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How many ravens are in the Tower of London? Why do they keep ravens? THE TOWER of London announced its famous ‘Queen' raven has gone missing and is feared dead. But how many ravens are in the Tower of London? And why does the historic landmark keep ravens? By MYRIAM TOUA PUBLISHED: 16:35, Thu, Jan 14, 2021 | UPDATED: 16:35, Thu, Jan 14, 2021 Meghan Markle: Expert discusses Duchess' 'business investment' …

Around 400 dogged Tamil protesters are continuing their occupation of London's Parliament Square as the rally entered its third day. Police arrested seven people on Tuesday as a crowd protested against the Sri Lankan government's offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels and alleged human rights abuses. Up to 5,000 people - including women and babies - forced the closure of nearby Westminster Bridge by staging a sit-in on Monday night.The bridge was reopened to traffic at around 9am on Tuesday.The Sri Lankan government has rejected international calls for a ceasefire, claiming it is on the verge of defeating the Tamil Tigers, a rebel group which is fighting for an indep…

5th LEAD Tigers overrun four SLA camps in Trincomalee, enter Muttur [TamilNet, August 02, 2006 02:35 GMT] Fighting formations of the Liberation Tigers have overrun four key locations in Trincomalee district after fierce artillery shelling since 2:00 a.m. Wednesday. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camps in Kaddaiparichchan, Palathoppu, Pachchanoor and Mahindapura have been overrun, civilian sources said. Heavily armed LTTE fighters were seen entering Muttur town. Military sources in Colombo remained tightlipped and declined to comment on the ground situation. Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir jets continued to bomb LTTE controlled Sampoor area. Fierce fighting is also reporte…

கொஞ்சம் வித்தியாசமாக பூர்வீக்குடிகளின் ஆடைவடிவமைப்பு வல்லுனர்களின் திறமையை பார்க்கலாம் Charlee Fraser and Luke Currie-Richardson wear First Nations Fashion and Design founder Grace Lillian Lee's designs.(Supplied: Lucas Dawson ABC Far North / By Carli Willis Posted 10hhours ago, updated 7hhours ago For the first time in its 25-year history, the internationally acclaimed fashion event — Australian Fashion Week — opened with a 65,000-year-old custom: a Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony by the Gadigal people. It was made even more special by a performance by the Muggera dance troupe and First Nations Fashion and Design (FNFD) all-Indigeno…

Warscapes in conversation with Shobasakthi Translation by Anushiya Ramaswamy Bhakti Shringarpure: Do give us some political and personal context with regards to your novel Traitor. Shobasakthi: On July 25, 1983, the Sri Lankan government planned and killed thirty-five Tamil political prisoners at Welikade Prison, with eighteen other Tamil prisoners slaughtered a couple of days later. The prison authorities were thoroughly complicit in the massacre even though Sinhala prisoners carried out the murders. In fact, it was prison officers who distributed the weapons to the killers. Before the murders began, the Prison’s chief commissioner had been sent out…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- The Sri Lankan government decided Wednesday not to ban the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels at a crucial Cabinet meeting, officials close to the Cabinet said. A formal announcement is likely to be made later Wednesday. Supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had warned that a ban would effectively scupper the peace process. "...The State is compelled to make some hard choices. Prime among these issues is whether the government should reclamp the ban on the Tigers. Another is whether the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) should be rigorously reinforced," Daily News said in an editorial. "There are arguments for and aga…

This project will not increase the country’s growth rate immediately. It will simply address solutions to some of the most critical constraints which the country’s economy faces today. It is a facilitator and not a final solution provider Intelligent children, unlike some of the adults, are curious, probing and questioning. They do not jump to conclusions until and unless they are convinced of facts that have been presented to them. Asani, a student in the Advanced Level class in a leading school, is such a curious child. She had heard and read much about the Millennium Challenge Corporation or MCC Compact Grant for Sri Lanka and had not been convinced of the argumen…

A Sinhala-language movie about Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels has provoked a row between Indian Tamil activists and the film's director. The activists, who sympathise with the Tigers, were involved in a scuffle with the director, Tushara Peiris, in the south Indian city of Madras (Chennai). The scuffle broke out at a studio where the film, named Prabhakaran after the Tigers' leader, was being processed. Mr Peiris has now demanded government help to ensure his film rolls are safe. He told the BBC he was going on a hunger strike to make the Indian and Sri Lankan governments guarantee that the prints of his film - believed still to be at the studios -…

