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RAJAPAKSE BENT ON DICTATED PEACE By B.Raman In an assessment on the ground situation in Sri Lanka written on October 8,2006, I had stated as follows: "The hardline advisers of Mr.Rajapakse think that they can now see the light at the end of a long and dark tunnel and that this is the time to force upon the LTTE a dictated peace, which would restict the eventual Tamil control in any political solution to the Northern Province minus Jaffna and the Batticaloa District of the Eastern Province minus the Tricomallee and Amparai Districts. Their reported plans for an ultimate political solution also envisage excluding the LTTE's presence and influence from even the Battica…

LONDON (AFP) - Amnesty International said on Tuesday that there were armed groups roaming camps for displaced people in the eastern Sri Lankan district of Batticaloa, and kidnapping residents. Citing its own sources, which it did not identify, Amnesty said that some of the groups were part of the Karuna faction -- a breakaway rebel group -- and their presence in the camps were tolerated by Sri Lankan authorities because of the group's help in the military campaign against Tamil Tiger rebels. The London-based human rights group's warning came as government security forces continued their offensive into a Tiger stronghold that extends from Batticaloa to the neigh…

'The most dangerous of all my trips...' Source: https://m.rediff.com/news/1998/sep/02ship.htm For B Navindra Karkera, even after spending 26 years in the merchant navy did not prepare him for the events of August 14. As the rest of his countrymen were preparing to usher in the 51st anniversary of the country's independence, he found himself and his crew taken into custody by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam off the Point Pedro coast, witnessed his ship, M V Princess Kash, being bombed by Lankan jets, and lived through a gunfight between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the LTTE. Now back in Bombay, his ordeal has left him w…

UN's website breached by hackers Hackers have attacked the United Nations official website, forcing some sections to be taken offline. Slogans accusing the US and Israel of killing children appeared on the pages reserved for statements from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Other pages on the site were also breached by the group, who described their actions as a "cyberprotest". In other attacks by hackers using the same names, they have claimed to be from Turkey. The message on the UN site said: "Hey Ysrail and Usa dont kill children and other people Peace for ever No war." The hackers named themselves as "kerem125", "Gsy" and "M0sted".…

Ex-minister accuses Sri Lanka of 'terrorism' 3 hours ago COLOMBO (AFP) — A former Sri Lankan foreign minister accused the government of failing to investigate extra-judicial killings and using "terrorism" to fight Tamil Tigers rebels. Government lawmaker Mangala Samaraweera said an ongoing visit to the island by the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, underlined the international focus on the island's worsening rights record. "Sri Lanka is also being branded a terrorist state because of our policy of fighting terrorism with terrorism," Samaraweera said. "The Arbour visit shows the international concern about what is happening here." …

U.S. urges Sri Lanka to address Human Rights issues The United States has urged the Sri Lankan Government to fulfill all of the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation report and also address those issues that the report did not cover. “We’re still studying the full report, I do have to say that we have concerns that the report, nonetheless, does not fully address all the allegations of serious human rights violations that occurred in the final phase of the conflict. So this leaves questions about accountability,” U.S. department of State spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters in response to a question in Washington DC on Monday. To an…

Mullaittivu Troops Transport Farmers' Harvests to South, 19 April 2020 https://www.army.lk/news/mullaittivu-troops-transport-farmers-harvests-south Sri Lankan police arrest more local councillors providing aid to under-privileged families in North-East, 18 April 2020, https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/sri-lankan-police-arrest-more-local-councillors-providing-aid-under-privileged-families ‘People are near starvation’ in North-East warns Sumanthiran, 17 April 2020, https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/%E2%80%98people-are-near-starvation%E2%80%99-north-east-warns-sumanthiran

Rex Murphy, the conservative commentator, former CBC radio host and a 73-year-old white man, is convinced that racism does not exist in this country and that the “vast majority” of Canadians would “never participate in it.” Earlier this week, in a column published in the newspaper I work for, Murphy explicitly wrote that Canada is not a racist country, acknowledging that the statement might “shock some.” His arguments to support this sweeping declaration, one that effectively erases centuries of history that pertain to the founding of this nation, were made in 250-odd words. They ranged from that fact that Canada had “welcoming” immigration policies, that our sc…

