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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…

Krishanti Vignarajah launches campaign for Maryland governor Democrat Krishanti Vignarajah announces her candidacy for Maryland governor Tuesday in Woodlawn. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) WOODLAWN, Md. — Democrat Krishanti Vignarajah, a former policy director for first lady Michelle Obama, officially launched her campaign for governor Tuesday at the apartment complex outside Baltimore where she lived with her parents after the family fled Sri Lanka decades ago. “Before anything else, I was an immigrant and proud daughter of schoolteache…

Kung Fu and Kanchipuram -the secret connection Kanchipuram. A small old temple-town in South India that always bustles with Hindu pilgrimage tourists and that is known for its silk saris. Kung Fu. A Chinese martial art that is practiced for self-defense and mental strength, primarily by the Buddhist monks at the Shaolin monastery in China. What could be common to Kanchipuram and Kung Fu? Nothing at all?! You should think again, or should flip some historical accounts- well, not Indian, but Chinese or Japanese accounts! What could that secret connection be?? When you think of Buddhism, al…

First reported instance of a female Kurdish fighter carrying out a suicide bombing against Isil as jihadists draw within a mile of town on Turkish border A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb attack against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) jihadists outside a key Syrian town on Sunday night, a monitoring group said. The woman, named on social media as Arin Mirkan, reportedly blew herself up at an Isil position east of the border town of Kobane, killing a number of jihadists who have surrounded and are battling to seize it. It was the first reported instance of a female Kurdish fighter carrying out a suicide bombing against Isil, which …

Land Below Sea Level By David K. Lynch, Thule Scientific The Dead Sea is located in a deep valley at the transform boundary between the African and Arabia Plates (shown as a black line on the map above). At over 400 meters below sea level, it is the land area with the lowest elevation. The motions of the African and Arabian Plates, combined with the motion of shear-zone faulting has resulted in the formation of the deep Dead Sea Depression. Image by the United States Geological Survey. Introduction: Dozens of land areas of the Earth sit below current sea level. The lowest land area is the shoreline of the Dead Sea Depression i…

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka on Tuesday reduced to 21 the minimum age at which women can go abroad for work and earn much-needed dollars for the bankrupt economy. Colombo imposed age restrictions on women working overseas in 2013 after a 17-year-old Sri Lankan nanny was beheaded in Saudi Arabia over the death of a child in her care. Following outrage over the execution, only women older than 23 were allowed to go abroad, while for Saudi Arabia the minimum age was set at 25. But with Sri Lanka in its worst economic crisis since independence, the government on Tuesday eased the rules, including for Saudi Arabia. ‘The cabinet of ministers approved the decision to…

Lanka ceasefire falters in Tamil city -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, July 8, 2006 (Colombo): Four years after a cease-fire raised hopes for peace between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, Sri Lanka is teetering on the brink of a civil war. Sri Lanka's violence is perhaps felt nowhere as acutely as it is around Batticaloa, a largely Tamil city under government control just miles from rebel territory. More than half of the nearly 700 people killed in Sri Lanka since April have been civilians, according to international truce monitors. Almost every night at the front line…

Lanka nets Rs. 930m on tea exports to Japan Sri Lanka earned Rs. 930 million by exporting tea to Japan up to November last year and the target is to increase the export earnings from Japan to one million this year. During a recent visit to Japan Minister of Plantation Industries D. M. Jayaratne presented gold, silver and bronze medals to Sri Lankan tea importers in Japan. In addition the trade representatives of Japan had a discussion on the import of Sri Lankan Tea with the minister. The Minister said that the percentage of black tea exported to Japan from Sri Lanka increased from 45% to 67% at the end of 2006 and it increases annually by 8-9 million kgs. …

Pranab Dhal Samanta Posted online: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 0000 hrs lSupplies: Colombo says it desperately needs spares for tanks, aircraft, UAVs NEW DELHI, MAY 2: While India grapples with limited options to somehow save the ceasefire agreement in Sri Lanka, a desperate Colombo is gradually looking away, and has approached Pakistan for defence supplies after India dragged its feet for reasons rooted in domestic Tamil politics. While Sri Lanka sought to downplay the issue when its President Mahinda Rajapakse was in Islamabad last month, the fact is that Sri Lanka has given Pakistan a long shopping list which clearly shows the effort is to give …

