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Rajapakse invites UNP as Norway, India meet Wickremesinghe Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse on Friday invited the main opposition United National Party (UNP) to join his government, press reports said Sunday. In a letter to the UNP leadership, President Rajapakse had called on the opposition to join his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) led government so as to resolve the ‘crisis’ in Sri Lanka, The Sunday Leader broadsheet said. Days after two up-country Tamil parties joined the government, President Rajapakse is also courting the main Muslim party, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), the paper added. The President’s letter had been sent Friday to UNP Depu…

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Sri Lanka: opnieuw burgeroorlog? De Tamiltijgers op het eiland Sri Lanka dreigen de wapenstilstand stop te zetten De Tamiltijgers vormen een minderheid op Sri Lanka en willen meer autonomie. In 2002 maakte de wapenstilstand een einde aan de jarenlange burgeroorlog. http://www.vtm.be/nieuws/index_nieuwsbuite...and.shtml?p=124

கிழக்கு திமோர் நாட்டின் உருவாக்கம் பற்றி அறிய உதவும் நேர்காணல். The Frost Interview - Jose Ramos-Horta: Lessons in patience

The New UN Secretary General – Sri Lanka’s disgrace By: Brian Senewiratne A note to add “Good Cheer” to a worried Tamil community about the possibility of Jayantha Dhanapala, Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese nominee, getting the post of UN Secretary General. At the first round of voting, Dhanapala went down fighting like a true son of Sri Lanka, getting all of 4, yes FOUR, votes. There are 192 members in the UN. The news has, of course, been censored in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Hopefully Sri Lankans can still access the net and get the good news from us, whom Rajapakse is still unable to censor or control, the impending Patriotic Act not withst…

Coercive Control என்றால் என்ன? அது எதுவரை எங்களை இழுத்துச்செல்லும் என்பதை இந்த சம்பவம் சொல்கிறது.. பொதுவாக ஆண்கள்தான் coercive controllers இருப்பார்கள் என்பதில்லை,பெண்களிலும் இந்த மாதிரியானவர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள், அவர்களால் வாழ்க்கை பாதிக்கப்பட்டவர்களும் உண்டு.. இந்த மாதிரியான மனநிலை உடையவர்களின் செயல்கள் மற்றவர்களை பாதிக்கும் பட்சத்தில் அது ஒரு குற்றமாக பார்க்கப்பட்டு அதற்கான நடவடிக்கைகளை எடுக்கும் ஒரே ஒரு மாநிலமாக தஸ்மேனியா உள்ளது.. தெற்கு அவுஸ்ரேலியாவில் குற்றமாக அறிவிக்கப்படும் சட்டம்வரைபு பாராளுமன்றத்தில் கொண்டுவரப்பட்டுள்ளது ஆனால் இன்னமும் வாக்களிக்கப்படவில்லை.. GOOD WEEKEND 'Intimate terrorism': why the murders of Hannah, Aaliyah, Laianah and T…

Rights group says Lanka has fallen short A human rights group in a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, said Sri Lanka had fallen short of its commitment to safeguard human rights. The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM ASIA) said Sri Lankas pledges fell short of substantive steps to ensure effective promotion and protection of human rights domestically and internationally. In addition, we note that many of the pledges are vague and general, without specific information as to how they will be implemented in practice, FORUM-ASIA Executive Director Anselmo Lee said In its letter the FORUM has included a list of pledges omitted by…

The air was thick with emotion. Crowds of Tamil protesters had swelled along University Ave., throughout the cool spring day, chanting slogans and beating drums to bring attention to the plight of their families and friends in Sri Lanka. Leading the chorus of pleas was Lavanya Nithiyanantharasan, 21, a Durham College student whose strong voice and stamina roused the crowd for a marathon 24 hours. "Everybody was taking turns. We couldn't have just sat there. I had the voice and the strength to yell for a long time and so I did," she said. She became, at least for a day, the symbol of the Tamil movement: young, Canadian, yet impassioned enough to flock to t…

KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka—In a villa surrounded by tall jak fruit trees and a squad of cadres toting T-56 assault rifles, S.P. Thamilselvan, the political leader of the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, sits pondering the political missteps of Stephen Harper's rookie government. "We know the complexity of the political problems any party would normally come across during a period of transition or a change from one party to another," he says. Thamilselvan says he's been searching for a plausible reason Harper's government ignored Canada's 200,000-strong Tamil community and placed their "freedom-fighting organization" alongside Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah on a list of crim…

