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Woman in British man murder raped?
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Dec 26 (SM) The woman, said to be the wife of the British man who
was murdered in Tangalle, had reportedly been raped by the
assailants, according to Hiru FM. The woman, identified as
24-year-old Victoria, has been admitted to the ICU of Karapitiya
Hospital in serious condition. Two suspected have surrendered and
another arrested over the killing of the 27-year-old Khuram Shaikh.
The arrested man is the owner of the vehicle used by the assailants,
police said. more.. |
Here’s the Rajapaksa pal who murdered the British national
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Dec 26 (LT) It is revealed that the suspect who killed a British
national by shooting at a hotel at Madilla in Tangalle is the
Chairman of Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha Sampath Chandra Pushpa. The
reason for the clash that caused the death of the British national
is a clash between the management of the hotel and a group led by
Sampath Chandra Pushpa. The foreigner had attempted to settle the
clash. According to the latest information it is revealed that more.. |
British tourist killed on Christmas eve
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 Dec
26 (BBC) Journalists in the southern Sri Lankan town of Tangalle
have received death threats following their coverage of an attack on
a tourist couple at a holiday resort. Police said they have
identified all suspects of the attack in which a British national
was killed and his friend, a Russian national, sustained injuries.
The victim Kuram Shaikah Zaman, a British national of Israeli
origin, is an ICRC volunteer working in the Gaza strip. more..
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Army rejects ICG claims
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Dec 26 (SL) The military has rejected a report which claims that
women in the north and east have faced, and are continuing to face,
an increased sense of insecurity despite the war having ended. A
report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) titled Sri Lanka:
Women’s Insecurity in the North and East, explores the issues faced
by women both under the LTTE and in more recent times. Although
acknowledging the hardships and violence faced by these women while
under the LTTE rule, more.. |
[Mon, 26 Dec 2011, 08:02 GMT]
Sri Lankan Colonial Governor of the Northern Province, Major General (retired )
G.A.Chandrasiri, has diverted a portion of India-donated aid, meant for
‘resettled’ Tamil civilians in the five districts of North, once again as in the
case of the India-donated tractors. This time, 2,000 bicycles were donated to
each district. G.A. Chandrasiri has diverted 500 of 2,000 bicycles allocated to
Jaffna district to Sinhala colonisers who have occupied the Ma'naalaa'ru
division in Vanni. Even the aid provided by India to the people of North, as a
public relations maneuver in camouflaging its anti-people collaboration with the
genocidal Colombo's structural genocide on the country of Eezham Tamils, is
being exploited by the SL military-led civil administration, commented civil
officials in Jaffna.Full story >>
[Sun, 25 Dec 2011, 20:46 GMT]
Sri Lankan Defence Ministry has set afoot plans for grabbing the lands of
Palaali Teachers Training College, one of the two key academic institutions of
Tamil teachers in the North, for military purposes. The latest move by Colombo
to appropriate the 54 acres of the land situated near the Palaali airport in the
High Security Zone and to possibly annex the personnel of the institution with
Koappaay training college, has drawn severe reactions from the educationalist
and academic circles as well as the civil society in the North. Full story >>
[Fri, 23 Dec 2011, 12:48 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army deployed hundreds of soldiers around the University of Jaffna
Thursday evening harassing the students by checking everyone at the two main
entries to the University throughout the evening and night. The latest move
comes following the death threats issued to 8 named student activists and three
lecturers of the Jaffna University. The students who were at the office of the
Jaffna University Students Union (JUSU) were questioned by the SLA forcing them
to leave the site. Checking was carried out at the entry to Balasingham male
hostel, situated 300 meters away from the University and the SL military
personnel were deployed on all the four sides of the University premises. Full story >>
[Thu, 22 Dec 2011, 06:47 GMT]
11,000 people belonging to 2,556 families have been displaced from the low-lying
lands of Ki'linochchi district this week following heavy rain and floods,
according to District Secretariat officials in Ki'linochchi. Of these, only
1,443 persons of 349 families have been provided refuge by the SL
administration. The remaining families have been struggling to find space with
