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Sri Lankan Armed Forces, paramilitaries are responsible for all the killings and the abductions -LTTE Spokesperson for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Armed forces of the Government of Sri Lanka and its allied paramilitaries are continuing to target civilians including government servants and school students. Killings and abductions are continuing in the Jaffna peninsula and no one appears to be concerned about it. Twelve civilians including two government servants and two school students were killed within the last 12 days by the SLA and its paramilitary groups in Jaffna. A further eight civilians have been abducted and ten have sought protection from …

View Photo Associated Press/Eranga Jayawardena - In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 photo, Sri Lankan Buddhist monks of Jathika Hela Urumaya, or National Heritage, a coalition political party of the Sri Lanka's ruling party take part in a convention in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The escalation in attacks and anti-Muslim rhetoric has caused fears of a new wave of ethnic violence in the country still recovering from a quarter-century civil war between the government, controlled by ethnic Sinhalese Buddhists, and a mainly Hindu ethnic Tamil rebel group. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) less RELATED CONTENT View Photo In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 … COLOMBO, Sri Lank…

Optimism Our correspondent says that there is a sense of something new developing in Nepal and a mood of optimism that the former rebels - who have moved from the battlefield to forming a likely government in less than two years - can give Nepal the new start that it needs. Sectors previously wary of the former rebels are now putting out feelers towards them. A senior army figure, Brigadier General Shiva Ram Pradhan, has expressed the willingness of the military to work with the new government. The chairman of the country's chamber of commerce has praised Maoist leaders for their promise to listen to the private sector when working out economic pol…

SLA artillery attacks on Eachchilampattu villages continue [TamilNet, July 30, 2006 16:46 GMT] Major General Nanda Mallawarachchi, Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), remains at Kallaru army camp in the Serunuwara police division directing the military operation to capture Mavilaru area amid announcement by Defence Ministry spokesman and Minister Mr.Keheliya Rambukwella in Colombo Sunday that Sri Lankan troops are now about one km away from the controversial site, military sources in Colombo said. Sources in Serunuwara area said that there is a likelihood of troop movement from Kallaru to Mavilaru area early Monday morning. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has been …

Ravishankar ready to facilitate Lankan peace process Sunday April 9 2006 00:00 IST UNI BANGALORE: Art of Living Foundation founder Sri Sri Ravishankar has expressed his readiness to meet LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran to facilitate the peace process to end the decades-long ethnic crisis in Sri Lanka. The spiritual leader's offer came after he received thousands of letters from the crowd during a public event at Jaffna in the island nation, expressing their full confidence in him to facilitate the peace process and restore peace in Sri Lanka, according to a release from the foundation here on Saturday. Ravishankar, who is currently on a four-day vi…

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[TamilNet, May 01, 2006 06:14 GMT] Two Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) soldiers and four Tamil civilians were killed in an explosion in Trincomalee town, around 9.45 a.m, Monday. Three SLN personnel and 2 civilians were wounded in the explosion, that occured at at Vidiyalayam Road in Trincomalee town, Trincomalee police said. The police said the blast was caused by a claymore mine fixed to a bicycle, parked on the road side. The bomb went off when the soldiers on a road clearing operation bagan examining the bicycle, ¨the police said. The civilians killed in the blast were identified as Praba, a three wheeler driver, Ms.Chitra Thurainayagam, and her two children- Va…

Two LTTE cadres to be disciplined over Thirukkovil episode [TamilNet, Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 17:22 GMT] Two Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres have been ordered transferred to Kilinochchi from Amparai, to face disciplinary action for enlisting underage youths from a tuition centre in Thirukkovil Monday, LTTE officials in Amparai told TamilNet. All the 23 civilians, including the 21 students, in the custody of an LTTE unit attached to a training camp, were freed after an internal investigation initiated by LTTE Commander Ram. Two teachers, Tharmarasa Vigneswaran and Velupillai Uthayakumar, were among the persons taken by the LTTE unit from the tu…

A Catholic priest who narrowly survived the final phase of the war in Sri Lanka has been questioned by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) over a book of Tamil poetry he wrote called 'Uyirpathivu' which literally translates as, “Life Records”. The priest was allowed to be accompanied by a colleague and was questioned on Wednesday (03) by three officers from TID in the Jaffna Bishop’s house. The interrogation focused on aerial bomb attacks on churches and schools that the priest witnessed during the last months of the war in 2009 and wrote about in his poems. The significance of an aerial bombing is that it can only have been carried out by the Sri Lankan gover…

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Liberation Tigers Military Spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan told media Saturday morning that a cargo ship, caught up in the rough seas, has come into LTTE territorial waters off Mullaithivu and that the Sea Tigers were engaged in saving the crew. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka Navy officials in Colombo said a technical failure had caused a Jordanian Merchant Vessel, FARHA III, carrying 14000 tons of rice from India to South Africa, to drift towards Mullaithivu. Sri Lankan military officials further charged that the Tigers had seized the ship and the crew and said the Sri Lankan navy had engaged naval boats to save the crew and the cargo ship. Further details are not availabl…

