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Do you wish to learn more about the Tamil struggle? Do you feel held back by the sheer volume of information that’s available? Do you worry about getting caught up in heated arguments about sensitive issues? This study group is for you! We aim to provide an informal, but safe space where we will present information about the foundations of the Tamil struggle. This will include colonial history, state oppression, the development of Eelam Tamil nationalist politics, and the armed struggle. We will also enable you to ask any questions relevant to the topics. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/tamil-struggle How will it work? PEARL will provide a weekl…

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…

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…

(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.

Why Tamil cricket players Muttiah Muralitharan and Angelo Matthews have not spoken out boycotting Sri Lankan cricket? “No they haven’t said that. They prefer to stay silent. Because in our opinion, their cricket careers are more important, than this issue to them." "They try and say that politics and sport should be separated, but we all know, anybody who has worked in sport, like I have for 40 years, knows that they are inextricably entwined." -Trevor Grant, a former chief cricket writer at The Age http://www.tamilguardian.com/article.asp?articleid=6530

(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…

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…

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Tale of two wars: Ground battle and media battle News management of Delft attack worsens crisis of credibility Undeclared war takes fearful turn as purchases worth billions are made in exclusive secrecy Was Reclamation Road bomb meant for military bus or some other target? By Iqbal Athas The island of Delft (Nedun Theevu or Long Island), off the northern Jaffna peninsula, was known centuries ago under Portuguese rule as Cow Island. There were plenty of cattle there. Yet the mortality rate was high because they sometimes fed on the venomous herbs that grew wild. The Portuguese had a fort there. The ruins are still evident. During that period, th…

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

புதிய முகம் தேவை :P :P :P :P Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary General of the United Nations, will demit office on December 31. The race for his job has started. Three distinguished Asians from Sri Lanka, South Korea, and Thailand have already started lobbying for the job. They believe, following an informal tradition, that it's now Asia's turn. "Not so fast,'' says the US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton. "We don't believe that the next secretary general belongs to any particular region,'' he informs. The truth is that there has been an informal geographic rotation for the top diplomatic post at the United Nations. To date three secretaries-genera…

Victim: Mylvaganam Nimalrajan NEWS - 24 FEBRUARY 2022 12:59 Man arrested by Met's War Crimes team as part of Sri Lankan murder investigation The Met’s War Crimes team are appealing for information as part of an ongoing investigation into a murder committed in Sri Lanka more than 20 years ago. Officers from the War Crimes Team - part of the Counter Terrorism Command – arrested a 48-year-old man at an address in Northamptonshire on Tuesday, 22 February as part of a proactive operation. He was arrested on suspicion of offences under Section 51 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001. He was taken into cust…

[TamilNet, Thursday, 14 July 2011, 16:08 GMT] Sri Lanka’s colonial governor for the country of Eezham Tamils in the north, Maj. Gen. Chandrasri is now completely obsessed with building Buddhist stupas, Sinhala colonisation and Sinhalicisation of administration, news sources in Jaffna said. Building Buddhist stupas at Old Park in Jaffna, where the provincial administration is located, and at Mullaiththeevu town, the occupying SL governor threatens the NGOs working in Vanni to pay ‘unaccounted’ money for his projects. NGOs working in Vanni have to get annual clearance from the SL president’s ‘special task force’ and the colonial governor makes use of this situation to fle…

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…/

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…

[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 …

Unspoken Genocide: Convention on War Crimes and Genocide in SriLanka Speech by Kolathur T. S. Mani (President, Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam) 15 April 2010 – Jawaharlal Nehru University – New Delhi Esteemed guests and dear friends... We have come together to open up a discussion on the 'Unspoken Genocide' in SriLanka. First I would like to thank the organizers for opening up such a discussion for the first time in the country. They have…

