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Origins of Remembrance Day Why is this day special to Australians? At 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. The allied armies had driven the German invaders back, having inflicted heavy defeats upon them over the preceding four months. In November the Germans called for an armistice (suspension of fighting) in order to secure a peace settlement. They accepted allied terms that amounted to unconditional surrender. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month attained a special significance in the post-war years. The moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front became un…

Tamil Tigers in Britain Burning less bright? Jun 12th 2008 From The Economist print edition Lean times for the Sri Lankan separatists. But Tamils are flourishing TERRORISM normally makes front-page news in Britain, so it was odd that the four Asian men charged with terrorist offences last month scarcely made the papers. The charge-sheet explains why: the men bundled out of their homes at dawn are suspected of procuring equipment for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a rebel group that has fought a decades-long civil war against the Sri Lankan state and is now banned in Britain. The police took pains to emphasise that there was no link to al-Qaeda; afte…

WORTH SHARING !! A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice lookin expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain an…

THIS WAR WILL BE WON BY THE TAMILS AT THE ECONOMIC BATTLE FRONT To each and every World-class Tamil worldwide FORWARD TO 20 OF YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND ASK THEM TO FORWARD TO 20 OF THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. It is called the internet chain reaction BOYCOTT ALL SRI LANKAN PRODUCTS FOR THE NEXT 100 DAYS Every time you buy something made in Sri lanka you are giving foreign exchange to the STATERRORISTS to buy arms and ammunition to kill our own brothers and sisters. Do you really need the …

Dear All Please forward this email to your friends and family members to show their disagreement and anger by sending email or phoning the school not to allow this to happen. Sri Lankan High Commission celebrates bloodshed & victory of tamilnation by the name of new year in Lampton school hall and Lampton park at lampton ave Hounslow TW3 4EP on 18/04/09 next Saturday. Please phone the Head Teacher & make polite request to withdraw permission to use their hall the phone number 0208 8572 1936 and ring Hounslow council on 0208 583 2000 between 8AM to 8PM to cancel Lampton park for their celebrations. Lampton School Lampton Avenue Hounslow …

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Iran's Finance Minister visits Sri Lanka [TamilNet, Monday, 14 January 2008, 15:14 GMT] Iran's Finance Minister Davoud Danesh-Jafari arrived in Colombo Monday on a formal three-day visit to discuss bilateral economic cooperation between the countries before visiting New Delhi on Wednesday, ministry officials at the Iranian embassy in Colombo told the Iranian news agency, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). The visit by the Iranian finance minister was in response to the recent visit by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajpaksa to Iran, according to a news report by the IRNA. Mr. Danesh-Jafari is scheduled to meet the Sri Lankan President during his stay in Colombo…

Exclusive: Telecoms company is loss-making and it is locked in long-running VAT dispute with HMRC Almost 90% of the UK workforce at the telecoms company Lycamobile have been told they could lose their jobs, the Guardian has learned, in an announcement that leaves more than 300 staff fearing for their roles shortly before Christmas. The company, owned by the multimillionaire Tory donor and British-Sri Lankan businessman Allirajah Subaskaran, sells pay-as-you-go sim cards popular with low-paid workers wanting to make cheap phone calls to family overseas, as well as in the UK. On Friday, staff at the Lycamobile’s headquarters in the City of London…

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Russia Duma speaker: Europe doomed by US to hunger, cold This picture taken on January 12, 2022 shows a gas-fired power plant in Lingen, Germany. (Photo by AFP) Europeans have been doomed to suffer hunger and cold to meet the United States' hegemonic demands, warns Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. The United States will “stop at nothing to cling to its power over the world as it throws under the bus the citizens’ welfare and the economies of European countries to achieve this end,” Volodin was quoted by RT on Friday as saying on social media. Volodin noted that natural gas in the US costs $333 …

ITRO condemns SLAF attack on "Peace Village" with 5 orphanages [TamilNet, August 14, 2006 13:42 GMT] Chencholai Valaham is the campus among the orphanages at the Peace Village of Vallipunam, said the International Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (ITRO London), the representative body of the overseas offices of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation in a press statement condemning the Sri Lanka Air Force bombing that killed 61 schoolchildren and wounded more than 129. "The area is well known by all parties: the Government of Sri Lanka, the Government Agent, ICRC, UNICEF and all those who work in the Vanni," the organisation said urging the international communit…

“We Dont Have any Horses, Lamborghinis or Helicopters” -Namal Rajapaksa Speaks out in Candid Interview Hafeel Farisz Namal Rajapaksa, the son of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Hambanthota District parliamentarian, in a candidinterview with the Dailymirror responded to allegations against him, the state of the country, broken promises and the way forward. Excerpts: Q;We are in the last phase of the election campaign. How do you see it progressing as of now and where do you see it headed towards? This has been one of the shortest election campaigns this country has witnessed. This is an election in which the campaign lasts for only 3 or 4 weeks, and I think w…

