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Dear Mr. Blake, I had an opportunity to review your later dated Janurary 18th, 2007 to the Island newspaper. Earlier, the Island newspaper (on January 16th) and an editorial (on January 17th) carried out lead news articles claiming that LTTE, with the help of some underground gangs, used information from the United States Entrance Visa application to abduct Sri Lankan citizens for ransom money based on the financial statement given by the Visa application. The Island newspaper futher claimed that this was done under your leadership with your full knowledge at the US Embassy. In your response to the Island newspaper on January 18th, 2007 you continue your denial…

In year 2006, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) took a radical tactical turn to use remote controlled claymore mines to block Madawachchi-Mannar and Habarana-Trinco supply routes. This effectively made the vegetation clearance on either sides of the road fruitless. Attacks were frequent and caused huge damages to ground movements of the army. The defense research units that attracted the volunteer support of several civilian engineers worked day and night to develop a counter measure to jam the LTTE remote controllers, based on some pieces of circuits found among the debris of explosions in the North. The rate of innovation of the LTTE side was so fast that the Gove…

Anandasangaree's hour A New York Times journalist e-mailed me the other day with a question, "does the Sri Lankan government have a plan for devolution?" It was a question to which I must confess, I had no answer, and therefore had to direct to my old friend, former Georgetown alumni, and spokesperson for the joint Tamil delegation at the crucial closing session of the 1985 Thimpu talks, Kethesh Loganathan, who is currently the deputy head of the Peace Secretariat. Frankly, I don't know whether he had an answer, or whether anyone does for that matter. This is the Achilles heel of the democratic Sri Lankan state; the weakest link in the Sri Lankan case. It has …

Anandhi Sasitharan the Vibrant Wife of Senior Tiger Leader Ezhilan 18 January 2014, 10:20 pm By D.B.S.Jeyaraj Controversial Northern Provincial Councillor Anandhi Sasitharan is once again in the news. Sections of the media reported that the Defence ministry was pondering on the possibility of making the 42 year old wife of former senior tiger leader Ezhilan undergo a period of rehabilitation in order to “prevent her from propagating separatist sentiments”. Anandhi responded to the news reports by convening a press conference in Jaffna and stating that she could not be forced into rehabilitation as she had never been a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil E…

Ancient Aboriginal underwater archaeological sites discovered, and a new frontier for study ABC Pilbara / By Karen Michelmore Posted 2 days ago, updated2 days ago This area was dry land just 8,000 years ago.(Supplied: Jerem Leach) Scientists have discovered Australia's first ever ancient Aboriginal underwater archaeological sites, settled on the sea bed for thousands of years. Key points: Australia's first underwater Aboriginal heritage sites have been confirmed off WA's Pilbara coast Australia's coastline was two million square kilometres larger before s…

ANOTHER PRE-EMPTIVE LTTE AIR STRIKE - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR--PAPER NO. 220 By B. Raman In an attempt to pre-empt an apprehended military offensive by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces on the territory controlled by the Lberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, the LTTE Air Force has carried out a successful air strike on the Palaly military base of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in the Jaffna peninsula. The Palaly military base serves as the headquarters for operations against the LTTE in the north. It is also the supply base for the thousands of soldiers stationed in the region. Any serious damage to the base could hamper …

BEIRUT, Dec 31 (Reuters) - The death toll in Syria's civil war has risen to at least 130,433, more than a third of them civilians on both sides of the conflict, but the real figure is probably much higher, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. The conflict in Syria began in March 2011 as peaceful protests against four decades of rule by President Bashar al-Assad's family, but turned into an armed insurgency whose sectarian dimensions have reverberated across the Middle East. The anti-Assad Observatory, based in Britain but with a network of sources across Syria, put the number of women and children killed in the conflict so far at 11,709. It said …

Anton Balasingham 1938 - December 14, 2006 Journalist who became the chief strategist and negotiator of the Tamil Tigers in their struggle for autonomy Anton Balasingham provided the intellectual framework for the violence of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. He was the brains behind the brawn, someone the leadership could turn to for ideological guidance, philosophical justification and political explanation while the killing went on. A forlorn-faced man, ill with a transplanted kidney, he travelled to devastated northern Sri Lanka in 2002 to act as the rebels’ negotiator in peace talks brokered by Norway. The Tigers vainly asked India to host the …

