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Tigers seize SLA weapons in Naakarkoayil clash [TamilNet, Thursday, 07 February 2008, 15:57 GMT] Heavy fighting erupted between the Sri Lanka Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam Thursday morning at 5:00 a.m. when an SLA unit, using tanks with artillery support fire, attempted to move towards LTTE Forward Defence Line at Naakarkoayil in Jaffna. The SLA sustained heavy casualties in the one-hour fighting, LTTE's Northern Forces Operations Command told reporters who were taken on a tour to Naakarkoayil FDL where the Tigers displayed ammunition and an assault rifle seized by them. for pictures: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=24580

Tilvin Silva’s Encounter with the Tamil Diaspora in London Protests by a few sections had no impact 2 December 2025 12:10 amViews - 2861 Bookmark A A A Tilvin Silva meets Tamil community leaders in London -- file photo Another crucial change by the JVP is in the area of ethnic relations. The JVP is shedding its past “Sinhala Socialist” image and reaching out to the minority ethnicities of Sri Lanka, namely the Sri Lankan Tamils, Muslims and Indian or Hill Country Tamils However organisers of the JVP event were taken by surprise when over a hundred demonstrators assembled outside the Alperton high school issuing leaflets, holding placards and chanting slogans Several…

Just a little over a year ago, voters in Sri Lanka rallied to elect a new president, with high hopes that he would usher in a new era of government accountability and bring healing to a country fractured by the brutal civil war that ended in 2009. President Maithripala Sirisena has taken bold steps to fulfill those hopes since his election last January. But the wounds of war cannot be healed until a transitional justice process demanded by the United Nations in a resolution last October moves forward. On that score, Mr. Sirisena says his government will not act “in haste.” This is unacceptable. Atrocities were committed by both Tamil rebel troops and the Sri Lankan A…

Saturday, September 6, 2014 By Chris Slee The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought for an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east of the island of Sri Lanka. The group was formed in response to discrimination against the Tamil people by the Sri Lankan government, after peaceful protests had been repeatedly met with violent repression. It waged an armed struggle for nearly three decades. The LTTE was militarily defeated in 2009, and no longer exists. Yet people are still being penalised for alleged links with the group. This is happening in Sri Lanka, in Australia, and in other countries. In Australia, Tamils who have been officially re…

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TMVP to contest under ‘boat’ symbol The Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) has been accepted and registered as a political party by the Elections Commissioner and will contest the upcoming polls in the East under the ‘boat’ symbol, sources told the Daily Mirror yesterday. A meeting was held between TMVP officials and the Elections Commissioner at the office of the Elections Commissioner in Colombo yesterday where the outfit headed by Karuna Amman and Pillayan were told that their documents seeking registration as a political party had been accepted. Earlier the organisation had sought to register either under the name ‘TMVP’ or ‘National Par…

TN people’s concern on Sri Lankan Tamils legitimate: Tewari Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said the Central Government was in no way “insensitive” to Lankan Tamil issues and the protest was in “sync” with the people’s concern in Tamil Nadu. “We understand the sensitivities which are involved with regard to the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils, especially in Tamil Nadu. We are absolutely in sync with some of the concerns which have been articulated...”, Mr. Tewari told reporters on Friday. Mr. Tewari was responding to questions on the protests by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, a key UPA ally, against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse’s…

Various political parties in Tamil Nadu are seen campaigning with the images and cut-outs of late Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ahead of the assembly elections, proving that years after his death, Prabhakaran still continues to hold political clout in the state. Shiv Raman from Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK), contesting from Thirumayam Constituency of Pudukkottai district, on Thursday used imaged and cut-outs of Prabhakaran. Apart from NTK, led by Senthamizhan Seeman -- who is a filmmaker turned politician, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) led by Vaiko, who is a Rajya Sabha MP from Tamil Nad…

As Sri Lanka gears up for the August 5 parliamentary election, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) — the main grouping representing minority Tamils living in north and east — is facing its biggest test yet in its constituency, since the war ended a decade ago. Though the Tamils have repeatedly given a huge mandate to the TNA, whether in the 2013 Northern Provincial Council election or the parliamentary polls of 2015, the Alliance — which secured 16 seats in the 225-member Parliament in 2015 — is contesting this election amid what seems a growing disenchantment among voters. “No matter who gets elected nothing changes in our lives. We vote because it’s our duty, no…

TNA MPs to join govt. claims Minister President Mahinda Rajapakse at an all party conference meeting Four Tamil National Alliance MPs are among those who have shown interest in joining the government, senior minister claims. Defence affairs spokesman, minister Keheliya Rambukwella said discussions are on between the government and some 18 members of the UNP who are willing to join the government. "These UNP parliamentarians have shown interest to assist the president", he said. Even Sri Lanka Muslim Congress(SLMC) has openly said they would join the ruling party. "These are the information I have and results of these discussions could be seen wi…

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 October 2013, 23:38 GMT] The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) should learn from history, and from the experience of their predecessors, on what should NOT be done, writes Tamil Nadu political activist Poonkuzhali Nedumaran in a feature sent to TamilNet this week. She cited the history of TNA’s predecessor TULF failing in upholding the responsibility it was vested with by the people in 1977, compromising with District Councils and how that triggered the Tamil youth to lose confidence in parliamentary methods. The NPC election results mean communication of a will than participation in governance. With the Eezham Tamils rejecting the polity and rule of …

