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Isis releases 11-point guide for journalists UPVOTE Isis, which calls itself Islamic State, has occupied the world’s attention since it took over large swathes or Syrian and Iraqi territory this year, eventually declaring a new caliphate. But precious little is known about the group, which has its own surprisingly slick PR machine, mainly because its record with journalists is tragically abysmal - militants sparking global revulsion by beheading US reporters James Foley and Stephen Sotloff, as well as killing many other local journalists. Somehow, some journalists continue to report from the region, defying the incredible risks to document the group’s ma…

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Bhasha Mukherjee will return to work as a junior doctor after up to 14 days in self-isolation. (CNN)A beauty queen who was crowned Miss England in 2019 has returned to the United Kingdom from overseas charity work to continue her career as a doctor amid the coronavirus pandemic. Bhasha Mukherjee took a career break as a junior doctor after competing in the Miss World pageant in December 2019. Mukherjee represented England at the pageant after winning Miss England. Miss Jamaica crowned 2019 Miss World Invited to be an ambassado…

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The story behind the 60 hours that shook Jaffna By Our Political Editor Indian High Commissioner voices concern to Premier Rajapaksa Monday’s hartal paralyses Jaffna peninsula Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to visit Sri Lanka SJB invites disappointed UNP group to join it Ranil to remain as UNP leader http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210117/uploads/WA0017.jpg Vice Chancellor of the University of Jaffna, Prof. Sivakolunthu Srisatkunarajah with the students in front of a makeshift foundation stone. This for the construction of new “Mullaivaikal memorial” in the Jaffna University campus. …

Hizbullah Engaged in Direct Contacts with CIA, Pentagon إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية The U.S. Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are engaged in direct and indirect contacts with Hizbullah, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Friday. According to the report, the talks focus on several aspects and include the Islamist movement Hamas. However, information received by LBCI ruled out the report, saying it was not true. In November, the U.S. embassy in Lebanon denied a report by the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper saying that U.S. officials have been involved in talks with Hizbullah. "No official at the embassy has or is engaged in discussion with…

India on Monday asked its envoy in Geneva to return for consultations on the US resolution on Sri Lanka, the IANS reported. Dilip Sinha, ambassador and permanent representative of India to the UN in Geneva, will be in New Delhi on Tuesday to brief the government on the resolution, external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said. The issue has gained urgency with political parties and activists in Tamil Nadu urging the government to back the resolution — like last year — and even amend it to denounce Colombo for the "genocide" of Tamils. The resolution is expected to come up for voting at the 47-member UNHRC session in Geneva March 21. The forei…

'I have never felt safe': MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq's final HoC speech

A Sri Lankan national who sexually assaulted a Christchurch woman while she slept will be deported as soon as he becomes eligible for parole. Arumadura Manoj Krishnan Dayachandra De Silva, better known as Krishnan, was sentenced to two years and eight months’ imprisonment on a charge of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection by the Christchurch District Court on Friday. The 30-year-old was already in custody for fraud offences committed after the sexual violation incident. His latest sentence will be added to the nine months he is already serving in jail. De Silva, who has been living in New Zealand since 2014, went out drinking with friends on the …

SRINAGAR //JammuKashmir liberation front (JKLF) Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik has termed the massacreand burning down of Sopore town on 6th January 1993 by Indian forcesas a black day in the history of kashmir and said that Indian occupation onKashmir is written by these kind of brutal massacres and brutalities. Yasin Malikwhile paying rich tributes to Sopore martyrs, expressed solidarity with theirbereaved families. A JKLF delegation comprising of Adv. Bashir Ahmad Bhat, Sheikh AbdulRashid, and Mohammad Sidiq Shah and Abdul Rashid Magloo visited the martyr’sgraveyard Sopare and participated in a condolence meeting held for the martyrs. Meanwhile chairman JKLF in …

An Analysis on the ‘UN Internal Review Panel’s findings during the final months of the war in Sri Lanka [size=5]The internal probe commissioned to examine the conduct of the United Nations during the final months of the war in Sri Lanka with a view to putting its house in order is to be commended for being forthright about UN’s own failures. However it’s findings must also be seen as a scathing indictment on the Rajapaksa Government’s conduct of the war; the revelations contained in it conclusively making the case for the genocidal state to be put in the dock, indicating that the time has come for its senior political and military leaders and President Mahinda Rajap…

A Buddhist Monk from Batticaloa has threatened to kill a grama sevaka for filing several court cases against Sinhalese living in the district. Using absolute filth in Sinhala, Ampitiye Sumana, a monk from the Batticaloa Mangalarama said, “You are a bloody tiger. My blood boils when I see you. You are a bloody dog. You are a Tamil Grama Sevaka. You have been filing case after case against our Sinhalese. Stop filing cases against the Sinhalese. Go and take action against what is happening in Wilpattu and Siripada. If you even send out one Sinhalese from their lands, I will end the rule by the Thambiyas and the Demalas. I will smash you. This is my last warning to all o…

