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'Brown Briton' ignored by government and media ? 29 Days passed [ jpq;fl;fpoik, 12 khHr; 2007 ] [ yf;];kd; ] Cries of institutional racism in the British Foreign Service and the British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) have once again been ignited, after both organizations ignored the plight of a 'brown' national who was abducted in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo last month. Mr Vijayakumar, a neutralised British citizen who valued himself every bit British as he was Tamil was abducted from outside his residence on Perera Lane in Wellawathe on Wednesday, 31 January 2007. Eyewitnesses identified the abductors as being 'armed men' riding in a 'white van'. The usual frenz…

Meet Patricia Narayan – Director, Sandeepha Chain of Restaurants based in a city that simply adores food, Chennai. A proud winner of “[Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry] “FICCI Woman Entrepreneur Award” (2010); after successfully fighting all the odds of failed marriage, addict husband, and taking care of two kids, lives in a well-furnished duplex apartment in Velachery with a shining luxury car parked outside the door. Whatever happened in Patricia’s life which led to her entry into the world of entrepreneurship was evidently not a planned one but was more due to the twist in circumstances that life threw before her. Instead of cribbing and living…

Ceasefire Agreement completes its fifth year Statement 22 February 2007 On February 22, 2002, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL), entered into the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) with facilitation by the Royal Norwegian Government. Five years have passed since the signing of this historic agreement by the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Vellupillai Pirapaharan, and the then Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremasinghe. Even though today it exists only on paper, it remains a unique document in the search for an end to the national conflict in the island Sri Lanka. Unprecedented in peace efforts …

Taking our University system to the next level With the release of the GCE Advanced Level results last week, the focus has again shifted to the 150,000 (approx.) aspiring students who cannot gain entry to State universities despite passing the examination. This is because the State universities can only take in around 30,000 students annually. The fate of the rest has become the subject of a debate that has been raging for years in the media, political circles and in the wider society. In fact, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa set asi…

Media "war" on Tigers RADHIKA RAMASESHAN Jaffna, July 26: The Sri Lankan Army has launched a concerted propaganda onslaught against the Tamil Tigers. The army realises that while fighting the LTTE on land and sea is one aspect of the "war", the other is to create a level playing field for itself in the media, especially print and the Internet. The tech-savvy Tigers have widely-visited websites - such as tamilnet.com, svik.org and nitharsanam.com - that are choc-a-bloc with news of killings and assaults allegedly by the army and police. The joke in Colombo is that the media ministry often learns of strikes on the army through tamilnet.com and provi…

Sri Lanka: Mumbai terror strike and Prabhakaran's expectations of India's support – Update No. 157 Col R Hariharan The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Prabhakaran's usually much hyped Great Hero's Day 2008 speech on November 27 became a casualty of the daring terror strike on the same day in Mumbai. Holding the city to ransom for three days the terror story hogged headlines and only few of the Indian print media carried Prabhakaran's speech on the sidelines, while the visual media ignored it. And this time he needed the ears of New Delhi, more than Tamil Nadu, to act upon his strong plea for India's support for his armed struggle and lifting …

Friday June 22, 7:24 PM COLOMBO, June 22 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's rupee fell to a new life low on Friday on importer demand for dollars while shares fell as retail investors sold select stocks citing high interest rates and uncertainty due to renewed civil war, traders said. The rupee closed at a new all-time low of 111.00/111.02 per dollar, compared to Thursday's close of 110.96/110.99. "There was some demand for dollars in the market because of importers -- importer related transactions," a currency dealer said. The rupee, which hit a previous all time closing low of 110.95/111.00 on May 7, has depreciated around 3.36 percent so far this year, after w…

NO FOREIGN leader has fared worse in the cables released by WikiLeaks than Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has been resisting calls for an international inquiry into possible war crimes committed when Sri Lankan troops wiped out the secessionist Tamil Tigers in May 2009. In this particular case, disclosure of an American diplomat’s confidential assessment serves the cause of human rights, validating the stand of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Crisis Group. All three have argued, rightly, for a credible investigation of alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, whether committed by the Tamil Tigers or government forces. The docume…

