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Convoy dispatched to eastern Sri Lanka with milk powder and medical supplies Monday, November 20, 2006, 12:19 GMT, Nov 20, Colombo: A convoy of 14 vehicles carrying milk powder and medical supplies along with five ambulances left the Kadjuwatte road block yesterday under the coordination of the Sri Lankan security forces. The convoy is headed towards LTTE-held Vakarai in eastern Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government’s Media Center for National Security said, “Fifteen organizations along with ICRC [international Committee of the Red Cross] and UNICEF had initiated these relief measures to bring trapped civilians to cleared areas from Vakarai and to take 63 s…

Diplomatic strain between Sri Lanka and Norway Sunday, November 19, 2006, 15:21 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 19, Colombo: A diplomatic brawl has erupted between the Sri Lanka and Norwegian governments, Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry sources said. Diplomatic ties between the two countries have been alternatingly tense and highly cordial since Norway engaged in Sri Lanka's peace process as the facilitator. But several incidents that took place recently have made the situation worse. In one of the incidents, an angry Tamil Norwegian of Sri Lankan origin seeking a visa to travel in Sri Lanka stormed the Sri Lanka Embassy in Oslo and smashed a photograph o…

India's Sri Lanka policy - a projection Is India going to be pushed, prodded or propelled, in its policy towards Sri Lanka, down the very path that it took in the 1980s? Dayan JAYATILLEKA STANCE: The All India Bar Association (AIBA) has joined the raucous voices emanating from Tamil Nadu, calling for a more vigorous and one-sided policy on the part of New Delhi towards Colombo. While it goes against India's interest to be even handed between the LTTE, which perpetrated an act of foreign terrorism on its soil, and Sri Lanka, a friendly neighbour, voices such as that of the AIBA actually argue for a policy that is lopsided: against the Sri L…

The Coming of the Micro-states By Fred Weir, correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, June 5, 2006 (Also, see below articles related to emerging states and comments by the EU and US.) From "The Coming of the Micro-states": Experts fear that many "frozen conflicts" around the world - in which a territory has gained de facto independence through war but failed to win international recognition - could reignite as ethnic minorities demand the same right to self-determination that many former Yugoslav territories have been offered by the international community. The United Nations Charter mentions both the right of "self-determination" of peoples a…

The basic question is, if not now, When? 17. November 2006 By: Kowsalyan. Death Due To Starvation - first case reported in Jaffna peninsula. Dr. Kathiravetpillai told TamilNet that there were no traces of food or water in Chandrapala's stomach and that he had died purely due to starvation and cold. Dr. C. S.Kathiravetpillai, the District Medical Officer of Health (DMH) pronounced the cause of death as 'death due to starvation'. The reality has started to strike our faces. It’s not happening in a far away land, now it’s on our door steps. Since the closure of A9 highway, Jaffna Peninsula is cut off from the rest of the island, the humanitarian …

Tamil party implicated in Raviraj shooting November 16th, 2006 [TransCUrrents News Service] Police sleuths investigating the assassination of Jaffna district Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviiraj have uncovered evidence that implicates a Tamil Political Party with links to the Government in the daylight murder. The motor cycle used by the assassins to get away from the scene of crime was last registered in the name of a prominent member of this party. The vehicle was bought from a garage in Tangalle in the Hambantota district. The deal was arranged by a military deserter also from Tangalle. At least five persons from Tangalle have been taken in for question…

Tsunamigevaar na zeebeving Japan Voor het noordoosten van Japan en Rusland is een tsunamiwaarschuwing gegeven. Oorzaak is een zeebeving bij de Koerillen-eilanden met een kracht van 8.1 op de schaal van Richter. Golven van een halve meter hoog hebben het noorden van Japan bereikt. Verwacht wordt dat de golven elders iets hoger zullen zijn. Over slachtoffers of schade is nog niets bekend. Aan de Japanse en Russische kust en op de Koerillen is mensen aangeraden om te vluchten naar hoger gelegen gebieden. De Russische eilanden en kust zijn niet erg dichtbevolkt, maar de kust van het Noord-Japanse eiland Hokkaido wel. http://www.nos.nl/nos/artikelen/2006/11/…

