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எனக்கு மின் அஞ்சலில் வந்த செய்தி. TO ALL FUTURE RAJAPAKSA'S AIYOOO RAJAPAKSA by our corr. Iqbal Athas Rajapaksa (in hiding, somewhere in Rajapaksapura, Sri Rajapaksistan 20-09-2007) Today there was total confusion in Sri Rajapaksistan (formerly Sri Lanka) when thousands and thousands of people changed their name to 'Rajapaksa' to get appointed as a Member of Parliament or even to get a job. 'Aiyo! It is total confusion' said a man called Rajapaksa 'Everyone is changing their name to Rajapaksa! This is mad! The telephone directory is now full of Rajapaksas. Even Abdul Gafoor of the Thambi Kade now goes by the name …

இந்த வழக்கை இன்று ABC Radioல் கேட்கும் வரை தெரியாது Australian Aboriginal குடிமக்களை கூட அரசாங்கத்தால் நாடு கடத்தலாம் என்று.. “Alien” Law என்பது யாருக்கு இந்த நாட்டில் பொருந்தும்? அவர்களுடைய பூமியில் இருந்து கொண்டு அவர்களையே Alien என கூறலாமா? High Court rules Aboriginal people cannot be deported for criminal convictions, cannot be 'alien' to Australia By Elizabeth Byrne and Josh Robertson Posted 11hhours ago, updated 4hhours ago Brendan Thoms reunited with this father Robert after he was released from immigration detention.(ABC News: Rachel Riga) An Aboriginal man who spent 500…

Press release No.: 78/06 Date: 08.06.06 Norway profoundly concerned with grave situation in Sri Lanka The grave situation in Sri Lanka, with escalating violence in breach of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA), is intolerable for the civilian population and a cause of great concern to the international community. As expressed in no uncertain terms by the Tokyo Co-Chairs in their statement of 30 May, the full responsibility for halting violence and giving the peace process a new start, rests with the parties. The Royal Norwegian Government regrets that it was not possible to hold the foreseen and much needed meeting between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL…

கடந்த மாதம் இவர்களுடைய போனஸை குறைத்து Rio Tinto’s non-executive board director வெளியிட்ட அறிக்கையில் “ கடந்த தசாப்தங்களின் வழியாக வந்த நடைமுறைகளின் தவறு என்பதால்தான் தலைமைப்பொறுப்பதிகாரிகளை பதவியிலிருந்து நீக்கப்படவில்லை என்று.. அதே நேரம் இந்த தீர்மானத்தைப்பற்றி Brynn O’Brien, (executive director of the shareholder action group, the Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility) கூறியிருந்தார் இந்த நிறுவனங்கள் செயற்படும் கலாச்சாரம், நம்பிக்கையை கட்டியெழுப்புதல், பொறுப்புகூறலில் மாற்றம் வராவிட்டால் பங்குதாரர்களின் கேள்விகளுக்கு பதிலளிக்கவேண்டிவரும் என்று.. இன்று அதன் தாக்கம் தெரிகிறது BUSINESS Rio Tinto CEO, top executives resign amid cave blast crisis …

Convoy dispatched to eastern Sri Lanka with milk powder and medical supplies Monday, November 20, 2006, 12:19 GMT, Nov 20, Colombo: A convoy of 14 vehicles carrying milk powder and medical supplies along with five ambulances left the Kadjuwatte road block yesterday under the coordination of the Sri Lankan security forces. The convoy is headed towards LTTE-held Vakarai in eastern Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government’s Media Center for National Security said, “Fifteen organizations along with ICRC [international Committee of the Red Cross] and UNICEF had initiated these relief measures to bring trapped civilians to cleared areas from Vakarai and to take 63 s…

COLOMBO, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is among the most dangerous places on earth for humanitarian workers, the UN's aid chief says, calling on the government to probe civil war abuses and consider an international rights monitoring mission. Aid agencies say 34 humanitarian staff have been killed in Sri Lanka since January 2006, including 17 local staff of Action Contre La Faim shot dead in the restive northeast a year ago in a massacre Nordic truce monitors blamed on security forces. "There is a concern ... about the safety of humanitarian workers themselves and the record here is one of the worst in the world from that point of view," John Holmes, UN Under Secr…

Statement of Robert Blake before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during confirmation hearings as US ambassador to Sri Lanka, June 15, 2006 My challenge, if I am confirmed, will be to work with all legitimate political entities in Sri Lanka towards a durable peace, to show that peace and prosperity for all Sri Lankans are fundamental, interlinked goals. Peace provides the foundation for prosperity, which in turn demonstrates the benefits of peace and builds support for it. To reach these twin goals, the parties must be convinced that peace negotiations are the only way forward, that there can be no military solution to this conflict. Mr. Chairman and …

