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Tamils have already dug graves for thousands of Tiger `martyrs' as nation edges closer to the brink Fighting appears inevitable as even old women head to the jungle for training, Andrew Mills writes Jul. 3, 2006. 01:00 AM ANDREW MILLS SPECIAL TO THE STAR KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka—The sandy field on the outskirts of town sits empty, already prepared to receive thousands of bodies of dead Tamil Tiger cadres, casualties-to-come in the all-out civil war many believe will break out here at any time. "Things haven't worked for four years, so what's the point in keeping the fragile peace and the ceasefire agreement," says M. Thiyagarajah, 34, a caretaker…

மும்பை, நவ.23: வாரத்தின் முதல் நாளான திங்களன்று ஏற்றம் பெற்ற பங்குச் சந்தை அடுத்த நாளே சரிவைச் சந்தித்தது. வட கொரியா, தென் கொரியாவில் போர் பதற்ற சூழல் உருவானது மும்பை பங்குச் சந்தையில் தாக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்தியது. காலையில் வர்த்தகம் தொடங்கியதும் பங்குகளின் விலைகள் மளமளவென சரியத் தொடங்கின. குறியீட்டெண் 615 புள்ளிகள் சரிந்தது. கடந்த 15 மாதங்களில் பங்குச் சந்தையில் புள்ளிகள் இந்த அளவுக்கு சரிந்தது கிடையாது. பின்னர் படிப்படியாக நிலைமையில் முன்னேற்றம் காணப்பட்டது. வர்த்தகம் முடியும்போது 265 புள்ளிகள் சரிந்து 19,691 புள்ளிகளானது. இதே போல தேசிய பங்குச் சந்தையிலும் கடுமையான ஏற்ற, இறக்கம் காணப்பட்டது. வர்த்தகம் முடியும்போது 75 புள்ளிகள் சரிந்ததில் குறியீட்டெண் 5,934 புள்ளிகளாக இ…

A mesmerising story of innocence and brutality. Gajaani became an LTTE member at 19, and has spent the last 13 years as one of its official war photographers. Scorching in its simplicity, her highly unusual account tracks the making of a soldier I grew up in the 1970s in Kilinoch-chi, Sri Lanka, where I was born. Kilinochchi was a remote area then, a place with a small population and very poor infrastructure. My parents talk of it as a peaceful time, but the problems in my country were already beginning. During the riots in 1983, we had relatives in Colombo who were taken in by Sinhalese friends. But a mob stormed the house where they were hiding — six of my fam…

Sri Lanka-US sign security pact Sri Lanka government expressed optimism that India would support the logistical agreement signed with the United States on Monday. Defence affairs spokesman, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella told BBC Sandeshaya that the details of the agreement to be revealed “in due course”. “We have informed India about this agreement and they are very supportive,” the minister added. “The agreement will increase interoperability between the two countries” a press release issued by the US embassy in Colombo said. Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa and U.S. Ambassador Robert Blake signed The Acquisition and Cross-Ser…

பயங்கரவாதத்துக்கு மதங்கள் பொறுப்பல்ல . மக்கள் தான் வன்முறைக்கும் பயங்கரவாதத்துக்கும் பொறுப்பானவர்கள் - ஒபாமா 17c97e948be2f627a5ed53d045db863e http://bit.ly/1G4gvih

Records: Teacher Brittany Zamora had sex with boy in classroom while other student watched Tempe police Sgt. Ronald Elcock talks about the department's motorcycles equipped with AR-15s at their headquarters in Tempe on March 27, 2018. Nick Oza/azcentral.com An alleged illicit sexual relationship between a Goodyear teacher and her 13-year-old student started with a message on a school app. Las Brisas Academy elementary teacher Brittany Zamora asked her sixth-grade students to message her on an online instruction app called Class Craft because she was going to be bored at school one day. …

'No access' to Arbour in Jaffna Residents say protesters were chased away by the military in Jaffna Civilians affected by the escalated hostilities in the northern Sri Lankan peninsular were prevented from meeting a top UN rights official, Jaffna residents said. UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour who is in Sri Lanka on a fact finding mission, visited Jaffna on Friday. Hundreds of civilians affected by the rights violations have been gathered in front of Nallur Kovil and UNHCR office in Jaffna. Protesters chased away However the government security forces dispersed them preventing the High Commissioner meeting them, residents said. …

