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Around 60 to 70 new cancer patients are being diagnosed daily in Sri Lanka and it is the second leading cause of death globally as well as in Sri Lanka. Globally, about 1 in 6 deaths is due to cancer, a seminar was told. Consultant Community Physician Dr. Nayana De Alwis said Oral cancer and breast cancer are the commonest cancers among males and females in Sri Lanka respectively. “About one-third of the cancers can be prevented and another one third can have better health outcomes if detected and treated early,” she added. Dr. De Alwis told media personnel at a seminar held to mark the ‘World Cancer Day’ under the theme “I am I will” for the media at the Heal…

Sixty four combatants have been killed in the latest clashes between the government soldiers and Tamil Tiger rebels in eastern Sri Lanka, military said on Monday. An officer at the government's Media Center for National Security said 24 soldiers were killed and 69 wounded in Sunday's artillery and mortar battle with the insurgents in the eastern Batticaloa district. Forty rebels were also killed in the clash, the officer said speaking on condition of anonymity due to policy. Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan said however at least seven rebel fighters died in the clashes. The military said on Sunday guerrillas mounted artillery attacks on four arm…

Updated: September 05, 2006 00:21 GMT [TamilNet, September 04, 2006 12:34 GMT] Seven more mutilated bodies of civilians killed in artillery fire in Allaipiddy 20 days ago, were photographed and burried Monday at the presence of Jaffna District Magistrate, E. T. Vignarajah. Around 40 civilians were reportedly killed in Allaipiddy. So far, 25 deaths have been verified by humanitarian and legal sources. Relatives of 12 more civilian victims have appealed to the Jaffna regional office of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka seeking help to remove the bodies lying inside the houses located in Ward No: 4 of Allaipiddy. Sri Lanka Navy is not allowing any civilians…

700 undergo military training in 12 Karuna's camps (LeN- Nov. 21, 8.00 p.m.) It is said that abductions and killings are on the rise in Batticaloa District. The committee appointed probe disappearances report that 736 people have disappeared since January. 15 bodies of the people who were abducted and killed have been found. It is believed that Karuna faction is behind these abduction and even the UN too had made some adverse comments of the abductions. It is also said that Karuna faction cadres come in a white van and abduct people in government controlled areas and most of the vehicles and motor cycles used by Karuna faction does not have number p…

8 STF commandos killed in Thirukkovil ambush [TamilNet, Saturday, 27 January 2007, 11:18 GMT] Eight Sri Lankan Special Task Force commandos were killed and 12 wounded at Thangavelauthapuram in Thirukkovil division of Amparai district where a STF vehicle was ambushed, Saturday around 9:30 a.m. with Claymore attack and gunfire. The attack, believed to be carried out by an elite guerilla unit of the Tigers, had targeted the STF logistics supply to STF personnel located in areas vacated by the Tigers, according to initial reports from Thirukkovil. STF personnel fired mortar shells and opened fire following the attack that has taken place 41 km south of Kalmun…

Today marks the 8 years since the murder of five Tamil students, committed by Sri Lanka's Special Task Force, whilst they spent an afternoon on the beach in Trincomalee. The five slain students, who were all 21-years-old when killed, are: Manoharan Ragihar (22.09.1985) Yogarajah Hemachchandra (04.03.1985) Logitharajah Rohan (07.04.1985) Thangathurai Sivanantha (06.04.1985) Shanmugarajah Gajendran (16.09.1985) Photograph: TamilNet To this day, no-one has been brought to justice for the murders. Earlier this year 12 people, including an Assistant Superintendent of Police, were remanded over the killings. To date, none have been b…

8 SLN sailors killed in Claymore blast in Chettikulam [TamilNet, January 12, 2006 10:48 GMT] Eight Sri Lanka Navy sailors were killed when the bus they were travelling in hit a Claymore mine explosion in Chettikulam Thursday evening around 4:20 p.m., Sri Lankan naval sources said. The attack took place on Mathawachi - Mannar Road. Eight SLN personnel were seriously wounded, the sources added. Chettikulam is located 24 km southwest of Vavuniya town. Further details are not available at the moment. tamilnet

9 new envoys with AF Commander picked to head SL Mission in Canada Names of new nominees to head missions in several important capitals, including Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands and Qatar, sent to High Post Committee of Parliament for confirmation Most among them are career diplomats http://static.ft.lk/assets/uploads/image_740ccc72d2.jpg Air Force Commander Air Marshal Sumangala Dias Air Force Commander Air Marshal Sumangala Dias, who is to retire shortly, has been nominated as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Canada. His name, along with t…