Anuk Arudpragasam Q&A | The Booker Prizes How does it feel to have A Passage North longlisted for the Booker? I’ve had many different, sometimes contradictory feelings, but I’m gratified to be in the company of the other wonderful writers on the longlist. Which authors have influenced or inspired your own writing? I’ve been most influenced by the modernist novel of consciousness, by Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, and Robert Musil in their attempts to depict time and interiority: in a sense this is what I want to do for my own time and place and people. But I also view each book I write as a kind of apprentice…

Anuradhapura SLA commander killed in gunfire ambush [TamilNet, Friday, 09 March 2007, 14:15 GMT] Sri Lanka Army Commander of the Anuradhapura area, Colonel Shurawera and three of his men along with national park wardon Wasantha Pushpananda and 3 employees were killed in a gunfire ambush in inside the Wilpattu wildlife sactuary around 10:30 a.m. Friday, military officials in Colombo said. A group of SLA soldiers who went to search for their missing commander had located 8 dead bodies. Two vehicles, including the vehicle of the SLA commander, were missing. The Wilpattu wildlife sanctuary, which remained closed for nearly 14 years due to the war, was r…

Are Tamils also not citizens of Sri Lanka? By Kishali Pinto Jayawardena In the year 1998, Joubert Gnanamuttu an engineer by profession (a slightly built, soft spoken and self effacing gentleman who had lived for more than twenty nine years in Colombo and who spoke with a slight stammer), was travelling in the bus to Borella when it was stopped at an Army check-point at Stanley Wijesundera Mawatha. Asked to show his identity, he produced his national identity card and a driving licence as well as a student identity card issued to him by the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies. Despite this proof of identification, he was asked to show a 'police regis…

Are you a Duck or an Eagle? Life Lessons from a Taxi Driver-Inspirational Story by Simerjeet Singh

தற்போதைய படை நடவடிக்கைளால் இடம்பெயர்ந்து படைக்கட்டுப்பாட்டுப் பகுதிக்குச் சென்ற மக்கள் தங்கியுள்ள முகாம்களிற்கு ஆயுதங்களுடன் கறுணா கும்பலைச் சேர்ந்தோர் ஊடுருவுவதாக சர்வதேச மன்னிப்புச் சபை தெரிவித்துள்ளது. Sri Lanka: Armed groups infiltrating refugee camps Press release, 03/14/2007 Armed groups, some identified as part of a breakaway group of Tamil Tigers known as the Karuna faction, are infiltrating camps for newly displaced people and abducting residents, according to sources known to Amnesty International. Tens of thousands of people have been fleeing their homes after intense fighting in the eastern region of Batticaloa over the weekend, pushing the n…

LONDON (AFP) - Amnesty International said on Tuesday that there were armed groups roaming camps for displaced people in the eastern Sri Lankan district of Batticaloa, and kidnapping residents. Citing its own sources, which it did not identify, Amnesty said that some of the groups were part of the Karuna faction -- a breakaway rebel group -- and their presence in the camps were tolerated by Sri Lankan authorities because of the group's help in the military campaign against Tamil Tiger rebels. The London-based human rights group's warning came as government security forces continued their offensive into a Tiger stronghold that extends from Batticaloa to the neigh…

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. …

The Sri Lankan Army has expanded into yet another previously untouched market in the North; yoghurt production, with the opening of a new yoghurt factory in Jaffna. The newly opened factory in Kankasanthurai (KKS) will add to the army’s previous two yoghurt factories in Anuradhapura and Panagoda, and, as the army put it “thereby saving a fair chunk of expenditure that can be used for erection of wellness resorts for disable War Heroes in the Army.” According to their website “army professionalism” has helped cut down costs of producing the dessert “thereby saving a lot of profits”. See photos from the opening of the KKS factory below, along with the unveilin…

Anyone found guilty on a credible war crimes investigation would be dealt with the necessary punitive measures, Army Commander Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake said. In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Leader, he maintained that the Army did not treat the appointment of a Three-member Advisory Council as a 'betrayal' of the forces. 'The government has appointed this committee to advice the government and we have nothing to be concerned about as we have only done our duty. We are a professional army and we don't mind anyone investigating our actions as we have done nothing wrong,' he added. He further noted that the Sri Lankan army did what no other a…