their relatives and friends elsewhere. Most of the ‘re-settled’ victims of
genocide were living in temporary huts in the low-lying lands. But, the floods
have taken away even their huts while destroying their agricultural produce, the
livelihood for which the people had to borrow money from the SL banks. Despite
the claims by the SL government that people have been resettled and their
infrastructure restored, the district remains roofless to accommodate people
affected by the floods, even after two years of the war. Full story >>
[Thu, 22 Dec 2011, 12:04 GMT]
Instead of pursuing genuine reconciliation, which is essential for the country's
long-term stability, Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa continues to
exacerbate tensions in his country, particularly those between Tamils and
Sinhalese, New York Republican Rep. Michael Grimm told Roll Call Newspaper
online Wednesday. “A prime and alarming example of this is the attempts by
Rajapaksa's regime to whitewash horrible actions by the government in the final
stages of Sri Lanka's civil war, where 10,000 to 40,000 ethnic Tamils were
slaughtered by government forces made up almost entirely of ethnic Sinhalese,”
said the former FBI agent and U.S. Marine.Full story >>
[Mon, 19 Dec 2011, 12:49 GMT]
Uprooted 1,486 Tamil families forced to stay by the Colombo authority in
structures called temporary welfare centres at Mallikaith-theevu, Paddith-thidal,
Ma'nat-cheanai and Kaddai-pa'richchaan in Moothoor DS division without being
allowed to resettle in their traditional villages in Champoor area are facing
untold suffering due to the incessant rain with gale now being experienced in
the Trincomalee district for about one week.Full story >>
[Sun, 18 Dec 2011, 15:38 GMT]
An historic legal milestone was passed last Friday in the Torture Victims
Protection Act (TVPA) lawsuit against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa for
the extra-judicial killings of six Sri Lankan Tamils pending in the United
States District Court for the District of Columbia, attorney for the plaintiffs,
Bruce Fein said. A lawyer representing President Rajapaksa from the mega-law
firm Patton Boggs LLC tacitly acknowledged receipt of the complaint and summons
filed by the Plaintiffs in a motion to request the District Court to ask the
U.S. Department of State for its views about the lawsuit. "The motion filed by
President Rajapaksa formally brings him into the case, where for the first time
he will be accountable to the rule of law, not the rule of the jungle," Fein
added. Full story >>
[Sat, 17 Dec 2011, 19:35 GMT]
After avoiding service for more than 9 months, and despite statements by Colombo
that Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse is not answerable to US Courts,
Rajapakse-appointed counsel from the lobby firm of Patton Boggs filed a motion
with the District Court of District of Columbia for "enlargement of time to
respond to the complaint" related to the legal action, 11-cv-00235, by three
Tamil plaintiffs sponsored by Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), a US-based activist
group. Legal observers expressed surprise at the filing, which, in addition to
effecting waiver of service, also attempts to set the time window for response
pleading tied to a discretionary act by Judge Kotelly on seeking view of the US
State Department. Full story >>
[Sat, 17 Dec 2011, 01:40 GMT]
Sri Lankan military occupying the Tamil country had appropriated 30 per cent of
the land in Jaffna district alone, under the so-called High Security Zones. What
has been given back is only 3 per cent, contrary to what the SL Army wants
outsiders to believe. The percentage of SL military appropriated lands still
remain 30 per cent or even more with the new lands acquired in the islets off
Jaffna, Maathakal and at Ki'laali, says a former senior academic of the
University of Jaffna. Speaking to journalists in Jaffna on Friday, the former
professor has also warned that the destructive and indiscriminate quarrying of
limestone at Kaangkeasanthu'rai (KKS), which is under the High Security Zone, is
going to make the groundwater in the peninsula to become saline.Full story >>
National Heros’ Day
Maaveerar
Naal is the day that we recognize, remember and honor our beloved brothers and
sisters who have not only sacrificed their life but also their youth, dreams and
ambitions for the independent Tamileelam. The 2011
Maaveerar Naal is ever so important as we the Tamils of the Diaspora recognize
that the torch... has not burned out, rather
it has been passed down to us to continue the struggle to free our homeland. We
must collectively work together to make the independent Tamileelam a reality in
the near future. Those
who have died shall not have died in vain.
Date : December 4th 2011 , Sunday at 7:00PM
Venue : Cypress Hall, 1300 Coral Springs Drive, Coral Springs, FL
ilathamil@gmail.com
Please consider boycott Sri Lankan products and
services.
Encourage the international community for the
freedom of Tamils.
