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எதிலோ அடிக்க பல்லு போன கதை தான் இது. No desecration of Nehru’s bust, it just fell off’ NEW DELHI: The Indian High Commission in London has denied that there was any desecration of the Nehru bust located just outside its visa office. There were reports earlier that LTTE sympathisers had "beheaded" the bust. "It just fell off," said M Subhashini, spokesperson for the High Commission. "The bust got separated from the pedestal. There's nothing suspicious about it at all," she told a news agency on Friday. It was alleged that Tamil protestors had vandalised the bust to show their support for the LTTE and India's "indifference" to their plight in Sri L…

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…

No jail for Swiss Tamil Tiger financiers The accused received support from some sections of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Switzerland. (Keystone) The Swiss Federal Criminal Court has given no prison terms to alleged financiers of the Sri Lankan Tamil separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). The 13 accused were either given suspended custodial sentences or acquitted. The court on Thursday said accusations of participation in and support o…

No more free school season tickets Free season tickets from school children withdrawn The Government says that the decision to withdraw free season tickets from school children is in response to public demand. Since the introduction of free season tickets we have received a lot of complaints from general public thus we decided to remove this privilege, , Deputy Minister of Transport, Lasantha Alagiyawanna told BBC Sandeshaya. In a letter circulated to local transport authorities Sri Lanka Central Transport Board (SLCTB) chairman Tudor Dayaratne says that the transport minister had directed to charge a fee when providing season tickets to students inc…

Alan Keenan 8 When I arrived last summer at the burial ceremony the ten crude wooden coffins were lined up on the concrete floor. A bare-chested Hindu priest was chanting Sanskrit verses and preparing the offerings, an assortment of freshly chopped coconuts, leaves and flowers, oil, water, and brightly colored pastes for family members to place on the coffins bearing the remains of their loved ones. As the rain gently beat on the roof of the small open-sided structure, oil lanterns of chopped coconut shells were set in front of each casket. Families began circling the coffins, sometimes joining in on the prayers, mostly remaining silent. The tears were few, though o…

No Right to Be There by Bishop Desmond Tutu, Guardian, UK, May 15, 2008 With a terrible record of torture and disappearance, Sri Lanka doesn't deserve a seat on the UN human rights council. It should be voted out. 'Comment is free' section It would seem self-evident that a country which tortures and kidnaps its own people has no place on the world's leading human rights body. Apparently not: Sri Lanka, despite repeated criticism for its human rights record, is running for re-election to the UN human rights council, with a vote to be held in New York on May 21. Governments owe it to Sri Lankan human rights victims - and to victims of human righ…

The recent impeachment of Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice, Shirani Bandaranayake, has re-focused international attention on the country. Catherine Ashton, head of the EU’s External Action Service, has expressed “considerable concern”. However, the problem with Sri Lanka runs deeper than any single case. Despite the Sri Lankan Government’s claims of progress on human rights since the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the ‘Tamil Tigers’, ended in 2009, the reality is very different. Catherine Ashton: The EU has shown “considerable concern” about the situation in Sri Lanka. For 30 years Sri Lanka was ravaged by civil war betw…

No tsunami threat from earthquake in Indian Ocean south east of SL - An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 been recorded at 2.34 am today (12) in the Indian Ocean off the South East coast of Sri Lanka, says the Department of Meteorology. The Department, however, noted that there is no tsunami threat to the island owing to the earthquake which was of 10km depth. Therefore, the coastal areas of Sri Lanka have been declared safe. The Meteorology Department mentioned that this alert was issued in consultation with relevant national and international agencies. http://www.adaderana.lk/news/60743/no-tsunami-threat-from-earthq…

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…

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Norway fails to secure deal to lift Jaffna siege. Sri Lanka's peace broker Norway has failed to secure an agreement to end a blockade on the Jaffna peninsula where nearly half a million people are trapped by fighting, officials said. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said Friday they told a Norwegian envoy to persuade the government to open the land access to the embattled north without conditions. The government had asked Jon Hanssen-Bauer to secure a deal with the Tigers to allow a convoy of some 400 trucks to travel through rebel-held territory, but the Tigers rejected a one-off convoy. Instead, the LTTE political wing leader S. P.…

