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Way back in 1983, Velupillai Prabhakaran, on the alert, rode a bicycle through Jaffna to oversee a spot near the university his colleagues had picked to ambush Sri Lankan troops. Few people knew him then, and fewer had heard of the Tamil Tigers. A quarter century later, the same man, now a legend, has made history by using Tamil ingenuity to transform two light aircraft into stealthy bombers to target the air base of his enemy right in the heart of Sri Lanka. From the humble bicycle then to the breathless display of air power in 2007 - this is the extraordinary achievement of a man who has presided over a sharp and intelligent growth of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil…

US Tamil group to take Gota, Basil and Fonseka to courts -Mendaka Abeysekera from New York- A United States based organisation called 'Tamils for Justice' has launched a massive fundraising project to de-proscribe the LTTE and to bring to justice the three US citizens holding power in Sri Lanka for allegedly committing gross violations of humanitarian laws, and crimes against Tamils. According to 'Tamils for Justice,' Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's two brothers, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Presidential Advisor and Parliamentarian Basil Rajapaksa and Army Commander Gen. Sarath Fonseka are clearly subjected to US law and jurisdiction and …

115 வெற்றியாளர்கள் (சிவப்பில் உள்ளவை புதிதாக 2012 வெற்றியாளர் பட்டியலில் சேர்க்கப்பட்டவை) Minicars Fiat 500 built after July 2011 Ford Fiesta sedan and hatchback Honda Fit Toyota Yaris 4-door hatchback Small cars Chevrolet Cruze Chevrolet Sonic Chevrolet Volt Ford Focus Honda Civic 4-door Honda CR-Z Honda Insight Hyundai Elantra Kia Forte sedan Kia Soul Lexus CT 200h Mazda 3 sedan and hatchback Mini Cooper Countryman Mitsubishi Lancer except Ralliart and Evolution Nissan Cube Nissan Juke Nissan Leaf Scion tC Scion xB Scion xD Subaru Impreza except WRX Toyota Corolla Toyota Prius Volkswagen Golf 4-door…

Colombo gets support from US, LTTE from TN PK Balachandran Colombo, January 7, 2006|17:11 IST With the ceasefire in Sri Lanka in danger of being broken, the government and the LTTE are seriously looking for support from overseas for their respective cases. While the Rajapaksa regime seems to have the backing of the United States, the LTTE is counting on increasing support across the Palk Strait in Tamil Nadu. The LTTE is also reasonably sure that New Delhi will remain neutral thanks to the influence of Tamil Nadu. This was stated recently by the LTTE's ideologue, KV Balakumaran, in an interview to the Voice of Tigers radio. Rice's assurance to…

Arial Terror and massacre of innocents The massacre of innocent schoolgirls - Sri-Lanka It was 06.40-45 a.m. on Monday, August 14th 2006 Four Israeli built K-fir bombers appeared suddenly on the skies above a place called Vallipunam in Mullativu District in the North Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. It is believed that the planes had stared out from Trincolalee and flown north over the sea and turned westwards towards Mullaitivu. The aircraft were spot on. Instead of hovering in the air for a while as most bombers do before releasing their deadly cargo these planes set about their task quickly and precisely. Like the four horsemen of the apocalypse t…

The Refugee Board has decided to let a 15-year-old Sri Lankan remain in Denmark after he was scheduled to be deported The ongoing saga of 15-year-old Ramis Ramachandran from Sri Lanka, better known as 'Rams', took a new turn Monday, when his pending deportation case was temporarily put on hold. Acting on information from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Danish Refugee Board placed Rams's case in abeyance, preventing him from being sent back to his war-torn homeland. 'Naturally I'm happy about it,' said Rams's appointed solicitor, Hannah Krog, to Berlingske Tidende. The Ministry of Refugees, Immigration and Integration Affairs denied Rams's…

Majority of pilots leave Sri Lankan Airline (Lanka-e-News-2008 Jan 08, 4.30 PM) The majority of the Sri Lankan airline pilots have come to a decision to leave the national carrier since February with the Emirates' decision not to renew the agreement with the Sri Lanka state after March 31. Sri Lankan has 14 aircrafts and around 200 pilots are employed. The majority of the pilots are Sri Lankans. An official of the airline said to Lanka-e-News that 98% of the Sri Lankan's 600 staff are locals. Emirates is one of the major stakeholders of Sri Lankan. However it employed only three from Emirates and one of them is the CEO Peter Hill whose work permit was rev…

