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Around the world events are being held to demand that the Sri Lankan government free displaced persons being held in detention camps, and allow them to go back to their homes. November 21st marks 180 days after the Government of Sri Lanka pledged that the refugees would be resettled within 180 days. Yet tens of thousands of Tamils families are languishing in camps with no sign of repatriation. Amnesty International released a report in August entitled “Unlock the Camps”. Join Amnesty, Canadians Concerned about Sri Lanka, and other human rights organizations to mark this day. www.canadianscsl.ca

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…

The Tamil Tigers organization hopes to use Canada as a strategic base to continue the fight against the government of Sri Lanka, according to an authority on the alleged terrorist group. "I cannot think of any other country that is more important for the Tamil Tigers as Canada, to regroup and continue their campaign against Sri Lanka," said Prof. Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, a Singapore-based think-tank. Gunaratna is advising the Canadian government as it investigates the 75 Tamil migrants currently in immigration custody in Vancouver. The men were found aboard a ship seized off the coast of B…

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2009/11/kp-tortured.html KP tortured Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Leave a Comment By Our Defence Investigator (November 04, Colombo, Sri By Our Defence Investigator (November 04, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) According to a reliable Defence Ministry source LTTE’s former International head Selvarasa Pathmanathan, well known as KP is said to have undergone severe torturing in the hands of the intelligence operatives to extract information from him. The source said KP is held in the Panagoda army camp in the outskirts of Colombo. Uncooperative KP was severely tortured by the Sri Lanka Terrorist Investigation…

It has come to light that K.P. has time and again urged Prabhakaran to negotiate with the Sri Lankan Govt. India took a lot of pains and interest to interrogate K.P. in connection with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi when he was taken into custody. At the outset, the Indian secret intelligence service, ‘RAW’ requested from the Sri Lankan Govt. to meet and question him unofficially. But, the Sri Lankan govt. turned down the request and informed India’s ‘RAW’ secret service that, until its interrogation is concluded pertaining to KP’s involvement in the terrorist activities in Sri Lanka, India cannot be granted the opportunity to question him. Thereafter…

"Five LTTE cadres guarding Pirabakaran have escaped by pretending to be dead amongst the dead bodies strewn in the battle field. One of them has escaped from Sri Lanka to a safe country." _____________________________ By Our Defense Investigator (October 24, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) According to information gathered from a Senior Defense Ministry source in Colombo, it is established that the LTTE leader Velupillai Pirabakaran had surrendered to the army in the final stage of the war without swallowing the cyanide capsule tied to his neck. The credible evidence obtained from the source linked to the Sri Lanka’s Military Intelligence led by Major-Genera…

http://www.3news.co.nz/Australian-customs-intercepts-79-boat-people-near-Christmas-Island/tabid/313/articleID/126000/cat/251/Default.aspx Australian customs intercepts 79 boat-people near Christmas Island 0 comments | Post Comment Email SharePrint Text Size: aAaAaA Customs officials say they are not sure where the boat people are from - although signs on the boat say 'We are Sri Lankan' Mon, 19 Oct 2009 1:03p.m. Australian customs officials have confirmed that they have intercepted 79 people on a boat between Christmas Island and Indonesia. The boat was picked up by the HMAS Armidale after it responded to a distress signal. Most …

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சிறிலங்காவின் சிவில் யுத்தத்தைப் பின்பற்றி தனது உள்நாட்டுக் கிளர்ச்சிகளை அடக்க நினைக்கும் இந்தியா India follows Sri Lanka in waging civil war' [TamilNet, Thursday, 08 October 2009, 05:01 GMT] India, in consultation with US counter-insurgency forces, is planning an unprecedented military offensive against ultra-Marxist rebels that is going to hit mainly the Adivasi (indigenous) peoples of India in the states of Andra Predesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and Maharashtra, warns a protest document drafted by Arundhati Roy and a group of progressive intellectuals. India plans to deploy its paramilitary forces, anti-rebel militias organized and fun…

சிங்கள அரசாங்கத்தின் கைய்யில் முழுதான கலாச்சார அழிவை எதிர்நோக்கும் தமிழர்கள் - ஆசி பா. உ Tamils facing “cultural annihaliation” by SL Government: Australian Senator [TamilNet, Thursday, 08 October 2009, 05:10 GMT] “It may be argued that the Tamil people have a legitimate right to self-determination but what is essential now is that we must see an end to the oppressive and discriminatory policies of the victorious Sri Lankan Government” urged Greens Senator Ian Cohen in an address to the Australian Parliament on September 24th. Highlighting the “potential humanitarian catastrophe” faced by almost 300,000 refugees who “despite their desire and capacity to return h…

Colombo has plans to colonize North with Buddhist Sinhalese Suresh Premachandran [TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 October 2009, 17:06 GMT] The government of Sri Lanka is actively engaged in colonizing Ki’linochchi, Mullaiththeevu and Jaffna district with Sinhalese Buddhists in order to crush the demand for Eelam in the traditional homelands of the Tamils in the North, Suresh Premachandran, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna parliamentarian, said in a press meet held Monday in his Jaffna office. He further accused the government for not accepting help from International Community in de-mining Vanni as it does not want the persons from foreign countries to see the mass gr…

