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12 bodies of civilians recovered from Muttur east [TamilNet, April 26, 2006 03:20 GMT] Initial reports from Muttur east in Trincomalee district Wednesday morning said at least twelve bodies of Tamil civilians including men, women and children killed in Tuesday evening air strike by Kfir jets, and artillery attack by Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) and Sri Lanka Army (SLA) were recovered from Muttur east area. More casualties are expected from Tuesday attack by government troops, a NGO source in the affected area said. The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) launched air strike on several villages in the LTTE held Muttur east village Tuesday evening following the bomb attack on Lt.…

Is this the beginning of Eelam war IV? Situation Report - by Iqbal Athas LTTE's new high tech claymore bomb There are some stark realities to the latest phase of the shadow war launched by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) against the armed forces and the Police. For the past 16 days, since the murder of Vanniasingham Vigneswaran (51), a staunch LTTE supporter, Tiger guerrilla attacks have increased. As President of the Trincomalee District Tamil People's Forum, he was responsible for a string of Hartals and anti-Government protests. A father of three, he was to be parliamentarian for the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). That was to f…

இன்று நாட்டில் ஏற்பட்டுள்ள பதற்ற சூழலைடுத்து பெருமளவான வாசகர்கள் இணையத் தளங்களை நோக்கிப் படையெடுத்துக் கொண்டிருப்பதால் புதினம் மற்றும் தமிழ் நெட் இணையத் தளங்களைப் பார்ப்பதே மிகக்கடினமாக இருக்கிறது. எனவே அவ்வுூடகங்களிற்குச் செல்லும் வாசகர்கள் அச் செய்திகளை உடனுக்குடன் இங்கே பதிவு செய்யுங்கள். நன்றி

இராணுவத் தலமையகத்தில் பாரிய குண்டு வெடிப்பு, அப்பத் தொடங்கியாச்சு போல? 'Big blast' at Sri Lanka army HQ There are reports of a huge explosion inside the headquarters of the Sri Lankan army in the capital Colombo. The head of the army, Sarath Fonseka, was inside the headquarters at the time of the blast, reports say. "There are casualties, but the fate of the commander is not known," an official told the AFP news agency. The official said it was a bomb attack. There has been an increase in violence in Sri Lanka recently and Tamil Tiger rebels have pulled out of peace talks. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asi...sia/4941744.stm

SLA soldiers fire at civilian bus in Jaffna [TamilNet, April 24, 2006 15:27 GMT] Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers opened fire at a civilian bus at Kanakappuliyady junction around 7:15 p.m. Monday. At least 2 civilian passengers were killed, according to initial reports from civilians sources in the area. Exact casualty details are not available at the moment. The attack on the civilian bus has taken place 2 km from the Claymore explosion site at Sarasalai-Meesalai border where a SLA soldier was killed around 5:00 p.m. SLA sources claimed their troopers shot at the bus after gunshots were fired at them from the bus.

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NGO porn scandal shocks Batti, Ampara By: Chris Kamalendran Source: Sunday Times - April 23, 2006 A sex abuse tsunami has hit the Batticaloa district following allegations that women working for local and international NGOs have been forced into appearing in pornographic video films. The crisis has reached such serious proportions that Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Batticaloa district MPs have requested District Secretary S. Puniyamoorthy to summon an urgent meeting with heads of both local and international NGOs in the district to probe the charges and take remedial action. Batticaloa and Trincomalee Bishop Kingsley Swamipillai told The Sunday…

Overseas NHS doctors 'betrayed' By Dominic Casciani BBC News community affairs Asian doctors: Key role in the NHS Thousands of trainee doctors from abroad have been "betrayed" by a sudden rule change, say campaigners. New immigration rules mean most non-EU doctors can no longer complete NHS training without work permits. Hundreds of doctors are being urged to protest outside the Department of Health on Friday, saying the changes potentially leave thousands jobless. But the government says it is protecting posts for UK graduates as supply of doctors outstrips demand. For decades, graduates from overseas medical and dental sch…

