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Tamil people around the world are being intimidated and threatened into giving money to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, according to a new report. The extortion of money from Tamils living in North America and Europe has been stepped up recently to fund a "final war", says Human Rights Watch. The rebels said the allegations were untrue and designed to discredit them. A recent upsurge in violence between the rebels and security forces in Sri Lanka has cost at least 120 lives. Sri Lankan officials and leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have agreed to curb the unrest and hold more talks in April on a threadbare truce. Fear …

It is six months since the end of the conflict in Sri Lanka but Tamil Tiger rebels and their supporters are yet to recover from the dramatic military defeat by security forces earlier this year. The recent attempts by remnants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) abroad to revive the movement have not succeeded so far. Now questions are being raised over the future of its international network and millions of dollars worth of assets spread across continents. It is a dramatic reversal of fortune for the LTTE, once described as one of the most powerful guerrilla movements in the world which almost had a de facto state and its own naval and air wings…

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 …

Do you wish to learn more about the Tamil struggle? Do you feel held back by the sheer volume of information that’s available? Do you worry about getting caught up in heated arguments about sensitive issues? This study group is for you! We aim to provide an informal, but safe space where we will present information about the foundations of the Tamil struggle. This will include colonial history, state oppression, the development of Eelam Tamil nationalist politics, and the armed struggle. We will also enable you to ask any questions relevant to the topics. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/tamil-struggle How will it work? PEARL will provide a weekl…

TORONTO—A member of the Tamil Tigers who was allegedly sent to Toronto to run the Sri Lankan guerrilla group’s Canadian front organization has been ordered deported for terrorism, according to documents filed in the Federal Court. The government has been trying to deport Manickavasagam Suresh since 1995, when he was first arrested in Toronto. The case was thought to have languished but last week the case reappeared on the court docket. The Immigration and Refugee Board declined to comment Tuesday. But in an application filed in Toronto on Oct. 5, Suresh asked Federal Court to overturn an IRB decision “in which Mr. Suresh was found inadmissible to Canada.” The decision …

The foreign minister of Sri Lanka has confirmed that the support of United States of America was key to defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a war that ended with the massacre of at least 70,000 civilians. Tamil Tigers being proscribed in the European Union in 2006 was 'the biggest blow to the LTTE,' said Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera in an open letter to the country's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mangala Samaraweera had previously held the foreign ministry portfolio under Rajapaksa from 2005 to early 2007, before been appointed as foreign minister by President Maithripala Sirisena in 2015. "It was also thanks to my predec…

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Jul. 4, 2006. 05:17 AM ANDREW MILLS SPECIAL TO THE STAR KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka—In a villa surrounded by tall jak fruit trees and a squad of cadres toting T-56 assault rifles, S.P. Thamilselvan, the political leader of the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, sits pondering the political missteps of Stephen Harper's rookie government. "We know the complexity of the political problems any party would normally come across during a period of transition or a change from one party to another," he says. Thamilselvan says he's been searching for a plausible reason Harper's government ignored Canada's 200,000-strong Tamil community and placed their "freedom-fighting org…

KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka—In a villa surrounded by tall jak fruit trees and a squad of cadres toting T-56 assault rifles, S.P. Thamilselvan, the political leader of the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, sits pondering the political missteps of Stephen Harper's rookie government. "We know the complexity of the political problems any party would normally come across during a period of transition or a change from one party to another," he says. Thamilselvan says he's been searching for a plausible reason Harper's government ignored Canada's 200,000-strong Tamil community and placed their "freedom-fighting organization" alongside Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah on a list of crim…

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Sri Lanka talks start and stall, violence rages Thu Jun 8, 2006 1:17 PM BST Email This Article | Print This Article | RSS [-] Text [+] By Peter Apps COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government said Tamil Tiger rebels had refused to meet them at talks in Oslo on Thursday, while at least three people were killed as the two sides blamed each other for new attacks. More than 400 people have been killed since early April and the island's north and east is now locked in a low-intensity conflict. But the Oslo meeting, the first between the two sides since February, was to only centre on the role of the Nordic mission monitoring what is left of a 2002 cease-fire. …

Tamil Tigers in Britain Burning less bright? Jun 12th 2008 From The Economist print edition Lean times for the Sri Lankan separatists. But Tamils are flourishing TERRORISM normally makes front-page news in Britain, so it was odd that the four Asian men charged with terrorist offences last month scarcely made the papers. The charge-sheet explains why: the men bundled out of their homes at dawn are suspected of procuring equipment for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a rebel group that has fought a decades-long civil war against the Sri Lankan state and is now banned in Britain. The police took pains to emphasise that there was no link to al-Qaeda; afte…

The Tamil Tigers organization hopes to use Canada as a strategic base to continue the fight against the government of Sri Lanka, according to an authority on the alleged terrorist group. "I cannot think of any other country that is more important for the Tamil Tigers as Canada, to regroup and continue their campaign against Sri Lanka," said Prof. Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, a Singapore-based think-tank. Gunaratna is advising the Canadian government as it investigates the 75 Tamil migrants currently in immigration custody in Vancouver. The men were found aboard a ship seized off the coast of B…

Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil Tiger rebels are marking the 20th anniversary of their suicide bombing campaign. They are remembering the 322 Black Tigers - members of the suicide wing - who have killed themselves in attacks since 1987. The bombers have killed hundreds of people, mostly government troops, in their fight for a separate state in the north-east of Sri Lanka. More than 60,000 people have died since the conflict began in 1972. A ceasefire signed in 2002 between the government and the Tigers has been undermined by deadly violence that escalated last year. Garlands Rebels and residents of the town have been placing garlands on po…