More details US President Donald Trump was whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd. Trump was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers when bangs started ringing through the crowd. Trump could be seen reaching with his right hand toward his neck. There appeared to be blood on his face. He quickly ducked behind the riser as agents from his protective detail rushed the stage and screams rang out from the crowd. The bangs continued as agents tended to him on stage. The crowd cheered as he got back up and pumped his f…

School girl missing in Jaffna, 3 seek protection [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 December 2007, 15:34 GMT] A ten-year-old girl student of Changkaanai Hindu Primary School was reported missing since Tuesday after leaving to attend school in the morning, according to complaints registered with the Jaffna office of the Human Rights Commision (JHRC) by her family members Thursday. Meanwhile, three family men from different places in Jaffna peninsula sought protection with JHRC Thursday due to death threats from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops and SLA-backed paramilitary men. The girl reported missing is Packiarasa Partheepa, 10, a fourth grade student of Changkaanai Hindu Prima…

The economy can take another 18 months of war Recently sworn in as a MP and acting as a Special Advisor to the President Basil Rajapaksa, believes it is more important to have the support of the people towards the political solution, than trying for a two thirds support in the House. He argues that the 13th amendment failed the last time around simply because it did not win the trust of the people, even if the government had more than a two thirds majority in Parliament. Spearheading the government’s Eastern development programme, he also maintains that the government has successfully handled the displaced civilians in the East. Denying reports of criti…

DAKAR, Senegal — Gambia, the smallest country in continental Africa, took an unprecedented step this week in the realm of international justice: It filed a lawsuit at the United Nations’ top court accusing Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya Muslims. The case at the International Court of Justice, which typically addresses disputes between states, raised eyebrows because Myanmar sits roughly 7,000 miles from Gambia, which lacks any tangible connection to the protracted crisis in Southeast Asia. But the story of why such a tiny player chose to tackle a distant conflict is personal. Abubacarr M. Tambadou, Gambia…

Switzerland is a landlocked country in Europe. It borders with France, Italy, Austria, Liechtenstein and Germany. Switzerland is generally divided between the Alps, the Central Plateau and the Jura. Hundred of mountain peaks are close or higher than 4000 meters. Monte Rosa is the highest and Matterhorn is the famous. Those who are looking for Music, arts, historical monuments, museums Switzerland is the best place to travel. Alpine resorts are much better server which is allover covered. In summer offers the pleasant climate for outdoor pursuits like Hiking, Climbing, Biking and inline skating, Mountain Biking and paragliding. Each and every resort is the premises fo…

“Accountability for alleged crimes committed by GSL troops and officials during the war is the most difficult issue on our bilateral agenda. (NOTE: Both the State Department Report to Congress on Incidents during the Conflict and the widely read report by the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) also detailed many incidents of alleged crimes perpetrated by the LTTE. Most of the LTTE leadership was killed at the end of the war, leaving few to be held responsible for those crimes. The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) is holding thousands of mid- and lower-level ex-LTTE combatants for future rehabilitation and/or criminal prosecution. It is unclear whether any such pro…

Central Bank and Sri Lanka’s embassy in Washington hire expensive PR firms to turn foe into friend; EAM left out of DPL process Moves to improve ties with India also, but New Delhi insists on 13th Amendment and LLRC recommendations By Our Political Editor It was just this week that top government officials scoffed at suggestions that Sri Lanka too play a role in the US pivot, a new foreign policy initiative by President Barack Obama towards East Asia. The suggestion to include Sri Lanka in that endeavour came in an article Jaliya Wickremesuriya, Ambassador to the US, wrote to a US Congressional website and was quoted in this column last week. He called for…

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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 rebels said the allegations were untrue and designed to discredit them. A recent upsurge in violence between the rebels and security forces in Sri Lanka has cost at least 120 lives. Sri Lankan officials and leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have agreed to curb the unrest and hold more talks in April on a threadbare truce. Fear …

Murugan Worship in Sri Lanka: New Archaeological Evidence Recent archaeological findings underscore the fact that the traditional history of the Sri Lankan Tamils should be reviewed. I consider that these archaeological findings and the pertaining new perspective on them are of significance in two respects. Firstly, though the tradition of employing archaeological evidences in historical studies is in effect for a long time in Sri Lanka, there has been a tendency to associate the archaeological emblems pertaining to Tamils with the Tamils from Tamil Nadu who used visit Sri Lanka then and on rather than relating them with the Tamils living in Sri Lanka. Th…