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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…

People in Batticaloa are voting in the first polls since the government drove the Tamil Tigers from eastern Sri Lanka. The elections are for a municipal council and smaller local authorities in outlying areas. But the party that is expected to win - the Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal party (TMVP) - is made up of former Tamil Tiger rebels, and they have not laid down their arms. Pradeep Master is a leading candidate for political office, standing in Batticaloa's local polls for the TMVP. During the campaign he was out on the streets visiting shops and handing pamphlets to passers-by. But at the age of 16, he was carrying an AK-47 for the …

Bahrain fire kills 16 Indians --------------------------------- Sunday, July 30, 2006 (Manama): At least 16 Indians were killed and seven others injured when a major fire broke out in a building housing over 200 workers in Bahrain early today. The incident, apparently caused by a short circuit, took place in Gudabiya area when there were 218 people in the camp, mostly Indians. However, workers claimed that there were over 350 Indians in the building. The seven injured were being treated in a hospital for burns they received in the fire. Indian Ambassador to Bahrain Balakrishan Shetty said that most of the 16 workers killed were from Tamil …

What the European Court of Justice (ECJ) proves implicitly is that under European Law, you do not need evidence to classify a group as a ‘terrorist’ organisation, commented US-based Eezham Tamil legal activist, Mr Rajeev Sreetharan, who was one of the initiators of the LTTE vs EU case adjudged by the ECJ on Thursday. However, he added that the ECJ ruling, although tainted by questionable post 9/11 interpretations of international humanitarian law, in essence vindicates assumptions in deciding to challenge the EU ban of the LTTE in a court of law, rather than the halls of government. Rajeev was hopeful that the lifting of the ‘terrorism’ ban helps to begin reshape the Euro…

Sri Lanka woos Jaya: India In The ‘Killing Fields Of Sri Lanka’ sam rajappa THE Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Prasad Kariyawasam, now in Colombo for consultations, has sought an appointment with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalitha, in Chennai to extend to her a personal invitation from President Mahinda Rajapaksa to visit Sri Lanka. In its attempt to pamper Rajapaksa to serve the agenda of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, India had betrayed the cause of Sri Lankan Tamils who have been struggling for equal rights with the majority Sinhalese. While the DMK, an important constituent of the UPA, remained passive content with amassing wealth, even as In…

Sinhala regime playing role similar to Israel By: Dr.Vickramabahu Karunaratne Courtesy: LakBima News - November 11, 2007 Rajpal of Lakbimanews says "I was the editor of a Lake House newspaper. The moment I started carrying stories about the abductions of Tamils in Colombo, while also front paging the success of the forces in the war front, they threw me out of my job. Of course Tamils are not people under Rajapaksa. If you talk about them as if they were people, you would be out of your job. That is nothing though. If you are Tamil- you could lose your life too, but who cares? Which son of a bishop says Chickera is wrong?" It is a heroic statement. …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asi...sia/4807846.stm Tamil rebels 'coercing diaspora' The rebels are seeking autonomy for minority Tamils Tamil people around the world are being intimidated and threatened into giving money to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, according to a new report. The extortion of money from Tamils living in North America and Europe has been stepped up recently to fund a "final war", says Human Rights Watch. The Tamil Tigers have denied allegations of extortion in the past. A recent upsurge in violence between the rebels and security forces in Sri Lanka has cost at least 120 lives. Sri Lankan officials and …

What we know about the limo company and the family that runs it By Darran Simon, CNN Now PlayingQuestions remain after... Questions remain after limo crash kills 20 02:30 (CNN)The man charged with criminally negligent homicide in a fatal limousine crash had packed bags in his own car when police stopped him, authorities said Thursda…

Sri Lanka government gains support of Buddhist monks By Somini Sengupta Published: February 23, 2007 E COLOMBO: With full-scale war blossoming once more in a country beset by a quarter century of ethnic conflict, an ever more assertive government has found a sturdy ally in what might seem an unexpected source: hard-line Buddhist monks. The monks have long been active in Sri Lanka's deeply polarized politics, but for the first time they have joined the governing coalition with their own political party. Called the Jathika Hela Urumaya, or National Heritage Party, they now hold 9 seats in Sri Lanka's 225-member Parliament. The party sits at the extreme …

