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விடுதலைப் புலிகளை முற்றாக நீக்குவதற்கு இன்னும் சிறிது காலமே தேவை: சரத் பொன்சேகா [புதன்கிழமை, 23 ஓகஸ்ட் 2006, 01:47 ஈழம்] [காவலூர் கவிதன்] தமிழர்களைப் பாதுகாப்பதற்காகவே சிறீலங்கா படைகள் வடக்கு கிழக்கில் நிலைகொண்டுள்ளன. கடந்த இரண்டு தசாப்த போரில், விடுதலைப் புலிகளே தமிழ்மக்களைக் கொன்றனர், படையினரல்ல என்று சிறீலங்கா இராணுவத் தளபதி சரத் பொன்சேகா பத்திரிகைப் பேட்டியொன்றில் தெரிவித்தார். அவர் மேலும் கூறுகையில்: நான் இப்போது மீண்டும் பழைய உடல்நிலையில் மிக சுறுசுறுப்பாக உள்ளேன். ஒரு விடயம் மிக முக்கியமானது, அதாவது சிறீலங்கா படைகளுக்கு தமிழ் மக்கள் மீது எந்தக் கோபமோ வெறுப்போ கிடையாது. அவர்களைப் பாதுகாப்பதுதான் படைகளின் பிரதான செயற்பாடாக உள்ளது. விடுதலைப் பு…

[size=4]நம்பியார், ஹோம்ஸ், புஹ்ன் - இவர்கள் மூவரையும் குறிவைத்து எழுதப்பட்ட கட்டுரை: ஐ.நா. எதை மறைக்கின்றது? யாரை பாதுகாக்கின்றது??[/size] [size=1][size=4]( முடிந்தால் பரப்புரை செய்யுங்கள்: முகநூலில் ஏற்றுங்கள் ....)[/size][/size] [size=6]What the U.N. is (badly) hiding on Sri Lanka[/size] [size=5]The U.N. today released a damning 128-page internal review of its conduct in Sri Lanka during the bloody, final several months of the country's 28 year-long civil war. The main takeaway -- as I reported yesterday -- is that the U.N. failed abjectly in its responsibility to protect the more than 40,000 civilians killed, mostly as a result of indiscriminate …

Sri Lanka 'apologises' for India story PRIU sad Narayanan and Menon are members of the said panel The Sri Lanka government has apologised for an incorrect statement that said a high-level defence panel has been established with India after a visit by senior officials. The Policy Research & Information Unit (PRIU) of the Presidential Secretariat said on Thursday the panel was established during a visit by three senior officials to Delhi from 3-4 September. "The PRIU is informed that there was no decision among those who participated in these discussions to establish an Indo-Lanka High Level Committee on defence," a statement issued by PRIU stated on …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A roadside bomb tore through a NATO vehicle on Wednesday, killing six soldiers and their Afghan interpreter in a southern Afghan region that has recently seen heavy fighting, a NATO statement said. ADVERTISEMENT NATO did not release the soldiers' nationalities or the location of the attack, but Afghan police said it happened in Kandahar province's Zhari district. The majority of the troops in Kandahar are Canadian. Canadian Defense Department spokeswoman Sarah Kavanagh said had no information on the incident. The attack was the deadliest against foreign troops in Afghanistan since May 13, when seven troops were killed — fiv…

இந்த கட்டுரையின் முதலாவது பதிப்பு (National Geographic)மிகவும் நீண்டகட்டுரை என்பதால் அதன் இணைப்பையும் சமீபத்தில் வந்த கட்டுரையையும் பகிர்ந்துகொள்கிறேன்.. New Species On Human Family Tree Discovered In Ancient Mass Grave Homo naledi had small brains but human-like traits, upending the fossil record Claire Maldarelli || September 10, 2020 In September 2013, two cave explorers on a routine exploration in South Africa happened upon a collection of fossils that would soon question our current understanding of humans’ ancestral history. While probing a narrow fracture system in the Rising Star Cave System in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, the…

An ongoing National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the seizure of 300 kg heroin, five AK-47 rifles and 1,000 live rounds of 9mm ammunition off the coast of Vizhinjam near Thiruvananthapuram has led to speculation that an international drug running and weapon trading racket is aimed at reviving the Sri Lankan Tamil separatist group LTTE. The case relates to the March 18 interception of a boat with the contraband by the Coast Guard following an intelligence input. The mastermind behind the operation was Sri Lankan Tamil Suresh Rajan, a resident of Colombo who had been living at Kundrathur, a Chennai suburb, for some time, the Indian Express reported. Multip…

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today had talks in New Delhi on Tamil concerns.A TNA delegation led by party leader R. Sampanthan had urged Swaraj to ensure India gets fully involved in the Sri Lankan Tamil issue. The Indian media quoted Sampanthan as saying the TNA delegation had also raised concerns over Sinhalese settlements in Tamil areas. TNA MPs Mavai Senathirajah, M.A. Sumanthiran and India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Y.K.Sinha also took part in the talks. The TNA is to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow as part of the official visit to India. The TNA is expected to push for the…

