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The Rediff Interview | Tamil editor N Vithyatharan October 17, 2006 N Vithyatharan is the editor of Jaffna's largest selling Tamil daily, Uthayan. A few months ago, the man who has met elusive Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supremo V Prabhakaran 'several times' in his jungle hideouts was urged by President Mahinda Rajapakse to convince the LTTE leader to resume the aborted peace talks. Prabhakaran refused. Over 1,500 people have died in the violence that erupted since the talks broke down in April -- on Monday, October 16, an LTTE suicide bomber rammed a truck laden with explosives into a naval convoy, killing 92 sailors, perhaps the worst act of terro…

Pirapaharan a liability for the Tamil cause Ltte avoids battle of attrition in the east By B. Raman Territorial control where possible; withdrawal where necessary. That has been the tactic followed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka where the Sri Lankan armed forces, with the help of the trained cadres of "Col." Karuna, the former LTTE commander for Batticaloa, have mounted an offensive since September last year in an attempt to eject the LTTE from the Eastern Province. Karuna, who had deserted from the LTTE in March, 2004, following differences with Leader Pirapaharan, has since then been co-operating w…

Tamil Tigers unveil latest tactic By Roland Buerk BBC News, Colombo Whatever you may think of their goals and methods, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers have always been innovative. Experts say the technology was rudimentary but effective It was they who refined the suicide bomber, and used them to devastating effect. And what other insurgent groups can boast a naval wing? The rebels have boats armed with guns, known as the Sea Tigers. Now they have confirmed what Sri Lanka's government had suspected for a long time - they have an air capability too. The first mission of what the rebels are calling the Tamil Eelam Air Force, or TA…

SLA artillery attacks on Eachchilampattu villages continue [TamilNet, July 30, 2006 16:46 GMT] Major General Nanda Mallawarachchi, Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), remains at Kallaru army camp in the Serunuwara police division directing the military operation to capture Mavilaru area amid announcement by Defence Ministry spokesman and Minister Mr.Keheliya Rambukwella in Colombo Sunday that Sri Lankan troops are now about one km away from the controversial site, military sources in Colombo said. Sources in Serunuwara area said that there is a likelihood of troop movement from Kallaru to Mavilaru area early Monday morning. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has been …

[TamilNet, Thursday, 07 December 2006, 11:48 GMT] Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Thursday morning launched artillery attacks towards Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled Verugal, 14 km northwest of Vaharai and 27 km southeast of SLA captured Sampoor. Meanwhile, SLA troops that moved 5 km inside LTTE territory into Kattumurivu, southwest of Vaharai, have stationed in a school, following stiff LTTE resistance. Heavy fighting ensued between SLA troops and LTTE fighters at Eachilampattu, 6 km north of Verugal, amid heavy artillery fire from SLA positions, according to LTTE Military Spokesman Irasiah Ilanthiryan. Commenting on the SLA claim that LTTE fired arti…

Justin Trudeau's supposed elbow assault nothing but a set up. NDP deception

'RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations' showcases India’s shadow warriors A new book by Yatish Yadav brings to light some of the daring exploits of India’s spies and spymasters. Yatish Yadav The intelligence included the Tigers’ military formations as well as civilian populations so as to avoid casualties. Peace is an illusion because India is constantly at war in the shadows. Just as soldiers in uniform guard our borders, a different kind of highly trained and motivated soldiers crisscross the world in various guises with deceptively innocuous code names; meeting sources, activating sleeper spies and double agents, deploying honey traps, conferrin…

A new generation of college students in Tamil Nadu has taken up the cause of the Tamils of Sri Lanka. Articulate, wellinformed and uncontaminated by the influence of time-serving politicians they have successfully forced an agenda on the three main political parties in the state. The spark which has ignited the students’ rage in Tamil Nadu against the United States-sponsored United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on Sri Lanka and India’s eventual support to it began in one of the most unlikely places, the Loyola College at Chennai. The academic excellence of the college, most believe, is a result of its depoliticised student body. Shattering the myth co…

NPC Chief Minister Mr C.V. Wigneswaran has to be profusely thanked and appreciated by Tamils for his honesty in conceding that he is not a natural leader of Eezham Tamils representing their aspirations, but a planted one by New Delhi to implement the 13th Amendment. Wigneswaran’s revelation and his efforts to muffle voices in Tamil Nadu and in the diaspora have to be understood in the background of what M.K. Narayanan had told the TNA in May 2009 that, “we know better what is good for Tamils.” New Delhi simulating a leadership for the political surrender of the Tamil cause poses new challenge to Tamils all over the world, writes an activist for alternative politics in Jaf…

By Ron Ridenour - Orwell couldn’t have done it better: Sri Lanka’s genocidal government, client of genocidal Israel, exchanges honors with genocidal victim State of Palestine The government of Palestine presented Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa with the “Star of Palestine” the highest award of the State of Palestine, on January 6. “The relations between Sri Lanka and the State of Palestine are exceptional and we remain committed to extending our fullest support to the State of Palestine and the friendly people of Palestine,” President Rajapaksa said during the conferment ceremony. “President Rajapaksa, on behalf of the people of Sri Lanka, conferred…

