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தேசவிரோதி துரோகி கருணா பற்றி இலண்டன் கார்டியன் பத்திரிகையில்........ Karuna Amman, the Sri Lankan warlord jailed for entering Britain on a falsified visa and diplomatic passport, will not be prosecuted for war crimes and is likely to be deported soon. The former Tamil Tigers leader would not face further charges, the Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday. Karuna, 45, whose real name is Vinayagmoorthy Muralitharan, has been accused by human rights groups of forcing teenagers to serve as child soldiers, torturing prisoners and killing hundreds of civilians. He was released from prison last Friday after serving three months for immigration offences. Karuna…

SLAF, SLA attacks tantamount to declaration of war by Colombo, Elilan tells SLMM [TamilNet, July 29, 2006 16:49 GMT] Liberation Tigers Trincomalee District Political Head S. Elilan, in an urgent letter to the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Major General Ulf Henricsson Saturday evening said that artillery attacks by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and air strikes by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) in the Liberation Tigers controlled territories in the Northeast, tantamounted to Declaration of War by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) against the LTTE. "It is now appropriate for the SLMM to declare publicly that the ceasefire agreement is not holding anymor…

Prabhakaran: One man who keeps Sri Lanka burning By IANS Saturday November 25, 07:47 AM New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran will turn 52 Sunday, presiding over a de facto state in the Indian Ocean island and still steering a cause for which he fled from his home over 30 years ago. In the three blood-soaked decades gone by, the once catapult wielding boy has leapfrogged from being the head of a small militant group of the early 1980s to one presiding over the world's deadliest insurgent outfit. The father of three evokes awe and admiration as well as fear and hatred. He is wanted by India and Interpol for the 1991 assa…

India's covert role in Sri Lanka's ceasefire By M.R. Narayan Swamy, New Delhi, Feb 17 : Now that Sri Lanka has jettisoned the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) with the Tamil Tigers, one of India's best kept secrets can be revealed: it was New Delhi that quietly authored the process that led to the Norway-brokered pact. The dominant thinking in India and Sri Lanka, and even elsewhere, is that New Delhi has been a distant watcher to the goings on in the war-hit island barring its interactions with Colombo and countries like Norway as part of a "hands off" policy sparked off by former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's 1991 assassination. While it is true that India to…

2 SLA soldiers killed, 3 wounded in Thenmaradchi [TamilNet, April 16, 2006 05:05 GMT] Two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed Sunday morning and three wounded in a Claymore attack in Mattuvil, Thenmaradchi in Jaffna, SLA sources said. Unidentified attackers targetted a group of SLA soldiers on road patrol west of Kanakampuliyadi junction. The attackers fired gunshots after the Claymore attack, sources said.

Letter to Representatives Lowey and Wolf on US foreign operations funding November 7, 2007 The Honorable Nita M. Lowey US House of Representatives 2329 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-3218 The Honorable Frank R. Wolf US House of Representatives 241 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-4610 Via Facsimile Sri Lanka Since the collapse of the ceasefire between the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government in mid-2006 and the resumption of major military operations, civilians have borne the brunt of the fighting. More than 1,000 have reportedly "disappeared." Several hundred …

Russia to Test Whether Its Internet Can Be Disconnected From the Rest of the World Photo: Thomas Kronsteiner (Getty) Internet providers in Russia are preparing to conduct exercises that will help the nation build a path toward possible internet independence, according to Russian news reports. Russian news outlet RosBiznesKonsalting reported the tests were set in motion by a proposed law called the Digital Economy National Program, which parliament introduced last December. The tests should help Russian authorities determine if data used by Russian users can stay within the Russian borders. ZDNet and BBC …

Balance of power: West v East Seda Punkt - 4/12/2008 World dominant is in question. West, namely, US, EU, and Canada are on one side, East-namely, Russia, and China, are on the other front, where India is increasingly aligning itself with Russia. The breakup of USSR was one of the US's major foreign policy achievements. Now, the lone Russia with Chechnya, is not much of a threat. Tibet, and Xinjiang can give long term headache to China, but breaking up Russia and China is very difficult. But India. Powerful India is a growing trouble for the West, and the solution is breaking up India. India is very similar to Yugoslavia; the 30% of the Hindi spea…

