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At least 1,600 Tamil youth from the Jaffna district have joined the Sri Lanka Army within the period of three months, Army Commander Shavendra Silva said. He expressed this while addressing the Security Forces officials at the Jaffna Headquarters. “We still find people expressing views in favour of separatism. In such a situation, it is a great victory that Tamil youth have come forward to join the Army. The Army Commander also commended the service rendered by the Army and Air Force personnel in the Jaffna district in taking the lead to provide necessary quarantine facilities for the general public. (Romesh Madushanka) Daily Mirror - 1,600 Jaffna-ba…

17/11/13 Warning: Graphic details TORONTO — A Toronto family is calling for a war crimes investigation into the death of a relative after a video emerged suggesting she was executed by Sri Lankan troops on the last day of the country’s civil war. The footage shows Shobana Shoba being captured alive by soldiers on May 18, 2009. Photos taken later that same day show her near-naked body splayed on the ground, hands bound behind her back. After seeing the video, broadcast by Britain’s Channel 4, Ms. Shoba’s aunt Rangini Ravi, a Toronto nurse, was “100 per cent sure she was executed,” and said an international investigation was needed. Allegations of…

இதை இங்கே இணைக்க காரணம், இறுதி 5 மாதங்களிலும் சிங்களத்தால் வெளியிடப்பட்ட வீரச்சாவடைந்த புலிவீரர்களின் எண்ணிக்கை பற்றிய 'எண்ணிக்கை விளையாட்டுகள்' பற்றி நீங்களும் அறிந்துகொள்ள வேண்டும் என்பதற்காகவே. இது எப்படிப் பட்டதென்பது பற்றி அந்தக் காலத்தில் சிங்களத்தின் அதிகாரநிறைவு வலைத்தளத்தினை எதிர்த்து கருத்துக்களும் கட்டுரையும் வெளியிட்டுக்கொண்டிருந்த ஒரு வலைப்பூவில் இருந்து ஒரு கட்டுரை. (http://puligal.blogspot.com/2009/03/defencelk-is-41-more-lethal-than-armylk.html) Sunday, March 29, 2009 Defence.lk is 41% more lethal than Army.lk; writers deserve promotion By Shankar Neelan We have taken the last two months worth of battle rep…

வாக்குறுதிகளையும் வழிகாட்டல்களையும் கூட்டமைப்புக்கு வழங்கியுள்ளது இந்தியா மாவை எம்.பி. உதயனுக்குப் பேட்டி இனப்பிரச்சினைக்கு அர_டன் பேசித் தீர்வு காண்பது தொடர் பில் தமிழ்த் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்புக்கு வாக்குறுதிகளையும் வழிகாட்டுதல்களையும் வழங்கி உள்ளது என்று தெரிவித்தார் யாழ். மாவட்ட நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் மாவை சேனாதிராசா. யாழ்ப்பாணம் வந்திருந்த அவர் உதயன் பத்திரிகைக்கு வழங் கிய விசேட பேட்டியில் இதனைத் தெரிவித்தார். நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் மாவை சேனாதிராசாவிடம் எழுத்து மூலக் கேள்விகள் வழங் கப்பட்டன. அதற்கு அவர் அளித்த பதில்கள் வருமாறு: இலங்கை அரசின் செயற் பாடுகளுக்கு ஆதரவு வழங்கு வதாக அறிவித்துள்ளீர்கள். அது எந்த எல்லைவரை என்று கூற முடியுமா? வடக்குகிழக்கில் அரசின் அ…

25 December 2013 Simranjit Singh Mann “Tamils can’t live [in a united Sri Lanka] after the perpetration of the crime of genocide. I think the wounds are too deep historically there to be reconciliation. After a State has committed genocide, there can’t be any reconciliation,” says Simranjit Singh Mann, the president of Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar party, who advocates the formation of Khalistan as an independent and sovereign State for Sikhs, in an exchange of views with Tamil Nadu based May 17 Movement. “Pirapaharan and his movement was too powerful for the Sri Lankan government,” he said, adding that “it was under the collaboration of UPA-led Congress go…