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…

Youths corroborate SLA complicity in abductions. Youths recently released after being abducted corroborated the alleged involvement of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers in the recent wave of abductions of youth in the Jaffna peninsula using Buffel Armoured Personnel Carriers. The abductions are carried out at night by armed men operating in white vans. The abductees are then taken to SLA military bases in the area, and later transported in Buffel APCs to the High Security Zone (HSZ) garrison in Palaali, blind folded and with hands and legs tied, according to the youths who were released after torture. A mother who lost her child cursing the Sri Lanka Army …

09 January 2014 After having caused massive deaths and disappearances on the Tamil civilian population during the times of war, the Sri Lankan State now continues to commit acts of structural genocide in the Tamil land. This aims at causing demographic and identity change, ethnic subordination and dilution of Tamils political power, the Bishop of Mannaar Rt. Rev. Dr. Rayappu Joseph told the visiting US diplomat on Wednesday. The visiting delegation was primarily interested in the details of the ‘war crimes’ during the final months of the war, according to Mannaar Bishop. Mr Rapp was told that an international investigation was necessary, not to punish any individual, …

Madam President, Excellencies, Heads of State, Heads of government and other government’s representatives, good morning. First, and with all respect, I highly recommend this book by Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious intellectuals in America and the world, Chomsky. One of his most recent works: Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) . It’s an excellent work to understand what’s happened in the world in the 20th Century, what’s currently happening, and the greatest threat on this planet; the hegemonic pretension of the North American imperialism endangers the human race’s survival. We continue w…

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LTTE to hand over bodies of 40 SLA troopers [TamilNet, August 03, 2006 14:03 GMT] The Liberation Tigers were making arrangements to hand over bodies of forty Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers killed in Muttur fight, LTTE's military spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan said. The LTTE would be handing over the bodies through the ICRC. "Twelve Tiger fighters have been killed during the last 48 hours fighting in Muttur area thwarting the Lankan navy and army attempts to land their troops," he said. The Tiger forces were led by LTTE's Special Commander Sornam and Trincomalee LTTE Commander Arivu, according to Ilanthirayan. "A Sri Lanka Navy boat was sunk in the clash wi…

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…

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.…

The latest case in Australia has been blamed on the government’s treatment of Tamil asylum seekers. Leo Seemanpillai, 29, set himself on fire in Geelong, Victoria, after waiting for more than a year to hear whether he could stay in Australia. He died from his injuries, but Mr Seemanpillai was an organ donor and his death has benefited five Australians. Tamil Refugee Council convener Trevor Grant said he was certain that Mr Seemanpillai’s depression over his refugee application had led to his drastic action. “He knew he would probably be sent back to Sri Lanka ... despite the fact that he would probably be persecuted or taken to jail,” Mr Grant said. “All Tamils I kno…

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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/

US Congressman advocates autonomy for Tamils New Jersey Congressman, Frank Pallone, speaking to the House Wednesday night, supported Norway, Co-chairs' call for unconditional talks between the Government of Sri Lanka and Liberation Tigers, advocated autonomy for Tamils, and endorsed U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher's statement "though we reject the methods that the Tamil Tigers have used, there are legitimate issues raised by the Tamil community and they have a legitimate desire to control their own lives, to rule their own destinies, and to govern themselves in their homeland.'' Full text of the speech follows: …

Sri Lanka: would you holiday at a mass grave? The white sand of Sri Lanka's beaches is a lure for thousands of tourists every year - but dig a little deeper and there are many unanswered questions hanging over the country's tourist industry. Tourism is big business in Sri Lanka. Receipts from tourism nearly doubled between the end of Sri Lanka's civil war and the end of 2011 - up to $1.4bn. The direct contribution of tourism is estimated to be 3.8 per cent of Sri Lanka's total GDP, and is forecast to rise by 7.8 per cent in 2013. And the Sri Lankan government has big plans ahead for the industry. In the country's five-year plan for the sector it lists …

Brent Council lost due to Labour-London Criminal R.Jayadevan's link? Sources from London said that the Brent Council in Labour Heartland was lost by the Labour party after 16 years at the helm. Liberal Democrats gained 16 new seats while Labour lost 13 seats at the council. Sources said that the local Labour party office was based on the same site as Eelapatheeswarar Aalayam Limited, which has been in a storm over allegations made against its Chairman London Criminal Rajasingham Jayadevan alias Undiyalaan. Lately, the Labour party has also been in controversy over loans for peerages and other financial scandals. Sources said that repeat protests…