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I am one of the Councillor Candidates for Ward 41, Scarborough Rouge River, in the upcoming City of Toronto municipal election. Election Day is on Monday, October 27, 2014. Scarborough Rouge River residents have the opportunity to exercise their rights and responsibilities to elect the right Councillor for their ward. Please make sure you Vote! Because don't forget your Vote is your Voice! I am anxious to share my vision for the City of Toronto with all of you. I know if I am granted with this opportunity that I can bring our ward to greater heights. However, in order to elect me as the Candidate you need to know who I am and why I am the right candidate for you. …

India will be focusing efforts on strengthening military ties with countries in the immediate neighbourhood. Army chief General Dalbir Singh’s first set of foreign tours in the coming months will be to Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. This is in line with the new government’s plans to revitalise ties with neighbouring countries. The army chief is likely to travel to Bhutan and Nepal later this year followed by visits to the other neighbouring countries next year. Bhutan’s significance as one of India’s closest allies was evident when Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to visit Thimphu in June barely three weeks after being sworn in as PM. …

By MIKE STOBBE and MARILYNN MARCHIONEMay 8, 2019 Pregnancy-related deaths are rising in the United States and the main risk factor is being black, according to new reports that highlight racial disparities in care during and after childbirth. Black women, along with Native Americans and Alaska natives, are three times more likely to die before, during or after having a baby, and more than half of these deaths are preventable, Tuesday’s report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concludes. Although these deaths are rare — about 700 a year — they have been rising for decades. “An American mom today is 50% more likely to die in childbirth …

Applying the "self-evident" truths celebrated in the Declaration of Independence, the United States should recognize the right of Sri Lanka's long oppressed Tamil people to independent statehood from the racial supremacist Sinhalese. To deny the statehood right — sought by the Tamil people since 1976 — would mark one of the United States' most ill-conceived hours. Double standards beget enmity or contempt, a steep price even for a superpower. To borrow from the Declaration, let facts be submitted to a candid world. In 1948, Sri Lanka achieved nationhood from British colonial rule with a population of about 10 million. The commanding majori…

Patrick Brown , Patrick Brown (Mayor of Brampton City) UN estimates that up to 75,000 Tamil civilians were murdered during the Tamil Genocide. The destruction of the Mullivaikkal Memorial was an attempt by the Sri Lankan state to continue a cultural genocide, pretend the victims didn’t exist and rewrite history. Today, Brampton City Council unanimously voted to build our own Mullivaikkal Memorial. While the Sri Lankan regime attempts to whitewash their own blood stained histor…

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said her government will extend all help to the Centre to facilitate talks between Indian fishermen and their Sri Lankan counterparts in Chennai on January 20, 2014 to resolve the dispute over fishing rights in each other's territorial waters. She asked the Centre to reciprocate in a favorable manner. The frequent arrests of Tamil fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy for maritime violations have been a bone of contention between the Centre and the state and have also threatened to strain Indo-Lanka relations. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the chief minister wanted the Centre to take firm steps to s…

CHRONOLOGY-War and peace: S.Lanka's civil war 07 Jan 2006 04:21:07 GMT Source: Reuters Jan 7 (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attacked and sank a small naval boat before dawn on Saturday in the latest in a series of attacks on the military that have raised fears of a return to a two-decade civil war. Following is a chronology of key incidents in Sri Lanka's civil war, in which over 64,000 people have been killed since it erupted after an anti-Tamil riot in 1983. 1983-84 India trains and funds Tamil groups, including the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), fighting for a separate Tamil state in the island's north and east. …

Kogularamanan Arulanantham, 33, was granted refugee status in Canada in 2006 but has been waiting for years for permanent residency because he's deemed inadmissible for working at a retail story run by a terror group. As a “protected person,” Kogularamanan Arulanantham cannot be removed from Canada to Sri Lanka. As someone deemed “inadmissible” to Canada as an alleged member of the Tamil Tigers, the Brampton man cannot become a permanent resident and must renew his temporary permit to remain here every year – unless he is granted a reprieve from Public Safety Minister Steve Blaney. Border officials’ broad definition of membership means a person can be cons…

Failed Predictions about the Future of world famous personalities "It will be years --not in my time-- before a woman will become Prime Minister." --Margaret Thatcher, October 26th, 1969. She became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom only 10 years after saying that, holding her chair from 1979 to 1990. But she wasn’t all that wrong since she is the only woman to have held this post. Maybe she should have added the word “again.” ------------------------------------------------------------- “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. It may sound ridiculous now, but the prediction …

