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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…

Displaced persons staying at five refugee camps in Batticaloa district were forcibly removed to Trincomalee district in a sudden “operation” masterminded by an Assistant Superintendent of Police around noon on Thursday March 15th. Though exact figures are not known NGO sources said that nearly a thousand people were taken against their will in thirty buses to Trincomalee district. The Batticaloa district Government Agent or divisional secretaries were not informed of this action by the authorities concerned. An NGO official said that civil administration officials in B’caloa were totally in the dark when informed of the incident. A Sinhala speaking ASP had come …

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa rejected claims yesterday that civilians had gone missing in the North during the last stages of the war, insisting that all records maintained by the Army and the ICRC tallied with no discrepancies. Responding to a question posed by a journalist, the Defence Secretary said that the people who came to the Army by sea, during the final stages of the war were registered with the ICRC and with the “Indian hospitals manned by the Indian Army, and not a single person is missing from that list”, when tallied. “This is another factor that many people have forgotten. Take the large number of people who were coming by sea. Where did …

“Pottuvil to Poligandy” Protest March Covers Over 250 km in Two Days To Reach Trincomalee Posted by Administrator on 9 February 2021, 12:18 am By D.B.S.Jeyaraj There has been a lot of political excitement in the Tamil speaking areas of the Eastern Province for the past two days (Feb 3rd and 4th) due to the launching of a protest demonstration named “Pottuvil to Poligandy” or “P2P”. This was to be a long march on foot and in vehicles from the Eastern town of Pottuvil in the Amparai district to the Northern town of Poligandy in Jaffna district. The four – day journey was to be along the roads of the Eastern and Northern Provinces. Beginning on…

More Sri Lanka Tamils flee to India fearing war CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - A new group of Sri Lankan Tamils has landed on the Indian coast claiming they are fleeing war in the island nation, police said on Sunday. The group of 10 arrived by boat near the famous pilgrim town of Rameswaram, about 550 kms south of Chennai, capital of southern Tamil Nadu state, late on Saturday evening. They said they were fleeing escalated violence between the government forces and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in northeast Lanka, police said. Another boat carrying five people came early on Saturday after the first wave in which 33 Tamils came in tw…

Report: Sri Lanka's foreign minister to visit China to discuss arms purchase(updated 02:00 p.m.) 2006/7/8 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Sri Lanka's foreign minister will visit China next week to discuss a possible weapons purchase as the country slides toward a full-scale war with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, a news report said Saturday. Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera will leave for Beijing on Wednesday to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Li Zhaoxing, The Island newspaper said. China has in the past been a major weapons supplier to Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry spokeswoman was not immediately available for comm…

A survivor of the 1995 Navaly Church massacre who lost his sight when the Sri Lankan air force dropped 13 bombs on St Peter’s Church in Jaffna, graduated from the University of Jaffna this month. Sasiraj Selvanayagam was just 5-years-old when the attack took place. More than 140 sheltering Tamils, who were encouraged by the military to seek refuge at the church, were killed on the spot. At least 13 children were amongst them. “Before I could run bombs began falling," recalled Sasiraj, years later." Suddenly there was a tremendous explosion. That is all I remember till I woke up in hospital”. His mother was killed in their home and he lost his sight com…

A young reporter dares to cover press freedom in one of the world's most dangerous places for journalists - Sri Lanka. http://aje.me/YAE6H1 Despite the dangers involved in working for the Tamil newspaper Uthayan in Jaffna, young journalists like Thadsa still join their ranks. Apart from the chief editor, Uthayan does not have a single news journalist over the age of 40. As they grow older, young journalists come under family pressure to find a safer job. Thadsa is passionate about reporting and wants to cover a story on a journalist who disappeared in 2007, and look into the ongoing restrictions to press freedoms in Sri Lanka today. Filmm…

Nature of God 1. Who is God of the world? Shivaperuman 2. Of what nature is Shivaperuman? He is eternal, omnipresent, beginninglessly taintless, omniscient, doer of everything, always blissful and independent. 3. What are the meanings of the Tamil words "Nithiyar" etc? "Nithiyar" = eternal "Saruvaviyaapakar"= omnipresent "Anaathimalamuththar" = by nature without "paasa" or taint "Saruvaggnar" = omniscient "Saruvakarththaa" = doer of everything "Niththiyaananthar" = always blissful "Suvathanthirar" = independent 4. What are the activities of Shivaperuman? They are five, namely, creation, mai…

