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கடந்த வாரம் மேற்கு அவுஸ்ரேலிய மாநிலம் “ கருணைக்கொலை” மசோதாவை நிறைவேற்றியிருந்தது. விக்டோரியா மாநிலத்தை தொடர்ந்து மேற்கு அவுஸ்ரேலியா மாநிலம் இதை நிறைவேற்றி உள்ளது. கருணைக்கொலை பற்றி பல எதிர்ப்புகள் எழுந்தாலும் இந்த 90 வயது வயோதிக மாது கூறுவதை உங்களுடன் பகிர்ந்து கொள்கிறேன். With voluntary assisted dying not an option, Laura Henkel is heading to Switzerland to 'die with dignity' ABC NORTH COAST UPDATED ABOUT AN HOUR AGO Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp PHOTO Laura Henkel said old age could not be mended like a broken bone. SUPPLIED: SAM LARA Laura Henkel is about to embark on the last journey of her life. While pain and …

A Sri Lankan minister has hit out against American sanctions on Iran that are preventing the government from accepting development financing from Teheran. The Obama administration reissued waivers last week that exempt nine countries, including China, India, Sri Lanka and Turkey, from fully complying with U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports. However these loopholes do little to allow the Sri Lankan government to obtain funding from Iran for poverty alleviation and power distribution programs financed by Iran. A statement issued by the Power and Energy Ministry quoted Minister Champika Ranawaka as strongly criticizing American sanctions as they "infrin…

Will Phoenix Rise Again? PriyaRaj . It seems to be a very normal day in the battlefield of Vanni, the rattling sounds of the machine guns, the thundering from heavy weapons fire and the cracking of sniper fire, all clearly painted the reality of the situation in black and white. Smoke and dust surrounds the area. Trees and bushes were on fire. Fireballs were raining from the sky. The roars from the diesel engines of the battle tanks and armored personnel carriers, these are all familiar noises from the battle that was raging around Vanni. The situation looked worse than in a nightmare. But suddenly there was a sound from one part of the battlefield, this sound wa…

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…

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Letter to Tony Blair. 11 Concord Terrace Colescrescent Harrow Middl esex HA2 0HJ Rt Hon. Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London 16 March 2006 Dear Prime Minister …

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EELAM TAMILS: Highlighting crimes against peace [by Admin , Nov 23,2006] When the Co-chairs [u.S; E.U; Norway and Japan] met in Washington, D.C., there hardly was any policy change as far as the Tamils are concerned. With alarming unanimity the Quartet announced that “…the LTTE is a terrorist group responsible for massive bloodshed, we hold the Tamil Tigers responsible… we are not neutral in this respect.” One must be grateful for the crudeness of meting out such lop-sided spaghetti western justice — At least we must be thankful for the openness of attitude on part of the diplomats, in which admittance to non-neutrality is claimed. There was sadly, no con…

Are Tamils also not citizens of Sri Lanka? By Kishali Pinto Jayawardena In the year 1998, Joubert Gnanamuttu an engineer by profession (a slightly built, soft spoken and self effacing gentleman who had lived for more than twenty nine years in Colombo and who spoke with a slight stammer), was travelling in the bus to Borella when it was stopped at an Army check-point at Stanley Wijesundera Mawatha. Asked to show his identity, he produced his national identity card and a driving licence as well as a student identity card issued to him by the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies. Despite this proof of identification, he was asked to show a 'police regis…

Refugees are not all in the same ‘boat’ By Harini SivalingamContributor Ten years ago, a rickety boat filled with the hopes and dreams of 76 Tamil men, who fled horrors in their homeland in search of safety, security, and stability, was intercepted off the coast of Vancouver. The arrival of the MV Ocean Lady on Oct. 17, 2009 sent shock waves throughout Canada. The government at the time sought to attribute sinister motives toward those on board; the media raced to gather information about their origins; refugee rights activists scrambled to respond to media inquiries; and the Tamil-Canadian community mob…

அன்பான யாழ்கள உறவுகளே நான் ரசித்த ஆங்கிலமொழி நகைச்சுவைத் துணுக்குகளை உங்களுடன் பகிர்ந்து கொள்வதில் மகிழ்வடைகின்றேன். அன்புடன் தமிழன்பன். Funny Defination School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays. Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich. Nurse: A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills. Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters. Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower. Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of …

SRI LANKA: Operational Developments in the Eelam War – Update No. 155 Col R Hariharan Operational fronts The security forces put two weeks of sunny weather to good use, advancing their offensive further both along the Mannar coast and the axis Akkarayankulam-Kilinochchi, southwest of the administrative capital of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). According to the security sources Task Force-I formed out of 58 Division advancing on a broad front south east of A32 Mannar-Pooneryn axis are six km short of Pooneryn on October 10, 2008. They came under heavy LTTE resistance at Palayilkulam and Uruthirapuram on way. The LTTE appears to be r…

Sri Lankan Muslims Are Low Caste Tamil Hindu Converts Not Arab Descendants By Rifat Halim – The recent execution of Rizana Nafeek in Saudi Arabia has underlined the bogus claim of Arab ancestry by Sri Lankan Muslims (formerly known as Ceylon Moors). Ms. Nafeek, a domestic worker from a poor family in the East of Sri Lanka, spoke no language but Tamil. She requested a Tamil translator but was provided with a Malayalam-speaking minor employee whose command of the Tamil language was said to be insufficient. The Saudi authorities showed no clemency. Also, they refused to recognize her as a person of Arab descent. Her status was indistinguishab…