Some say terror label prolongs Sri Lanka war By jared ferrie Publish Date: 28-Sep-2006 The streets of Jaffna were lined with government soldiers. Posted every 50 metres, leaning up against pockmarked walls, or standing in the thin shadow of a tree in the blazing sun. They rode slowly by on bicycles, in the back of tractor trailers, and cruised past in truck convoys. Within months of this early summer scene, the uneasy calm would erupt into open battle with the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the Tamil Tigers, or LTTE). There were checkpoints all the way from Jaffna town southeast to the peninsula’s narrow Elephant Pass. Since 1998, …

A brother out of control - Editorial , The Hindu. Two years after defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and eliminating it as a military entity, Sri Lanka is still struggling to emerge from the woods on some important fronts. Two issues are predominant. One is the nature of the peace, and the efforts by the Sri Lankan government towards a political reconciliation between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. The military victory over the LTTE, and President Mahinda Rajapaksa's strength in parliament, gave the government an unprecedented opportunity to put in place a progressive political framework to heal the wounds of a 30-year war, and address Ta…

End killings of innocent Tamils, India tells Lanka Rants + Raves Print Email Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 New Delhi - India Thursday politely but firmly made it clear to Sri Lanka that its security forces must stop killing innocent Tamils in the name of combating the Tamil Tigers. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samraweera was conveyed the message by India’s political leadership which while being firmly committed to the island’s unity is bothered by increasing reports of attacks on innocent Tamils. An informed source told IANS: ‘The minister was told that civilian casualties should be avoided… and we hope that Sri Lankan security forces will not r…

LTTE moving north: report B. Muralidhar Reddy Exodus of civilians still continuing, says SLMM COLOMBO: Amidst reports of continuing civilian exodus from the remaining areas in Batticaloa district where the LTTE has influence, the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) has assessed that the Tigers could possibly have decided not to hold territory in the east but remain present there. In its latest assessment report after the fall of Vaharai, the SLMM said the LTTE has withdrawn from the area and is believed to be regrouping in the jungle north and west of Batticaloa and into Trincomalee district. "It is plausible that the LTTE has de…

Pro SL Army website says... Take out "white tiger" observers from the mission! - JVP on SLMM [31st August 2006 - 13:30 S.L.T] The JVP in a communique issued to the media on the statement made by the outgoing Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission chief Ulf Henricson says that the SLMM has once again proved of their favoritism towards the Tigers. The communique adds even the judicial reports on the enquiry into the deaths of 17 employees of a non-government organisation has proved that the incident occurred in Muttur area which was under terrorist attack at the time. It should be mentioned that not only the 17 employees of the NGO but nearly 100 Muslim civilian…

British parliament debated on Sri Lanka on Tuesday at Westminster Hall for one and half hours. This is the fourth debate on Sri Lanka in recent times. Member for Mitcham and Morden, Siobhain McDonagh secured the time for the debate and lead the debate. The salient feature of the debate is, irrespective of party differences members across the bench were critical on Sri Lankan government for its ignorance on humanitarian crisis and the refusal to accept Tamil grievances. At the debate, parliament members expressed the frustration of Tamil Diaspora and the inability of the international community to bring a redress to them. Siobhain McDonagh asked, ‘what are we saying …

Rudramoorthy Cheran, perhaps the most clairvoyant among the poets of the Eelam movement There can be two opinions about the politics and the tactics of the Eelam movement in Sri Lanka, but there cannot be two about the brutal massacre of Sri Lankan Tamils at Mullivaikkal which was the culmination of a series of smaller, indiscriminate attacks on the Tamils —including women and children—that had gone on for years since the beginning of the movement and had taken a bloodier course from the latter half of 2008 to May 18, 2009, when it was officially announced that the war on Eelam Tamils had finally been concluded. The atrocities have not gone unrecorded, thanks to…

Nov 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka's private television service providers have blocked the common opposition candidate's first TV interview, media reports said here. Peo TV cable television network and Dialog TV satellite television network have reportedly blocked the Sirasa TV from broadcasting the "Satana" program which interviewed the common opposition candidate and several other members of opposition. The program was live streamed on the internet. The subscribers have complained that Peo TV cable television network and Dialog TV satellite television network have blocked Sirasa, Shakthi and MTV Sports channels of the MTV/MBC media network. The Dialog network was ba…

US Seeks to Eventually Partition Sri Lanka. Humanitarian R2P Intervention Contemplated Interview with Tamara Kunanayakam By Global Research News Global Research, March 31, 2015 Ceylon Today The United States has no genuine interest in accountability or reconciliation in Sri Lanka, but is seeking a strategic military base in Asia, says Tamara Manimekhalai Kunanayakam, onetime Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Holy See. In a wide ranging interview with Ceylon Today, Kunanayakam said, the US would demand more concessions using the resolution as a tool and charged the UN Human Rights Commissi…

