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Sri Lankan forces 'target church' Attacks have been on the increase since the end of the ceasefire Sri Lankan forces have been accused of targeting a church in the north-western district of Mannar. The government denies this, but eyewitnesses described how the military attacked the church. An international aid worker has confirmed it. One woman was killed and more than 40 people injured in the incident. It comes after early-morning clashes in Mannar between the Sri Lankan navy and Tamil Tiger rebels, in which more than 30 people were said to have died. Some 200 people had been sheltering at the church when a grenade was thrown in, causing d…

Sri Lankan government orders closure of schools one week ahead [TamilNet, August 14, 2006 18:46 GMT] Sri Lanka's Education Ministry Monday ordered that all schools in the island should be closed from Tuesday till August 27. The reason given by the ministry for the closure is in connection with the South Asian Games which is to commence on August 18 in Colombo. Schools are to be reopened for the third term on August 28, according to the new directive, Education Ministry sources said. According to the school academic calendar, all schools should close on August 22 for the second term and recommence on September 04 for the third term. The closure of school…

Sri Lankan Government will not disarm Karuna Munza Mushtaq in Colombo, July 13, 2006, 7.41 p.m.. The Sri Lankan Government has categorically declared that it will not attempt to disarm LTTE renegade leader Karuna and his cadres, because it does not want to get entangled in another war, the newly launched 'Sunday Standard' said in its lead report. "Defence Spokesman, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella made the declaration amidst continuous LTTE pressure demanding the Government to disarm Karuna cadres, if they are to resume peace negotiations, the report said. If the LTTE expects us to hunt down the Karuna faction, that's not possible at this stage simply becaus…

Dear All Please forward this email to your friends and family members to show their disagreement and anger by sending email or phoning the school not to allow this to happen. Sri Lankan High Commission celebrates bloodshed & victory of tamilnation by the name of new year in Lampton school hall and Lampton park at lampton ave Hounslow TW3 4EP on 18/04/09 next Saturday. Please phone the Head Teacher & make polite request to withdraw permission to use their hall the phone number 0208 8572 1936 and ring Hounslow council on 0208 583 2000 between 8AM to 8PM to cancel Lampton park for their celebrations. Lampton School Lampton Avenue Hounslow …

Sri Lankan Human Rights Advisers Resign, Criticize Government By Jay Shankar Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Four activists resigned from Sri Lanka's advisory panel on human rights, saying the government is intent on fighting Tamil rebels, not protecting civil rights. The administration ``is not serious about protecting human rights or eliminating the culture of impunity,'' Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, one of those who resigned from the 10-member panel, said in an interview yesterday. ``There is no window of opportunity left to hold talks with the government on the issue.'' More than 1,100 abductions and ``disappearances'' have been reported in Sri Lanka since…

Sri Lankan Kfir jets bomb LTTE controlled area in Trincomalee [TamilNet, April 25, 2006 13:00 GMT] Sri Lankan Kfir jets have been bombing LTTE controlled Sampoor, Ilakkanthai and Kattaiparichchan villages in Muttur, Trincomalee district from 5:00 p.m Tuesday. Casualty details are not available at the moment. There are also reports about multibarrel artillery fire. Sri Lankan Dvora attack crafts and gunboats were surrounding the LTTE controlled coastal areas in Trincomalee, civilian sources said. With the Colombo bomb attack Tuesday, the duration of curfew has been advanced to 4 p.m.till 6 a.m. next day, police said. Eighteen-hour curfew has been clamped…

[March 03, 2006] Sri Lankan maid jumps out of limousine (Gulf News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Riyadh: In a horrific incident, a Sri Lankan maid servant tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a limousine in which she was travelling. The maid, who sustained multiple injuries and fractures, was hospitalised following the incident that took place on King Fahd Road at 10am on Wednesday in Riyadh city. The mentally disturbed young woman, another victim of torture and beating by a Saudi family, was seen weeping all through her travel to seek asylum at the Sri Lankan embassy in the capital city. Police started investigations into the incident. …

A 70-year-old Sri Lankan man in Messina, Italy, has been found dead inside his residence, the Foreign Relations Ministry said today. However, a ministry spokesperson said the cause of the death was not yet known and that the Ministry was in contact with the Sri Lankan Missions in Italy to ascertain the cause of death. Meanwhile, the Ministry denied reports of a group of Sri Lankans in Italy testing positive for COVID-19 and said that they were in self-quarantine. The Ministry said they were constantly monitoring the situation in Italy. http://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/Sri-Lankan-man-in-Italy-found-dead/108-185599

