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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) embarked upon intense attack on the 'safety zone', in the early hours of Sunday, targeting a place called Pachchaip-pulmoaddai, aiming for bifurcating and capturing the northern part of the 'safety zone', initial reports from Vanni said. Heavy shelling and gunfire by the SLA started around 3:15 a.m. in the morning, and within 45 minutes, more than 300 shells exploded inside the civilian area of the safety zone around Pachchaip-pulmoaddai. Heavy civilian casualties are feared. Because of the rains, people are even unable to hide in the bunkers which are flooded, reports said. Meanwhile, since Friday, the SLA was building up heavily on the other side of…

அமெரிக்க அதிபர் பராக் ஒபாமா இந்தியா வந்து சென்றதைப் பற்றி நாம் பெருமையாகக் கருதிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறோம். ஆனால், அமெரிக்க மக்கள் அனைவரும் ஒரு தமிழரைப் பற்றி வியப்பாக பேசிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள் என்றால் நமக்கு பெருமை சேர்க்கும் விஷயம்தானே! அந்தத் தமிழர் பெயர் கே.ஆர். ஸ்ரீதர். இவர், சாதாரண தமிழர் அல்ல.. மின்சாரத் தமிழர். சற்று பீடிகையாக இருந்தாலும் மேலே படியுங்கள்... நீங்களும் பாராட்டத் தொடங்கி விடுவீர்கள்... உலகம் முழுவதும் மின்சாரப் பற்றாக்குறை என்பது தவிர்க்க முடியாத நிலையாகிவிட்டதால், மின் உற்பத்தியை எவ்வாறு அதிகரிக்கலாம் என அனைத்து நாட்டு வல்லுநர்களும் தீவிரமாக யோசித்துக் கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள். ஆனால், ஒருவர் தனது வீட்டுக்குத் தேவையான மின்சாரத்தை வீட்டில் வைத்தே உற்பத…

Source: Reuters By Rob Taylor COLOMBO, March 27 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has launched a mystery poster campaign inviting would-be Tamil Tiger suicide bombers to phone a government helpline in exchange for 10 million rupees ($92,000) and a new life overseas. "Why should you die with a scattered body?" the red-and-yellow posters, placed in Tamil-dominated areas of the capital, Colombo, asked readers contemplating becoming members of what the rebels call elite "Black Tiger" suicide squads. "You also were born to live. Why should you carry bombs?" the posters said alongside a fuzzy black-and-white photograph of a suicide bomber's severed head. Sri Lanka's …

Blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms Thursday, 03 August 2006 Hon. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European External Relations Commission (Sri Lanka) Honoured Madam, Re: “I am deeply concerned at the blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms,” European External Relations Commission Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in a statement. You were not concerned at the disruption of the peace process to the extent you are concerned, that also deeply, at the blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms. You were not concerned at least on humanitarian grounds, when the implementation of the "Joint Mecha…

Three paramilitary cadres killed, one captured - LTTE [TamilNet, April 18, 2006 06:03 GMT] Three paramilitary cadres who were on a penetration mission into the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam controlled area in Pendukalsenai, west of Kiran in Batticaloa district, were killed when Tigers launched a counter-attack on the attak group, LTTE's Kudumbimalai area coordinator Oliyan told media Tuesday. One paramilitary cadre was captured by the LTTE. The dead bodies of the paramilitary caders were to be handed over to their relatives, Oliyan further said. The Tigers also captured Claymore mines, grenades and automatic rifles from the group. The killed perso…

World Bank, ADB, UN representatives to meet LTTE Political Head [TamilNet, January 31, 2006 01:21 GMT] Representatives of multilateral donor agencies, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP and IMF, will travel to Kilinochchi on Friday to discuss with the leadership of the Liberation Tigers issues related to the rehabilitation, reconstruction and development activities in the NorthEast, according to LTTE officials in Kilinochchi. Mr. Peter Harrold from World Bank, Mr. Alessandro Pio from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Mr. Jeff Taft-Dick, acting UN Coordinator, and Mr. Mr. Luis Valdivieso, representing IMF, are scheduled to meet Political Head of the Libera…

