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Thousands flee Jaffna expecting war PK Balachandran Colombo, January 15, 2006|21:45 IST About 3,500 families have fled from Jaffna peninsula to the LTTE-controlled part of the Wanni towards the south, expecting an outbreak of hostilities between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the LTTE, sources in Jaffna said on Sunday. The LTTE has been saying for sometime that the time has come for a "final push" to secure an independent Tamil Eelam by force because the Mahinda Rajapaksa government at Colombo and the international community, have turned a deaf ear to the Tamils' long-standing demands and taken a hostile posture. The LTTE had earlier asked…

2000 Tamils sought refuge in Kappalthurai School [TamilNet, April 17, 2006 14:34 GMT] About two thousand members from four hundred Tamil families of resettled Tamil village Kappalthurai have sought refuge in Kappalthurai government Tamil school. They fled from their houses when soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army assaulted some of them following the claymore mine blast that killed three troopers of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Saturday night, sources said. Kappalthurai village is located along Trincomalee-Kandy main road. Mr.K.Thurairatnasingham, Trincomalee district parliamentarian Monday morning visited the refugees in Kappalthurai School. Victims told him t…

Swamy wants Lanka to be federal Chennai, May 5: Rejecting the devolution proposals of Sri Lanka's ruling party to solve the ethnic problem, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy today said Tamils must get a federal constitution or a separate Tamil Eelam would become inevitable. He told reporters here "those Indians who have consistently opposed the LTTE terrorism will equally oppose disguised or covert Sinhala hegemonism". The devolution proposals of Sri Lanka Freedom Party had deeply disappointed all well-wishers of the island nation's territorial integrity and unfettered sovereignty, he said. The call for a separate Tamil Eelam in the island h…

2ND LEAD SLA launches new offensive towards Vaharai [TamilNet, Friday, 06 October 2006, 05:21 GMT] Sri Lankan forces have launched a new offensive towards Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled Vaharai region Friday morning. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops from Mankerni SLA camp advanced into LTTE controlled territory south of Vaharai with heavy artillery shelling, Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombardment and rocket fire from the Sri Lanka Navy gunboats, according to civilian sources. Thousands of civilians, most of them recently displaced from Trincomalee, were struggling to flee to safer areas. Civilian casualty figures are yet to be reported. Heavy f…

SLAF bombs Verukal ferry [TamilNet, August 04, 2006 13:41 GMT] Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers Friday evening around 5:00 p.m. bombed and destroyed the ferry linking Liberation Tigers controlled Vakarai mainland with Trincomalee south, civilian sources said. Further details are not available at the moment http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=19070

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More Sri Lanka Tamils flee to India fearing war CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - A new group of Sri Lankan Tamils has landed on the Indian coast claiming they are fleeing war in the island nation, police said on Sunday. The group of 10 arrived by boat near the famous pilgrim town of Rameswaram, about 550 kms south of Chennai, capital of southern Tamil Nadu state, late on Saturday evening. They said they were fleeing escalated violence between the government forces and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in northeast Lanka, police said. Another boat carrying five people came early on Saturday after the first wave in which 33 Tamils came in tw…

Sri Lanka Inflation Holds Near 4-Month High in August (Update1) By Anusha Ondaatjie Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka's consumer prices rose in August at close to the fastest pace in four months, presenting a challenge to the central bank which wants to damp inflation amid slowing economic growth. Consumer prices in the capital Colombo rose 17.3 percent from a year ago, after increasing 17.6 percent in July, the Department of Census & Statistics said on its Web site. The median estimate of nine analysts in a Bloomberg survey was for a 17.3 percent gain. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has held interest rates at the highest level in Asia for six str…

Sri Lankas third Eelam War created a political-territorial division of the island with a resultant dual state structure in the North-East. In the context of the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement and based on earlier institutional experiments, the LTTE is currently engaged in a comprehensive process of state building within the areas they control," says Prof Stokke of Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, in an article which examines the emerging new Tamileelam state structure. He adds that only the "facilitation and dynamics of pro-democracy forces within the LTTE," will determine the transformation from "the"strong and centralized state," that currently…

Ethnic Sinhalese flee Sri Lanka fighting. A daylong artillery exchange Saturday between Sri Lanka's military and Tamil Tiger guerrillas in the island's east drove thousands of Sinhalese from their villages, an official said. Rebels said 30 soldiers died in the clashes; the military said only two troops had been killed. Both sides accused the other of causing civilian casualties. Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan said the guerillas repulsed a military advance into their territory in eastern Trincomalee district. "We retaliated and pushed them back to their original positions," he said. It was impossible to reconcile the conflicting casualty fi…

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NAIDOC(National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) அல்லது ‘National Aboriginal Day', ஒவ்வொரு வருடமும் ஆடி முதலாம் கிழமை ஆரம்பமாகி ஒரு வாரம் அவர்களுடைய நிகழ்வுகள் நடைபெறும். இந்த வருடம் கடந்த 4ம் திகதி தொடங்கி வரும் 11ந்திகதி வரை நிகழ்வுகள் நடைபெறும். இந்த வருடத்திற்கான கருப்பொருள் “Heal Country – calls for stronger measures to recognise, protect, and maintain all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and heritage.” இவர்களுடைய இந்த NAIDOC வார ஆரம்பநிகழ்வில் இலங்கையில் பிறந்த, சிட்னியில் வாழ்ந்துவரும் ஓவியர், சிற்பகலைஞரான ரமேஷ் மாரியோ நித்தியேந்திரன் அவர்களின் ஒரு படைப்பும் கண்காட்சிக்கு வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.. அவரது சிற்பங்கள் மிக மிக …

