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“Confusion now has made his masterpiece Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple And stole thence. The life of the building” -Macbeth, William Shakespeare- Those who said and believed that justice was even-handed would not have heard of the country called Sri Lanka. The government, for the last few years, let its people get a glimpse of its multi-faceted course of justice in which the fundamentals are conveniently excluded and swiftness is a luxury granted solely for the selected few. And Rizana Nafeek was not one of them. Rizana marched to death after having been in prison for almost eight years; during which the government did not…

பார்லியில் தொடங்கி பின்பு மாட்டிறைச்சி, வைனில் தரும் தலையிடி போதாது என்று இப்பொழுது அவுஸ்ரேலியவிற்கு இன்னொரு விதமாக தலையிடியைத்தரப்போகிறது இந்த PNG விவகாரம். As the Australia-China relationship deteriorates, a $200m PNG 'fishery' deal raises eyebrows 7.30 /By Laura TinglePosted Friday 11 December2020 at 6:00pm, updated Friday11 December 2020 at 11:25pm Amid the din and racket of politics at the end of what has been, by any measure, an extraordinary year, the continuing and growing deterioration in our trade relationship with China has lost its novelty value. More tariffs on Australian wines this week? More restrictions on meat and timber?…

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Ecuador’s president ready to allow Julian Assange to be extradited to US By Mike Head 31 July 2018 Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno yesterday made his most explicit statement yet of his government’s willingness to hand over WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to the British authorities to be imprisoned and then extradited to the United States. Moreno’s comments indicate that negotiations with Britain’s Conservative Party government are at an advanced stage, with the intent of forcing Assange to leave Ecuador’s London embassy on the terms being demanded by the British and US administrations. Ecuador granted Assange political asylum six years ago to protect …

[size=3] [size=5]I wrote in the UK Guardian on 30 May 2009, eleven days after the tragic end of the war titled ‘The ÚN has failed theTamils’ where I referred to and identified many of the failings and weaknesses now being acknowledged after an internal inquiry within the UN, three and half years later. If I had known all of these then and during the war, it begs the question why an international body which was formed fundamentally to protect humanity didn’t know or did it know and failed to act?[/size][/size] [size=5][/size] [size=5] Beyond the UN, some of the other human rights and humanitarian institutions must also take responsibility as the…

Sri Lankan Muslims Are Low Caste Tamil Hindu Converts Not Arab Descendants By Rifat Halim – The recent execution of Rizana Nafeek in Saudi Arabia has underlined the bogus claim of Arab ancestry by Sri Lankan Muslims (formerly known as Ceylon Moors). Ms. Nafeek, a domestic worker from a poor family in the East of Sri Lanka, spoke no language but Tamil. She requested a Tamil translator but was provided with a Malayalam-speaking minor employee whose command of the Tamil language was said to be insufficient. The Saudi authorities showed no clemency. Also, they refused to recognize her as a person of Arab descent. Her status was indistinguishab…

[TamilNet, Sunday, 21 July 2013, 17:15 GMT] Hindustan Times carrying out an interview of CV Wigneswaran on Friday highlighted his statement against Tamil Nadu polity in the title. The highlight shows the priority in New Delhi’s polity and media in diffusing and detracting the uprising in Tamil Nadu for the independence of Eezham Tamils that is denied primarily by New Delhi and Washington. Hindustan Times just follows The Hindu, The Times of India and The New Indian Express in this regard. The gang up of Indian’s mainstream media behind the agenda of the genocidal partners has to be vigilantly perused by the peoples’ polity in Tamil Nadu as it is a re-enactment of the tim…

By the time the morning sun had crept above the city’s Soviet-era apartment blocks, the crowd-control barriers lining Suvorov Square in downtown Tiraspol were already three-deep with families dressed in their Sunday (in this case, Monday) best. Their collective excitement was almost palpable on this surprisingly warm September day; anyone would have thought a royal wedding was on the cards. But in Transnistria (also spelled Trans-Dniester), a sliver of land tracing Moldova’s border with Ukraine for 400km, the capital’s Independence Day celebrations are the highlight of the year. Never mind that the tiny Eastern European nation, formally called the Pridnestrovian Mold…