Sri Lanka's Tamil party for political solution to ethnic issue www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-10 23:14:58 Print COLOMBO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The leader of Sri Lanka's major Tamil party said Monday that the country's ethnic issue could not be solved militarily and only a political solution can bring peace to the island. R. Sampanthan, the leader of the Tamil National Alliance told a gathering of foreign correspondents in Colombo that the Sri Lankan government was wrong in thinking that it could solve the issue by flushing out Tamil Tiger rebels from the northern Wanni district. He said peace would not come "unless the Tamil questi…

By M.R. Narayan Swamy, IANS, [RxPG] New Delhi, Feb 25 - Describing the situation in Sri Lanka as 'serious', the US envoy to the island nation has warned against attempts to underestimate the Tamil Tigers and asserted that they cannot be defeated militarily. Ambassador Robert Blake also said in a telephonic interview from Colombo that his country 'respectfully disagreed' with those in Sri Lanka who feel a military solution was possible to end the dragging Tamil separatist campaign. The ambassador, who took charge in September 2006, made it clear that only devolution of powers that satisfy the 'legitimate aspirations' of the Tamil minority could be the basi…

BUSINESS Sri Lanka needs ‘bridge financing’ to last next six months, says Indrajit Coomaraswamy Published 5 days ago on 2022/04/4 by Sanath Nanayakkare Sri Lanka needs to take steps on getting to a framework programme with the IMF, restructure its external debt and bring some bridge financing to last for next six months until negotiations with the IMF on external debt is completed,”former central bank governor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy said recently, at a forum hosted by CT CLSA. “IMF won’t be able to transact with Sri Lanka until …

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 …

Sao Paulo, BrazilCNN — Pelé, the Brazilian soccer legend who won three World Cups and became the sport’s first global icon, has died at the age of 82. “Everything that we are, is thanks to you,” his daughter Kely Nascimento wrote in a post on Instagram, under an image of family members holding Pele’s hands. “We love you infinitely. Rest in peace.” Pelé was admitted to a hospital in São Paulo in late November for a respiratory infection and for complications related to colon cancer. Last week, the hospital said his health had worsened as his cancer progressed. He died on Thursday from multiple organ failure due to the progression of colon cancer, according t…

Kurdish areas like Irbil have seen less violence than elsewhere in Iraq A group of Sri Lankan migrant workers who paid $2,000 each to secure jobs in the Gulf were duped into travelling to Iraq, according to an aid agency. They had their passports taken and were held against their will in the northern city of Irbil, the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) said. The Tamil workers realised they were in Iraq because of the cold weather. After a month they spotted a UN office and asked for help. The IOM helped fly them back to Sri Lanka on Monday. They realised they were in Iraq because the weather wasn't as good as they expected IOM s…

COLOMBO (AFP) - Two Sri Lankan soldiers have been killed and 15 wounded in a pre-dawn offensive on Tamil Tiger artillery and mortar positions, military sources said. Hundreds of Sri Lankan troops were involved in the attack near the de facto border between government- and rebel-held areas in the northern peninsula of Jaffna, said the sources on condition of anonymity. The action, launched from three locations along the front lines, sparked clashes with the rebels, the sources said. There was no immediate word from the Tigers about the latest clashes and any possible casualties on their side. The latest wave of fighting erupted in Jaffna in August whe…

Ship with Indians on board faces Tiger fury Colombo, Jan. 21 (Agencies): The LTTE today launched a suicide attack on a cargo ship with seven Indians in its crew off the Jaffna coast that left at least six rebels dead, as the Sri Lankan Army continued its onslaught on rebel bases, killing at least 18 fleeing Tigers.

