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NEW DELHI: Sri Lankan security forces are to blame for the murder of 700 civilians in Jaffna, a rights body said yesterday, holding both Colombo and the Tamil Tigers accountable for the island nation’s misery. The University Teachers for Human Rights (UTHR) also said in its latest report that “war-like ideologies” were leading the Sri Lankan government as well as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to a destructive future. “Making due allowance for the LTTE’s share in killings, we estimate that the government and its security forces are responsible for murdering in cold blood upwards of a base figure of 700 unarmed civilians in Jaffna during 2006 and 2007,” sa…

France said Thursday that there are signs of communal tensions in northern Sri Lanka, particularly in the town of Mannar. French Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives Christine Robichon, in a statement said that she had toured the areas where both the Tamil and Muslim communities displaced by the war, are being resettled including recently reopened part of the former high security zone in Jaffna. The purpose of the tour was to see the progress in development activities conducted by the Sri Lankan government and to have a better understanding of the needs and the aspirations of the people, with a specific focus on the fishermen. She said the briefings of the…

The Law Society of South Africa called on President Zuma and the South African Government to consider boycotting the CHOGM. Issuing a statement today the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) expresses its grave concerned that members of an International Bar Association Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) high-level delegation have been denied entry into Sri Lanka during this week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo. The delegation included the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, and the first UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Param Cumaraswamy. Entry for th…

Hizbullah Engaged in Direct Contacts with CIA, Pentagon إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية The U.S. Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are engaged in direct and indirect contacts with Hizbullah, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Friday. According to the report, the talks focus on several aspects and include the Islamist movement Hamas. However, information received by LBCI ruled out the report, saying it was not true. In November, the U.S. embassy in Lebanon denied a report by the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper saying that U.S. officials have been involved in talks with Hizbullah. "No official at the embassy has or is engaged in discussion with…

Blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms Thursday, 03 August 2006 Hon. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European External Relations Commission (Sri Lanka) Honoured Madam, Re: “I am deeply concerned at the blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms,” European External Relations Commission Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in a statement. You were not concerned at the disruption of the peace process to the extent you are concerned, that also deeply, at the blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms. You were not concerned at least on humanitarian grounds, when the implementation of the "Joint Mecha…

The Plants Respond An Interview With Cleve Backster by DERRICK JENSEN TABLE OF CONTENTS DERRICK JENSEN’s most recent book is titled As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial (Seven Stories Press). He lives in Crescent City, California. www.derrickjensen.org Sometimes it happens that a person can name the exact moment when his or her life changed irrevocably. For Cleve Backster, it was early in the morning of February 2, 1966, at thirteen minutes, fifty-five seconds into a polygraph test he was administering. Backster, a leading polygraph expert whose Backster Zone Comparison Test is the worldwide standard for lie detection, h…

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On June 3, 2019, my wife and I welcomed our daughter into the world. She’s barely old enough to walk, so her job (mostly eating and sleeping) hasn’t changed much. But, one day, she’ll need some money and life advice. As a father who has spent much of his career studying and writing about money, behavioral finance and business, this is what I’ll tell her: 1. Don’t underestimate the role of chance in life. It’s easy to assume that wealth and poverty are caused by the choices we make, but it’s even easier to underestimate the role of chance in life. The families, values, countries and generations we’re born into, as well as the people we h…

Either we are too naïve or extremely foolish. While the forces against Sri Lanka had been getting ready to degrade Sri Lanka for months, a team leader to counter the allegations on behalf of the country was appointed just 72 hours before the United Nations Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva, Switzerland. It has been reported in the media that the decision to appoint President Rajapaksa’s Human Rights envoy Mahinda Samarasinghe to present Sri Lanka’s case in Geneva was a sudden decision. Samarasinghe who had been in the forefront in the previous Human Rights Council sessions was kept in the dark this time about the preparations for Council sessions—if there’s an…

Coercive Control என்றால் என்ன? அது எதுவரை எங்களை இழுத்துச்செல்லும் என்பதை இந்த சம்பவம் சொல்கிறது.. பொதுவாக ஆண்கள்தான் coercive controllers இருப்பார்கள் என்பதில்லை,பெண்களிலும் இந்த மாதிரியானவர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள், அவர்களால் வாழ்க்கை பாதிக்கப்பட்டவர்களும் உண்டு.. இந்த மாதிரியான மனநிலை உடையவர்களின் செயல்கள் மற்றவர்களை பாதிக்கும் பட்சத்தில் அது ஒரு குற்றமாக பார்க்கப்பட்டு அதற்கான நடவடிக்கைகளை எடுக்கும் ஒரே ஒரு மாநிலமாக தஸ்மேனியா உள்ளது.. தெற்கு அவுஸ்ரேலியாவில் குற்றமாக அறிவிக்கப்படும் சட்டம்வரைபு பாராளுமன்றத்தில் கொண்டுவரப்பட்டுள்ளது ஆனால் இன்னமும் வாக்களிக்கப்படவில்லை.. GOOD WEEKEND 'Intimate terrorism': why the murders of Hannah, Aaliyah, Laianah and T…

One of the largest corporate donors to Britain's Conservative Party, and a key sponsor of the Commonwealth business event in Colombo this week, has been shown to have close links to the family of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. According to Corporate Watch, Hastings Trading e Serviços Lda, a company owned by the Lyca Group, bought a 95% share in a dormant firm registered with Rajapaksa's nephew, Himal Lalindra Hettiarachchi as reported by the Sunday Leader in 2009. The company went on to receive a key license to operate cutting-edge wireless broadband frequencies in Sri Lanka, forcing the state-owned telecoms company to merge. Lycamobile has donated over £…

Sampanthan off to India TNA Parliamentary group leader R. Sampathan left for India yesterday after the Indian Government wanted him and a few others to come over to India immediately. It is learnt that MP Mavai Senadhiraja is scheduled to meet Mr. Sampathan there Thanks http://www.dailymirror.lk/

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