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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 on Guardian's 'Comment is Free' section. 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 his column. He criticised President Rajapakse f…

'Brown Briton' ignored by government and media ? 29 Days passed [ jpq;fl;fpoik, 12 khHr; 2007 ] [ yf;];kd; ] Cries of institutional racism in the British Foreign Service and the British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) have once again been ignited, after both organizations ignored the plight of a 'brown' national who was abducted in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo last month. Mr Vijayakumar, a neutralised British citizen who valued himself every bit British as he was Tamil was abducted from outside his residence on Perera Lane in Wellawathe on Wednesday, 31 January 2007. Eyewitnesses identified the abductors as being 'armed men' riding in a 'white van'. The usual frenz…

Matthew Youlden speaks nine languages fluently and understands more than a dozen more. He’s what is known as a polyglot, a member of the multilingual elite who speaks six or more languages fluently. He’s also a sociolinguist who studies the revitalization of minority languages. But to see him in action on a daily basis – deftly and comfortably talking to native-speakers in their own languages – suggests that he’s more than a polyglot. Matthew, who is originally from Manchester, England, is a language chameleon: Germans think he’s German, Spaniards think he’s Spanish, Brazilians think he’s Portuguese (he proudly speaks the good-old European variety). By his own account, M…

2ND LEAD [TamilNet, Thursday, 21 June 2007, 15:59 GMT] Unidentified attackers triggered a claymore device Thursday around 5:45 p.m., killing three Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers and seriously wounding one at Eechchamoaddai coastal road area in the High Security Zone, 500 meters from Jaffna city. The SLA troopers were returning in a tractor to the main base at Eechchamoaddai after distributing food to their fellow men posted along Jaffna-Kandy road and Main street when the attack took place. Sri Lanka Army officials in Colombo said 3 SLA troopers were killed and one seriously injured in the attack. The injured trooper has been rushed to Palaali military hosp…

Legalizing marijuana could violate global treaties, Trudeau warned Canada faces a long, hard slog in the global arena before it can legalize marijuana at home. Share on Facebook PATRICK DOYLE / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO A briefing note prepared for Justin Trudeau warns Canada will have to find a way to tell the world how it plans to conform to its treaty obligations if it follows through on the plan to legalize marijuana. …

Australian of the Year 2020 awarded to eye surgeon Dr James Muecke, with Ash Barty, youth advocate and obstetrician also honoured By Elise Pianegonda An eye surgeon has been named Australian of the Year for 2020 for his work preventing blindness. This year's winners: Dr James Mueke is named Australian of the Year for his work raising awareness of type 2 diabetes and its links to blindness Pro tennis player Ash Barty is named Young Australian of the Year for inspiring young people to follow their dreams Obstetrics specialist Professor John Newnham is named Senior Australian of the Year for …

S.Lanka truce monitor base hit by grenade attack Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:11 PM GMT By Simon Gardner COLOMBO (Reuters) - Attackers threw a grenade into the compound of truce monitors in Sri Lanka's restive east early on Saturday, damaging vehicles and a building but causing no injuries, officials said, as fears of a return to war grow. The first direct attack against the monitors since a 2002 cease-fire halted a two-decade civil war came just hours after the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) reprimanded both Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels and the government over a spike in violence. "A hand grenade was lobbed into our compound in Batti…

Intelligence Chief Zacky in Jaffna to step up campaign [TamilNet, January 24, 2006 12:40 GMT] Director of Military Intelligence (DMI) Brigadier Rizvy Zacky, a hardliner, has been recently posted as Brigadier General Staff Officer (GSO, Intelligence) at the Sri Lanka Army Head Quarters (SF HQ) Jaffna in a major reshuffle of the SLA and Intelligence apparatus. Execution-style killings of five students in Trincomalee and three women members of a family in Jaffna mark a stark change of pattern in the escalation of intensified serial killings of non-combatant civilians in Sri Lanka Army (SLA) controlled areas in the NorthEast. The pattern of violence also marks the ret…

Tsunami 'widow' arrested after husband is seen alive By David Sapsted (Filed: 17/02/2006) A mother of three who was supposedly widowed in the 2004 tsunami has been arrested by police after reports that her husband is still alive. Yohini Shanthakumaran, 26, won the support of her MP and local press after publicising her claim last year that her two-year-old son had been stranded in Sri Lanka after her husband drowned in the Boxing Day disaster. Sources yesterday said that suspected discrepancies in her story were first detected by insurance investigators working with the Metropolitan Police's tsunami team. Now there are claims that her husband S…

HRW backs Rock's claims on child recruitment [by Admin , Nov 25,2006] US based international advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has come out hard on the government, supporting allegations of complicity of state troops in child recruitment first made by the UN and the SLMM. HRW said that it too would be releasing its own report next month. "The HRW will be issuing a report summarising some of our findings from our mission to Sri Lanka last month. Our research was carried out independently and fully supports the findings of Ambassador Rock concerning the Karuna group's abductions and the use of children in Batticaloa, Trincomalee and Ampara Distr…

Germany Resumes Petroleum Imports from Iran despite Sanctions: Eurostat TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Germany resumed its petroleum imports from Iran after five years earlier this year despite a continued American sanction that bans any trade of energy products with Iran. Data cited in a Monday report by ٍEurostat showed that Germany had taken delivery of a large petroleum shipment from Iran in March. The report cited data from the European Union’s statistics agency the Eurostat which showed the shipment imported by Germany had contained nearly 70,000 metric tons of Iranian crude oil or petroleum products, PressTV reported. Germany halted imports …

