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பரப்புரை: சமூக வலையில் நாள் ஒரு இணைப்பு

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[size=5]உங்கள் சமூகவலை இணைப்பில், முகநூல் / குறுஞ்செய்தி, நாள் ஒன்றிற்கு குறைந்தது ஒரு பரப்புரை குறிப்பை இணையுங்கள்[/size]

[size=5]நன்றி [/size]

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[size=6]இன்று ஆவணி 29[/size]

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[size=5]WILL THE UNHRC INITIATIVES END THE LANKAN GENOCIDE DESPITE THE RE-INVIGOURATED SOUTH BLOCK CAPTIVE DELHI?[/size]

[size=5]Colombo boastfully hawks its National Action Plan (NAP) implementing all the inconsequentials in the LLRC’s proposals but omits the crucial political element. The NAP is a diversion to tire out the international community away from efforts to hold Lanka accountable for its grave crimes against humanity. [/size]

[size=5]Once the NAP fails to provide the space to effectively deal with the crucial political component that led to the conflict in which Lanka committed the crimes, all the hog wash in LLRC and NAP to bring about long-term reconciliation and lasting peace in Lanka is no different from what the Sinhala regimes promised and never delivered for over the past six decades and allowed the oppression of the Eelam Tamils to continue without any redress. In summary the NAP here amounts to a ‘No Action Plan’.[/size]

http://www.groundrep...ENOCIDE/2947502

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[size=6]இன்று ஆவணி 30[/size]

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[size=6]Sri Lankan Govt Must Answer about Thousands of Disappeared Tamils. UN denied Entry.[/size]

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[size=5]"There are concerns that some of the disappeared girls are being used as sex slaves by the Sri Lankan security forces"

/EINPresswire.com/ August 29, 2012: London ----

On the International Day of the Disappeared on August 30, Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) called upon the Sri Lankan Government to tell the truth about the thousands of Tamils, including babies, who disappeared.

It is reported that UN Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances repeated requests to visit Sri Lanka was denied by the Sri Lankan Government.

"If the Sri Lankan Government has nothing to hide why should they deny UN's visit?" asked Mr. Deluxon Morris, TGTE's Minister for investigation of Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. "Thousands of families are desperately looking for their loved ones who were taken into custody by the Sri Lankan Government forces." [/size][/size]

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http://world.einnews.com/pr_news/112384262/sri-lankan-govt-must-answer-about-thousands-of-disappeared-tamils-un-denied-entry[/size]

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[size=4][size=6]இன்று ஆவணி 31[/size][/size]

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[size=6]Genocidal sex abuse of ex-LTTE female cadres becomes routine in North and East[/size]

[size=5]Confirming the kind of genocide-intended pregnancies of ex-LTTE cadres, a senior doctor in the North said that he didn’t know what to do about it. [/size]

[size=5]A recent case that had come to him had an eight-month pregnancy. She is now handed over to the care of some nuns. “I don’t know what to do with most of the cases,” the doctor said.

“There is no international system to protect them in the island or provide refuge outside,” the doctor further said, whose statement was also confirmed by a gender-related social worker in the island.[/size]

http://tamilnet.com/...=79&artid=35510

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[size=4][size=4][size=6]இன்று [/size][/size][/size][size=6]புரட்டாதி 01[/size]

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[size=6]Sri Lanka, China seek to strengthen military ties[/size]

[size=5]Sri Lanka and China have sought to strengthen their military ties, the Sri Lankan defence ministry said Friday.[/size]

[size=5]The remarks followed a meeting between Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie and Sri Lanka's Defence Ministry Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, reported Xinhua.[/size]

[size=5]During the visit, Liang also had discussions with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa who thanked the government and the people of China for standing by Sri Lanka at times it was facing various challenges internationally and for extending cooperation in the fields of economy and culture.[/size]

http://in.news.yahoo...-170919567.html

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[size=4][size=4][size=6]இன்று [/size][/size][/size][size=6]புரட்டாதி 02[/size]

