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விடுதலைப் புலிகளை முற்றாக நீக்குவதற்கு இன்னும் சிறிது காலமே தேவை: சரத் பொன்சேகா [புதன்கிழமை, 23 ஓகஸ்ட் 2006, 01:47 ஈழம்] [காவலூர் கவிதன்] தமிழர்களைப் பாதுகாப்பதற்காகவே சிறீலங்கா படைகள் வடக்கு கிழக்கில் நிலைகொண்டுள்ளன. கடந்த இரண்டு தசாப்த போரில், விடுதலைப் புலிகளே தமிழ்மக்களைக் கொன்றனர், படையினரல்ல என்று சிறீலங்கா இராணுவத் தளபதி சரத் பொன்சேகா பத்திரிகைப் பேட்டியொன்றில் தெரிவித்தார். அவர் மேலும் கூறுகையில்: நான் இப்போது மீண்டும் பழைய உடல்நிலையில் மிக சுறுசுறுப்பாக உள்ளேன். ஒரு விடயம் மிக முக்கியமானது, அதாவது சிறீலங்கா படைகளுக்கு தமிழ் மக்கள் மீது எந்தக் கோபமோ வெறுப்போ கிடையாது. அவர்களைப் பாதுகாப்பதுதான் படைகளின் பிரதான செயற்பாடாக உள்ளது. விடுதலைப் பு…

Activists of Periyar Sindanaiyalargal Iyyakkam attempted to stage a mock funeral procession, protesting against BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's proposed participation in a military conference in Sri Lanka next week. Nearly 50 activists of the outfit assembled near the Singaravelar statue with a 'paadai' and an effigy of Swamy on it along with the BJP flags. The activists were seen beating it with chappals. Police stopped them when they tried to move ahead with it. The activists and police personnel were engaged in a scuffle as cops were firm on not allowing the protestors to go ahead with the stir. Then the activists tried to bury the effigy in the nearby se…

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"உல்லாசப் பறவை" சர்வதேச போட்டியில் இலங்கைக்கு எட்டுமா முதலிடம்! இன்று முழு உலகமும் உல்லாசப் பயணத்துறையை நினைவுகூர்கின்றது. இயந்திரம் போல கடுமையாக உழைத்து களைத்து, உற்சாகமாக சில வாரங்களைக் கழிப்போம் என்ற நோக்கோடு, விமானத்தில் பறந்தோ, கப்பலில் மிதந்தோ, ரயில் பயணங்களை மேற்கொண்டோ அல்லது தமது சொந்த வாகனங்களில் பயணித்தோ உல்லாசமாக இருந்து விட்டு வருவோர் தொகை நாளுக்கு நாள் அதிகரித்து வருவது நாம் அறியாத ஒன்றல்ல. பறவைகள் இடம்பெயர்ந்து பல்லாயிரக்கணக்கான மைல்கள் பயணித்துச் செல்வது போல, கூட்டம் கூட்டமாக காட்டுவிலங்குகள் புதிதாக பயிர்பச்சைகள் உள்ள இடங்கள் நாடிச் செல்வதுபோல, நாட்டுக்கு நாடு மக்கள் பயணித்து…

UN tribunal sentenced Ex-Khmer Rouge jailer to 19 years...how about Mahinda and Co! By Satheesan Kumaaran The United Nations-backed tribunal found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer, Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, guilty of war crimes against humanity on July 26, 2010. During the four-year hard-line communist reign from 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge, which was headed by Pol Pot, was blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians. Duch was one of the perpetrators of the crimes against humanity and sentenced to 19 years. The question is, why doesn’t the UN do the same for perpetrators in Sri Lanka for unleashing genocidal war against Tamils? The sentencing of th…

Updated: September 05, 2006 00:21 GMT [TamilNet, September 04, 2006 12:34 GMT] Seven more mutilated bodies of civilians killed in artillery fire in Allaipiddy 20 days ago, were photographed and burried Monday at the presence of Jaffna District Magistrate, E. T. Vignarajah. Around 40 civilians were reportedly killed in Allaipiddy. So far, 25 deaths have been verified by humanitarian and legal sources. Relatives of 12 more civilian victims have appealed to the Jaffna regional office of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka seeking help to remove the bodies lying inside the houses located in Ward No: 4 of Allaipiddy. Sri Lanka Navy is not allowing any civilians…

Intriguing role for Australian 'auntie' as Tigers enter new phase SYDNEY this week saw a gathering of notables from the Australian expatriate diaspora, mostly suits from the worlds of satellite TV, finance, science and open-fridge diplomacy. Across the world, in a much stranger story of personal development, the reverence of a foreign people for another Australian expat was on display. Dressed in the white sari of Hindu widowhood, the former Gippsland nurse Adele Wilby was chief mourner as 50,000 people filed past the open coffin of her husband of 28 years, Anton Balasingham, in London's Alexandra Palace Hall on Wednesday. Balasingham, who had died a w…

