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With more than 70,000 dead after a conflict between Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan government that has lasted for nearly three decades, peace seems further away than ever. How does the media cover this ongoing conflict? http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1243637980

Press Statement Sean McCormack, Spokesman Washington, DC January 3, 2008 Government of Sri Lanka’s Withdrawal from Ceasefire Agreement The United States is troubled by the Sri Lankan Government’s January 2 decision to terminate the 2002 cease-fire agreement. Ending the cease-fire agreement will make it more difficult to achieve a lasting, peaceful solution to Sri Lanka’s conflict. We call on both the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to avoid an escalation of hostilities and further civilian casualties. All parties to the conflict share the responsibility to protect the rights of all of Sri Lanka’s people. We urge them to work to…

Twenty years ago, 15-year-old Sharmini Anandavel disappeared on her way to a job that police believe didn’t exist. Four months later, her remains were found in a Toronto ravine. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/sharmini?fbclid=IwAR3mIrFMYGli2GywZg52yfkY1x4ocomUFNU2QczFa1UPW8O0GIf9-s6YGko

Why do we head for the shops with such determination as soon as we have money in our wallets? With every new purchase we feel a little happier, but a few days later that satisfaction is often gone without a trace. We at Bright Side decided it was time to get to grips with this problem once and for all, and to make sense of how we can all find true happiness. It turns out that the main impediment to happiness is adaptation. As soon as something we’ve bought becomes ordinary and unexciting, the level of life satisfaction we feel falls, and we’re forced to search around for the next purchase. This process is repeated again and again. However, research carried out at Corn…

Journée de Solidarité avec le peuple tamouls Contre le génocide contre cet peuple au Sri lanka Descendons dans la rue........ Rejoigenz le cortége libertaire. Samedi 28 à Bastille cortege vers Republique à 14h00 Organiser par le assosciation humanitaire étudiante Contact: th92110@gmail.com 06 11 72 59 78 uurputhinam.tk

CNN)President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he has "granted a Full Pardon" to former national security adviser Michael Flynn. "It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!" Trump tweeted. Flynn, who was Trump's first national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI during its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition. Trump said in March …

Close aide reveals last days and hours of Prabha August 27, 2009 by lrrp “If we fail in our final plan, we would be killed by the Sri Lankan Army. In such an eventuality, no one can claim an Eelam in Sri Lanka and the Eelam dream would become a nightmare.” These were Prabakarans’s last words to the rest of the Tiger leaders How the Eelam dream became a nightmare It was during the height of Eelam War IV, when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or Tamil Tigers were pushed to the last remaining piece of real estate. To be exact, even that little bit of real estate was not directly under its control. It was the government declared ‘No Fire Zone’ (NFZ…

RAW aiding paramilitary recruitment in India - report [TamilNet, June 25, 2006 01:15 GMT] Sri Lanka’s Army-backed Tamil paramilitaries are seeking recruits amongst Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu, offering hefty salaries, an Indian news agency reported this week. The Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front (ENDLF), an India-based paramilitary group now operating in an anti-LTTE grouping under the Karuna Group, is seeking recruits from refugee camps and orphanages in southern India, an Indian website reported, citing local press reports. The recruitment is being conducted with the knowledge of India’s external intelligence agency, RAW (Research and Analysis Wing), …

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060811/wl_nm/...nka_attack_dc_1 Tiger rebels attack eastern Sri Lankan harbor: Navy COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers fired artillery at a Navy base in the island's strategic eastern Trincomalee harbor before dawn on Saturday, the military said, as the worst fighting since a 2002 truce deepened. "Trincomalee harbor is under artillery attack," said Navy spokesman Commander D.K.P. Dassanayake. There were no immediate details. Fierce shelling continued in the island's far north, where a new battlefront opened up late on Friday, officials said Rebels attack Navy base as Sri Lanka fighting rages http://news.yahoo.co…

US fighter jet crashes in South Korea US fighter jet crashes in South Korea By Jake Kwon, CNN Updated 11:31 PM EDT, Fri May 5, 2023 …

Tamil Community Centre CBC covered the townhall last week where the Steering Committee of the Tamil Community Centre provided an update to the community. Check out their story. தமிழ் கலாசார நிலையம் அமைப்பது தொடர்பான ஆலோசனை கூட்டம் .நிகழ்வு @ Scarborough Civic Centre on Aug 18,2019.நிகழ்வின் இ குருவியின்( ekuruvi) அனைத்து புகைப்படப்பதிவுகளையும் பார்வையிட இங்கேஅழுத்தவும்......https://images.biztha.com/…/Tamil-Community-Centre-Consult…/

US woman gets $34,927.43 bill for coronavirus treatment BY BROOKE SEIPEL - US woman gets $34,927.43 bill for coronavirus treatment TheHill.com Autoplay: On | Off …

COVID-19: WHY WE SHOULD ALL WEAR MASKS — THERE IS NEW SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE Sui Huang The official recommendation in the United States (and other Western countries) that the public should not wear face masks was motivated by the need to save respirator masks for health care workers. There is no scientific support for the statement that masks worn by non-professionals are “not effective”. In contrary, in view of the stated goal to “flatten the cur…