Monday, May 19th marks the five-year anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, which claimed the lives of 40,000 to 70,000 civilians in its “catastrophic” final phase. In 2009, Congress asked the State Department to report on the humanitarian law violations during the war, and those reports make for gruesome reading. If history is a guide, this week congressional representatives will publicly call for accountability for war crimes in Sri Lanka—as members of Congress have done on the past four anniversaries. (See accompanying post, “Honor Roll of US Congressional Members Who’ve Stood for Accountability in Sri Lanka”) This post proposes specific action that cong…

சுதந்திரம், அபிவிருத்தி, தன்னம்பிக்கை கொண்ட தன்னிறைவு DEVELOPED INDIA Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. The President of India I have three visions for India. In 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the…

The Sri Lankan State & fascist media of the South has been systematically intimidating the SLMM and other international non-governmental organizations like the World Bank to toe their line through hate campaign, unethical reporting and misquoting from the original sources. Sri Lankan state media takes SLMM and their spokeswoman for an abusive ride in the name of "a special meeting organized by the Daily News".The news piece appeared on the 9th of June 2006 Daily News is a fine example of the state media's pathetic spin doctoring stunts. The alleged claims by Helen Olafsdottir such as "we will monitor it from Kandy if we have to" and that CFA is yet to become inv…

2ND LEAD SLA launches new offensive towards Vaharai [TamilNet, Friday, 06 October 2006, 05:21 GMT] Sri Lankan forces have launched a new offensive towards Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled Vaharai region Friday morning. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops from Mankerni SLA camp advanced into LTTE controlled territory south of Vaharai with heavy artillery shelling, Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombardment and rocket fire from the Sri Lanka Navy gunboats, according to civilian sources. Thousands of civilians, most of them recently displaced from Trincomalee, were struggling to flee to safer areas. Civilian casualty figures are yet to be reported. Heavy f…

Local government elections in Batticaloa after 14 years Local government elections for nine Regional Councils including Batticaloa Municipal Council are to take place on Monday 10 March after a lapse of 14 years and all arrangements related to them have been made, Mahintha Desapriya, Deputy Election Commissioner said. 831 candidates representing 6 political parties and 22 independent groups will contest in these elections in which 101 members are to be elected. 2,70471 registered voters are eligible to vote in this election. The Special District Election Office has begun to function from Sunday morning at Batticaloa Hindu College and voting will tak…

வெள்ளிக்கிழமை 25 மே 2007 -priyan- கொழும்புத்துறைமுகத்திற்கு அருகில் இன்று இடம்பெற்ற குண்டுத் தாக்குதலுக்கும் விடுதலைப் புலிகளுக்கும் எதுவித தொடர்பும் இல்லை என விடுதலைப் புலிகள் அறிவித்துள்ளனர். இதுகுறித்து கருத்துரைத்திருக்கும் விடுதலைப் புலிகளின் படைத்துறைப் பேச்சாளர் இளந்திரையன்... சிறீலங்கா அரசாங்கமும் அரச படைகளும் விடுதலைப் புலிகளால் தான் இக்குண்டு வெடிப்பை நடத்தியுயுள்ளார்கள் என தவறான பரப்புரைகளை மேற்கொண்டு வருகிறார்கள். முப்படைகளும் வளச்சியடைந்த நிலையில் குறிப்பாக வான்படைகள் சிறீலங்கா படைத்துறையுடன் தொடர்புபட்ட இலக்குகள் மீது மிகவும் துல்லியமாக தாக்குதலைத் நடத்தும் போது இவ்வாறான சில்லறைத் தனமாக குண்டுத் தாக்குதல்களை விடுதலைப் புலிகள் நடத்தவேண்டிய தேவை இல்லை. அவ…

International Ambassador for Human Rights, Rita French delivers joint statement by the Core Group on Sri Lanka Thank you Madam President This statement is on behalf of Canada, Germany, North Macedonia, Montenegro and the UK, the Core Group on Sri Lanka. We thank the High Commissioner for her update on Sri Lanka. In 2015, Sri Lanka co-sponsored resolution 30/1, which provided a framework to address the legacy of conflict and build the foundations for sustainable and inclusive peace. Sri Lanka committed to delivering progress on accountability, reconciliation and human rights with the support of the Council and reaffirmed those commitments throu…