Flying Tigers Elevate Conflict to New Heights May 4th, 2007 By D.B.S. Jeyaraj They took off from unknown locations within tiger controlled territory in the northern mainland of the Wanni; they flew hundreds of kilometres over hostile territory in the darkness of night ; they flew at low altitude to avoid being spotted on radar; and swooped down suddenly from the skies above their target area; they ejected their bombs on specific targets scoring 70% strike success; they flew back, missions accomplished , as pandemonium reigned below; they returned home and landed to be swallowed up into invisibility; they wait patiently for the next chance to soar again , stri…

Tamils 'entitled to' international help Hudreds of Tamils have dissapeared and Thousands more made homeless as the violence escalated since August, last year The Tamil community is entitled to the same right to be protected from state terrorism if Sri lanka is entitled to seek international help to defeat LTTE terrorism, a Tamil parliamentarian said. Mano Ganeshan, the leader of the Western People Front (WPF) said the Tamil community in Sri Lanka need international help to protect their lives as government of accused of many abductions and disappearances. If they have a right to seek international help to defeat LTTE terrorism, we also have…

[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…

Chasing the ghosts of Sri Lanka’s disappeared I’m in seat 67, carriage B on the 0650 train from Colombo Fort station to Kilinochchi, the erstwhile rebel capital of the vanquished Tamil Tigers. My Channel 4 team are scattered around me. For the next six hours we’ll trundle north, crossing coffee-brown rivers, past villages set among clusters of coconut palms, past emerald rice paddies, wading water buffalo and egrets. We saw a long snake swimming across a drowned field. The doors and windows are open and there’s a good draft. Outside, it’s hotting up. Three rows in front, in seats 54 and 55, are the state intelligence agents – or, at least, the men we’re all p…

Jews vs. Arabs ஊடகங்கள் எப்படி திரிவு படுத்துகின்றன என்பதற்கு சிறந்த காணொளி.

Lanka ceasefire falters in Tamil city -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, July 8, 2006 (Colombo): Four years after a cease-fire raised hopes for peace between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, Sri Lanka is teetering on the brink of a civil war. Sri Lanka's violence is perhaps felt nowhere as acutely as it is around Batticaloa, a largely Tamil city under government control just miles from rebel territory. More than half of the nearly 700 people killed in Sri Lanka since April have been civilians, according to international truce monitors. Almost every night at the front line…

2ND LEAD (UPDATE) Sinhala villagers block ICRC food convoy to Muttur [TamilNet, August 04, 2006 11:09 GMT] A food convoy led by the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) Friday morning from Trincomalee town to Muttur to supply food materials to civilians displaced due to the fighting between SLA and LTTE was stopped at Kantalai by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on Friday afternoon around 1 p.m. The SLA refused permission for the convoy to proceed along Kantalai-Allai road to Muttur citing security reasons, ICRC sources in Colombo said. The convoy, comprising 16 trucks with food materials, four ICRC vehicles and two ambulances, is now stranded in Kantalai town…

Lee Kuan Yew on Leadership: The Harvard Interview Christopher Armstrong 9:15 The communists wanted a different system (Singapore demographic = 70% Chinese at the time) 12:45 "Communism can't win in a multi-racial society." 14:40 "I was a lawyer, I understood completely what Constitutional practices were. [The opposition] didn't." 22:55 "What made me a leader was, when the time came, I was the best speaker [in English]." 23:50 Mandarin = the Chinese language of the educated 26:20 Learning to speak was innate, but also came from wanting to be a lawyer. His parents suffered in the 1930's, and their friends who were doctors, engi…

Sri Lankan Armed Forces, paramilitaries are responsible for all the killings and the abductions -LTTE Spokesperson for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Armed forces of the Government of Sri Lanka and its allied paramilitaries are continuing to target civilians including government servants and school students. Killings and abductions are continuing in the Jaffna peninsula and no one appears to be concerned about it. Twelve civilians including two government servants and two school students were killed within the last 12 days by the SLA and its paramilitary groups in Jaffna. A further eight civilians have been abducted and ten have sought protection from …

