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Tamils and the difference between immigrants and refugees By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun August 28, 2010 A common refrain regarding the arrival of the Tamil refugees aboard the MV Sun Sea is that they have "jumped the queue" and taken the place of "legitimate" immigrants who await entry to Canada. The accusation is emotive but it is just plain wrong. Immigrants and refugees are entirely different groups. Each has its own stringent set of rules for admission to Canada. Immigrants are people who want to come to Canada and have the opportunity to meet with officials at a Canadian embassy and apply under the criteria established by law. They must me…

President Loses His Cool What could be bugging Mahinda Rajapaksa? By Munza Mushtaq in Kandy President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been known for his friendly and supposedly down to earth nature, but during a meeting with representatives of several English and Tamil language newspapers, his usually charming traits made a quick vanishing act as journalists prodded him with questions resulting in the President replying the journalists in the most unfriendliest of tones. Probably due to election stress, the President who in the past was often known to greet journalists individually when invited for similar meetings, neglected his usual greeting style except for a n…

Tamil party implicated in Raviraj shooting November 16th, 2006 [TransCUrrents News Service] Police sleuths investigating the assassination of Jaffna district Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviiraj have uncovered evidence that implicates a Tamil Political Party with links to the Government in the daylight murder. The motor cycle used by the assassins to get away from the scene of crime was last registered in the name of a prominent member of this party. The vehicle was bought from a garage in Tangalle in the Hambantota district. The deal was arranged by a military deserter also from Tangalle. At least five persons from Tangalle have been taken in for question…

By Nirmala Kannangara Controversy surrounds over how an owner of a small telecommunication centre became a millionaire within a short span of six years. Complaints have been lodged recently with the Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption against the leader of the National Freedom Front and former Minister of Housing and Construction Wimal Weerawansa. After the complaint was lodged, startling revelations have come out how Weerawansa is enjoying a super luxury life and questions have been raised as to how the former minister accumulated such a vast wealth within no time when his sole income was the ministerial salary and the other perks a government minister is e…

Sri Lanka And The US: A Pogrom And A Black Death At The Hands Of A White Policeman: Salutary Lessons Lionel Bopage on 06/20/2020 The Scene The morning of July the 25th 1983 is etched in my brain. I saw a group of people running or walking very fast away from the environs of Colombo. On enquiring I found they had shut up their shops and were escaping the riots that were taking place. Later in the day I saw the suburbs of Borella and Maradana ablaze. I witnessed mobs looting and burning properties belonging to Tamils and assaulting the inhabitants of those properties with impunity. Lorries a…

2014 01 01 For New Democrats, standing in solidarity with Canadians of Tamil heritage on matters of human rights is part of our shared values as Canadians. I recently arrived in Sri Lanka to visit my extended family and visit the places that were once home for me, during the earlier stages of my life and the civil war in Sri Lanka; but was subject to political intimidation. I was warned I could be subject to arrest and deportation, as several commonwealth MPs from New Zealand and Australia recently faced. I have received word from the Canadian High Commission in Colombo that the Sri Lankan authorities have confirmed that their previous claims of an arrest warr…

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பொழுதுபோகாவிட்டால் இதையும் செய்து பாருங்கள்.. Time to get crafty while in quarantine. BY MARINA LIAO APR 10, 2020 Right when we've exhausted all the ways to keep ourselves busy during self-quarantine—baking banana bread, completing puzzles, trying viral TikTok dances, even growing our own scallions in water—another form of entertainment has popped up. (No it's not a new TV show, although, personally, I've been binge-watching a lot of K-dramas lately.) The creative and new challenge is coming from fashion house Alexander McQueen. The brand has put out a call for everyone to create a three-dimensional flower using any materials they can find in their o…

[size=4][size=6]’There would be replacement of every dead LTTE cadre as long as the idea of Eelam remained’[/size][/size] [size=4][size=5]“There would be prompt replacement of every dead LTTE cadre or leader as long as the idea of Eelam remained,” Brigadier (retd) Ravi Palsokar quotes Lt Gen AS Kalkat, who commandeered the IPKF in Sri Lanka as having said, in ‘Ours Not to Reason Why’.[/size][/size] [size=4][size=5]Pune-based Palsokar, who raises questions on the operational goals of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) 25 years after it was sent to Sri Lanka as part of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord (ISLA) comments, “Do I detect a hint of exasperation and frustrati…

What’s Behind Resignation Of Pope? | by John Newland and Claudio Lavanga, NBC News When the next Papal Conclave meets to replace the retiring Pope Benedict XVI, the United States will have an unprecedented voice in the process. Franco Origlia / Getty Images, file Wisconsin native James Harvey, right, was amongh six new cardinals installed during a ceremony on Nov. 24. Eleven cardinal electors, almost 10 percent of the Conclave, will be Americans -- the largest share the country has ever had, even though it has historically had a large Catholic population. The retiring pope gets credit for the greater influence of the U.S. Last year, he …

INTERVIEW-Rescued sex slave writes to Indian PM with plea to free others "There were many girls like me there. I didn't see any of them escape or leave" By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI, Aug 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 29-year-old Indian woman who was sold into sexual slavery as a teenager has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to rescue hundreds of thousands of other girls who are trapped in brothels and raped daily. In a two-page letter written in Hindi, the woman - who identifies herself as Tavi - described how she was duped and trafficked to a brothel in …