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[size=5]சென்னையில் இலங்கை கால்பந்து அணி திருப்பி அனுப்பப்பட்டது - முதல்வர் அதிரடி![/size]

http://www.yarl.com/...howtopic=107477

http://www.rediff.co...ck/20120902.htm

[size=6]இலங்கை மீது அம்னஸ்டி குற்றச்சாட்டு[/size]

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA37/010/2012/en

http://www.yarl.com/...howtopic=107481

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[size=6]புரட்டாதி 03[/size]

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[size=6]Travel warning against Lankans visiting TamilNadu[/size]

[size=5]The Sri Lankan government today issued a travel warning against those visiting Tamil Nadu in India, in the wake of recent events of intimidation towards Sri Lankan nationals visiting the Southern Indian state for religious and tourist purposes.[/size]

[size=5]The Sri Lankan External Affairs Ministry said that “the Government of Sri Lanka is constrained to request Sri Lankan nationals in the interest of their security to desist from undertaking visits to Tamil Nadu until further notice.”[/size]

http://www.dailymirr...n.html#comments

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[size=6]புரட்டாதி 04[/size]

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[size=6]Situation in Sri Lanka worse: exile[/size]

[size=5]A Sri Lankan exile who's also a spokesman for a pro-democracy group says the situation in Sri Lanka remains repressive, contrary to claims by the Australian Opposition.[/size]

[size=5]Bashana Abeywardane is a reporter from the Sinhalese majority and the coordinator for the Sri Lankan group, Journalists for Democracy.[/size]

[size=3][size=5]He's in Australia promoting a new film about Sri Lanka and has told Radio Australia the Sri Lankan government continues to repress its people.[/size][/size]

[size=3][size=5]"Even though the war has ended, the war policy is co[/size][/size][size=5]ntinuing and that is what strengthens the government all the time, because the government has become more repressive towards democratic and human rights. And they have become more ignorant about any sort of pressures coming from outside," Mr Abeywardane said.[/size]

[size=3][size=5]"So in that sense I think the situation has really become worse."[/size][/size]

[size=3]http://www.radioaust...e-exile/1010528[/size]

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[size=6]புரட்டாதி 05[/size]

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[size=6]The Dialectics of a Genocide[/size]

[size=5]“I am surprised that you ask this question.” he says. “The Government of Sri Lanka would declare No Fire Zones (NFZs) and ruthlessly bomb these proclaimed safe zones. If this is how they reacted with regard to civilians, why do you expect civility from them when it comes to women?”[/size]

[size=5] It is common knowledge that women who surrendered to the Army or got captured, were subject to rape. Tamil women were never accorded respect by Sinhala society, especially by the Sri Lankan Army. In the last days of the war, thousands of incidents of violence and rape took place against Tamil women. It hurts to say this, but what happened to Isaipriya, the rape, and the murder and the violation, happened to thousands of women in the Vanni.” Lokeesan says.

Lokeesan worked for TamilNet.com, a news website blocked in Sri Lanka for exposing the atrocities of the Government and presenting the Tamil side of the story. I first heard about Lokeesan's struggle and subsequent escape from the war-torn island in Beate Arnestad's moving documentary Silenced Voices about Sri Lankan journalists in exile. It featured interviews with Sonali Samarasinghe, the widow of assassinated Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, Bashana Abeywardane and his wife Sharmila Logeswaram.[/size]

http://www.kindlemag.in/srorys_details.php?id=NDU1&&displayid=MQ%3D%3D

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[size=6]Relations Between India and Sri Lanka Sour[/size]

[size=5]Last week, while traveling down the coast of Tamil Nadu for my article about the fishing wars between India and Sri Lanka, I noticed pilgrims walking along the side of the road. They trudged along, despite the heat, as they walked kilometers on a pilgrimage to Christian shrines in the state of Tamil Nadu. What I had not realized is that some of the pilgrims visiting the state were from Sri Lanka.[/size]