There is a widespread belief that Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gota played a crucial role in mass killings of thousands of innocent Tamils in Sri Lanka. One could argue that if he is elected, the IC, International Community, will be in a tough spot. On one hand he is an elected leader of a democratic country. On other hand, IC does not want to be seen shaking hands with an accused. If the diaspora and other activists around the world can learn from other examples. One would be that of UN peace forces and Sri Lanka where recent appointment of Mr. C Silva as army chief. Also, one could work to impose to ban an individual for crimes against humanity and…

France Has Assassinated 22 African Presidents Since 1963 Here is the list of African presidents who have been assassinated by France since 1963. Share this article For African leaders who boldly stood up to the unending imperialist tendencies of the former colonial powers, this has generally been met with death. And France has never been hesitant to eliminate presidents who posed a threat to their imperialist plans. France has consistently connived and been in collaboration with other Western powers to assassinate African presidents they deem a threat to their interests. These th…

New South Wales Health says they have confirmed three case of the deadly coronavirus, bringing the national number to four. Key points: A Chinese man in his 50s is being isolated in a Melbourne hospital with a confirmed case of novel coronavirus Another three cases have been confirmed in NSW The virus has so far killed at least 41 people in China and sickened more than a thousand more All three NSW cases are being treated in hospitals across Sydney. They are men aged in their 30s, 40s and 50s and contracted the illness in China. One of the men arrived in Australia on January 6 and another arrived on January 19. The t…

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A guerrilla group in Sri Lanka has threatened to attack troops because of the government's "crackdown" on Tamil civilians in the north and the east. The People's Army, which has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in the island in December, made the announcement on a Tamil website. It comes at a time when the government and the Tiger rebels are deciding on dates for a meeting in Switzerland. A Tamil Tiger spokesman said the group was not associated with the rebels. If the group carries out its threat it would end a lull in killings and threaten peace talks between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels. The Norway-brokered talks…

கூலுக்கு ஏன் இராணுவம் சுவரொட்டி ஒட்டுது எண்டு எல்லாருக்கும் விளங்கினாச் சரி.... SLA soldiers attack students inside Jaffna Technical College [March 24, 2006 07:59 GMT] Sri Lanka Army troopers Friday morning entered the grounds of Jaffna Technical College and beat the students who were paying tribute to Annai Poopathy. Soldiers attacked the Student Union Leader of the Technical College Mr. Suganthan and 15 fellow students including 8 female students. Sri Lankan soldiers, who entered into the grounds in a Buffel Armoured vehicle, removed the Thamileelam national flag, hoisted in the school grounds and smashed the photograph of Annai Poopathy, windows of the …

Ukraine: military endangering civilians by locating forces in residential areas - new research Ukrainian troops near Sloviansk in June © Scott Olson/Getty Images Schools and hospitals used as military bases by Ukrainian forces ‘We have no say in what the military does, but we pay the price’ - resident in city of Bakhmut ‘Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law’ - Agnès Callamard The Ukrainian military has endangered Ukrainian civilians by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in residential areas - including in scho…

India calls for north-east merger [by Admin , Nov 25,2006] India has called upon President Mahinda Rajapakse to honour the Indo-Lanka Agreement and give legal force to the north-east merger. The request of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was communicated to President Mahinda Rajapakse by External Affairs Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon on Thursday at Temple Trees during their one to one meeting. The Sunday Leader learns Menon had told the President the Indo-Lanka Agreement was a bilateral agreement between two sovereign countries subject to international law and cannot be vitiated through a reference to domestic law. Informed sources said th…

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By S. I. Keethaponcalan – Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) emerged as the chief political entity representing the Tamil community in Sri Lanka with the downfall of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. Despite the lack of meaningful political achievements in the last six years, the party seems to be gaining more acceptance within the Tamil community. This is evident from the fact that in the last general election, the party managed to increase its parliamentary representation by two more seats. Therefore, the developments and/or issues within the party have the capacity to impact the int…

Optimism Our correspondent says that there is a sense of something new developing in Nepal and a mood of optimism that the former rebels - who have moved from the battlefield to forming a likely government in less than two years - can give Nepal the new start that it needs. Sectors previously wary of the former rebels are now putting out feelers towards them. A senior army figure, Brigadier General Shiva Ram Pradhan, has expressed the willingness of the military to work with the new government. The chairman of the country's chamber of commerce has praised Maoist leaders for their promise to listen to the private sector when working out economic pol…

Donald Trump to Visit Ethiopia to Commission Nile Dam Could Ethiopia become the first African country to host U.S. president, Donald Trump? The United States of America President, Donald Trump By Amenna Dayo. If news making the rounds is anything to go by, then President Donald Trump of the United States of America will step foot in the African continent for the first time soon. The U.S. president who is yet to visit an African country since his inauguration on November 9, 2016 has reportedly said he is interested in visiting Ethiopia to commission the Nile Dam projec…

Tamil leader blasts Tamil Nadu over Sri Lanka resolution Calcutta News.Net Sunday 16th November, 2008 (IANS) A prominent Tamil politician Sunday criticised a resolution passed by the Tamil Nadu legislature seeking a ceasefire in Sri Lanka 'as shocking and totally unacceptable'. V. Anandasangaree of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) also urged politicians from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to come to Sri Lanka 'on a fact finding mission'. Anandasangaree, who is opposed to the Tamil Tigers, said in a statement that the Tamil Nadu resolution asking the Indian government to pressure Colombo to start talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L…

The Fund says there is a strong case to bolster government spending as it foresees stronger damage ahead from the COVID-19 crisis. By James Sillars, business reporter Thursday 29 October 2020 15:15, UK Image:The repercussions tighter lockdown restrictions are tipped to hurt growth and employment Why you can trust Sky News The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a surprise downgrade to its UK economic forecasts and said there is a "case" for higher Treasury spending to tackle coronaviru…