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Sunday 03 Nov 2013 Spin the clock forward. It’s 2018. You’re four-and-a-half years older and you’ve just woken up to the headlines: more than 50 world leaders are heading to the Syrian capital, Damascus, for a global summit, hosted by President Bashar al-Assad. Syria’s at peace, it’s economy, thriving. The tourists are back and the “terrorists”, vanquished. Mr Assad is basking in golden glow of total victory. And the terrible war crimes of which he was once accused? Swept under the carpet, in the spirit of looking forward, not back. Triumphant, magnanimous, his charming wife at his side, the dictator-turned-statesman grasps the hand of the British Prime Minister, an…

Sri Lanka security forces 'raping and torturing' ahead of Commonwealth summit Human rights group urges David Cameron to use summit to demand international inquiry into disappearances A Sri Lankan activist participates in a candlelit vigil for the disappeared in August Photo: GETTY IMAGES By Dean Nelson, New Delhi 3:08PM GMT 31 Oct 2013 Sri Lanka’s security forces are still raping and torturing suspects despite the imminent arrival of David Cameron and 50 world leaders for a Commonwealth summit in the country, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. The Prime Minister and the Prince of Wales have confirmed they will both attend the gathering …

மூன்று நாட்களில் 20 மில்லியன் பார்வையாளர்களைக் கவர்ந்த நேர்காணல் : Russell Brand vs. Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight 2013 [Full Interview] பிரித்தானியாவின் ஆளும் கூட்டரசாங்கத்தின் பிரதான கட்சியான பழமைவாதக் கட்சியின் ஸ்டார்போட்ஷேர் என்ற தொகுதிக்கான பாராளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் கெட்டவார்த்தைகளால் பிரித்தானியாவின் பிரபல நகைச்சுவை நடிகர் ஒருவரை பிபிசி வானொலி நிகழ்ச்சி ஒன்றில் தூற்றினார் என்பது இன்றைய செய்தி. ரஸல் பிராண் என்ற அந்த நகைச்ச்சுவை நடிகர் செய்த தவறு என்ன? பிபிசியின் பிரபல ஊடகவியலாளர் ஜெரமி பக்ஸ்மன் உடனான நேர்காணல் குறித்து பிரித்தான அரசியல் வாதிகள் ஆத்திரமடைந்தது ஏன். யூரியூப்பில் ரஸல் பிரண்டின் நேர்காணல் 20 மில்லியன் பார்வையாளர்களை மூன்றே நாட்களில் கவர்ந்தத்து ஏன்? இது…

Humanity And Media Ethics. By - Mr. Malinda Seneviratne Mr. Malinda Seneviratne. Panel Discussion on Humanity And Media Ethics Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI)

யூலை கலவரத்தின் சூத்திரதாரி?? Sumanadasa Wijayapala 1 day ago There is an oblique ref- erence to him (p.16) as the monk who had come uninvited to the cemetery, who, that same evening, led a mob down Cotta Road, Borella, with a list in hand. He was subsequently re- ported being seen at the Cinnamon Gardens Police station, having come in a jeep with a pis- tol tucked under his robes, demanding curfew passes. Reply · Sumanadasa Wijayapala 1 day ago Black July: Alle Gunawanse – A Missing Link? Ratnatunga ascribes to Gunawanse an im- portant role in the events of July 1983. He first appears (p.12) trying to whip up the emotions of the crowd at Kanatte …

[TamilNet, Friday, 25 October 2013, 12:21 GMT] Northern Provincial Council (NPC) Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran, speaking at the inaugural session of the council on Friday, urged Colombo to confine the SL military in Jaffna to the barracks and suggested that Colombo should consider deputing its military to UN peace-keeping missions abroad. NPC will give full support for Colombo getting international assistance for the rehabilitation of the SL military into civilian life, he further said, linking the process with the rehabilitation of the LTTE cadres. In addition to usurping the right of forfeiting the independence claim of Eezham Tamils, Wigneswaran also went on record …