M.I.A. Speech at CTCC Gala 2016

Dear Friend, The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, one of the most powerful committees in the US legislature, will hold a hearing on Sri Lanka on Tuesday February 24 and 2:30 pm. The hearings will focus on recent developments in Sri Lanka-- specifically 1. The ongoing military conflict in the north and east 2. The deteriorating humanitarian situation and 3. Allegations of human rights violations by the Government against Tamils. The committee is chaired by Senator John Kerry, who once ran in a US presidential election about five years ago. Kerry just returned after a visit to Gaza. The Committee will hear three witnesses -- Anna Neistat (…

Tamils Ask U.N. to Appoint Bill Clinton or Kofi Annan as U.N. Envoy to Sri Lanka Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document. Tamils for Obama, a politically active group of Tamil Americans, wrote to the U.N. secretary general and member states urging them to appoint a special envoy to Sri Lanka who would offer a clear analysis of the situation there and propose a solution. (PRWEB) May 7, 2009 -- Tamils for Obama, a politically active group of Tamil Americans, wrote to the U.N. secretary general and member states urging them to appoint a special envoy to Sri Lanka who would offer a clear analysis of the situation there and propose a solution. …

M. A. Sumanthiran interview with The Morning அண்மையில் 'The Morning' ஆங்கில பத்திரிக்கைக்கு எம். ஏ. சுமந்திரன் வழங்கிய செவ்வியின் முழுமையான காணொளி இங்கே பகிரப்படுகிறது. இச் செவ்வியில் தற்போது நிலவும் பொருளாதார நெருக்கடி எவ்வாறு வட-கிழக்கை பாதிக்கின்றது, இதனைத் தாண்டி வட கிழக்கில் தொடர்ந்தும் நிலவும் முக்கிய சவால்கள், வடக்கு மீனவர் பிரச்சினை, நடைபெற்றுவரும் அரசியலமைப்பு உருவாக்கல் முயற்சிகள் தொடர்பிலும் அதில் தமிழ் தேசிய கூட்டமைப்பின் வகிபாகம், 13ம் திருத்தச் சட்டம் குறித்து இலங்கை தமிழ் அரசுக் கட்சியின் நிலைப்பாடு, இலங்கையில் உள்ள சிறுபான்மை குழுக்களுக்கு இருக்கும் பிரச்சினைகள் தொடர்பில் அவர்களை பிரதிநிதித்துவப்படுத்தும் அரசியல் கட்சிகள் ஒருமி…

A STORY ABOUT FOUR PEOPLE This is the story about four people named EVERYBODY, SOMEBODY, ANYBODY and NOBODY. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it, Anybody could have done it, But Nobody did it. Somebody got angry with that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody would'nt do it. It ended up that Everybody balamed Somebody when actually Nobody Accused Anybody.

Origins of Remembrance Day Why is this day special to Australians? At 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. The allied armies had driven the German invaders back, having inflicted heavy defeats upon them over the preceding four months. In November the Germans called for an armistice (suspension of fighting) in order to secure a peace settlement. They accepted allied terms that amounted to unconditional surrender. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month attained a special significance in the post-war years. The moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front became un…

Tamil Tigers in Britain Burning less bright? Jun 12th 2008 From The Economist print edition Lean times for the Sri Lankan separatists. But Tamils are flourishing TERRORISM normally makes front-page news in Britain, so it was odd that the four Asian men charged with terrorist offences last month scarcely made the papers. The charge-sheet explains why: the men bundled out of their homes at dawn are suspected of procuring equipment for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a rebel group that has fought a decades-long civil war against the Sri Lankan state and is now banned in Britain. The police took pains to emphasise that there was no link to al-Qaeda; afte…

WORTH SHARING !! A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice lookin expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain an…

Dear All Please forward this email to your friends and family members to show their disagreement and anger by sending email or phoning the school not to allow this to happen. Sri Lankan High Commission celebrates bloodshed & victory of tamilnation by the name of new year in Lampton school hall and Lampton park at lampton ave Hounslow TW3 4EP on 18/04/09 next Saturday. Please phone the Head Teacher & make polite request to withdraw permission to use their hall the phone number 0208 8572 1936 and ring Hounslow council on 0208 583 2000 between 8AM to 8PM to cancel Lampton park for their celebrations. Lampton School Lampton Avenue Hounslow …