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http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/26/int14.htm COLOMBO: As the world prepares for yet another ‘scary’ report by the United Nations panel on global warming and climate change, a Sri Lankan specialist in the group says Tamil rebels and government troops are actually fighting over land due to be submerged as sea-levels rise. “A major part of Jaffna and other northern areas (of Sri Lanka) will be submerged when the sea-level rises. So people are fighting and dying over areas that may soon not be there,” Prof. Mohan Munasinghe, vice-chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told in an interview. Jaffna, seat of a revolt for an independent hom…

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Tigers Infiltrate Amnesty International ! An Amnesty International-organized demonstration held in front of the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN in New York on Friday, 11th April was blatantly infiltrated by sympathizers of the LTTE living in the US and Canada. Amnesty International billed this demonstration as an effort to protest to the Sri Lankan Government against harassment and killing of several media personnel in Sri Lanka, claiming that most victims were Tamils. Over 200 Americans, mostly students assembled near the Permanent Mission on Third Avenue, near UN Headquarters, noisily protesting against the Government of Sri Lanka. Making use of …

சிறிலங்காவின் சிவில் யுத்தத்தைப் பின்பற்றி தனது உள்நாட்டுக் கிளர்ச்சிகளை அடக்க நினைக்கும் இந்தியா India follows Sri Lanka in waging civil war' [TamilNet, Thursday, 08 October 2009, 05:01 GMT] India, in consultation with US counter-insurgency forces, is planning an unprecedented military offensive against ultra-Marxist rebels that is going to hit mainly the Adivasi (indigenous) peoples of India in the states of Andra Predesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and Maharashtra, warns a protest document drafted by Arundhati Roy and a group of progressive intellectuals. India plans to deploy its paramilitary forces, anti-rebel militias organized and fun…

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வன்னியில் இருக்கும் பொழுது வாழ்க்கையின் யதார்த்தத்தை மிக அருகில் காட்டி உங்கள் கண்களை திறக்க வைக்கிறது. ஒரு வறுமையான உடலில் உள்ள ஆன்மாவின் செல்வந்த செழிப்பு உங்கள் இதையத்தை தொடுகிறது. Reporting from Vanni, Part III I saw richness in poverty by K.Mylvaganam For these families, the lack of contact with people is their poverty. Now my friend from USA will be writing to them once he gets this photo and their address. The Senkodans will appreciate the letters a lot more than the monetary contribution my friend has made. I know that for certain. It will give them great satisfaction that there is someone unknown to them somewhere in some part of the world who care…

No more free school season tickets Free season tickets from school children withdrawn The Government says that the decision to withdraw free season tickets from school children is in response to public demand. Since the introduction of free season tickets we have received a lot of complaints from general public thus we decided to remove this privilege, , Deputy Minister of Transport, Lasantha Alagiyawanna told BBC Sandeshaya. In a letter circulated to local transport authorities Sri Lanka Central Transport Board (SLCTB) chairman Tudor Dayaratne says that the transport minister had directed to charge a fee when providing season tickets to students inc…

Police evict Tamils from Colombo (BBC World News) Police in Sri Lanka have forced hundreds of the minority Tamil community out of the capital Colombo for what they say are security reasons. They launched overnight raids in Tamil areas of the city and forced guests staying in budget hotels onto buses. Police said that Tamils who were in the capital "without valid reasons" were made to board buses bound for the north and east of the island. Police said that the move was necessary amid fears of renewed civil war. 'Bad example' They say that the crackdown is part of continuing efforts to stop the Tamil Tigers infiltrating the city of 600,000…

(By Dinesh D. Dodamgoda) (The author of this article started his career as a journalist at LANKADEEPA newspaper and subsequently was appointed as a Member of Parliament when he was 21. He is a lawyer in profession and has obtained an MSc on Defence Management and Global Security from the British Royal Military College of Science (Cranfield University) Shrivenham, United Kingdom. He is reading for a PhD on Terrorism at the Centre for Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) in the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. In this article he expresses his views on today's strategic issues and the views of this article are solely those of the author.) The Sri L…

People in Batticaloa are voting in the first polls since the government drove the Tamil Tigers from eastern Sri Lanka. The elections are for a municipal council and smaller local authorities in outlying areas. But the party that is expected to win - the Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal party (TMVP) - is made up of former Tamil Tiger rebels, and they have not laid down their arms. Pradeep Master is a leading candidate for political office, standing in Batticaloa's local polls for the TMVP. During the campaign he was out on the streets visiting shops and handing pamphlets to passers-by. But at the age of 16, he was carrying an AK-47 for the …

