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The economy can take another 18 months of war Recently sworn in as a MP and acting as a Special Advisor to the President Basil Rajapaksa, believes it is more important to have the support of the people towards the political solution, than trying for a two thirds support in the House. He argues that the 13th amendment failed the last time around simply because it did not win the trust of the people, even if the government had more than a two thirds majority in Parliament. Spearheading the government’s Eastern development programme, he also maintains that the government has successfully handled the displaced civilians in the East. Denying reports of criti…

The Defense Of Our People By: Brian Senewiratne - Australia Courtesy: TamilCanadian - September 1, 2007 ... ...... At a recent talk to expatriate Tamils, I was asked, “What is the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) doing?” I chose to answer the question with another, “What are you doing”. The answer is “Nothing, other than hallucinating about Eelam and trying to shift the responsibility for its achievement, to the LTTE”. What can we do? A great deal. ... ..... I launched a series of DVDs (I have lost count – I think about half a dozen) - to show the world what has been happening to our Tamil people (yes, they are my people as much as they are yours). I…

Sri Lanka air raids 'kill 15 civilians' Tuesday Jan 2 19:43 AEDT Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said that 15 civilians, including four children, were killed in air strikes by government forces in the northwest of the island on Tuesday. The military confirmed the strikes, but did not comment on casualties. They said a Sea Tiger base in Mannar and another rebel position in the eastern area of Vakarai were targeted. A Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) military spokesman said four fighter jets conducted the strikes, destroying dozens of civilian houses in Mannar. "There are 15 dead bodies and 25 wounded from the bombing," added R Ilannthirayan. The …

Sri Lanka: 3 SLN Dvora Gunboats Destroyed, says Tamil Rebels Sep 28, 2007, 04:13 Pulmoaddai - Three Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) Dvora gunboats were destroyed by the Sea Tigers Thursday night when more than 17 Dvora boats engaged in a heavy sea fight with Sea Tiger flotillas in the seas off Pulmoaddai. 3 Sea Tigers were killed in the fighting that broke out at 10 p.m. Thursday and lasted till 3:30 a.m. Friday till the Sri Lanka Navy boats were pushed back to the east port harbor, towing the damaged boats according to the sources in the Eastern Sri Lanka. Artillery shells also were fired from the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) coastal positions in Kokki'laay, Kokkuththoduva…

India's Sri Lanka policy - a projection Is India going to be pushed, prodded or propelled, in its policy towards Sri Lanka, down the very path that it took in the 1980s? Dayan JAYATILLEKA STANCE: The All India Bar Association (AIBA) has joined the raucous voices emanating from Tamil Nadu, calling for a more vigorous and one-sided policy on the part of New Delhi towards Colombo. While it goes against India's interest to be even handed between the LTTE, which perpetrated an act of foreign terrorism on its soil, and Sri Lanka, a friendly neighbour, voices such as that of the AIBA actually argue for a policy that is lopsided: against the Sri L…

Implementation agenda of $ 400 m line of credit to be finalised during Prime Minister’s visit to India First State visit by PM since his appointment starts on Friday $ 400 m line of credit for infrastructure offered by Modi during President’s visit in Nov. while $ 50 m for security Talks on trade, defence and tourism with top Indian officials during visit Delegations expected to discuss key areas under defence and maritime security MR to also visit Varanasi, Sarnath, Bodhgaya and Tirupati Sri Lanka and India are expected to finalise the implementation agenda for a $ 450 million line of credit offered by the latter during the visit o…

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201186072733063 Ven. Wataraka Vijitha thero briefly speaks against the Murderers & Media which has character assasinated him. Watch the last sentence he makes firmly. Let our SOCIAL MEDIA devices take his message everywhere. Pls SHARE.

