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Accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape could be deported after release from custody, DHS says PUBLISHED THU, NOV 3 202211:09 AM EDTUPDATED 3 HOURS AGO Kevin Breuninger@KEVINWILLIAMB SHAREShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email KEY POINTS The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband could be deported from the U.S. afte…

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…

London police avert car bomb 'carnage'. A car bomb planted in central London would have caused "carnage" if it had exploded, police sources have said. A controlled explosion was carried out on the car, packed with 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails, in Haymarket, near Piccadilly Circus. An ambulance crew saw smoke coming from the green metallic Mercedes, near the Tiger Tiger nightclub at 0130 BST. Later part of London's Park Lane was closed to traffic after reports of a suspicious vehicle. A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said that Park Lane was closed at Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner and a 200m cordon put in place. It would also…

Status of children in Tamil homeland before and after the CFA The slide show presentation below was among the documents that were handed by the Child Protection Authority to the visiting Ambassador Allan Rock during their meeting in Kilinochchi on 10 November. Ambassador Allan Rock is the Special Advisor to the Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict to the UN Secretary General. Slide show on the status of children in the Tamil homeland before and after the CFA: The slide show presents the status of the children along the four of the five axes that the Ambassador was studying namely, Children killed and maimed Schools destroyed Ho…

LTTE digging in for big battle in Jaffna - Iqbal Athas [by Admin , Feb 18,2007] It happened when the National Security Council was in session in Colombo last Wednesday — the first since President Mahinda Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka after his three-day official visit to the Maldives. Tiger guerrillas directed a barrage of 130 mm artillery fire at the Army's 53 Division Headquarters in Kodikamam north. It came just minutes after senior officers of the Division lit the traditional oil lamp and when refreshments were being served. The occasion was the opening of the Regimental Headquarters of the newly-established Mechanised Infantry. It is made up of …

கல்விக்கான செலவு எந்த நாட்டில் மிகவும் அதிகம்? - ஓர் பார்வை பீட்டர் ரூபீன்ஸ்டீன்பிபிசி ப்யூச்சர் இதை பகிர ஃபேஸ்புக்கில் இதை பகிர Messenger இதை பகிர டுவிட்டரில் இதை பகிர மின்னஞ்சல் பகிர்க வசந்த காலம் என்றால் உலகம் முழுவதும் பல்வேறு நாடுகளில் புது கல்வியாண்டின் தொடக்கமாக இருக்கும். ஆனால் யாரவது அமெரிக்கா, ரஷ்யா, ஐஸ்லாந்து அல்லது சிலி போன்ற நாடுகளில் வசிப்பவராக இருந்தால் சில விஷயங்கள் முற்றிலும் மாறானதாக இருக்கும். படத்த…

India's Peace and War [TamilNet, Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 01:24 GMT] The now defunct Ceasefire Agreement in Sri Lanka was mooted and shadow-managed by the BJP government, according to Indian journalist, M.R. Narayan Swamy. Wickramasinghe and Pirapaharan were aware of this top secret mission of India, supervised by Vajpayee's Advisor Brajesh Mishra, but not J.N. Dixit who succeeded him with the change of government in May 2004. Dixit had to learn it from Wickramasinghe. The CFA signed in February 2002 was unilaterally withdrawn by the Sri Lanka government in January 2008. Swamy's revealing and the chronology of events implicate the Congress establishment and the eg…

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka on Tuesday reduced to 21 the minimum age at which women can go abroad for work and earn much-needed dollars for the bankrupt economy. Colombo imposed age restrictions on women working overseas in 2013 after a 17-year-old Sri Lankan nanny was beheaded in Saudi Arabia over the death of a child in her care. Following outrage over the execution, only women older than 23 were allowed to go abroad, while for Saudi Arabia the minimum age was set at 25. But with Sri Lanka in its worst economic crisis since independence, the government on Tuesday eased the rules, including for Saudi Arabia. ‘The cabinet of ministers approved the decision to…

Civil war haunts Sri Lanka again By Chris Morris BBC, Sri Lanka [nThe ceasefire declared in Sri Lanka between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebel movement has disappeared in all but name. Some 3,000 Tamil civilians fled from Batticaloa last month International mediation has floundered and fighting has flared up again in the north and east of the island, where the Tigers want to carve out a separate Tamil state. I have always liked Bullers Road. I used to live on a lane about halfway down. It is one of the few places in Colombo where you can still walk under a thick canopy of old mara and mayflower trees. Tall, dense and dark green, …

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A judge has ruled that the U.N. refugee agency unfairly punished one of its investigators for documenting a rape case in Sri Lanka a decade ago. U.N. Dispute Tribunal Judge Coral Shaw says former investigator Caroline Hunt-Matthes lost her job at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees due to retaliation and suffered other damages after she collected evidence in 2003 that an agency employee had raped a refugee in Sri Lanka. Wednesday’s twin rulings, which can be appealed, are critical of the U.N.’s accountability system, including its ethics office, and award Hunt-Matthes a year’s salary and benefits, plus $58,000 for her damages and suffer…

