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Plight of Sri Lanka's desperate refugees By Dumeetha Luthra BBC News, Mannar I first met Maduraweeran Kantharajah in a navy camp with his family. They had been caught the night before trying to escape from northern Sri Lanka across the 30km (18-mile) stretch of water from Mannar to southern India. He had sold everything he owned for the desperate journey away from the island's growing conflict. Hundreds of Tamil civilians have now made that crossing into the state of Tamil Nadu. Many more want to do likewise and flee violence in the east of the country. Meagre belongings Maduraweeran paid $650 (£353) to smugglers in Mannar.…

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…

Pope Francis Offers Hopeful Christmas Day Message From St. Peter's VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis offered Christmas wishes Wednesday for a better world, praying for protection for Christians under attack, battered women and trafficked children, peace in the Middle East and Africa, and dignity for refugees fleeing misery and conflict around the globe. Francis delivered the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" (Latin for "to the city and to the world") speech from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to more than 70,000 cheering tourists, pilgrims and Romans in the square below. In his first Christmas message since being elected pontiff in March, he…

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Amidst soaring electricity rates, the Government is giving priority to the proposed multi-million dollar mega undersea power transmission line with India. Power and Energy Minister John Seneviratne said yesterday he or a senior official from his ministry would lead a delegation to India for this purpose. A preliminary feasibility report has already been completed. The $450-million project involved the laying of a 200-km long submarine cable to enable India to export electricity to Sri Lanka and would connect Madurai in Tamil Nadu with Thalaimannar, Mannar and Anuradhapuara, The Sunday Times learns. The plans to expedite the export of electricity from India com…

10 January 2014 The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) would be releasing the official judgement of its investigations against the Sri Lankan State and its accomplices on the charge of Genocide against Eelam Tamils at press conference in Geneva on 22 January, the PPT said in a press statement on Friday. Dr. Denis Halliday, the former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, Dr. Haluk Gerger, a renowned Turkish academic and middle east analyst and Dr. Gianni Tognoni, the secretary general of the PPT would be present at the function. The event will take place on Wednesday 22 January, 10 am, at the 'Geneva Press Club' Club Suisse de la Presse, Route de Ferney…

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…

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/india/a...i_Lanka_burning By M.R. Narayan Swamy (adviser to foreign ministry) This is the same Narayan Swami wrote a book about Eelam struggle. He is now an adviser to foreign ministry. Excerpts from *M.R.Narayan Swamy's Tigers of Lanka From Boys to Guerrillas could be found here http://www.tamilnation.org/ltte/narayan.htm. I disagree with the writer about one man struggle keeps burning Sri Lanka. Sinhala chauvinist leaders continue to discriminate Tamils, bomb Tamil areas, decline fundamental rights even now. The five year long ceasefire agreement didn't bring peace to the Tamil speaking people. We saw only destruct…

Prasanth Subendran’s Startup BusSeat is Transforming Sri Lanka’s Transportation Industry Yathursha Ulakentheran July 11, 2017 AddThis Sharing 0167 SHARES Share to FacebookFacebookShare to TwitterTwitterShare to MoreMore BusSeat.lk is a very well-known name to those who book long distance bus seats online in Sri Lanka. Despite the existing competitors in the market, BusSeat.lk has already marked its name in the IT based transport industry. So has the founder of the company, Prasanth Subendran. Who is…

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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…

President Must Disown Tamil Paramilitary Groups | by Rajasingham Jayadevan ( March 1, 2013, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) My recent visit to Jaffna stretched once again (like in January 2012) a trip to the north-west coastal islands due to my visiting relatives wanting to worship at the Shree Nagapooshani Amman temple in the Islet of Nainativu. A contingent of fifteen relatives went to the islet. Paramilitary Leader Minister Douglas Devananda It was a very bumpy drive on the pothole and patchwork road. The drive did not give any impression that there is any major roadwork plan for the narrow lagoon road. The intermittent pothole patchwork undertaken …