பெருந்தீயாய்; சுட்டெரிக்கட்டும்;… தமிழக; தலைவர்கள்; ஆவேசம்;
http://www.tamilthai.com/?p=20437
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sri-lankas-killing-fields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wdu1K6V4FI&feature=channel_video_title
Sri Lankan government
condemned
BBC News
By Charlie Haviland BBC News, Colombo Former Sri
Lankan President
Chandrika Kumaratunga has condemned the current government, saying it
has failed to win peace in the country after the war. She alleged that
members of ethnic minorities are leaving the ... |
[Mon, 25 Jul 2011, 02:40 GMT]
British Tamils held a candle light vigil Saturday evening opposite the Prime
Minister’s official residence, 10 Downing Street, to remember victims of Sri
Lanka’s 1983 ‘Black July’ anti-Tamil pogrom. Six days of mob violence, organized
by ruling politicians and abetted by Sri Lanka’s security forces, which began on
July 23 that year killed over three thousand people, and emptied the capital,
Colombo, of Tamils. On Saturday, a thousand British Tamils dressed in black and
carrying black flags and Eelam national flags, held a vigil between 6 and 9 pm,
with lit candles and banners commemorating the pogrom. For several hours before
the vigil began, activists and supporters handed out leaflets in the surrounding
Whitehall area. The events were organized by the British Tamil Forum. Full story >>
Latest Action Alert
Take Action Now! (USA)
Bring Justice to Sri Lanka's Killing Fields
July 14, 2011
Last month UK's Channel 4 news aired Sri
Lanka's Killing Fields, a one-hour documentary that includes new video
evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between January and
May 2009. The brutal videos and photographs--described as the most horrific
Channel 4 has ever released--show hospitals in "no-fire zones" that were shelled
and bombed by the Sri Lankan government at least 65 times, extrajudicial
executions of Tamil prisoners by the Sri Lankan army, and dead bodies of females
who show signs of rape and sexual abuse. The film also includes the photographed
dead body of a female Tamil journalist as well as interviews with survivors of
the conflict.
Read more...
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 05 July 2011, 02:36 GMT]
Speaking on the BBC radio’s ‘Today’, one of Britain’s most popular current
affairs programs, Sri Lankan government representative Rajiva Wijesinghe
brazenly claimed Monday that Channel 4 had “apologized” for using “doctored”
video in its recent hard-hitting documentary on Sri Lanka. His claim immediately
drew a swift retort from Channel 4 which categorically denied the accusation and
said it “stood by the excellent journalism” of the film. On the BBC programme,
referring to international calls for investigations of the allegations, Prof.
Wijesinghe said “the people of Sri Lanka are not interested in witch hunts.”
Full story >>
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அமெரிக்க செனட்டர்கள் நேற்று சனல்-4 வீடியோ பார்த்தனர் |
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16 ஜுலை 2011, சனி 8:50 மு.ப |
 இலங்கையின்
போர்க்குற்றம் தொடர்பான சனல் 4 இன் ஆவணப்படத்தை
அமெரிக்காவின் செனட்சபை உறுப்பினர்கள் நேற்றுப்
பார்த்தனர்.மனித உரிமைகள் கண்காணிப்பகம், சர்வதேச
மன்னிப்புச் சபை, நெருக்கடிகளுக்கான சர்வதேசக் குழு
மற்றும் பகிரங்க சமூக மன்றம் ஆகியவற்றைச்
சேர்ந்தவர்களும் செனட்சபை உறுப்பினர்களுடன் இணைந்து
இந்த ஆவணப் படத்தைப் பார்த்தனர்.
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[Thu, 21 Jul 2011, 22:57 GMT]
A top minister in Mahinda Rajapaksa regime has publicly accepted
the mass-scale killing of Tamil civilians during the final
months of the war in 2009. SL Minister and the leader of
Democratic Left Front (DLF), Vasudeva Nanayakara on Tuesday said
that his party accepted the important fact that innocent
civilians have been killed during the Vanni war. Amid growing
international pressure for an international probe into the
credible allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka, Mr. Nanayakara,
who was on a propaganda drive seeking the public in Jaffna to
support the Rajapaksa alliance in the upcoming civic elections
in North, said that Tamils could only exert meaningful pressure
on the SL government by supporting his alliance. Full story >>
[Sat, 16 Jul 2011, 03:52 GMT]
Congressman James McGovern, co-chair of a US Congress human
rights commission named in honor of late lawmaker Tom Lantos,
described the Channel-4 documentary, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields,
as "a gruesome example of humans at their worst," AFP reported
after the 50-minute documentary was shown at the U.S. Capitol
Complex Friday as US lawmakers and rights advocates stepped up
calls for an international probe into Sri Lanka's civil war.