The Government today slammed the outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay and expressed confidence in the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussei. The Ministry of External Affairs said Pillay, who is scheduled to leave office at the end of this month, is making public pronouncements to the media on an investigation which has commenced only recently, and is a clear indication of personal bias. 'It is evidence of an attempt to influence the investigation process and make it follow a preconceived trajectory. She refers in her statement to a wealth of information outside Sri Lanka. This is the same wealt…

NEW DELHI: Sri Lankan security forces are to blame for the murder of 700 civilians in Jaffna, a rights body said yesterday, holding both Colombo and the Tamil Tigers accountable for the island nation’s misery. The University Teachers for Human Rights (UTHR) also said in its latest report that “war-like ideologies” were leading the Sri Lankan government as well as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to a destructive future. “Making due allowance for the LTTE’s share in killings, we estimate that the government and its security forces are responsible for murdering in cold blood upwards of a base figure of 700 unarmed civilians in Jaffna during 2006 and 2007,” sa…

Malaysian authorities yesterday deported the Lankan who is suspected of having indirect links with Al-Qaeda and planned terror attacks in India. Police spokesman Ajith Rohana said the man was sent back to Colombo for further investigations. Mohammad Hussain Mohammad Sulaiman was arrested in May in Kula Lampur and is suspected to have been part of a conspiracy to carry out terror attacks on the US and Israeli consulates in South India. On his arrival in Sri Lanka, he will be handed over to the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) for further interrogation. India has been seeking the extradition of Sulaiman, who is alleged to have planned terror attacks wi…

Lankan HC dodges British summons ~ London Foreign Office wants to lodge official protest over Karuna’s ‘fake’ passport From a Special Correspondent London, Saturday - Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, Kshenuka Senewiratne, was summoned to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office for a meeting on Tuesday over issues relating to renegade Tiger guerrilla leader Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna entering Britain with official backing from the Government of Sri Lanka. She, however, did not turn up. FCO sources said she had not intimated to the FCO her inability to turn up on that day. Other sources here said her absence was due to…

Lankan soldiers attack LTTE minicamp in Trincomalee - Elilan [TamilNet, January 13, 2006 15:49 GMT] A minicamp of the Liberation Tigers in Trincomalee district was attacked by Sri Lankan troopers Friday evening, the Tigers have informed the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) truce monitors in the east port town. The Tigers have lost contact with the minicamp which was attacked by the Sri Lankan soldiers around 5:15 p.m. in Kadavanaikulam near Palampoddaru Bridge, LTTE sources said. At least 4 cadres were reported missing. Exact casualty figures were not available at the moment. The minicamp, where five to ten cadres were stationed, was located between Thambala…

A Sri Lankan national who sexually assaulted a Christchurch woman while she slept will be deported as soon as he becomes eligible for parole. Arumadura Manoj Krishnan Dayachandra De Silva, better known as Krishnan, was sentenced to two years and eight months’ imprisonment on a charge of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection by the Christchurch District Court on Friday. The 30-year-old was already in custody for fraud offences committed after the sexual violation incident. His latest sentence will be added to the nine months he is already serving in jail. De Silva, who has been living in New Zealand since 2014, went out drinking with friends on the …

http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/26/int14.htm COLOMBO: As the world prepares for yet another ‘scary’ report by the United Nations panel on global warming and climate change, a Sri Lankan specialist in the group says Tamil rebels and government troops are actually fighting over land due to be submerged as sea-levels rise. “A major part of Jaffna and other northern areas (of Sri Lanka) will be submerged when the sea-level rises. So people are fighting and dying over areas that may soon not be there,” Prof. Mohan Munasinghe, vice-chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told in an interview. Jaffna, seat of a revolt for an independent hom…