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…

Death of voice of Tamil struggle a new blow to peace in Sri Lanka by Amal Jayasinghe Fri Dec 15, 3:18 AM ET COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's moribund peace process suffered another setback with the death of the top Tamil Tiger negotiator who was regarded as a moderate among hardliners, analysts said. ADVERTISEMENT Anton Balasingham, 68, who had spearheaded the peace efforts of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), died of bile duct cancer at his London home on Thursday. "Balasingham had an institutional memory and it would be very difficult for the LTTE to replace him," said Sunanda Deshapriya, a director at the independent t…

Sunday Leader editor faces arrest [TamilNet, Thursday, 28 December 2006, 10:46 GMT] Sri Lankan Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has been instructed by the Defence Ministry to arrest Lasantha Wikramatunga, the editor of the Sunday Leader, who exposed last Sunday a move to build a 500 million rupee bunker at Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse's official residence, editorial staff of the paper said. Media personnel have surrounded the Sunday Leader office following the development. The CID officials who have been in touch with Lasantha Wickramatunga had informed him about the move. The Free Media Movement in Colombo, in a press release issued recen…

Tamil suicide bomber who targeted Sri Lanka top general was pregnant, investigator says DILIP GANGULY , Associated Press, Fri 28th Apr 05:30GMT. The Tamil bomber who blew herself up targeting Sri Lanka's top general was pregnant and that helped her to conceal explosives and get inside army headquarters for a maternity check, an investigator says. The brazen attack Tuesday triggered tit-for-tat military action by government troops and the rebels that has pushed Sri Lanka close to civil war after a tense four-year cease-fire. The bomber has been identified as Anoja Kugenthirasah, 21, from the northern government-held garrison town of Vavuniya on the frontier …

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Status of UNICEF database on underage LTTE members First of the monthly statement by the Child Protection Authority (CPA), Kilinochchi, January 2008 The UNICEF database of under-18 persons in the LTTE has remained static for several months now and continues to hold around 240 names. The database has remained static because of the inability of UNICEF to clear these cases due to the prevailing security situation. In December 2007, CPA circulated, among the concerned groups, a snapshot of this UNICEF database as seven categories in a table as shown. The purpose of this snapshot is to elucidate the reality behind the number, 240. UNICEF mandate compels it to maintai…

இலங்கை வழி தமிழரான, இலண்டனில் பிறந்து வசித்து வரும் பிரபல பாடகி MIA மாதங்கி அருட்பிரகாசத்துக்கு அமெரிக்க அரசு தடை!!! இவரின் தந்தை ஒரு விடுதலைப்போராளி என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது. Brit rap star M.I.A. banned from US (Wednesday May 24, 2006 07:06 PM) Critically-acclaimed British rapper M.I.A. has been barred from entering the US to work on her new album, it has been revealed. The star - whose real name is Maya Arulpragasam - posted a message on her website explaining that she had been due to work with top American hip hop producer Timbaland, but was now having to make the record elsewhere. Arulpragasam, the daughter of a Tamil Tiger fighter, grew u…

It's not the fault of the student if he fails, because the year ONLY has 365' days. Typical academic year for a student: 1. Sundays-52, Sundays in a year, you know Sundays are for rest. Days left 313. 2. Summer holidays-50 where weather is very hot and difficult to study.Days left 263. 3. 8 hours daily sleep- 130 days GONE. Days left 141. 4. 1 hour for daily playing- (good for health) means 15 days. Days left 126. 5. 2 hours daily for food & other delicacies (chewing properly & swallowing)-means 30days. Days left 96. 6. 1 hour for talking (man is a social animal)-means 15 days. Days left 81. 7. Exam days- per y…

Diego Garcia's Hidden Role in Sri Lankan Politics By S.N. Amazing how the three vital factors regarding real estate came into play even in the plight of the Tamils -- location, location, and location. Diego Garcia? Is he of any relation to the tall, dark and handsome Cuban, Andy Garcia? The very gentleman who set many female hearts afire when he played the most coveted roles in decades, the hot-headed son of Sonny Corleone and mob protégé of Michael Corloene, Vincent Mancini; in 1990 Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather: Part III -- Unfortunately, not! Then again, if you knew of Diego Garcia, you are clearly in the slim minority, for the name Diego …