Sir Alex Ferguson book: David Beckham had to leave Man Utd Sir Alex Ferguson says David Beckham had to leave Manchester United because the former England captain thought he was "bigger than the manager". In his latest autobiography, Ferguson said he fell out with Beckham after criticising his performance during an FA Cup defeat by Arsenal in 2003. Play media Marriage changed Beckham - Ferguson "The minute a Manchester United player thought he was bigger than the manager, he had to go," he wrote. "David thought he was bigger than Alex Ferguson. "That was the death knell for him." Ferguson also said he had concerns about Beckham's celebrity lifestyle, following the…

A Sri Lankan Journalist Eagerly Toes the Line Kuni Takahashi for The New York Times "In the end, you gravitate to a place where the management views are in consonance with yours," Rajpal Abeynayake said. "And I have gravitated to that place.” By GARDINER HARRIS Published: October 18, 2013 FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ SAVE E-MAIL SHARE PRINT SINGLE PAGE REPRINTS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — He calls himself the Rush Limbaugh of Sri Lanka, “except I’m not as obnoxious.” His critics say he should be hanged from a lamppost. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow@nytimesworldfor international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Enlarge…

NPC Chief Minister Mr C.V. Wigneswaran has to be profusely thanked and appreciated by Tamils for his honesty in conceding that he is not a natural leader of Eezham Tamils representing their aspirations, but a planted one by New Delhi to implement the 13th Amendment. Wigneswaran’s revelation and his efforts to muffle voices in Tamil Nadu and in the diaspora have to be understood in the background of what M.K. Narayanan had told the TNA in May 2009 that, “we know better what is good for Tamils.” New Delhi simulating a leadership for the political surrender of the Tamil cause poses new challenge to Tamils all over the world, writes an activist for alternative politics in Jaf…

Sambanthan and Vigneswaren reach out to President Rajapakse by Harim Peiris Photo courtesy @PresRajapaksa On Monday 7th October, the Tamil National Alliance, the only political party in the country to have comprehensively defeated the UPFA and captured power in the Northern Province, creating the first ever opposition controlled provincial council since the Peoples’ Alliance victory in the Southern Provincial Council in 1993, which also heralded the end of UNP rule an year later, politically reached out and magnanimously decided that it’s Chief Minister designate, retired Supreme Court Justice CV Wigneswaren should take his oath of office before President Mahinda …

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 October 2013, 23:38 GMT] The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) should learn from history, and from the experience of their predecessors, on what should NOT be done, writes Tamil Nadu political activist Poonkuzhali Nedumaran in a feature sent to TamilNet this week. She cited the history of TNA’s predecessor TULF failing in upholding the responsibility it was vested with by the people in 1977, compromising with District Councils and how that triggered the Tamil youth to lose confidence in parliamentary methods. The NPC election results mean communication of a will than participation in governance. With the Eezham Tamils rejecting the polity and rule of …

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APMahinda Rajapaksa TOPICS World Sri Lankadiplomacy India-Sri Lanka politics government A recent statement by President Mahinda Rajapaksa that there will be no withdrawal of the army from the north has raised concerns about the Sri Lankan government’s intention as regards its demilitarisation. Explaining his position, the President, in his interview to Al-Jazeera, asked: “Then, if the other Provincial Councils also asked me to withdraw their army camps all over the country where can I have the army?” Ever since the ethnic war ended in 2009, different sections in the country have repeatedly raised issues of heavy militarisation in the north and east and the i…

Interview with Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 27/09/2013 Reporter: Emma Alberici The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, joins Lateline live from New York to discuss her recent week-long fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka. EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: Our guest tonight is Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She was born and raised in South Africa where she rose to become the first non-white female judge of the high court. She's also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and president of the International Criminal Tribunal fo…

Mahinda Rajapaksa, under fire over human rights in Sri Lanka, says at the U.N. General Assembly that the U.N. is being manipulated. From Moammar Kadafi's baffling fantasies to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's room-emptying rants, almost every confab of world leaders at the annual United Nations General Assembly includes speeches that make people squirm in their chairs. http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-un-odd-leaders-20130927,0,1383011.story

Dear all, I want to welcome all distinguished guests of the commonwealth to Sri Lanka- ‘the land like no other ‘ Let me first introduce the government delegation at this most important sessions. On my right is Mr Mervyn Silva- The minister of Public Relations. He is the best for this post as he has tied humans to trees in addition to hundreds of similar inhumane, uncivilised activities. He recently brought honour to Lanka by proposing to Mrs Navi Pillai, the UN human rights commissioner. We also have Mr Duminda Silva- the minister supervising defence who was accused of rape, drug connections and later shot and killed one of my presidential advisors. We have made sur…