கடலுக்குள் ஒளிந்து கொள்ளும் மேஜிக் சாலை: இது பிரான்ஸ் அதிசயம்! உலகின் அழகான சாலைகள், அபாயகரமான சாலைகளை பார்த்திருப்பீர்கள். ஆனால், இப்போது பார்க்கப்போகும் பிரான்ஸ் நாட்டிலுள்ள மேஜிக் சாலை சற்றே விந்தையானது. ஆம், இந்த சாலையில் தினசரி இரண்டு முறை மட்டுமே போக்குவரத்து நடைபெறும். மீதமுள்ள நேரங்களில் கடல் நீர் மட்டம் அதிகரித்து சாலை தண்ணீருக்குள் மறைந்து போகிறது. இந்த விந்தையான சாலையின் படங்கள், கூடுதல் தகவல்களை தொடர்ந்து காணலாம். பிரான்ஸ் நாட்டின் வட அட்லாண்டிக் கடல் பகுதியில் உள்ள பர்னெப் வளைகுடாவிலிருந்து நோயிர்மோட்டியர் தீவை இந்த சாலை இணைக்கிறது. இந்த சாலை 4 கிமீ நீளம் கொண்டது. பேசேஜ் டு கோயிஸ் என்று இந்த சாலை அழைக்கப்படுகிறது. கோயிஸ் என்றால் ஈரமான காலணிகள…

Sir Alex Ferguson book: David Beckham had to leave Man Utd Sir Alex Ferguson says David Beckham had to leave Manchester United because the former England captain thought he was "bigger than the manager". In his latest autobiography, Ferguson said he fell out with Beckham after criticising his performance during an FA Cup defeat by Arsenal in 2003. Play media Marriage changed Beckham - Ferguson "The minute a Manchester United player thought he was bigger than the manager, he had to go," he wrote. "David thought he was bigger than Alex Ferguson. "That was the death knell for him." Ferguson also said he had concerns about Beckham's celebrity lifestyle, following the…

Callum Macrae 02/10/14 00:00 Just over 200 days ago the Sri Lankan authorities arrested a Tamil mother, Balenderan Jeyakumari, and her teenage daughter. Mrs Jeyakumari had been campaigning to find out what had happened to her 15-year-old son, Mahindan, who disappeared after apparently being taken prisoner by the Sri Lankan authorities at the end of the war in 2009, accused of membership of the Tamil Tigers. Mrs Jeyakumari and her daughter were well known activists who had been among the crowds which mobbed British prime minister David Cameron when he visited the former war zone in Jaffna in November last year. Three months later Mrs Jeyakumari sent me a video …

A Boeing 777 departed from Doha, Qatar on Sunday and landed in Auckland, New Zealand on Monday after flying 9,031 miles (14,535 kilometers). The return flight touched down in Doha late on Monday. The scheduled time for that leg is 17 hours and 30 minutes. Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker, who traveled on board the inaugural flight, said the new Auckland service was "an important milestone" in the airline's global expansion. The previous record was held by Gulf rival Emirates. Its Dubai to Auckland service is now the world's second longest at 8,823 miles. Related: The world's shortest super jumbo flight One airline does fly a longer route — …

In an interview with Al Jazeera, the Commander of the Security Forces in Jaffna Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe laughed off reports of abductions, torture and rape committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces, dismissing them as ‘lies’. Speaking on the documentary ‘Scars of Sri Lanka’, which aired on Thursday, Hathurusinghe dismissed claims of abductions, stating, “I flatly deny... None we do not. We don’t have anyone and we don’t abduct. Because there is no reason, why should we abduct? We have no terrorism.” See interview from 14:00 When questioned about individual reports of abductions by reporter Evan Williams, Hathurusinghe laughed before respo…

Rathika Pathmanathan (Photo Courtesy: PK Balachandran) COLOMBO: Rathika Pathmanathan, a former combatant of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), urges fellow Sri Lankans divided by a 30 year ethnic conflict, to stop “accusing and punishing each other, and begin addressing the root causes of the conflict” so that Sinhalese and Tamils may live together in harmony. In her slender book “I Search For Myself In Darkness Called Light”, published simultaneously in Tamil, Sinhalese and English, Rathika tells the story of a young woman born and bred in war succinctly, without fear or favor. All that she says about …