யாழ்ப்பாணப் பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் கல்வி பயின்ற சிங்கள மாணவி ஒருவர் சிங்களத் தொலைக்காட்சி நிகழ்ச்சியொன்றில் யாழ்ப்பாணத்தைப்பற்றி கூறிய விடயங்கள் பலரது கவனத்தையும் ஈர்த்துள்ளது. சிங்கள மொழியில் இடம்பெற்ற இந்த உரையாடலின் தமிழ் மொழிபெயர்ப்பினை இங்கு இணைக்கின்றோம். #யாழ்ப்பாணம் உள்ளிட்ட தமிழர் தாயக பிரதேசங்கள் குறித்து தென்னிலங்கை சிங்கள மக்கள் மத்தியில் இருக்கும் பல்வேறுபட்ட கருத்து முரண்பாடுகள் மத்தியில் இந்த மாணவியின் வெளிப்படையான கருத்துக்கள் இங்கு காண்பிக்கப்படவேண்டியதாகும். கேள்வி:- உங்களுக்கு கிட்ட உள்ள பல்கலைக்கழகம் எது? மாணவி:- சபரகமூவா பல்கலைக்கழகம் கேள்வி:- இரத்தினபுரி மாணவர்களுக்கு சபரகமூவா பல்கலைக்கழகம் கி…

தென்கிழக்கு இலண்டனில் தீவிபத்தினால் இலங்கையைப் பூர்வீகமாகக் கொண்ட ஒரே குடும்பத்தைச் சேர்ந்த இரு பெண்களும் இரு குழந்தைகளும் பலி. ஆங்கிலத்தில் வந்த பிபிஸி செய்தி Bexleyheath: Two women and two infants die in house fire Image caption, Police have made no arrests Four members of the same family, including a boy and girl, have died in a house fire in south-east London. Two women and two infants were rescued from the first floor of the property on Hamilton Road, Bexleyheath, at about 20:30 GMT on Thursday, but all four died at the scene. …

South Asian Centre Urges Collective Action against Sri LankaSource: ITP - August 8, 2006 London, ITP: Dr. Raymond Philipps, Founder-Director of the South Asian Centre for Racial Equality and Peace (SACREP) has written a strongly worded letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations and to the International War crimes Commission stating that it is time these world bodies acted in favor of the Rule of Law to protect the most oppressed community in South Asia, namely, the Tamils of the proto-State of Eelam. The International community has a responsibility to save them from extinction and annihilation by the lethal Sinhala military machine. Though he was unwill…

Donald Trump Does America want a jerk president? Apparently, says Jimmy Carter who ‘prays’ for Donald Trump During an appearance on ‘The Late Show’, host Stephen Colbert asked the 93-year-old former president whether America wants ‘kind of a jerk as president’ …

Power in America More books & articles • An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1% (with link to 2014 update) • The Class-Domination Theory of Power: An explanation of why the wealth and income distributions are so unequal in the U.S., and how the political system works. • The Left and the Right in Thinking, Personality, and Politics: An exploration of the personality differences and psychology behind the liberal/conservative divide. • Social Movements and Social Change: Perspectives based on social science research. Wealth, Income, and Power by G. Wi…

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Lt. Col. Nalinda Kumarasinghe was killed in Jaffna Thursday The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) currently withdrawing from the Jaffna peninsula delivered a big blow to the army on Thursday Jan 8th as a high – ranking army officer was killed. Lt. Col Nalinda Kumarasinghe RWP, RSP was killed in a booby trap explosion in the Puloppalai area of the peninsula. Lt. Col Kumarasinghe was the commanding officer of 5 Gemunu watch which is attached to the Air Mobile brigade that is a component of the 53 division Lt. Col Kumarasinghe was moving along with his troops from Pallai in a south eastern direction. The carefully booby trap exploded as the jeep t…