Operation Unceasing Waves - 1 (Battle of Mullaitivu) Background: Operation Unceasing Waves was the code name assigned to the LTTE assault on the Sri Lankan army's military complex at Mullaitivu launched on 18 July 1996. A week of intense fighting followed and the result was an overwhelming victory for the Liberation Tigers. Apart from inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy, and capturing vast quantities of arms and ammunition, the operation boosted the morale of the Tamils both in the homelands and abroad. Sri Lankan propaganda claims that the LTTE had been destroyed were disproved. A few documents related to the operation have be…

Operation Unceasing Waves - 2 (Battle of Kilinochchi) Background: The highly sophisticated Sri Lankan military fortifications that comprise a 15km stretch form the nodal Tamil town is now under Tamil Tiger's control. LTTE's battle for the taking over of the military-occupied Tamil area started at midnight on September 26 and ended in its capture on the evening of the 29th. The Liberation Tigers relocated their civil administration structures from Jaffna to Kilinochchi when the SLA took control of Jaffna in early 1996. In August 1996, the SLA launched an offensive and took control of the town after bitter fighting. This nodal Tamil town …

The Sea Tigers have been in several battles recentl y The Sri Lankan air force says it has destroyed the headquarters of the Tamil Tiger rebels' sea force. An air force spokesman said the attack took place in the north-eastern district of Mullaitivu. The Tigers say a civilian area was bombed. "We now understand that the base was the headquarters of the Sea Tigers," Cap Ajantha Silva told the Associated Press news agency. On Monday the army said it had overrun four rebel bases in eastern Sri Lanka. 'Small boats' The headquarters of the Sea Tigers was still burning an hour after the attack, Cap Silva says. He said fighter jets had bombed th…

Tamil Women Appeal to Human Rights Commission Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 1:58 pm Press Release: TamilNet The Appeal to Human Rights Commission Two young women from Malusandi in Vadamaradchi have lodged complaints with the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission on 02.01.2006 about attempted rapes by the Sri Lankan armed forces. The women said that on 01.01.2006 the Sri Lankan armed forces cordoned the area where their home is located and while several soldiers were standing watch outside their home some of the soldiers entered their home and attempted to rape the two women. The two women have fought off the offenders and managed to escape. Jaffna penins…

Tamil Women Coerced into Joining the Military- A Statement of Concern by the Women’s Action Network Women’s Action Network (WAN), as a collective of 11 women's groups from the North and the East, is deeply concerned by the recent efforts to recruit women into the military in the districts of Killinochchi and Mullaitheevu. Post-war development has failed to provide the most basic needs for those who live in Killinochchi and Mullaitheevu, especially the women of the area. People continue to live in vulnerable situations without sufficient security and independence, so may even lack the basics such as a safe place to sleep. After the war over 60% of families in Van…

Tamils 'entitled to' international help Hudreds of Tamils have dissapeared and Thousands more made homeless as the violence escalated since August, last year The Tamil community is entitled to the same right to be protected from state terrorism if Sri lanka is entitled to seek international help to defeat LTTE terrorism, a Tamil parliamentarian said. Mano Ganeshan, the leader of the Western People Front (WPF) said the Tamil community in Sri Lanka need international help to protect their lives as government of accused of many abductions and disappearances. If they have a right to seek international help to defeat LTTE terrorism, we also have…

Tamils and the difference between immigrants and refugees By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun August 28, 2010 A common refrain regarding the arrival of the Tamil refugees aboard the MV Sun Sea is that they have "jumped the queue" and taken the place of "legitimate" immigrants who await entry to Canada. The accusation is emotive but it is just plain wrong. Immigrants and refugees are entirely different groups. Each has its own stringent set of rules for admission to Canada. Immigrants are people who want to come to Canada and have the opportunity to meet with officials at a Canadian embassy and apply under the criteria established by law. They must me…

Tamils Ask U.N. to Appoint Bill Clinton or Kofi Annan as U.N. Envoy to Sri Lanka Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document. Tamils for Obama, a politically active group of Tamil Americans, wrote to the U.N. secretary general and member states urging them to appoint a special envoy to Sri Lanka who would offer a clear analysis of the situation there and propose a solution. (PRWEB) May 7, 2009 -- Tamils for Obama, a politically active group of Tamil Americans, wrote to the U.N. secretary general and member states urging them to appoint a special envoy to Sri Lanka who would offer a clear analysis of the situation there and propose a solution. …

Shocking disclosures A.G. NOORANI In his memoirs Maj Gen. Harkirat Singh has reproduced contemporary documents that reveal a lot that was not known about the IPKF in Sri Lanka. MAJOR General Harkirat Singh (Retd.) is an upright gentleman and a fine soldier; altogether a man of integrity. He was Divisional Commander of 54 Infantry Division when, on July 29-30, 1987, he was sent to Sri Lanka as General-Officer-Commanding (GOC) of the Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF). In January 1988, he got orders “posting me out of Sri Lanka”. The Overall Force Commander (OFC) of the IPKF was the GOC-in-C Southern Command, Lt. Gen. Depinder Singh, who praised h…

Tamils issue ceasefire warning after 45 die in army bombing of refugee camp By Peter Foster, South Asia Correspondent Last Updated: 2:16am GMT 09/11/2006 Tamil Tiger rebels have given warning that it will soon be "too late" to save Sri Lanka's rapidly disintegrating ceasefire after army shells and rockets killed at least 45 civilians, including six infants, in a refugee camp. The 30-minute barrage, which followed days of skirmishing in the eastern district of Batticaloa also left some 200 people with shrapnel and blast injuries, rebels said. The Sri Lankan government denied the attack was deliberate and accused the separatists of using human shiel…