[size=1][size=5]That has become painfully clear this week. The same tensions coursing through the fishing dispute between India and Sri Lanka are now contributing to an ugly spectacle in Tamil Nadu as Indian protesters on Tuesday stoned buses carrying Sri Lankan pilgrims. The Sri Lankan government issued a travel advisory and arranged for a special plane to transport pilgrims home. The attack followed earlier protests and prompted India’s Ministry of External Affairs

that Sri Lankans are safe in India.[/size][/size]

[size=1]http://india.blogs.n...sri-lanka-sour/[/size]

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[size=6]புரட்டாதி 06[/size]

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[size=6]Boycott Sri Lanka till Tamils get justice[/size][/size]

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[size=5]Perhaps, New Delhi has forgotten, as it often happens in the case of Kashmir, the Northeast, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, that the people of Tamil Nadu are Indian citizens. By failing to take into account the misery that has been systematically inflicted on the Tamil people by Sri Lanka for the past several decades, and by showing scant regard for the demands of the Tamil Nadu people and its democratically-elected government, India is sowing the seeds of its own disintegration.[/size][/size]

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[size=5]If the people of Tamil Nadu begin to feel disenfranchised and disrespected by the Centre, it will not be because of an overnight reading of the Marxist-Leninist position that India is a prison-house of nationalities; it will not be because of any regional or linguistic chauvinism; it will not be because of any rebellious and irrevocable attraction to the Tamil Tigers. It will be the result of outrage that New Delhi treats Sri Lanka as a friendly neighbour while it treats the Tamil Nadu government like a suspicious enemy nation suppressing information and clandestinely imparting military training to trigger-happy Sri Lankan Navy officers within its own territory. The breaking away will arise from the heartbreaking awareness and realisation that they are being treated as second-class citizens in their own country.[/size][/size]

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http://www.tehelka.com/story_main53.asp?filename=Ws050912OPINION.asp[/size]

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[size=6]புரட்டாதி 07[/size]

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[size=6]Sri Lanka: three years of imprisonment and torture, but he was innocent[/size]

[size=5]"As suspected terrorist, I was taken to the police station Teldeniya. There, under the eyes of my mother, a dozen policemen beat me with kicks and punches. I had burns on my legs and wounds everywhere. The police tortured me all night. " So begins the testimony of Muralitheran Raaja, familiarly called Murali, a young native of Kandy (Central Province, Sri Lanka), who was arrested and imprisoned under thePrevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), the law allows the detention of anyone with suspected links to LTTE rebels (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). After three years in prison on 8 December 2011, the High Court of Jaffna ordered his release without bail.[/size]

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Sri-Lanka:-three-years-of-imprisonment-and-torture,-but-he-was-innocent-25750.html

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[size=6]புரட்டாதி 10[/size]

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[size=6]Another insult by Sri Lanka: It’s time India took a stand[/size]

[size=5]A shockingly vulgar cartoon published by a Sri Lankan newspaper featuring Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa and the prime minister Manmohan Singh in extremely bad taste is yet another instance of the proxy-speak of the island nation that should ideally provoke a tough reply from India.[/size]

[size=5]On Sunday, Lakbima, a well-circulated Sinhala language daily in Sri Lanka, published a cartoon lampooning both Jayalalithaa and Manmohan Singh, ostensibly peeved at the recent tensions between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, where a school football team was sent back, and a number of Sri Lankan pilgrims in the state came under attack.[/size]

http://www.firstpost...and-449840.html

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[size=6]புரட்டாதி 11[/size]

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[size=6]Tamil Nadu fishermen slapped, chased away by Sri Lankan Navy[/size]

[size=5]In yet another instance of mid-sea confrontation reported on Sunday, the Sri Lankan Navy allegedly chased away a group of fishermen and took away a mobile phone from one of them.[/size]

