Reporting to the world on Tamil Affairs
|
|
Skulls with bullet-like holes excavated in Mannaar mass grave, women and children among victims[Thu, 19 Jul 2018, 23:22 GMT]  Human skeletons of massacred people including children and women embracing each other have emerged in the 37 day-long excavations of the brutal massacre site discovered at the entrance to the Tamil-speaking city of Mannaar island, which has been under the control of the Sinhala military. There was no doubt the slain victims were subjected to a brutal massacre, said an excavator on condition of anonymity. The excavators have discovered gunshot holes in the skulls. A young person's skeleton was found along with the skeleton of an embracing adult, visibly exposing the brutality of the massacre. So far, the unearthed skeletal remains give a head count of 29. However, the extent of the killing field is still expanding, possibly reaching out of the premises. Full story >>
Latest Reports:
Jul 19 23:22  Skulls with bullet-like holes excavated in Mannaar..Jul 18 19:21 Uprooted Mu'l'lik-ku'lam Tamils adopt Ira'nai-thee..Jul 17 21:29 Colombo steps up shadow war against NPC Chief Mini..Jul 16 22:48 SL Forest Department seizes agricultural lands of ..Jul 15 19:14 Families of enforced disappeared vehemently oppose..Jul 14 19:35  SL High Court in Vavuniyaa tricked again into post..Jul 13 23:20 NPC CM declines participation in Colombo's unilate..Jul 12 12:22 Genocidal Sri Lanka seizes ancient coastal hamlet ..Jul 11 18:20 Collaborationist sections of TNA lose significance..Jul 10 21:53 SL Military Intelligence recommences recruitment o..Jul 09 22:30 Antiquities Ordinance used to justify Sinhalicisat..Jul 08 19:06 TNPF protests against Colombo's move to militarise..Jul 07 19:56 SL Police in Champoor blocks remembrance of Tamils..Jul 06 23:17 Jaffna University silent to Colombo's pressure, mo..Jul 05 23:49 Tamils need native movements to confront Colombo-c.. Uprooted Mu'l'lik-ku'lam Tamils adopt Ira'nai-theevu approach, enter their lands seized by SL Navy[Wed, 18 Jul 2018, 19:21 GMT]  SL Forest Department seizes agricultural lands of Eezham Tamils in Paduvaan-karai[Mon, 16 Jul 2018, 22:48 GMT] The so-called Forest Conservation Department of occupying Colombo has seized a small pond, known as Ka'lik-ku'lam, and almost 500 acres of lands in the vicinity of Unnichchai 6th Mile Post. The Eezham Tamil villagers have been using the area for Cheanai (slash-and-burn) cultivation for decades. The villagers, who have resettled after the end of war and who also received housing through the ‘National Housing Development Authority’, complain that they are unable to continue with their livelihoods of agriculture, fresh-water fishing and animal farming as a direct consequence of the latest occupation, which has been carried out by the SL Forest Department. Full story >>SL High Court in Vavuniyaa tricked again into postponing hearings on TPP case[Sat, 14 Jul 2018, 19:35 GMT] The Attorney General Department of the unitary state of genocidal Sri Lanka has once again managed to get the SL High Court in Vavuniyaa to postpone the long-awaited hearing on a case involving three Tamil political prisoners (TPP) by two months. After re-transferring case back to Vavuniyaa from the so-called Special Court in Anuradhapura, a previous hearing at the Vavuniyaa was also postponed at the request of the SL Attorney General's Department, which was arguing that it needed time to locate a witness, who was supposed to appear for the hearing in Vavuniyaa. In the meantime, Vavuniyaa High Court Judge Sasi Mahendran, well versed in the particular case, has been transferred away from the High Court in Vavuniyaa. Judge Mahendran has been critical of the role played by the AG Department. Full story >>Genocidal Sri Lanka seizes ancient coastal hamlet of Tamil-speaking aborigines in Trincomalee[Thu, 12 Jul 2018, 12:22 GMT] The occupying Colombo is systematically absorbing Ilakkanthai, a fishing hamlet and an ancient settlement of Tamil Veddahs, located in the southeastern sector of Moothoor East in Trincomalee district. The coastal village was maintaining close links with neighbouring Paddaa'li-puram and Champoor and was previously under the control of LTTE. There were at least 210 families before the people were fully uprooted due to the war in 2006. After 2010, the occupying SL Navy didn't want the Veddahs to resettle in Ilakkanthai. The aboriginal people were given housing at Paaddaa'li-puram together with the Veddahs from Veera-maanakar. Later, the SL Navy reduced its presence there. The ancient hamlet of indigenous people is now being absorbed by the Forest Conservation Department of the unitary state of genocidal Sri Lanka. Full story >>SL Military Intelligence recommences recruitment of notorious ex-paramilitary operatives[Tue, 10 Jul 2018, 21:53 GMT] SL President Maithiripala Sirisena, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the occupying military, and SL Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe have given green signals to the respective intelligence services under their control to recommence recruitment of former Tamil paramilitary operatives in the occupied country of Eezham Tamils in the North and East, informed ex-paramilitary sources in Jaffna said.