The great diversity of Indian religious beliefs and the varied cultured traditions of the different states are very interesting and this is seen in the festival of Pongal. "May the pot of prosperity boil over May the Pongal that we cook, the fragrance of turmeric the taste of sugarcane, ginger and honey Bring the joy of Pongal into our homes May the blessings of the Sun God flood our lives. With many other verses like this the people of Tamil Nadu greet the great festival of Pongal celebrated all over the South as Makar Sankranti, in Tamil Nadu it has an additional significance as Pongal welcomes the occasion of the incoming harvest. The Puranas,…

https://mises.org/wire/fearful-fed-keeps-pouring-money-repo-market A Fearful Fed Keeps Pouring Money into the Repo Market 01/09/2020 Ryan McMaken The Fed announced on Thursday it is adding another $83 billion in "in temporary liquidity to financial markets." And, in a development that will surprise no cynic anywhere, the Fed also noted that it "may keep adding temporary money to markets for longer than policy makers had expected in September." Specifically, this was another move to shore up and bail out the repo market, which has required the Fed's ongoing revival of quantitative easing (but don't call it that…

London police avert car bomb 'carnage'. A car bomb planted in central London would have caused "carnage" if it had exploded, police sources have said. A controlled explosion was carried out on the car, packed with 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails, in Haymarket, near Piccadilly Circus. An ambulance crew saw smoke coming from the green metallic Mercedes, near the Tiger Tiger nightclub at 0130 BST. Later part of London's Park Lane was closed to traffic after reports of a suspicious vehicle. A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said that Park Lane was closed at Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner and a 200m cordon put in place. It would also…

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Killing Free Education with the Kotelawala National Defence University Bill Kaushalya Ariyarathne on 07/16/2021 Photo courtesy of Ada Derana The debate over the Kotelawala National Defence University (KNDU) Bill has become a scorching issue in the past few weeks. It has been heated not only due to the resistance from civil society and other political parties – mainly the Left – and the intense parliamentary debate on it but also because the government has taken steps to illegally arrest and detain protesters using the quarantine laws and thereby attempted to suppress the voices…

Urgent Appeal from Jaffna nandmana@sltnet.lk to ajeevan An independent group of Catholic Priest (who wish to remain anonymous) who are working with the people in dire need on a humanitarian basis regardless of the curfew imposed would like to disseminate the following information and would like to place an urgent appeal to the international community especially the European Union, Co-Chairs, and Peace envoys of Norway and Japan. This urgent appeal comes to the conscience of the world from the war-torn Jaffna city. The present critical situation started on the 11th Friday at 06.45 p.m. Within the last six days the situation deteriorated drastically and …

Inner City Press journalist Matthew Russell Lee who regularly attends United Nation’s press conferences in New York today revealed in a news article in his website that the “minimum number of documented civilian casualties since 20 January 2009, as of 7 March in the conflict area of Mullaitivu Region is 9,924 casualties including 2,683 deaths and 7,241 injuries. He published a leaked document of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the UN and said that after claiming “we don’t count bodies,” the UN has now involuntarily admitted, the documented civilian casualties. “Now it appears that unlike in other conflicts from Darfur to Gaza, the UN …

Norway fails to secure deal to lift Jaffna siege. Sri Lanka's peace broker Norway has failed to secure an agreement to end a blockade on the Jaffna peninsula where nearly half a million people are trapped by fighting, officials said. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said Friday they told a Norwegian envoy to persuade the government to open the land access to the embattled north without conditions. The government had asked Jon Hanssen-Bauer to secure a deal with the Tigers to allow a convoy of some 400 trucks to travel through rebel-held territory, but the Tigers rejected a one-off convoy. Instead, the LTTE political wing leader S. P.…

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Journée de Solidarité avec le peuple tamouls Contre le génocide contre cet peuple au Sri lanka Descendons dans la rue........ Rejoigenz le cortége libertaire. Samedi 28 à Bastille cortege vers Republique à 14h00 Organiser par le assosciation humanitaire étudiante Contact: th92110@gmail.com 06 11 72 59 78 uurputhinam.tk

Tamil gangs tackled from 'within' By Debabani Majumdar BBC News, London Samurai swords are often the weapon of choice for gang members For a 26-year-old, Abhya's face seems to have too many scars. "That was someone trying to take my eye out with a broken beer bottle," he said pointing to the circular scar almost encircling his right eye. "And this here was a cut from a samurai sword," he added, showing a cut which extends from his hairline to his right eyebrow. The scar sent shivers down my spine, but Abhya, who did not want to be identified, describes a confrontation with a rival group at a wedding in 2005 in Ilford, east London,…