இன்று இளவயதினர் தற்கொலை செய்து கொள்வது முன்னரை விட அதிகரித்துள்ளது. காரணங்கள் என்ன என பெரும்பாலும் பெற்றோர்களால் விளங்கிக்கொள்ள முடியவில்லை!!, சில இடங்களில் பெற்றோர் காரணங்களை ஏற்பதும் இல்லை.. இந்த கட்டுரை சிலவற்றை விளங்கப்படுத்துகிறது. மாணவர்களுக்கு உளவள ஆலோசகர்களாக விளங்கும் சிலர் தமது கருத்துக்களை கூறுகிறார்கள். நேரம் கிடைக்கும் பொழுது மொழி பெயர்ப்பு செய்ய முயற்சிக்கிறேன்.. 9 things college mental health counselors wish parents understood If you're the parent of a college-aged kid, you know that students today have higher rates of depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders. Between 2020 and 2021, more than 60% of college students “met …

Inner City Press journalist Matthew Russell Lee who regularly attends United Nation’s press conferences in New York today revealed in a news article in his website that the “minimum number of documented civilian casualties since 20 January 2009, as of 7 March in the conflict area of Mullaitivu Region is 9,924 casualties including 2,683 deaths and 7,241 injuries. He published a leaked document of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the UN and said that after claiming “we don’t count bodies,” the UN has now involuntarily admitted, the documented civilian casualties. “Now it appears that unlike in other conflicts from Darfur to Gaza, the UN …

97 yr old Mansee Subiah on Tamil Heritage in Trinidad

தமிழ் மக்களிற்காக நீதிகேட்டு இன்று 9வது நாளாக சிவந்தன் ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் மனித உரிமைகள் சபை நோக்கி தனது மனிதநேய நடை பயணத்தை தொடர்ந்து வருகின்றார். இவரது பயணத்துடன் அதிகளவிலான மக்கள் தொடர்ச்சியாக இணைந்து வருகின்றனர். இன்று காலை முதல் 10இற்கும் மேற்பட்டவர்கள் சிவந்தனுடன் இணைந்து நடந்து செல்லுகின்றனர். நேற்று 30 பேர் வரையில் இணைந்து நடந்த அதேவேளை, அதற்கு முதல் நாள் 20இற்கும் மேற்பட்டவர்கள் இந்த மனிதநேய நடை பயணத்தில் தம்மை இணைத்திருந்தனர். இன்று காலை முதல் Beauvais என்ற இடத்தில் இருந்து Noailles நோக்கி சிவந்தன் நடந்துகொண்டு இருக்கின்றார். நேற்று 12 மணித்தியாலங்கள் நடந்திருந்த சிவந்தன் 42 கிலோமீற்றர்களைக் கடந்திருந்தார். பிரித்தானியாவில் நூற்றுக்கணக்கான க…

A bloodied childhood in war-torn Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Tamil poet and journalist Theepachelvan Pratheepan shares the experiences of his petrified childhood days spent in the war-torn island nation withRediff.com’s Shobha Warrier. He was born when the ethnic conflict and the war broke out in 1983 in Sri Lanka. He grew up listening to fighter planes hovering over his head and watching men, women and children walking hundreds of kilometres in search of safety. There had to be an outpouring of the troubled mind that saw blood, gore, hatred and killings all around him. He became a poet, a journalist and an essayist. What he went through in life may not be understood by m…

A brother out of control - Editorial , The Hindu. Two years after defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and eliminating it as a military entity, Sri Lanka is still struggling to emerge from the woods on some important fronts. Two issues are predominant. One is the nature of the peace, and the efforts by the Sri Lankan government towards a political reconciliation between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. The military victory over the LTTE, and President Mahinda Rajapaksa's strength in parliament, gave the government an unprecedented opportunity to put in place a progressive political framework to heal the wounds of a 30-year war, and address Ta…

This project will not increase the country’s growth rate immediately. It will simply address solutions to some of the most critical constraints which the country’s economy faces today. It is a facilitator and not a final solution provider Intelligent children, unlike some of the adults, are curious, probing and questioning. They do not jump to conclusions until and unless they are convinced of facts that have been presented to them. Asani, a student in the Advanced Level class in a leading school, is such a curious child. She had heard and read much about the Millennium Challenge Corporation or MCC Compact Grant for Sri Lanka and had not been convinced of the argumen…

