of talks from the LTTE and that it was accepting it. The government announcement came as press reports said the military’s air bridge to the Jaffna peninsula had been cut as the Palaly airbase continued to remain under LTTE artillery fire. The sea lines to Jaffna were also being disrupted by LTTE shelling of Trincomalee port, reports said. The head of the government's peace secretar…

Douglas loses heavyweight Munza Mushtaq in Colombo, February 1, 2006, 10.51 p.m.. In what appeared to be one of the most surprising splits, K. Vigneswaran, a former parliamentarian and advisor to Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) Leader Douglas Devananda has resigned from the party owing to the 'authoritative and dictatorial attitude' adopted by the EPDP leader. Dr. Vigneswaran who was with the EPDP for more than ten years was also Devananda's chief advisor and main negotiator of the EPDP when the draft constitution was being drawn up, and obviously Vigneswaran's resignation is a huge blow 'resource' wise to the EPDP leader, sources pointed out. D…

Amid continuing heavy fighting in the northern Jaffna peninsula, hundreds of wounded Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers have been brought to hospitals in and around Colombo, with hundreds more awaiting transfer from Anuradhapura, medical sources in the capital said Saturday. While the government officially says 106 soldiers have been killed in a week of fighting, defence sources in Colombo said Friday the bodies of more than 400 soldiers had been brought to the south. They said the majority of the casualties have been borne by the SLA’s elite 53 Division. 365 wounded SLA soldiers helicoptered out of Jaffna during the past week have been distributed amongst Ragama…

Sri Lanka faces constitutional crisis as president sacks chief justice Sri Lanka is facing a deepening constitutional crisis after President Mahinda Rajapaksa went ahead and sacked its most senior judge – a move that critics say undermines the independence of the country’s judiciary. In step many have claimed was inspired by a desire to remove someone who had blocked several government bills, Mr Rajapaksa on Sunday ratified a vote by the parliament to remove chief justice Shirani Bandaranayake. “President Mahinda Rajapaksa signed this morning the order removing chief justice Dr Shirani Bandaranayake from office with immediate effect in accordance with the resolutio…

India and USA largely dictate the so called international community’s (IC’s) policy on the Sri Lankan conflict. India and USA increasingly have common objectives to counter regionally and internationally making them strategic partners of the future. The conflict in Sri Lanka is no different when it comes to their partnership; in-fact they stand together to gain from it. Then... India as the regional bully/mercenary attempted the containment policy through a temporarily merged North-East back in 1987 in return for maintaining a military presence in parts of the island. In the process India dictated through military muscle of IPKF a weak and cosmetic political soluti…

Press Statement Sean McCormack, Spokesman Washington, DC January 3, 2008 Government of Sri Lanka’s Withdrawal from Ceasefire Agreement The United States is troubled by the Sri Lankan Government’s January 2 decision to terminate the 2002 cease-fire agreement. Ending the cease-fire agreement will make it more difficult to achieve a lasting, peaceful solution to Sri Lanka’s conflict. We call on both the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to avoid an escalation of hostilities and further civilian casualties. All parties to the conflict share the responsibility to protect the rights of all of Sri Lanka’s people. We urge them to work to…

Electricity, telephone service to Muttur cut off [TamilNet, August 03, 2006 17:44 GMT] The Sri Lankan government has cut off the supply of electricity to Muttur town and other villages in the Muttur division since the fighting broke out between the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). From Thursday noon telephone service to Muttur town has also been cut off, Muttur civilians arrived in Trincomalee Thursday evening with injured civilians said. Telephone service has been cut off after the artillery attack on Muttur Arabic College and Thoppur Al-Noor Mahavidiyalayam which resulted in the deaths of twenty two Muslim civilians sought refuge…

ACF Notes Initial Report on Sri Lankan Massacre, Awaits Official Investigation August 30, 2006 International cease-fire monitors, the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), made a declaration earlier today about the slaughter of the 17 Action Against Hunger (ACF) staff in Muthur, northeast Sri Lanka, in early August. In its statement to the secretary of the Sri Lankan government, the SLMM clearly denounced the Sri Lankan special forces with the responsibility for the executions. ACF has taken note of this initial declaration by the SLMM. ACF reaffirms its desire that all evidence is brought to light about the circumstances surrounding the s…

உங்கள் கருத்துக்களை அறிவியுங்கள் சிறீலங்கா வெளிவிவகார அமைச்சரின் உத்தியோகபூர்வ அமெரிக்க பயணத்தின் போது விடுதலைப்புலிகளை அல்-கைதா பயங்கரவாதிகளோடு ஒப்பிட்டு கூறியது பற்றிய உங்கள் கருத்துக்களை அமொரிக்க அரசாங்கத்திற்கு இணையத்தின் மூலமோ தொலைபேசி மூலமோ அஞ்சல் மூலமோ அறிவிக்கலாம். http://www.sangam.org/taraki/articles/2006..._Called_For.php