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers have rejected government plans for peace talks in Geneva on February 15 because of reported abductions of pro-Tiger aid workers, and want talks in late February instead, a rebel source said on Sunday. The government said on Friday the talks, seen as vital to stop a rash of violence escalating into a return to a two-decade-old war that has already killed more than 64,000 people, would start in Switzerland on February15 for two days. "February 15 is completely out," the rebel source told Reuters on condition of anonymity. "The Tigers are keen to go to Geneva for talks, but the Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (T…

இன்று மிகப் பிரபலமான தாவரப் பூச்சிக் கொல்லியாக வேம்பு திகழ்கிறது. பல நூற்றுக்கணக்கான ஆண்டுகளாக உழவர்கள் வேப்ப இலைகளை தானியங்களுடன் கலந்தும், சாக்குப் பைகளை வேம்புக் கரைசலில் முக்கி எடுத்துக் காயவைத்தும் தானியங்களைச் சேதம் செய்யும் பூச்சிகளிடமிருந்து பாதுகாத்து வந்தனர். வேப்பம் பிண்ணாக்கு பயிர்களை கரையான், மற்ற பூச்சிகளின் தாக்குதலில் இருநூது பாதுகாப்பு அளித்தது. இதனை நிலத்தில் இட்டு பயன்படுத்துவதைவிட பயிர்களுக்குத் தெளித்துப் பயன்படுத்துவது மேலும் பல நன்மைகளைக் கொடுப்பதாக இருந்தது. வேப்ப இலைகள் மற்றும் வேப்பம் பிண்ணாக்கு ஆகியவற்றை நிலத்தில் இடுவதன் மூலம் அதிலுள்ள வேதிப் பொருட்கள் நேராக பயிர்களுக்கு வேர்களின் மூலம் ஊடுருவிப் பரவி நீண்ட நாட்களுக்குப் பாதுகாப்பு அள…

RAW aiding paramilitary recruitment in India - report [TamilNet, June 25, 2006 01:15 GMT] Sri Lanka’s Army-backed Tamil paramilitaries are seeking recruits amongst Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu, offering hefty salaries, an Indian news agency reported this week. The Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front (ENDLF), an India-based paramilitary group now operating in an anti-LTTE grouping under the Karuna Group, is seeking recruits from refugee camps and orphanages in southern India, an Indian website reported, citing local press reports. The recruitment is being conducted with the knowledge of India’s external intelligence agency, RAW (Research and Analysis Wing), …

US responsible for Lanka's successive UNHRC defeat: Peiris PRINT FONT SIZE Colombo: Some countries had to support the UN resolutions against Sri Lanka over its human rights records due to factors which affected their bilateral relationship with the US, External affairs minister GL Peiris said today. Answering an opposition query, Peiris said, “Some of the countries privately told us that they had to support the resolutions against Sri Lanka as there were factors which affected their bilateral relationship with the US,” Peiris said. The opposition legislator Sajith Premadasa asked Peiris the reasons why Sri Lanka had lost two successive UNHRC r…

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…

As Sri Lanka gears up for the August 5 parliamentary election, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) — the main grouping representing minority Tamils living in north and east — is facing its biggest test yet in its constituency, since the war ended a decade ago. Though the Tamils have repeatedly given a huge mandate to the TNA, whether in the 2013 Northern Provincial Council election or the parliamentary polls of 2015, the Alliance — which secured 16 seats in the 225-member Parliament in 2015 — is contesting this election amid what seems a growing disenchantment among voters. “No matter who gets elected nothing changes in our lives. We vote because it’s our duty, no…