Sri Lankan Tamils Have Played A Bigger Role Than Other Groups In Globalizing Hinduism, Says Japanese Scholar Yamashita News East-West TORONTO: Prof Hiroshi Yamashita from Tohuku University in Japan must have been an Indian in his previous birth. Very few Indian scholars can match him in his knowledge of Indian civilization, culture and Hinduism. A Ph.D in Indian philosophy, Hinduism and Tamil literature from the University of Madras where he studied from 1981 to 1987, he is fluent in Tamil, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Pali. To boot, he has translated the dialogue of many Tamil films into Japanese and introduced Tamil cinema in Japan when he took the Rajnikanth starrer M…

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Journalist reported missing in Jaffna [TamilNet, Friday, 16 February 2007, 09:28 GMT] A journalist working for two Tamil dailies, Thinakural and Valampuri, as correspondent of Vadamaradchi region, is reported missing since Thursday night, according to a complaint lodged with Nelliyady police by the journalist's family. The journalist, Subramaniam Ramachandran, 37, a father of two, was last seen at his private tuition centre Thursday evening. Subramaniam Ramachandran Mr. Ramachandran, who also runs the private education institute at Arasady area in Karaveddy in Vadamaradchi, went missing after he closed his institute Thursday evening and was on his way …

BRITISH Tamils are to celebrate the United Nations-sponsored International Day of Peace on Thursday (September 21) by holding vigils across London urging "peace with dignity" for Tamils of Sri Lanka. The event is being organized by the North Harrow-Tamil Councillors and Associates, a cross-party organisation. The group's chairman is Labour Harrow councillor Thaya Idaikkadar. continued... The vigils will be held in front of Harrow Civic Centre and Brent Town Halls from noon to 8pm and will start with a moment of silence. The organisers said they expected local dignitaries and MPs to attend the events. They said: "The Tamil people in Sri Lanka hav…

Weerawansa’s Comedy Of Errors Fasting Unto Death While On Saline By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Wimal ‘breaking fast’ NFF Leader and Minister Wimal Weerawansa’s failed attempt to politically re-engineer his image as a firebrand politician through a fast unto death outside the UN Office in Colombo has had many adverse repercussions on the country as well as on domestic politics. The comedy of errors staged by Weerawansa from July 6 to 9 was nothing short of entertaining, where for the first time, Sri Lankans were able to witness an individual on a fast unto death while being on a saline drip. A closer look at the whole fast unto death saga reveals the…

இது ஒரு நீண்ட கட்டுரை. சில வருடங்களுக்கு முன்னர் இலங்கை தமிழ் அகதிகள் இந்த தீவில் தவறுதலாக இறங்கியதும் பின்னர் அங்கிருந்து தம்மை வேறு நாடுகளுக்கு அனுப்புமாறு கேட்டு இருந்தனர் சில மேற்குலக நாடுகளிடம் புகலிடக் கோரிக்கையும் முன் வைத்து இருந்தனர். இத் தீவில் அமெரிக்க இராணுவத்தளங்களும் , ஐக்கிய இராச்சியத்தின் இராணுவத்தளங்களும் உள்ளன. எனவே மிக கடும் கட்டுப்பாடுகள் நடைமுறைப்படுத்தப்படும் தீவு இது. எவரும் இலகுவில் உள்ளே செல்ல முடியாது. இவ் நீண்ட கட்டுரை அங்கே பரிதவித்துக் கொண்டு இருக்கும் இலங்கை தமிழ் அகதிகளின் வழக்கு தொடர்பாகவும், கடும் கட்டுப்பாடுகள் கொண்ட, இந்த தீவு பற்றியும் சொல்கின்றது. Alice Cuddy BBC News …

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A leading psychiatrist yesterday revealed that ten per cent of Sri Lanka`s population were afflicted with some form of mental illness while two percent of these were hard core cases. President of Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists and the Organising Committee President of 3rd International Conference of South Asian Federation of Psychiatric Association Dr. Harischandra Gambheera said that although Sri Lanka`s population is nearly 20 million there are only 30 Psychiatric Specialists in the country. In other words there is only one psychiatrist for half a million people. `The Medical Officers of Mental Health (MOMH) serving throughout the country too were invite…

