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Where have all the assassins gone? Gamini Dissanayake, R. Premadasa, D.M. Dassanayake, N. Raviraj and T. Maheswaran By Dilrukshi Handunnetti and Arthur Wamanan In the history of assassination politics in Sri Lanka, it is not just the frequency of the gory murders alone that had helped create an appalling record but also the absence of credible investigations leading to the apprehension of criminals. The criminality in the country has experienced a steep increase since the war broke out in 1983 which by now has paved the way for a culture of impunity to take root, with offenders of all levels going unpunished. Furthermore, if the law enforcem…

Young Lanka caught between delusion & a deity RADHIKA RAMASESHAN Kandy, July 25: In a seminar hall at the prestigious Peradeniya University in this former capital of Sri Lanka, students, teachers and Buddhist clerics assemble to answer queries from visiting Indian journalists. Most of them expectedly relate to the over two-decade Sinhala-Tamil conflict and, with no resolution in sight, what this means to a generation that has grown up after the 1983 ethnic riots. Tania Ekanayake was born that year. The trouser and shirt she wore, instead of the regimented, mostly black coloured full-length skirts slit a wee bit on the back, marked her out as a member of…

PK Balachandran Colombo, February 4, 2007|20:31 IST sri Lanka President, Mahinda Rajapaksa announced on Sunday that the 500 MW power coal fired power project to be set up in collaboration with the National Thermal Power Project (NTPC) of India would be located in Sampur, an area in eastern Sri Lanka captured by the Sri Lankan forces from the LTTE in September last. Rajapaksa referred to this venture in his Independence Day speech. "The Norochcholai and Upper Kotmale Power Plants, the Sampur Coal Power Plant, the Moragahakanda Maha Samudra, the New Airport at Weerawila, expanding the Port of Colombo to twice its capacity, new railways and expr…

LTTE Spokesperson for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Right to Life in their own habitats is a fundamental right of every civilian. This very fundamental right is being denied to the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. The Government of Sri Lanka has been violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by denying civilians access to their own habitats. Armed Forces of the Government of Sri Lanka which are occupying many predominantly Tamils areas in the districts of Trincomalee and Batticaloa has been trying again to settle Sinhalese population there. Already Muthur east and Sampur areas comprising 28 villages of 12 Grama Sevaka Divisions which belong to…

12 surprisingly high-paying part-time jobs Making ends meet can be difficult, even with full-time work, particularly if you live in a big, expensive city like Toronto or Vancouver. Time magazine has just published a list of part time jobs “that pay lots of money,” something we have also done in the past, so we thought we would revisit the topic by sharing a couple from Time’s list (to be honest, some of their jobs don’t actually pay all that well) along with our own previous list, to give you a veritable cornucopia of part-time job options. Maybe your hours have been cut, or maybe your bills are already covered but you want more cash for vacations, shoes and ga…

2ND LEAD [TamilNet, Thursday, 21 June 2007, 15:59 GMT] Unidentified attackers triggered a claymore device Thursday around 5:45 p.m., killing three Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers and seriously wounding one at Eechchamoaddai coastal road area in the High Security Zone, 500 meters from Jaffna city. The SLA troopers were returning in a tractor to the main base at Eechchamoaddai after distributing food to their fellow men posted along Jaffna-Kandy road and Main street when the attack took place. Sri Lanka Army officials in Colombo said 3 SLA troopers were killed and one seriously injured in the attack. The injured trooper has been rushed to Palaali military hosp…

Tamil National Leader Hon. V. Pirapaharan's Interview Velupillai Pirapaharan, leader of the Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam, tells Anita Pratap. Q: What made you opt out of a conventional system and spearhead a liberation movement which you knew would be outlawed? A: The democratic parliamentary system, or what you refer to as the conventional political system in Sri Lanka, has always tried to impose the will of the majority on the minority. This system not only failed to solve the basic problems of our people but, in fact, aggravated our plight. For decades, the repression by the state has made the life of our people miserable. The non-violent democra…

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…

Around 50 civilian passengers were killed and more than 30 wounded when a civilian bus was attacked by Claymore mine near Kebitigollawe, 23 km southeast of Vavuniya, Thursday around 7:50 a.m., medical sources said. Wounded passengers were rushed to Kepitigollawe and Anuradhapura hospitals. tamilnet

SL Intelligence, paramilitaries responsible for Manipay, Kodikamam killings - NESOHR [TamilNet, January 25, 2006 01:07 GMT] NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights (NESOHR) in the case histories of Manipay killing of three members of the same family and the killing of a 15 year old youth in Kodikamam, released this week, provides details of involvement of Sri Lanka Intellligence operatives and paramilitary cadres belonging to Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) in the killings. With several Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers wearing black bands covering their faces, clearing Kanagasabai Road leading to Bojan's family, nine members of EPDP paramilitaries scaled …

Plan B By Amal Jayasinghe 15 January 2006 19:01 hours Jan 15, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka plans a new security force in the capital to deal with possible attacks as concern grows for a fragile ceasefire with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, police said Sunday. Heavily-armed troops and police have been visible in the city of 650,000 in recent weeks, in line with tighter security following clashes between troops and rebels in the country's northeast, police Deputy Inspector General Pujith Jayasundara said. Jayasundara, who is in charge of security in the capital, said the police department was in the process of raising a specially-trained unit of a f…