Killings of a six-year-old girl and a vet are just two examples of a problem that appears to be getting worse Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Rajasthan Her family called her Twinkle. In the dry desert brush of Rajasthan where her body was found, blood spattering her tiny legs and brown school uniform and a belt fastened around her neck, she lay among scattered toffee wrappers. Her family could barely utter the words to describe what happened to the six-year-old. “If you saw her body, you will never sleep again,” said her grandfather Mahvir Meena. Over the past week, a wave of anger and repulsion has enveloped India in resp…

Controversial article on Sri Lankan defence website removed after it kicked up a storm in India [Friday 2014-08-01 15:00] An article on the frequent detentions of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy was removed from the Sri Lankan defence website on Friday, hours after its headline and an illustration that accompanied it kicked up a storm in India. The headline and the illustration raised a furore among political leaders in Tamil Nadu. However, hours after the "objectionable" content, that centred around Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's many letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention in the fishermen issue, was posted o…

Daham’s Clique Night Club Attack Swept Under The Carpet October 23, 2016 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,News,STORIES | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH Two weeks since the Clique Night club came under attack from a group led by the son of President Maithripala Sirisena, Daham; it now appears that the incident has been swept under the carpet with police taking no action against any of the culprits. Despite clear CCTV footage showing officers from the Presidential Security Division (PSD) threatening the security guards at the night club, after they refused Daham Sirisena and his friends’ entry to the club o…

UK lawmakers urge LTTE de-proscription [TamilNet, Thursday, 03 May 2007, 23:47 GMT] Amid signs of greater British involvement in efforts to end Sri Lanka’s conflict, the UK government was this week urged by ruling and opposition lawmakers to lift the ban on the Liberation Tigers in the interests of a negotiated solution. At a landmark debate on Sri Lanka’s conflict in the British Parliament on Wednesday, leaders of a newly formed all party group representing the interests of the island’s Tamils urged the Blair government to lift the ban on the LTTE and also called for LTTE political leaders to be allowed to address the British parliament to better understand their…

At its March 2013 session, the United Nations Human Rights Council should authorize an independent, international investigation into war crimes committed during the final months of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to council members today. Since the council adopted a resolution on Sri Lanka at its March 2012 session calling for action, the Sri Lankan government has taken no significant steps to provide justice for victims of abuse and accountability for those responsible. “Over the past year the Sri Lankan government has alternated between threatening activists who seek justice and making small, cynical gestures to keep the internation…

India's foreign minister has said New Delhi must accept China's growing presence in its own backyard as Beijing steps up its investments and diplomatic efforts in South Asia. New Delhi has been wary of growing Chinese influence around the Indian Ocean, where Beijing has forged ties with Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Maldives and military-ruled Myanmar, often through funding and building infrastructure. Speaking at a conference in the Indian capital on Monday, Salman Khurshid said: "We will have to accept the new reality of China's presence in many areas that we consider an exclusive playground for India and its friends. "China for instance would give a right arm…

At least nine Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who attempted to illegally ferry to Australia from the coastal town of Oriyur in Tamil Nadu were arrested by the Indian police last night. Police said they had come from different refugee camps in the State and had been staying in rooms attached to St. Arulanandar Church at Oriyur for the past two days when police zeroed in on them on Friday night. They started moving out after realising that police had sensed the 'human trafficking' when local and Q branch police arrested them. Six of them were arrested near the church premises, while three others, who tried to escape in a car, were intercepted and arrested at Devako…

What is the key to work satisfaction? While some may say it is job stability or a hefty paycheck, the answer may lie in another factor — the number of public holidays your country observes. According to a survey by human resources consulting firm Mercer LLC, countries including India and Colombia have the most public holidays, while Mexico has the least. But how do these numbers correlate to workplace fulfillment? BBC Capital compares Mercer's survey results with data from HSBC's Expat Explorer. Scroll through to learn more. Do you think your country should offer more paid holidays? Tell us what you think on our Facebook page. http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/201…

