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ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. TWO. Marry a man woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other. THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want. FOUR. When you say, I love you, mean it. FIVE. When you say, I'm sorry, look the person in the eye. SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married. SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight. EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much. NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life comp…

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutional and vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday. The Humanitarian Law Project had challenged Bush's order, which blocked all the assets of groups or individuals he named as "specially designated global terrorists" after the 2001 terrorist attacks. "This law gave the president unfettered authority to create blacklists," said David Cole, a lawyer for the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Constitutional Rights that represented the group. "It was reminiscent of the McCarthy era." The case centere…

The Sri Lankan State & fascist media of the South has been systematically intimidating the SLMM and other international non-governmental organizations like the World Bank to toe their line through hate campaign, unethical reporting and misquoting from the original sources. Sri Lankan state media takes SLMM and their spokeswoman for an abusive ride in the name of "a special meeting organized by the Daily News".The news piece appeared on the 9th of June 2006 Daily News is a fine example of the state media's pathetic spin doctoring stunts. The alleged claims by Helen Olafsdottir such as "we will monitor it from Kandy if we have to" and that CFA is yet to become inv…

Sri Lanka's government says rebel attack caused more damage than previously reported The Associated PressPublished: October 23, 2007 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: A rebel attack on an air base this week caused far more damage than previously acknowledged, destroying eight aircraft, including a vital surveillance plane, Sri Lanka's prime minister said Wednesday. The admission, in a statement to parliament, came amid growing accusations from the opposition that officials lied about the destruction from Monday's pre-dawn attack on Anuradhapura air base in an effort to limit their embarrassment. The incident was likely to further damage the credibility of a gover…

A temple is not a money making machine. If Undiyalaan wants to buy three houses in London and several other properties across the world, he should get a job. Huge protest against Undiyalaan will be held with special police permission and protection. Time:: From 11 am till 1 pm Date:: Friday, 28 April 2006 Place:: Outside the Eelapatheeswarar Aalayam Limited, Union Road, Wembley, Middlesex. HA0 4AU How to get there:: Tube - Wembley Central by Metropolitan or Bakerloo, Bus - 79 - 83 - 92 - 182 - 224 Car: A406 ring road and then towards Wembley at Hangerlane or A404 Contact:: Rajan - 07751717097

Realising that our struggle has long been used by powers in their engagements with the island, we as a nation must work towards a concerted foreign policy, although we don't have State, said Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) leader Mr. Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam in an interview to TamilNet on Saturday. In meeting the challenge of achieving this, we should incorporate Tamil Nadu in creating a power centre in a geopolitical sense and the dynamics will change very quickly. Compared to the Congress, the BJP is little bit more blunt and more strident in containing the nationalist nature of the struggle. This is the carrot to the Sri Lankan State and the TNA is a co-partner. …

Two Karuna group cadres shot, injured in internal gunfight [TamilNet, Thursday, 23 November 2006, 18:17 GMT] Two cadres of Karuna paramilitary group were seriously injured in an internal fight ending in an exchange of gunfire Thursday around 3:30 p.m at Vinayagapuram in Valaichenai, Valaichenai police said. Some cadres of Kauna paramilitary group have been hiding due to differences of opinion within the group, and their opponents who had come in search of them started the firefight, the police added. The two injured in the gun fight were admitted at Polanaruwa hospital. The firefight lasted nearly 30 minutes, police said. http://www.tamilnet.com/a…

Ruling Sri Lanka is a family affair template_bas template_bas The four Rajapakse brothers occupy the most powerful jobs, and critics are incensed. By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 25, 2007 COLOMBO, SRI LANKA -- The Rajapakse family business is virtually everyone's business on this island. That's because the family's line of work is running the country -- and fighting a civil war, to boot. Between them, the four Rajapakse brothers occupy the most powerful jobs in Sri Lanka's democratically elected government, including the biggest plum of all: the presidency. Indeed, by appointing his siblings to key posts, President Mahinda Rajap…

Sukanyan a young musical composer from Hindu joins A.R.Rahman's Academy Posted on: 09/03/2014 (Sunday) Sukanyan Sunthareswaran (2011 A/L Bio) is a young, budding musician who has chosen a career in music, which is rare in our society. His passion for music from school days led him to choose music as a career. He is currently studying at Dr.A.R.Rahman's KM Music Conservatory. Even before coming to KM, he has composed music for more than 16 commercial adverts, 4 documentary films, 3 short films, 7 singles, and an album. Sukanyan’s passion for music started from his school days, and it was encouraged and flamed b…