Full story >>TNPF protests against Colombo's move to militarise Jaffna Fort[Sun, 08 Jul 2018, 19:06 GMT] The Tamil National Peoples’ Front (TNPF) staged a protest outside the Jaffna Fort against the move by the occupying SL military to militarise a section of the Jaffna Fort. The TNPF protesters also blamed Emmanuel Arnold, the Mayor of Jaffna and the TNA politicians who collaborate with the SL Governor in North Reginald Cooray, who is advocating militarisation of Jaffna Fort. Full story >>Jaffna University silent to Colombo's pressure, motives behind Fort excavation questioned[Fri, 06 Jul 2018, 23:17 GMT] The Colombo-based Archaeology Department of the unitary state of genocidal Sri Lanka is pushing for the presence of the SL military inside the Jaffna Fort. The move hints a deep-rooted motive of checkmating the native Tamil academics and their institutions from engaging in independent research. Mainly depending on the funds and the academic focus of the UK-based ‘UNESCO Chair on Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage’ of the Durham University, which is flowing through the Colombo-centric unitary mechanism, the academics of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of History, avoid opposition to the Sinhala militarization of the Jaffna Fort, they further commented. In the meantime, the occupying SL military has started to put up foundation structures for a military point, just 100 meters close to the archaeological excavation site, on Friday. Full story >>Geneva-based human rights regime is big disappointment: Tamil political prisoners[Wed, 04 Jul 2018, 20:29 GMT] Tamil political prisoners languishing in Anuradhapura prison have questioned the role of the international community, particularly the UN human rights regime based in Geneva, in defending their rights. The successive High Commissioners of Human Rights, as well as the council mechanism of the UNHRC, have failed to exert pressure on the unitary state of genocidal Sri Lanka to release the prisoners of the times of war. The comment comes from the Tamil prisoners, who learned on Monday that the so-called Special High Court in Anuradhapura, which was set up to address their cases, transferred their cases back to Anuradhapura High Court, after dragging the cases for five more years. Full story >>Macro-level approach needed to confront genocidal land grab in Mullaiththeevu[Mon, 02 Jul 2018, 22:55 GMT] The occupying military of genocidal Sri Lanka is deploying the ethnic chauvinist Archaeology Department of the unitary State with a motive to permanently Sinhalicise a private property, which is of religious significance to the native Tamils at Oddu-chuddaan in Mullaiththeevu, after being repeatedly confronted by the family of the 62-year-old landowner, V. Kanagasundaram. The SL military invited the family at the presence of the Divisional Secretary on 25 June to a meeting in which their 5-acre land was supposed to be handed back to the rightful owner. J. Indrakumar, an official at the Divisional Secretariat also confirmed that the SL military had invited the family to release the lands. However, the meeting turned out to be a different one, the family told TamilNet. Full story >>Colombo accelerates delinking of Tamil-speaking demographic contiguity in North-East[Sat, 30 Jun 2018, 22:08 GMT] SL Governor to East Rohitha Bogollagama, conspiring with the Sinhala-Buddhist establishment and the administrative officials of the unitary state, has instructed the Divisional Secretary of Kuchchave'li to survey 400 acres of lands at Arisimalai, which is located 50 km north of Trincomalee city. The Sinhala colonial governor was arguing in favour of the extremist Sinhala Buddhist monks stating that the lands belong to the Buddhist vihara. The move, which has long been objected by the Tamil-speaking Muslims, is surfacing again at the absence of an elected Provincial Council in the East. Tamil-speaking activists in Pulmoaddai say that the Sinhala Buddhist establishment is trying to survey at least 1,300 acres of lands from Arisimalai to Thiriyaay in the division of Kuchchave'li. Full story >>Sinhalas have come in big way, as opening of Kandyan Kingdom: Rt Rev Jebanesan[Thu, 28 Jun 2018, 23:38 GMT] Tamils had been the first inhabitants and an