As a parent of a child who has just sat for their O/Levels, this is only the first of a series of key decisions that will determine their future. The question with everyone in your situation is thinking, of course, ‘what next? And it’s a decision that will affect the rest of your child’s life, so you want to get it right. In such circumstances with many options available, it’s tempting to pick the best choice, which will allow them to compete for jobs and prosperity in a rapidly changing and challenging world economy. As time and opportunity are crucial and important aspects in your child’s education, your delay as a parent is only an opportunity lost to your c…

Arrangements underway for civilian movement from Muttur - LTTE [TamilNet, August 04, 2006 04:52 GMT] The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Friday morning said their cadres were making arrangements to safely transport all civilians out of the Muttur town to remote locations as Sri Lanka Army shells continued to hit civilian refuges in the town. The LTTE has urged the ICRC and other humanitarian agencies to enable humanitarian assistance to the displaced people. "We are making necessary arrangements to move civilians from Muttur to safer locations via Kiliveddy," said Irasiah Ilanthirayan, the military spokesman of the Liberation Tigers. At least 22 civ…

By Prof S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole Minorities are easy targets in a Sinhalese polity believing that no one else belongs. As Tisaranee Gunasekara has noted, UPFA ministers have attacked the Chief Justice for having Tamil lawyers – although Neelakandan voted for the BASL resolution against the Ban Ki Moon Report, it did not help him. Thrishantha Nanayakkara has drawn our attention to an ITN programme where Minister Wimal Weerawansa makes much of the Court of Appeal bench ruling on the CJ matter consisting of two Tamils and a Muslim (whereas it really had one of each community, including a Sinhalese). The Muslims too are caught up as hate campaigns are launched against h…

(illuminati) உலகை தமது கட்டுப் பாட்டிற்குள் வைத்திருக்கும், 13 நிறுவனங்கள். இந்த நிறுவனங்கள்..... உலகில் வியாபாரம், அரசியல், வங்கிகள் என்று.... தமக்கு சாதகமாக, தாம் விரும்பியவற்றையே... நிலை நிறுத்தும். உலகின் எந்த நாடும் இதற்கு விதிவிலக்கல்ல. காணொளி சற்று நீளமானது என்றாலும், நேரம் ஒதுக்கி பார்த்தால்... பல விடயங்களை அறிந்து, நீங்களே ஆச்சரியப் படும் அளவிற்கு, பல விடயங்களை அறிவீர்கள்.

Heavy fighting rages in Muhamalai, Kilali [TamilNet, September 10, 2006 19:01 GMT] Heavy artillery shelling and fighting between the Sri Lankan forces and the Liberation Tigers erupted in Kilali and Muhamalai Forward Defence Line (FDL) of the Northern Front from 7:30 p.m. Sunday, sources in Kilinochchi said. Artillery shelling and gunfire were continuing Sunday midnight. The SLA had suffered heavy casualties Saturday when it launched a fresh offensive towards Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) FDL. Meanwhile, Sri Lankan Police in Kodikamam Sunday said they had seven bodies of Tamil youths, five males and two females, killed in in the clashes in Thenm…

Tamil Community Centre CBC covered the townhall last week where the Steering Committee of the Tamil Community Centre provided an update to the community. Check out their story. தமிழ் கலாசார நிலையம் அமைப்பது தொடர்பான ஆலோசனை கூட்டம் .நிகழ்வு @ Scarborough Civic Centre on Aug 18,2019.நிகழ்வின் இ குருவியின்( ekuruvi) அனைத்து புகைப்படப்பதிவுகளையும் பார்வையிட இங்கேஅழுத்தவும்......https://images.biztha.com/…/Tamil-Community-Centre-Consult…/