சற்று முன்னர் டெய்லிமிரர் ஆங்கிலப்பத்திரிகையில் வந்த செய்தி.... Air Force today claimed that their fighter jets bombed a LTTE training base in Kollanwillu in Killinochchi-Mannar divisional boarder. Pilots had confirmed that the targets were accurately attacked. http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections...spx?ARTID=14753

As Sri Lanka's government is named by Human Rights Watch (HRW) as one of the world's worst perpetrators of enforced disappearances, the father of someone who disappeared tells his story to the BBC. Jude (not his real name) is a young Tamil man who disappeared in the north of Sri Lanka in February 2007. Ever since then, his family have been desperately searching for any clue to what might have happened to him. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My son has been missing for one year. We have been searching for him for all over the place. We never really stop looking. One day he just failed to come ho…

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".…

TNA MPs to join govt. claims Minister President Mahinda Rajapakse at an all party conference meeting Four Tamil National Alliance MPs are among those who have shown interest in joining the government, senior minister claims. Defence affairs spokesman, minister Keheliya Rambukwella said discussions are on between the government and some 18 members of the UNP who are willing to join the government. "These UNP parliamentarians have shown interest to assist the president", he said. Even Sri Lanka Muslim Congress(SLMC) has openly said they would join the ruling party. "These are the information I have and results of these discussions could be seen wi…

Tamil Tigers in Britain Burning less bright? Jun 12th 2008 From The Economist print edition Lean times for the Sri Lankan separatists. But Tamils are flourishing TERRORISM normally makes front-page news in Britain, so it was odd that the four Asian men charged with terrorist offences last month scarcely made the papers. The charge-sheet explains why: the men bundled out of their homes at dawn are suspected of procuring equipment for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a rebel group that has fought a decades-long civil war against the Sri Lankan state and is now banned in Britain. The police took pains to emphasise that there was no link to al-Qaeda; afte…

CANADA PARTICIPATES IN OVERSEEING SRI LANKAN PROCESS TO INVESTIGATE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS http://w01.international.gc.ca/minpub/Publ...mp;docnumber=12 The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, today announced the nomination of Professor Bruce Matthews to join the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP), which will monitor the Sri Lankan Commission of Inquiry into recent human rights violations in that country. “I am encouraged by the Sri Lankan President’s initiative to invite foreign experts to participate as observers of the inquiry into allegations of huma…

AT 8 A.M. on December 11, 2015, Rosemarie Junor walked through the doors of Medcan, the private medical clinic at York and Adelaide where she worked. As always, her makeup and nail polish were perfectly applied, her dark hair carefully styled. Junor was the youngest of four children born to immigrant parents—her father was Trinidadian, her mother Guyanese—and she was the family’s high achiever. She had started at Medcan in 2011 as a secretary; three years later, she was promoted to co-ordinator of an ultrasound test that screens for early signs of plaque buildup in the carotid artery, the only employee qualified to operate the machine. Junor cared deeply about her work. S…

100 HEALTHY TIPS 1.Set a goal of trying one new fruit or vegetable every week 2.Keep a bowl of fruit on your desk at work 3.Switch from ice cream to frozen yogurt 4.Substitute sweet potatoes for regular baked potatoes or fries. You'll get more Vitamin A. 5.Get more fiber. Add canned beans or a handful of nuts to your salad. 6.Take the stairs, not the elevator. 7.Don't e-mail your office mate. Walk down the hall and deliver the message personally. 8.Get a dog. Commit to walking 10 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes at night. 9.Buy a soccer ball. Kick it with your kids or a neighbor. 10.Buy shoes at the end of the day when your feet…

The antics of Tamil Diaspora including its latest trump card, the controversial British TV Channel 4 seem to have succeeded in precipitating a chain reaction in fostering hatred in Tamil Nadu against Sri Lanka, shortly after the photographs of alleged killing of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s son were telecast on a TV programme a few weeks ago. The Tamil cause was taken up by students in Tamil Nadu who first started actively protesting in rallies which their police tried to settle amicably, but when some students were locked up and assaulted, the situation escalated and has resulted in the locking out of some of our cricketers from 10 IPL matches to be p…

