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The Coming of the Micro-states By Fred Weir, correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, June 5, 2006 (Also, see below articles related to emerging states and comments by the EU and US.) From "The Coming of the Micro-states": Experts fear that many "frozen conflicts" around the world - in which a territory has gained de facto independence through war but failed to win international recognition - could reignite as ethnic minorities demand the same right to self-determination that many former Yugoslav territories have been offered by the international community. The United Nations Charter mentions both the right of "self-determination" of peoples a…

LTTE activists campaigning to gain support from British parliamentarians R. SRIKANTHAN in London UK: According to LTTE circles a determined effort is made by its campaigners to obtain signatures from British parliamentarians criticising Sri Lankan government handling the present crisis in the island. Already two left wing parliamentarians have signed the petition and the campaigners are experiencing difficulties as others approached are not willing to put forward their names. In a political meeting held on February 11th in East London, attended by Nava Sama Samaja Party leader Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratna, the pro-LTTE speakers appealed to the publ…

[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…

Sirisena Blocking Gota’s Arrest President Maithripala Sirisena is sitting on the long-anticipated arrest of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and the former Secretary, Ministry of Defence and Urband Development, Colombo Telegraph learns. Gota at President’s nephew’s wedding | File photo The Attorney General in an unusual move has sought the approval of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Minister of Law and Order Sagala Ratnayaka to arrest Gotabaya Rajapaksa over allegations of misappropriatin…

Sri Lanka accused of killing civilians and aid workers By Justin Huggler, Asia Correspondent Published: 11 August 2006 Fighting in Sri Lanka has dramatically worsened, as the UN humanitarian chief called for an independent investigation into the killing of 17 international aid workers. The Tamil Tiger rebels claimed 50 civilians were killed in the areas they control after the government launched a renewed offensive with ground forces backed with air strikes and artillery fire. There was no way of confirming the Tigers' claim, but European ceasefire monitors said the rebels had informed them of 30 to 40 civilian deaths and they considered the figures credibl…

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The Pentagon has released a detailed fact sheet on U.S. security assistance to Ukraine. https://media.defense.gov/2023/May/03/2003214586/-1/-1/1/UKRAINE-FACT-SHEET-MAY-3.PDF…

Australian uni tops global sustainability rankings Western Sydney University is the world's top institution for sustainability after taking out first place in the Times Higher Education's Impact Rankings. The university claimed the overall top honour on Thursday evening, beating out the University of Manchester in second spot and Canada's Queen's University in third. The rankings, now in their fifth year, measure an institution's contribution to the United Nations' sustainable development goals, with a focus on the areas of research, stewardship, outreach and teaching. Western Sydney vice-chancellor Barney Glover said the university was committed to …

எய்தவன் இருக்க அம்பை நோவானேன்..? அம்புகள் எப்படி வேண்டுமானாலும் இருந்துவிட்டுப் போகலாம் அது ISIS வடிவில் கூட இருக்கலாம். அடிப்படைவாதிகளை ஆயுதமாக மாற்றியவர்கள் இந்த சம்பவத்தில் யார்??? #தவகித் ஜமாத்துக்கு புலனாய்வு பட்டியலூடாக பணம் வழங்கப்பட்டிருப்பதாக தகவல் கசிந்திருக்கிறது...... தவகித் ஜமாத் இயக்கம் 2009ல் ஆரம்பிக்கப்பட்டு அப்போதைய பாதுகாப்பு செயலர் கோட்டாபயவால் 26 பேருக்கு புலனாய்வு துறையினருக்கு கொடுக்கும் சம்பள அடிப்படையில் பணம் தொடர்ந்து கொடுக்கப்பட்டு வந்துள்ள விபரங்கள் இப்போது வெளிவந்துள்ளது...... தவிர உண்மையான குரான் என ஒரு புத்தகத்தையும் மகிந்த தரப்புக்கு இவர்கள் கையளித்துள்ளார்கள்..... அது குறித்த சிங்கள கட்டுரை இது... …

There are high levels of air pollution in the lands situated towards the north, east and west of Sri Lanka According to experts, PM2.5 is the ‘most dangerous pollutant’ Since 1990’s there has been a multifold rise in air pollution and this is primarily due to the long-range transport of air pollutants from the Indian sub-continent Experts point out that until and unless India manages their air pollution Sri Lanka will be impacted Air quality has been poor in much more limited places and periods - e.g. outside Norocholai Coal Plant and in some areas where traffi…

