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Australia's top two newspapers, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age (from Melbourne) have editorials asking for boycott of Sri Lankan cricket! What should Tamils in India and elsewhere do? http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/australia-must-go-in-to-bat-for-tamils-20121210-2b5hg.html http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/editorial/when-deception-goes-well-beyond-a-joke-20121210-2b66t.html

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…

137 dead, 230 wounded as series of blasts rock Mumbai trains Mumbai, Jul 11 (PTI) At least 137 people were killed and 230 injured in a string of seven terror blasts thar tore through first class compartmenets of suburban trains around 6PM during the peak hour traffic here today. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/00020...00607112201.htm

[size=5]“A/S Blake regretted the current state of GSL-ICRC relations, noting the very critical role ICRC had played on human rights and the constructive relationship the GSL had previously had with the ICRC. He asked if Pascoe had raised the ICRC during his visit. [/size] [size=5]Holmes surmised that the Sri Lankan military is taking revenge on the ICRC, which it believes abetted the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in the past. Holmes and Pascoe had asked the ICRC if it wanted help in retaining its mandate in Sri Lanka, but, as usual, the ICRC preferred to fight its own battles. [/size] [size=5]ICRC has explained to the government what it is in Sri Lankato do; if the govern…

தேசியத் தலைவரின் பிறந்த நாளென்று “தமிழன்” குளிர்பானம் சுவிற்சலாந்தில் அறிமுகம் தேசியத் தலைவரின் பிறந்த நாளான நேற்று சுவிற்சர்லாந்தில் ‘தமிழன்’ என்று பெயரிடப்பட்ட ஒரு ஆரோக்கிய பானம் அறிமுகப்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது. இப்பானத்தை சாந்தி குழு என்ற தனியார் நிறுவனமே உற்பத்தி செய்து வெளிவிட்டுள்ளது. இந்நிறுவனத்தின் உரிமையாளர்கள் இருவரின் பெயர்களின் முதல் மூன்று ஆங்கில எழுத்துக்களைக் குறிப்பதே சாந்தி (San + Thi = Santhi) என்பதாகும். இப்பானத்தை விற்பனை செய்வதன் மூலம் கிடைக்கும் வருவாயை தமது நிறுவனம் நிர்வகிக்கும் ஒரு அறக்கட்டளையை உருவாக்கி நடத்துவதற்கு முற்றுமுழுதாகப் பயன்படுத்தப் போவதாகவும் அந்நிறுவனம் தெரிவித்துள்ளது. இந்நிதி மூலம் தமிழ் மக்களின் ஜனநாயகத் தேவைகளை வலுப்படுத்தல…

Five killed, two wounded in Trincomalee grenade attack on civilians [TamilNet, January 02, 2006 14:58 GMT] Unidentified men riding in a three-wheeler lobbed a grenade into a group of people killing five persons and wounding two, on the Dockyard Road in Trincomalee town, Monday night around 7:50 p.m. The victims are yet to be identified, Trincomalee Police said. The victims were seated on a bench opposite the Dutch Bay sea beach along the Dockyard Road, sources said. Further details are not available at the moment. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=16721

நான் இதை இங்கே ஒட்டுவதை சிலர்,அல்லது பலர் விரும்பமாட்டார்கள்..எப்பவுமே எமக்கு சார்பானவையை படிக்காமல்,எமக்கு எதிராக என்ன நடகின்றது என்பதயும் தெரிந்து கொள்வது, எம்மை மேலும் விழிப்படைய்ய வைக்கும் என்பது எனது தாழ்மையான அபிப்பிராயம்..கிருபன் அண்ணா வந்து சொல்லுவார்..'நான் அங்கெயே வாசித்து போட்டு அங்கேயே விட்டிடு வந்திட்டென்..ஏன் இதை இங்கே ஒட்டுகிறீர்கள் என்டு?' :P U.S to unfasten LTTE leash By Alykhan Velshi and Howard Anglin For nearly a decade, the policy of the American government has been to treat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist organisation. Americans are banned from donating money or providing any material support, to the LTTE; U.S…

700 undergo military training in 12 Karuna's camps (LeN- Nov. 21, 8.00 p.m.) It is said that abductions and killings are on the rise in Batticaloa District. The committee appointed probe disappearances report that 736 people have disappeared since January. 15 bodies of the people who were abducted and killed have been found. It is believed that Karuna faction is behind these abduction and even the UN too had made some adverse comments of the abductions. It is also said that Karuna faction cadres come in a white van and abduct people in government controlled areas and most of the vehicles and motor cycles used by Karuna faction does not have number p…

SLN ship under atack off Pulmoddai coast [TamilNet, August 01, 2006 15:13 GMT] The Jetliner ship which escaped in Trincomalee attack Tuesday afternoon with about eight hundred SLA soldiers has come under attack again in the Pulmoddai sea bound for north from six in the evening Tuesday, military sources said. Kfir jets have gone to the area in support of the ship. Villagers of Kokilai, Pulmoddai and other areas close to the Pulmoddai Sea are fleeing from their houses.