Gotabhaya gave orders to evict Tamils: Sunday Leader. Minutes of a Security Coordinating Conference held at the Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence on 31 May, attended by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, proved "conclusively that the order for the eviction of Tamil civilians from the city were given directly by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa...The minutes also make the startling revelation that the Defence Secretary ordered for some of the evicted persons to be placed in IDP centres manned in the north and east," said Sunday Leader, a Colombo-based weekly in the weekend edition. The Minutes dated 4 June, signed by Lt Col N.M. Hettiarachchi, secretary to …

United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPF) member of Parliament and Government Minister S B Dissanayake today blamed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the loss suffered by the UPFA at the last election. Dissanayake said that Rajapaksa should not have contested the Parliamentary election which the UPFA eventually lost by a slim margin. He noted that Rajapaksa failed to get the full support of the Muslims, Tamils and Catholics. The Minister, speaking to reporters in Kandy today, said that if President Maithripala Sirisena led the UPFA campaign instead of Rajapaksa the UPFA would have secured more votes and regained the votes it lost even at the Presidential election. …

With the ceasefire dead, what now for Sri Lanka? Violence in Sri Lanka has escalated over the past two years, but there are widespread predictions of even greater bloodshed when a moribund ceasefire officially ends later this month. The 2002 ceasefire halted two decades of conflict between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, but it began to unravel in 2005. "The last two years have been the most violent in a 25-year-long war which has taken over 70,000 lives," the Wall Street Journal says. The paper asks whether President Mahinda Rajapaksa's "war of attrition" against the Tamil Tigers will work or simply plunge the country into more violence. …

After reviewing how genocide studies approaches the Holocaust, Rwanda, Armenia, and Bosnia and comparing those methodologies to Tamil genocide scholarship...I've identified massive, systematic gaps. This isn't just about "more research needed." It's about entire analytical frameworks that exist for other genocides but are completely absent for Tamils. Here's what I found by analyzing Journal of Genocide Research, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and comparing their methodological standards to Tamil case literature. What Genocide Studies Actually Does (The Standard Framework) Based on analysis of 20+ years of top genocide journals, here's wh…

According to the Federal Statistical Office, consumer prices rose by 4.5 percent throughout October compared to the same month last year. The Wiesbaden authority last measured an inflation rate of 4.5 percent in 1993. German economy on brink of disaster as inflation highest in 28 years – Eurozone on alert GERMANY's inflation has reached its highest level in 28 years. l Statistical Office, consumer prices rose by 4.5 percent throughout October compared to the same month last year. The Wiesbaden authority last measured an inflation rate of 4.5 percent in 1993. …

Russian banks are planning a switch to China's card payment system after Mastercard and Visa halted operations, reports say A credit card with UnionPay and VISA logos. Martin Chan/South China Morning Post via Getty Images Russian banks are making the switch as Mastercard and Visa suspended operations. China's card system, UnionPay, provides access to making payments in over 180 countries. Some banks could issue cards with UnionPay alongside the …

The Government today slammed the outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay and expressed confidence in the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussei. The Ministry of External Affairs said Pillay, who is scheduled to leave office at the end of this month, is making public pronouncements to the media on an investigation which has commenced only recently, and is a clear indication of personal bias. 'It is evidence of an attempt to influence the investigation process and make it follow a preconceived trajectory. She refers in her statement to a wealth of information outside Sri Lanka. This is the same wealt…

இன்று மிகப் பிரபலமான தாவரப் பூச்சிக் கொல்லியாக வேம்பு திகழ்கிறது. பல நூற்றுக்கணக்கான ஆண்டுகளாக உழவர்கள் வேப்ப இலைகளை தானியங்களுடன் கலந்தும், சாக்குப் பைகளை வேம்புக் கரைசலில் முக்கி எடுத்துக் காயவைத்தும் தானியங்களைச் சேதம் செய்யும் பூச்சிகளிடமிருந்து பாதுகாத்து வந்தனர். வேப்பம் பிண்ணாக்கு பயிர்களை கரையான், மற்ற பூச்சிகளின் தாக்குதலில் இருநூது பாதுகாப்பு அளித்தது. இதனை நிலத்தில் இட்டு பயன்படுத்துவதைவிட பயிர்களுக்குத் தெளித்துப் பயன்படுத்துவது மேலும் பல நன்மைகளைக் கொடுப்பதாக இருந்தது. வேப்ப இலைகள் மற்றும் வேப்பம் பிண்ணாக்கு ஆகியவற்றை நிலத்தில் இடுவதன் மூலம் அதிலுள்ள வேதிப் பொருட்கள் நேராக பயிர்களுக்கு வேர்களின் மூலம் ஊடுருவிப் பரவி நீண்ட நாட்களுக்குப் பாதுகாப்பு அள…

What if Periyar had not been born? By P C Vinoj Kumar in Chennai | Friday, 17 September , 2004, 13:44 It is that time of the year when political leaders in Tamil Nadu remember Periyar E V Ramasamy Naicker, one of the world’s all time great social revolutionaries. September 17, 2004, is the 126th birth anniversary of Periyar, the founder of ‘Dravida Kazhagam,’ the parent party of all Dravidian parties. Periyar spearheaded a movement that had such a revolutionary impact on society, which could be understood better, if we imagine for a moment that this man was never born. What if Periyar were not born? Would it have changed the way we live, eat and s…