CNN)Doctors at a Texas hospital along the US-Mexico border may decide to send coronavirus patients "home to die by their loved ones" due to limited resources, officials say. Government and health officials in Starr County announced this week they are creating committees to review patients' cases at the Starr County Memorial Hospitalin Rio Grande City. At least 50% of the patients admitted in the hospital's emergency room have tested positive for Covid-19, Dr. Jose Vasquez, the county's health authority, said in a news conference earlier this week. "The situation is desperate," he said. …

LTTE activists threaten to kill Indian leaders Bala's phone numbers changed in London: Dushy Ranetunge in London UNITED KINGDOM: The Balasingham interview has brought the LTTE lunatic fringe out of the woodwork. One has threatened to eliminate the Indian Prime Minister. His posting in a well-known web newspaper reads as follows: "We Tamil LTTE don't care who it is in India that we kill. If we can kill Mahatma Gandhi, LTTE Tamils will kill him. I don't know why Bala apologised to India. India is a poverty stricken hell hole. LTTE Eelam is better. Manmohan is next on Prabhakaran's list." Rasam is expressing the LTTE hardcore view, whic…

Whilst calling up both the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE to take a positive approach at the forthcoming peace talks in Geneva the Congressmen has highlighted that 1) the LTTE has a history of engaging in a campaign of terror and violence; 2) the killing of Lakshman Kadirgamar has been attributed to the LTTE 3) the United States remains deeply concerned about the continued violations of the cease-fire agreement in Sri Lanka, as marked by a recent series of violent incidents involving Claymore mine and suicide attacks; 4) Velupillai Prabhakaran recently issued an ultimatum to the Government of Sri Lanka to come up with a political settlement w…

தற்போதைய படை நடவடிக்கைளால் இடம்பெயர்ந்து படைக்கட்டுப்பாட்டுப் பகுதிக்குச் சென்ற மக்கள் தங்கியுள்ள முகாம்களிற்கு ஆயுதங்களுடன் கறுணா கும்பலைச் சேர்ந்தோர் ஊடுருவுவதாக சர்வதேச மன்னிப்புச் சபை தெரிவித்துள்ளது. Sri Lanka: Armed groups infiltrating refugee camps Press release, 03/14/2007 Armed groups, some identified as part of a breakaway group of Tamil Tigers known as the Karuna faction, are infiltrating camps for newly displaced people and abducting residents, according to sources known to Amnesty International. Tens of thousands of people have been fleeing their homes after intense fighting in the eastern region of Batticaloa over the weekend, pushing the n…

With the ceasefire dead, what now for Sri Lanka? Violence in Sri Lanka has escalated over the past two years, but there are widespread predictions of even greater bloodshed when a moribund ceasefire officially ends later this month. The 2002 ceasefire halted two decades of conflict between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, but it began to unravel in 2005. "The last two years have been the most violent in a 25-year-long war which has taken over 70,000 lives," the Wall Street Journal says. The paper asks whether President Mahinda Rajapaksa's "war of attrition" against the Tamil Tigers will work or simply plunge the country into more violence. …

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INTERVIEW - Renegade Sri Lanka rebels refuse to give up arms Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:19 PM IST By Simon Gardner COLOMBO (Reuters) - Breakaway rebels in Sri Lanka vowed on Sunday to resist any attempt to disarm them -- defying a government pledge seen vital to avoid a return to war. The government vowed on Thursday to ensure no armed group other than government security forces carries arms or conducts armed operations, and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) want to see the state act before new talks due in April. But V. Muralitharan, alias Colonel Karuna, who now lives in hiding and was formerly seen as shadowy Tiger leader Velupillai Prabha…