August 10, 2007 Universal Music Will Sell Songs Without Copy Protection By JEFF LEEDS Signaling another departure from the music industry’s longtime antipiracy strategy, the Universal Music Group will sell a significant portion of its catalog without the customary copy protection software for at least the next few months, the company announced yesterday. Universal, the world’s biggest music conglomerate, said it would offer albums and songs without the software, known as digital rights management, through existing digital music retail services like RealNetworks and Wal-Mart, nascent services from Amazon.com and Google, and some artists’ Web sites. …

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally The Huanan seafood market in Wuhan has been widely considered the source of the outbreak of a novel coronavirus. But the virus may have infected people elsewhere first. REUTERS Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally By Jon CohenJan. 26, 2020 , 11:25 PM As confirmed cases of a novel virus surge around the world with worrisome speed, all eyes have so f…

[size=5]A report filed by an independent researcher based on eye-witness accounts from twelve United Nations humanitarian workers during the last phases of war ending in May 2009 on the policies implemented by Colombo, leading to starvation, deprivation of medical supplies, indiscriminate bombings of hospitals and schools in violation of UN Security Council resolution 1612 amounting to war-crimes and crimes against humanity, accuses the United Nation's officials' inaction, failure to speak out and willingness to acquiesce with the Rajapakse government's rights violations and state sanctioned killings of tens of thousands of unarmed civilians. [/size] [size=5]Professo…

Dayan new Geneva Ambassador Well known political analyst Dayan Jayatilleka is tipped to be appointed as the Sri Lankan Ambassador in Geneva shortly, diplomatic sources said yesterday. Jayatilleka was a lecturer in political science at the Colombo University, a journalist and a maverick politician who was a member of the North-East Provincial Council. He was closely associated with the election campaign of President Mahinda Rajapksa during the last election. Also, Pradeep Gunawardena, the Consul in Los Angeles is nominated to be made the Sri Lankan Ambassador in Washington. Gunawardena was appointed the Consul in Los Angeles by former Foreign Minister Tyronne Ferna…

Indian military aid condemned "Indian government, or more specifically the Hindi politicians who dominate the Indian parliament and thus control Indian foreign policy and military decisions, is somewhat afraid of Tamil Nadu's reaction to its military aid to Sri Lanka. [Note: Hindi politicians do not have a majority in parliament but have the highest number of members. They are able to astutely control major decisions in alliance with other groups.] So the Indian government provides the military assistance covertly while issuing public statements that it has a hands-off policy towards the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. If and when such assistance is exposed, India routin…

NO. GO. TELL is a short film directed by Jude Anthany Joseph, presented by Nivin pauly, and produced by the Bodhini Metropolis charitable Trust with support from Muthoot Pappachan Foundation to bring about awareness to kids and parents regarding body safety issues. Cinematography : Mukesh Muraleedharan, Music: Shan Rahman, Editing: Rias, Sound & Mixing : Radhakrishnan S the film properly educates the audience in understanding what a child needs to do to keep himself safe and how to ask for help.

Alan Keenan 8 When I arrived last summer at the burial ceremony the ten crude wooden coffins were lined up on the concrete floor. A bare-chested Hindu priest was chanting Sanskrit verses and preparing the offerings, an assortment of freshly chopped coconuts, leaves and flowers, oil, water, and brightly colored pastes for family members to place on the coffins bearing the remains of their loved ones. As the rain gently beat on the roof of the small open-sided structure, oil lanterns of chopped coconut shells were set in front of each casket. Families began circling the coffins, sometimes joining in on the prayers, mostly remaining silent. The tears were few, though o…

Sri Lanka: Some Thoughts on LTTE's Military Response - Update No 147 By Col R Hariharan (Retd.) [This is the second part of SAAG Note No 458 "Sri Lanka: War after the fall of Vidattalthivu- Part 1–Update No146" dated July 21, 2008 available at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/notes5/note458.html] During the last one week, Sri Lanka army has kept up its momentum of advance. According to defence sources, the troops of 57 Division are on the periphery of line Tunukkai-Mallavi, west of A9 highway. We can expect them to secure the line from Vellankulam on the coast to Mallavi during the course of the week The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)'s faile…