Meeting the New Prime Minister BY BILL GATES Narendra Modi has India talking about toilets. As the New York Times put it before his visit to the United States recently, India’s Prime Minister has “pledged to cut through red tape, stamp out corruption, revive India’s economy and restore pride.” But he has also been quite outspoken on a subject you hear much less about: open defecation. It may seem surprising when you think about all the innovation coming out of India, but 630 million people there defecate in the open because they don’t have access to a commode. Worldwide, the number is 2.5 billion people. This is not the kind of issue that most politicians like to ta…

“…..to not to be a fanatic means to be, to some extent and in some way, a traitor in the eyes of the fanatic”. Amos Oz (How to cure a fanatic) What if after the defeat of the JVP insurgency, the Premadasa administration prevented Sinhala families from mourning their JVP-dead? What if every commemorative activity from the political to the religious was banned? What if Buddhists monks were told to stop preaching sermons (bana) and accepting alms (dane) on behalf of dead JVPers? Would such measures have caused reconciliation or a renewal of hatred? By turning mourning into a crime, are the Rajapaksas building-peace or seeding another conflict? The Tigers were …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Government attacks on the judiciary and political dissent have accelerated Sri Lanka’s authoritarian turn and threaten long-term stability and peace. The government’s politically motivated impeachment of the chief justice reveals both its intolerance of dissent and the weakness of the political opposition. By incapacitating the last institutional check on the executive, the government has crossed a threshold into new and dangerous terrain, threatening prospects for the eventual peaceful transfer of power through free and fair elections. Strong international action should begin with Sri Lanka’s immediate referral to the Commonwealth M…

11th November 2013 The Tamil Youth Organisation UK strongly condemns the decision taken by the Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron, to attend the Commonwealth Summit hosted by the genocidal, chauvinist state of Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan state is known to have committed crimes of genocide on the Eelam Tamil nation since its independence. After the supposed end of the ‘civil war’ in Sri Lanka, in May 2009, Sri Lanka continues to perpetrate acts of genocide on the Tamils. In the name of reconciliation once again the Tamil nation’s political aspirations and basic rights are being suppressed by the Sri Lankan state, which is sadly supported by the UN. The end of the civil…

The British Tamils Cricket League come out victorious at the 2016 SCF Inter Leagues Day http://www.surreycricketfoundation.org/news/scf-inter-leagues-day-2016-16426/

After War Comes Peace, Not Prosperity Amantha Perera COLOMBO, Feb 12 2014 (IPS) - Sri Lanka’s war-battered Northern Province had reason to celebrate when the results of a countrywide exam were announced last December. Of the 16,604 students from the province who sat for the exam, 63.8 percent secured the required marks for entry into prestigious national universities. It was a spectacular performance for a region wrecked by three decades of sectarian conflict that ended in May 2009 with a military offensive. The region has endured a tedious reconstruction effort since then. “It is a national high,” Sivalingam Sathyaseelan, Secretary to the provincial Ministry of Ed…

Khalil Rafati, the 46-year-old owner of the juice bar chain SunLife Organics, is telling his success story, and sharing the hardships he went through to become a multi-millionaire. Born in Toledo, Ohio, Mr Rafati fled his hometown to Los Angeles to escape years of sexual abuse. He wound up selling cars to high-profile clients but his new life was quickly shattered when he tried heroin, The New York Times reports. In 2001, he nearly died while intentionally overdosing at a house party in Malibu. Mr Rafati struggled to kick the drug for the next few years and finally found sobriety in 2003 when he was introduced to superfoods. Check out the SunLife brand…