[size=5]The Indian fishing boats, which set out on Saturday, were surrounded by the Lankan Navy while they were netting mid-sea.[/size]

[size=5]The Navy personnel allegedly chased away some of the boats and snatched a cellphone belonging to Adimai, a local resident.[/size]

http://ibnlive.in.co...204-62-128.html

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[size=6]புரட்டாதி 11[/size]

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[size=6]Tricky R in Sri Lanka’s victory over the LTTE - Ashok K Mehtha[/size]

[size=5]Two key neighbours of India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, both in post-conflict stage, are charting different courses of reconciliation. While Nepal is witnessing arguments between revolutionary and evolutionary forces, Sri Lanka has subdued insurgency, having routed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam three years ago. The civil war in Nepal ended in a stalemate. That is the big difference. What the Sri Lankan Army achieved is unique and unreplicable, making reconciliation with the alienated minority Tamils both easy and difficult.[/size]

[size=3][size=5]When it decided to go for a military solution, the SLA won a 31-year long war in just three years. Another three years on, it has made successful headway in five R’s: Reconstruction, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Reintegration towards Reconciliation. The fifth ‘R’ will take time coming. Intoxicated by its victory, Sri Lanka has upset the West, and to some extent India too, by dragging its feet over investigating alleged war excesses by the SLA and in devolving power to the North and the East. The hang-over is wearing off.[/size][/size]

[size=3]http://www.dailypion...r-the-ltte.html[/size]

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[size=6]September 13[/size]

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[size=4][size=1][size=5]Ms. Vani Selvarajah of Canadian Tamil Congress made a statement today on behalf of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada at the panel discussion on the issue of intimidation or reprisal against individuals and groups who cooperate or have cooperated with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights at the United Nations in Geneva.[/size][/size][/size]

[size=5]Video Link below: the statement starts at 2:33:00 (time on the most left side).[/size]

http://webtv.un.org/watch/full-video-panel-discussion-on-intimidation-reprisals-9th-meeting-cut/1838590108001#full-text

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[size=6]September 17[/size]

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[size=6]Rajapaksa thanks China for standing by Lanka at UNHRC sessions[/size]

[size=5]Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today thanked China for standing by Colombo at the last UNHRC sessions, pledging support for Beijing's candidature to the global rights body.[/size]

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[size=5]Rajapaksa met Wu Bangguo, Chairman of China's National People's Congress, here today and expressed appreciation for the important role China has played on regional and international affairs.[/size][/size]

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[size=5]Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa thanked the Chinese government for standing by his country at the last UN Human Rights Council sessions.[/size][/size]

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[size=5]The US-sponsored and India-backed resolution at the UN Human Rights Council sessions held in late March had urged expeditious action by the Sri Lankan government over its own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC).[/size][/size]

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http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/rajapaksa-thanks-china-for-standing-by-lanka-at-unhrc-sessions/57691/[/size]

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[size=4][size=6]September 18[/size][/size]

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[size=6]ISI still active in Sri Lanka[/size]

[size=5]The Ansari episode reiterates what has been long believed: Pakistani ISI is hyper active in Sri Lanka.[/size]

[size=3][size=5]In fact, Pakistan had appointed a former ISI officer Colonel Bashir Wali Mohammed as its high commissioner in Colombo in June 2004.[/size][/size]

[size=3][size=5]A couple of months later, the LTTE set off a three-wheeler explosion targeting him in the heart of Colombo. Seven men in his convoy were killed but Wali escaped.[/size][/size]

[size=3][size=5]It was widely believed that President Pervez Musharraf sent Col Wali to head the Pakistani mission in Colombo with a long-term plan of using Sri Lanka to infiltrate the southern parts of India.[/size][/size]

http://www.deccanchr...e-sri-lanka-698

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[size=4][size=6]September 19[/size][/size]

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[size=6]Sri Lankan Muslims protest anti-Islam film[/size]

[size=5]Hundreds of Muslims in Sri Lanka's capital protested Wednesday against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States, burning effigies of President Barack Obama.[/size]