ITJP submits criminal complaint against Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Singapore http://www.newswire.lk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/PSX_20220724_163351.jpg Lawyers from the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) have submitted a criminal complaint to the Attorney General of Singapore requesting the immediate arrest of former Sri Lankan President, Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, for war crimes. The 63-page complaint argues that Rajapaksa committed grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the civil war in 2009 when he was secretary of defence and that these are crimes subject to domestic prosecution in Singapore under universal jurisdiction. The legal …

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Carleton Tamil students react to accused terrorist links Written by Alexander Baker Thursday, 14 September 2006 Four University of Waterloo students were arrested for allegedly providing money and weapons to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in August. In a sweeping raid RCMP and FBI officers detained 11 men, including seven Canadians, alleged to have links to the terrorist group. The group is fighting for an independent Tamil state in northern Sri Lanka. The incident generated publicity, including a front-page spread in the National Post Aug. 31 with an image of students raising the LTTE flag. It depicts crossed AK-47 assault rifles. The…

Prabhakaran: One man who keeps Sri Lanka burning By IANS Saturday November 25, 07:47 AM New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran will turn 52 Sunday, presiding over a de facto state in the Indian Ocean island and still steering a cause for which he fled from his home over 30 years ago. In the three blood-soaked decades gone by, the once catapult wielding boy has leapfrogged from being the head of a small militant group of the early 1980s to one presiding over the world's deadliest insurgent outfit. The father of three evokes awe and admiration as well as fear and hatred. He is wanted by India and Interpol for the 1991 assa…

Beauty in the street Smile on the face Face in the heart Heart in the break me in the sick. சுட்ட கவிதை.

2 Tamils plead guilty in NY terror-smuggling trial Buzz Up Send Email IM Share Digg Facebook Newsvine del.icio.us Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print Mon Jan 26, 11:50 am ETNEW YORK – Two men have pleaded guilty in New York City to charges they and two other men tried to supply missiles and assault weapons to militants involved in the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka. The four Sri Lankan immigrants were charged with terrorism because the State Department considers the rebel force, known as the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist organization. Two of the defendants entered their pleas in federal court Monday. Jury selection was set to begin Mond…

Two Vadamaradchy women complain of sexual assault by SLA [TamilNet, January 02, 2006 15:50 GMT] Two women from Malusanthi, a village located 3 km southeast of Point Pedro town on the Jaffna Point-Pedro, road registered complaints with the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commision (SLHRC) offices in Jaffna Monday that they were sexually assaulted by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers around midnight Sunday, sources in Jaffna said. The SLA troopers had allegedly taken the man occupant of the house outside for questioning and in the meantime other soldiers inside the house had sexually assaulted the two women, the complaint said. When the women screamed to fight back the attackers…

NAIDOC வாரம் : ஒவ்வொரு வருடமும் ஆடி மாதத்தின் முதல் வாரத்தை, அவுஸ்ரேலிய பூர்வீக குடிகளின் வாராமாக, அவர்களது வரலாறு, கலாச்சாரம் போன்றவற்றை கொண்டாடுவார்கள். அந்த வகையில் நான் வாழும் நாட்டின் நகரங்கள் எந்த வகை பூர்வீக குடிகளை கொண்டது என்பதை சொல்லும் ஒரு பதிவு. Source: NITV Hide Grid …

ஆரியப் படையெடுப்பை உண்மையில்லை என்பவர்கள் ஈரானியர்களின் சரித்திரத்தையும், பாரசீகத்தின் சரித்திர ஆராய்சியாளர்களையும் பொய்யன்களாக்குகிறார்கள். இன்றும் ஈரானியர்கள் தாங்கள் தான் ஆரியர்கள் என்றும், இந்தியர்கள் தங்களுடையதும் திராவிடர்களினதும் கலப்பினால் வந்தவர்கள் என்றும் வாதாடுகிறார்கள். ஈரானிய சரித்திர ஆராய்ச்சியாளர்களையும், அவர்களின் சரித்திரத்தையும் பொய் என்று நிருபிக்கப் படவேண்டிய பொறுப்பு எல்லாம் தெரிந்த மாதிரி உளறும் குருவியின் தலையில் விழுகிறது. இந்த சவாலை ஏற்றுக் கொள்வாரா அல்லது தமிழரை வசைபாடி இந்த தலைப்பையும் திசை திருப்புவாரா என்று பார்ப்போம். ஆரியப் படையெடுப்பை உண்மையென்று பல நூற்றாண்டுகளாக வாதாடி, அதைக் காரணம் காட்டி உயர்ந்த அந்தஸ்து தேடி இன்றும், அத…

Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System (ETWS) introduces a means to deliver Warning Notification simultaneously to many mobile users who should evacuate from approaching Earthquake or Tsunami. Mobile user who received Warning Notification is able to know a threat is approaching or already happened nearby. Then the user is able to determine where and when to evacuate according to delivered Warning Notification. Mobile phone is a kind of the closest media for people. This system helps people to prevent from disaster situation or mitigate damage. The characteristic of this service is the need of quick and optimised information delivery. Currently, it is not possible…

Military offensive 'disrupted deal with LTTE’ [TamilNet, August 01, 2006 21:42 GMT] Sri Lankan military’s offensive in Trincomalee disrupted an agreement which had been reached with the Liberation Tigers to open the closed irrigation canal at Mavil Aaru, the Daily Mirror quoted the Chief Priest of a local Buddhist temple as saying. The ongoing confrontation which has claimed scores of lives could have been avoided, the venerable Saranakeerthi Serunuwera Thera also said. His comments comes days after the chief international truce monitor criticized the Sri Lankan government for launching airstrikes near where he was negotiating with local LTTE leaders to defuse the…