ஜெர்மன் மொழி, ஜெர்மனியில் படிப்பு .. ஏராளமான வேலைவாய்ப்பு! - இதோ சில டிப்ஸ்! #VikatanExclusive "ஜெர்மனியில் ஆண்டுக்கு ஒரு லட்சம் இன்ஜினியர்கள் தேவைப்படுகிறார்கள். ஜெர்மன் மொழி தெரிந்தால் எளிதில் ஜெர்மனியில் வேலை வாய்ப்பினை பெற முடியும்" என்கிறார் சென்னையில் அமைந்துள்ள ஜெர்மன் மொழிக்கான பயிற்சி மையத்தின் தலைவர் பிரபாகர் நாராயணன். "தற்போது ஜெர்மனி மொழி கேந்திரியா வித்யாலயா பள்ளிகளிலும், சிபிஎஸ்இ பள்ளிகளிலும் சொல்லிக்கொடுக்கப்படுகிறது. சில மாநில பள்ளிகளிலும் பதினொன்றாம் வகுப்பு மற்றும் பன்னிரண்டாம் வகுப்பிலும் ஜெர்மன் மொழி சொல்லிக் கொடுக்கப்படுகிறது. ஜெர்மன் மொழியினை கற்றுக்கொள்ள ஏ1, ஏ2, பி1, பி2, சி1, சி2 என ஆறு நிலைகள் (6 Level) இருக்…

False Promises: The Myth of Security and the Prevention of Terrorism Act Ambika Satkunanathan on 07/14/2021 Photo courtesy of Maatram For decades human rights activists have highlighted the draconian nature of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), which promises safety and security, yet in practice makes each citizen vulnerable to being arbitrarily arrested, detained, tortured and even convicted of an offence the person did not commit. Despite the fact it contravenes Sri Lanka’s international obligations and constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights, successive government…

It has come to light that K.P. has time and again urged Prabhakaran to negotiate with the Sri Lankan Govt. India took a lot of pains and interest to interrogate K.P. in connection with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi when he was taken into custody. At the outset, the Indian secret intelligence service, ‘RAW’ requested from the Sri Lankan Govt. to meet and question him unofficially. But, the Sri Lankan govt. turned down the request and informed India’s ‘RAW’ secret service that, until its interrogation is concluded pertaining to KP’s involvement in the terrorist activities in Sri Lanka, India cannot be granted the opportunity to question him. Thereafter…

Colombo battles to sidestep Human Rights focus - Thamilchelvan The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is trying to sidestep International Community's focus on Colombo's worst record of human rights abuses and institutionalized impunity for crimes against the Tamil people, by attempting to use the forum of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit against Tamil people's right to defend themselves, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Political Head S.P. Thamilchelvan told TamilNet when asked to comment on Colombo's focus shift to LTTE's air capability, prior to the 14th SAARC Summit in New Delhi. "It is crucial that the voice of Tamil …

[TamilNet, Saturday, 27 October 2007, 21:53 GMT] Whilst the Sri Lankan government has blamed engine failure for the crash of the Bell 212 last Monday, press reports Sunday raised the possibility it had been downed by a Tamil Tiger aircraft. Four airmen, including the pilots and door gunners were killed when the Bell 212, enroute to support the defence of Anuradhapura airbase which was under attack by LTTE commandos. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=23612

India's foreign minister has said New Delhi must accept China's growing presence in its own backyard as Beijing steps up its investments and diplomatic efforts in South Asia. New Delhi has been wary of growing Chinese influence around the Indian Ocean, where Beijing has forged ties with Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Maldives and military-ruled Myanmar, often through funding and building infrastructure. Speaking at a conference in the Indian capital on Monday, Salman Khurshid said: "We will have to accept the new reality of China's presence in many areas that we consider an exclusive playground for India and its friends. "China for instance would give a right arm…

by Kumar David Let there be no doubt about it; the military entering Jaffna University, framing allegations and incarcerating Tamil students is intended to send a chilling and brutal message to all Tamil dissent. "We have crushed you once, don’t dare raise your heads again; we will do it again. Learn your place as second class citizens of Lanka; a new social order has been defined. Live with it!" The reconciliation and rebuilding covenant that Rajapaksa tried to sell to the international community has caved in; the age of another round of ethnic conflict is opening up. Let’s get the facts on the table as far as known; and I rely on sources that are credible. It all …