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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…

A possible "lorry bomb" nabbed- Colombo Police Special Crime Investigation Division at Mirihana has arrested a person who allegedly purchased a deep- freezer lorry and modified it to carry explosives, arms and ammunition. The suspect is believed to have spent Rs 2.5 million to acquire the lorry. The money has been credited to the suspect's bank account by two banks in Kilinochchi and Vavuniya. The arrest was made at Mirihana on Monday the 4th of December as the lorry had been driven towards the Colombo city. When questioned the suspect told the police that the lorry would be taken to Trincomalee for transporting fish between Colombo and Trincomalee. O…

Country cannot afford any more external borrowing - Bandula If India reschedules its loan for SL, other countries will follow We will face the real debt crisis in 2025 Debt soared to Rs.13 trillion during Yahapalanaya regime There is an economic risk involved in raising foreign currency loans It is always better to opt for internal borrowings despite impact on inflation Education tourism vital as a development strategy For a year, some 20,000 Sri Lankans go abroad for higher education Sajith is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea UNP will suffer the most humiliating defeat at general election …

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…

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…

Tigers seize SLA weapons in Naakarkoayil clash [TamilNet, Thursday, 07 February 2008, 15:57 GMT] Heavy fighting erupted between the Sri Lanka Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam Thursday morning at 5:00 a.m. when an SLA unit, using tanks with artillery support fire, attempted to move towards LTTE Forward Defence Line at Naakarkoayil in Jaffna. The SLA sustained heavy casualties in the one-hour fighting, LTTE's Northern Forces Operations Command told reporters who were taken on a tour to Naakarkoayil FDL where the Tigers displayed ammunition and an assault rifle seized by them. for pictures: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=24580

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.

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…

Sri Lanka: Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) provides refuge to 80 families displaced from Batticaloa Since recently Tamil families moving from the Batticaloa district into Vanni area to escape atrocities in the hands of the Srilanka armed forces keep on increasing to unprecedented levels. Mobilising all the resources at its disposal, TRO Srilanka has geared itself towards meeting the specific needs of the displaced families. From providing food, water, medicines and other essential non food household items to putting up houses on allocated lands to make these people as homely as possible are being looked after by TRO. Local people are seen to have joine…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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

Indian and Eelam Tamils are Hindu terrorists: Musharraf. [ Gjd;fpoik, 27 bnrk;gH 2006 ] [ fpU;zg;gps;is ] Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says he is against use of the term Islamist terrorists or "Islamo-fascists" as such labelling can then be used for other terrorist outfits as well, like the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka who are Hindus. "Does one call terrorists in Sri Lanka Hindu terrorists? Why is Pakistan's bomb called an Islamist bomb? Why is India's bomb not called a Hindu bomb and that of Israel as a Jewish bomb?" Musharraf asked. "Pakistani people are certainly for fighting terrorism, but they somehow are not happy with relations with the United S…

No one knows how many thousands of people died in Sri Lanka in 2009, the year that marked the end of a decades-long struggle between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (known more commonly as the Tamil Tigers). Certainly, it was one of the bloodier conflicts that the world has witnessed in recent decades. But no one outside Sri Lanka really seems to care. After years of bitter conflict between the two sides, one that witnessed the inaugural use of the suicide belt in the 1980s, the Sri Lankan government launched a no-holds-barred offensive against the Tigers in the latter years of the last decade, resulting in enormous carn…

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…

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…

2ND LEAD (Correction) 5 bodies found in Anuradhapura [TamilNet, Tuesday, 06 March 2007, 08:23 GMT] Villagers in Sembukulam Grama Sevaka (GS) division in Anuradhapura District in the North Central Province Tuesday morning found 5 bodies bundled together. The upper parts of the bodies have been burnt in the pyre of tyres, according to Thirappane Police who recovered the bodies around 6:30 a.m. following the information from the villagers. Earlier, on Friday and Saturday, 6 bodies were recovered by the Kandana police from Muthurajawela shrub area in South, and the identities of the deceased is yet to be established. Anuradhapura magistrate Wasantha Jinadasa has …

எங்கிருந்து நலன்கள் உருவாகின்றன என்பதற்கும் அது எவ்வாறு நடைமுறையில் கட்டமைக்கப்படுகிறது என்பதற்குமான சமகால அரசியல் வரலாறு. https://theconversation.com/us-china-fight-over-fishing-is-really-about-world-domination-145977 Author Blake Earle Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University Disclosure statement Blake Earle does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. China’s aggressive, sometimes illegal fishing practices are t…

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…

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 …

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…

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…