Monday, May 19th marks the five-year anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, which claimed the lives of 40,000 to 70,000 civilians in its “catastrophic” final phase. In 2009, Congress asked the State Department to report on the humanitarian law violations during the war, and those reports make for gruesome reading. If history is a guide, this week congressional representatives will publicly call for accountability for war crimes in Sri Lanka—as members of Congress have done on the past four anniversaries. (See accompanying post, “Honor Roll of US Congressional Members Who’ve Stood for Accountability in Sri Lanka”) This post proposes specific action that cong…

IMF or not: What other options are available for Sri Lanka? Strangely, the new Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa has been silent on this issue, perhaps keeping his options open losing the door to IMF Central Bank Governor Deshamanya Professor W.D. Lakshman, in an interview on Derana’s Hyde Park last week, reiterated the stand of the present Government that it will not seek any bailout from IMF (available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYynqRPGzX4). This was one day after Sri Lanka kept its unblemished record of meeting all foreign debt obligations on tim…

உங்கள் உறவுகளை சிங்கள நாட்டிலிருந்து மீட்க நினைத்தால், விரைவாக கூப்பிடலாம் The Spanish government has announced that residency permits will be issued to foreigners buying houses worth more than €160,000, in an attempt to reduce Spain´s surplus property stock. The plan is expected to be approved in the coming weeks and, according to the Secretary of State for commerce, Jaime García-Legaz, the new measure is aimed mainly at the Chinese and Russian markets, which are showing a strong demand for residency in Spain. Jaime García-Legaz also said that setting a lower price limit is not possible, since this would create a “massive demand” for residence permits. h…

Although Swiss embassies abroad can no longer grant asylum requests, they can award humanitarian visas. But only 48 visas were awarded between September 2012 and mid-June 2014, the cabinet said on Thursday in response to a parliamentary interpellation. The possibility of applying for asylum at a Swiss embassy in a foreign country was discontinued on September 29, 2012. Between January 1, 2009, and September 29, 2012, almost 20,000 asylum requests were granted to persons whose lives or physical integrity were deemed to be seriously threatened. At the time the option of applying for asylum abroad was discontinued, 16,425 applications were pending. Of those, 4…

Russia discusses debt, energy stability with Venezuela Venezuelan Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami speaks during a news conference on the Chevron deal, in Caracas, Venezuela, December 2, 2022. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo CARACAS, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak met on Wednesday with Venezuela's oil minister in Caracas, where they discussed oil market volatility and the status of Venezuela's outstanding debts to Russia. Novak, who is also in charge of Moscow's ties with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), v…

World Bank population data from Sri Lanka indicates up to a hundred thousand Tamils are unaccounted for after the final war against the Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009, raising questions about whether they could be dead. A UN report cited a death toll of forty thousand for the climax of the war in 2009 but a UN internal inquiry last month acknowledged for the first time that up to seventy thousand civilian deaths were possible. The leaked World Bank spreadsheets broken down by village for the north of the island estimate numbers of returnees to the former conflict area in mid 2010. The Bank also cites Statistical Handbook Numbers for population in 2007 - before the fighting …

Sri Lankan passport queues introduced at Katunayake Airport The Immigration Department has introduced queues for Sri Lankan passport holders, based on traffic patterns at the Bandaranaike International Airport. Photo by Gayathri Seneviratne ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka’s Immigration Department has introduced time-bound seperate queues for Sri Lankan passport holders at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake to manage passenger flows at the arrivals terminal, officials said. Airport and Aviation Services Spokesperson H. S. Hettiarachchi said the new initiative has been implemented for two weeks. The priority queue…

The Pentagon has released a detailed fact sheet on U.S. security assistance to Ukraine. https://media.defense.gov/2023/May/03/2003214586/-1/-1/1/UKRAINE-FACT-SHEET-MAY-3.PDF…

Country Information and Guidance Sri Lanka :Tamil Separatism -2014 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/348268/CIG_Sri_Lanka_Tamil_Separatism_v1_0e.pdf இந்த அறிக்கைகளின் பிரகாரமே அதிகம் அகதிகள் விண்ணப்பத்துக்கான முடிவுகள் எட்டப்படுகின்றன. எங்களை விட பிரித்தானிய அதிகாரிகளுக்கு நீதிமன்றங்களுக்கு அதிகம் தெரிஞ்சிருக்குது..!! அதுதான் வெள்ளைக்காரன்.