[TamilNet, Monday, 23 September 2013, 08:23 GMT] The obsession of utmost priority for a section of TNA leadership is to satisfy the Sri Lanka saving agenda of New Delhi and Washington, by interpreting the TNA victory as supersession of the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution based mandate of 1977, political observers in Jaffna commented on a statement made by the TNA leader Mr. R. Sampanthan, aided by Mr M.A. Sumanthiran, at a press conference convened in Jaffna on Sunday. Sampanthan talking of united and undivided country described the TNA victory as a clear verdict of Tamils, unprecedented in the political history of the island. Answering a question raised by an Eezham Tamil jour…

The person who gave information to US Embassy about the EPDP ‘s child trafficking rings in Jaffna was abducted on May 07, 2009 and since then, no information has been obtained concerning him. He told US Embassy Colombo on March 26, 2007; “The children are sold into slavery, usually boys to work camps and girls to prostitution rings, through EPDP’s networks in India and Malaysia. Sunthararaj maintains that children are often smuggled out of the country with the help of a corrupt Customs and Immigration official at Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo.” Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa “Sunthararaj’s story was partially verified b…

(CNN) -- A refugee and mother of three young boys who is being held in indefinite detention in Australia has two days to convince the country's highest court why she should be freed. It's her last shot at overturning a government policy which was recently condemned by a United Nations Human Right Committee report as "cruel, inhuman and degrading." Failure will mean that Ranjini, a 34-year-old Sri Lankan refugee, will continue to be held without trial for the foreseeable future, for reasons that remain a national secret. And she's not the only one. "The core issues in Ranjini's case are common to more than 50 other refugees deemed a security risk and has serious impl…

By M. A. Sumanthiran - M A Sumanthiran ‘I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent’. Grief is the inevitable consequence of violence. The tragic and inexcusable events of Weliweriya have left its residents with unimaginable grief. Akila Dinesh Jayawardena was a 17 year-old student of Chandrajothi Vidhyalaya, Yakkala. He was killed by a soldier’s bullet as he inched through protestors searching for his mother. As his body lay at the mortuary of the Gampaha hospital on the evening of August 1, two others, Ravishan Perera and Nilantha Pushpakumara, fought for their lives. But they too did…

(Selvamalar knows her son is dead, but cannot accept the tragedy. Picture: Rante Ardiles) SHE was sold a cruel lie by the people smugglers. She would be travelling on a luxury ocean liner from Indonesia to Australia. They showed her photos of the ship that would transport her, her beautiful son and her brother to their new life in Australia. It was a superb vessel, with three storeys of cabins. "I believed them," she says. She had dreamed of nothing else but being with her husband, who had escaped to Australia four years earlier on a boat to build a new life in Perth for his wife and unborn son, their first child. He had left Sri Lanka when she was fi…

Best Untranslated Writers: Shobasakthi V. V. Ganeshananthan The Best Untranslated Writers series – in which established writers select and showcase fellow writers from their own languages who are not yet widely translated or read – began with a trio of Brazilians on the writers they love most but are yet to make the leap into English. Today V.V. Ganeshananthan introduces us to Shobaskathi, also known as Anthony X, who writes about Sri Lanka and its diaspora communities, and who was previously involved in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Shobasakthi is also known as Anthony X; he is an ex-militant; he is an expatriate. Based in France, he writes about Sri Lanka…

Affiliating Trinco university campus with Anuradhapura: civil society calls for protest [TamilNet, Thursday, 18 July 2013, 12:33 GMT] In one of the worst moves of educational genocide of Eezham Tamils, efforts are now being undertaken to affiliate the Trincomalee Campus of the Eastern University with the Rajarata University of Anuradhapura, informed sources in Trincomalee told TamilNet on Thursday. The university-level educational institutions of Tamils in Jaffna and Batticaloa, started by the missionaries in the 19th century, became secondary schools when the British rule transferring power to the Sinhalese towards its closing days, encouraged only a Colombo-centric e…