Sri Lanka rebels say battle army in no-man's land 23 Nov 2006 04:07:57 GMT Source: Reuters COLOMBO, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers said on Thursday they were engaged in fierce fighting with the army in no-man's land in the island's restive east, with government troops with tanks trying to breach their defence lines. "There is an intense confrontation going on," Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) military spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan told Reuters by telephone from the rebels' northern stronghold. The military said it had no details of any confrontation in the east. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL98914.htm

UN, Sri Lanka should cooperate on human rights, High Commissioner says Louise Arbour 15 October 2007 – Citing ongoing reports of abuses in Sri Lanka, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who has just wrapped up a visit to the country, called for UN-Government cooperation to address the problem. “There is a large number of reported killings, abductions and disappearances which remain unresolved. This is particularly worrying in a country that has had a long, traumatic experience of unresolved disappearances and no shortage of recommendations from past Commissions of Inquiry on how to safeguard against such violations,” Louise Arbour said …

From : USA <trotamil@yahoo.com> Reply-To : USA <trotamil@yahoo.com> Sent : February 1, 2006 1:21:18 AM To : narmatha34@hotmail.com Subject : Urgent appeals to Denmark Tamil community appeals for the release of abducted humanitarian aid workers The Tamil community from the world over joined a chorus of voices calling for the immediate release of ten (10) employees of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO), who were abducted by 'government backed' paramilitaries on Tuesday, 31 January 2006, in eastern Sri Lanka. The TRO is a registered including most of the European and Scandinavian Country as a Non-Governm…

Intriguing role for Australian 'auntie' as Tigers enter new phase SYDNEY this week saw a gathering of notables from the Australian expatriate diaspora, mostly suits from the worlds of satellite TV, finance, science and open-fridge diplomacy. Across the world, in a much stranger story of personal development, the reverence of a foreign people for another Australian expat was on display. Dressed in the white sari of Hindu widowhood, the former Gippsland nurse Adele Wilby was chief mourner as 50,000 people filed past the open coffin of her husband of 28 years, Anton Balasingham, in London's Alexandra Palace Hall on Wednesday. Balasingham, who had died a w…

பகத்சிங்கின் கடைசிக் கடிதம் 1930 அக்டோபர் 7ம் நாள் விதிக்கப்பட்ட தூக்குத்தண்டனையை எதிர் கொள்ள தீரமுடம் காத்திருந்தனர் புரட்சியாளர்கள் மூவரும். ஆனால் அவர்கள் விடுதலை செய்யப்பட வேண்டும் என்று இந்திய நாடே ஒருமித்த குரலில் கோரிக்கை எழுப்பியது. லட்சக்கணக்கான கையெழுத்துகள் கொண்ட மனுக்கள் பிரிட்டிஷ் அரசாங்கத்திற்கு வந்து குவிந்தன. அநேகம் பேர் இரத்தத்தினாலும் கையெழுத்திட்டு அனுப்பியிருந்தனர். அப்போது காந்தியடிகளுக்கும் வைஸ்ராய் இர்வினுக்கும் இடையே எட்டப்படவிருந்த காந்தி - இர்வின் ஒப்பந்தத்திற்கான பேச்சுவார்த்தைகள் நடந்து கொண்டிருந்தன. எனவே ஒப்பந்தத்தின் நிபந்தனைகளில் ஒன்றாக பகத்சிங், ராஜகுரு சுகதேவ் ஆகிய மூவரின் தூக்குத் தண்டனையை ஆயுள் தண்டனையாக…

“His name is Kamaleswaran” MARISA DE SILVA Justice Denied to Survivors of the Kumarapuram Massacre Featured image courtesy Shehan Peruma “Shoot me but, please don’t kill my children,” pleaded Kanthappoody Kamaladevi with her arms outstretched over her head, just before she was shot dead outside her home in Kumarapuram, Killiveddy, by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA). L-R (first row): Alakuthurai Parameshwari, Ananthan Annamam, Arumaiththurau Vallippillai, Arumaithura Thanaledsum…

By S. I. Keethaponcalan – Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) emerged as the chief political entity representing the Tamil community in Sri Lanka with the downfall of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. Despite the lack of meaningful political achievements in the last six years, the party seems to be gaining more acceptance within the Tamil community. This is evident from the fact that in the last general election, the party managed to increase its parliamentary representation by two more seats. Therefore, the developments and/or issues within the party have the capacity to impact the int…