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s remarks while addressing the UN security council had an inaccurate reference about the Sri Lankan armed forces using rape as a tactic of war . This is the relevant quote from the US Secretary of State: “The resolution we passed today represents a step forward in our global efforts to end violence perpetrated against women and children in conflict zones, and it builds on two prior Security Council resolutions: Resolution 1325, which called on all parties in conflicts to respect women’s rights and increase their participation in peace negotiations and post-conflict reconstruction efforts; and Resolution 1820, adopted last year, which affir…

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Shanmuganathan Sivashankar alias Pottu Ammaan a.k.a. Pottu, the intelligence division chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was judicially confirmed dead last week when Colombo High Court Judge Kumudini Wickremasinghe allowed an amendment to the indictment filed in the trial regarding the murder of former Foreign affairs minister Lakshman Kadirgamar. Submitting a report to court ,Deputy Solicitor-General Kapila Waidyaratne asked for an amendment seeking to exclude the names of LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran and his intelligence chief as chief accused in the indictment.It was stated that both had been killed in May this year …

Vanakkam Give me your thoughts, opinion, suggestions on doing a protest outside BBC as soon as possible. Subject: Eric Solheim on HardTalk - TO BE CHALLENGED Vanakkam Sleeping Tamils in UK should challenge this with BBC Hard Talk. In this interview with Eric Solheim, the interviewer (Hard Talk) took the anti-government position in all the countries except in Sri Lanka - WHY? This has to be challenged. Where is the question about war crime, crimes against humanity, genocide etc. He never asked any question in favour of Tamils! All the questions on Sri Lanka are in favour of the Sri Lankan government. Please c…

நல்லொரு வித்தியாசமான கட்டுரை. காட்டு தீயை பொருளாதார தேக்கத்துடன் தொடர்புபடுத்தி எழுதப்பட்டு இருக்கிது. Surviving a Recession — And a Wildfire Forests have experienced fires for millions of years; yet for at least the last hundred years, fire departments in wooded areas have suppressed fires as quickly as possible. With ever-increasing efficiency they've succeeded in removing fire from its traditional role in a natural forest eco-system. We now understand that the result has been catastrophic for the forests and for the people who live in and around them. Fires play an essential role in burning away the old understory and regenerating the forest. If dead branche…

UN probing Sri Lanka 'executions': Channel4 Tuesday, 01 September 2009 21:59 administrator The UN says it is viewing with 'utmost concern' a video broadcast on Channel 4 News which allegedly shows Sri Lankan troops executing prisoners, reports Nick Paton Walsh for Channel4. Philip Alston, who is the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, explained whether he thought the pictures were authentic. The images are 'horrendous' and, if authentic, are a serious breach of international law. The United Nations’s own expert called for an investigation into footage broadcast by this programme. But there are accusation…

Close aide reveals last days and hours of Prabha August 27, 2009 by lrrp “If we fail in our final plan, we would be killed by the Sri Lankan Army. In such an eventuality, no one can claim an Eelam in Sri Lanka and the Eelam dream would become a nightmare.” These were Prabakarans’s last words to the rest of the Tiger leaders How the Eelam dream became a nightmare It was during the height of Eelam War IV, when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or Tamil Tigers were pushed to the last remaining piece of real estate. To be exact, even that little bit of real estate was not directly under its control. It was the government declared ‘No Fire Zone’ (NFZ…

Satellite Image Analysis to Establish Sri Lanka’s War Crimes - TAG, USA TAG will be using several images of the war area acquired from a Satellite Image vendor at different dates prior to and after May 18th when the Sri Lanka’s war officially ended, and will be processing the data to collect evidence of the massacre by Sri Lanka. Times UK has alleged from aerial photos and using expert analysis that the number killed is close to 20,000 civilians. TAG has assembled a group of experts and volunteers to do the work, and have sought help from image analysis departments in two premier educational institutions for assistance. As part of the effort, the team will at…

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Mahinda Rajapakse says LTTE a terrorist Organisation. But what he did in the year 1988 ? He is a terrorist and against India! Indian Govt and Congress should notify this ! (Please Forward this video to the whole world)

While condemning Sri Lanka violence, EU still sells arms to government http://euobserver.com/13/28155

DHARMAPURAM ADHINAM SAIVA SIDDHANTHAM An Explication And Assessment By Scholars The World Over Edited by Sekkizhaar Adi-Podi T.N.RAMACHANDRAN MAX MULLER AND SAIVA SIDDHANTHAM (Gold needs no gilding; neither does liy, painting. It will be presumptuous on our part to introduce Max Muller to scholars. Max Muller was born in Germany; he chose to settle down in England; his heart, however, was ever in India. By the time he became alive to the glories of Tamil Saivism he was too old to master it. Hence his exhoratation, extracted hereunder. Ed.) ... ... Such journals as the Pandit, the Brahmavadin, the Light of Truth, and lately the Journal…

THE pitiless success of Sri Lanka’s military offensive delivers one salutary lesson: If you have China as an ally, you can afford to ignore pressure from anywhere else. . President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government has won China’s financial, military and diplomatic support — along with the confidence to brush off Western protests about its behaviour. . In the closing stages of the assault on the Tamil Tigers, the army surrounded about 50,000 civilians inside a tiny enclave. Other governments would have found it difficult to resist outside calls for a unilateral ceasefire, at least to allow the evacuation of wounded innocents. . If the Security Council had thrown …

CP24 How are the local Tamil protests affecting your views of the conflict in Sri Lanka? It's making me more aware of the issue - please click this It's turning me off issue due to local/traffic disruptions Undecided Please go to 40 St. Clair Ave., Sri Lankan Consulate to nab Banduley Rush!

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