The Law Society of South Africa called on President Zuma and the South African Government to consider boycotting the CHOGM. Issuing a statement today the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) expresses its grave concerned that members of an International Bar Association Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) high-level delegation have been denied entry into Sri Lanka during this week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo. The delegation included the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, and the first UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Param Cumaraswamy. Entry for th…

Intellectuals for Human Rights (IFHR) in its report for this year said the Human Rights situation in Sri Lanka has suffered a major setback in the first 10 months with the rule of law, individual liberty and the independence of the Judiciary having received an unprecedented beating. According to the report issued yesterday to coincide with United Nations Human Rights Day, 148 females were murdered and 408 raped during the period under review, but only 10 cases had been filed in courts. The rise of the extrajudicial killings and inhuman torture clearly indicates the lack of respect of society for legal procedures and the rights of the citizens. It symbolizes the lawles…

Remis une collation, puis exécutés: le fils de 12 ans d'une Tigres tamouls Photographies garçon spectacle a eu lieu avant qu'il ait été tué à bout portant. Andrew Buncombe Lundi 18 Février 2013 Attention: Certains peuvent trouver la seconde image dans la galerie d'accompagnement pénible De nouvelles photos sont apparues, qui soulèvent de nouvelles questions sur la conduite des forces armées du Sri Lanka au cours des dernières étapes de l'opération contre les rebelles tamouls et ont conduit à revendique le fils de 12 ans de leader des militants ont pu être exécutés sommairement. Une série de photographies prises quelques heures d'intervalle, et sur…

[size=4]Le mercredi 10 octobre 2012 restera une journée historique pour les défenseurs de la cause tamoule ! Après des années de protestation pour dénoncer les viols et massacres à répétition de civils tamouls, une délégation d’une quarantaine de Tamouls a été reçue pour la première fois à l’Assemblée Nationale. C’est sous l’impulsion de Marie-George Buffet, députée de la quatrième circonscription de Seine-Saint-Denis, et du Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO), qu’a pu se tenir cette rencontre dans une des salles du Palais Bourbon. Marie-George Buffet a profité de cette rencontre pour annoncer la mise en place d’un groupe d’étude sur la situation des Tamouls du Sri …

Learn from us, LTTE tells U.S., Iraq (2003) Hakone (Japan) March 21. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) today said the United States and Iraq should learn from its example of making peace with the Sri Lankan Government and urged the United Nations to prevail upon the two warring parties to restore normality. ``It is regrettable that the U.S. attacked Iraq without proper endorsement of the U.N. though we are also against the dictatorship of the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, and his not respecting the U.N. resolution,'' the LTTE's chief negotiator, Anton Balasingham, said. ``The LTTE is known for violence but we are renouncing it and pursuing…

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…

Lee Kuan Yew on Leadership: The Harvard Interview Christopher Armstrong 9:15 The communists wanted a different system (Singapore demographic = 70% Chinese at the time) 12:45 "Communism can't win in a multi-racial society." 14:40 "I was a lawyer, I understood completely what Constitutional practices were. [The opposition] didn't." 22:55 "What made me a leader was, when the time came, I was the best speaker [in English]." 23:50 Mandarin = the Chinese language of the educated 26:20 Learning to speak was innate, but also came from wanting to be a lawyer. His parents suffered in the 1930's, and their friends who were doctors, engi…

Choosing When To Go by Lee Kuan Yew Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end come swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one. Some time back, I had an Advanced Medical Directive (AMD)) done which says that if I have to be fed by a tube, and it is unlikely that I would ever be able to recover and walk about, my doctors are to remove the tube …

Left, DMK demand India vote against Sri Lanka at UN rights meeting Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja on Thursday said India should demand an impartial and international inquiry on the war crimes committed by Sri Lankan military on Tamils as well as should vote against the island nation in the current meeting of UN Human Rights Council. Raja said the assurances by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or external affairs minister Salman Khurshid has no meaning unless India takes a pro-active role in the current session of the UN Human Rights Council meeting at Geneva. "And India should see whatever resolution brought by US or …