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Are Tamils also not citizens of Sri Lanka? By Kishali Pinto Jayawardena In the year 1998, Joubert Gnanamuttu an engineer by profession (a slightly built, soft spoken and self effacing gentleman who had lived for more than twenty nine years in Colombo and who spoke with a slight stammer), was travelling in the bus to Borella when it was stopped at an Army check-point at Stanley Wijesundera Mawatha. Asked to show his identity, he produced his national identity card and a driving licence as well as a student identity card issued to him by the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies. Despite this proof of identification, he was asked to show a 'police regis…

Refugees are not all in the same ‘boat’ By Harini SivalingamContributor Ten years ago, a rickety boat filled with the hopes and dreams of 76 Tamil men, who fled horrors in their homeland in search of safety, security, and stability, was intercepted off the coast of Vancouver. The arrival of the MV Ocean Lady on Oct. 17, 2009 sent shock waves throughout Canada. The government at the time sought to attribute sinister motives toward those on board; the media raced to gather information about their origins; refugee rights activists scrambled to respond to media inquiries; and the Tamil-Canadian community mob…

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…

ITJP submits criminal complaint against Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Singapore http://www.newswire.lk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/PSX_20220724_163351.jpg Lawyers from the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) have submitted a criminal complaint to the Attorney General of Singapore requesting the immediate arrest of former Sri Lankan President, Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, for war crimes. The 63-page complaint argues that Rajapaksa committed grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the civil war in 2009 when he was secretary of defence and that these are crimes subject to domestic prosecution in Singapore under universal jurisdiction. The legal …

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Carleton Tamil students react to accused terrorist links Written by Alexander Baker Thursday, 14 September 2006 Four University of Waterloo students were arrested for allegedly providing money and weapons to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in August. In a sweeping raid RCMP and FBI officers detained 11 men, including seven Canadians, alleged to have links to the terrorist group. The group is fighting for an independent Tamil state in northern Sri Lanka. The incident generated publicity, including a front-page spread in the National Post Aug. 31 with an image of students raising the LTTE flag. It depicts crossed AK-47 assault rifles. The…

2 Tamils plead guilty in NY terror-smuggling trial Buzz Up Send Email IM Share Digg Facebook Newsvine del.icio.us Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print Mon Jan 26, 11:50 am ETNEW YORK – Two men have pleaded guilty in New York City to charges they and two other men tried to supply missiles and assault weapons to militants involved in the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka. The four Sri Lankan immigrants were charged with terrorism because the State Department considers the rebel force, known as the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist organization. Two of the defendants entered their pleas in federal court Monday. Jury selection was set to begin Mond…

Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System (ETWS) introduces a means to deliver Warning Notification simultaneously to many mobile users who should evacuate from approaching Earthquake or Tsunami. Mobile user who received Warning Notification is able to know a threat is approaching or already happened nearby. Then the user is able to determine where and when to evacuate according to delivered Warning Notification. Mobile phone is a kind of the closest media for people. This system helps people to prevent from disaster situation or mitigate damage. The characteristic of this service is the need of quick and optimised information delivery. Currently, it is not possible…

Military offensive 'disrupted deal with LTTE’ [TamilNet, August 01, 2006 21:42 GMT] Sri Lankan military’s offensive in Trincomalee disrupted an agreement which had been reached with the Liberation Tigers to open the closed irrigation canal at Mavil Aaru, the Daily Mirror quoted the Chief Priest of a local Buddhist temple as saying. The ongoing confrontation which has claimed scores of lives could have been avoided, the venerable Saranakeerthi Serunuwera Thera also said. His comments comes days after the chief international truce monitor criticized the Sri Lankan government for launching airstrikes near where he was negotiating with local LTTE leaders to defuse the…

Lankan HC dodges British summons ~ London Foreign Office wants to lodge official protest over Karuna’s ‘fake’ passport From a Special Correspondent London, Saturday - Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, Kshenuka Senewiratne, was summoned to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office for a meeting on Tuesday over issues relating to renegade Tiger guerrilla leader Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna entering Britain with official backing from the Government of Sri Lanka. She, however, did not turn up. FCO sources said she had not intimated to the FCO her inability to turn up on that day. Other sources here said her absence was due to…

By the time the morning sun had crept above the city’s Soviet-era apartment blocks, the crowd-control barriers lining Suvorov Square in downtown Tiraspol were already three-deep with families dressed in their Sunday (in this case, Monday) best. Their collective excitement was almost palpable on this surprisingly warm September day; anyone would have thought a royal wedding was on the cards. But in Transnistria (also spelled Trans-Dniester), a sliver of land tracing Moldova’s border with Ukraine for 400km, the capital’s Independence Day celebrations are the highlight of the year. Never mind that the tiny Eastern European nation, formally called the Pridnestrovian Mold…