SLA, LTTE exchange rocket fire at Muhamalai FDL [TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 19:14 GMT] Sri Lanka Army soldiers and LTTE fighters exchanged artillery and rocket fire in Muhamalai sector on the Thenmaradchi division of the Jaffna peninsula, Wednesday. Eight SLA troopers who were injured in Wednesday's shelling were admitted at the Palaly military base hospital. Residents in the northern town said heavy gun fire was heard from the morning till evening. Meanwhile, a Sri Lanka Army soldier was injured in a claymore mine attack at Koolavady in Aanaikoddai. The attack targetted a SLA patrol, civilian sources in the area said. http://www.tamilnet.…

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12th day Hunger strike in UK Immigration Removal Centre! CAN YOU HELP THEM? Subramaniyam Alosius Jude Christie, (44) Male Jaffna Sillalay, Sri Lanakan Is on the 12th day Hunger strike in Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre. He has been given deportation order and says can't go back as there is no hope without peace talks. He has been arrested and detained in the Sri Lankan military 'Boossa camp' which is well known camp used by the Sri Lankan military to torture Tamils. He paid ransom to officers for his release from the camp and escaped to UK for his safety. Since coming to this country he has been in the Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre. His appli…

The basic question is, if not now, When? 17. November 2006 By: Kowsalyan. Death Due To Starvation - first case reported in Jaffna peninsula. Dr. Kathiravetpillai told TamilNet that there were no traces of food or water in Chandrapala's stomach and that he had died purely due to starvation and cold. Dr. C. S.Kathiravetpillai, the District Medical Officer of Health (DMH) pronounced the cause of death as 'death due to starvation'. The reality has started to strike our faces. It’s not happening in a far away land, now it’s on our door steps. Since the closure of A9 highway, Jaffna Peninsula is cut off from the rest of the island, the humanitarian …

12 workers shot dead in Lanka NDTV Correspondent Tuesday, May 30, 2006 (Colombo): Tamil Tiger rebels of Sri Lanka have shot dead 12 Singhalese constructions workers in the east of country. The rebels also took with them 14 others but two of them escaped, a military spokesman said. But the rebels have denied involvement. The incident comes on a day the European Union listed the rebels, also known as Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as a terrorist group. Freeze on funds The ban will deprive the LTTE of vital funds they collect from members of the Tamil community in Europe and free other financing channels. The EU move …

Violence drags on in Sri Lanka Email|Print| Text size – + November 14, 2007 ONE OF THE world's most vicious and intractable conflicts has produced a spike in violence in recent days. After a bloody clash last week in the north of Sri Lanka between government forces and the rebel fighters known as the Tamil Tigers, the government boasted of killing 60 Tigers, while the Tigers claimed to have repulsed an attack by helicopter gunships, killing more than two dozen Sri Lankan troops. This battle came a week after government forces killed the Tigers' lead peace negotiator and three weeks after the Tigers attacked a government air base and destroyed several military aircraf…

PK Balachandran Colombo, August 4, 2006 The Sri Lankan Muslim Congress (SLMC), the island's premier Muslim political party, has blamed the Sri Lankan government primarily, for the shelling of the Muslim town of Mutur which has killed more than 30 civilians in the past three days. "We may seem to be making an anti-government statement. But we have to go by what the local people tell us, and they say, that most of the shells had come from the direction of the army camps in the vicinity," the Leader of the SLMC, Rauff Hakeem, told newspersons here on Friday. He said that he had brought this to the notice of the Sri Lankan top brass, Presidential Advisor Ba…

Colombo has plans to colonize North with Buddhist Sinhalese Suresh Premachandran [TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 October 2009, 17:06 GMT] The government of Sri Lanka is actively engaged in colonizing Ki’linochchi, Mullaiththeevu and Jaffna district with Sinhalese Buddhists in order to crush the demand for Eelam in the traditional homelands of the Tamils in the North, Suresh Premachandran, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna parliamentarian, said in a press meet held Monday in his Jaffna office. He further accused the government for not accepting help from International Community in de-mining Vanni as it does not want the persons from foreign countries to see the mass gr…