Update on Online Petition: Assassinations, hooliganism, paramilitary activism, bomb blasts and a further plunge into lawlessness The Asian Human Rights Commission Press Statement ----------------------------------------------------- The year 2008 began, for Sri Lanka with the assassination of the Tamil opposition UNP Member of Parliament, T. Maheshwaran. Just a few days earlier a government minister, Mervyn Silva forcibly entered the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation) premises with about ten other persons and allegedly assaulted a news manager in retaliation for which, corporation employees demonstrated their anger against the …

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Mr Chidambaram’s War A math question: How many soldiers will it take to contain the mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people? ARUNDHATI ROY The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped them as living deities. Now these hills have been sold for the bauxite they contain. For the Kondh it’s as though god has been sold. They ask how much god would go for if the god were Ram or Allah or Jesus Christ? Perhaps the Kondh are supposed to be gratef…

4 ways Russia is wrecking the global economy Rick Newman ·Senior Columnist Vladimir Putin has launched a war on just one nation, Ukraine, but the Russian president’s vicious military campaign is punishing people in many countries, including some of the world’s most vulnerable. With no end in sight, the war’s economic toll could become devastating in some parts of the world by the middle and end of 2022. The economic shock waves from Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine will radiate wider and deeper as Ukraine’s economy teeters and sanctions choke off Rus…

இதை உன்மைபோல அரசாங்கம் பிரச்சாரம்செய்கின்றதே உன்மையாகவThursday, 01 March 2007 Sri Lanka Navy found 152 mm and 130 mm artillery shells and 120 mm mortar shells during search operations carried out in and around Dondra Point after the 75 meters long suspicious arms cargo ship was destroyed. In the wee hours of Wednesday (28), Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) detected a 75 meters long ship without a flag, name or any identification mark, moving towards North 185 nautical miles away in the seas off Dondra Point, in Matara, in the deep southern part of the island. The Navy patrol crafts on detection had inquired the ship of its identification and the information received, …

OCCUPATION 101 http://youtu.be/dwpvI8rX72o Occupation 101 – Voices of the silenced majority என்பது பலஸ்தீனப் போராட்டம் பற்றியதொரு ஆவணப்படம். இப்படத்தின் உள்ளடக்கம் பற்றிப் பேசுவதற்கு முன்னால் அது பற்றியதொரு சிறிய அறிமுகம். சுபியான் ஒமைஸ் மற்றும் அப்துல்லாஹ் ஒமைஸின் தயாரிப்பு எழுத்து மற்றும் இயக்கத்தில் 2006ம் ஆண்டு வெளியானது. பாதிக்கப்பட்ட பலஸ்தீன மக்கள் தமது அனுபவங்களை பேச்சு அறபு மொழியில் பகிர்ந்து கொள்ளும் போது அதற்கான ஆங்கில மொழி உபதலைப்பு வழங்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. தவிர அனைத்து நேர்காணல்களும் ஆங்கில மொழியிலானது. பலஸ்தீன் மீதான இஸ்ரேலின் ஆக்கிரமிப்பினால் மேற்குக்கரை மற்றும் காஸாவில் ஏற்பட்ட பாதிப்புக்கள், அநியாயங்களை உலகுக்கு எடுத்துச்சொல்வதே இப்படத்தின் நோ…

Liam Fox, Adam Werritty, Lord Bell, Bell Pottinger And Sri Lanka Let’s summarise what we know so far . Bell Pottinger is the PR firm that has taken, among its clientele , the wife of Syria’s President Assad, the Pinochet dictatorship, the Lukashenko dictatorship, and the Bahraini government. Bell Pottinger is overseen by Lord Bell, who was previously an advisor to Margaret Thatcher. Sri Lanka paid Bell Pottinger £3,000,000 for PR. Bell Pottinger sub-contracted PR work lobbying for Sri Lanka in America, to Qorvis Communications. As Sunday Times Sri Lanka reported last year: The conduct of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy nowadays is more expensive. Not…