Anton Balasingham 1938 - December 14, 2006 Journalist who became the chief strategist and negotiator of the Tamil Tigers in their struggle for autonomy Anton Balasingham provided the intellectual framework for the violence of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. He was the brains behind the brawn, someone the leadership could turn to for ideological guidance, philosophical justification and political explanation while the killing went on. A forlorn-faced man, ill with a transplanted kidney, he travelled to devastated northern Sri Lanka in 2002 to act as the rebels’ negotiator in peace talks brokered by Norway. The Tigers vainly asked India to host the …

BUENOS AIRES — The Argentine Navy submarine that went missing a year ago off the country's Atlantic Coast was found by a private company involved in what had been a massive search for the vessel and its 44-member crew, the Navy announced by tweet on Saturday. The submarine ARA San Juan had a seven-day supply of air when it last reported its position on Nov. 15, 2017. It was found some 2,625 feet below the ocean's surface by a marine tracking contractor Ocean Infinity. The disappearance gripped the nation's attention as the government struggled to provide information about the tragedy. At the time of the disappearance, the Navy said w…

A leading psychiatrist yesterday revealed that ten per cent of Sri Lanka`s population were afflicted with some form of mental illness while two percent of these were hard core cases. President of Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists and the Organising Committee President of 3rd International Conference of South Asian Federation of Psychiatric Association Dr. Harischandra Gambheera said that although Sri Lanka`s population is nearly 20 million there are only 30 Psychiatric Specialists in the country. In other words there is only one psychiatrist for half a million people. `The Medical Officers of Mental Health (MOMH) serving throughout the country too were invite…

No “outside force”, including India, played any role in Sri Lankan presidential Elections that saw the defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa, says Chandrika Bandarnaike Kumaratunga. Ms. Kumaratunga, who is in India as the representative of the Sri Lankan government to attend the Hindu-Buddhist conclave held in Bodh Gaya also denied allegations by Mr. Rajapaksa and international agency reports that the RAW had supplied DRDO-made telephones to her in order to allow her to communicate with then-presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena. “We were using Viber. And the government didn’t know how to tap Viber. Sri Lanka didn’t have that technology, otherwise we would have all been …

Ukraine army says U.S.-made F-16 fighter jet crashes, killing pilot Ukraine said Thursday that one of its F-16 fighter jets made by the United States crashed while repelling a Russian air strike, killing the pilot onboard. A U.S. official confirmed to CBS News the F-16 crashed on Monday. The announcement marks the first reported destruction of an F-16 in Ukraine, just weeks after Kyiv began taking delivery of the supersonic aircraft. Initial reports are the plane wasn't shot down by the Russians, CBS News has learned. "F-16 fighters of…

Sri Lanka 'needs UN monitors' There was great optimism when the ceasefire was signed US-based Human Rights Watch says the United Nations should send observers to monitor the fighting in Sri Lanka. The mission of Nordic ceasefire monitors there ends on 16 January following the government's decision to withdraw from a ceasefire. On Wednesday the government said the 2002 ceasefire deal was moribund. Thousands of people have been killed in the last two years with the military and the Tamil Tigers accused of widespread human rights abuses. The Nordic-led Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission (SLMM) was set up as part of the 2002 agreement to investigate…

Professor J.A.Jeevendra Martyn from Harvard Medical School visited Teaching Hospital Jaffna and had a discussion on Burns unit development. IMHO (USA) very keen to support Burns unit development. Harvard பல்கலைக்கழக பேராசிரியர் ஜீவா மாட்டின் அவர்கள் யாழ் போதனா வைத்தியசாலைக்கு வருகை தந்து Burns unit அபிவிருத்தி சம்மந்தமாக கதைத்தார்.

Native gangs spreading across Canada, targeting at-risk youth, says RCMP Module body Mon Mar 15, 6:03 PM By Susanna Kelley, The Canadian Press Aboriginal gangs are proliferating across Canada as criminal organizations exploit the intense poverty and squalid conditions that many First Nations youth live in, says a top officer with the RCMP's aboriginal police division. The gangs' stock-in-trade includes drug distribution, prostitution and theft, and they're only growing more sophisticated, said the RCMP. "The gangs are brought on by poverty," said RCMP Sgt. Merle Carpenter, who holds the aboriginal gangs file with the National Aborig…

EXCLUSIVE - S.Lanka monitors fear more violence, blame both sides Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:32 PM IST By Peter Apps BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka faces the spectre of worsening violence and neither government nor Tamil Tiger rebels have shown commitment to peace talks, the head of the international truce monitoring team said on Saturday. The Nordic-staffed unarmed Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), tasked with monitoring a strained 2002 truce, was to have escorted a convoy of Tamil Tiger leaders to their de facto capital but the rebels cancelled the trip and announced they would not go to planned talks in Switzerland. "I'm worried about the sit…