The Sea Tigers have been in several battles recentl y The Sri Lankan air force says it has destroyed the headquarters of the Tamil Tiger rebels' sea force. An air force spokesman said the attack took place in the north-eastern district of Mullaitivu. The Tigers say a civilian area was bombed. "We now understand that the base was the headquarters of the Sea Tigers," Cap Ajantha Silva told the Associated Press news agency. On Monday the army said it had overrun four rebel bases in eastern Sri Lanka. 'Small boats' The headquarters of the Sea Tigers was still burning an hour after the attack, Cap Silva says. He said fighter jets had bombed th…

Country Information and Guidance Sri Lanka :Tamil Separatism -2014 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/348268/CIG_Sri_Lanka_Tamil_Separatism_v1_0e.pdf இந்த அறிக்கைகளின் பிரகாரமே அதிகம் அகதிகள் விண்ணப்பத்துக்கான முடிவுகள் எட்டப்படுகின்றன. எங்களை விட பிரித்தானிய அதிகாரிகளுக்கு நீதிமன்றங்களுக்கு அதிகம் தெரிஞ்சிருக்குது..!! அதுதான் வெள்ளைக்காரன்.

From V.Anandasangaree to V.Prabhakaran @ Gamini Viyangoda [03-11-2007] Certain Tamil political leaders, who in the past did their politics on behalf of Tamil people while living with them have now for some time started playing a new role. Unlike in the past, when they represented their people from among themselves and in direct association with them, these leaders now have come to the midst of the Sinhalese, addressing their own Tamil brethren of the North East from the Sinhala South, resulting in permanently making their political headquarters in Colombo. There was a time that some of them, like Douglas Devananda and Karuna Amman who did their politics throug…

Thailand has started sending Hmong asylum seekers back to neighbouring Laos, where they fear political persecution. Twelve Hmong were removed from a camp in Thailand's Petchabun province on Thursday. The camp is estimated to hold nearly 8,000 Hmong from Laos, most of whom say they fear for their safety in their communist homeland. Aid agency witnesses say they were sent back against their will, but Thailand insists they went voluntarily. The deportations began as Samak Sundaravej, the new Thai prime minister, made his first official visit to Laos on Friday to discuss energy deals as well as the fate of thousands of Hmong. Under a Laos-Thai repa…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS [size=3][size=5]The Sri Lankan government’s refusal to negotiate seriously with Tamil leaders or otherwise address legitimate Tamil and Muslim grievances is increasing ethnic tensions and damaging prospects for lasting peace. The administration, led by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party of Mahinda Rajapaksa, has refused to honour agreements with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), broken promises to world leaders and not implemented constitutional provisions for minimal devolution of power to Tamil-speaking areas of the north and east. Militarisation and discriminatory economic development in Tamil and Muslim areas are breeding anger an…

பார்லியில் தொடங்கி பின்பு மாட்டிறைச்சி, வைனில் தரும் தலையிடி போதாது என்று இப்பொழுது அவுஸ்ரேலியவிற்கு இன்னொரு விதமாக தலையிடியைத்தரப்போகிறது இந்த PNG விவகாரம். As the Australia-China relationship deteriorates, a $200m PNG 'fishery' deal raises eyebrows 7.30 /By Laura TinglePosted Friday 11 December2020 at 6:00pm, updated Friday11 December 2020 at 11:25pm Amid the din and racket of politics at the end of what has been, by any measure, an extraordinary year, the continuing and growing deterioration in our trade relationship with China has lost its novelty value. More tariffs on Australian wines this week? More restrictions on meat and timber?…

Sri Lanka: would you holiday at a mass grave? The white sand of Sri Lanka's beaches is a lure for thousands of tourists every year - but dig a little deeper and there are many unanswered questions hanging over the country's tourist industry. Tourism is big business in Sri Lanka. Receipts from tourism nearly doubled between the end of Sri Lanka's civil war and the end of 2011 - up to $1.4bn. The direct contribution of tourism is estimated to be 3.8 per cent of Sri Lanka's total GDP, and is forecast to rise by 7.8 per cent in 2013. And the Sri Lankan government has big plans ahead for the industry. In the country's five-year plan for the sector it lists …

Colombo: In a significant move coinciding with the visit of a top US official probing war crimes, American embassy here today posted pictures of places where civilians had died allegedly during Sri Lanka's final war against rebel Tamil Tigers four years ago. The US embassy's official Twitter handle uploaded a photo with a caption saying, "St Anthany's Ground-site of Jan 2009 killing of hundreds of families by (Lankan) army shelling". Sri Lanka had for long dismissed accusations that army had fired shells at civilian locations. In May 2009, Sri Lankan military had defeated the Tamil Tiger rebels. Colombo has resisted calls to probe claims that over 40,000 …