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Affiliating Trinco university campus with Anuradhapura: civil society calls for protest [TamilNet, Thursday, 18 July 2013, 12:33 GMT] In one of the worst moves of educational genocide of Eezham Tamils, efforts are now being undertaken to affiliate the Trincomalee Campus of the Eastern University with the Rajarata University of Anuradhapura, informed sources in Trincomalee told TamilNet on Thursday. The university-level educational institutions of Tamils in Jaffna and Batticaloa, started by the missionaries in the 19th century, became secondary schools when the British rule transferring power to the Sinhalese towards its closing days, encouraged only a Colombo-centric e…

TORONTO — Toronto police are investigating two separate shootings that left a man dead outside a downtown condo tower and five people injured outside a banquet hall in the city's east end. At around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, a man in his 30s was shot in the back outside his Bay Street condo. About 15 minutes after the downtown murder, police were called to a second shooting across town in Scarborough at the Atlantic Party Hall. Police found three shooting victims at the scene. One man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, while another man and woman found outside the hall were taken to hospital by ambulance. Later, another man an…

After War Comes Peace, Not Prosperity Amantha Perera COLOMBO, Feb 12 2014 (IPS) - Sri Lanka’s war-battered Northern Province had reason to celebrate when the results of a countrywide exam were announced last December. Of the 16,604 students from the province who sat for the exam, 63.8 percent secured the required marks for entry into prestigious national universities. It was a spectacular performance for a region wrecked by three decades of sectarian conflict that ended in May 2009 with a military offensive. The region has endured a tedious reconstruction effort since then. “It is a national high,” Sivalingam Sathyaseelan, Secretary to the provincial Ministry of Ed…

12 workers shot dead in Lanka NDTV Correspondent Tuesday, May 30, 2006 (Colombo): Tamil Tiger rebels of Sri Lanka have shot dead 12 Singhalese constructions workers in the east of country. The rebels also took with them 14 others but two of them escaped, a military spokesman said. But the rebels have denied involvement. The incident comes on a day the European Union listed the rebels, also known as Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as a terrorist group. Freeze on funds The ban will deprive the LTTE of vital funds they collect from members of the Tamil community in Europe and free other financing channels. The EU move …

Norwegian peace initiative was fated to fail – Galtung [by Admin , Feb 02,2007] The Norwegian peace initiative was not only fated to fail but was stillborn because it had excluded other parties, says a Norwegian professor who is widely regarded as the founder of the academic discipline of peace research. Prof. Johan Galtung is the founder and director of Transcend, a peace and development network. Galtung established the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, in 1959, the Journal of Peace Research in 1964, and co-launched the Nordic Institute for Peace Research in 2000. Johan Galtung was in. Sri Lanka earlier this month to deliver a talk on the peace process. In a subs…

New President in Sri Lanka Puts China’s Plans in Check NEW DELHI — On a Sunday four months ago, a vessel pulled unannounced intoSri Lanka’s Colombo harbor: the Chinese Navy submarine Great Wall No. 329, which is designed to carry torpedoes, a cruise missile and a 360-pound warhead. Sri Lanka’s defense minister shrugged it off as an “operational good-will visit.” But anxiety was already radiating as far as New Delhi, where the visit was seen as a clear declaration that China had arrived in India’s backyard — with the blessing of Sri Lanka’s president at the time, Mahinda Rajapaksa. Whatever China’s long-term plans were for strategically important Sr…

மிக இலகுவான ஆங்கிலத்தின் விபரனத்தோடு ஒரு வெளிநாட்டு ஆங்கில( அவுஸ்ரேலிய) ஊடகம் ஒண்றின் ஆக்கம் இது....! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UHN2f4AORqg

Claymore blast in Mannar kills SLA soldier, injures another [TamilNet, August 02, 2006 09:27 GMT] A Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldier was killed and another injured in a claymore mine attack on troops engaged road clearing operation at Periyaneelansenai along Uyilankulam-Adamban Old Road, around 7.30 a.m., Wednesday. Following the explosion unidentified men in lying ambush fired at soldiers, police in the northwestern town said. The body of the dead soldier, Meegedera Pushpakumara Ariaysena, 23, of Matale, was handed over to Mannar general hospital. Mr.T.J.Pirapaharan, Additional Mannar Magistrate inspected the body and ordered the hospital authorities to hand …