Mr. G. Thevaraja, the President of the Vavuniya Citizens Committee (VCC) was attacked around 5.30-6pm this evening (8th Oct), whilst he was riding his motorbike back home from his shop in Nedunkerny. He had gone to his shop soon after Chairing an afternoon meeting with the VCC to discuss the ‪#‎FreeJeyakumary‬ campaign protest to be held on Friday, Oct 10th, 2014, in Vavuniya. He was assaulted by 4 persons in civil, who rode two motorbikes and attacked him with iron rods. His head was saved due to him having worn a helmet, but even his helmet was damaged in the attack. Whilst beating him, his attackers also shoutingly threatened him saying, “You are going to organize a ca…

President Mahinda Rajapaksa today announced that Sri Lanka will be providing US$ 1 million in financial assistance to Palestine.President Rajapaksa has been a long-time supporter of the Palestinian cause and is the Founder President of the Sri Lanka Committee for Solidarity with Palestine. During this year's Eid Festival Week, the President expressed concern for the violence in Gaza. 'It is my hope that the violence in Gaza is halted and peace prevails in the region,' President Rajapaksa said on his Twitter account. Earlier in July, the President also called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to inquire about the situation in Gaza and offered his condolenc…

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has asked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convert the Sampur Power Station in Trincomalee from a coal power plant to one powered by liquified natural gas (LNG). Modi has responded positively to Sirisena’s suggestion, and asked his officials to discuss the issue promptly with their Sri Lankan counterparts, and move forward. This was revealed to The Island here today by Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India Esala Weerakoon. The Sampur project figured in the bilateral deliberations between the two sides on Friday. President Sirisena raised the issue, and Modi reacted to the former’s suggestion favourably. …

U.S. officials say President Donald Trump's long-awaited Middle East peace plan calls for the creation of a State of Palestine with its capital in portions of east Jerusalem, ending speculation as to whether his administration, in preparing a proposal without input from Palestinian leaders, would abandon a “two-state resolution" to the conflict. The officials say the plan to be unveiled on Tuesday more than doubles the territory currently under Palestinian control, although it also recognizes Israeli sovereignty over major settlement blocs in the West Bank, something to which the Palestinians will almost certainly object. The Palestinians have already rejected the pr…

President Zelenskiy slams NATO for rejecting no-fly zone over Ukraine NATO on Friday rejected Ukrainian calls to help it protect its skies from Russian missiles and warplanes, wary of being dragged into Moscow’s war on its neighbour, but Europe promised more sanctions to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy strongly criticised the decision, saying the alliance had given Russia the green light to continue its bombing campaign. He had earlier appealed to NATO to set up a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which Russia invaded by land, sea and air on Feb. 24. …

Presidential anger against 'Subasetha' (LeN-2006 Dec. 22, 6.15 pm) A advisor to a newspaper dedicated to astrology published by Lake house has come under severe criticism from the top for publishing a forecast that a leading lady of Sri Lankan politics is to make a comeback and the life of a leader is to in danger. These forecasts have appeared in two issues of the said newspaper. First issue has published that a leading woman politician is to make a comeback. The second issue has warned of a danger to a top leader. After these appeared the President has summoned the director editorial Mr. Kongahage and lambasted him. Later Mr. Kongahage has called for explanat…

John Holmes press conference

Operation Unceasing Waves - 4 This thread contains all the official press releases of LTTE a.k.a. Tamil Tigers during their militray operation Unceasing Waves - 4

This thread contains all the official press releases of LTTE, most commonly known as Tamil Tigers, during their military operation Unceasing Waves - 3. All these press releases were extracted from the LTTE's official website 'eelam.com'. It is a part of the following document titled 'ஓயாத அலைகள் - 3' (Eng: Unceasing Waves - 3) :

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has requested the Tamil diaspora to work together to develop the country and help the people irrespective of their community. The President has said this in an interview with Nitin A. Gokhale, Editor-in-Chief of Bharat Shakti.in and SNI. When the interviewer commented on peaceful existence, the President said, “Yes, so rather than just criticising and I would like to even request the Tamil diaspora to forget these things, nobody is benefitted; rather we must work together to develop our country, help the people in our country irrespective of their (community). Everybody is a Sri Lankan citizen if they are born in Sri Lanka. They have…