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Open letter to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa S. V. Kirubaharan, France “Don’t trust too much. Don’t love too much. Don’t hope too much. Because that too much can hurt you so much” – Gautama Buddha Dear Mr President Gotabaya Rajapaksa - GR I doubt whether I need any introduction! In brief, I am still here to write this letter to you! Regarding your recent victory in becoming the Executive President of Sri Lanka, my conscience does not allow me to congratulate you - it is the same with many of my fellow Tamils. I am sure you must be aware that in July 2019, I predicted your victory. If you have not gone through my article, “Sa…

Action, not words is needed - paper [TamilNet, February 03, 2006 20:43 GMT] The Sri Lankan government’s tardy response to the kidnapping of ten aid workers of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) have raised serious doubts about the prospects of peace talks, the Tamil Guardian newspaper said this week. Arguing that “last week’s optimism [about talks] was premature and, as many Tamils now feel, sorely misplaced,” the expatriate publication said “this incident has demonstrated exactly what the future of negotiations with President Rajapakse and his government is likely to be.” The full text of the Tamil Guardian editorial follows: Norway’s announcement…

The years of toil have paid off and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is on the ascendance in Tamil Nadu, looking at bright yet challenging days ahead. Propelled by the "Modi wave", the party used the support base of six regional players it had aligned with as a launch pad to perform creditably in the Lok Sabha election. BJP's pre-poll alliance with the DMDK, PMK, MDMK, KMDK, IJK and NJP raked in 19% of the votes polled and the coalition picked up two Lok Sabha seats. The remaining 37 seats went to the AIADMK, while the Congress and the DMK drew a blank. The BJP, which contested 18 seats in 2009, more than doubled its vote share from 2.34% to 5.48% in 2014 d…

Ocean Lady migrants from Sri Lanka still struggling 5 years later Of the 76 men found on the Ocean Lady, 30 have been accepted as refugees Journalist Maran Nagarasa still recalls vividly the sense of elation aboard the Ocean Lady five years ago this week when he saw a plane flying overhead with a Canadian flag. “I was sure God had arrived to save us,” he said. But that feeling soon turned to fear as he and the 75 other Sri Lankan Tamils on board faced armed border guards and RCMP officers. On Oct. 17, 2009, they were arrested, jailed and interrogated. Eventually, most were released to await hearings before Canada’s refugee board. Nagarasa ope…

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Sri Lanka: Some Thoughts on LTTE's Military Response - Update No 147 By Col R Hariharan (Retd.) [This is the second part of SAAG Note No 458 "Sri Lanka: War after the fall of Vidattalthivu- Part 1–Update No146" dated July 21, 2008 available at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/notes5/note458.html] During the last one week, Sri Lanka army has kept up its momentum of advance. According to defence sources, the troops of 57 Division are on the periphery of line Tunukkai-Mallavi, west of A9 highway. We can expect them to secure the line from Vellankulam on the coast to Mallavi during the course of the week The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)'s faile…

Will the Tamils Lose the Plot Again? Photo courtesy Christian Science Monitor Chaos and Fear Much has happened in the space of three months. Soon after the Eastern Provincial Council election came the Divi Neguma bill and the subsequent calls for the abolition of the 13th Amendment. The impeachment motion against the Chief Justice and the recruitment of Tamil women to the military followed before the Maveerar Naal (Heroes’ Day) incidents in Jaffna. It would seem that the government is bent on creating chaos and fear. The Present State of Affairs In response to the negative Supreme Court verdict on the Divi Neguma bill, the government did two things: it …

Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarian Sumanthiran has cautioned that any law that replaces the Prevention of Terrorism Act with its draconian provisions is despicable. As of information available, the new Counter-terrorism law which will replace the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) has retained draconian and objectionable provisions in the PTA. He was addressing the House participating in the debate on the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill and Law Commission (Amendment) Bill. He went on that if the PTA was going to come back with another name, that would have repercussions on the government when the legislation comes out. Serious concerns have been …