World Bank, ADB, UN representatives to meet LTTE Political Head [TamilNet, January 31, 2006 01:21 GMT] Representatives of multilateral donor agencies, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP and IMF, will travel to Kilinochchi on Friday to discuss with the leadership of the Liberation Tigers issues related to the rehabilitation, reconstruction and development activities in the NorthEast, according to LTTE officials in Kilinochchi. Mr. Peter Harrold from World Bank, Mr. Alessandro Pio from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Mr. Jeff Taft-Dick, acting UN Coordinator, and Mr. Mr. Luis Valdivieso, representing IMF, are scheduled to meet Political Head of the Libera…

Wakely Paul's letter to the UN Secretary General May 18 2006 The Secretary General, United Nations, NY, NY 10017 Sir, I write regarding the shocking possibility of Mr Jayantha Dhanapala, a representative of the Government of SRI LANKA, being considered as a candidate to succeed you as Secretary General. of this very august organization. Sri Lanka has for years been ruled by governments that have violated every concept of democracy. They have discriminated against the Tamils to such an extent, that the Tamils now have their own independent regime in a region of the Northeast of the island known as the Vanni. In short, there is no such entity a…

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Sri Lanka Govt is Trying to Undermine My Credibility - Allan Rock [by Admin , Jan 29,2007] Former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations and Windsor lawyer Allan Rock says the Sri Lankan government is trying to undermine his credibility with an apparent smear campaign as he prepares to present a report to the UN on child soldiers in the war-torn country. Rock travelled to Sri Lanka in November on behalf of the UN's special representative on child soldiers to meet with militia leaders, government officials and families of children who were abducted and forced to fight on the front lines. The former federal cabinet minister said his find…

Tamil homeland fantasy By Bernard Goonetilleke February 17, 2008 The conflict in Sri Lanka is inextricably linked with the demand for secession, deceptively designed to wrench the sympathy of the international community. Last month, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), urged the United Nations to recognize "Tamil sovereignty" and end the conflict in Sri Lanka. The international community must be told that, beneath a plausible veneer, the demand for a separate state for Tamils of Sri Lanka is rooted in fiction. There never was at any time in Sri Lankan history "a traditional Tamil homeland" in the north and east of Sri Lanka, as claimed by the LTTE. …

A political grouping pushing for devolution of power to the provinces yesterday estimated the number of LTTE cadres killed during eelam war IV at 15,000. Dr. Wickremabahu Karunaratne, of the Nava Samasamaja Party (NSSP), claimed that they were among 150,000 persons that perished in the war (July 2006 to May 2009). Karunaratne was responding to a query by The Island, at a media briefing called by former Deputy Mayor of the CMC, Azath Sally at No 122, Barnes Place, Colombo 7. Sally was acting on behalf of recently formed Muslim-Tamil National Alliance. Karunaratne lambasted President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government for subjecting Tamil speaking people to military op…

பொதுவாக நீங்கள் எத்தனை சொற்களைப் பயன்படுத்தினாலும், ஒரு குறிப்பிட்டளவு சதவீத தொடர்பாடல், சொற்களற்ற செயல்கள் உதாரணமாக - முகபாவங்கள் மற்றும் உடல் மொழி போன்றவற்றின் மூலம் வருகிறது. ஆனால் இதுவே ஒரு புற உலக சிந்தனைகுறைபாடுடையவர்/மன இறுக்கம் கொண்டவராக இருந்தால், இந்த சொற்கள் அல்லாத தகவல்தொடர்புகளின் பல அம்சங்களுடன் போராடவேண்டியிருக்கும்.. Being autistic may amount to a language difference — not an impairment For the neurodivergent, a study on autism and communication is reaffirming some lifelong feelings Matthew Rozsa Experts generally agree that, no matter how many words you use, a large percentage of communication comes via nonverbal actions — facial …

On Nov. 27, the Tamil people of Sri Lanka celebrated Heroes Day. It is the day when the first fighter of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lost his life in combat in 1982—a day dedicated to the memory of all Tamils who have died fighting for the right to self-determination. During his annual Heroes Day speech, Velupillai Prabhakaran, LTTE founder and leader, declared the Norway-mediated peace process between the Sri Lanka government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam “defunct.” For all intents and purposes, peace has been defunct ever since Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, chose to intensify military action despite the ongoing peace talks. …

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Dr. Rajan Hoole Border Aggression and Civilian Massacres – Part 5 As for the Israeli engagement and what it entailed, much valuable information is ob- tainable from By Way of Deception by Viktor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy, which was published in 1990, and the proceedings and report of the Mossad Commission in this country the following year, provoked by the same book. The book was written by the Canadian journalist Claire Hoy on the basis of information Ostrovsky had gathered while serving in the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad from 1983 to 1986, before quitting and flying off to Canada. It caused a sensation in Sri Lanka because of its references to purpo…

Newly sworn-in SL President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has denounced the existence of Eezham Tamils as a nation in the North and the East of the island. The wartime genocidaire Defense Secretary wants Tamils to become ‘Sri Lankans’ capitulating to the Sinhala Mahawansa doctrine, which possesses the requisite intent for Tamil genocide. The Tamils and their political leaders must unambiguously state now that there would be no engagement with genocidaire SL President and the SL State unless he openly and publicly declares Eezham Tamils as a nation entitled to the right of self-determination. The foreign state actors upholding the engagement paradigm are ultimately responsible for th…

China says will not allow outsiders to interfere in Sri Lanka’s internal matters Tuesday January 14, 2020 16:54:09 ECONOMYNEXT – China will not allow outside influences to interfere in Sri Lanka internal concerns, visiting foreign minister Wang Yi had said at a meeting with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. “As Sri Lanka’s strategic partner China will continue to standby Sri Lanka’s interests,” Minister Yi was quoted as saying in a statement by President Rajapaksa’s office …