ALMOST FOUR years ago, the Sri Lankan government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa won a decisive victory in a 26-year-long civil war with rebels from the island’s minority Tamil community. The cost was horrific: A United Nations investigation subsequently found that up to 40,000 civilians may have died in the government's final offensive. But the triumph made Mr. Rajapaksa a hero among the majority Sinhalese community and gave him an opportunity to modernize his country while healing its ethnic rift. Unfortunately, the president and his family — two brothers hold cabinet positions — have pursued just the opposite course. Having acquired a two-thirds parliamentary majorit…

Be it Sinhala – be it Tamil- it's a news paper-keep your hands off", hundreds of journalists shouted in front of the Fort railway station in the capital on Thursday. Several Tamil journalists have been detained and questioned during search operations in Colombo and the suburbs. A protesting Tamil journalist speaking to Elmo Fernando said that the police and security forcers disregard the accreditation cards provided by the Director of Information. Dhanaraj Of Thalam FM said, “the authorities say that these accreditation cards could be forged easily, but that's not an acceptable reason to harass Journalist” President of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists A…

Tigers vow reprisals as Sri Lanka launches new strikes Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:36 AM GMT By Peter Apps 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 blamed on rebels shattered an already fragile ceasefire. Military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said the new 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 Tigers said they would retaliate if the government continued the attacks, launched after a suspected suicide bomb in the capi…

Added on June 04, 2006, 08:03 PM by whitebeach1234 (1 videos) Sri Lanka is a tiny South Asian country. It's government is so corrupt that it has been waging war on minority Tamils so the politicians and military officials can mooch of the defence contracts. Government corruption has crippled its economy!!! ... (more) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msz7-qDmIVc...n%20Sri%20Lanka

Who’s Still Buying Russian Fossil Fuels in 2023? After China and the EU bloc, India is the next-largest importer of Russian fossil fuels, having ramped up the amount of fossil fuels imported by more than 10x since before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, largely due to discounted Russian oil. Türkiye is the only other nation to have imported more than $10 billion worth of Russian fossil fuels in 2023, with every other country having imported fewer than $3 billion worth of fuels from Russia this year. Navigating the Crude Reality of Oil Exports …

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa rejected British concerns Leaders of Commonwealth nations are to issue final statements at the end of a summit in Colombo overshadowed by a row over alleged human rights abuses. A call by British Prime Minister David Cameron for an independent inquiry into alleged war crimes was criticised by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mr Cameron left the summit in the Sri Lankan capital early. On the final day, leaders are expected to make joint statements on issues like debt management and climate change. Malta has been chosen to host the next summit, in 2015, says the BBC's James Robbins, in Colombo. Mauritius,…

Terrorist list is policy with a dash of politics: Analysts Federal government adds IRFAN, but rejects Sri Lanka’s listing of two Canadian groups. Embassy File Photo Tamil protesters in April 2009 demand the Canadian government pressure Sri Lanka to end military action at the time. Canada’s terrorist list is grounded in an “intensive” bureaucratic process, but one that is political nonetheless, security analysts say. Canada’s listing of the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy, and rejection of Sri Lanka’s listing of two Canadian Tamil organizations as terrorist groups in the past few weeks, created a stir of controversy in Canada and …

"Back to war" [TamilNet, January 22, 2006 21:06 GMT] "Unlike Indonesia Sri Lanka has failed to usher in peace. Every opportunity for rapprochement has been squandered after the Tsunami...The Sri Lankan government and the LTTE are steeped in mutual suspicion and contempt and will not arrive at any resolution on their own. A new heavy weight mediator must join Norway's Herculean but waning peacemaking efforts, one whom both parties can respect as an honest broker," said an independent analysis appeared in the Sunday online edition of "The News" of Jang Group. Full text of the article follows: The news from Sri Lanka is not good. The new government and its nem…

Recognition of Regional parties Election commission has fixed certain condition for recognizing a new party as regional party. Vijaykanth party was unable to get recognition in this local body election because that party has only one MLA in the Assembly. Regional parties like MDMK and PMK have got recognition only after they have contested election as alliance with either DMK or ADMK. In this regard, the Election commission may amend the condition as a new party should satisfy the condition prescribed by the election commission by contesting the election as its own, without alliance with any major parties.

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(l-to-r) 'Arrowsmith,' 'Camille,' 'Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet' and 'Jezebel' (Photofest) Must-See Classic Movies About Pandemics From 'Jezebel' to 'Arrowsmith,' a comprehensive list of Golden Age films that deal with outbreaks. As a result of the current coronavirus pandemic, most people have more discretionary time than they did a month ago. Large numbers have wound up in front of their television sets seeking not escapism, but rather pandemic-related films. The two most widely seen, thus far, have been relatively recent: Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak (1995), in which Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman confront an Ebola-like disease; and Ste…

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