THE FUTURE OF TAMIL PARLIAMENTARIANS IN SRI LANKA - The murder of Parliamentarian Raviraj Sunday, 12 November 2006 Brian Senewiratne M.D,Physician, Brisbane , Australia On 10 November 2006, yet another leading Tamil Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament was gunned down in Colombo by a supposedly ‘unknown’ gunman. This is a new Sri Lankan term which is synonymous with ‘The Armed Forces and their Paramilitaries who do their dirty work’. There are no ‘unknown gunmen’ as such. Nadarajah Raviraj (44), Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian for Jaffna district, one of only a few Tamil MPs who could voice, in English, the suffering of the Tamil people in the…

Status of children in Tamil homeland before and after the CFA The slide show presentation below was among the documents that were handed by the Child Protection Authority to the visiting Ambassador Allan Rock during their meeting in Kilinochchi on 10 November. Ambassador Allan Rock is the Special Advisor to the Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict to the UN Secretary General. Slide show on the status of children in the Tamil homeland before and after the CFA: The slide show presents the status of the children along the four of the five axes that the Ambassador was studying namely, Children killed and maimed Schools destroyed Ho…

இன்றைய சண்டே டைம்ஸ் இதழில் வெளிவந்த இந்த கட்டுரையை படித்து பாருங்கள் ! Travesty of our place names There is no reason why Colombo, Galle and Jaffna cannot revert to Kolamba, Gaalla and Yahapane, except that the political will to bring about such change is still missing How important the proper pronunciation and spelling can be to a nation’s identity was demonstrated by the French Government when it prohibited the use of the British word jet or ‘jetliner’ by the French. The punishment for transgression was imprisonment. After the law came into effect a jetliner had to be called ‘le grande porteur’. The rest of the world may pronounce the name of their capita…

2 Sri Lankan gunboats destroyed in the seas off Vadamaradchi, Jaffna [TamilNet, Thursday, 09 November 2006, 12:45 GMT] A Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) Dvora Fast Attac Craft (FAC) was sunk by a Sea Tiger flotilla around 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the seas off Point Pedro and another SLN gunboat was damaged around 6:00 p.m. off Valvettithurai by the same flotilla which chased the SLN vessels into Kankesanthurai harbour, eyewitness reports in Vadamaradchi said. Meanwhile, Liberation Tigers Military Spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan told media that the ongoing sea clash erupted when the Sea Tigers were provoked by Sri Lanka Navy vessels in the seas off Nagarkovil in LTTE territorial …

Tamils issue ceasefire warning after 45 die in army bombing of refugee camp By Peter Foster, South Asia Correspondent Last Updated: 2:16am GMT 09/11/2006 Tamil Tiger rebels have given warning that it will soon be "too late" to save Sri Lanka's rapidly disintegrating ceasefire after army shells and rockets killed at least 45 civilians, including six infants, in a refugee camp. The 30-minute barrage, which followed days of skirmishing in the eastern district of Batticaloa also left some 200 people with shrapnel and blast injuries, rebels said. The Sri Lankan government denied the attack was deliberate and accused the separatists of using human shiel…

by Mel Gunasekera Tue Nov 7, 11:22 PM ET COLOMBO (AFP) - C. Sathishkumar was one of thousands of Sri Lankan youngsters who invested in an Internet promotion to evaluate products online in return for quick cash -- and like the others, he lost all his money. ADVERTISEMENT Police said this week that the scam, allegedly run by two Indians from a firm named Seagull Softwares, netted more than five million dollars in the past year, making it the biggest Internet fraud case in the country's history. Seagull promised that anyone who paid 6,500 rupees (65 dollars) for a "slot" on their website would be able to earn 60 percent a month on their invest…

Braving sea of perils The abundance of fish stock in Mullaitivu seas has provided a life line to fisher families from littoral villages dotting 70km Mullaitivu coast stretching from Kokkilai in the south to Iranaipalai in the north. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has occupied 13km of this coastline from Kokkilai to Nayaaru from 1985. Although fall of SLA's Mullaitivu garrison to Liberation Tigers in 1996 brought relief to fisher families, continued harassment by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) and threats from the SLA camps in the southern coast of the district continue to plague fisher families who brave the seas to earn a living. Nearly 9300 members belonging to 4…

