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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…

Ground Surveillance Since the earliest days of flight, aircraft have been used to monitor troop movement, to patrol borders, and to prevent smuggling and other illegal activities. Today, Beech King Airs are the ground surveillance platform of choice for several reasons. They are: capable of flying low enough to visually observe ground activities; capable of flying high enough to evade ground weapons defenses; adaptable to carry radars, FLIRs (forward looking infrared), and cameras to document intelligence data and evidence. King Airs have been provided to the US Army, US Navy, and US Air Force as the C-12 military aircraft. They are actively used today to perform s…

[TamilNet, Saturday, 27 October 2007, 21:53 GMT] Whilst the Sri Lankan government has blamed engine failure for the crash of the Bell 212 last Monday, press reports Sunday raised the possibility it had been downed by a Tamil Tiger aircraft. Four airmen, including the pilots and door gunners were killed when the Bell 212, enroute to support the defence of Anuradhapura airbase which was under attack by LTTE commandos. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=23612

A leading psychiatrist yesterday revealed that ten per cent of Sri Lanka`s population were afflicted with some form of mental illness while two percent of these were hard core cases. President of Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists and the Organising Committee President of 3rd International Conference of South Asian Federation of Psychiatric Association Dr. Harischandra Gambheera said that although Sri Lanka`s population is nearly 20 million there are only 30 Psychiatric Specialists in the country. In other words there is only one psychiatrist for half a million people. `The Medical Officers of Mental Health (MOMH) serving throughout the country too were invite…

Vanni prepares to commemorate 21 Black Tigers <img>http://www.tamilnetonline.com/t/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy50YW1pbG5ldC5jb20vaW1nL3B1Ymxpc2gvMjAwNy8xMC9ibGFja190aWdlcnNfYW 1cmFkaGFwdXJhLmpwZw%3D%3D</img> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 24 October 2007, 19:18 GMT] Liberation Tigers have promoted the rank of one the 21 Black Tiger elite commandos who took part in the raid on Sri Lankan airbase in Anuradhapura, posthumously from Major to Lieutenant Colonel, acknowledging his role in the commando operation, sources in Vanni said. Three Lieutenant Colonels, six Majors, 12 Captains and one Lieutenant rank Black Tigers have taken part in the operation. Vanni pr…

Sri Lanka's government says rebel attack caused more damage than previously reported The Associated PressPublished: October 23, 2007 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: A rebel attack on an air base this week caused far more damage than previously acknowledged, destroying eight aircraft, including a vital surveillance plane, Sri Lanka's prime minister said Wednesday. The admission, in a statement to parliament, came amid growing accusations from the opposition that officials lied about the destruction from Monday's pre-dawn attack on Anuradhapura air base in an effort to limit their embarrassment. The incident was likely to further damage the credibility of a gover…

Hillary Clinton urges nuanced approach to ‘terrorists’ [TamilNet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 21:47 GMT] US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton this week urged a more nuanced approach to armed non-state actors, arguing “the bottom line is, you can't lump all terrorists together. …what the Tamil Tigers are fighting for in Sri Lanka, or the Basque separatists in Spain, or the insurgents in al-Anbar province may only be connected by tactics.”Senator Clinton made her comments to Michael Tomasky of Britain’s ‘The Guardian’ newspaper in an interview which covered Iraq, the legacy of the Cold War and ceding executive powers. When asked “do you think that the terroris…

By Simon Gardner COLOMBO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - There is no way Sri Lanka's government will be able to crush its Tamil Tiger foes, and giving wide political autonomy to minority Tamils is the only answer, a leading European counter-terrorism expert says. With near daily land and sea clashes, ambushes, bombings and air raids amid a new chapter in a two-decade civil war that has killed around 70,000 people, the government is now taking the war to the rebels with offensives to drive them from territory they control. But the tactic is flawed and cannot solve an ethnic conflict that has killed around 5,000 people since early 2006 alone, said Dr. Gerard Chaliand, former …

Tamil Rebels Raise Cash by Movies, Temples, Meeting Hears By Jay Shankar Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, who are present in 44 countries, raise funds through drug trafficking, distribution of Tamil movies, retailing international phone cards and managing Hindu temples, a conference on terrorism heard. ``The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has developed the most sophisticated infrastructure for fundraising and money transfer operations in comparison to any other terrorist group,'' Shanaka Jayasekara, of the Centre for Policing, Intelligence & Counter Terrorism at Australia's Macquarie University, told the conference in the Sri Lankan …