Interview With Sri Lanka Peace Negotiator By: Interview conducted by Padma Rao Courtesy: SPIEGEL - January 21, 2008 'Civilians Are the Ones Who Will Suffer' The cease-fire in Sri Lanka officially came to an end last week, but violence has been flaring for months. SPIEGEL spoke with Norwegian peace negotiator Jon Hanssen-Bauer about monitoring the country's collapse and Sri Lanka's bleak future. SPIEGEL: Sri Lanka has withdrawn from the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) negotiated with the help of Oslo in 2002 between Colombo and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE ). The bloody, 25-year-long civil war that has already killed more than 8…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was too ill on Thursday to appear via video link from a British prison in a hearing on an extradition request from the United States, his lawyer said. The United States is seeking the extradition of Assange, 47, who was dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London on April 11. He faces a total of 18 U.S. criminal counts and decades in prison if convicted. “He’s in fact far from well,” Assange’s lawyer, Gareth Peirce told Westminster Magistrates’ Court. She earlier told Reuters he was too ill to attend the hearing by videolink. Judge Emma Arbuthnot, who was presiding over the case, added: “He’s not very well.” W…

Supporters of former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa have their eyes set on the upcoming parliamentary elections, hoping to bring him back into Sri Lankan politics, a move that could pose a serious challenge to new President Maithripala Sirisena’s agenda for democratic reforms. Rajapaksa, who oversaw a military victory over Tamil Tiger guerrillas six years ago, but at the cost of the lives of more than 70,000 civilians, as the United Nations noted in a report, was dramatically defeated by his one-time ally, Sirisena, in last month’s presidential election. But Rajapaksa is not giving up yet. “What we are experiencing today is not a defeat but a result of a c…

Operation Unceasing Waves - 4 This thread contains all the official press releases of LTTE a.k.a. Tamil Tigers during their militray operation Unceasing Waves - 4

Should Gota be the CEO of Sri Lanka? – Question posed in some business circles No fair trial for Shirani B – BT poll reveals Lawyers, accountants, engineers, architects and various other professionals this week slammed the impeachment of Shirani Bandaranayake in a near unanimous vote saying she was unfairly judged. Asked in a Business Times poll this week whether Ms Bandaranayake (who says she is legally still the chief justice) got a fair trial, more than 90 per cent of the respondents said NO. The email poll which asked two more questions drew more than 900 respondents, the highest ever in a BT poll. The street polls by BT partner, Research Cons…

Last month the United Nations published a highly critical internal report in which it admitted it didn’t do enough to protect Tamil civilians in the final months of the Sri Lanka civil war. In late 2008, the UN had withdrawn staff from the northern part of the country in anticipation of the Sri Lanka government’s bloody military offensive against the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, more commonly known as Tamil Tigers). Tamil civilians had pleaded with the UN to stay at the time, but the international organization said it was unable to ensure the safety of its staff members. Still, the new report raises real questions about the international community’s response du…

Critics say Sri Lanka targeting civilians By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 53 minutes ago PESALAI, Sri Lanka - Nearly everyone in this seaside hamlet — the old women bent from a lifetime of toil, the fishermen weathered from days at sea, the children in tattered hand-me-downs — fled to the church Sunday as soon as they heard a police patrol was coming. "I thought they were going to come to shoot us all," said L.R. Peiris, a 58-year-old woman crying hysterically at the thought of government forces returning a day after five villagers were killed by Sri Lankan troops. Like nearly everyone else in Pesalai, all the dead were …

First coronavirus deaths reported in indigenous communities in the Amazon “COVID-19 has fertile terrain to spread rapidly among the populations that live in Amazonia,” says president of prominent Brazilian rights group. April 11, 2020 Brazilian officials and rights activists are warning of an impending public health calamity as reports emerge of the first deaths linked to the coronavirus among highly vulnerable indigenous populations across the Amazon region. Health workers in the northern state of Roraima reported on April 9 that a Yanomami adolescent had died of COVID-19, heightening concerns that he may have spread the disease to s…

22 November 2013 Khuram Shaikh was killed while on holiday in Tangalle in 2011 The news a trial date has been set for six men charged over the murder of a British aid worker in Sri Lanka has been welcomed by the victim's MP. Red Cross worker Khuram Shaikh, from Rochdale in Greater Manchester, was shot and stabbed on holiday in 2011. Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk said it was "encouraging" in a case which was a "test of Sri Lanka's credibility". He said he had been told six men, including a Sri Lankan politician, were expected to go on trial on 2 December. They have been accused of offences including murder, possessing unlawful weapons and the rape of …

There has been no shortage of distressing images emerging from the final two or three years of Sri Lanka's awful civil war. But this footage is amongst the worst I have seen, writes Callum Macrae. Warning: viewers may find footage in the below video extremely disturbing. Not because of the scale of the deaths it depicts – five deaths is a small incident in a war which saw upwards of 40,000 civilians massacred in the last few months alone, mostly by government shelling. This footage is awful because of the behaviour of the soldiers towards the bodies of the female Tiger fighters, and because of the underlying culture of systematic brutality and sex…