The growing influence of the small clique led by members of Rajapaksha family threatens Sri Lanka's long-term institutional stability - EIU It is doubtful that much progress will be made on political solution. Isolated terrorist attacks could occur across the island Rajapaksa will be strongly placed to win a third term Relations between the UPFA and Western governments will remain tense Sri Lanka: Outlook for 2013-17 by Economist Intelligence Unit Political stability The president, Mahinda Rajapaksa of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), is idolised as the man who in May 2009 defeated the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, Tamil Tigers). He was re-electe…

TamilCulture June 29, 2017 AddThis Sharing 0460 SHARES Share to FacebookFacebookShare to TwitterTwitterShare to MoreMore The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Canada’s largest financial institution, has acquired Wiser Investments, headed by CEO Ajantha Ganeshalingam. The acquisition is part of a $20 million investment that RBC is making towards establishing an in-house Innovation Lab of which Wiser is a foundational component. Wiser’s CEO Ajantha shared the following statement on his LinkedIn page followi…

If anyone asked to explain Tamil freedom struggle in Eelam, these two leader's pictures can tell the full history. Since 1948, Tamil leader Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam resisted Sri Lanka's genocide against Tamils using non-violent protests but in 1976, he and Tamils democratically decided to form a separate State Tamil Eelam and reclaim their sovereignty. SJV Chelva also known as Thanthai Selva asked youths to come forward and use force to protect Eelam Tamils. Since 1976, Tamil National leader Veluppillai Prabhakaran, his freedom fighters and people implemented Tamils democratic will and achieved it's goal Tamil Eelam in 2002... The history of Eelam Ta…

Damage done by emotionally immature parents can have a long-term impact on children ABC Health & Wellbeing By Sana Qadar and James Bullen for All in the Mind Posted 3ddays ago, updated 2ddays ago Mandy* says her mother has always had a controlling streak. In something of a nightmare scenario for most kids, when Mandy was 10, her mum got a job at her school. "My mother was telling me who I was and I wasn't allowed to be friends with. She was prohibiting most people I made friends with," Mandy says. "She would actually leave her post during my lunchtime to see who I was hanging out with and if I was following her order…

Arguing with loved one at wheel 'can affect' driving, experts warn The driver is weaving in his lane, his speed erratic, and he is clearly distracted. An-other case of texting behind the wheel? No, he's just got his wife with him. Confirming what many Canadians have long suspected, a study finds that having a romantic partner in the car is linked to poorer performance on the road. The effects are so powerful, in fact, that people actually drive better while quarrelling with their sweetheart remotely using a hands-free device than when having a neutral in-person conversation with them in the vehicle. "Emotional distractions are real and can affect your…

Saudi Arabia will do everything to spare Iraq the danger of war Saudi Arabia’s vice minister of defense said on Wednesday the kingdom and its leadership stand with Iraq and will do everything in their power to spare it the danger of war and conflict between external parties. Prince Khalid bin Salman said in a tweet: “The Kingdom and its leadership always stand with brotherly Iraq and will do everything in its power to spare it the danger of war and conflict between external parties, and for its generous people to live in prosperity after what they have endured in the …

The recent impeachment of Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice, Shirani Bandaranayake, has re-focused international attention on the country. Catherine Ashton, head of the EU’s External Action Service, has expressed “considerable concern”. However, the problem with Sri Lanka runs deeper than any single case. Despite the Sri Lankan Government’s claims of progress on human rights since the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the ‘Tamil Tigers’, ended in 2009, the reality is very different. Catherine Ashton: The EU has shown “considerable concern” about the situation in Sri Lanka. For 30 years Sri Lanka was ravaged by civil war betw…

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COLOMBO: There are indications that under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka will see India as its “main security provider” given India’s proximity and its status as the regional power. On the other hand, China will be seen as a key source of funds for big infrastructure projects, given its deep pocket and willingness to lend. Sources close to Gotabaya say that given neighboring India’s strategic concerns, and the stormy history of Sri Lanka-India relations, Gotabaya will not take China as a strategic ally but only as an important source of funds for the many large infrastructure projects he has in mind. Investments from India and other countries will also be w…