Tigers repulse SLA counter-thrust [TamilNet, August 13, 2006 16:41 GMT] A counter-thrust by the Sri Lanka Army’s (SLA) elite 53 division to recapture areas in Jaffna lost to the Liberation Tigers in the past two days was destroyed by LTTE forces using artillery and close quarter fighting, sources in Kilinochchi said. In Colombo, ambulances have been shuttling between Ratmalana and hospitals in the capital since early hours Sunday carrying military wounded, sources said. LTTE fighters were consolidating in areas captured from the Sri Lankan military over the past two days whilst continuing operations against other SLA positions, sources in Kilino…

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2ND LEAD (UPDATE) Sinhala villagers block ICRC food convoy to Muttur [TamilNet, August 04, 2006 11:09 GMT] A food convoy led by the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) Friday morning from Trincomalee town to Muttur to supply food materials to civilians displaced due to the fighting between SLA and LTTE was stopped at Kantalai by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on Friday afternoon around 1 p.m. The SLA refused permission for the convoy to proceed along Kantalai-Allai road to Muttur citing security reasons, ICRC sources in Colombo said. The convoy, comprising 16 trucks with food materials, four ICRC vehicles and two ambulances, is now stranded in Kantalai town…

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…

One Sunday morning last December, China’s defense ministry summoned military attachés from several embassies to its monolithic Beijing headquarters. To the foreigners’ surprise, the Chinese said that one of their nuclear-powered submarines would soon pass through the Strait of Malacca, a passage between Malaysia and Indonesia that carries much of world trade, say people briefed on the meeting. Two days later, a Chinese attack sub—a so-called hunter-killer, designed to seek out and destroy enemy vessels—slipped through the strait above water and disappeared. It resurfaced near Sri Lanka and then in the Persian Gulf, say people familiar with its movements, before return…

[TamilNet, Friday, 22 September 2006, 09:32 GMT] Liberation Tigers officials at the LTTE's Peace Secretariat in Kilinochchi Friday said that the Tigers had responded positively for the International Community's call for talks in Oslo to Norwegian Ambassador Hans Brattskar, in a meeting Friday where LTTE's Political Head S. P. Thamilchelvan discussed the ground situation and the recent statement from the Co-Chairs, who represent the donor community to Sri Lanka. ... ..... http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=19676

12 bodies of civilians recovered from Muttur east [TamilNet, April 26, 2006 03:20 GMT] Initial reports from Muttur east in Trincomalee district Wednesday morning said at least twelve bodies of Tamil civilians including men, women and children killed in Tuesday evening air strike by Kfir jets, and artillery attack by Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) and Sri Lanka Army (SLA) were recovered from Muttur east area. More casualties are expected from Tuesday attack by government troops, a NGO source in the affected area said. The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) launched air strike on several villages in the LTTE held Muttur east village Tuesday evening following the bomb attack on Lt.…

“What can I do?” - thoughts for the Tamil Diaspora Janani Barathy Tamil Guardian 06 February 2008 The plight of our people has been steadily reaching newer levels. And, after being an observer with a hands-off approach, I decided to do something about it. I became proactive - in small ways. As a mother of two young children living in Sydney, Australia and having many commitments, it was not easy to change my inaction - but I did. I firmly believe now, that if we all do our little part and started working towards a common vision, that vision will and must materialize. I realise there’s spiritual element to this as well, and of course some people are skepti…

Sri Lanka's ultra-nationalist JVP party has called for the government to wipe out not ony LTTE but its supporters as well in a heated debate Thursday over the Trincomalee crisis. Jayantha Wijesekara, JVP MP from Trincomalee district made his comments in support of JVP Propaganda Secretary Wimal Weerawansa, who said that the LTTE areas of Sampur and Maavilaru must be captured by the Sri Lankan military. The Trincomalee situation dominated Thursdays deliberations in Parliament. The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauf Hakeem tabled a motion on the plight of the Muslim people of Trincomalee. JVPs Weerawansa claimed that Mavilaru and Sampur were Sri Lankan gov…

Sri Lanka conflict More COLOMBO, July 1 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's only international airport is to resume night flights for the first time since air raids by Tamil Tiger rebels forced their suspension seven weeks ago, an airport official said on Sunday. "We have permitted all the airlines to operate 24 hours a day from today," the duty manager at Bandaranaike International Airport said by telephone, saying he was not authorised to give his name. "We are satisfied that the security situation is normal and we have permitted each and every airline to operate at night. The air force will provide all the facilities to operate." But it was not immediately clear…

A small group of Tamil musicians and activists supported the Kurdish march through London yesterday, expressing their solidarity with the struggle in Kobane. Parai drummers show solidarity with Kurds in Kobane One Kurdish man spoke to the group in fluent Tamil, remarking that the Sri Lankan state was only able to defeat the Tamil Tigers because Karuna, a senior rebel commander, had defected. Thousands of Kurds rallied in Parliament Square, London, in scenes reminiscent of the Tamil community mobilisations during the 2009 massacres After the police violently arrested some young Kurdish protesters, the streets were blocked by sit-ins demanding thei…

Coronavirus in Deutschland – wo es die meisten Infektionen gibt In Deutschland sind mittlerweile in allen Bundesländern Fälle des Coronavirus nachgewiesen. Ein Überblick über die Zahl der Infizierten. Das Coronavirus breitet sich in Deutschland weiter aus. Bundesweit gibt es derzeit 5.771 bestätigte Infektionen (Stand: 15. März, 21:35 Uhr), wie die Zahlen aus 16 Bundesländern nach Recherchen von t-online.de zeigen. Fünf Menschen aus Nordrhein-Westfalen, drei Personen aus Baden-Württemberg und vier Menschen aus Bayern sind verstorben. …