President Mahinda Rajapaksa told Lal Wickrematunge three times that his brother Lasantha, the founding editor of The Sunday Leader newspaper who was assassinated in January 2009 was killed by Former Army Chief Sarath Fonseka, exiled Sri Lankan Journalist Uvindu Kurukulasuriya told UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay in London yesterday. Pillay who delivered a lecture at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on Friday on the Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech: What International Human Rights Law Says was informed of this publicly by Kurukulasuriya following her speech. Kurukulasuriya said that Lal Wickrematunge had informed him that …

பிரியா நடேஸ் தம்பதிகளின் இரண்டாவது மகள் கிறிஸ்மஸ் தீவுகளிலிருந்து அவசர மருத்துவ உதவிகளுக்காக பேர்த் வைத்தியசாலையில் அனுமதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.. Biloela child 'diagnosed with pneumonia' A child flown to hospital in Perth from Christmas Island now has pneumonia, campaigners say, as the Home Affairs Minister maintained the Australian government is "investigating resettlement options" for detainees. Karen Andrews said she "didn't want to disrupt negotiations" regarding the family, who currently are detained on Christmas Island after they were deported from Biloela, Queensland. . "We are going through the process now of investigating a range of res…

Bahrain fire kills 16 Indians --------------------------------- Sunday, July 30, 2006 (Manama): At least 16 Indians were killed and seven others injured when a major fire broke out in a building housing over 200 workers in Bahrain early today. The incident, apparently caused by a short circuit, took place in Gudabiya area when there were 218 people in the camp, mostly Indians. However, workers claimed that there were over 350 Indians in the building. The seven injured were being treated in a hospital for burns they received in the fire. Indian Ambassador to Bahrain Balakrishan Shetty said that most of the 16 workers killed were from Tamil …

What the European Court of Justice (ECJ) proves implicitly is that under European Law, you do not need evidence to classify a group as a ‘terrorist’ organisation, commented US-based Eezham Tamil legal activist, Mr Rajeev Sreetharan, who was one of the initiators of the LTTE vs EU case adjudged by the ECJ on Thursday. However, he added that the ECJ ruling, although tainted by questionable post 9/11 interpretations of international humanitarian law, in essence vindicates assumptions in deciding to challenge the EU ban of the LTTE in a court of law, rather than the halls of government. Rajeev was hopeful that the lifting of the ‘terrorism’ ban helps to begin reshape the Euro…

Sri Lanka woos Jaya: India In The ‘Killing Fields Of Sri Lanka’ sam rajappa THE Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Prasad Kariyawasam, now in Colombo for consultations, has sought an appointment with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalitha, in Chennai to extend to her a personal invitation from President Mahinda Rajapaksa to visit Sri Lanka. In its attempt to pamper Rajapaksa to serve the agenda of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, India had betrayed the cause of Sri Lankan Tamils who have been struggling for equal rights with the majority Sinhalese. While the DMK, an important constituent of the UPA, remained passive content with amassing wealth, even as In…

Diplomatic scandal over Karuna, ties with Britain dip From Neville de Silva in London Britain’s relations with Sri Lanka have taken a nose-dive after breakaway LTTE rebel leader Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias ‘Karuna Amman’ was arrested near London and found to have entered the United Kingdom on a Sri Lankan diplomatic passport issued by its Foreign Ministry and containing bogus bio-data. The Foreign Ministry in Colombo is reported to have issued a Third Person Note (TPN), a diplomatic letter of recommendation from one Government to another. The British High Commission in Colombo had readily issued a visa for Karuna’s entry into the UK based on this prot…

Sinhala regime playing role similar to Israel By: Dr.Vickramabahu Karunaratne Courtesy: LakBima News - November 11, 2007 Rajpal of Lakbimanews says "I was the editor of a Lake House newspaper. The moment I started carrying stories about the abductions of Tamils in Colombo, while also front paging the success of the forces in the war front, they threw me out of my job. Of course Tamils are not people under Rajapaksa. If you talk about them as if they were people, you would be out of your job. That is nothing though. If you are Tamil- you could lose your life too, but who cares? Which son of a bishop says Chickera is wrong?" It is a heroic statement. …

