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Status of children in Tamil homeland before and after the CFA The slide show presentation below was among the documents that were handed by the Child Protection Authority to the visiting Ambassador Allan Rock during their meeting in Kilinochchi on 10 November. Ambassador Allan Rock is the Special Advisor to the Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict to the UN Secretary General. Slide show on the status of children in the Tamil homeland before and after the CFA: The slide show presents the status of the children along the four of the five axes that the Ambassador was studying namely, Children killed and maimed Schools destroyed Ho…

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 A demonstration was held by Colombo’s Fort Railway Station on the 19th of September to highlight the fact that it had been 200 days since Jeyakumari was detained and to call for her release: It received coverage in the Hindu, Lanka Focus, and in Vikalpa (and again). Appallingly no mainstream Sri Lankan media covered the event. Several senior members of opposition political parties and civil society were in attendance, including: Gajen Ponnambalam – President, Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) Siritunga Jayasuriya – General Secretary, United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka) M.A. Sumanthiran – MP, Tamil National Alliance (TNA)…

http://youtu.be/TzKAep8Ybb8 Normally all you get after falling for a prank is a sore ego and sprinkle of humiliation. However, one lucky woman ended up with a £25,000 BMW saloon. MORE: Rihanna gives Jimmy Kimmel a rude awakening with spectacular April Fool’s prank Tianna Marsh from Auckland in New Zealand had spotted the fake advert for a free BMW on the front page of the New Zealand Herald. It turned out to be a double bluff allowing her to handover her 15-year-old Nissan Avenir in return for the black car advertised. Woman gets brand new BMW for falling for April Fools' Day prank Let’s partay! Ms Marsh spoke of her experience: ‘We thought…

[size=4]Texas to open fastest US highway with 85 mph limit[/size] AUSTIN, Texas — Texas will soon open a stretch of highway with the highest speed limit in the country, giving eager drivers a chance to rip through a trip between two of the state's largest metropolitan areas. The Texas Transportation Commission has approved a speed limit of 85 mph for a 41-mile toll road several miles east of the increasingly crowded Interstate 35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio. "I would love it," Austin resident Alan Guckian said. "Sometimes it's fun to just open it up." But while some drivers will want to test their horsepower and radar detectors, oth…

India 'has most people with HIV' Prevention strategies are having some effect in India India now has more people living with HIV than any other country, a UNAIDS report has revealed. The report shows that India now accounts for two-thirds of HIV cases in the whole of Asia. An estimated 5.7 million Indians were infected by the end of 2005, overtaking the 5.5 million cases estimated in South Africa. However, While 18.8% of South African adults were living with HIV, the figure in India was 0.9%. Estimates of total deaths in India since Aids was first identified in 1981 range from 270,000 to 680,000. Most of the infections there were caus…

JVP protests UN envoy's visit JVP says Nowak should fisrt visit other countries including Iraq A political ally of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has expressed strong reservations over a visit of a UN special envoy to Colombo. The Peoples Liberation Front (JVP) said UN special rapporteur on torture and extra judicial killings should visit many other countries including Iraq, before visiting Sri Lanka. Manfred Nowak arrived in Colombo on Monday for a fact finding mission as Sri Lanka government forces, paramilitaries including Karuna faction and the Tamil Tigers are accused of gross human rights violations. AI reports on Iraq violence …

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Saudi crown prince pledges $20b investment PHOTO: PID ISLAMABAD: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said the first phase of investment of $20 billion in Pakistan has been completed while more investments will be made in the future. Saudi crown prince sees Pakistan as ‘very important country in future’ Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed contracts and Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) pertaining to investments in various projects on Sunday during the crown prince’s maiden visit to the country. The MoUs were signed in diverse fields, inclu…

Soldiers' families 'not paid enough' Families of killed soldiers are paid only Rs.150,000 for over 23 years Disabled soldiers in Sri Lanka have accused the authorities of ignoring their plight and that of the families of killed service personnel. Asoka Dayaratne, of Organisation for Disabled Soldiers, said the compensation paid for war victims is not adequate. "For over 23 years, families of a killed soldier is still paid mere Rs.150,000," he told BBC Sandeshaya. Families of late Generals, Denzil Kobbekaduwa and Vijaya Wimalaratne were also paid just Rs. 150,000 Disabled Soldiers' Organisation He recalled that fam…

தமிழ் கனேடியனில் வந்த செய்தி http://www.tamilcanadian.com/pageview.php?...ID=3826&SID=526 The Government is Creating an Environment for War" TIME talks to Tamil rebels spokesman Suppiah Paramu Tamilchelvan By: Alex Perry Source: TIME - February 13, 2006 Aside from one press conference in 2002, Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam [L.T.T.E.] declines all requests for interviews and delegates meetings with all but the most senior foreign diplomats. Since the Tigers agreed a cease-fire with the Sri Lankan government in 2002, the rebels' public face has become Suppiah Paramu Tamilchelvan, a former fighter wh…

Sri Lankan markets bank on early military victory 6 hours ago COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lanka has downgraded its growth forecast for 2009 in line with a global meltdown, but the local markets are hoping a quick end to the drawn-out separatist war will restore confidence. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka said Friday it was revising GDP projections by a full percentage point to five percent in 2009 compared to the forecasted six percent in 2008, when fighting between troops and Tiger rebels escalated. But Geeth Balasuriya, of privately run HNB Stockbrokers, said the government's capture of the Tamil Tiger political capital Kilinochchi on Friday had made the market b…

