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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…

Tensions between India and Pakistan cause deep concern internationally, largely because both countries have nuclear arsenals. Both are also relatively new nuclear powers and there are concerns that neither fully understands the nuclear doctrine of the other. India and Pakistan stunned the world with back-to-back nuclear tests in May 1998, sparking fears of an arms race on the sub-continent. Unlike Russia and the United States, they are not bound by any treaty obliging them to reveal the extent of their arsenals. And perhaps most worryingly, no one knows for sure how many warheads each country has. Experts fear that India and Pakistan do not have the mutua…

Sri Lanka's Tamil party for political solution to ethnic issue www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-10 23:14:58 Print COLOMBO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The leader of Sri Lanka's major Tamil party said Monday that the country's ethnic issue could not be solved militarily and only a political solution can bring peace to the island. R. Sampanthan, the leader of the Tamil National Alliance told a gathering of foreign correspondents in Colombo that the Sri Lankan government was wrong in thinking that it could solve the issue by flushing out Tamil Tiger rebels from the northern Wanni district. He said peace would not come "unless the Tamil questi…

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…

Google co-founder Page 'to marry' Google co-founder Larry Page is set to marry his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, this weekend on a tiny private island in the Caribbean, US media reports say. Six hundred guests are reportedly due to attend the ceremony on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, owned by the best man, Sir Richard Branson. Ms Southworth is a doctoral student at Stanford University in California. Mr Page, who has an estimated fortune of $18.5bn, co-founded search giant Google with Sergey Brin in 1998. Since listing in August 2004 shares in the firm have risen sevenfold and it is now valued at over $220bn. Mr Brin, who is …

School girl missing in Jaffna, 3 seek protection [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 December 2007, 15:34 GMT] A ten-year-old girl student of Changkaanai Hindu Primary School was reported missing since Tuesday after leaving to attend school in the morning, according to complaints registered with the Jaffna office of the Human Rights Commision (JHRC) by her family members Thursday. Meanwhile, three family men from different places in Jaffna peninsula sought protection with JHRC Thursday due to death threats from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops and SLA-backed paramilitary men. The girl reported missing is Packiarasa Partheepa, 10, a fourth grade student of Changkaanai Hindu Prima…

NEW DELHI: Sri Lankan security forces are to blame for the murder of 700 civilians in Jaffna, a rights body said yesterday, holding both Colombo and the Tamil Tigers accountable for the island nation’s misery. The University Teachers for Human Rights (UTHR) also said in its latest report that “war-like ideologies” were leading the Sri Lankan government as well as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to a destructive future. “Making due allowance for the LTTE’s share in killings, we estimate that the government and its security forces are responsible for murdering in cold blood upwards of a base figure of 700 unarmed civilians in Jaffna during 2006 and 2007,” sa…

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Travel ban on Wanni civilians ~ Train services curtailed, more suspects rounded up in security crackdown By Chris Kamalendran The Government has barred the movement of civilians from the uncleared Wanni region, except for a few essential cases in a fresh attempt to prevent Tiger guerrillas from infiltrating the south and causing destruction. Civilians from the Wanni will be allowed to leave only for medical treatment, appointments with government departments or any official business. Brigadier Udaya Nanaykkara confirming the travel restrictions said the measure had been taken due to security reasons including the prevention of infiltration of LTTE cadres …

Sri Lanka asking Pakistan for swift military assistance: Jane’s LONDON: Sri Lanka is looking to Pakistan for help to bolster its military capabilities as the ceasefire between the government and rebels appears increasingly fragile, specialist publication Jane’s Defence Weekly said on Thursday. Sri Lanka has asked Pakistan to facilitate the purchase of military equipment worth around 60 million dollars, according to high-level discussions detailed in documents seen by the defence magazine. Jane’s Defence Weekly said Sri Lanka had asked that their requests be treated with the “utmost priority” given the deteriorating security situation. The report was pu…

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Pinching the baby and rocking the cradle TAMIL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - TCHR/CTDH CENTRE TAMOUL POUR LES DROITS DE L'HOMME (Established in 1990) (UN accredited NGO to the World Summit on Information Society and the Warsaw Conference) www.tchr.net Ref : TZ042/PR/2007 28 November 2007 International Community is, “Pinching the baby and rocking the cradle” A Paramilitary leader presented a paper to an Anti-terrorist conference ! What is happening in Sri Lanka since independence 1948 is unethical, unimaginable and unbelievable. The head of state is invariably a Singhalese and a Buddhist, and rules with the backing of Buddhist mo…

Sinhala regime playing role similar to Israel By: Dr.Vickramabahu Karunaratne Courtesy: LakBima News - November 11, 2007 Rajpal of Lakbimanews says "I was the editor of a Lake House newspaper. The moment I started carrying stories about the abductions of Tamils in Colombo, while also front paging the success of the forces in the war front, they threw me out of my job. Of course Tamils are not people under Rajapaksa. If you talk about them as if they were people, you would be out of your job. That is nothing though. If you are Tamil- you could lose your life too, but who cares? Which son of a bishop says Chickera is wrong?" It is a heroic statement. …

Violence drags on in Sri Lanka Email|Print| Text size – + November 14, 2007 ONE OF THE world's most vicious and intractable conflicts has produced a spike in violence in recent days. After a bloody clash last week in the north of Sri Lanka between government forces and the rebel fighters known as the Tamil Tigers, the government boasted of killing 60 Tigers, while the Tigers claimed to have repulsed an attack by helicopter gunships, killing more than two dozen Sri Lankan troops. This battle came a week after government forces killed the Tigers' lead peace negotiator and three weeks after the Tigers attacked a government air base and destroyed several military aircraf…