EXCLUSIVE - Sri Lanka Tigers add new conditions for talks By Peter Apps Tue Apr 18, 7:20 AM ET COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said on Tuesday they will not attend a new round of scheduled peace talks in Geneva unless violence against ethnic Tamils stops, effectively adding new conditions for their participation. The rebels pulled out of the talks -- already postponed once and now due to take place next week -- at the weekend in a dispute over the transport of their eastern commanders to a meeting of the rebel leadership. The government has agreed that the commanders can be transported to the rebels' northern stronghold …

Tamil organization raided in Montreal Last updated Apr 17 2006 12:32 PM EDT CBC News Police in Montreal have raided the offices of a Tamil organization as part of an investigation into terrorist financing. A joint RCMP-Québec and Montréal police team searched the office of the World Tamil Movement April 12, two days after Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced the Tamil Tigers had been put on Canada's list of banned terrorist organizations. Officials told the National Post that no arrests were made at the Van Horne Avenue location, and that documents and information were seized. The Tigers have fought an ongoing battle against the…

Tamil Canadians fear for Sri Lankan homes SARAH ELTON From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Tamil Canadians who arrived as refugees from Sri Lanka's civil war fear they will lose the homes they left behind after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam announced last week that they will seize expatriates' property. In a Voice of Tigers radio interview that was widely published in Tamil community papers last week in Toronto, an LTTE legal official with the nom de guerre Sudar revealed the plan to take over property belonging to Tamils who left more than 10 years ago and redistribute it to the landless. "It's quite draconian," said one Toronto Tamil who believes …

Three paramilitary cadres killed, one captured - LTTE [TamilNet, April 18, 2006 06:03 GMT] Three paramilitary cadres who were on a penetration mission into the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam controlled area in Pendukalsenai, west of Kiran in Batticaloa district, were killed when Tigers launched a counter-attack on the attak group, LTTE's Kudumbimalai area coordinator Oliyan told media Tuesday. One paramilitary cadre was captured by the LTTE. The dead bodies of the paramilitary caders were to be handed over to their relatives, Oliyan further said. The Tigers also captured Claymore mines, grenades and automatic rifles from the group. The killed perso…

Grenade attack, SLA soldiers open fire at Poonthottam, Vavuniya [TamilNet, April 17, 2006 18:05 GMT] A Sri Lanka policeman was killed and two wounded when unidentified attackers lobbed a grenade into a Sri Lanka Army and Police checkpost in Poonthottam, Vavuniya at 9:30 p.m. Monday. SLA soldiers and policemen opened fire and blocked all traffic. Telephone lines remained cut in the area. Tension prevailed in the area following the incident. Further details are not available at the moment. செத்து ஒழியும் சிங்கள இராணுவம்

Curfew re-imposed in Trincomalee [TamilNet, April 17, 2006 16:21 GMT] Curfew was re-imposed in three police divisions, Trincomalee town, Uppuveli and Chinabay in the Trincomalee with effect from 6 p.m. from Monday till Tuesday 6 a.m. The police said the curfew has been imposed as a precautionary measure. Earlier today, police and Sri Lanka Army personnel cordoned off and conducted a house-to-house search in Varothiayanagar, a Tamil suburb about 3 km. north of the eastern port town. About 50 Tamil residents were detained for questioning. All vehicles, motorbikes and push bicycles passing through the village were stopped and throughly checked by the government tr…

2000 Tamils sought refuge in Kappalthurai School [TamilNet, April 17, 2006 14:34 GMT] About two thousand members from four hundred Tamil families of resettled Tamil village Kappalthurai have sought refuge in Kappalthurai government Tamil school. They fled from their houses when soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army assaulted some of them following the claymore mine blast that killed three troopers of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Saturday night, sources said. Kappalthurai village is located along Trincomalee-Kandy main road. Mr.K.Thurairatnasingham, Trincomalee district parliamentarian Monday morning visited the refugees in Kappalthurai School. Victims told him t…

Another Thenmaradchi trader shot and killed [TamilNet, April 17, 2006 08:11 GMT] Four gunmen riding in two motorbikes entered an electric shop located on A9 Road at Meesalai in Thenmaradchi and gunned down Mr. Ramalingam Sakilan, 30, the owner of the shop, around 11:30 a.m., Monday. Tamil traders have been targeted in Thenmaradchi by SLA operated gunmen in retaliation to the escalating Claymore attacks, civilian sources said. Victim's father, who was at the site, when gunmen entered the shop, alleged direct involvement of Sri Lankan Army soldiers. The victim's dead body was taken to Jaffna Hospital.