TRO caring 10 000 IDPs, seeks assistance from ICRC, GoSL, SLMM [TamilNet, August 04, 2006 12:35 GMT] Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) on Thursday said the organisation was taking care of ten thousand IDPs in Trincomalee district. Food and water has been provided by the TRO to the IDPs since 01 August 2006. "Stockpiles of food are running low and TRO is appealing to the ICRC, Government of Sri Lanka, and the SLMM to facilitate the transportation of humanitarian relief to the displaced persons," the organisation said. TRO has also received requests for assistance from the Muslim Council in Kinniya, a community TRO has assisted post-tsunami. Full te…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels broke through military defences in the island's far north and overran army bunkers on Saturday, truce monitors said, as the fiercest fighting since a 2002 truce spread. The Tigers and army exchanged intense artillery fire and government jets bombed near the rebels' forward defence lines in the northern Jaffna peninsula, residents said, as thousands of civilians fled to churches. The military said 27 of its personnel were killed and 80 injured, and estimated it killed more than 150 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels. It said it sank five Sea Tiger boats as they attacked army posts on t…

China to take over Uganda’s main assets over unpaid rising huge debt The Ugandan government is now at risk of losing its main state assets to China over unpaid huge increasing loans from the Chinese government. But according to the Ugandan government, the growing debt is sustainable, and the country is not at risk of losing state assets to China, the country’s finance minister, Matia Kasaija. African Stand reported in December last year that the Kenyan government risks losing the lucrative Mombasa port to China if the country fails to repay huge loans advanced by Chinese lenders, but both Chinese and Kenyan officials have dismissed t…

IDP’s from Five Camps in B’Caloa Forcibly Removed to Muthur in Thirty Buses. DBS Displaced persons staying at five refugee camps in Batticaloa district were forcibly removed to Trincomalee district in a sudden “operation” masterminded by an Assistant Superintendent of Police around noon on Thursday March 15th. Though exact figures are not known NGO sources said that nearly a thousand people were taken against their will in thirty buses to Trincomalee district. The Batticaloa district Government Agent or divisional secretaries were not informed of this action by the authorities concerned. An NGO official said that civil administration officials in B’ca…

2007: The year in review [TamilNet, Thursday, 03 January 2008, 07:34 GMT] For the people of the NorthEast, 2007 was a grim year. Sri Lanka’s security forces and allied paramilitaries intensified their campaign of abductions (‘white van’ abductions), torture, and murder of Tamil civilians. Tamil civil society leaders bore the brunt of the counter-insurgency campaign. Jaffna remained an open prison with shortage of essential items, east falling under the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) control with thousands displaced as Colombo concocts colonization schemes to make east a Sinhala majority province. In the North, the paramilitary EPDP, which has been implicated over the las…

சற்று யோசிக்கையில் ஹாலிவூட் சினிமாக்கள் ரம்போ 1, ரம்போ 2 போல் கடைசியாகக் காலச்சுவடில் எழுதிய பத்தியின் கட்டுரைத் தலைப்பையே இதற்கும் கொடுத்துப் ‘படிவார்ப்புகள் சிதைந்த கதை 2’ என எழுதியிருக்கலாம் எனத் தோன்றுகிறது. தலிபான்கள் என்றால் இறுக்கமான எண்ணம் நமக்கு இருக்கிறது. அவர்கள் கவிதை எழுதுவார்கள் என்று யாராவது உங்களுக்குச் சொன்னால் நம்புவீர்களா? தலிபான்கள் கவிதை எழுதுவது ராஜபக்ஷ ஈழ உரிமைக்காக உயிர்கொடுப்பார் என்று சொல்வதைப் போன்றது. அப்படிச் சொல்பவரை இரண்டுதடவையாவது மேலும் கீழும் கட்டாயம் பார்ப்பீர்கள். அவர் உங்களுக்கு வேண்டியவராக இருந்தால் அவரது புத்தி சுவாதீனம் பற்றி உங்களுக்குக் கவலையும் ஏற்படலாம். கட்டுங்கடங்காத தாடி, ஊத்தையான தலைப்பாகை, கசங்கிய நீண்ட உடுப்பு, கையில் து…