First of all very sorry to write in English, due to the time factor I am writing in English, please any one can translate this here, I am really angry please visit http://filenetworkslive.blogspot.com/ and read the article with the heading "LTTE propaganda machine powered by Norway?" which says "Srilanka is plagued by a bunch of cowards who call themselves freedom fighters. The truth is that they are just a bunch of whiners who hide behind child soldiers and pregnant women. They are known for their cowardly suicide attacks and the so called baby brigade. it continus------------" fellowing things we have to take forward 1] leave valuable thundering com…

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…

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India should lift ban on LTTE, says Kuldip Nayar PK Balachandran Colombo, November 2, 2006 Kuldip Nayar, the noted Indian journalist and head of the Indian Peace Mission to Sri Lanka said in Colombo on Thursday, that India should lift the ban on the LTTE and engage it politically in order to bring lasting peace to war-torn Sri Lanka. "I am of the view that the ban should be lifted," Nayar said when newsmen asked him how India could play a constructive role in the Sri Lankan conflict if it was barred from interacting with one of the two parties in the conflict - the LTTE - because that group was banned in India. Nayar went on to say that banning organ…

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வன்னியில் இருக்கும் பொழுது வாழ்க்கையின் யதார்த்தத்தை மிக அருகில் காட்டி உங்கள் கண்களை திறக்க வைக்கிறது. ஒரு வறுமையான உடலில் உள்ள ஆன்மாவின் செல்வந்த செழிப்பு உங்கள் இதையத்தை தொடுகிறது. Reporting from Vanni, Part III I saw richness in poverty by K.Mylvaganam For these families, the lack of contact with people is their poverty. Now my friend from USA will be writing to them once he gets this photo and their address. The Senkodans will appreciate the letters a lot more than the monetary contribution my friend has made. I know that for certain. It will give them great satisfaction that there is someone unknown to them somewhere in some part of the world who care…

Real heroes and mock heroics Galle Navy Commanders transferred after Wednesday's attack by LTTE Habarana horror could have been avoided if warnings were heeded Super heroes make media scapegoat for their blunders By Iqbal Athas Hardly had the nation recovered from the devastating debacle in the battlefields of Muhamalai on October 11. From the puny and the poor to the high and the mighty in the land reacted with shock and awe at the deaths of more than 138 brave officers and men of the Army. If their supreme sacrifice came as a sad loss to their families and friends, they were pained by those injured. The latest computation of figures placed the i…

US says backs Sri Lanka, urges talks [TamilNet, Saturday, 21 October 2006, 22:41 GMT] As the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers prepare for their first face-to-face talks since February, the United States Saturday, whilst supporting the negotiations, threw its weight behind the Colombo government. "We have excellent relations with the government of Sri Lanka. I have met with President [Mahinda] Rajapakse. We are signaling our strong support for the government of Sri Lanka. We do not recognise Tami Tigers and we don't support them, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns told a round table of South Asian journalists. United …

சிங்கள இரானுவ சிப்பாயின் புலம்பல் WSWS interviews: Sri Lankan soldiers oppose return to war 20 October 2006 As the civil war in Sri Lanka escalates, the military is carrying out a massive recruiting campaign in the press and electronic media. The government is making an explicit communal appeal, declaring that it is the duty of heroes to defend the "Sinhala motherland" against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Recruiting targets have not been met. Within the army, reports have filtered out of disgruntlement and war weariness. Since President Mahinda Rajapakse won office last November, hundreds of soldiers and military personnel have been ki…

BREAKING NEWS Two SLN Dvora vessels damaged in sea clash - LTTE Liberation Tigers officials in Kilinochchi said Sea Tigers retaliated a Sri Lanka Navy flotilla that launched an attackFishermen in Point Pedro said the SLN personnel withdrew and landed in Point Pedro following heavy clashes in the seas. Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) helicopters and Sri Lanka Navy vessels resumed attack on the Sea Tiger flotilla that was returning to Mullaithivu. Sri Lankan military officials in Colombo claimed that they had sunk 3 LTTE boats and killed 20 Sea Tigers. LTTE officials, refusing the SLN claims, said there were no casualties on their side. Meanwhile, the…

Recognition of Regional parties Election commission has fixed certain condition for recognizing a new party as regional party. Vijaykanth party was unable to get recognition in this local body election because that party has only one MLA in the Assembly. Regional parties like MDMK and PMK have got recognition only after they have contested election as alliance with either DMK or ADMK. In this regard, the Election commission may amend the condition as a new party should satisfy the condition prescribed by the election commission by contesting the election as its own, without alliance with any major parties.