10 January 2014 The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) would be releasing the official judgement of its investigations against the Sri Lankan State and its accomplices on the charge of Genocide against Eelam Tamils at press conference in Geneva on 22 January, the PPT said in a press statement on Friday. Dr. Denis Halliday, the former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, Dr. Haluk Gerger, a renowned Turkish academic and middle east analyst and Dr. Gianni Tognoni, the secretary general of the PPT would be present at the function. The event will take place on Wednesday 22 January, 10 am, at the 'Geneva Press Club' Club Suisse de la Presse, Route de Ferney…

I definitely detected a delicious sense of schadenfreude from among you brave – but mischievous - Sri Lankan journalists, over the relentless harassment of me and my Channel 4 colleagues by state intelligence, police and immigration officers. I’m not referring to the ranting rottweiler “reporters” who do the regime’s clunky propagandist bidding, although I have no doubt that they enjoyed it too. Read more: Sri Lanka, ‘impossible journalism’ and Channel 4 News http://www.channel4.com/news/channel-4-news-sri-lanka-mahinda-rajapaksa-chogm-summit I’m talking about those of you who live with such harassment yourselves, day in, day out, and don’t – or can’t - complain. …

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Sri Lanka security forces 'raping and torturing' ahead of Commonwealth summit Human rights group urges David Cameron to use summit to demand international inquiry into disappearances A Sri Lankan activist participates in a candlelit vigil for the disappeared in August Photo: GETTY IMAGES By Dean Nelson, New Delhi 3:08PM GMT 31 Oct 2013 Sri Lanka’s security forces are still raping and torturing suspects despite the imminent arrival of David Cameron and 50 world leaders for a Commonwealth summit in the country, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. The Prime Minister and the Prince of Wales have confirmed they will both attend the gathering …

= Women activists decry public apathy to curb increase in incidents = More police posts to be set up in tourist areas Last week’s alleged rape of a 47-year old woman in Wijerama and an attempted rape of a 25-year old German tourist in Chilaw, have once again raised the question, how safe are women in our country—both local and foreign.�According to statistics, five rapes are reported daily while the unreported cases could make the figure higher. Among the women’s’ group workers and activists who spoke to the Sunday Times, Lak Vanitha Front president Shanthini Kongahage voicing concern said many women relied on three-wheeler drivers to ask for road directions. …

It's a good article.Please read Why wary India is seeking a role in Sri Lanka By Ameen Izzadeen 11 July 2006 SOUTH Block in New Delhi must be busy drafting and redrafting India’s policy towards its neighbours. Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran was in Sri Lanka last week, telling government and opposition leaders about what India thought they should do, while special envoy Sitaram Yechuri, a Communist Party leader, was in Nepal on a similar mission. The two missions had clear messages to the leaders of the two countries. In Nepal, Yechuri, whose party has differences with the Congress Party over privatisation reforms, was in congruence wi…

THE CIA IS USING A EUROPEAN NATO ALLY’S SPY SERVICE TO CONDUCT A COVERT SABOTAGE CAMPAIGN INSIDE RUSSIA UNDER THE AGENCY’S DIRECTION, ACCORDING TO FORMER U.S. INTELLIGENCE AND MILITARY OFFICIALS. DECEMBER 24, 2022 BY JACK MURPHY The campaign involves long standing sleeper cells that the allied spy service has activated to hinder Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine by waging a secret war behind Russian lines. Years in the planning, the campaign is responsible for many of the unexplained explosions and other mishaps that have befallen the Russian military industrial complex since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, according…

Will Canada's CHOGM boycott make a difference? - video As Canada boycotts the Commonwealth conference in Sri Lanka over the host country's human rights record, C4 News asks Canada High Commissioner Gordon Campbell whether the move will achieve anything. <object id="flashObj" width="370" height="260" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=2824251435001&playerID=69…

Despite many expecting a ‘naming and shaming’ in the content of the UN report on Sri Lanka, UN sources in Geneva state that the names of individuals accused of perpetrating the alleged abuses during the final phases of the conflict in Sri Lanka were never intended to be published in the report. Sources told Daily Mirror that the names of the accused were never intended to be included as part of the report as the OISL (OHCHR investigation on Sri Lanka) was a human rights investigation and not a criminal inquiry. It was pointed out that in the case of Sri Lanka; comparatively few lists were submitted to the investigation panel and that too through zonal investigation …

