President George W. Bush speaks to the press after the signing of the 2008 Economic Report Monday Feb. 11, 2008, in the Oval Office. Joining President Bush are, from left, Chuck Blahous, Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy; Pierce Scranton, Chief of Staff, Council of Economic Advisers; Eddie Lazear, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers; Donald Marron, Senior Economic Adviser, Council of Economic Advisers; and Keith Hennessey, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian

 

VaNakkam

Thangamma Appakuddi


This is to inform that " Siva Thamil Chelvi" Thangammah Appakkuddy passed away in Jaffna at the age of 83. She has sacrificed her whole life to Saivam and Tamil. Her last rites will be conducted at Thellippalai.

 

Ilankai Thamil Sangam will conduct a prayer services in memory of Siva Thamil Chelvi on 06/21/2008 at 5.00 PM at South Florida Hindu Temple.

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Nanri

Shanthini Jayanthan

Secretary

Illankai Thamil Sangam

 

 

SLA appropriating Tamil IDPs' properties in Ampaa’rai district

[Sun, 01 Jun 2008, 09:38 GMT]
The appropriation of the properties of the Internally Displaced People (IDP) and a Non-government organization in the Tamil areas in Ampaa’rai district by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Special Task Force (STF) Friday is a premeditated government plan to prevent the displaced from resettling in their traditional villages, K. Pathmananthan, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian for Thikaamaduva in Ampaa’rai district, said. Full story >>

 

Esquivel Tutu Carter
[24.05.08]
Ground facts, Rights lobby cause Sri Lanka's UN debacle: Despite determined lobbying by Colombo during and prior to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) session at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the stark history of gross rights violations by Sri Lanka Security forces, the unfolding ground situation including the exit of International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) from rights monitoring from the island, and intense lobbying by several Rights organization including three Peace Nobel laureates, have led to the ignominous defeat of Sri Lanka Wednesday in securing the sought after coveted spot in the Human Rights Council of the UN.
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Sri Lanka not fit to be in UN Rights Council- Tutu

[Thu, 15 May 2008, 11:36 GMT]
Archbishop Desmond Tutu"With a terrible record of torture and disappearance, Sri Lanka doesn't deserve a seat on the UN human rights council. It should be voted out," says the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, in a comment that appeared on the daily Guardian, U.K., May 15th edition. Full story >>

 

 

Malaysia: People's verdict and Government's defiance

[Sun, 30 Mar 2008, 19:43 GMT]
M ManoharanMalaysian government’s refusal to free M.Manoharan, who was elected to Selangor State Assembly in the last elections but still kept in custody under the Internal Security Act, is condemned by the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP), reported AFP on Sunday. "It shows that Prime Minister Abdulla Ahmed Badawi's administration has not really heard the voice of the people in the March 8 political tsunami to change towards a more democratic and accountable Malaysian society. The ISA detentions are used as political instruments to suppress dissent. It has no relationship whatsoever with national security," said DAP leader Lim Kit Siang to AFP. Full story >>

Bruce Fein
[29.03.08]
U.S. Rights report fortifies moral, legal entitlement of Tamil state- Fein: Commenting on the recent U.S report on Human Rights in Sri Lanka, Bruce Fine, an attorney for a Tamil activist group in the U.S., in a statement released to the media Wednesday, asserts that, “[t]he fact that the United States would savage the human rights record of the GOSL [Government of Sri Lanka] means that its [Sri Lanka’s] actual terrorism record is far more gruesome than represented. The report thus fortifies the moral and legal entitlement of Tamils to a separate statehood.”
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