original people of this island. Although some historians accept that fact, the present Sinhala historians do not take it. Back in the old days, when H.C. Ray was the professor of history at the University of Ceylon, he used to refute the claim that Tamils were interlopers. The interlopers were the Sinhalas and not the Tamils, he used to say. However, one is unable to resonate that fact anymore, says Rt Rev Dr S Jebanesan, the former Bishop of the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India, in an exclusive interview to TamilNet. The tyranny of the ‘majority’ is dominating the post-colonial political discourses and the case of ‘Sri Lanka’ is a classic example of this trend, the scholar of philosophy, theology as well as the Tamil and English languages, said. Full story >>2ND LEAD (Correction) Two Tamil girls brutally raped by occupying Sinhala soldiers of genocidal Sri Lanka[Tue, 26 Jun 2018, 23:26 GMT] Sinhala-speaking soldiers of the 18th Sri Lanka National Guard have brutally raped two Tamil school girls in Batticaloa on 18 June. The victims are at the age of thirteen and fifteen. The two girls, and a 6-year-old boy, who is the brother of one of the victims, were being chased by the occupying soldiers sometime after 8:00 a.m. Then, the soldiers stuffed clothes into the mouth of the girls, bound their hands and took them away. The rapists were from the 18th SLNG stationed at Panichchang-kea'ni junction, according to the available information. Full story >>Sand mining, backed by Colombo's authority and monk, destroys ecology of verukal river[Sun, 24 Jun 2018, 22:32 GMT] A Sinhala trader from Kantha'laay in Trincomalee district, Ms Ramani Herath, is operating a sand mining business exploiting Verukal river basin at Aaladi in Koa'ra'laip-pattu North (Vaakarai) division, north of Batticaloa. The sand extraction is going on disregarding the concerns of the native people of erosion and other mining-induced consequences disrupting the channel and the habitat. At least 24 truckloads of sands are being transported to Colombo on a daily basis, deploying the vehicles of a Tamil businessman from Chengkaladi, local government sources in Vaakarai told TamilNet. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were protecting Vaakarai from structural genocide and exploitation during the times of peace and war until 2007 when the entire area faced an all-out genocidal war by the SL State. Full story >>Colombo steps up shadow war against NPC Chief Minister Wigneswaran[Tue, 17 Jul 2018, 21:29 GMT] The Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial Council, Justice C.V. Wigneswaran, has stated that he would be opposing the level of militarisation even if the SL military was to behave in a manner attracting the people of the North by doing good deeds. In his weekly Tamil statement formatted as Q&As, Wigneswaran was responding to the latest comment coming from Lt Gen Mahesh Senanayake, the commander of the SL military, that the NPC CM was trying to cause a rift between the SL military and the people in the North. In the meantime, Tamil political observers in Jaffna said Colombo had staged a series of hostile events in the recent days with the hidden agenda to checkmate the emerging symbolic leadership of the mainstream Tamil politics. Full story >>Families of enforced disappeared vehemently oppose OMP sittings in North[Sun, 15 Jul 2018, 19:14 GMT] The sittings by the deceptive ‘Office of the Missing Persons’ (OMP) held in Jaffna and Ki'linochchi this weekend received strong opposition as the families of enforced disappeared, who have been protesting for more than 500 days, conclusively rejecting the OMP as a farce. The protesters in Jaffna did not stop with their symbolic protest outside the building. They also protested inside the hall where the sitting went on with a few attendees. Finally, the SL police were invited to control the situation. Full story >>NPC CM declines participation in Colombo's unilateral task force for so-called Development[Fri, 13 Jul 2018, 23:20 GMT] “National Unity and Integration cannot be forged by foisting so-called development on the politically affected people of the North and East. The political settlement of the problem of the Tamil speaking people of the North and East