இன்று மன்னிப்பு கேட்டு அறிக்கை விட்டுள்ளார்கள்.. ஆனால் என்ன பிரயோசனம்.. Professor Stone, who is an expert on the significant cultural destruction during the Iraq war, compared the blast to the destruction of sacred artefacts by the Islamic State in recent years. The site included significant archaeological discoveries, including the oldest example of bone tools found in Australia. "They were not only extremely important sites for Aboriginal communities, but also they were extremely important sites for archaeological understanding of the distant past in Australia," Professor Stone said. The 'Arch of Triumph' at Palmyra was destroyed by Islamic State …

Canada was clear – staging a Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Sri Lanka would be a very bad idea. The Canadians argued strongly against it, eventually deciding to boycott it altogether, and threatening a significant withdrawal of funding from the Commonwealth secretariat. After all it was only last March that the Queen signed the Commonwealth charter committing the organisation to respecting human rights; good governance; democracy; and respect for the rule of law. Selecting a country whose government has been in spectacular breach of each of these commitments to host the first summit after the signing of the charter was bound to leave a strong stench of hypocrisy hanging …

Choosing When To Go by Lee Kuan Yew Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end come swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one. Some time back, I had an Advanced Medical Directive (AMD)) done which says that if I have to be fed by a tube, and it is unlikely that I would ever be able to recover and walk about, my doctors are to remove the tube …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4688696.stm Call for internet safety lessons Children need to know the risks of the web, say researchers Lessons on how to use the internet safely should become compulsory in schools, university researchers say. The Cyberspace Research Unit at the University of Central Lancashire (UCL) says learning about internet safety should be on the National Curriculum. Pupils should be taught about the potential dangers posed, such as paedophiles using internet chatrooms to make contact with children. The researchers say too few pupils are taught how to use the internet safely. Director of the unit Dr Rachel O…

நித்திரை கொள்ளமுடியாமல் தவிக்கும் ராமனின் "அழல்" கருத்துக்கள்.. Paper no. 2182 26.03.2007 LTTE'S AIR STRIKE ON AIR FORCE BASE - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR---PAPER NO. 209 by B. Raman (To be read in continuation of my article dated June 2, 2005, titled "The World's First Terrorist Air Force" available at http://www.saag.org/papers14/paper1398.html. It is annexed below) The Tamil Eelam Air Force (TAF) of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which has been in existence for at least nine years without the Sri Lankan intelligence having the least idea about its location and capability, went into action for the first time since its cr…

India and USA largely dictate the so called international community’s (IC’s) policy on the Sri Lankan conflict. India and USA increasingly have common objectives to counter regionally and internationally making them strategic partners of the future. The conflict in Sri Lanka is no different when it comes to their partnership; in-fact they stand together to gain from it. Then... India as the regional bully/mercenary attempted the containment policy through a temporarily merged North-East back in 1987 in return for maintaining a military presence in parts of the island. In the process India dictated through military muscle of IPKF a weak and cosmetic political soluti…

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Take back Kachchatheevu: Indian Parliamentarians [TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 16:31 GMT] In a rare display of unity and concern, members of the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of the Indian Parliament), cutting across party lines, urged the Centre to take back the Kachchatheevu island from Sri Lanka in the wake of continued killing and arrests of Indian fishermen by the Sri Lanka Navy. This is the first time when the demand to immediately take back the Kachchatheevu island has been made at the national level. The issue of Indian fishermen being repeatedly attacked by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) was raised by Congress MP V. Narayanasamy during question hour. He sai…

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The Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA Dear Prime Minister, Please accept our hearty congratulations on your overwhelming victory in the 2019 general election. The British Tamils Forum (BTF) notes with gratitude, that it was the Conservative Party that took the initiative for setting up an international investigation on the atrocity crimes committed in Sri Lanka during the conflict in 2009, when Rt. Hon. David Cameron was the Prime Minister. We humbly request that under your premiership you will continue to gather momentum and put genuine, maximum effort to find a lasting peaceful solution for the…

China’s capabilities for naval force projection in the Indian Ocean are dependent on closer Sino-Sri Lankan relations, relations not benefitting India given long-standing Sino-Indian disputes. The Sino-Indo-Sri Lankan geostrategic relationship, in turn, is curiously dependent on the political influence of domestic Tamils in New Delhi. Tamils living in India, motivated by continuing animosities over Sri Lankan Tamil rights, are complicating New Delhi’s policies towards Colombo by narrowing India’s Sri Lanka foreign policy options. Hence, domestic political dynamics are compromising India’s ability to counter China’s deepening relationship with Sri Lanka, including the …

Japan and Shell can lose stake in Sakhalin-2 as Putin takes over Sakhalin Energy At the end of May, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Koichi Hagiuda, said that Sakhalin-2 is an asset "our predecessors worked hard to acquire". He said that Russia might own the land, but the leasehold and the liquefaction and transportation equipment belong to the Japanese government and Japanese companies. "We do not intend to leave [the project], even if we are told," he said. ByJoseph P Chac…