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Colombo forcing refugees to return home- Rights Group Sri Lankan authorities are using threats and intimidation to force civilians who fled recent fighting in Sri Lanka’s civil war to return home," Human Rights Watch said today. "To pressure individuals to return home, government officials and military personnel have threatened to withdraw humanitarian aid, food and other essential supplies," the Rights body further said. http://www.tamilnet.com/

In northern Syria, a society prepares for war against Turkey Amid threats from Ankara, not only Kurdish fighters but also civilians are engaged in weapons training and building defences Women are given basic training on how to use, mount and dismount an AK-47 (MEE/Rojava Information Center) By Sylvain Mercadier in Derik, northeastern Syria Published date: 23 February 2019 11:36 UTC | Last update: 13 hours 18 min ago A group of female volunteers from the HPC-Jin organisation (Civilian Defence Forces - Women) are meeting with other women from the community and are giving them basic training, …

Matt Rainey for The New York Times Jillian Serpa, 21, of Ringwood, N.J., with her mother after failing on her fourth attempt to acquire a driver's license. Published: March 26, 2012 Learning to Drive With A.D.H.D. By JOHN O’NEIL The first time Jillian Serpa tried to learn to drive, the family car wound up straddling a creek next to her home in Ringwood, N.J. Ms. Serpa, then 16, had gotten flustered trying to sort out a rapid string of directions from her father while preparing to back out of their driveway. “There was a lack of communication,” she said. “I stepped on the gas instead of the brake.” On her second attempt to learn, Ms. Serpa re…

The LMD-Nielsen Business Confidence Index (BCI) survey reveals that sentiment surrounding the economy declined in January with only 62% of respondents expecting conditions to improve in the next 12 months (versus 74% in the previous month). According to an optimistic survey respondent, “the economic climate in general looks favourable for business at present.” In contrast, 8% of those consulted by Nielsen expect the economy to deteriorate in the coming 12 months while three in 10 feel it is likely to remain the same.When it comes to the outlook for business, two-thirds of respondents say sales volumes will improve in the next 12 months compared to 79% in December. Similar…

The Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme is the greatest financial shock so far in a year full of them. We still have a couple of weeks to go, but barring Warren Buffett being caught in Vegas thrusting Berkshire Hathaway stock at strippers, it is hard to imagine anything worse. I don't say this lightly. How can Madoff be worse than Lehman Brothers or AIG or the travails of Detroit's Big Three? It's because what he did was so simple. And he duped so many smart, conservative people for so long. And he did it in plain sight. Look at the list of those who lost money. Swiss private banks. Jewish family foundations. Retirees in Palm Beach. Not exactly the Fast Eddies of fina…

Eyewitness: 'Trincomalee paralysed' Heavy fighting is continuing in Trincomalee district Heavy fighting has continued between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tiger rebels in eastern Trincomalee district. The violence spread on Tuesday to Trincomalee port. The BBC News website spoke to a Tamil man there who lives close to the navy base which has come under mortar attack from the Tamil Tigers. He wishes to remain anonymous. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trincomalee has been paralysed by the violence. There have been blasts close to the navy camp and people in the surrounding area are evac…

Source: https://academic.oup.com/book/5982/chapter/149349981 Abstract This chapter discusses the motives and legitimation of female cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) joining the fight against the Sri Lankan government. Tamil young women were, among others, motivated by grievances against the treatment of the Tamil minority by the government, their experience of sexual and gender-based violence by Sinhalese soldiers and Indian peacekeepers, and a wish to avenge the death of relatives. They also wanted to escape a suppressive and conservative Tamil culture that forced them into arranged marriages. The heroism and sacrificial martyrdom cultivated …

The European Union says it has "serious concerns" about reports of human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. A six-member delegation, representing a range of EU bodies, released the statement at the end of a three-day visit to the country. The EU also criticised the Tamil Tiger rebels over alleged rights violations. Abductions, extra-judicial killings and disappearances have risen in Sri Lanka since the military and rebels resumed attacks on each other in December 2005. The US state department and New York-based group Human Rights Watch have also recently criticised Sri Lanka's rights record. "The EU continues to harbour very serious concerns about c…

No Right to Be There by Bishop Desmond Tutu, Guardian, UK, May 15, 2008 With a terrible record of torture and disappearance, Sri Lanka doesn't deserve a seat on the UN human rights council. It should be voted out. 'Comment is free' section It would seem self-evident that a country which tortures and kidnaps its own people has no place on the world's leading human rights body. Apparently not: Sri Lanka, despite repeated criticism for its human rights record, is running for re-election to the UN human rights council, with a vote to be held in New York on May 21. Governments owe it to Sri Lankan human rights victims - and to victims of human righ…

Tasha Manoranjan is the founder and executive director of People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL), a human rights organization working for justice and accountability in Sri Lanka. She spent over a year documenting human rights violations committed against Tamils in north-eastern Sri Lanka, and remains committed to pursuing accountability and self-determination for Tamils on the island. Manoranjan received her B.A., magna cum laude, in Justice and Peace Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She earned her law degree at Yale Law School, where she served as the Features Editor and Book Reviewer for the Yale Journal of International Law, Chai…

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Sri Lanka dismisses Canada’s threat Souce:Xinhua Publish By Thomas Whittle COLOMBO, Feb. 6 — The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday dismissed a threat from Canada regarding the island’s human rights record. Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Ministry said that the government was well aware of the importance of securing the rights of its own people and was acting accordingly. “Sri Lanka’s human rights record is much better than other countries. The government knows its responsibility towards its own people and has been working on maintaining a good human rights record,” Foreign Secretary Karunathilaka Amunugama told Xinhua. Canada on Sunday warned the Sri Lankan govern…