BRIAN SENEWIRATNEவின் அறிக்கை By: Brian Senewiratne Source: TamilCanadian - May 20, 2006 BRIAN SENEWIRATNE MA (Camb), MBBChir (Camb), MBBS Hons (Lond) D(Obst)RCOG(UK), MD(Lond), FRCP(Lond), FRACP 292 Pine Mt Rd Mt Gravatt Australia 4122 Consultant Physician Tel: +61 7 33496118 Mobile + 61 419335334 Fax +61 7 33434306 email briansen@bigpond.net.au THE CRITICAL SITUATION IN SRI LANKA Honourable Tony Blair Prime Minister, UK 10 Downing Street London Dear Mr Blair, I am writing as the Patron of the Campaign for Truth and Justice which was formed when I visited London in March 2006. I am expressing my concerns at what is goi…

In a landmark victory for the legal initiatives of Eezham Tamils, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ordered the Council of European Union on Thursday to annul the restrictive measures taken against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The case has been won by the LTTE on procedural grounds, said the lawyers representing the LTTE. Commenting on the judgement, Mr Lathan Suntharalingam, one of the initiators of the legal move against EU ban on LTTE said: “More than 40 countries in the world directly and indirectly abetted the Sri Lankan State in its genocidal onslaught on Eezham Tamils. The US paradigm of ‘War Against Terror’ was used to …

ATTN- Tamil gangs tackled from 'within' ! By Debabani Majumdar BBC News, London Samurai swords are often the weapon of choice for gang members For a 26-year-old, Abhya's face seems to have too many scars. "That was someone trying to take my eye out with a broken beer bottle," he said pointing to the circular scar almost encircling his right eye. "And this here was a cut from a samurai sword," he added, showing a cut which extends from his hairline to his right eyebrow. The scar sent shivers down my spine, but Abhya, who did not want to be identified, describes a confrontation with a rival group at a wedding in 2005 in Ilford, east Lo…

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's ruling party unveiled devolution proposals on Monday aimed at ending the island's two-decade civil war, but Tamil Tiger rebels dismissed them and analysts said they were doomed to fail. President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) wants to devolve power at district rather than a higher level and insists on rebel disarmament, according to the text seen by Reuters. By contrast, Tamil Tiger rebels fighting for an independent state want a separate homeland for minority Tamils -- which Rajapaksa flatly rules out -- and have repeatedly warned they will not lay down arms. The rebels and the military are locked…

Sri Lanka 'apologises' for India story PRIU sad Narayanan and Menon are members of the said panel The Sri Lanka government has apologised for an incorrect statement that said a high-level defence panel has been established with India after a visit by senior officials. The Policy Research & Information Unit (PRIU) of the Presidential Secretariat said on Thursday the panel was established during a visit by three senior officials to Delhi from 3-4 September. "The PRIU is informed that there was no decision among those who participated in these discussions to establish an Indo-Lanka High Level Committee on defence," a statement issued by PRIU stated on …

The UK says it is unwilling to confirm that a former Sri Lankan rebel got into the UK after the Sri Lankan government gave him a passport with a false name. He was given the diplomatic passport in August, a newspaper in Sri Lanka has now revealed. Human rights groups have called on the UK government to prosecute him for human rights abuses. Colonel Karuna is one of the most controversial figures in Sri Lanka's protracted civil war. He split from the Tamil Tigers in 2004, forming a breakaway faction. He is later said to have collaborated with government forces and helped them to take control of territory in the east of the country. Earli…

Nepal to End Its Monarchy in a Deal With Ex-Rebels Published: December 24, 2007 KATMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) — Nepal’s government agreed Sunday to abolish the centuries-old monarchy in a political deal with Maoist former rebels, but the decision will go into effect only after next year’s elections, party officials said. Three months ago, the anti-monarchy Maoists, who ended their decade-long civil war last year, left the government. They were demanding an immediate declaration of a republic, a step that indefinitely delayed a constituent assembly election that had been set for November. That election, Nepal’s first national vote since 1999, was intended to…

UN and world bodies express disappointment over withdrawal from the ceasefire agreement UN and the international community have expressed disappointment over Sri Lanka's abrogation of ceasefire agreement. UN Secretary General's statement in this regard emphasizes that all parties should pay attention to solve the problem without bloodshed. He expressed concern over the abrogation of ceasefire while escalation of violence and urged the state to guarantee the security of the humanitarian workers and civilians. US, Canada and Norway have also expressed displeasure over the abrogation of ceasefire. However, India has not issued an official statement in this re…