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Who in Army HQ tipped off bomber? IQBAL ATHAS SITUATION REPORT SUNDAY TIMES/TAMIL LINKS It is easily the worst incident in the two decades of separatist war and interludes of peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). A female suicide bomber infiltrated the heavily-fortified Army Headquarters in Colombo. She threw herself before Army Commander Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka's motorcade. If not for motorcycle outrider Corporal Ruwan Yakandawala, who kicked her, faced the full brunt of the explosion and died on the spot, Lt. Gen. Fonseka would be no more. But he was badly wounded and had to undergo emergency surgery. He is still under inten…

Fr. Jimbrown – A shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep - Who is Fr. Jimbrown? Rev. Fr. Thiruchelvam Nihal Jimbrown is a young catholic priest of the diocese of Jaffna, SriLanka. He was born in 1972, at Puthukudiyirruppu, a village in the Mullaithivu District as the elder son of the family. The parents being devout Christians decided to offer their first fruit to God and Nihal went through the necessary formation and was ordained priest in 2004. He was sent to Mannar a neighboring Diocese and worked as the assistant parish priest at St Sebastian’s Cathedral for two years. Coming back to the Jaffna Diocese, he took up the assignment as the Parish prie…

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

WHEN JOHN Britto, 19, saw No War Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, a documentary produced by the UK-based Channel 4 exposing alleged war crimes by the Sri Lankan Army during the 2009 crackdown on the LTTE, he felt the need to protest against the atrocities. “I was shocked by images depicting the coldblooded killing of 12-year-old Balachandran, the son of the slain LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran,” says Britto, a student of Loyola College, Chennai. So when Britto and his friends saw the draft of the US-backed UN resolution on Sri Lanka, they were outraged by the mild language censuring the island nation, despite the UN itself claiming that more than 40,000 Tamil…

Power in America More books & articles • An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1% (with link to 2014 update) • The Class-Domination Theory of Power: An explanation of why the wealth and income distributions are so unequal in the U.S., and how the political system works. • The Left and the Right in Thinking, Personality, and Politics: An exploration of the personality differences and psychology behind the liberal/conservative divide. • Social Movements and Social Change: Perspectives based on social science research. Wealth, Income, and Power by G. Wi…

Who’s Still Buying Russian Fossil Fuels in 2023? After China and the EU bloc, India is the next-largest importer of Russian fossil fuels, having ramped up the amount of fossil fuels imported by more than 10x since before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, largely due to discounted Russian oil. Türkiye is the only other nation to have imported more than $10 billion worth of Russian fossil fuels in 2023, with every other country having imported fewer than $3 billion worth of fuels from Russia this year. Navigating the Crude Reality of Oil Exports …

Whose Responsibility is it to protect?As the world watches and India celebrates elections and cricket, hundreds upon thousands are dying a few hundred kilometers away. It is time to awaken our conscience and the spirit of universal brotherhood. Dear Charles Anthony Please accept my solidarity with your struggle for survival, identity and freedom. Having witnessed the struggle in Punjab from close quarters, I can understand the circumstances in which you and your people are waging a fight for survival. In the media, one day, your father –Vellupillai Prabhakaran is a friend, the other day he is a foe. Some day he was protected, today he …

DAKAR, Senegal — Gambia, the smallest country in continental Africa, took an unprecedented step this week in the realm of international justice: It filed a lawsuit at the United Nations’ top court accusing Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya Muslims. The case at the International Court of Justice, which typically addresses disputes between states, raised eyebrows because Myanmar sits roughly 7,000 miles from Gambia, which lacks any tangible connection to the protracted crisis in Southeast Asia. But the story of why such a tiny player chose to tackle a distant conflict is personal. Abubacarr M. Tambadou, Gambia…

Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims? By Alan Strathern Oxford University Of all the moral precepts instilled in Buddhist monks the promise not to kill comes first, and the principle of non-violence is arguably more central to Buddhism than any other major religion. So why have monks been using hate speech against Muslims and joining mobs that have left dozens dead? This is happening in two countries separated by well over 1,000 miles of Indian Ocean - Burma and Sri Lanka. It is puzzling because neither country is facing an Islamist militant threat. Muslims in both places are a generally peaceable and small minority. In Sri Lanka, the issue of halal slaugh…

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[size=5]As the Israelis lay siege to Gaza, killing children by the score, our newsroom received a whole new batch of images from the Genocide in Sri Lanka that ended just a little over three years ago. The subject, as you will see at the bottom of this report, is one I have covered for years in great detail. In fact, past articles exposing these horrific slaughter photos of dead and twisted human bodies, are some of Salem-News.com's most viewed pages right now, even though they were written months ago. The writings and multi-media reports are a sad and terrible tribute for tens of thousands of ethnically cleansed Tamils- the minority group in Sri Lanka forever under …

Why do Hindus Worship Bell? I have already written about Hindus’ worship of Cows (Go Puja), Elephants (Gaja Puja), Snakes (Naga Panchami), Scorpions, Sandals (Paduka Puja), Fossils (Salagrama Puja), Gem Stones(Spatika/crystal), Conches (Shanka Puja) and flowers (Pushpanchali). I have also written that the calling bell was invented by the Hindus in my post ‘’Hindus invented the Calling Bell’’. Now I give some details about Bell Puja! Yes, Hindus worship bells as well. You know the story of Manu Neethi Choza who followed Manu Dharma Shastra during his rule. When the palace bell was rung by the cow which lost its calf under the wheels of his son’s chariot he killed his…