Declaration of Sovereignty by American States The assertion of sovereignty by a growing number of American States bears important pointers for the reconfiguration of Sri Lanka to provide space for Tamil nationhood: http://www.thelocal .se/discuss/ viewtopic. php?t=18361 8 STATES ARE NOW DECLARING SOVEREIGNTY In case you didn't hear about it on the mainstream media (which you haven't because they want to keep us asleep), numerous states are currently declaring sovereignty, including: Washington http://apps. leg.wa.gov/ billinf.. . New Hampshire http://www.gencourt .state.nh. u... Arizona http://www.azleg. gov/Forma…

Although Swiss embassies abroad can no longer grant asylum requests, they can award humanitarian visas. But only 48 visas were awarded between September 2012 and mid-June 2014, the cabinet said on Thursday in response to a parliamentary interpellation. The possibility of applying for asylum at a Swiss embassy in a foreign country was discontinued on September 29, 2012. Between January 1, 2009, and September 29, 2012, almost 20,000 asylum requests were granted to persons whose lives or physical integrity were deemed to be seriously threatened. At the time the option of applying for asylum abroad was discontinued, 16,425 applications were pending. Of those, 4…

இரு அகதிகளை நாடுகடத்தலில் இருந்து காப்பற்றிய பிரான்சின் கிராம மக்கள்

By Simon Gardner COLOMBO (Reuters) - A Sri Lankan government probe into the massacre last year of 17 aid workers that international truce monitors have blamed on the military is beset with shortcomings, an international rights group cautioned on Friday. Authorities are still probing the execution-style killings of local staff of French aid group Action Contre La Faim -- the worst attack on humanitarian workers since a 2003 suicide bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad killed 22 U.N. staff. But so far police have failed to properly explore the possibility that troops rather than Tamil Tiger rebels could have been responsible and forensic evidence was o…

I was born in Tamil Nadu and moved to America after my 1st birthday. Needless to say, I was your average American Tamil girl caught between two cultures. My parents, on one side, pressuring me into marriage. On the other side, I was trying to find myself, let alone somebody that I actually wanted to spend the rest of my life with). The older I got, the more I realized that marriage was not for me. “What?! A Tamil girl not getting married – what a ludicrous idea!” I could already hear my parents, uncles, and aunties losing their minds. My entire life goal was to make my parents proud, but I just couldn’t be tied down by marriage. I started living alone at the age of…

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12 bodies of civilians recovered from Muttur east [TamilNet, April 26, 2006 03:20 GMT] Initial reports from Muttur east in Trincomalee district Wednesday morning said at least twelve bodies of Tamil civilians including men, women and children killed in Tuesday evening air strike by Kfir jets, and artillery attack by Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) and Sri Lanka Army (SLA) were recovered from Muttur east area. More casualties are expected from Tuesday attack by government troops, a NGO source in the affected area said. The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) launched air strike on several villages in the LTTE held Muttur east village Tuesday evening following the bomb attack on Lt.…

Youth's decapitated body found in Jaffna [TamilNet, August 01, 2006 16:05 GMT] Siruppiddi petrol station owner, Visvalingam Kauroopan, 24, from Karanavai, missing since Sunday, was found slain with his throat cut and his headless body dumped in the disused Siruppiddi Kannaki Amman temple festival-pool Monday, sources from Jaffna said. Mallakam magistrate Ms Sarojini Ilangovan who visited the crime site directed that his body be released to his relatives. Mr Kauroopan left the petrol station for lunch at 3 p.m. Sunday when he went missing. His relatives have registered complaints with the Jaffna Human Rights Commission (HRC) that the Sr…

The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has made a grave error by supporting the 18th Amendment when it was introduced by the government, Hasan Ali, General Secretary of the party told Ceylon Today. He said the SLMC has to accept that grave error, adding that the party's stance to support the Amendment, was not made clear to most of the members. "Our Party made the gravest mistake by supporting the 18th Amendment, and there were some members who were compelled to support the Amendment. Therefore, we had no other choice than to support it," he said. Ali added that when important matters, and important decisions were taken; it was not discussed with party member…