18/11/2013 David Cameron has been urged to investigate why the Tory Party took over £420,000 from the telecoms group Lycamobile, which has close links to Sri Lanka's controversial President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Labour MP Tom Blenkinsop told the Huffington Post UK: "The Prime Minister knows his party has received over £420k from a company closely associated with the Sri Lankan regime. He was obviously so concerned that his own MPs were recently prevented from visiting there. The MP, who has written directly to the Prime Minister, added: "So in the interests of transparency I want to know if the Prime Minister is going to investigate why his party has received over £420k…

We had a systemic failure in SL-UN Dy Chief The United Nations said that it had a systemic failure of the UN system in Sri Lanka as a whole. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson briefing journalists in New York about the new “Rights up Front” initiative said: “You may recall in the IRP [internal Review Panel] Report on Sri Lanka, that we had a systemic failure of the UN system as a whole and that we need to show greater flexibilities and come up with speedier action.” Mr. Eliasson stressed, echoing his remarks to an informal meeting of the General Assembly earlier this week. There, he told delegations that the Panel’s report, issued last year, also concluded th…

The success of the Aam Aadmi Party at Delhi Legislative assembly elections has spread the hope for honest politics throughout the country. Lakhs of people want to be a member of the party and work for change. Therefore the party has decided to run a special membership drive without fee,“Main Bhi Aam Aadmi”, from 10th to 26th January. You can become a member or help others become a member in the following ways: 1) You can fill out the form at Aam Aadmi Party website aamaadmiparty.org/join-us 2) You can directly SMS your Name, STD code, Assembly constituency, from your mobile to 07798220033. Your membership number will be sent to your mobile through SMS. 3)…

புதிய முகம் தேவை :P :P :P :P Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary General of the United Nations, will demit office on December 31. The race for his job has started. Three distinguished Asians from Sri Lanka, South Korea, and Thailand have already started lobbying for the job. They believe, following an informal tradition, that it's now Asia's turn. "Not so fast,'' says the US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton. "We don't believe that the next secretary general belongs to any particular region,'' he informs. The truth is that there has been an informal geographic rotation for the top diplomatic post at the United Nations. To date three secretaries-genera…

SL Foreign Minister to visit India Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama will be visiting India on Sunday. The two sides are expected to discuss ways for more effective patrolling of the maritime border. Bogollagama’s three-day visit will include talks with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on a wide range of issues, particularly relating to the security situation in the island nation which has a bearing on India. The Lankan Minister will update India about the steps being taken by his government to ensure survival of the peace process in the face of upsurge in violence by LTTE. Sri Lanka has been concerned over LTTE rebels …

SLA launches artillery barrage in Northern FDL. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Jaffna has launched a barrage of artillery shells Sunday early morning into Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) territory across the Northern Forward Defence Line of the Tigers. The artillery barrage continued for more than 4 hours. Heavy artillery firing from Sri Lankan positions in Jaffna started at 4:20 a.m. Normalcy in Vanni has been disturbed as the Sri Lankan forces are stepping up air, naval and ground attacks in the recent days. -Tamilnet-

Tigers as Spiders! Ex – LTTE Cadres Contesting as Independent Group in Jaffna D.B.S.Jeyaraj 6, 151 Candidates from 21 registered political parties and 201 independent groups are contesting the Sri Lankan Parliamentary elections scheduled for August 17th 2015. Of these 3, 653 are from the 21 parties and 2,498 from independent groups. Predictably the spotlight in general has been on the major political parties both nationally and regionally in g. However a particular group of independents contesting in the north has also attracted much attention. This is because the group comprises former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). An assortment of ex – tig…

President Zelenskiy slams NATO for rejecting no-fly zone over Ukraine NATO on Friday rejected Ukrainian calls to help it protect its skies from Russian missiles and warplanes, wary of being dragged into Moscow’s war on its neighbour, but Europe promised more sanctions to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy strongly criticised the decision, saying the alliance had given Russia the green light to continue its bombing campaign. He had earlier appealed to NATO to set up a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which Russia invaded by land, sea and air on Feb. 24. …

Eelam war IV rages on several fronts- Situation Report *** Tigers use long-range artillery to attack Palaly base *** Tigers occupy Army bunkers in Muhamalai but troops fight back Plans by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to lay siege on the Jaffna peninsula began to unravel on Friday evening as Eelam War IV raged for a second successive week. The most disturbing development came when guerrillas directed artillery fire at the Security Forces Headquarters (SFHQ) in Jaffna. It fell on many places including the runway at the Palaly Air Force base located in the same complex. A Bell 212 helicopter was damaged. Military officials said the guerrilla…

Sri Lanka rebels say battle army in no-man's land 23 Nov 2006 04:07:57 GMT Source: Reuters COLOMBO, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers said on Thursday they were engaged in fierce fighting with the army in no-man's land in the island's restive east, with government troops with tanks trying to breach their defence lines. "There is an intense confrontation going on," Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) military spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan told Reuters by telephone from the rebels' northern stronghold. The military said it had no details of any confrontation in the east. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL98914.htm

IDP’s from Five Camps in B’Caloa Forcibly Removed to Muthur in Thirty Buses. DBS 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’ca…

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