should precede any such development processes,” said Chief Minister of Northern Province Justice C.V. Wigneswaran in a reply sent to SL President Maithiripala Siriena on Monday. He was declining to accept being nominated to the overwhelmingly Colombo-controlled 48-member SL Presidential Task Force to direct, coordinate and monitor ‘development activities’ in the Northern and Eastern Provinces. Full story >>Collaborationist sections of TNA lose significance, Wigneswaran holds key to unified Tamil polity[Wed, 11 Jul 2018, 18:20 GMT] The policy outlook adopted by the US-led bandwagonism of the West and that of India is tightly in sync with each other. Their modus operandi is nothing else than pure appeasement of the accelerating Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism in the South. They would be prepared to sacrifice the democratic aspirations of Eezham Tamils as their manoeuvrings are aimed at gaining strategic access to this island. However, they find themselves in a delicate situation today as they could no longer dictate the terms of Tamil political debate through the collaborationist sections of the TNA, says Political Analyst S.A. Jothilingam in an exclusive interview to TamilNet on Friday. Thanks to the role played by Justice C.V. Wigneswaran, the mainstream discourse is getting shaped to the point that it is now practically possible to forge a unified Tamil polity for Tamils once again, he says. Full story >>Antiquities Ordinance used to justify Sinhalicisation of 48 locations in Mullaiththeevu[Mon, 09 Jul 2018, 22:30 GMT] The intruding Sinhala-Buddhist establishment and the occupying military of genocidal Sri Lanka are rushing ahead with the expansion of an already reconstructed Buddhist temple, the so-called Gurukanda Raja Maha Vihara (Gurukanda RMV), which is located at Chemma'ni, Naayaa'ru in the coastal Karai-thu'raip-pattu division of Mullaiththeevu district. As the protesting Tamil land-owners successfully blocked the surveying of the lands earlier this month, the intruders are now citing an Extraordinary Gazette notification, issued in 2013 (1823/73) during the times of Rajapaksa rule, to proceed with their plans of expanding the Vihara, the civil sources at the District Secretariat said. Full story >>SL Police in Champoor blocks remembrance of Tamils massacred by SL military[Sat, 07 Jul 2018, 19:56 GMT] The occupying Sinhala Army of genocidal Sri Lanka indiscriminately massacred more than 130 Eezham Tamils in Moothoor East in Trincomalee district on 07th and 08th of July in 1990, launching a so-called cordon and search operation. The people of Champoor and other villages commemorate the massacre victims every year. Last year, they marked the event on 07 July at the presence of TNA Parliamentarian K Thurairatnesingham putting up a basic structure in remembrance of those who perished. This year, the SL Police informed the people on Friday that it has prohibited the memorial event, which was scheduled to take place on Saturday. The United States Indo-Pacific Command is grooming the marine force of genocidal Sri Lanka at Champoor. Full story >>2ND LEAD (Correction) Tamils need native movements to confront Colombo-centric environmental exploitations[Thu, 05 Jul 2018, 23:49 GMT] Many recent reports from the eastern coast of the North-East indicate a widespread pattern of various corporate and state-centric exploitations targeting the natural resources of the territorial sea and the coast of the North-East. Colombo-based corporates and traders are exploiting export-related businesses, be it sea cucumber export to China, fake mangroves and minerals to the USA and Japan, or mining sand for shipping to the neighbouring state of Maldives. On top of this, Colombo-centric State-to-State relationships originating from geopolitics-driven ‘development’ narrative, as well as military to military ‘exchanges’, are challenging the sovereignty of Eezham Tamils in a big-scale along the territorial sea and the strategic cost. Full story >>Source files from one of digital cameras witnessing 2009 genocide released to public domain[Tue, 03 Jul 2018, 23:39 GMT]  Champoor Tamils experience trauma as Colombo trains marine forces in occupied Moothoor East[Sun, 01 Jul 2018, 10:20 GMT] The occupying navy of