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Are Sampur Tamils children of a lesser god? By D.B.S. Jeyaraj President Mahendra Percy Rajapakse received thunderous applause from party delegates on September 4th during the 55th session of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in Colombo when he announced that the security forces had re-taken the Tamil majority town of Sampur in the Muttur East division of Trincomalee District. Raja-pakse said: "Our armed forces have captured Sampur for the welfare and benefit of the people living there." While most sections of the media projected the Sampur victory as a militaristic success over theLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) some analysts complimented Rajapakse on …

The much expected moves to weaken and ultimately topple Sinhala Nationalist Rajapakse government is well and truly underway under the auspice of the International Community (read USA and India). A partnership with the traditional pro-Western UNP is very much expected along with the help of few other fringe political groups like CWC whose leadership is remote controlled by the policy makers across the Palk-straight. It’s also fair to expect the Muslim polity and the labour unions to rattle when they are instructed to do so by their handlers. To the eyes of the ordinary people, the unexpected players who are already active yet almost invisible are the elements within t…

India should lift ban on LTTE, says Kuldip Nayar PK Balachandran Colombo, November 2, 2006 Kuldip Nayar, the noted Indian journalist and head of the Indian Peace Mission to Sri Lanka said in Colombo on Thursday, that India should lift the ban on the LTTE and engage it politically in order to bring lasting peace to war-torn Sri Lanka. "I am of the view that the ban should be lifted," Nayar said when newsmen asked him how India could play a constructive role in the Sri Lankan conflict if it was barred from interacting with one of the two parties in the conflict - the LTTE - because that group was banned in India. Nayar went on to say that banning organ…

The Romans had a saying: Mole ruit sua. It falls of its own bigness. They knew a thing or two about Empire, over-extension abroad and decay at home. Apparently, Americans are still learning. Hence, we're shocked by a 9/11 event, the devastation wrought by Katrina, the collapse of a bridge over the Mississippi. We don't understand how our health care system could have deteriorated into the "Sicko" joke of the developed world - and to be a lot less efficient and fair than systems in much poorer countries (Cuba, Venezuela, Costa Rica, for example). Within a few decades, how did we go from putting men on the moon to a nation whose cars can't compete with Japan and Germ…

LONDON (Reuters) - Reuters named a new chief photographer for the Middle East on Thursday and said it had tightened its editing procedures after the publication last year of two photographs that had been digitally altered. The measures were among several steps announced by David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief of the global news and information agency, following an internal investigation that he said had resulted in disciplinary action. The two photos, both of Israeli military action in Lebanon during the war there last August, were taken by a freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj. Reuters ended its relationship with Hajj following an initial inquiry soon after b…

U.S. shouldn't help Sri Lanka regime with our tax dollars editorials BY AHILAN SIVAGANESAN If you think Naziism or apartheid are long gone, you would do well to continue reading. Last month in Sri Lanka, 500 Tamils were forcibly evicted by police from the capital city of Colombo. They, along with 300 others who were detained, either lived in the capital or had been visiting for reasons including medical treatment. The police chief's explanation: ethnic minority Tamils cannot stay in the capital "without a valid reason." "Police didn't listen to us. They tried to beat us, they where scolding and they put us into the vehicles," explained a 54-year old m…

Security beefed up in Moneragala [TamilNet, Thursday, 07 February 2008, 01:12 GMT] Local officials have intensified security measures in the plantation sector in Moneragala, Buttala and Wokkapitiya following recent bomb blasts in these areas, residents said. Tension and fear still prevails in Moneragala district, civil society sources said. Stringent security measures were implemented after key officials in the province including A.N.Muthulingam, Vice president of Moneragala district Pradeshiya Sabha, Vijitha Muni Soyza, Chief Minister (CM) of Uva Province and the Superintendent of Police (SP) in charge of the security of the district were notified of the feelin…

Bill Gates will never be the same The aura that Gates built over the past two decades may be permanently shattered. By Theodore Schleifer@teddyschleifer May 18, 2021, 10:55am EDT Bill Gates is mired in deep scandal, after decades of bolstering his philanthropic image. Indraneel Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images For decades, Bill Gates has traveled the globe as near-royalty, knighted by Queen Elizabeth and draped in medals by President Barack Obama. And for the last year, the once pugnacious Microsoft founder has reinvented himself as one of America’s clearest, most humane voices on the Covid-19 pandemic. …