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit has scheduled March 8th, 9:30 am for the oral argument in the appeal case against Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse for civil damages on war-crimes charges filed by three Tamil plaintiffs whose relatives were extra-judicially executed or unlawfully killed under the "command responsibility" of Rajapakse. "The key legal issue in this case is whether the U.S.'s Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA) deputed the Executive Branch with authority to extinguish TVPA claims against sitting heads of state based on professed foreign policy concerns," plaintiff-appellants' attorney, Bruce Fein, said. Judges Merr…

The US is sending $1 billion every year to Russia's nuclear program, despite pledging to cripple its economy with sanctions Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers speech in Moscow, Russia, on March 16, 2023. Contributor/Getty Images US companies are sending $1 billion each year to Russia's state-owned nuclear agency, despite President Joe Biden pledging to cripple Russia's economy, according to a report in …

The theme of this essay is the need for a multisided and flexible long-term approach that is free from narrow isms and prejudices in countering the threat to the rule of law, decency and democracy posed by the Rajapaksa Regime (RR). The essay distances itself from three categories of people, all good anti-RR folk, but I think tactically, strategically of psychologically a bit on the wrong track; the talk-&-write only verbal champions of democracy, the ultra-left radicals who proclaim that veedi satang (mass uprisings on the street) should be the exclusive focus, and thirdly the dispirited and pessimistic. I recognise allies and potential allies among all these fo…

media captionAerial footage shows the X-Press Pearl breaking up and sinking off Sri Lanka's western coast A chemical-laden cargo ship is sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka, sparking fears of an environmental disaster. The Singapore-registered X-Press Pearl had been on fire for almost two weeks before the blaze was put out this week. Hundreds of tonnes of oil from fuel tanks could leak into the sea if it sinks, devastating nearby marine life. The Sri Lankan and Indian navies had worked jointly over the past days in an attempt to put out the fire and prevent the ship from breaking up and sinking. …

Saturday, September 6, 2014 By Chris Slee The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought for an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east of the island of Sri Lanka. The group was formed in response to discrimination against the Tamil people by the Sri Lankan government, after peaceful protests had been repeatedly met with violent repression. It waged an armed struggle for nearly three decades. The LTTE was militarily defeated in 2009, and no longer exists. Yet people are still being penalised for alleged links with the group. This is happening in Sri Lanka, in Australia, and in other countries. In Australia, Tamils who have been officially re…

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…

Ravana is a hero for Sinhala nationalists Balachandran, Hindustan Times Colombo, September 23, 2007 \ The Ramayana is not part of the mainstream Sinhala religious and cultural tradition in Sri Lanka, because Buddhism has been the religion of the majority of Sinhalas for long. But ancient Sinhala works like Rajavaliya and Ravanavaliya identify Ravana as a Sinhala king and extol him as a great one. In modern Sri Lanka, there has been a movement to revive Ravana as a cult figure, who represents Sinhala or Sri Lankan nationalism because he was among the first in the island's history to have resisted an alien/Indian invader. Ravana…

Vijitha Herath claims JVP ideology cannot be destroyed Despite intense speculation to the contrary, JVP front-liner Vijitha Herath vehemently denies any kind of fissures within the Marxist party in a wide ranging interview with The Nation this week. By Rathindra Kuruwita Following are excerpts: Q: The Indian Prime Minister has said that he will attend the 2008 Independence Day celebrations only if a proposal to solve the ethnic conflict is presented to the President, by the APRC. What do you feel about that demand? A: India or any other country does not have the right to tell us how we should settle our internal affairs. No one can tell us how and when we sho…

Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca Published Saturday, August 31, 2019 7:28PM EDT Toronto is the safest city in North America, according to a new report on cities worldwide, which also ranks the Ontario capital as the sixth safest city overall. This year’s Safe Cities Index, a report put out by The Economist Intelligence Unit, looked at 60 cities across five different continents. The criteria for scoring was split into four major categories: digital safety, infrastructure, health and pe…