Harvard experts too pro-Tiger, too liberal, says Govt. paper [TamilNet, February 12, 2006 20:19 GMT] "It [sri Lanka Government Peace Team] learnt that two Harvard specialists who were coaching the peace team on some aspects of conflict resolution, for instance, were thought of as being too liberal and possibly too pro Tiger in their views," said Sri Lanka Government official paper Sunday Observer in its latest edition. The paper also quoted a source close to the consultation process as saying, "Harvard and other institutions of repute, may wittingly or otherwise place Sri Lankan strategy in channels that could be available to the Tigers." The briefings were h…

CIA Agent Who Grilled Saddam Hussein Claims ISIS Wouldn’t Be Around If The Dictator Was Still Alive Mischa Pearlman in NEWS It was 11 years ago today that Saddam Hussein was executed after the Iraqi Special Tribunal had convicted him of crimes against humanity - specifically for the murder of 148 Iraq Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, which was retribution after an assassination attempt against him. Now, thanks to the Chilcot report, we all know that Tony Blair lied about there being weapons of mass destruction. Many would also argue that George W Bush used 9/11 to further propel the country's military-industrial complex by wa…

Somali sex gang groomed and raped underage British schoolgirls saying it was 'part of their culture' Men ranging in age from 18 and 22, encouraged girls, one of who was just 13, to have sex with them in a flat and hotel rooms http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/somali-sex-gang-groomed-raped-4706033?ICID=FB_mirror_main This is the shocking moment a member of a brutal prostitution gang checked into a hotel to rape a 13-year-old girl. In the sickening CCTV shot, twisted Jusuf Abdirizak, 20, is seen at the reception of the Premier Inn in Bristol where he and Said Zakaria, 22, attacked the terrified girl. The teenager had been traffic…

Meet the new leader of Pegida UK https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10153371042471939/

A Calgary family is facing deportation back to Sri Lanka even though two of their children were born in Canada, CTV News reported on Tuesday. The family’s eldest son, nine-year-old Maneth Fernando, penned a letter to Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Marco Mendicino, in a last ditch effort to have the Canadian Government’s intervention. "Canada is a safe place with lots of good schools and my friends are here. If I go back, the kids in the Sri Lankan schools will laugh at me because I can only speak English," Maneth has told CTV News. The letter indicates the boy is worried "something bad will happen" to his parents and younger siblin…

Mahinda Rajapakse says LTTE a terrorist Organisation. But what he did in the year 1988 ? He is a terrorist and against India! Indian Govt and Congress should notify this ! (Please Forward this video to the whole world)

(Selvamalar knows her son is dead, but cannot accept the tragedy. Picture: Rante Ardiles) SHE was sold a cruel lie by the people smugglers. She would be travelling on a luxury ocean liner from Indonesia to Australia. They showed her photos of the ship that would transport her, her beautiful son and her brother to their new life in Australia. It was a superb vessel, with three storeys of cabins. "I believed them," she says. She had dreamed of nothing else but being with her husband, who had escaped to Australia four years earlier on a boat to build a new life in Perth for his wife and unborn son, their first child. He had left Sri Lanka when she was fi…

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 BY DINITHA RATHNAYAKE 0 COMMENTS Allegedly makes LTTE suspects kneel at gunpoint Beauty queen among earlier Welikada revellers BY Dinitha Rathnayake State Minister of Prison Management and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation Lohan Ratwatte who, as exclusively reported by The Morning on Monday (13) had allegedly forcibly entered the Welikada Prison premises with a group of his friends whilst under the influence of liquor, had allegedly similarly entered the Anuradhapura Prison on Sunday (12) evening. According to sources, the State Minister, who hails from an influential political family, had attempted to degrade and punish…

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…

Matthew Hayden In Conversation with Sadhguru 4:47 Is there a specific reason why we all gathered here today ? 12:12 Discussion on the spirit of collaboration 24:38 If our strength is our intelligence, why are we committing so many atrocities ? 27:42 Are humans guided by false expectations ? 31:45 Testing Sadhguru's knowledge on some local Aussie jargon.. 35:15 What were you first impressions about Australia ? 46:17 What's your vision for the conservation of water ? 1:00:49 At an individual level, what can we do about water wastage ? 1:12:53 How to be happy not being affected by the environment and the surroundings ? 1:20:20 Sometimes I feel I have ti…

Sir Alex Ferguson book: David Beckham had to leave Man Utd Sir Alex Ferguson says David Beckham had to leave Manchester United because the former England captain thought he was "bigger than the manager". In his latest autobiography, Ferguson said he fell out with Beckham after criticising his performance during an FA Cup defeat by Arsenal in 2003. Play media Marriage changed Beckham - Ferguson "The minute a Manchester United player thought he was bigger than the manager, he had to go," he wrote. "David thought he was bigger than Alex Ferguson. "That was the death knell for him." Ferguson also said he had concerns about Beckham's celebrity lifestyle, following the…

Macron Lashes Out At United States Over Double Standard Energy Policies U.S. trade and energy policies have created a “double standard”, with Europe left paying higher prices for its natural gas, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday. France, the latest—and largest--country to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty, has switched from being a net exporter of energy last year, to being a net importer of energy this year, after problems with its nuclear fleet surfaced. To compensate for its declining nuclear fleet and Russia’s complete halt of natural gas shipments into the country, France has turned to the United States for LNG—only …