குர்திஷ் பிரிவினைவாத குழுவை பயங்கரவாதிகள் பட்டியலில் இருந்து நீக்க ஜரோபிய நீதிமன்றம் உத்தரவு........ EU-Hof haalt PKK van EU-terreurlijst Uitgegeven: 3 april 2008 12:05 LUXEMBURG - Het Europees Hof van Justitie heeft de Koerdische Arbeiderspartij PKK geschrapt van de Europese lijst van terroristische organisaties. Bij de plaatsing op de lijst in 2002 ontbrak namelijk een opgave van redenen. Dat oordeelde het hof donderdag in een zaak die de PKK had aangespannen tegen de Europese Unie. Naar verwachting zal de EU de procedurele fout direct herstellen door een nieuw besluit. Het Hof haalde eerder om dezelfde formele reden een groep Iraanse vr…

Kfir bombers over Vanni, SLA fires MBRL rockets Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir jets, for the fourth day, flew over Vanni from 8:10 a.m. Friday. A reconnaissance aircraft was observed from 7:55 a.m. and continued to fly also after the Kfir jets had left the Vanni airspace. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) began firing Mulit-Barrel Rocket Launcher shells towards Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled territory from 8:20 a.m. The MBRL, artilery fire and explosions were continuing in the Northern front. http://www.goodsrilanka.com/index.php?suba...t_from=&ucat=1&

By Simon Gardner COLOMBO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - There is no way Sri Lanka's government will be able to crush its Tamil Tiger foes, and giving wide political autonomy to minority Tamils is the only answer, a leading European counter-terrorism expert says. With near daily land and sea clashes, ambushes, bombings and air raids amid a new chapter in a two-decade civil war that has killed around 70,000 people, the government is now taking the war to the rebels with offensives to drive them from territory they control. But the tactic is flawed and cannot solve an ethnic conflict that has killed around 5,000 people since early 2006 alone, said Dr. Gerard Chaliand, former …

Tamil Guardian 07 February 2007 President Rajapakse with Sri Lankan troops in Vaharai on Feb 3, 2007. Photo TamilNet. Buoyed by the Sri Lankan military’s capture, over the past six months, of large tracts of territory from the Tamil Tigers, President Mahinda Rajapakse said the LTTE could come for talks with his government – if it laid down its arms first. Destroying the LTTE – “fighting terrorism” – is the centre piece of President Rajapakse’s policy on the ethnic question. He made it clear that the military campaign would continue in his address at Sri Lanka’s 59th Independence Day anniversary celebrations and in comments a day earlier, made …

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. …

There have been a host of theories surrounding Mr Woolmer's death Scotland Yard detectives have told Jamaican police that the former Pakistan cricket coach, Bob Woolmer, was not murdered, the BBC understands. The apparent verdict follows work by a UK Home Office pathologist, who flew to Jamaica to probe Mr Woolmer's death. A UK newspaper has reported that Jamaican police are to announce that Mr Woolmer died of natural causes. Mr Woolmer was found dead in his hotel in Jamaica on 18 March after Pakistan's first-round exit from the World Cup. Days later Mark Shields, Jamaica's deputy police commissioner, announced at a news conference that the 58-year…

Mortar attack prompts search operation in Morawewa Soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) with police Tuesday morning conducted a combined cordon and search operation in Morawewa area located about 24 km Northwest of Trincomalee along Trincomalee-Anuradhapura road. The operation followed a mortar attack on the SLAF camp located in Morawewa by LTTE cadres Tuesday early morning, security sources said. Military sources in Colombo said there were no casualties on the security side in the mortar attack and that the Government forces had successfully retaliated the attack

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 …

Did The Stuxnet Worm Kill India’s INSAT-4B Satellite? On July 7, 2010, a power glitch in the solar panels of India’s INSAT-4B satellite resulted in 12 of its 24 transponders shutting down. As a result, an estimated 70% of India’s Direct-To-Home (DTH) companies’ customers were without service. India’s DTH operators include Sun TV and state-run Doordarshan and data services of Tata VSNL. INSAT-4B was put into orbit in March, 2007 by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which conducts research and develops space technology for the government of India. It is also the agency which controls and monitors India’s satellites and space vehicles while they are opera…

A Little Thing Called Love Author: Anonymous Love is a many splendored thing, they say, And I believe it when you looked my way, Out of the blue, things seemed to happen By chance or destiny, is the question. Living my life so long, without knowing your existence, Then came a day we felt each others presence, Guess what's meant to be will always find a way, Love creeps into hearts and decides to stay. A love so exquisite, yet so intricate, In a world of only "you and I" A love we can't even demonstrate, A secret we have to keep for life. I love you, honey, and its from my heart, I hope you know that youre no beggar from the …

03.10.2014 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s domestic probe into the disappearance of thousands of civilians during and after the island’s ethnic war is being undermined by serious translation errors, a group of activists said Thursday. Testimony before the presidential Commission of Inquiry was marred by glaring mistakes in translating questions from English-speaking investigators to ethnic Tamil witnesses, the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) said. Sittings this week have been affected by errors that could undermine the quality of testimony before the commission, the CPA said, adding that witnesses were photographed by men said to be military intelligence officers. …

Who is to blame to wreck peace talks, Sri Lanka or TTs? MIL, Jun 22, 2006. Dr. Raj Baldev The head monk of a Buddhist temple has contradicted a Sri Lankan government report that the Tamil Tigers attacked his temple as per BBC. As per other sources close to head of a Buddhist Temple, the statement of Sri Lanka that Tamil Tigers attacked the temple was unauthentic; probably their motive was to abet the public against them. By issuing misguiding statement, Sri Lanka cannot win the hearts of the Tamil Tigers and so the peace talks might not mature and it goes against the collective interests of Sri Lankan govt., the people and the Tamil Tigers. Sr…

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