Canada was clear – staging a Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Sri Lanka would be a very bad idea. The Canadians argued strongly against it, eventually deciding to boycott it altogether, and threatening a significant withdrawal of funding from the Commonwealth secretariat. After all it was only last March that the Queen signed the Commonwealth charter committing the organisation to respecting human rights; good governance; democracy; and respect for the rule of law. Selecting a country whose government has been in spectacular breach of each of these commitments to host the first summit after the signing of the charter was bound to leave a strong stench of hypocrisy hanging …

Failed Predictions about the Future of world famous personalities "It will be years --not in my time-- before a woman will become Prime Minister." --Margaret Thatcher, October 26th, 1969. She became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom only 10 years after saying that, holding her chair from 1979 to 1990. But she wasn’t all that wrong since she is the only woman to have held this post. Maybe she should have added the word “again.” ------------------------------------------------------------- “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. It may sound ridiculous now, but the prediction …

Should the Australian cricket team tour Sri Lanka? Yes 11% No89% Total votes: 2618. http://www.theage.com.au/polls/sport/cricket/turning-a-blind-eye-20110707-1h4s5.html#poll

Sun Aug 5, 2:18 AM ET COLOMBO (AFP) - A top UN official is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka this week to discuss the island's deepening Tamil separatist conflict and the plight of civilians caught in the crossfire, officials said. John Holmes, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will hold talks with Sri Lankan leaders and also travel to the embattled northern and eastern regions, officials said. Sri Lankan foreign ministry officials said that he will travel to the Jaffna peninsula in the north and the district of Batticaloa where security forces last month wrested control over the final bastion of the Tig…

A guerrilla group in Sri Lanka has threatened to attack troops because of the government's "crackdown" on Tamil civilians in the north and the east. The People's Army, which has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in the island in December, made the announcement on a Tamil website. It comes at a time when the government and the Tiger rebels are deciding on dates for a meeting in Switzerland. A Tamil Tiger spokesman said the group was not associated with the rebels. If the group carries out its threat it would end a lull in killings and threaten peace talks between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels. The Norway-brokered talks…

'நம் வரலாற்றை நாமே எழுதுவோம்' 'We ourselves will write our history' Purpose: This thread is dedicated to documenting images of Tamil Genocide monuments and memorials located around the world. Disclaimer and Credits: All images shared in this thread are the property of their respective owners. I do not hold any rights to them. What's the Tamil Genocide? Tamil_genocide An image documentary by Nane Chozhan

28 Feb 2007 11:37:00 GMT Blogged by: Peter Apps Alert Me | Printable view | Email this article | RSS [-] Text [+] Keifer Sutherland, star of hit TV series "24". REUTERS/Fred Prouser Accusing violent television of promoting violence may be nothing new, but this article by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker brings the debate into the world of geopolitics and human rights. Set in real-time, the TV series "24" pits U.S. federal agent Jack Bauer against a range of conspirators aiming to inflict death and destruction. With the clock ticking to disaster, there is often no time for the niceties. http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/36072/200...28-113722-1.htm The sho…

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Two houses set ablaze by paramilitaries in Batticaloa [TamilNet, August 07, 2006 17:08 GMT] Two houses located along Batticaloa-Kaluwankerni main road were burnt down by a paramilitary group working with Sri Lanka State security forces around 6.30 a.m., Monday. One house belonged to Mylvaganam Arumugam who is the sister of Gnanatheepan, the paramilitary Karuna group cadre who surrendered to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after killing five Karuna group members, including Iniyabarathy, last year. Other house destroyed by the fire belonged to family which has four school going children, sources said. Complaint has been lodged with the Eravur …

May 18th will be forever etched in our memories as a day when Tamils around the world watched in horror as the 27 year old ethnic conflict came to a disastrous end. Tens of thousands of innocent people were slaughtered. Today, we mourn those men, women and children, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, whose lives were taken. While we mark the anniversary of this emotional day with prayers and remembrance activities, it is equally important to ensure that the perpetrators of this massacre, and of the decades-long persecution against Tamils, are brought to justice. We cannot let their suffering and death be in vain. While the past year was meaningful, includ…

OLD VIOLATIONS IN THE NO FIRE ZONE The CHOGM must seek a way between the world’s discomfort with Sri Lanka’s rights abuses and the need for reconciliation, writes Rudra Chaudhuri “Our guilt is killing us,” argued a middle-aged and self-described Tamil-British woman. She lost 17 members of her family to what she claimed were targeted disappearances, an all-too-familiar feature in Sri Lanka’s post-war landscape, at least according to the many Tamil, Sinhala, and Muslim journalists and activists both within and outside the Island state. The lady in question was the last to make her plea. She was one of 200-odd attendees at the London premier of No-…

CHENNAI: The DMK would welcome creation of a separate 'Eelam', a homeland for Sri lankan Tamils, if it was achieved through a democratic process , party president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said on Monday. "We will be glad if a separate Eelam (state) is created (in the Island nation) by people voting for it," he told reporters here. He said that "attempts of some opposition parties in Tamil Nadu to paint the UPA government at the Centre and the DMK government in the state as anti Sri Lankan Tamils" would not succeed. "The opposition parties are trying to create an illusion among the public that my party is against Sri Lankan Tamils," …

Police evict Tamils from Colombo (BBC World News) Police in Sri Lanka have forced hundreds of the minority Tamil community out of the capital Colombo for what they say are security reasons. They launched overnight raids in Tamil areas of the city and forced guests staying in budget hotels onto buses. Police said that Tamils who were in the capital "without valid reasons" were made to board buses bound for the north and east of the island. Police said that the move was necessary amid fears of renewed civil war. 'Bad example' They say that the crackdown is part of continuing efforts to stop the Tamil Tigers infiltrating the city of 600,000…