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12.09.2014 The University of Sydney has withdrawn invitations for two Sri Lankan human rights organisations to an international conference at the request of the Sri Lankan military, angering campaigners. The university is due to host a two-day event in Bangkok from Monday along with the University of Colombo, which will see delegates from around the world discuss the enhancement of human rights in the Asia Pacific region. Delegations from the Sri Lankan military and the Sri Lankan police are expected to attend the conference. Leaked correspondence, seen by Guardian Australia, shows that these delegations had originally requested that all non-government organis…

Kosovo’s victory has lessons for other liberation struggles - paper [TamilNet, Thursday, 21 February 2008, 16:16 GMT] Describing Kosovo’s declaration of independence on Sunday and the ensuing international recognition as “a powerful shot in the arm to peoples resisting and seeking independence from tyrannical regimes,” the Tamil Guardian newspaper this said that “whilst every situation and every circumstance is unique, there are important lessons from the Kosovan march to independence for liberation struggles everywhere. The paper pointed out that just a few years ago, the idea of Kosovan independence had been dismissed by the international community and the Kosovan L…

UK arrests in Tamil Tigers probe Three men have been arrested by counter-terrorism officers in the UK as part of an investigation into the Tamil Tigers, police say. The arrests are said to be part of a long-term investigation into the Sri-Lankan-based group. Two men, aged 39 and 46, were arrested in dawn raids at separate addresses in Newtown, Powys, and a third, aged 33, arrested in Mitcham, south-west London. A raid also took place in Surrey, Scotland Yard said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7372883.stm

The Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Jaffna was flooded with complaints last week from distressed family members whose relatives were arrested by the police. The complaints lodged at the HRC Jaffna rose to 43 by Friday following an intensive operation carried out by the police over allegations that those arrested were ex LTTE cadres. A swoop down on the suspects followed the arrest of eleven Jaffna university students by the police over the lighting of flames by Jaffna university students to commemorate the dead on the LTTE ‘Heroes day’ anniversary last month. Jaffna Human Rights Commission coordinator K. Kanagaraj said that the arrests are all legal as receipts…

January 8, 2013: The Beginning of Sri Lanka’s Year Zero On the 8th of January, the President of Sri Lanka will address a proposal to parliament to remove the incumbent Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, based on a report by a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC). The entire PSC process has been declared unconstitutional and null and void by the Supreme Court of the country. For two days, the illegal proposal will be debated in the parliament and on the 11th it will be put to a vote. The government has the required majority to get it through the parliament. Immediately after passing the resolution, the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka will be removed by force and will be p…

Tamil suicide bomber who targeted Sri Lanka top general was pregnant, investigator says DILIP GANGULY , Associated Press, Fri 28th Apr 05:30GMT. The Tamil bomber who blew herself up targeting Sri Lanka's top general was pregnant and that helped her to conceal explosives and get inside army headquarters for a maternity check, an investigator says. The brazen attack Tuesday triggered tit-for-tat military action by government troops and the rebels that has pushed Sri Lanka close to civil war after a tense four-year cease-fire. The bomber has been identified as Anoja Kugenthirasah, 21, from the northern government-held garrison town of Vavuniya on the frontier …

US Dollar Faces A Rebellion China and Brazil have struck a deal to trade in their local currencies instead of the US dollar. Saudi Arabia has become a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. It’s a security block led by China. What does this shift in West Asia mean? Palki Sharma explains

This is the story of a beautiful island, locked in its secrets and denials: Sri Lanka. In the heart of the former combat zone, the memory of the civil war opens up, one of the most terrible and least known in contemporary history. A journalist who lived through the conflict returns to these places haunted by the memory of the massacres. Seven years after the events, the survivors are emerging from their silence. In a quest in the form of a road movie, the film takes us to meet a people and their wounds. Following the old route of the exodus through the jungle, the journalist follows in the footsteps of an implacable mechanism. Up to the setting of the final trap: the …