Is this the beginning of Eelam war IV? Situation Report - by Iqbal Athas LTTE's new high tech claymore bomb There are some stark realities to the latest phase of the shadow war launched by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) against the armed forces and the Police. For the past 16 days, since the murder of Vanniasingham Vigneswaran (51), a staunch LTTE supporter, Tiger guerrilla attacks have increased. As President of the Trincomalee District Tamil People's Forum, he was responsible for a string of Hartals and anti-Government protests. A father of three, he was to be parliamentarian for the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). That was to f…

Two top LTTE cadres slip through immigration net By Munza Mushtaq Two top LTTE cadres, wanted by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), have slipped through the net of Immigration authorities and fled to Singapore. They have made their get-away with the assistance of one Thavarajah. The duo had migrated abroad a few weeks ago. Following this development, S. Thavarajah, a former MP and the second most senior member of the Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) has left for England. Reports reveal that he is unlikely to return to the country. Thavarajah, who was representing the EDPD at the All Party Representative Committee, had informed the party…

Navaneetham Pillai, Former HC for UNHRC sends us a kind robust message for Tamil Remembrance Day.

The United Nations released a report Wednesday saying Sri Lanka cannot rely on its own justice system and instead should use a special court to achieve accountability for violations that took place during the country's 26-year civil war. The recommendation came as part of a report on what the U.N. Human Rights office said were possible war crimes and crimes against humanity during the conflict that pitted government forces against rebels seeking independence for the nation's Tamil minority. The fighting killed up to 100,000 people, according to widely accepted estimates. Sri Lanka, the report said, should look to the way other countries have used international judges…

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Foreign Minister: Sweden also to pull peace monitors from Sri Lanka by Sept. 1 By KATARINA KRATOVAC AP STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Sweden decided Tuesday to pull out its 15-strong cease-fire monitoring team from Sri Lanka, joining Finland and Denmark who last week announced similar moves. Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson told Swedish radio he saw no other option but for the Swedish observers to leave the island, where fighting between government troops and separatist Tamils has escalated. The European Union in May designated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, a terrorist group, prompting the rebels to reject the presence of observers from EU m…

'Fresh fighting' in Sri Lanka Fresh fighting has broken out between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels in north-eastern Sri Lanka, reports say. Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan told the Associated Press that the government troops were attacking Tiger-held areas. "They are attacking us on ground and from air," he said. The Sri Lankan military has confirmed the fighting, but given no further details. On Tuesday, both the army and Tamil Tiger rebels said they had reopened the Maavilaru waterway in the north-east after two weeks of fighting. The government had deployed some 2,000 troops in a bid to reopen the waterway after farmers…

In Sri Lanka, the Military Still Runs the Show The international community has a part to play in ending its culture of impunity. By Viruben Nandakumar, an editor at the Tamil Guardian. The Sri Lankan flag is lowered; beneath it stand people in military uniforms. Military personnel in ceremonial uniform lower the Sri Lankan flag at Galle Face Green, a park in Colombo, on July 23. ARUN SANKAR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES In the early hours of Friday, July 22, hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers marched through the country’s capital. They were preparing for a brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrators who slept in tents at Galle Fac…

Mannar Tamil girls arrested in Negombo Ten Tamil girls who are residents of Mannar district working in a garment factory located in Negombo in the Western Province were arrested by Peliyagoda Police Wednesday. They had been residing in a house when they were taken into custody by the police on suspicion. The father of a girl now in custody of the Peliyagoda police Saturday lodged a complaint with the Regional Office of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) regarding the arrest of ten Mannar girls. HRCSL officials in Mannar immediately contacted the Peliyagoda police and inquired about the arrest. Peliyagoda Police told Mannar HRCSL officials that th…

Sri Lanka promised to deliver justice after a United Nations human rights report called on Wednesday for a special court to be set up to prosecute war crimes committed during the nation's 26-year civil conflict. The Foreign Ministry stopped short, however, of directly addressing the U.N.'s proposal to set up a special court to prosecute those from the government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels suspected of atrocities. "The government of Sri Lanka will ensure dialogue and wide consultations with all stakeholders ... in putting in place mechanisms and measures that will facilitate the right to know, right to justice, reparations and guaranteeing non-recurrence with the …

SINCE 1976, more than 70,000 people have been killed in what has been one of the world's most intractable conflicts, that of the separatist rebellion by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers. In 2002, a ceasefire agreement was reached in the hope of moving towards a peace deal, but last week the Government of Sri Lanka unilaterally withdrew from the ceasefire, marking a likely return to full-scale war. The tragedies of Sri Lanka are manifold. Until the 1970s, Sri Lanka was a leader among the most advanced developing countries, democratic and with high education and life expectancy and low infant and maternal mortality rates. Today it is a country of conflict, going backwards, its…