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[size=6][size=5]About 300 protesters marched in Colombo, carrying signs and banners that read, "Ban anti-Islamic film all over the world. U.S. should apologize to Muslims." They chanted, "Hang the producer and director of the film."[/size][/size]

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[size=6][size=5]The protesters blocked traffic on Colombo's main roads, but police did not allow them to go near the U.S. Embassy.[/size][/size]

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[size=6][size=5]Protesters burned two effigies of Obama and U.S. and Israeli flags during the demonstration, which was organized by the Islamic group Sri Lanka Thawheed Jamath.[/size][/size]

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[size=6][size=5]Abdul Razeek, a spokesman for the group, said the protests would continue until the film, "Innocence of Muslims," is completely removed from YouTube.[/size][/size]

http://wcfcourier.com/news/world/asia/sri-lankan-muslims-protest-anti-islam-film/article_6193a2eb-24cc-5755-aca6-ea64cdd7debb.html

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[size=4][size=6]September 20[/size][/size]

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[size=6]UN Human Rights Council: Statement on the Human Rights Situation in Sri Lanka [/size]

[size=6][size=5]The Sri Lankan government has a long history of setting up commissions of inquiry that have led to little or no accountability or justice. The action plan and all government pronouncements should be read through the lens of this history. It was only when the international community stepped in, at the March 2012 Human Rights Council session nearly three years after the war, that the Sri Lankan government took any notice of the demands for accountability. Even then, it has done little but publicly claim to have taken action. Unfortunately, the facts on the ground – whether regarding free expression and association, or accountability for abuses – tell a very different story.[/size][/size]

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[size=6][size=5]Human Rights Watch firmly believes that given the Sri Lankan government’s continued failure to deliver on its human rights commitments to its citizens in a meaningful manner, the international community should take action. In this regard, it is evident that the only way forward is to adopt the recommendation of the UN Panel of Experts for an independent international mechanism to investigate violations of international human rights and humanitarian law by all sides to the conflict[/size].[/size]

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/17/un-human-rights-council-statement-human-rights-situation-sri-lanka

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[size=4][size=6]September 21[/size][/size]

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[size=6]America denounced island wide[/size]

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[size=6][size=5]Protests were launched island wide today by Muslims denouncing the[/size][/size]

[size=6][size=5]American movie which defamed Islam.[/size][/size]

[size=6][size=5]Harthals were observed in Batticaloa today while the same were observed in Ampara & Akkareipaththu yesterday.[/size][/size]

[size=6][size=5]The movie which has been titled the "Innocense of Muslims" has caused an outrage within the Muslim community worldwide.[/size][/size]

[size=6][size=5]Protests launched denouncing the movie has claimed 3 lives so far.[/size][/size]

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[size=6][size=5]http://www.hirunews.lk/43797[/size][/size]

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[size=4][size=6]September 22[/size][/size]

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[size=6]Canada’s tough talk on Tamil migrants backfires[/size]

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[size=4][size=5]Canada’s Federal Court has upheld a ruling that warns tough talk by the Harper government against Tamil migrants is putting them in more danger back in Sri Lanka – and making it harder to send them back.[/size][/size]

[size=4][size=5]The ruling says that because the government publicly connected the Tamil migrant ships to the threat of terrorism from the Tamil Tigers, everyone on board was tarred by the same brush.[/size][/size]

[size=4][size=5]“You were on a boat with Tamil Tigers, says the government of Canada. I therefore find that you face more than the mere possibility of interrogation and thus torture in Sri Lanka,” Immigration and Refugee Board member Michal Mivasair said in the ruling of a migrant who can only be identified as B384.[/size][/size]

[size=4][size=5]“Each and every one of them is exposed to the same level of danger,” said B384’s lawyer, Gurpreet Badh, adding that he thinks the government “overreacted.[/size][/size]