Dyson has received an order from the UK government for 10,000 ventilators to support efforts by the country's National Health Service to treat coronavirus patients. James Dyson, the company's billionaire founder, confirmed the order in a letter to employees shared with CNN on Wednesday. "A ventilator supports a patient who is no longer able to maintain their own airways, but sadly there is currently a significant shortage, both in the UK and other countries around the world," Dyson wrote. Dyson said the company had designed and built an entirely new ventilator, called the "CoVent," since he received a call 10 days ago from UK Prime Mini…

White Supremacists Taking Ancestry Tests Aren't Happy About The Results NEO-NAZI PROTESTERS AT THE ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER ON APRIL 19, 2009 IN SKOKIE, ILLINOIS. SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES By Tom Hale Not too long ago, white nationalism was a fringe movement of isolated people. Now, it’s gained a very ugly new relevance. Tiki torches are lit, Twitter feeds are flared, and tempers are hot. Along with this misled reinterpretation of supposed "identity politics", we also live at a ti…

"Hundreds of Tigers" in Muttur - residents [TamilNet, August 02, 2006 19:18 GMT] Intense fighting is underway in Muttur in Trincomalee district as hundreds of heavily armed LTTE cadres who have taken control of the town centre laid siege to four Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camps on its periphery, residents said Wednesday evening. An effort by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) to land reinforcements on Muttur jetty was routed by LTTE fighters battling SLN troops at one end, reports said. Sri Lanka’s military insisted however that the Army was in control of the town and that the ‘desperate’ LTTE was retreating before its counter-attack. Continuing a dawn offensive out of the Samp…

POSTED: 0346 GMT (1146 HKT), September 10, 2006 Adjust font size: CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's prime minister reaffirmed his nation's commitment to fighting terrorism Monday during a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. "It was an attack on the values that the entire world holds in common," Howard, a staunch supporter of U.S. President George W. Bush, told a gathering at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra. Howard said the universal values of individual liberty and dignity as well as freedom of association, religion and thought would prevail. "In reaffirming our commitment to maintain th…

US Congressman advocates autonomy for Tamils New Jersey Congressman, Frank Pallone, speaking to the House Wednesday night, supported Norway, Co-chairs' call for unconditional talks between the Government of Sri Lanka and Liberation Tigers, advocated autonomy for Tamils, and endorsed U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher's statement "though we reject the methods that the Tamil Tigers have used, there are legitimate issues raised by the Tamil community and they have a legitimate desire to control their own lives, to rule their own destinies, and to govern themselves in their homeland.'' Full text of the speech follows: …

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…

UN urged not to ignore Rajapakse regime [TamilNet, Friday, 09 February 2007, 12:58 GMT] The UN security council working group which is set to study underage recruitment in Sri Lanka later Friday should not ignore the practice of Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse’s regime in the practice, a senior columnist with The Guardian newspaper wrote in Friday’s edition. And condemning political movements for the violence they turn to, “whilst ignoring their complaints and the degree of support they command leads only to political stalemate and more bloodshed,” Jonathan Steele said in an op-ed published Friday. He criticised President Rajapakse for destroying the 2002 tr…

நான் இதை இங்கே ஒட்டுவதை சிலர்,அல்லது பலர் விரும்பமாட்டார்கள்..எப்பவுமே எமக்கு சார்பானவையை படிக்காமல்,எமக்கு எதிராக என்ன நடகின்றது என்பதயும் தெரிந்து கொள்வது, எம்மை மேலும் விழிப்படைய்ய வைக்கும் என்பது எனது தாழ்மையான அபிப்பிராயம்..கிருபன் அண்ணா வந்து சொல்லுவார்..'நான் அங்கெயே வாசித்து போட்டு அங்கேயே விட்டிடு வந்திட்டென்..ஏன் இதை இங்கே ஒட்டுகிறீர்கள் என்டு?' :P U.S to unfasten LTTE leash By Alykhan Velshi and Howard Anglin For nearly a decade, the policy of the American government has been to treat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist organisation. Americans are banned from donating money or providing any material support, to the LTTE; U.S…