In year 2006, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) took a radical tactical turn to use remote controlled claymore mines to block Madawachchi-Mannar and Habarana-Trinco supply routes. This effectively made the vegetation clearance on either sides of the road fruitless. Attacks were frequent and caused huge damages to ground movements of the army. The defense research units that attracted the volunteer support of several civilian engineers worked day and night to develop a counter measure to jam the LTTE remote controllers, based on some pieces of circuits found among the debris of explosions in the North. The rate of innovation of the LTTE side was so fast that the Gove…

NASA Gives 'Go' for Shuttle Endeavour Launch on Aug - 7. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - On Thursday, NASA managers set Aug. 7 as the official launch date for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-118 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., is scheduled for 7:02 p.m. EDT. Endeavour's launch date was announced following the traditional Flight Readiness Review at Kennedy. During the two-day meeting, top NASA and contractor managers assessed any risks associated with the mission and determined that the shuttle's equipment, support systems and procedures are ready for flight. Commander Scott Kelly and his six crewmates are sch…

"Dr. Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam (PhD)" / மகன் அர்ஜுனன் எதிர்வீரசிங்கத்தின் கடிதம் / தகவல் On Thursday, 18 April 2024 at 11:55 am Dr. Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam (PhD) passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was surrounded by his family. He was 89 years old. Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam (Ethir) was born in 1934 in a one-room hut with a palmyrah palm leaf roof and a mud floor in Periyavillan, a small village on the Jaffna Peninsula. He taught himself to high jump in his backyard by analysing pictures in an athletics book he had won as a prize after one of his first meets at Jaffna Central College. He made a silent promise …

Mahinda Rajapaksa, under fire over human rights in Sri Lanka, says at the U.N. General Assembly that the U.N. is being manipulated. From Moammar Kadafi's baffling fantasies to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's room-emptying rants, almost every confab of world leaders at the annual United Nations General Assembly includes speeches that make people squirm in their chairs. http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-un-odd-leaders-20130927,0,1383011.story

[size=4]Le mercredi 10 octobre 2012 restera une journée historique pour les défenseurs de la cause tamoule ! Après des années de protestation pour dénoncer les viols et massacres à répétition de civils tamouls, une délégation d’une quarantaine de Tamouls a été reçue pour la première fois à l’Assemblée Nationale. C’est sous l’impulsion de Marie-George Buffet, députée de la quatrième circonscription de Seine-Saint-Denis, et du Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO), qu’a pu se tenir cette rencontre dans une des salles du Palais Bourbon. Marie-George Buffet a profité de cette rencontre pour annoncer la mise en place d’un groupe d’étude sur la situation des Tamouls du Sri …

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(Selvamalar knows her son is dead, but cannot accept the tragedy. Picture: Rante Ardiles) SHE was sold a cruel lie by the people smugglers. She would be travelling on a luxury ocean liner from Indonesia to Australia. They showed her photos of the ship that would transport her, her beautiful son and her brother to their new life in Australia. It was a superb vessel, with three storeys of cabins. "I believed them," she says. She had dreamed of nothing else but being with her husband, who had escaped to Australia four years earlier on a boat to build a new life in Perth for his wife and unborn son, their first child. He had left Sri Lanka when she was fi…

Driving gets more dangerous with age, but older adults may be more vulnerable while walking on the sidewalk than behind the wheel, says a new study. Researchers who reviewed data on road accident deaths in the UK found that pedestrians over 70 were five times more likely to die from being hit by a car each time they went out than those age 21 to 29. But elderly drivers were no more likely to die on the road than those in their twenties. "The focus is usually on older drivers as a danger to themselves and other drivers," said Jonathan Rolison, who led the study at the University of Plymouth in the UK. But, he added, "the real issue isn't really safeguar…

The Best and The Worst – 2020 General Elections Lionel Bopage on 08/09/2020 Photo courtesy of the diplomat.com The general elections on 5 August turned out to be an outstanding victory for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the Rajapaksa Family and the Sinhala Buddhist nationalists representing both the elite and ordinary members of the country’s majority community. Despite many allegations made about the corrupt and criminal acts of certain candidates put forward at the election by some of the political parties, the electorate elected most of them. Sadly, the candidates who are known…