Sri Lanka army 'kills 23 rebels' The Sri Lankan army says it captured four Tamil Tiger bases and killed 23 rebels in clashes in the east of the island overnight. The fighting took place in the district of Batticaloa, military spokesman Brig Prasad Samarasinghe said. There has been no comment from the Tamil Tigers. Some 4,000 people have been killed in escalating violence since late 2005, with tens of thousands of civilians being displaced. 'No confrontation' "There are 23 confirmed LTTE (Tamil Tigers) dead," military spokesman Brig Samarasinghe told journalists in the capital, Colombo. "We have captured four bases without c…

LTTE cadres attack passenger vessel carrying 854 unarmed soldiers, successfully retaliated Munza Mushtaq in Colombo, August 1, 2006, 5.10 p.m.. The LTTE today afternoon fired mortar and artillery shells targeting a passenger vessel carrying 854 unarmed soldiers from Kankasanthurai, Trincomalee while she was entering the Trincomalee Harbour. The naval troops successfully retaliated the terrorist attack and brought the passenger vessel and the unarmed security forces personnel unharmed. Three boats were destroyed in the process. The incident occurred at around 2.15 p.m. Tigers failed in a similar type of attack when they targeted the passenger vessel Pearl Crui…

Thoppi(gala) for Tigers With the security forces wresting control of the Chenkaladi-Maha Oya Road on Wednesday, the East, barring the isolated Toppigala jungles, has been cleared before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year. South of Chenkaladi, Illupayadichchenai and further down, Karadiyanaru and the Rukam town on the A-5 highway, have been cleared. The entire operation to wrest control of the Badulla Road from Chenkallady to Maha Oya and the adjacent Tiger bases, including the Karadiyanaru jungle, took 46 days, reminiscent of the month-long Vakarai operation. Army Commander Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka has already recommended several promotions based on merit. Accordingl…

The boy who gives a truer picture of 'Periyar' V SUNDARAM I recently interviewed M Venkatesan, a 'Dalit', whose family has been living in a slum area called Hanumanthapuram in Triplicane during the last 25 years. I am specifically mentioning the fact that he belongs to the Dalit community only to take the wind from the sails of self-styled, castiest and communalist Dravidian leaders who often pride themselves as saviours, champions, protectors and upholders of the backward and suppressed communities in Tamilnadu under the political umbrella of 'self-respect' and 'social justice'. Venkatesan is a bright, hardworking and precocious young man who has taken his MA…

In the early 19th century, Travancore had a barbaric and oppressive law that was highly degrading for its women. The Mulakkaram, or the 'breast tax,' was a tax to be paid by the Dalit women of Travancore per the size of their breasts. Source: Induviduality via Facebook As the law did not allow Dalit women to cover their breasts, the tax was meant to add insult to their injury of being easily identifiable in the most demeaning way. The regime subjugated the lower castes and ensured they stayed in debt with barbaric laws and taxes on things as trivial as the right to wear jewellery and, for men, the right to grow a moustache. …

The Secret behind the number 11 Pretty Chilling - read to the bottom. Try it out. If you are a sceptical person - still read on as it's actually very interesting!! This is actually really freaky!! (Mainly the end part, but read it all first) 1) New York City has 11 letters 2) Afghanistan has 11 letters. 3) Ramsin Yuseb has 11 letters . (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993) 4) George W Bush has 11 letters. This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets interesting: 1) New York is the 11th state. 2) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight number 11. 3) Fligh…

The Accord offered the best chance to resolve the Tamil national question but was undermined by successive governments in Colombo M.A. Sumanthiran July 29, 1987 was a watershed in Sri Lanka’s history. That was the day Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi signed an accord with Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayewardene in Colombo, in which Sri Lanka promised to share power with the Tamil people. One cannot also forget the attack on the Indian Prime Minister later that day by a Naval Rating at a Guard of Honour. If not for his quick reflexes, the rifle butt that was swung at him would most certainly have cracked his skull. The history of Sri Lanka…

Genocidal sex abuse of ex-LTTE female cadres becomes routine in North and East [TamilNet, Thursday, 30 August 2012, 08:29 GMT] The genocidal Sri Lanka military occupying the country of Eezham Tamils is routinely engaged in repeated sexual abuse of the former female members of the LTTE to see them pregnant by the Sinhala soldiers, in the model of former Yugoslavia, news sources citing a number of cases and medical professionals told TamilNet. While Radha D’Souza views the Tamil struggle “As one of the most significant movements since the end of the Vietnam War,” the former US Deputy Secretary of State and a current ICG trustee Richard Armitage in Oslo last year was …