Sri Lankan markets bank on early military victory 6 hours ago COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lanka has downgraded its growth forecast for 2009 in line with a global meltdown, but the local markets are hoping a quick end to the drawn-out separatist war will restore confidence. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka said Friday it was revising GDP projections by a full percentage point to five percent in 2009 compared to the forecasted six percent in 2008, when fighting between troops and Tiger rebels escalated. But Geeth Balasuriya, of privately run HNB Stockbrokers, said the government's capture of the Tamil Tiger political capital Kilinochchi on Friday had made the market b…

Sri Lankan monk is condemned to death for murder A Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka has been sentenced to death - the first monk in 50 years to receive such a sentence in the country. Gomadiye Sarana, 37, was convicted for a murder committed before he was ordained into the clergy. His fate is unclear, however, as no death sentence has been carried out for more than three decades in Sri Lanka. Sarana and an accomplice were found guilty of murdering a man 12 years ago by a court in the south of the country. The crime appeared to be linked to a dispute over an affair the monk had with the murder victim's sister. http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-17133192

Sri Lankan Muslims Are Low Caste Tamil Hindu Converts Not Arab Descendants By Rifat Halim – The recent execution of Rizana Nafeek in Saudi Arabia has underlined the bogus claim of Arab ancestry by Sri Lankan Muslims (formerly known as Ceylon Moors). Ms. Nafeek, a domestic worker from a poor family in the East of Sri Lanka, spoke no language but Tamil. She requested a Tamil translator but was provided with a Malayalam-speaking minor employee whose command of the Tamil language was said to be insufficient. The Saudi authorities showed no clemency. Also, they refused to recognize her as a person of Arab descent. Her status was indistinguishab…

An Important Issue: MUST READ Politics is not a SERVICE anymore but a PROFESSION!!! An Important Issue! Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament (MP) Monthly Salary : Rs. 12,000/- Expense for Constitution per month : Rs. 10,000/- Office expenditure per month : Rs. 14,000/- Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) : Rs. 48,000/- (eg. For a visit from Nuwara eliya & return : 600 km) Daily DA TA during parliament meets : Rs. 500/day Charge for 1 class (A/C) in Train : Free (For any number of times) (All over sri lanka ) Charge for Business Class in Flights : Free for 40 trips …

Sri Lankan passport queues introduced at Katunayake Airport The Immigration Department has introduced queues for Sri Lankan passport holders, based on traffic patterns at the Bandaranaike International Airport. Photo by Gayathri Seneviratne ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka’s Immigration Department has introduced time-bound seperate queues for Sri Lankan passport holders at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake to manage passenger flows at the arrivals terminal, officials said. Airport and Aviation Services Spokesperson H. S. Hettiarachchi said the new initiative has been implemented for two weeks. The priority queue…

Sri Lankan police brutalise Tamil youth in Batticaloa A Sri Lankan police officer was seen brutalising two Tamil citizens in Batticaloa this evening, kicking one individual and dragging and slapping another individual on a motorcycle. The two Tamil men, Thissasekaram Dilip and Thillainathan Kalairasan from Chenkaladi, were attacked by a traffic police constable attached to Eravur police, for not stopping their motorcycle. The incident follows growing international condemnation of Sri Lanka's police force with Human Rights Watch (HRW) urging international partners to cease their engagement with "abusive Sri Lankan law enforcement agen…

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has cancelled his visit to Pakistan that was scheduled for later this week due to the political unrest in the Pakistani capital city of Islamabad, Pakistani Foreign Office has said. During the Sri Lankan President's visit to Islamabad which was scheduled for August 22, the President was to meet the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, President Mamnoon Hussain and Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif. President Rajapaksa was to accompany a delegation of 20 government officials and a30-member private sector business delegation to Islamabad. A Joint Press Statement issued on the Pakistan-Sri Lanka Foreign…

Sri Lankan President Dissanayake’s JVP/NPP wins a landslide victory in parliamentary elections 8 hours ago Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna-led (JVP) National People’s Power (NPP) alliance secured a landslide victory in Thursday’s national parliamentary election. With 159 seats, the JVP/NPP will have a two-thirds majority in the incoming 225-member parliament, giving it the legal power to make good on its pledge to amend the constitution unhindered by any parliamentary opposition. Sri Lankan President Anura K…

