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Justice Wigneswaran should apologize to Tamil Nadu Tamils; TNA should pick another CM candidate, says Tamils for Obama. Issuing a statement Tamils for Obama says; “Mr. Wigneswaran lives in Colombo and has lived there all his life. He is out of touch with the experiences and wishes of the Tamils in northeast Sri Lanka. He was reluctant from the beginning take this office and we urge the TNA should pick someone closer to the northeastern Tamils.” Wigneswaran We publish below the statement in full; Justice Wigneswaran recently gave an exclusive interview to Hindustan Times. There are few things that came out during this interview that worry us. We would lik…

BBC Interview Wrong Guy They were supposed to get Guy Kewney, a technology expert, to comment on the 'Apple v Apple' lawsuit, but mistakenly got a job interviewee by the name of Guy Goma - look at his face as he is introduced at the beginning! Click here for Video clip

[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

Heavy Fighting 'kills 38' in the North Heavy fighting erupted near Vaunia FDL's Sri Lankan military say thirty eight people have been killed in the fighting in the north. Heavy fighting erupted near the Forward Defence Lines in Vaunia between the Government Forces and Tamil Tigers continued till Thursday evening, correspondent Dinasena Ratugamage said. A spokesman for Sri Lanka army told him more than 45 people from both the army and the LTTE were injured. According to the military 33 LTTE cadres were killed and 36 injured in the fighting and it has lost five soldiers and nine soldiers were injured. But LTTE claims it has killed 10 soldier…

"Hundreds of Tigers" in Muttur - residents [TamilNet, August 02, 2006 19:18 GMT] Intense fighting is underway in Muttur in Trincomalee district as hundreds of heavily armed LTTE cadres who have taken control of the town centre laid siege to four Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camps on its periphery, residents said Wednesday evening. An effort by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) to land reinforcements on Muttur jetty was routed by LTTE fighters battling SLN troops at one end, reports said. Sri Lanka’s military insisted however that the Army was in control of the town and that the ‘desperate’ LTTE was retreating before its counter-attack. Continuing a dawn offensive out of the Samp…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Sri Lanka's chief negotiator Nimal Siripala de Silva © enters the Peace Hall at the Bossey's Castle in Bogis-Bossey, near Geneva. Sri Lanka's warring parties ended a three-year deadlock in peace efforts by meeting at a peaceful Swiss chateau, but their ice-breaking talks got off to a rocky start(AFP/Christophe Bosset) http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/0...ccsdsyl4_photo1 Tamil Tiger rebel group chief negotiator Anton Balasingham (L), and Adele Balasingam © are pictured at the Bossey's Castle in Bogis-Bossey, near Geneva. Sri Lanka's warring parties ended a three-year deadlock in peace efforts by meeting at a peaceful Swiss chateau, but their ice-break…

Solheim to give up Sri Lanka role Mr Solheim at last month's Geneva talks Norway's peace envoy to Sri Lanka, Erik Solheim, has announced that he will soon give up the job. Mr Solheim told journalists in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, that he wanted to concentrate more on his job as overseas development minister. Mr Solheim has played a central role in moves to resolve Sri Lanka's civil war. Last month he brokered the first face-to-face talks between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels in three years. 'Above expectations' At the end of those talks, in Geneva, the Sri Lankan government and the Tigers agreed to curb violence and rene…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State lawmakers are anticipating the day when self-driving vehicles navigate California's roads guided by radar and GPS systems instead of human hands on the steering wheel. The state Senate approved a bill Monday that would establish safety and performance standards for what are known as "autonomous" vehicles. SB1298 by Sen. Alex Padilla also would allow the self-guiding vehicles on streets and highways, as long as a licensed driver is aboard. The bill passed 37-0 and goes to the Assembly. Padilla, a Democrat from Los Angeles, says the vehicles can reduce accidents caused by human error. Nevada and Florida have enacted simila…

[TamilNet, September 03, 2006 13:32 GMT] Artillery shells, fired from LTTE controlled Nagarkovil, during the recent clashes off the Point-Pedro sea Friday night and Saturday morning, had targeted a Sri Lanka Army Intelligence Camp, located in Puloli, Point Pedro, sources in Jaffna said. Several artillery shells fired from Nagarkovil area Tiger positions fell inside the Pallappai SLA military intelligence camp in Puloli, Point Pedro during the early hours of Saturday, sources in Jaffna said. Casualty figures were not available. Two houses near the SLA camp were also hit. No civilian casualties were reported. Meanwhile, a cargo ship, carrying cement from So…

POSTED: 0346 GMT (1146 HKT), September 10, 2006 Adjust font size: CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's prime minister reaffirmed his nation's commitment to fighting terrorism Monday during a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. "It was an attack on the values that the entire world holds in common," Howard, a staunch supporter of U.S. President George W. Bush, told a gathering at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra. Howard said the universal values of individual liberty and dignity as well as freedom of association, religion and thought would prevail. "In reaffirming our commitment to maintain th…