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today had talks in New Delhi on Tamil concerns.A TNA delegation led by party leader R. Sampanthan had urged Swaraj to ensure India gets fully involved in the Sri Lankan Tamil issue. The Indian media quoted Sampanthan as saying the TNA delegation had also raised concerns over Sinhalese settlements in Tamil areas. TNA MPs Mavai Senathirajah, M.A. Sumanthiran and India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Y.K.Sinha also took part in the talks. The TNA is to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow as part of the official visit to India. The TNA is expected to push for the…

Realising that our struggle has long been used by powers in their engagements with the island, we as a nation must work towards a concerted foreign policy, although we don't have State, said Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) leader Mr. Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam in an interview to TamilNet on Saturday. In meeting the challenge of achieving this, we should incorporate Tamil Nadu in creating a power centre in a geopolitical sense and the dynamics will change very quickly. Compared to the Congress, the BJP is little bit more blunt and more strident in containing the nationalist nature of the struggle. This is the carrot to the Sri Lankan State and the TNA is a co-partner. …

To End a Civil War: Norway's Peace Engagement with Sri Lanka Book Launch Time: 02 November 2015 13:00-14:30 Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo Please register here. Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the LTTE (Tamil Tigers), which sought the creation of an independent Tamil state. The war ended violently in May 2009 with the crushing defeat of the Tamil Tigers by the Sri Lanka Army amid the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. But prior to this grim finale, for there had been hope for a peaceful end to the conflict. Beginning with a ceasefire agreement in early 2002, for almost five years a series of …

To The Tamil Students In The Recent Fight At Jaffna University By Thisuri Wanniarachchi – Thisuri Wanniarachchi I write this fully aware of my privilege. I’m aware of the advantages, and the ease of life that is granted to me simply for being born to a Sinhalese Buddhist family. The moment I step outside of my motherland I am a woman of colour, a minority and I’ve seen the the clear contrast of the life of a majority and a minority; an unpleasant truth people are often scared to discuss, easily shoved under the carpet. I’m aware that you live amidst all kinds of everyday microaggressions and the petty egomaniacle superio…

Patrick Brown , Patrick Brown (Mayor of Brampton City) UN estimates that up to 75,000 Tamil civilians were murdered during the Tamil Genocide. The destruction of the Mullivaikkal Memorial was an attempt by the Sri Lankan state to continue a cultural genocide, pretend the victims didn’t exist and rewrite history. Today, Brampton City Council unanimously voted to build our own Mullivaikkal Memorial. While the Sri Lankan regime attempts to whitewash their own blood stained histor…

Top Tamil Tiger says cease-fire with Sri Lanka dead The Associated Press Published: July 31, 2006 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka A regional Tamil Tiger leader said Monday that the 4-year-old cease-fire with Sri Lanka's government was over, blaming a continuing army assault for aggravating the situation and forcing a return to civil war. Puratchi, a rebel leader in Trincomalee, said he was speaking for the entire Tamil Tiger rebel movement, but his comments could not immediately be confirmed by other rebel leaders. Top officials in the rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi were not available, said a person who answered the phone there. The European team monito…

Sun Aug 5, 2:18 AM ET COLOMBO (AFP) - A top UN official is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka this week to discuss the island's deepening Tamil separatist conflict and the plight of civilians caught in the crossfire, officials said. John Holmes, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will hold talks with Sri Lankan leaders and also travel to the embattled northern and eastern regions, officials said. Sri Lankan foreign ministry officials said that he will travel to the Jaffna peninsula in the north and the district of Batticaloa where security forces last month wrested control over the final bastion of the Tig…

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…

Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca Published Saturday, August 31, 2019 7:28PM EDT Toronto is the safest city in North America, according to a new report on cities worldwide, which also ranks the Ontario capital as the sixth safest city overall. This year’s Safe Cities Index, a report put out by The Economist Intelligence Unit, looked at 60 cities across five different continents. The criteria for scoring was split into four major categories: digital safety, infrastructure, health and pe…

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28 Feb 2007 11:37:00 GMT Blogged by: Peter Apps Alert Me | Printable view | Email this article | RSS [-] Text [+] Keifer Sutherland, star of hit TV series "24". REUTERS/Fred Prouser Accusing violent television of promoting violence may be nothing new, but this article by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker brings the debate into the world of geopolitics and human rights. Set in real-time, the TV series "24" pits U.S. federal agent Jack Bauer against a range of conspirators aiming to inflict death and destruction. With the clock ticking to disaster, there is often no time for the niceties. http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/36072/200...28-113722-1.htm The sho…

By Dan Strumpf And Stephen Manning, The Associated Press NEW YORK - Toyota said Thursday it is recalling more than 2.3 million vehicles in the U.S. and Canada to fix accelerator pedals that can become stuck, the latest in a string of quality problems that have bedeviled the Japanese automaker. The recall affects the 2009-2010 RAV4, the 2009-2010 Corolla, the 2009-2010 Matrix, the 2005-2010 Avalon, the 2007-2010 Camry, the 2010 Highlander, the 2007-2010 Tundra and the 2008-2010 Sequoia. The Avalon, Camry and Tundra models - encompassing about 1.7 million vehicles - also were included in the 4.2 million-vehicle recall Toyota launched in late 2009 in the Uni…