genocidal Sri Lanka deployed its marine commandos in a convoy of 45 vehicles, including 15 armoured cars, in one of the biggest training exercises to be traumatically experienced by the resettled Eezham Tamils in Moothoor East of Trincomalee district on Friday. The war-affected families, especially the elder-generation among them, were caught in trauma due to the roaming vehicles and the live firing, which reminded them of the times of genocidal onslaught in 2007. The political observers in the East ask the question for whom the marine force is getting prepared at the physical and psychological expense of war-affected Eezham Tamils of Moothoor East. Full story >>Sinhala colonisation chokes off territorial contiguity of Tamil homeland at Thennai-maravadi[Fri, 29 Jun 2018, 23:05 GMT]  Occupying Colombo steps up sting operations to justify continuation of draconian PTA[Wed, 27 Jun 2018, 22:31 GMT] The so-called Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of occupying Colombo has detained six Tamil men in the Ki'linochchi district during the last four days. Most of the arrested are believed to be ex-LTTE members. The recent arrests by the SL TID come following an incident on 22 June at former LTTE stronghold of Puthukkudiyiruppu (PTK) in Mullaiththeevu district. The entire episode seems to be a sting operation initiated by the SL military intelligence to project a false impression that there were ex-LTTE members, still interested in reviving an armed struggle, informed sources in Ki'linochchi told TamilNet on Wednesday. The operation seems to combine counter-insurgency experiments along with an intention to justify the continuation of the draconian and abusive ‘Prevention of Terrorism Act’ (PTA), the sources further said. Full story >>SL authorities dilly-dally over covering costs of excavating mass grave in Mannaar[Mon, 25 Jun 2018, 07:27 GMT] The excavation of the mass grave, discovered last month at the premises of the Cooperative Wholesale Establishment (CWE) in Mannaar, face the danger of cancellation or postponement as the SL authorities have started to dilly-dally over the coverage of the expenses associated with the process, legal sources in Mannaar said. In the meantime, the social activists and the relatives of the people subjected to enforced disappearance in Mannaar believe that the occupying military of genocidal Sri Lanka, which was stationed at the locality during the times of war, had dumped the abducted Tamils at the site. The representatives of the enforced families believe that the victims were killed sometime between 1982 and 1992. Full story >>Continuing military excavations in Vanni imply existence of secret detention of ex-LTTE members[Sat, 23 Jun 2018, 23:46 GMT] The head of Mullaiththeevu district organisation of the families of enforced disappeared, Ms Easwary Mariyathas, told TamilNet on Saturday that the recent upsurge of ‘treasure hunting’ operations by the occupying military of genocidal Sri Lanka, was an indicator that the SL military was still detaining ex-LTTE members in secret detentions. There have been many recent incidents in which SL military or SL military associated groups from the South, engaging in targeted treasure hunting operations in the Vanni mainland. The squads seem to be particularly interested in finding gold reserves from the LTTE times. Full story >>
Flashback:
2017: 2017 Jul 22 13:58 Judge Ilancheliyan narrowly escapes assassinati... 2017 Jul 22 12:54 Families of enforced disappeared categorically ... 2013: 2013 Jul 22 23:38 Colombo engages in widespread Sinhalicisation o... 2013 Jul 22 23:26 Hezbollah military wing added to EU terror list 2012: 2012 Jul 22 22:52 Fasting in London against genocidal Sri Lanka t... 2012 Jul 22 21:59 SL minister Badurdeen competes with SLA on appr... 2011: 2011 Jul 22 20:38 91 killed in Norway, Tamil politician escapes m... 2011 Jul 22 03:01 US Congress panel votes to bar aid to Sri Lanka 2011 Jul 22 02:47 Rajapaksa gives Tamil Nadu trio stage fright 2011 Jul 22 00:27 India signs MoU with Colombo to ‘rehabilitate’ ... 2010: 2010 Jul 22 17:35 SLA soldiers continue to plunder abandoned hous... 2010 Jul 22 15:41 Uprooted civilians in Kodikaamam starve due to ... 