Sri Lankan president still for peace with Tiger rebels www.chinaview.cn 2006-01-08 23:55:26 COLOMBO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse said Sunday that he was still committed to the internationally backed cease-fire with the Tamil Tigers despite continued acts of violence perpetrated by the rebel group. Rajapakse was reacting to Saturday's attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on a Navy fast attack craft at the eastern port of Trincomalee. Addressing a religious public gathering at Horana, 38 km southeast of the capital Colombo, the president said the LTTE attack was "a blatant violation of t…

Report: Sri Lankan rebels reinforcing their feared 'Sea Tiger' naval force Associated Press, Mon January 30, 2006 03:05 EST DILIP GANGULY - Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Sri Lanka - 's Tamil Tiger rebels have trained more fighters for their ``Sea Tiger'' naval force, sparking yet more fears that a fraying government-rebel truce may snap, a defense analyst and pro-rebel Web-site said. The Tamil Tigers began fighting in 1983 for a separate state for Sri Lanka - 's minority ethnic Tamils, accusing the majority Sinhalese of discrimination. The conflict claimed at least 65,000 lives before a Norway-brokered cease-fire in 2002. However, pea…

Kogularamanan Arulanantham, 33, was granted refugee status in Canada in 2006 but has been waiting for years for permanent residency because he's deemed inadmissible for working at a retail story run by a terror group. As a “protected person,” Kogularamanan Arulanantham cannot be removed from Canada to Sri Lanka. As someone deemed “inadmissible” to Canada as an alleged member of the Tamil Tigers, the Brampton man cannot become a permanent resident and must renew his temporary permit to remain here every year – unless he is granted a reprieve from Public Safety Minister Steve Blaney. Border officials’ broad definition of membership means a person can be cons…

Tamil genocide 1 language Tamil Genocide தமிழர் இனப்படுகொலை Part of Sri Lankan Civil War Tamil Civilians are being displaced from parts of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu Districts as a result of the Sri Lanka Army's military offensive in September 2008. Location Sri Lanka Target Sri Lankan Tamils Attack type Genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder, mass shoo…

Leaders of Sri Lanka's main Tamil party are to push their case for full implementation of the contentious thirteenth amendment to the Constitution during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) delegation leaves for India today for their first meeting with the new Indian government. The delegation is expected to meet External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday and hopes to meet Modi on Saturday. Senior TNA parliamentarian M A Sumanthiran said the party will urge India to ensure Sri Lanka fully implements the 13Amendment as the Sri Lankan government had earlier given that assurance to India. Under the 13A amendment…

Sri Lankan Tamils Have Played A Bigger Role Than Other Groups In Globalizing Hinduism, Says Japanese Scholar Yamashita News East-West TORONTO: Prof Hiroshi Yamashita from Tohuku University in Japan must have been an Indian in his previous birth. Very few Indian scholars can match him in his knowledge of Indian civilization, culture and Hinduism. A Ph.D in Indian philosophy, Hinduism and Tamil literature from the University of Madras where he studied from 1981 to 1987, he is fluent in Tamil, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Pali. To boot, he has translated the dialogue of many Tamil films into Japanese and introduced Tamil cinema in Japan when he took the Rajnikanth starrer M…

KURUMBASIDDY, Sri Lanka (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The civil war in northern Sri Lanka ended more than a decade ago, but Shan Raj’s ancestral home is still surrounded by a fence of barbed wire. Every year, Raj comes all the way from Australia to his home village of Kurumbasiddy, near the once war-torn city of Jaffna, with the hope of being able to visit the 11-room house his father built alongside the family-owned rice mill. He has not been inside his childhood home since June 1990. That was when his family’s property, along with that of more than 100 families living in the area 395km (245 miles) north of the capital Colombo, was declared part of a high…

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Sri Lankans Accuse Him of Wartime Atrocities. California May Decide. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother to the former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, at home in Colombo in December.CreditAdam Dean for The New York Times In the decade since Sri Lanka’s civil war ended, a former wartime defense chief has successfully dodged accusations of crimes against humanity. He may soon run for president. But the accusations, which are supported by United Nations inquiries, recently caught up with him in a California parking lot…