15 Years Later, No Truth or Justice for Missing Priest and Aide Ruki Fernando on 08/20/2021 Photo courtesy of Ruki Fernando On August 20, 2006, Father Jim Brown, a Catholic Priest, and Wenceslaus Vimalathas, his associate, disappeared. They were last seen at a Navy check point in Allaipiddy in the Jaffna district while they were going to visit displaced civilians in the Navy controlled village. August was a tragic month for Allaipiddy. On the night August 12, the parish priest, Father Brown had welcomed civilians flocking to the local Catholic church seeking refuge from th…

Lanka ceasefire falters in Tamil city -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, July 8, 2006 (Colombo): Four years after a cease-fire raised hopes for peace between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, Sri Lanka is teetering on the brink of a civil war. Sri Lanka's violence is perhaps felt nowhere as acutely as it is around Batticaloa, a largely Tamil city under government control just miles from rebel territory. More than half of the nearly 700 people killed in Sri Lanka since April have been civilians, according to international truce monitors. Almost every night at the front line…

Gotabhaya gave orders to evict Tamils: Sunday Leader. Minutes of a Security Coordinating Conference held at the Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence on 31 May, attended by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, proved "conclusively that the order for the eviction of Tamil civilians from the city were given directly by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa...The minutes also make the startling revelation that the Defence Secretary ordered for some of the evicted persons to be placed in IDP centres manned in the north and east," said Sunday Leader, a Colombo-based weekly in the weekend edition. The Minutes dated 4 June, signed by Lt Col N.M. Hettiarachchi, secretary to …

மனித உடலினுள் கண்ணுக்குத் தெரியாமல் செயல்படுகின்ற ஏழு சக்கரங்கள், உடலிலுள்ள அனைத்து உறுப்புகளின் செயல்பாட்டினையும் தங்களுடைய கட்டுப்பாட்டில் வைத்திருக்கின்றன. இந்த ஏழு சக்கரங்களும் உடலின் வெவ்வேறு பகுதிகளில் அமைந்திருந்தாலும் அவை ஒன்றுக்கொன்று தொடர்புடையவை. ஏழு சக்கரங்களையும் அவை கட்டுப்படுத்தும் உறுப்புகளைப் பற்றியும் தெரிந்து கொள்வோம் மூலாதாரம் முதுகெலும்பின் அடிப்பாகத்தில் அமைந்துள்ள இந்த சக்கரம்தான் உடல் சக்தியின் இருப்பிடம். உயிர்வாழ வேண்டும் என்கிற ஆசையும், பிடிவாதமும் இங்கேதான் உற்பத்தி ஆகிறது. உடலில் உயிர் இயக்கத்துக்கு இது மூல காரணமாக விளங்குவதால் மூலாதாரம் என்கிற பெயரைப் பெறுகிறது. சிறுநீரகங்களுக்கு மேலுள்ள அட்ரீனல் சுரப்பிகள் இதன் நேரடி கட்டுப்பா…

Best Untranslated Writers: Shobasakthi V. V. Ganeshananthan The Best Untranslated Writers series – in which established writers select and showcase fellow writers from their own languages who are not yet widely translated or read – began with a trio of Brazilians on the writers they love most but are yet to make the leap into English. Today V.V. Ganeshananthan introduces us to Shobaskathi, also known as Anthony X, who writes about Sri Lanka and its diaspora communities, and who was previously involved in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Shobasakthi is also known as Anthony X; he is an ex-militant; he is an expatriate. Based in France, he writes about Sri Lanka…

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…

" We are Prepared to Pay for Freedom With Our Lives " Q: Why did you choose to go underground? A: I did not leave with the intention of going under ground. I had to attend to some work in my country. I had to discuss certain matters relating to the peace talks with my lieutenants. I also had to assess for myself the situation and reaction in the Tamil areas. While I was there certain incidents took place (referring to the deportation of A. S. Balasingham, official spokes man of the LTTE) so I continued to remain there. Q: What is the reaction of your lieutenants to the cease-fire? A: The cease-fire is a drama. Under its guise, the Sri Lankan armed f…