Karuna paramilitary group’s international spokesperson Mathi Kumarathurai is planning to host a ‘European Tamil Dance Competition’ on 29th April 2006 in Denmark, sources said. Posters advertising for the event feature a semi-nude photo of an Indian model which Tamil sources said are aimed as enticing Tamil youth to participate in Mathi’s anti-cultural activities. The show is being organised by Mathi group front runner, Thavarajah Sabanathan. Sources said that funds from the show will contribute towards maintaining paramilitary groups in Sri Lanka. Nordic Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) officials warned that paramilitary groups funded by foreign terror eleme…

S.Lanka rebel blast kills 4 soldiers Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:11 AM BST COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed four Sri Lankan soldiers in a claymore fragmentation mine ambush on Monday, an army source said, as violence on the island continued to worsen. "It was a claymore attached to a three-wheeler (auto-rickshaw)," the source said from the northern town of Vavuniya, just south of rebel territory, where the attack occurred. "Four army people were killed." Another army source in the northern town of Jaffna said another claymore mine had exploded prematurely there, killing the suspected Tiger rebel who was carrying it.

Who Cares for Kadirgamar? by Col. R. Hariharan (retd.), SAAG, April 9, 2006 Kadirgamar was believed to be topping LTTE's hit list. Pro-LTTE sections of Tamil Diaspora penned poems on the Internet celebrating Kadirgamar's heinous killing to reinforce the suspicion.... ..... ........... At every step, the findings of police investigation have been shrouded in doubts giving rise to rumours and unconfirmed stories. There were also doubts raised about the veracity of the initial report that a sniper gun was used for the killing. In fact, ballistics had found that a .45 calibre weapon was used. Analysts argued that snipers do not normally use this heavy calibr…

2 SLA soldiers killed, 3 wounded in Thenmaradchi [TamilNet, April 16, 2006 05:05 GMT] Two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed Sunday morning and three wounded in a Claymore attack in Mattuvil, Thenmaradchi in Jaffna, SLA sources said. Unidentified attackers targetted a group of SLA soldiers on road patrol west of Kanakampuliyadi junction. The attackers fired gunshots after the Claymore attack, sources said.

Claymore attack in Trinco, 2 SLAF personnel killed [TamilNet, April 15, 2006 14:42 GMT] Two Sri Lanka Air Force personnel were killed and one was wounded when a Claymore mine hit their Jeep in Kappalthurai, located about 10 km from east port town along Trincomalee-Colombo trunk road, military sources in Colombo said. The attack was reported around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Further details are not available at the moment. The entire Kappalthurai village was displaced in 1990 when Sri Lanka Army launched a military operation in the area and the villagers began to resettle in 1996.

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…

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அமெரிக்காவின் பொருளாதாரம், ஏற்றுமதி இறக்குமதிக்கு இடையிலான இடைவெளி குறைகிறது. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1...1h48&refer=home சீனாவிலிருந்து இறக்குமதி குறைகிறது என்று ஆனந்தப்பட முடியாது ஏனென்றால் நுகர்வேரின் தேவைகள் (consumer demand) செலவளிக்கக்கூடிய திறன் (spending power)கூடவே குறையும் இக்கட்டான நிலையில் அமெரிக்காவின் பொருளாதாரம்.

LTTE begins aggressive fund raising in Europe. Demands large sums for the �Final War� Special Correspondent in London, October 31. During the last few weeks, LTTE operatives in major European cities have commenced an aggressive fund raising campaign demanding large sums of money from the Tamil expatriate community. In London, LTTE operatives are reported to be demanding 5000 pounds from individuals and 50 thousand pounds from businessmen. Despite the fact that the LTTE is a banned terrorist group and contributing or collecting money for the group is a punishable offense in the UK LTTE operatives are openly visiting business premises and demanding large sums fr…