They have done great service to their people and you can't brand them as pure terrorists as they are genuine freedom fighters. That is the structure that needs to be discussed.The current policy of the government is a hit-back policy and that is an Israeli policy. I don't think it's right. Mahatma Gandhi said that the eye-for-an-eye, a-tooth-for-a-tooth policy makes the world blind and toothless. And it will only keep escalating.We can't ask them to disarm in order to sit down and talk while we hold onto our arms. Things must be left as they are and we must talk about devolution, federal state or autonomy. (மேலும்...) இணைத் தலைமைகளைச் சமாளிக்க:

From my seat in the Telegraph's Westminster hutch, I can look out over Parliament Square to the spot where several thousand British Tamils are now into their third day of protest over the Sri Lankan government's offensive against the Tamil Tigers. For three days, varying numbers of Tamils have been out there, banging drums, blowing horns, chanting and singing. They're accompanied by scores of police who have effectively surrounded them. Now, you can say a lot of bad things about this protest. The police say it's illegal, because it wasn't authorised in advance. London travellers, me included, could complain about the traffic disruption caused on the first day …

Once a Srilankan goes to USA and meets President Bush. Bush takes him to a jungle to prove that Americans are technologically advanced. In the jungle, Bush asks the Srilankan to start digging. He keeps on digging. When he reaches 100ft Bush tells him to start searching.The Srilankan finds a piece of wire .Bush proudly says "You see; even 100 years back we had telephone". At this the Srilankan gets really annoyed. Next year Bush comes to Srilanka. The Srilankan takes him to a jungle and tells him to start digging. Bush digs 100 ft and stops. The Srilankan tells him …

Tale of Two Cities- A Tamil girl’s journey from Colombo to Toronto May 09, 2018 By - Arasi Vickneaswaran My 6-month contract with a big finance company in Toronto ended a few weeks ago. I was sitting at my desk on my last day, trying to clean out my space. As much as I hated having to sit and stare at the computer mercilessly for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week while feeling like a number on the line, I still felt strange. I am not going to sit on this desk, make coffee on those machines and go through the horrible routine I am used to. I knew as I joined that I will not remain here. Yet, I became attached to some…

Ramaraj out on parole Tamil-speaking drugs baron V Ramaraj has been released on parole by a Swiss court after having served exactly one year of a three years prison sentence meted out to him for smuggling narcotics via the alpine nation. Ramaraj was arrested on 22 February 2006 outside the United Nations offices in Geneva, initially on charges of having entered Switzerland illegally. Latter, police investigations revealed that Ramaraj was also on the wanted list for narcotics smuggling. Police also found a number of 'cloned' credit cards in his travel bag. He was subsequently sent to prison for three years. Ramaraj, who originally hails from th…

Two Vadamaradchy women complain of sexual assault by SLA [TamilNet, January 02, 2006 15:50 GMT] Two women from Malusanthi, a village located 3 km southeast of Point Pedro town on the Jaffna Point-Pedro, road registered complaints with the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commision (SLHRC) offices in Jaffna Monday that they were sexually assaulted by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers around midnight Sunday, sources in Jaffna said. The SLA troopers had allegedly taken the man occupant of the house outside for questioning and in the meantime other soldiers inside the house had sexually assaulted the two women, the complaint said. When the women screamed to fight back the attackers…

Countries With The Highest And Lowest Taxes Taxes have always been a major issue in American politics. In the late colonial era, when the revolution was about to erupt, anti-British sloganeers shouted, "No taxation without representation."Today, several major groups of tax proponents advocate different ways to handle America's taxes, in all its many varieties: income tax, capital gains tax, foreign revenue tax and so forth. TUTORIAL: Personal Income Tax Guide: Basic Concepts One group wants a reduction of the income tax, to stimulate business investment and, thus, solve the country's unemployment problem. A second group proposes an increase in taxes on the w…

Podcast #2 SL : Part 1 of 2 Podcast #2 SL: Part 2 of 2 Podcast SL Part 1 of 2 Podcast SL Part 2 of 2 Graduated with a B.A. in English/Literature with a minor in International Studies. Moving on to graduate school to attain a PhD in English with a concentration in Postcolonial theory and literature, preferably South Asian. Independent research interests geared towards Sri Lanka. I will continue to advocate Tamil Eelam and to inform others about the genocide SL government is committing on Tamils. This is something important to me. "Thamilan illatha Nadu illai - Thamilanuku endru Oru Nadu illai." --- "There is no sta…