Nearly 300 people including several senior and influential
Congressional staff, diplomats from different countries and
State Department officials, and members of the public attended
the screening in the auditorium with a seating capacity of 450. Full story >>
[12.07.11]
Opinion: Jayalalithaa should play the role like Indira Gandhi on
Bangladesh Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister Ms. Jayalalithaa should make it a mission to campaign
for the independence of Eezham Tamils in the other states of India
and elsewhere. For two years before the independence of Bangladesh
Mrs Indira Gandhi quietly undertook a diplomatic campaign for it all
over the world. Now there is no one except Ms. Jayalalithaa who is
bestowed with the mantle to play such a role for the independence of
Eezham Tamils.
Related Story >>
[10.07.11]
UK Defence Minister accuses Labour regime for Sri Lanka’s war: The
visiting British Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox, while delivering the
Lakshman Kadirgamar Memorial Lecture in Colombo on Saturday, accused
the previous Labour government of UK for neglecting a political
process he had worked out in 1997 and thus contributing to war in
the island. Dr. Fox, viewed as one of the ‘friends’ the Rajapaksa
regime is harping on, pinned his hopes now on the LLRC report
expected in November and made only a passing remark on the need of
an inclusive political solution.
Related Story >>
[Thu, 14 Jul 2011, 11:44 GMT]
Sri Lanka police in Jaffna refuses permission to civic election
candidates of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to conduct public
meetings. Instead, the ‘advise’ the candidates to engage in
door-to-door campaign. But in the meantime, presidential sibling
Basil Rajapaksa and a team of 13 SL ministers are camping in Jaffna
to conduct Colombo’s campaign in various ways, misusing SL
government’s administration and resources, complain the TNA
candidates. SL president Mahinda Rajapaksa is also expected in
Jaffna to campaign for the civic elections in the guise of opening a
school building and laying foundation stones for certain projects. Full story >>
[Thu, 14 Jul 2011, 16:08 GMT]
Sri Lanka’s colonial governor for the country of Eezham Tamils in
the north, Maj. Gen. Chandrasri is now completely obsessed with
building Buddhist stupas, Sinhala colonisation and Sinhalicisation
of administration, news sources in Jaffna said. Building Buddhist
stupas at Old Park in Jaffna, where the provincial administration is
located, and at Mullaiththeevu town, the occupying SL governor
threatens the NGOs working in Vanni to pay ‘unaccounted’ money for
his projects. NGOs working in Vanni have to get annual clearance
from the SL president’s ‘special task force’ and the colonial
governor makes use of this situation to fleece money from the NGOs. Full story >>
[19.06.11]
Tamil Eelam is the solution: Loyola opinion poll in Tamil Nadu: 65
percent of the participants in an opinion poll conducted in Tamil
Nadu this month by Centre for Public Studies of the Loyola College
in Chennai said that an independent Tamil Eelam is the appropriate
permanent solution for the question of Tamils in the island of Sri
Lanka.
Related Story >>
[Wed, 06 Jul 2011, 19:43 GMT]
Professor
Karthigesu Sivathamy, an Eezham Tamil legend of Tamil Studies passed
away on Wednesday 8:20 p.m. local time at his home in Dehiwala,
Colombo. He succumbed to heart attack at the age of 79. The funeral
rituals are scheduled to be held on Sunday at his residence in
Colombo and the cremation will take place at Kanatta crematorium by
4:00 p.m. TamilNet joins the millions all over the world in paying
tribute to the scholar who has been providing academic leadership to
Tamils. He is survived by his wife Rupavathy Sivathamby and three
daughters, Mangai, Kothai and Varthani. Full story >>
[02.06.11]
European United Left upholds Tamil right to self-determination
including secession: A
conference organised by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL)
at the EU Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday, resolved that it
supported “the right to self determination of the Tamil-speaking
people, up to and including separation, if that is what they wish,
while safeguarding the rights of all minorities” and demanded the SL
state to shut down the military bases of the “army of occupation” in
North and East and sought a political solution addressing the
“national and democratic aspirations” of the Tamil people.
Related Story >>
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இந்தியா வலியுறுத்தி உள்ளது.