இரான் ஏவுகணை தாக்குதல்: வேண்டுமென்றே உயிர்பலிகள் வராமல் தாக்குதல் நடத்தப்பட்டதா? படத்தின் காப்புரிமை Getty Images Image caption அமெரிக்கா மீது ஏவுகணை தாக்குதல் நடத்திய இரான் இரானின் மூத்த ராணுவ தளபதி காசெம் சுலேமானீ கொல்லப்பட்டதற்கு, தகுந்த விலையை அமெரிக்கா அளிக்க வேண்டியிருக்கும் என கடும் சீற்றத்துடன் இரான் எச்சரித்திருந்தது. மேலும் எச்சரித்தது போலவே, கடந்த புதன்கிழமை இராக்கின் அல்-அசாத் பகுதியில் உள்ள அமெரிக்க ராணுவ தளத்தின் மீது பத்துக்கும் மேற்பட்ட ஏவுகணைகளை வீசி இரான் தாக்குதல் நடத்தியது. கடும்…

[size=5]“A/S Blake regretted the current state of GSL-ICRC relations, noting the very critical role ICRC had played on human rights and the constructive relationship the GSL had previously had with the ICRC. He asked if Pascoe had raised the ICRC during his visit. [/size] [size=5]Holmes surmised that the Sri Lankan military is taking revenge on the ICRC, which it believes abetted the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in the past. Holmes and Pascoe had asked the ICRC if it wanted help in retaining its mandate in Sri Lanka, but, as usual, the ICRC preferred to fight its own battles. [/size] [size=5]ICRC has explained to the government what it is in Sri Lankato do; if the govern…

போரின் வடுக்களை சுமந்து ஈழப் பெண்ணின் வாழ்க்கை அனுபவம்!

Sri Lanka launches new strikes on Tiger territory By Peter Apps 27 minutes ago COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military launched new strikes on Tamil Tiger areas in the island's northeast on Wednesday, a day after a deadly suicide bomb attack in the capital blamed on rebels shattered a fragile ceasefire. Military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said Wednesday's strikes came after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fired on naval patrol craft off the eastern port of Trincomalee for a second day. "The navy is heavily patrolling the area," he said. "They requested air support." The government launched attacks on…

UNICEF says the Karuna group is conscripting children, with 30 cases verified in one week in June alone. "What we have seen is recruitment by a new faction, the Karuna faction, with fairly significant numbers recruited between the months of April and June," said JoAnna VanGerpen, the UNICEF representative in Sri Lanka. "It was off in July but now we're hearing new reports again of recruitment. This is a very unfortunate development." Ross from Human Rights Watch says it is very worrying that the government apparently is complicit in the Karuna group's conscripting of children. "The fact that abductions appear to be taking place in Batticaloa area by th…

In a paper published in the latest issue of the US Defence Department's journal 'Prism', Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has reiterated his belief that Islamic terrorism poses a threat to Sri Lanka. Since the LTTE's defeat, some of the Muslim groups in Lanka have begun to engage in activities that go 'far beyond self-protection', he said in the journal brought out by the Center for Complex Operations (CCO). 'There is information that some of these groups have even tried to link up with global Islamic terrorist organisations. This is a situation that requires careful monitoring,' Gotabaya said. 'Some Islamic groups in Lanka have started to…

Norway fails to secure deal to lift Jaffna siege. Sri Lanka's peace broker Norway has failed to secure an agreement to end a blockade on the Jaffna peninsula where nearly half a million people are trapped by fighting, officials said. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said Friday they told a Norwegian envoy to persuade the government to open the land access to the embattled north without conditions. The government had asked Jon Hanssen-Bauer to secure a deal with the Tigers to allow a convoy of some 400 trucks to travel through rebel-held territory, but the Tigers rejected a one-off convoy. Instead, the LTTE political wing leader S. P.…