[size=5]http://bc.ctvnews.ca...3#ixzz27DfgzoK1[/size]

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[size=4][size=6]September 23[/size][/size]

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[size=6]UN complicit in Mu'l'livaaykaal killings, say UN humanitarian workers[/size]

[size=5]While highlighting Colombo's policy that was intended to eliminate the LTTE without regard to the high civilian killings, where the narrative appears to provide incriminating evidence of Colombo perpetrating "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group," the report also points to UN Officials criminal responsibility in breaching their duty to act.[/size]

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=35598

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[size=4][size=6]September 24[/size][/size]

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[size=6]Update on the struggle to go home in post war Sri Lanka: Manthuvil in the Mullativu district[/size]

[size=5]The Army had not paid any rent or compensation for the land occupied, with the occupation estimated to be for more than three years. The families estimate that the value of one acre of land would be around Rs. 500,000 as it’s on the main A35 road and bordering the war monument and war museum, visited by thousands of Sri Lankans on almost a daily basis.[/size]

[size=5]There had been several buildings that the Army had built, but they were dismantling them and taking stones, iron etc. although the people had appealed to leave these buildings for their use. While me and my friends were there, the Army was dismantling the building and transporting stones by a tractor. There had been four commodes in the toilets the Army had built, but even these had been removed. One of the men whose land was occupied had lost both legs and had pleaded with the Army to leave one commode, but this was not heeded to.[/size]

http://groundviews.o...ativu-district/

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  • தொடங்கியவர்

[size=4][size=6]September 25[/size][/size]

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[size=6]Peace without justice - not to be a very enduring peace – [/size]

[size=6]Canadian Parliamentarian Chris Alexander[/size]

[size=5]In an exclusive interview, Mr. Chris Alexander, MP for Ajax – Pickering, referring Sri Lanka said, Peace without justice - not to be a very enduring peace, that’s the lesson from many part of the world.[/size]

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[size=5]He went to Sri Lanka in March, part of the three member official Canadian fact finding mission to Sri Lanka. He said, Canada has major and serious concerns that reflected on Prime Minister Harper, Foreign Minister Baird and others in the government in their policy towards Sri Lanka.[/size]

[size=5]“Human right is not respected by and large... Peace is not a durable one, and the situation will not be satisfactory from our perspective until certain of the major concerns are addressed,” he said.[/size]

[size=5]“We saw north of country and same is true in many part of the east, Military presence that is far greater that what would ever be justifiable in peace time in our country or other countries that claim to have ended a conflict. Local police and civil institutions are far too weak. Local elections are not been held… Far too many credible reports of continuing human rights abuses,” further said Mr. Alexander.[/size]

http://tamilcanadian.com/article/6269

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[size=6][size=4][size=6]October 04 [/size][/size]

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[size=6]Sri Lanka's policy towards witnesses is revenge, not reconciliation[/size]

[size=5]Dr Niron knows the Sri Lankan army targeted hospitals in 2009. Every time he passed their location on to the International Red Cross so they could share the information with the Sri Lankan military, the site was bombed within days, if not hours.[/size]

[size=6][size=5]He looks like any other short dark balding Tamil man, wrapped in a thick fleece against the unfamiliar chill. A political refugee from northern Sri Lanka, now he lives in a tranquil landscape of pine trees and glaciers on the Atlantic Coast. Nobody in his country of refuge knows his past or gives him a second glance but back home patients, who owe him their lives, discretely visit his relatives to offer thanks. For them he’s a hero.[/size][/size]

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[size=6][size=5]‘Call me Niron: I have to be careful. Any problem caused by me and they will take revenge,’ he says, referring to the Sri Lankan authorities who’ve been questioning his friends to find out where he escaped. ‘They were looking for me…Now they realise our importance as witnesses,’ he explains.[/size][/size]

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[size=6][size=4]http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/frances-harrison/sri-lankas-policy-towards-witnesses-is-revenge-not-reconciliation[/size][/size]

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