Arrangements underway for civilian movement from Muttur - LTTE [TamilNet, August 04, 2006 04:52 GMT] The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Friday morning said their cadres were making arrangements to safely transport all civilians out of the Muttur town to remote locations as Sri Lanka Army shells continued to hit civilian refuges in the town. The LTTE has urged the ICRC and other humanitarian agencies to enable humanitarian assistance to the displaced people. "We are making necessary arrangements to move civilians from Muttur to safer locations via Kiliveddy," said Irasiah Ilanthirayan, the military spokesman of the Liberation Tigers. At least 22 civ…

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dr Vickramabahu <vamabahu@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 9:05 AM Subject: ARTICLE OF BAHU To: <srinissanka@gmail.com> The new Rajapaksa government will displease the human rights campaigners while Sinhala only fascistic campaigners rejoice expecting tough stand in UNHR discussions and end to this ‘anti terrorism left backs’. The families of Tamil and Sinhala civilians who are the victims of enforced disappearances and who remain missing during and after the war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Lankan government have been holding awareness rally in public now for 1000 consecutiv…

Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10576100590950129?src=recsys Tamil Tiger “Martyrs": Regenerating Divine Potency? Michael Roberts Pages 493-514 | Received 27 Jul 2004, Accepted 14 Oct 2004, Published online: 23 Aug 2006 Contrary to claim, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are not overwhelmingly secular in their practices. While their successes as a liberation movem…

Artillery attacks on Pa’lai, Mukamaalai, Ki’laali areas [TamilNet, Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 13:16 GMT] Large number of artillery shells said to be launched by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) since Monday midnight fell and exploded near A9 road in Pa’lai and Mukamaalai, until Tuesday afternoon, sources in Thenmaraadchi said. Around 22 lorries loaded with goods which started to Jaffna along A9 road around 11:00 a.m Monday are yet to reach Naavatku’li but 25 buses carrying Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers have reached Thenmaraadchi along A9 route around Tuesday afternoon, the sources added. Shells fell and exploded in Pa’lai, Mukamaalai, Ki’laali areas earlier …

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?…

As Vote Nears, Astrologer for Sri Lanka’s President Faces Ultimate Test of His Skills By ELLEN BARRY Photo Sumanadasa Abeygunawardena identifies auspicious timing for the president’s political acts.CreditSanka Vidanagama for The New York Times Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main storyShare This Page Email Share Tweet Save More Continue reading the main story GALLE, Sri Lanka — Few people will be watching this week’s presidential election in Sri Lanka with more pointed interest than a balding, prosperous-looking man wearing a gold amulet under his shirt, who claims the title of “royal astrologer.” For decades, the astrologer, S…

ASPECTS OF SAIVA WORSHIP -M.ARUNACHALAM The goals of life in the Vaidika society are laid down as four dharma, artha, kama, moksa - virtue, wealth, happiness and release; they are called aram, porul, inbam and vidu in Tamil. Of the four, the last, the attainment of release from all earthly bonds, is held supreme. In Saivism, three entities are considered to be eternal: God(Pati), Soul(Pasu), and Bonds(Pasa). The soul is in a state of bondage with the worldly matter; the bonds are three and are here inseperable from the soul and obstruct it from enjoying eternal bliss with God. Release is the severance of the bonds resulting in the eternal enjoyment of t…

ER GRIFF EINER SCHÜLERIN (18) IN DEN SCHRITT – DOCH DIE RICHTERIN LIESS IHN LAUFEN: Nur 1 Monat auf Bewährung für Sex-Grabscher Düsseldorf – Es ist ein Fall, der wütend macht: Asylbewerber Sivapalan A. (26) aus Sri Lanka grapschte am 5. März um 3.25 Uhr in der Altstadt einer 18-jährigen Schülerin unter den Rock. Die gute Nachricht: Er wurde schnell gefasst, saß 5 Tage in U-Haft und stand schon Donnerstag vor Gericht. Die schlechte: Die Richterin ließ ihn gleich wieder laufen. Das Kuschel-Urteil: 1 Monat auf Bewährung wegen Beleidigung! Vor Gericht hatte der Staatsanwalt die Sex-Tat des Asylbewerbers (lebt seit dem 2. Juni 2015 in Deutschland) deutl…