THE BOMBING OF TAMIL SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SRI LANKA By Dr.Brian Senewiratne,Physician, Brisbane Wednesday, 23 August 2006 Summary On Monday 14 August 2006, the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed a well-known orphanage in the Tamil North (Mullaitivu). There were some 400 schoolgirls who had gathered for instructions in First Aid and skills training. 51 children and 4 staff were killed on the spot and more than 129 injured, some critically. The Sri Lankan Government claims that what was bombed was a training facility for the Tamil Tigers. UNICEF (which has offices nearby) and the Swedish–led Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) visited the scene soon after.…

ஜூனெட்டீன், அமெரிக்க உள்நாட்டுப் போரின் முடிவில் அடிமைப்படுத்தப்பட்ட மக்களின் சுதந்திரத்தை கொண்டாடுகிறது இந்த ஜூனெட்டீன். 150 ஆண்டுகளுக்கும் மேலாக, அமெரிக்காவில் உள்ள ஆப்பிரிக்க அமெரிக்க சமூகங்கள் இந்த விடுமுறையை அனுசரித்தன. கடந்த வியாழக்கிழயிலிருந்து இனி ஒவ்வொரு ஆண்டும் ஜூன் 19 ஒரு அமெரிக்க விடுமுறை நாளாகும். , அமெரிக்க ஜனாதிபதி ஜோ பிடென் சட்டப்பூர்வமாக இது தொடர்பான மசோதாவில் கையெழுத்திட்டுள்ளார்.. Juneteenth is the newest federal holiday. Here's what it celebrates. Observed on June 19, the holiday commemorates the end of slavery in Texas—which wasn't until two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The United States has…

Take back Kachchatheevu: Indian Parliamentarians [TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 16:31 GMT] In a rare display of unity and concern, members of the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of the Indian Parliament), cutting across party lines, urged the Centre to take back the Kachchatheevu island from Sri Lanka in the wake of continued killing and arrests of Indian fishermen by the Sri Lanka Navy. This is the first time when the demand to immediately take back the Kachchatheevu island has been made at the national level. The issue of Indian fishermen being repeatedly attacked by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) was raised by Congress MP V. Narayanasamy during question hour. He sai…

By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO, June 10 (Reuters) - A little known Sri Lankan rebel group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for recent bomb attacks on transport vehicles as revenge for what it said were government attacks and aerial bombings on innocent Tamil civilians. The military has blamed Tamil Tiger rebels for a series of train and bus blasts in capital Colombo and central Sri Lanka in which at least 32 people were killed and over 100 wounded. "We want to claim that we are responsible for the bomb attacks on the transport vehicles and other attacks," Ellalan Force, which the military says is a Tiger-linked group, said in an e-mail to Reuters. The attack…

ASPECTS OF SAIVA WORSHIP -M.ARUNACHALAM The goals of life in the Vaidika society are laid down as four dharma, artha, kama, moksa - virtue, wealth, happiness and release; they are called aram, porul, inbam and vidu in Tamil. Of the four, the last, the attainment of release from all earthly bonds, is held supreme. In Saivism, three entities are considered to be eternal: God(Pati), Soul(Pasu), and Bonds(Pasa). The soul is in a state of bondage with the worldly matter; the bonds are three and are here inseperable from the soul and obstruct it from enjoying eternal bliss with God. Release is the severance of the bonds resulting in the eternal enjoyment of t…

Internet failure hits two continents 1/31/2008 8:22:07 PM DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- - One major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which started Wednesday, on a major undersea cable failure in the Mediterranean. India's Internet bandwidth has been sliced in half, The Associated Press reported, leaving its lucrative outsourcing industry trying to reroute traffic to satellites and other cables through Asia. Reports say that Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain are also experiencing severe problems. Nations that have been spared the chaos include Israel -- whose traffic uses a d…

Civilians flee as rivals say over 110 killed in Sri Lanka fighting. Some 3,000 civilians are fleeing as heavy artillery duels in Sri Lanka's restive northeast killed more than 110 people, including 41 civilians, according to rebels and security forces. The two sides said sporadic mortar bomb attacks and artillery fire continued throughout Sunday along the Trincomalee and Batticaloa district borders. The International Red Cross said more than 3,300 people were displaced Sunday. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in a statement asked both the military and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to comply with international hu…

COLOMBO, June 17 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military said around 37 people were killed in a sea and land battle with Tamil Tiger rebels on Saturday, and three suspected rebels in diving gear were seized at a beach near the capital's airport. Sri Lankan government jets hit targets near the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) stronghold Kilinochchi overnight in retaliation for an attack on a bus earlier this week that killed 64, the worst incident since a 2002 truce halted two decades of war. The Tigers deny the bus attack. "Eight LTTE boats destroyed by naval fire," a military spokesman said, revising down an earlier figure of 11. "Six navy sailors died. We have…