Columns - Situation Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Army holds jaya pirith, Tigers warn of bloodbath Both sides accuse each other of intensifying hostilities Foreign Ministry issues tough guidelines for visits by diplomats to North, East How the German envoy took Italian Ambassador to hospital By Iqbal Athas The LTTE mortar attack on diplomats, United Nations and Government officials twelve days ago has had its sequel. Colombo-based foreign diplomats have now been banned from undertaking visits to operational areas in the North and East without the express permission of the Ministry o…

Sri Lanka troops responsible for killing 17 aid workers: AFP/File Photo: Flowers and candles are offered for the 17 slain workers from the French charity Action... COLOMBO (AFP) - Nordic truce monitors in Sri Lanka have said that government forces were responsible for the killing earlier this month of 17 local employees of the French charity Action Against Hunger. The Swedish-led monitors of a 2002 ceasefire also said in a statement Wednesday that Sri Lankan troops blocked their access to the northeast town of Muttur in a bid to conceal the mass killing. "The killing of the 17 civilian aid workers in Muttur on the 4th of August 2006 is …

Evoking the Undead Tiger, the Eternal Bogeyman: The Consequences of Forgetting the Past Ambika Satkunanathan on 01/10/2021 Photo courtesy of Indian Express “If only they would respect Tamils as humans.” An alleged former combatant who was “rehabilitated”. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is the armed group that the Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa government claim they defeated in May 2009. During the first Rajapaksa regime and after the Rajapaksas returned to power in 2019, even in the midst of the pandemic, their government has held annual events to celebrate its victory over …

Presidential anger against 'Subasetha' (LeN-2006 Dec. 22, 6.15 pm) A advisor to a newspaper dedicated to astrology published by Lake house has come under severe criticism from the top for publishing a forecast that a leading lady of Sri Lankan politics is to make a comeback and the life of a leader is to in danger. These forecasts have appeared in two issues of the said newspaper. First issue has published that a leading woman politician is to make a comeback. The second issue has warned of a danger to a top leader. After these appeared the President has summoned the director editorial Mr. Kongahage and lambasted him. Later Mr. Kongahage has called for explanat…

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NEW DELHI: Sri Lankan security forces are to blame for the murder of 700 civilians in Jaffna, a rights body said yesterday, holding both Colombo and the Tamil Tigers accountable for the island nation’s misery. The University Teachers for Human Rights (UTHR) also said in its latest report that “war-like ideologies” were leading the Sri Lankan government as well as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to a destructive future. “Making due allowance for the LTTE’s share in killings, we estimate that the government and its security forces are responsible for murdering in cold blood upwards of a base figure of 700 unarmed civilians in Jaffna during 2006 and 2007,” sa…

November 1, 2011 ------------------------ Reuters Alertnet - Sri Lanka to make post-war report public-foreign minister <http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/sri-lanka-to-make-post-war-report-public-foreign-minister> MSN News - Lanka war commission report to be made public <http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5560406> United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) - The forgotten returnees <http://www.unric.org/en/sri-lanka/27124-the-forgotten-returnees> Truth Dive - Lanka’s TNA files a FR petition against land registration by govt <http://truthdive.com/2011/10/31/lanka%E2%80%99s-tna-files-a-fr-p…

http://washingtontimes.com/specialreport/2...6747r_page2.htm Thefts of U.S. technology boost China's weaponry By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES June 27, 2005 Part I: Chinese dragon awakens Second of two parts. China is stepping up its overt and covert efforts to gather intelligence and technology in the United States, and the activities have boosted Beijing's plans to rapidly produce advanced-weapons systems. "I think you see it where something that would normally take 10 years to develop takes them two or three," said David Szady, chief of FBI counterintelligence operations. He said the Chinese are prolific…

இராணுவத் தலமையகத்தில் பாரிய குண்டு வெடிப்பு, அப்பத் தொடங்கியாச்சு போல? 'Big blast' at Sri Lanka army HQ There are reports of a huge explosion inside the headquarters of the Sri Lankan army in the capital Colombo. The head of the army, Sarath Fonseka, was inside the headquarters at the time of the blast, reports say. "There are casualties, but the fate of the commander is not known," an official told the AFP news agency. The official said it was a bomb attack. There has been an increase in violence in Sri Lanka recently and Tamil Tiger rebels have pulled out of peace talks. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asi...sia/4941744.stm