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A 70-year-old Sri Lankan man in Messina, Italy, has been found dead inside his residence, the Foreign Relations Ministry said today. However, a ministry spokesperson said the cause of the death was not yet known and that the Ministry was in contact with the Sri Lankan Missions in Italy to ascertain the cause of death. Meanwhile, the Ministry denied reports of a group of Sri Lankans in Italy testing positive for COVID-19 and said that they were in self-quarantine. The Ministry said they were constantly monitoring the situation in Italy. http://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/Sri-Lankan-man-in-Italy-found-dead/108-185599

Bhasha Mukherjee will return to work as a junior doctor after up to 14 days in self-isolation. (CNN)A beauty queen who was crowned Miss England in 2019 has returned to the United Kingdom from overseas charity work to continue her career as a doctor amid the coronavirus pandemic. Bhasha Mukherjee took a career break as a junior doctor after competing in the Miss World pageant in December 2019. Mukherjee represented England at the pageant after winning Miss England. Miss Jamaica crowned 2019 Miss World Invited to be an ambassado…

A talk by Dr Arvind Gupta, Director General of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi, held at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies on Thursday marked an interesting development in the trajectory of local research activity in international relations. It was the first time such an event was organized jointly by the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) and the LKIIRSS. Introducing the speaker, Sunimal Fernando, Advisor to the President and member of the BCIS’s Board of Studies indicated that the two think tanks planned to work together and ‘provide complementarities’ to each other in the f…

WikiLeaks: EPDP Sold Jaffna Children: Girls To Prostitution Rings And Boys To Slavery author: COLOMBO TELEGRAPH “The children are sold into slavery, usually boys to work camps and girls to prostitution rings, through EPDP’s networks in India and Malaysia. Sunthararaj maintains that children are often smuggled out of the country with the help of a corrupt Customs and Immigration official at Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo.” the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington. EPDP Leader Douglas Devananda and President Rajapaksa The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable f…

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The UNHRC panel to appointed to probe alleged human rights abuses during final stages ofconflict in Sri Lanka will continue to seek access to the country despite its refusal to allow them into the nation, a statement on the OHCHR website said.In the terms of reference for the probe available on the OHCHR website, it says it will continue to seek to engage with the Government of Sri Lanka in accordance with the resolution. The High Commissioner for Human Rights will continue to request for the team conducting the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) to have access to the country to meet with government officials and others, as well as to have access to all relevant docu…

இன்றைய சண்டே டைம்ஸ் இதழில் வெளிவந்த இந்த கட்டுரையை படித்து பாருங்கள் ! Travesty of our place names There is no reason why Colombo, Galle and Jaffna cannot revert to Kolamba, Gaalla and Yahapane, except that the political will to bring about such change is still missing How important the proper pronunciation and spelling can be to a nation’s identity was demonstrated by the French Government when it prohibited the use of the British word jet or ‘jetliner’ by the French. The punishment for transgression was imprisonment. After the law came into effect a jetliner had to be called ‘le grande porteur’. The rest of the world may pronounce the name of their capita…

Reports from Costa Rica in Central America said that a strange locally fabricated submarine transporting three tons of Cocaine was caught by authorities with a ''Sri Lankan'' two Colombians and a Guatemalan. The unique 50 foot long underwater transporting vessel is made of wood and fiber glass and the men traveling inside were breathing through pipes jutting out of water, the authorities said.

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=728324163882824 HEAD LINE : Community Based Cricket Commity Selection In Tamil Nadu. Worst Politics in Sports Selection too. Awesome Movie Jeeva. It's a True story by Susendran. Examples Names : Ramanujam Sri Ram ParthaSarathy SeshaGopal Venkatatri Vigneshwaran Thyagarajan Lakshmanan Srinivasan Ramesh Vishwanathan Raghavan Hope you guys all well understand the Names given, These all names were noted only from this Film and knows belongs to whom. Total peoples selected from tamilnadu in last 20 Years is 16, Out of that 14 is on Same community.In last 20 years no other community peoples got sel…

This is what happend today against Tamils by the state terrorism 4 Tamils get killed in trinco 6 abducted today and 19 abducted during the last 2 days 2 arrested 1 get killed in Vavuniya 1 joung girl seriously injured 1 killed and another injured near Colombo Voilence are getting worster than before

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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) currently withdrawing from the Jaffna peninsula delivered a big blow to the army on Thursday Jan 8th as a high – ranking army officer was killed. Lt. Col Nalinda Kumarasinghe RWP, RSP was killed in a booby trap explosion in the Puloppalai area of the peninsula. Lt. Col Kumarasinghe was the commanding officer of 5 Gemunu watch which is attached to the Air Mobile brigade that is a component of the 53 division Lt. Col Kumarasinghe was moving along with his troops from Pallai in a south eastern direction. The carefully booby trap exploded as the jeep they were travelling in went over it near a turning point on a…

நினைவேந்தல் உரிமை குறித்து இன்று பாராளுமன்றில் திரு கஜேந்திரகுமார் பொன்னம்பலம் அவர்கள் இன்று சமர்ப்பிக்கவிருந்த எழுத்துமூல கேள்விக்கான அனுமதியை சபாநாயகர் தடை செய்தமையை எதிர்த்து பாராளுமன்றில் கஜேந்திரகுமார் - தினேஸ் குணவர்தன ,ஜோன்ஸ்டன் பெர்னாண்டோ ஆகியோரின் குறுக்கீடுகளுக்கு பதில் வழங்கியபடி தமிழர் தரப்பு நியாயத்தை எடுத்துரைத்தார் கஜேந்திரகுமாருக்குத் தென்னிலங்கை நா.உறுப்பினர்கள் சபாநாயகர் மூலமாக முட்டுக்கட்டை போட்ட வேளையில் சுமந்திரன் குறுக்கிட்டு சட்ட ஆதாரங்களை சாதுரியமாக முன்வைத்து கஜேந்திரகுமாரின் உரிமைக்காக வாதாடினார்!

