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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 …

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 -…

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…

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 …

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. …

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…

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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…

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.…

Marginalisation of CFA compells Tamils to resume freedom struggle - LTTE [TamilNet, Thursday, 22 February 2007, 16:54 GMT] The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in a statement marking five years since the signing of 22 February 2002 Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) with the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), said the CFA formulated with the full support of the international community, had transcended the parameters of Sri Lanka’s majoritarian constitution, recognizing Tamil Eelam’s de facto existence and the balance of power between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the LTTE. However, the international community’s insistence on a solution that does not infringe on the…

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 …

Hillary Clinton urges nuanced approach to ‘terrorists’ [TamilNet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 21:47 GMT] US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton this week urged a more nuanced approach to armed non-state actors, arguing “the bottom line is, you can't lump all terrorists together. …what the Tamil Tigers are fighting for in Sri Lanka, or the Basque separatists in Spain, or the insurgents in al-Anbar province may only be connected by tactics.”Senator Clinton made her comments to Michael Tomasky of Britain’s ‘The Guardian’ newspaper in an interview which covered Iraq, the legacy of the Cold War and ceding executive powers. When asked “do you think that the terroris…

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…

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…

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…

Last Update: Monday, January 9, 2006. 7:00pm (AEDT) Sri Lankan President warns rebels Sri Lanka's President has vowed a tough line on "terrorism" amid escalating attacks against Government forces that have cast doubts on the strength of the island's truce. President Mahinda Rajapakse has told a rally in the island's south that his patience should not be mistaken for weakness. The state-run Daily News reports Mr Rajapakse says he is "duty bound" to ensure the security of the nation. "If someone takes my patience that I have inculcated through Buddhist values as my weakness, they would be mistaken," the President said. "I am duty-bound to ensu…

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…

Rajapaksa challenges Prabhakaran to direct clash Wed, May 7 11:00 AM Colombo, May 7 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Tuesday challenged the elusive leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Velupillai Prabhakaran to 'clash with him directly' and declared that his government would continue in its bid to flush rebels out of their stronghold in the north. 'I will challenge Prabhakaran to clash with me directly if possible without engaging in a killing spree of targeting innocent civilians, parliamentarians and ministers,' Rajapaksa said after inaugurating the Oluvil port project in eastern Amparai district Tuesday. Rajapaksa, who is…

Displaced persons staying at five refugee camps in Batticaloa district were forcibly removed to Trincomalee district in a sudden “operation” masterminded by an Assistant Superintendent of Police around noon on Thursday March 15th. Though exact figures are not known NGO sources said that nearly a thousand people were taken against their will in thirty buses to Trincomalee district. The Batticaloa district Government Agent or divisional secretaries were not informed of this action by the authorities concerned. An NGO official said that civil administration officials in B’caloa were totally in the dark when informed of the incident. A Sinhala speaking ASP had come …

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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 …

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Indiscriminate Attacks strengthen case for Tamil self-rule- Aussie MP [TamilNet, May 05, 2006 10:10 GMT] "Whatever the provocation, targeting Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Government clearly demonstrates that it does not regard the Tamil people to be part of its population. It thus strengthens, in my view, the Tamil people's case for self determination," said Australian parliamentarion John Murphy, Member for the Federal State of Lowe, in a media release issued Friday. For full report, please visit: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=18020