Journalist killed for reporting on paramilitary abuses- RSF [TamilNet, January 24, 2006 18:23 GMT] Reporters sans frontières (RSF) in a press release issued Tuesday said that Subramaniyam Sugirdharajan, a correspondent of the Tamil-language daily Sudar Oli was killed for writing about "abuses committed in his region by Tamil paramilitary groups," and that in Sri Lanka, "the impunity enjoyed by the instigators and perpetrators of these murders encourages more violence against the press." Full text of the release follows: Reporters Without Borders today condemned the murder of Subramaniyam Sugirdharajan, a correspondent of the Tamil-language daily Sudar Oli …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4688696.stm Call for internet safety lessons Children need to know the risks of the web, say researchers Lessons on how to use the internet safely should become compulsory in schools, university researchers say. The Cyberspace Research Unit at the University of Central Lancashire (UCL) says learning about internet safety should be on the National Curriculum. Pupils should be taught about the potential dangers posed, such as paedophiles using internet chatrooms to make contact with children. The researchers say too few pupils are taught how to use the internet safely. Director of the unit Dr Rachel O…

Wakely Paul's letter to the UN Secretary General May 18 2006 The Secretary General, United Nations, NY, NY 10017 Sir, I write regarding the shocking possibility of Mr Jayantha Dhanapala, a representative of the Government of SRI LANKA, being considered as a candidate to succeed you as Secretary General. of this very august organization. Sri Lanka has for years been ruled by governments that have violated every concept of democracy. They have discriminated against the Tamils to such an extent, that the Tamils now have their own independent regime in a region of the Northeast of the island known as the Vanni. In short, there is no such entity a…

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Tigers say 45 killed in Sri Lanka as Norway's peace bid fails. COLOMBO (AFP) - Fierce artillery duels in northeast Sri Lanka have killed at least 45 people, including 15 civilians, Tiger rebels said, as a fresh Norwegian peace bid failed. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said security forces breached rebel defences in the district of Trincomalee and advanced 2.5 kilometres (1.5 miles), sparking heavy fighting. "We have killed 30 Sri Lankan soldiers, including two officers, and recovered five bodies," LTTE spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiriyan told AFP Saturday. "Shelling by security forces has also killed 15 civilians. Many more are injured." …

கூலுக்கு ஏன் இராணுவம் சுவரொட்டி ஒட்டுது எண்டு எல்லாருக்கும் விளங்கினாச் சரி.... SLA soldiers attack students inside Jaffna Technical College [March 24, 2006 07:59 GMT] Sri Lanka Army troopers Friday morning entered the grounds of Jaffna Technical College and beat the students who were paying tribute to Annai Poopathy. Soldiers attacked the Student Union Leader of the Technical College Mr. Suganthan and 15 fellow students including 8 female students. Sri Lankan soldiers, who entered into the grounds in a Buffel Armoured vehicle, removed the Thamileelam national flag, hoisted in the school grounds and smashed the photograph of Annai Poopathy, windows of the …

Voice Assist®, Inc. (OTCBB:VSST), an award-winning provider of mobile speech and handsfree solutions, today announced that it has expanded its handsfree driving coverage area to include all major cities in Canada. Voice Assist is the award-winning conversational voice assistant that lets drivers use voice commands to answer calls, make calls, send and receive text messages, read and reply to email or post to social networks – without holding the phone or typing. Drivers keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road to increase safety yet they can talk to Voice Assist in order to communicate by voice or data and still be productive. “Distracted dr…

Paramilitary office attacked in Batticaloa. Armed men launched an attack on the office of paramilitary Karuna Group, located at Kallady, inside the High Security area of Sri Lanka Army at 11:20 p.m. Wednesday. Initial reports said 3 wounded paramilitary personnel were admitted at the Batticaloa hospital. Further details were not known. On Tuesday, armed men attacked two paramilitary installations in Valaichenai, north of Batticaloa. The attackers bombed and flattened one of the two houses, killing all paramilitary personnel inside it, Police sources said. 12 Karuna Group personnel were killed Tuesday, according to informed ex-militant sources in Bat…

On Nov. 27, the Tamil people of Sri Lanka celebrated Heroes Day. It is the day when the first fighter of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lost his life in combat in 1982—a day dedicated to the memory of all Tamils who have died fighting for the right to self-determination. During his annual Heroes Day speech, Velupillai Prabhakaran, LTTE founder and leader, declared the Norway-mediated peace process between the Sri Lanka government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam “defunct.” For all intents and purposes, peace has been defunct ever since Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, chose to intensify military action despite the ongoing peace talks. …