Visiting Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney today expressed concern over accountability, human rights and lack of political solutions in Sri Lanka. He also said these factors are reasons for an influx of immigrants to Canada. If Sri Lanka does not address issues related to human rights, accountability, political reconciliation, resettlement and judicial independence, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will keep away from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka, he said. Minister Kenney said Prime Minister Harper had sternly emphasized that Canada would not compromise on its stance of maintai…

Why Tamil cricket players Muttiah Muralitharan and Angelo Matthews have not spoken out boycotting Sri Lankan cricket? “No they haven’t said that. They prefer to stay silent. Because in our opinion, their cricket careers are more important, than this issue to them." "They try and say that politics and sport should be separated, but we all know, anybody who has worked in sport, like I have for 40 years, knows that they are inextricably entwined." -Trevor Grant, a former chief cricket writer at The Age http://www.tamilguardian.com/article.asp?articleid=6530

Sri Lanka was for decades an example of how sectarian conflict can wreck an otherwise fortunate country. It has had three years to show how devolving power to an ethnic minority can bring about lasting peace. Now it looks as if the opportunity will be lost. Sri Lanka paid an enormous price to bring 26 years of civil war to an end. An estimated 40,000 people died in the last months of fighting in 2009, bringing the conflict’s final toll to more than 100,000. This includes a sitting president, Ranasinghe Premadasa, and a former Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, who were killed in suicide bombings by the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Yet there was h…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asi...sia/4807846.stm Tamil rebels 'coercing diaspora' The rebels are seeking autonomy for minority Tamils Tamil people around the world are being intimidated and threatened into giving money to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, according to a new report. The extortion of money from Tamils living in North America and Europe has been stepped up recently to fund a "final war", says Human Rights Watch. The Tamil Tigers have denied allegations of extortion in the past. A recent upsurge in violence between the rebels and security forces in Sri Lanka has cost at least 120 lives. Sri Lankan officials and …

By The Associated Press 2 hours, 15 minutes ago Associated Press Correspondent Matthew Rosenberg is covering the new outburst of violence in Sri Lanka, where the government is facing off against rebels and many fear the country has slid back into war after four years of a shaky cease-fire. ADVERTISEMENT ___ MONDAY, June 19, 5 p.m. local KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka I've checked into the 1-9, one of the two places to stay (for my take on the other one, check the previous post) in Kilinochchi, the main city in Tamileelam, the de-facto mini-state set up the Tamil Tiger rebels in the swaths of territory they control in Sri Lanka's north and…

எதியோபிய நாகரிகர் முன்னோர் தமிழர் எதியோபிய நாகரிகம் சூடான்-எதியோபியாவின் வட பகுதியில் நைல் ஆற்றுக் கரை ஓரம் தோன்றி வளர்ந்தது. இந் நாகரிகம் எகிபது நாகரிகத்தினும் பழமை மிக்கது எனறும் உண்மையில் எதியோபிய நாகரிகரே எகிபது நாகரிகத்தையும் அமைத்ததாக சொல்லப்படுகிறது. ஆயினும் மேலையர் எகிபதையே பெருமைபட பேசுகின்றனர். உலகில் பலருக்கு எதியோபியாவில் பழம் நாகரிகம் இருந்ததே அறியாமல் உள்ளனர். எதியோபிய நாகரிகம் காலத்தால் எகிபதினும் முற்பட்டது, இதாவது, 9,500 ஆண்டுகள் பழமையுடையதாய் சொல்லப்படுகிறது. இங்கு சிந்து எழுத்துகளை ஒத்த எழுத்துகள் மண்டி எனும் ஊரில் கண்டெடுக்கப் பட்டன. இதற்கு பிற்பட்டதே எகிபதின் எழுத்துகள். நாகரிகத்தில் எதியோபியா எகிபதுக்கு சற்றும் குறைவில்லாதது.. எதி…

Learning Politics from Sivaram The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka by Mark P. Whitaker, University of South Carolina, Aiken From the publisher: This is the story of the life and impact of the political activist, journalist, and freedom fighter Sivaram Dharmeratnam. Sivaram dedicated his life to helping the Tamil people. He started out as an active participant in the war against the Sri Lankan government—in the eyes of some, a "terrorist." Yet he eventually renounced the violence it involved. Instead, he became a journalist and used his position to fearlessly critique the government—despite repeated threats on his life and…

What we know about the limo company and the family that runs it By Darran Simon, CNN Now PlayingQuestions remain after... Questions remain after limo crash kills 20 02:30 (CNN)The man charged with criminally negligent homicide in a fatal limousine crash had packed bags in his own car when police stopped him, authorities said Thursda…