A convoy of Russian trucks carrying aid for #Ukrainehas been opened up to journalists at the border:http://bbc.in/1uXbzpQ The Ukrainian government had insisted that inspectors checked the trucks' cargo, amid fears that they could be carrying military supplies for the rebels. The BBC's Steve Rosenberg noted that many of the trucks were "almost empty". 6e0d88e17d40254ae2de1784d91c0f16

On June 3, 2019, my wife and I welcomed our daughter into the world. She’s barely old enough to walk, so her job (mostly eating and sleeping) hasn’t changed much. But, one day, she’ll need some money and life advice. As a father who has spent much of his career studying and writing about money, behavioral finance and business, this is what I’ll tell her: 1. Don’t underestimate the role of chance in life. It’s easy to assume that wealth and poverty are caused by the choices we make, but it’s even easier to underestimate the role of chance in life. The families, values, countries and generations we’re born into, as well as the people we h…

https://mises.org/wire/fearful-fed-keeps-pouring-money-repo-market A Fearful Fed Keeps Pouring Money into the Repo Market 01/09/2020 Ryan McMaken The Fed announced on Thursday it is adding another $83 billion in "in temporary liquidity to financial markets." And, in a development that will surprise no cynic anywhere, the Fed also noted that it "may keep adding temporary money to markets for longer than policy makers had expected in September." Specifically, this was another move to shore up and bail out the repo market, which has required the Fed's ongoing revival of quantitative easing (but don't call it that…

16 November 2013 A film of alleged war crimes … how I became Sri Lanka's most hated man Callum Macrae: The reaction of the people I met in Sri Lanka is at odds with the intimidation against me engineered by a despotic government. A film shot in January 2009 allegedly shows a Sri Lankan soldier executing a Tamil Tiger prisoner. Photograph: Journalists For Democracy/AFP/Getty Images They haunt our every move, on their motorbikes in their silver hatchback and on their tuk tuks. Sri Lanka's intelligence officers are a tenacious lot, but there's another group perhaps even more tenacious in their pursuit of us: "spontaneous", pro-government demonstrators. …

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British parliament debated on Sri Lanka on Tuesday at Westminster Hall for one and half hours. This is the fourth debate on Sri Lanka in recent times. Member for Mitcham and Morden, Siobhain McDonagh secured the time for the debate and lead the debate. The salient feature of the debate is, irrespective of party differences members across the bench were critical on Sri Lankan government for its ignorance on humanitarian crisis and the refusal to accept Tamil grievances. At the debate, parliament members expressed the frustration of Tamil Diaspora and the inability of the international community to bring a redress to them. Siobhain McDonagh asked, ‘what are we saying …

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…

A human race in the verge of extinction. Can we stop the devastation of our motherland and save our own species? Priya Raj, 25th January 2007. Death, mayhem, rape, molestation, psychological trauma, malnutrition, displacement and disappearances in the Tamil nation are slowly but steadily pushing the native Tamil race towards extinction. Every second that passes by in the north and east of Sri Lanka confirms this horrific fact and unfolding a story that is beyond the civilized world’s wildest imagination. Of all the species that have lived on the Earth since life first appeared here 3 billion years ago, only about one in a thousand is still livi…

A human race in the verge of extinction. Can we stop the devastation of our motherland and save our own species? Priya Raj, 25th January 2007. Death, mayhem, rape, molestation, psychological trauma, malnutrition, displacement and disappearances in the Tamil nation are slowly but steadily pushing the native Tamil race towards extinction. Every second that passes by in the north and east of Sri Lanka confirms this horrific fact and unfolding a story that is beyond the civilized world’s wildest imagination. Of all the species that have lived on the Earth since life first appeared here 3 billion years ago, only about one in a thousand is still li…

= Women activists decry public apathy to curb increase in incidents = More police posts to be set up in tourist areas Last week’s alleged rape of a 47-year old woman in Wijerama and an attempted rape of a 25-year old German tourist in Chilaw, have once again raised the question, how safe are women in our country—both local and foreign.�According to statistics, five rapes are reported daily while the unreported cases could make the figure higher. Among the women’s’ group workers and activists who spoke to the Sunday Times, Lak Vanitha Front president Shanthini Kongahage voicing concern said many women relied on three-wheeler drivers to ask for road directions. …