Tale of two wars: Ground battle and media battle News management of Delft attack worsens crisis of credibility Undeclared war takes fearful turn as purchases worth billions are made in exclusive secrecy Was Reclamation Road bomb meant for military bus or some other target? By Iqbal Athas The island of Delft (Nedun Theevu or Long Island), off the northern Jaffna peninsula, was known centuries ago under Portuguese rule as Cow Island. There were plenty of cattle there. Yet the mortality rate was high because they sometimes fed on the venomous herbs that grew wild. The Portuguese had a fort there. The ruins are still evident. During that period, th…

SLA extends fishing ban in Vadamaraadchi [TamilNet, Thursday, 21 June 2007, 18:02 GMT] Sri Lanka Army (SLA) extended the fishing ban imposed in Vadamaraadchi region in Jaffna district on Wednesday, in the wake of the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) and Sea Tiger battle in Point Pedro seas. There was no supply of fish in Vadamaraadchi Thursday. Fishing in the area was already restricted to day time and only one km into the sea from the coast, an impediment cutting down fishermen's catches and income. The SLA fishing ban imposed Wednesday covered areas from Tho'ndaimaanaa'ru to Point Pedro Munai in Vadamaraadchi north and Ampan, Kudaththanai areas in Vadamaraadchi east. …

Israel-Palestine war: How the AI 'Habsora' system masks random killing with maths Newly revealed 'mass assassination factory' technology is likely being showcased for future international sales, experts say Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, 22 November (AP) By Nader Durgham in Beirut and Lubna Masarwa in Jerusalem Israel's war on Gaza has seen it strike the Palestinian enclave with new and deadly ferocity. That onslaught, according to a recent report, is being powered with an artificial intelligence system that experts warn is indiscriminate and …

By KELUM BANDARA Colombo, April 18 (Daily Mirror) - Sri Lanka is still at a loss to thwart the efforts by a city council in Canada to construct what it called a Tamil genocide monument, and to counter the allegations by the Canadian politicians, an informed source said . Brampton city council in Canada has approved the final design for the Tamil Genocide Memorial, a monument the city promised three years ago, according to foreign media. The media said it is a 4.8-metre tall stainless steel monument built in Chinguacousy Park in the Bramalea area to commemorate the lives lost in the Sri Lankan civil war — what many people in the Tamil community call a…

By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations | 22 July 2003 (revised 7/25/03) BERKELEY – Politically conservative agendas may range from supporting the Vietnam War to upholding traditional moral and religious values to opposing welfare. But are there consistent underlying motivations? Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include: * Fear and aggression * Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity * …

As a parent of a child who has just sat for their O/Levels, this is only the first of a series of key decisions that will determine their future. The question with everyone in your situation is thinking, of course, ‘what next? And it’s a decision that will affect the rest of your child’s life, so you want to get it right. In such circumstances with many options available, it’s tempting to pick the best choice, which will allow them to compete for jobs and prosperity in a rapidly changing and challenging world economy. As time and opportunity are crucial and important aspects in your child’s education, your delay as a parent is only an opportunity lost to your c…

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SL Intelligence, paramilitaries responsible for Manipay, Kodikamam killings - NESOHR [TamilNet, January 25, 2006 01:07 GMT] NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights (NESOHR) in the case histories of Manipay killing of three members of the same family and the killing of a 15 year old youth in Kodikamam, released this week, provides details of involvement of Sri Lanka Intellligence operatives and paramilitary cadres belonging to Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) in the killings. With several Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers wearing black bands covering their faces, clearing Kanagasabai Road leading to Bojan's family, nine members of EPDP paramilitaries scaled …

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's elusive Tamil Tiger supremo marks his 52nd birthday on Sunday with a self-imposed deadline to decide the course of Asia's longest-running ethnic conflict. Velupillai Prabhakaran has no official birthday celebrations but his annual speech on Monday will be keenly watched by Sri Lankan leaders as well as those in foreign capitals struggling to broker peace. "There are no official functions or celebrations," said Tiger military spokesman Rasiah Illanthiriyan. "But many people usually have religious observances or share sweets to mark the occasion." Born on November 26, 1954 in the island's arid north, Prabhakaran, a school dro…