OSLO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan rebel Tamil Tigers want European Union members withdrawn from a five-nation truce monitoring mission, mediator Norway said on Thursday. The EU last month listed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a banned terrorist organisation after an upsurge in violence on the Indian Ocean island. "The LTTE has informed us that individual members of the EU cannot be members of the Nordic monitoring mission," Erik Solheim, Norway's minister for international development who brokered a 2002 truce, told a news conference. ... ..... http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08062006/325/tige...ors-norway.html LTTE continues dialogue with Norwegia…

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…

Norway says Sri Lanka report on mediator is "lies" Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:45 PM IST Top News Sri Lanka assures India on power sharing with Tamils India nuclear deal likely final by May - U.S. envoy Norway says Sri Lanka report on mediator is "lies" U.S.'s Thorium Power, India in reactor talks - firm India's Christians dig deep for graveyard plot MORE COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Norwegian government has angrily rejected a report in a state-owned Sri Lankan newspaper that its peace mediator and International Development Minister Erik Solheim had given money to a top Tamil rebel leader. The Daily N…

Norwegian peace envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer at his office in the Foreign Ministry in Oslo, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006. Norway's peace envoy to Sri Lanka on Wednesday urged Tamil Tiger rebels to stop using child soldiers and said international patience with the conflict was running thin. 'There are persons under 18 years of age among the Tamil Tigers, that is true,' Jon Hanssen-Bauer told The Associated Press in an interview. (AP Photo) http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/0...2af5bca9ce76e7a

Norwegian peace initiative was fated to fail – Galtung [by Admin , Feb 02,2007] The Norwegian peace initiative was not only fated to fail but was stillborn because it had excluded other parties, says a Norwegian professor who is widely regarded as the founder of the academic discipline of peace research. Prof. Johan Galtung is the founder and director of Transcend, a peace and development network. Galtung established the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, in 1959, the Journal of Peace Research in 1964, and co-launched the Nordic Institute for Peace Research in 2000. Johan Galtung was in. Sri Lanka earlier this month to deliver a talk on the peace process. In a subs…

UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet today expressed regret over the new Sri Lankan Government’s decision to withdraw from the UN Resolution 30/1 and said she was not convinced of yet another Commission of Inquiry as domestic processes have consistently failed to deliver accountability in the past. In her oral updates and introduction to country reports of the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner at the UN Human Rights Council’s 43rd Session, Ms. Bachelet said she regretted that the new Government has announced a very different approach to the commitments previously made in the resolution. “This move risks setting back efforts to advance re…

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Leader of the Democratic Party (DP) and former Army Commander Gen. Sarath Fonseka yesterday said that depriving him of his right to exercise his franchise by the Elections Commissioner with a presidential election on the horizon demonstrated that President Mahinda Rajapaksa was scared of facing him in a presidential contest. Addressing a news conference at Kotte, the war winning general challenged President Rajapaksa to face him at the forthcoming presidential election. "The Democratic Party will not give in to the repressive action of the President and his cohorts and there are persons in our party who could garner more votes than I and we will take a dec…

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Nuclear weapons of mass destruction – an end of everything The nuclear club consists of nine nations out of which 5 (USA, Russia, UK, France and China) are internationally recognized nuclear weapons states conferred by nuclear non proliferation treaty. India, Pakistan and Israel have declined to sign the treaty and have tested their nuclear weapons. North Korea withdrew from the treat in 2003. The global nuclear disarmament campaigns are gaining momentum with many NGOs actively involved in creating a global awareness. Nuclear disarmament is not just a wish, it is a legal commitment agreed upon and signed by the five official nuclear states under the nuclear non- Prol…

Source: https://sangam.org/2010/09/Broken_Palmyra.php?uid=4061 by Sachi Sri Kantha, September 8, 2010 In Jaffna there lived four learned fools with names Soma, Sri, Rajani and Hoole Their Broken Palmyra book was filled with unpalatable muck as gossip/rumor ain’t excellent research tools. Nuda veritas is the Latin equivalent of ‘naked truth’. In the first preface (April 1988) by the authors of the Broken Palmyra, the phrase appears in the first sentence of the second paragraph. To quote, “We felt strongly that the community must revive, and to do so we must face the truth in …

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