Tamils Want Equal Rights The human rights issue in Sri Lanka will be taking center stage as the UN Human Rights Council meets in Geneva from 22 February to 23 March for its 46th Session. Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian M.A Sumanthiran is among those advocating for stronger action on Sri Lanka over its failure to meet its commitments to the Council. In an interview with Daily Mirror online, Sumanthiran responded to allegations made against the TNA, India’s role in Geneva and the return of the US to the Council. Dailymirror · Tamils Want Equal Rights

Police in Northern Ireland organised a meeting between British officials and a Sri Lankan military adviser a month after the massacre of tens of thousands of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka, it has emerged - but no minutes were taken about what was discussed. The policing board, which scrutinises the running of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, has confirmed it arranged the talks between the Foreign Office and the Sri Lankan defence forces representative with a view to the PSNI becoming "critical friends" of the country's security forces. Government lawyers have confirmed in a freedom of information request that no minutes exist of the meeting at the pol…

Sectarian violence between orthodox Muslims against the Islamic sect, Sufi, that preaches pantheism, resurfaced in Muslim town of Kattankudy in Batticaloa district Thursday following the death of M. S. Abdul Payilvan, one of the leaders of Sufi sect and the President of All Island Tharikathul Mufliheen, and his burial in Kattankudy. The orthodox Muslims observed a Hartal demanding the removal of the body from the burial grounds. Three houses belonging to the followers of Payilvan were set ablaze on Thursday night, Police sources said. M.S. Abdul Payilvan, 69, passed away in Colombo Apollo hospital Wednesday at 8:00 pm; his body was brought to Kattankudy in a private he…

Sri Lanka says drives Tiger rebels from eastern HQ By Simon Gardner COLOMBO, March 28 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops have driven Tamil Tiger rebels from a key stronghold in the island's restive east, the military said on Wednesday, as the government probed how a rebel plane managed to bomb a base in the capital. Troops seeking to evict Tiger fighters from the eastern district of Batticaloa found late on Tuesday a complex of bungalows they say was a hurriedly abandoned rebel headquarters whose occupants fled to nearby jungle. "We have captured a Tiger headquarters in Kokkadichcholai, south of Batticaloa," said military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasingh…

From an old abandoned website of Tigers: Other Tamil Eelam Groups In 1972 when the armed struggle of the Tamil people against the state of Sri Lanka began a number of Tamil Eelam armed groups emerged. At their height there were over 30 different armed groups fighting against the state of Sri Lanka. Most of these groups received training in militant camps in India, operated by the Indian Government's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). EROS and the LTTE received training from the PLO in Lebanon in late 1976 and 1977. PLOTE received training for the PFLP. It also established ties with the Communist party of Tunisia, the Communist-Leninist Party of Alg…

Ramar Sethu, a world heritage centre? Shobha Warrier The Rs 2,427.40-crore Sethusamudram canal project aims to create a navigable channel of 152.2 km from the Gulf of Mannar to the Bay of Bengal through the Palk Bay and Palk Strait. The project that was inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [images] on the July 2, 2005, has drawn flak from many quarters from the day the idea was mooted. One of the debates going on is whether the chain of islets called Ramar Sethu, also known as Adam's Bridge, linking India with Sri Lanka [images] should be destroyed while dredging. Dr S Kalayanaraman, eminent research scholar who has earlier done signal wo…

The US Seventh Fleet has claimed in a Facebook post on Monday that its guided-missile destroyer, USS Barry, launched a live missile during an exercise in the Philippine Sea on Thursday last week. In the meantime, Hong Kong-based newspaper, South China Morning Post (SCMP), which is owned by a Chinese multinational technology company, described the development as an “unusual drill” on Tuesday. The paper said military observers in Beijing believed that it was a “signal to the PLA that American forces can counter advanced threats.” Also, the English version of the paper operated by the Communist Party of China (CPC), Global Times, on Sunday blamed the Trump Administration as …

January 11, 2013 - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement: “Canada is deeply concerned over the impeachment of Sri Lankan Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake. “Her impeachment appears to be highly politicized, lacking basic transparency and respect for the guarantees of due process and fair trial. “Judicial independence is fundamental to the rule of law and essential for any democratic and accountable government. Canada calls on the Government of Sri Lanka to change course immediately. “Canada continues to have serious concerns about the human rights situation, the need for reconciliation and the democratic deficit in Sri Lan…

Households in Birmingham have been banned from mixing in new lockdown measures announced following a spike in coronavirus cases. The rate of infection has more than doubled in the city in a week to 90.3 cases per 100,000. The measures also cover neighbouring Sandwell and Solihull, affecting more than 1.6 million people in total. The restrictions will begin on Tuesday, it was announced at a regional meeting of council leaders. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "We never take these decisions lightly but social gatherings can spread the virus quickly and we need residents to abide by the new rules to break the chains of transmission." …

Maya Arulpragasam, aka MIA, wants you to rethink the meaning of “refugee”

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2009/11/kp-tortured.html KP tortured Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Leave a Comment By Our Defence Investigator (November 04, Colombo, Sri By Our Defence Investigator (November 04, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) According to a reliable Defence Ministry source LTTE’s former International head Selvarasa Pathmanathan, well known as KP is said to have undergone severe torturing in the hands of the intelligence operatives to extract information from him. The source said KP is held in the Panagoda army camp in the outskirts of Colombo. Uncooperative KP was severely tortured by the Sri Lanka Terrorist Investigation…