Crouching Tigers Kilinochchi is a bastion lost, but pro-LTTE parties in India still have an Eelam dream, reports PC VINOJ KUMAR THE DREAM of an independent homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka, or Eelam, still burns bright in Tamil Nadu, despite the fall of Kilinochchi, the de-facto capital of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) controlled territory in north Sri Lanka. In Tamil Nadu, a state where the LTTE continues to enjoy some political support despite it being a banned outfit in India, the LTTE’s retreat from Kilinochchi is seen as a tactical move. On 2 January, 2009, Sri Lanka’s hard-line President Mahinda Rajapakse announced the capture of Kilinochchi…

Native gangs spreading across Canada, targeting at-risk youth, says RCMP Module body Mon Mar 15, 6:03 PM By Susanna Kelley, The Canadian Press Aboriginal gangs are proliferating across Canada as criminal organizations exploit the intense poverty and squalid conditions that many First Nations youth live in, says a top officer with the RCMP's aboriginal police division. The gangs' stock-in-trade includes drug distribution, prostitution and theft, and they're only growing more sophisticated, said the RCMP. "The gangs are brought on by poverty," said RCMP Sgt. Merle Carpenter, who holds the aboriginal gangs file with the National Aborig…

A UK parliamentarian of Sri Lankan origin Ranil Jayawardena has been appointed as the Trade Minister in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government, British media reported. Mr. Jayawardena was promoted to the Department of International Trade on Tuesday after UK’s Trade Minister Conor Burns, one of Boris Johnson’s closest allies, was found to have attempted to intimidate the member of the public. Mr Jayawardena, the MP for North East Hampshire, was promoted in Mr Burns' absence in the department, although to the more junior role of parliamentary under secretary of state, reports said. Mr Burns, who represents Bournemouth West, quit on Monday after the parliam…

Sri Lanka 'needs UN monitors' There was great optimism when the ceasefire was signed US-based Human Rights Watch says the United Nations should send observers to monitor the fighting in Sri Lanka. The mission of Nordic ceasefire monitors there ends on 16 January following the government's decision to withdraw from a ceasefire. On Wednesday the government said the 2002 ceasefire deal was moribund. Thousands of people have been killed in the last two years with the military and the Tamil Tigers accused of widespread human rights abuses. The Nordic-led Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission (SLMM) was set up as part of the 2002 agreement to investigate…

EELAM TAMILS: Highlighting crimes against peace [by Admin , Nov 23,2006] When the Co-chairs [u.S; E.U; Norway and Japan] met in Washington, D.C., there hardly was any policy change as far as the Tamils are concerned. With alarming unanimity the Quartet announced that “…the LTTE is a terrorist group responsible for massive bloodshed, we hold the Tamil Tigers responsible… we are not neutral in this respect.” One must be grateful for the crudeness of meting out such lop-sided spaghetti western justice — At least we must be thankful for the openness of attitude on part of the diplomats, in which admittance to non-neutrality is claimed. There was sadly, no con…

Sri Lanka: A Glimpse Into Our Apocalyptic Future?by Tom Plate, AsiaMedia News Daily, November 30, 2006 Tom Plate says, in our global village, we can't afford to turn away from the town burning next door Los Angeles --- You can, as smugly as you want, view the savage, desperate, dire deterioration in Sri Lanka as little more than a flashback to the past -- a kind of backslide into the dank grave of history. Those silly little Sri Lankans, how they kill one another over there in the shadow of the island's beauty, in their half-forgotten country, off the coast of India, about which no one really cares. Or -- more alertly, more sagely -- you could view th…

Canadian Students and Youth Groups Condemn CHOGM in Colombo Thursday, November 14, 2013 For Immediate Release Canadian Students and Youth Groups strongly condemn the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to take place in Colombo, Sri-Lanka. CHOGM has been a venue for world leaders to discuss global and Commonwealth issues including good governance, human rights, international peace and security and equality. Sri Lanka’s track records show complete dissent to the principles and values Commonwealth vows to uphold. The Sri-Lankan Government is accused of the most execrable war crimes and crimes against humanity of our recent history. As part of a sys…

புவிசார் அரசியலில் ஏவுகணைத் தொழில் நுட்பத்தின் பலம்-பாக்கிஸ்தானிய முயற்ச்சிகள் எமக்கும் இச் செய்தி தரும் பாடம், தொழில் நுட்ப விருத்தி+கூட்டு முயற்சி= புவிசார் அரசியற்பலம்= சர்வதேச அங்கீகாரம். Pakistan stages new missile test It is the second time the missile has been successfully tested Pakistan has successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable missile with a range of 2,000km (1,250 miles), the Pakistani military has said. It was the second test-firing of the surface-to-surface Hatf VI (Shaheen II) missile, which was first tested in March 2005, officials said. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz watched the launch, at an undisclosed location. The…