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[size=6]‘I am not the Sri Lankan government’s cheerleader’, says young MP who visited country four times in nine months![/size] [size=5]For a 28-year old backbench Tory MP it was a highlight of his young political career. James Wharton beamed for the camera as he accepted a ceremonial plate from the Sri Lanka Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.[/size] [size=3][size=5]Wharton was the head of a delegation of nine UK parliamentarians on a journey to the South Asian nation in July and August of this year as guests of the Sri Lanka government – which is anxious to improve its international reputation in the wake of the bloody civil war that ended three years ago aft…

No one knows how many thousands of people died in Sri Lanka in 2009, the year that marked the end of a decades-long struggle between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (known more commonly as the Tamil Tigers). Certainly, it was one of the bloodier conflicts that the world has witnessed in recent decades. But no one outside Sri Lanka really seems to care. After years of bitter conflict between the two sides, one that witnessed the inaugural use of the suicide belt in the 1980s, the Sri Lankan government launched a no-holds-barred offensive against the Tigers in the latter years of the last decade, resulting in enormous carn…

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Why Gotabaya Rajapaksa must go & Mahinda may flee to Africa : Sri Lanka MP Sumanthiran ஜனாதிபதி கோட்டாபய ராஜபக்ச புதிய பிரதமராக ரணில் விக்கிரமசிங்கவை நியமித்துள்ள நிலையில் நாட்டில் ஏற்பட்டுள்ள பொருளாதார மற்றும் அரசியல் குழப்பங்கள் குறித்து ThePrint இன் சிரேஷ்ட ஆலோசனை ஆசிரியர் ஜோதி மல்ஹோத்ரா M. A. சுமந்திரனிடம் பேசியிருந்தார். ராஜபக்சக்களின் எதிர்காலம் என்ன, மக்களின் போராட்டங்களுக்கு மத்தியில் மஹிந்த நாட்டை விட்டு வெளியேறுவாரா, எதிர்கட்சிகளின் முன்னெடுப்புத் திட்டம் என்ன என்ற பல விடயங்கள் குறித்து கலந்துரையாடி இருந்தார்.

Why Is Ethiopia at War With Itself? The civil war has shifted dramatically since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed began a military campaign in the Tigray region a year ago. With Tigrayan fighters advancing toward the capital, Ethiopia is at risk of collapse. Flags representing the Tigray region of Ethiopia lining a wall in the city of Mekelle, the regional capital.Credit...Eduardo Soteras/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Declan Walsh and Abdi Latif Dahir Here’s wh…

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The town of Amatrice has been hit by earthquakes several times in recent months Sunday's early-morning quake near the town of Norcia is the biggest in Italy since the Magnitude-6.9 Irpinia event in the south of the country in 1980. Back then, some 2,500 people died and more than 7,000 were injured. Thankfully, we are not expecting loss of life on that scale here. In part this is because of the strides made in recent years in improving readiness and reaction. But the fact that the population of central Italy is currently living on such an acute alert status also will have further limited any dreadful consequences. The first, in August, was a 6.2. This was f…

Why not call terrorists in Sri Lanka Hindu terrorists? : Musharraf By IANS Tuesday September 26, 01:19 PM Washington, Sep 26 (IANS) Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says he is against use of the term Islamist terrorists or 'Islamo-fascists' as such labelling can then be used for other terrorist outfits as well, like the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka who are Hindus. 'Does one call terrorists in Sri Lanka Hindu terrorists? Why is Pakistan's bomb called an Islamist bomb? Why is India's bomb not called a Hindu bomb and that of Israel as a Jewish bomb?' Musharraf asked. 'Pakistani people are certainly for fighting terrorism, but they somehow are not h…

Callum Macrae 02/10/14 00:00 Just over 200 days ago the Sri Lankan authorities arrested a Tamil mother, Balenderan Jeyakumari, and her teenage daughter. Mrs Jeyakumari had been campaigning to find out what had happened to her 15-year-old son, Mahindan, who disappeared after apparently being taken prisoner by the Sri Lankan authorities at the end of the war in 2009, accused of membership of the Tamil Tigers. Mrs Jeyakumari and her daughter were well known activists who had been among the crowds which mobbed British prime minister David Cameron when he visited the former war zone in Jaffna in November last year. Three months later Mrs Jeyakumari sent me a video …

Why Tamil cricket players Muttiah Muralitharan and Angelo Matthews have not spoken out boycotting Sri Lankan cricket? “No they haven’t said that. They prefer to stay silent. Because in our opinion, their cricket careers are more important, than this issue to them." "They try and say that politics and sport should be separated, but we all know, anybody who has worked in sport, like I have for 40 years, knows that they are inextricably entwined." -Trevor Grant, a former chief cricket writer at The Age http://www.tamilguardian.com/article.asp?articleid=6530

The murdered journalist was still active in his chosen profession at the time of the killing. But The Hindu has tried to soften & play down the murder of a journalist & the crime against free speech by titling him as an "ex-reporter". http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/00320...00607021420.htm

[size=6][/size] [size=5]Sri Lanka, a country of 20 million, has had democratic institutions and practices since 1931, when universal suffrage (including for women) was granted by the British. Sri Lanka was a poor country, but well-educated and with a range of social services and subsidies which reached the majority rural population. Power changed hands peacefully.[/size] [size=3][size=5]Today, there are many disturbing political issues which did not exist 40 years ago. These include the chaos and destruction caused by the long civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers.[/size][/size] [size=3][size=5]This marked the end of the steady af…