Sri Lanka's disappeared: Gang demands Tamil exiles pay ransom for kidnapped relatives The government-backed Karuna Faction militia is using abduction as a fundraising tool at home and abroad. Dan McDougall reports Sunday, 6 April 2008 For some refugees, finding asylum in Britain is not the end of the nightmare, but the beginning. And no one knows this better than Tamils such as Ariyathas Pushpathas. Ten years ago, as a 17-year-old, he fled Sri Lanka after his sister died in an air-raid. Six months ago, his brother and cousin were kidnapped in Colombo by "agents" claiming to act on behalf of the island's Karuna Faction militia, now a de-facto exten…

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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…

The United States (US) has denied reports it has softened its stand on Sri Lanka with US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki insisting that there has not been a change of US policy on Sri Lanka. Psaki said that US Secretary of State John Kerry had met President Mahinda Rajapaksa during the recent visit to the US by the President for the UN General Assembly. Asked, during the daily press briefing at the US State Department if, at that meeting, the US had softened its stance on Sri Lanka as was reported in a local newspaper, Psaki said “absolutely not”. “I saw the same story. The only thing that was right was that the Secretary did speak with the Sri Lan…

Sao Paulo, BrazilCNN — Pelé, the Brazilian soccer legend who won three World Cups and became the sport’s first global icon, has died at the age of 82. “Everything that we are, is thanks to you,” his daughter Kely Nascimento wrote in a post on Instagram, under an image of family members holding Pele’s hands. “We love you infinitely. Rest in peace.” Pelé was admitted to a hospital in São Paulo in late November for a respiratory infection and for complications related to colon cancer. Last week, the hospital said his health had worsened as his cancer progressed. He died on Thursday from multiple organ failure due to the progression of colon cancer, according t…

UK lawmakers urge LTTE de-proscription [TamilNet, Thursday, 03 May 2007, 23:47 GMT] Amid signs of greater British involvement in efforts to end Sri Lanka’s conflict, the UK government was this week urged by ruling and opposition lawmakers to lift the ban on the Liberation Tigers in the interests of a negotiated solution. At a landmark debate on Sri Lanka’s conflict in the British Parliament on Wednesday, leaders of a newly formed all party group representing the interests of the island’s Tamils urged the Blair government to lift the ban on the LTTE and also called for LTTE political leaders to be allowed to address the British parliament to better understand their…

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Source: Reuters By Rob Taylor COLOMBO, March 27 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has launched a mystery poster campaign inviting would-be Tamil Tiger suicide bombers to phone a government helpline in exchange for 10 million rupees ($92,000) and a new life overseas. "Why should you die with a scattered body?" the red-and-yellow posters, placed in Tamil-dominated areas of the capital, Colombo, asked readers contemplating becoming members of what the rebels call elite "Black Tiger" suicide squads. "You also were born to live. Why should you carry bombs?" the posters said alongside a fuzzy black-and-white photograph of a suicide bomber's severed head. Sri Lanka's …

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Tilvin Silva’s Encounter with the Tamil Diaspora in London Protests by a few sections had no impact 2 December 2025 12:10 amViews - 2861 Bookmark A A A Tilvin Silva meets Tamil community leaders in London -- file photo Another crucial change by the JVP is in the area of ethnic relations. The JVP is shedding its past “Sinhala Socialist” image and reaching out to the minority ethnicities of Sri Lanka, namely the Sri Lankan Tamils, Muslims and Indian or Hill Country Tamils However organisers of the JVP event were taken by surprise when over a hundred demonstrators assembled outside the Alperton high school issuing leaflets, holding placards and chanting slogans Several…

S. Ragini, Director of Malarcholai Displacement and the breakdown of the social fabric create another set of problems for women. Women for whatever reason are abandoned by their husbands and families, and are left to fend for themselves and their children. Malarcholai run by CWDR take in the mothers and their children who need a long term refuge. Mothers at Malarcholai are encouraged to get involved in income generation schemes and earn money rather than eternally depend on handout from CWDR. It has worked well. Some women after gaining self confidence and skill have been wanted by their husbands who have decided to live as a family again. Some ha…

15. Genetics may now begin to help in establishing early population movements. However, the error bars in such studies (like those in raw C14 dates) usually are thousands of years wide, and therefore useless for the historical period around 1000 BCE. (All this apart from the fact that there is a methodological problem of the speed of mutations that needs to be properly addressed). The discussion of individual papers would take too long; let me just point out that the much-touted Kivisild paper of 1999 is contradicted by --- Kivisild in his later incarnations (2004 etc.). The same authors who claim proof for persistence of ``Indian`` genes also partici…

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Ukraine: How the Corporate Media Censored Itself CBS released a documentary about the war in Ukraine, quoting the head of an NGO supplying weapons and military supplies as saying “like 30% of it reaches its final destination.” They then quickly took it down. Journalist and Multipolarista editor Ben Norton explains the effect of war propaganda on our media.