Financing fiscal deficit The government will finance its fiscal deficit estimated at Rp 75 trillion (US$8 billion) in fiscal 2008 mostly with rupiah bonds because its official capital accounts will end up with a net resource outflow of the equivalent of Rp 16.67 trillion. The government plans to issue Rp 91.6 trillion worth of new bonds next year, up markedly from Rp 62.28 trillion, budgeted for this year. This is a consequence of the government's decision to accelerate the amortization of its foreign debts, notably those with high interest rates, and to disband its foreign creditor consortium, the consultative group on Indonesia (CGI), starting this year…

துரிதமாக பணக்காரர் ஆகிவரும் அவுஸ்திரேலியர்களஏனைய அபிவிருத்தி அடைந்த நாடுகளை விட அவுஸ்திரேலியர்கள் தான் துரிதமாக பணக்காரர்கள் ஆகிவருகின்றார்களாம்....http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5001028,00.htmlஅதுக்காக நேசக்கரத்தக்கு காச கூட்டி தரசொல்லி கேக்கிறேல்ல சொல்லிட்டன்...

Sri Lanka: Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) provides refuge to 80 families displaced from Batticaloa Since recently Tamil families moving from the Batticaloa district into Vanni area to escape atrocities in the hands of the Srilanka armed forces keep on increasing to unprecedented levels. Mobilising all the resources at its disposal, TRO Srilanka has geared itself towards meeting the specific needs of the displaced families. From providing food, water, medicines and other essential non food household items to putting up houses on allocated lands to make these people as homely as possible are being looked after by TRO. Local people are seen to have joine…

U.N. official says human rights not being protected in Sri Lanka's protracted civil war By Bharatha Mallawarachi ASSOCIATED PRESS 10:03 a.m. October 13, 2007 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The large numbers of people reported killed, abducted and disappeared in Sri Lanka's protracted civil war underscores the need for greater protection of human rights in the country, the top U.N. rights official said Saturday. Meanwhile, government troops sank a Tamil Tiger rebel boat and the insurgents downed an army vessel in a battle off northern Sri Lanka, a defense official said. Three rebels died and three soldiers were missing, the official said. Advertiseme…

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…

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UN, Sri Lanka should cooperate on human rights, High Commissioner says Louise Arbour 15 October 2007 – Citing ongoing reports of abuses in Sri Lanka, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who has just wrapped up a visit to the country, called for UN-Government cooperation to address the problem. “There is a large number of reported killings, abductions and disappearances which remain unresolved. This is particularly worrying in a country that has had a long, traumatic experience of unresolved disappearances and no shortage of recommendations from past Commissions of Inquiry on how to safeguard against such violations,” Louise Arbour said …

With more than 70,000 dead after a conflict between Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan government that has lasted for nearly three decades, peace seems further away than ever. How does the media cover this ongoing conflict? http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1243637980

மிக இலகுவான ஆங்கிலத்தின் விபரனத்தோடு ஒரு வெளிநாட்டு ஆங்கில( அவுஸ்ரேலிய) ஊடகம் ஒண்றின் ஆக்கம் இது....! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UHN2f4AORqg

'No access' to Arbour in Jaffna Residents say protesters were chased away by the military in Jaffna Civilians affected by the escalated hostilities in the northern Sri Lankan peninsular were prevented from meeting a top UN rights official, Jaffna residents said. UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour who is in Sri Lanka on a fact finding mission, visited Jaffna on Friday. Hundreds of civilians affected by the rights violations have been gathered in front of Nallur Kovil and UNHCR office in Jaffna. Protesters chased away However the government security forces dispersed them preventing the High Commissioner meeting them, residents said. …

இலங்கையில் ஒல்லாந்து நாட்டவர் ஒருவருக்கு ஏற்பட்ட அனுபவம் http://www.upiasiaonline.com/human_rights/...ng_and_pimping/

Ex-minister accuses Sri Lanka of 'terrorism' 3 hours ago COLOMBO (AFP) — A former Sri Lankan foreign minister accused the government of failing to investigate extra-judicial killings and using "terrorism" to fight Tamil Tigers rebels. Government lawmaker Mangala Samaraweera said an ongoing visit to the island by the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, underlined the international focus on the island's worsening rights record. "Sri Lanka is also being branded a terrorist state because of our policy of fighting terrorism with terrorism," Samaraweera said. "The Arbour visit shows the international concern about what is happening here." …

Sri Lanka's Defense Spending to Rise 20% to Record (Update3) By Anusha Ondaatjie Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka's government will boost spending on defense and public security by 20 percent to a record next year as the South Asian nation experiences its worst fighting with Tamil Tiger rebels since a 2002 truce. Defense ministry outlays are forecast to rise to 166.4 billion rupees ($1.5 billion) in 2008 from 139 billion rupees a year earlier, according to the government's Appropriation Bill tabled in parliament today. The legislation gives expenditure estimates ahead of November's annual budget. Sri Lanka's economic growth will slow this year, Cen…