WHEN JOHN Britto, 19, saw No War Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, a documentary produced by the UK-based Channel 4 exposing alleged war crimes by the Sri Lankan Army during the 2009 crackdown on the LTTE, he felt the need to protest against the atrocities. “I was shocked by images depicting the coldblooded killing of 12-year-old Balachandran, the son of the slain LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran,” says Britto, a student of Loyola College, Chennai. So when Britto and his friends saw the draft of the US-backed UN resolution on Sri Lanka, they were outraged by the mild language censuring the island nation, despite the UN itself claiming that more than 40,000 Tamil…

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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) forces thwartted a pre-dawn attempt by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers and paramilitary cadres of Karuna group from Chenkalady Black Bridge SLA camp in Batticaloa district Wednesday around 3:30 a.m, to advance into Koduvamadu area in LTTE held territory in Batticaloa, sources in Batticaloa said. LTTE recovered the bodies of two paramilitary members killed in the retaliation besides eight T-56 rifles, unconfirmed sources in Batticaloa said. The four injured paramilitary members were first rushed to Chenkalady hospital and later transferred to Batticaloa Teaching hospital. They were identified as Thutchan, Varman, Nesan …

BREAKING NEWS Pandemonium at Colombo peace rally [TamilNet, August 17, 2006 12:18 GMT] There was pandemonium in the peace rally organized by the National Anti-War Front (NAWF) held Thursday evening at Viharamahadevi Park when a group of members of the National Bhikku Front (NBF) arrived at the site carrying a banner asking the organizers of the NAWF to proceed to Killinochchi to preach peace, sources said. NBF activists thereafter climbed the stage and started shouting at the organizers of the peace rally. Mr.Mervyn Silva, Deputy Minister was on his feet when pandemonium reigned. At that time about two hundred personalities including parliamentarians, ministe…

Colombo: In a significant move coinciding with the visit of a top US official probing war crimes, American embassy here today posted pictures of places where civilians had died allegedly during Sri Lanka's final war against rebel Tamil Tigers four years ago. The US embassy's official Twitter handle uploaded a photo with a caption saying, "St Anthany's Ground-site of Jan 2009 killing of hundreds of families by (Lankan) army shelling". Sri Lanka had for long dismissed accusations that army had fired shells at civilian locations. In May 2009, Sri Lankan military had defeated the Tamil Tiger rebels. Colombo has resisted calls to probe claims that over 40,000 …

Maya Arulpragasam known as M.I.A. Biggest thing in Asian Female Hip Hop. Read about her and see her new music video Bird Flu. Click Here To See The Music Video http://www.voicetamil.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=59 Hailing from Sri Lanka via London, M.I.A. is Maya Arulpragasam. Her early underground singles, ‘Galang’ and ‘Sunshowers’, shocked listeners with sharp lyrics about urban unease thrown on top of raw beats you could dance to, and in late 2004, as she finished her debut album for XL Recordings, she released a hip-hop style promotional mixtape showcasing her distinctive vocal style and quirky rapping over dan…

A bloodied childhood in war-torn Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Tamil poet and journalist Theepachelvan Pratheepan shares the experiences of his petrified childhood days spent in the war-torn island nation withRediff.com’s Shobha Warrier. He was born when the ethnic conflict and the war broke out in 1983 in Sri Lanka. He grew up listening to fighter planes hovering over his head and watching men, women and children walking hundreds of kilometres in search of safety. There had to be an outpouring of the troubled mind that saw blood, gore, hatred and killings all around him. He became a poet, a journalist and an essayist. What he went through in life may not be understood by m…

Thailand has started sending Hmong asylum seekers back to neighbouring Laos, where they fear political persecution. Twelve Hmong were removed from a camp in Thailand's Petchabun province on Thursday. The camp is estimated to hold nearly 8,000 Hmong from Laos, most of whom say they fear for their safety in their communist homeland. Aid agency witnesses say they were sent back against their will, but Thailand insists they went voluntarily. The deportations began as Samak Sundaravej, the new Thai prime minister, made his first official visit to Laos on Friday to discuss energy deals as well as the fate of thousands of Hmong. Under a Laos-Thai repa…

The Rediff Interview/AIADMK senior leader K Kalimuthu 'Amma wants unity of all Tamils' March 17, 2006 When Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief Vaiko inked a poll pact with J Jayalalithaa, K Kalimuthu was in a hospital bed. But it was the former Tamil Nadu Assembly speaker and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam presidium chairman who openly invited Vaiko to sever ties with the seven-party Democratic Progressive Alliance led by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and join the AIADMK fold. He is also the only member of the AIADMK who speaks to the press. Vaiko ditches DMK, takes 35 seats from Jaya Back at his official residence and still recup…