விடுதலைப் புலிகளிடம் இருந்து கருணாவை பிரித்ததும் கருணாவையும் பிள்ளையானையும் மோதவிட்டு பிரித்ததும் கே.ரிறாஜசிங்கம். - நிதர்சனம் கடந்த 3 வருடமாக வெளியிட்ட தகவல்களை உறுதிப்படுத்தி சண்டேலீடர் தரும் விறுவிறுப்பான தகவல். [ Qhapw;Wf;fpoik, 11 etk;gH 2007 ] [ n[auhrh ] Documents on plan to rid Karuna from Lanka surface President and Douglas involved in discussion in Geneva Diplomatic passport number issued to Karuna is D 1944260 President told to get Defence Ministry approval for ouster Document says President promised to do needful in June Shocking documentary evidence has surfaced that the plan to get rid of LTTE renegade commander Karuna was discus…

Diplomatic scandal over Karuna, ties with Britain dip From Neville de Silva in London Britain’s relations with Sri Lanka have taken a nose-dive after breakaway LTTE rebel leader Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias ‘Karuna Amman’ was arrested near London and found to have entered the United Kingdom on a Sri Lankan diplomatic passport issued by its Foreign Ministry and containing bogus bio-data. The Foreign Ministry in Colombo is reported to have issued a Third Person Note (TPN), a diplomatic letter of recommendation from one Government to another. The British High Commission in Colombo had readily issued a visa for Karuna’s entry into the UK based on this prot…

Letter to Representatives Lowey and Wolf on US foreign operations funding November 7, 2007 The Honorable Nita M. Lowey US House of Representatives 2329 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-3218 The Honorable Frank R. Wolf US House of Representatives 241 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-4610 Via Facsimile Sri Lanka Since the collapse of the ceasefire between the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government in mid-2006 and the resumption of major military operations, civilians have borne the brunt of the fighting. More than 1,000 have reportedly "disappeared." Several hundred …

Govt. smuggled Karuna to London on forged DPL passport *Passport in the name of Kokila Gunawardena *Foreign Ministry sends third party note for visa *Karuna asks for asylum when arrested *Visa requested to attend climate change conference (LeN- 2007 Nov. 07, 4.00pm) Damning evidence has surfaced that the Government smuggled LTTE renegade commander Karuna to Great Britain on a forged diplomatic passport. An investigation revealed that the forged diplomatic passport was issued by the Immigration Department on the orders of higher authorities in the name of Kokila Gunawardena on August 30, 2007. It has been further revealed that Karuna was issued a …

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The government scents victory; to others, it smells like prolonged war THE Sri Lankan government, and the majority ethnic-Sinhalese population that backs it, are gloating over the death of S.P. Tamilselvan, political commissar of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in an air raid on November 2nd. To them it is proof that the Sri Lankan army has gained the upper hand under the leadership of Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president, and his brother, Gotabhaya, the defence secretary. They believe the latter's boast that his forces know the whereabouts of the Tigers' leaders, and that they will be killed one by one. To government loyalists, Sri Lanka is well on the road to an …

The UK says it is unwilling to confirm that a former Sri Lankan rebel got into the UK after the Sri Lankan government gave him a passport with a false name. He was given the diplomatic passport in August, a newspaper in Sri Lanka has now revealed. Human rights groups have called on the UK government to prosecute him for human rights abuses. Colonel Karuna is one of the most controversial figures in Sri Lanka's protracted civil war. He split from the Tamil Tigers in 2004, forming a breakaway faction. He is later said to have collaborated with government forces and helped them to take control of territory in the east of the country. Earli…

From V.Anandasangaree to V.Prabhakaran @ Gamini Viyangoda [03-11-2007] Certain Tamil political leaders, who in the past did their politics on behalf of Tamil people while living with them have now for some time started playing a new role. Unlike in the past, when they represented their people from among themselves and in direct association with them, these leaders now have come to the midst of the Sinhalese, addressing their own Tamil brethren of the North East from the Sinhala South, resulting in permanently making their political headquarters in Colombo. There was a time that some of them, like Douglas Devananda and Karuna Amman who did their politics throug…

Rights group wants S.Lanka ex-rebel charged in UK By Peter Apps LONDON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Britain should look at trying ex-Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel Karuna Amman, detained on immigration charges, for war crimes, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. The former eastern Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) commander is accused by rights experts of child soldier recruitment, extortion and torture both before and after he split from the mainstream rebels in 2004. Britain's Home Office said late on Friday Karuna was detained after a joint operation between the police and immigration authorities, giving no further details. Human Rights Watch said the au…

New Delhi, Nov. 5: Can coalitions provide the unity of purpose that nation-states need, Manmohan Singh asked today. The Prime Minister answered the question himself: “Sometimes… narrow political considerations, based on regional or sectional loyalties and ideologies, can distort the national vision and sense of collective purpose.” His sharpest criticism yet of a model where “parties with varying national reach and many with a very limited sub-national reach form a coalition” came before a world audience. Singh was inaugurating an international conference on federalism. Although the Prime Minister, who heads a multi-party coalition, did not raise specific i…

Mukesh Ambani is world's richest man Press Trust of India / Mumbai October 29, 2007 Billionaire Mukesh Ambani today became the richest person in the world, surpassing American software czar Bill Gates, Mexican business tycoon Carlos Slim Helu and famous investment guru Warren Buffett, courtesy the bull run in the stock market. Following a strong share price rally on in his three group companies, India's most valued firm Reliance Industries, Reliance Petroleum and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure, the net worth of Mukesh Ambani rose to $63.2 billion (Rs 2,49,108 crore). In comparison, the net worth of both Gates and Slim is estimated to be…