2010 Jul 22 11:14 SLA soldier taking drugs to Kilinochchi arrested 2010 Jul 22 06:19 IFJ condemns death threats to journalist's fami... 2010 Jul 22 00:05 TNA seeks TN Chief Minister's help, writes Sinh... 2009: 2009 Jul 22 19:23 Opening A9 route, an election gimmick – Mudiyap... 2009 Jul 22 11:23 5 buses take passengers from Jaffna through A9 ... 2009 Jul 22 10:09 Dengue detected among IDPs in Vavuniyaa 2009 Jul 22 08:34 Galle MC opposition leader shot dead 2009 Jul 22 00:17 Colombo denies visa extension to AP's Sri Lanka... 2008: 2008 Jul 22 20:49 2 Tamil labourers abducted in Colombo 2008 Jul 22 20:47 3 Tamil youths arrested in Kandy 2008 Jul 22 20:07 Hassan Ali takes oaths as UNP national list par... 2008 Jul 22 18:26 Congress-led coalition in India manages victory... 2008 Jul 22 17:26 SLA launches large scale cordon, search in Then... 2008 Jul 22 16:38 Youth shot dead, 2 injured in SLA shooting in J... 2008 Jul 22 13:22 2 civilians shot dead in two separate incidents... 2008 Jul 22 11:25 Looming humanitarian crisis in Vanni 2008 Jul 22 08:12 Tamil youth abducted in Kalmunai 2008 Jul 22 08:01 White van confiscated in EPDP Chengkaladi office 2008 Jul 22 04:38 IDP abducted in Batticaloa 2008 Jul 22 04:20 Thousands flee SLA artillery barrage 2008 Jul 22 04:15 Sri Lanka rejects LTTE truce offer, responses d... 2007: 2007 Jul 22 14:34 Two pronged SLA operation thwarted - LTTE 2007 Jul 22 14:21 American Tamils to demonstrate in Washington DC 2007 Jul 22 14:19 TNA urges Tamils to protest against Moothoor HSZ 2007 Jul 22 13:31 Court orders remand for 24 suspects under ER 2007 Jul 22 13:12 Court fixes 2001 Katunayake attack hearing 2007 Jul 22 12:35 Bill to provide for 48 hour-detention of suspects 2006: 2006 Jul 22 17:22 Man shot dead near Jaffna town 2006 Jul 22 15:42 Two Tamil youths shot dead in Kalmunai 2006 Jul 22 15:34 TRO staffer recounts Army torture 2006 Jul 22 09:54 Young man shot dead in Kopay North, Jaffna 2006 Jul 22 09:20 Men in white van abduct fisherman in Pt.Pedro 2006 Jul 22 04:54 68-year old man shot dead in Puttur East, Jaffna 2006 Jul 22 04:14 SLA soldier killed, 3 wounded in Meesalai Claym... 2006 Jul 22 01:24 Colombo Muslims protest against Gaza, Lebanon a... 2006 Jul 22 00:22 SLA vehicle accident injures 3 civilians in Kopay 2005: 2005 Jul 22 13:49 Colombo to file objections to P-TOMS stay order 2005 Jul 22 10:35 World leaders call for early Presidential elect... 2005 Jul 22 10:30 Japan funds rural development in Badulla 2005 Jul 22 06:08 One civilian, policeman killed in Pottuvil 2005 Jul 22 01:10 Stay order defers expropriation of estate worke... 2004: 2004 Jul 22 22:23 SLA condemned for opposing student participatio... 2004 Jul 22 17:20 Trader complains of SLA intimidation 2004 Jul 22 16:43 Australian High Commissioner visits Jaffna 2004 Jul 22 12:01 Curb activities of paramilitaries, SLMM urges S... 2004 Jul 22 09:43 SLA officer says he arrested missing Jaffna youth 2004 Jul 22 05:03 Insurance salesman shot dead in Batticaloa 2003: 2003 Jul 22 20:54 Hartal in the East for the second day 2003 Jul 22 16:19 Woman SL soldier suspect in murder case remanded 2003 Jul 22 15:31 NE local government week celebration concluded 2003 Jul 22 14:48 Undergrads, public prevent holding of EU function 2003 Jul 22 03:06 Contractors signed up for Reconstruction in the... 2003 Jul 22 03:03 Slow progress in supplying electricity to Omanthai 2001: 2001 Jul 22 15:40 STF forces villagers into hard labour 2001 Jul 22 15:34 President outlines "Constitutional Revolution" 2000: 2000 Jul 22 21:04 Buddhism's status maintained - Government reass... 2000 Jul 22 21:02 Four civilians killed in air raid - radio 2000 Jul 22 21:00 Vavuniya HRC records 55 complaints 2000 Jul 22 10:37 UNP leader walks out of talks with govt. 2000 Jul 22 08:25 Package in Parliament next month - minister 1999: 1999 Jul 22 12:06 Peace before development -World Bank told 1999 Jul 22 10:15 SLA continues Jaffna sweep 1999 Jul 22 08:26 Sea transfers for stranded travellers 1998:
1998 Jul 22 23:59 Police to investigate mass graves 1998 Jul 22 23:59 Uncertainty over journalists' arrests 1998 Jul 22 23:59 Doubts over cause of death 1998 Jul 22 23:59 Tension ahead of Black July anniversary  Wilbur asks: "Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you." "You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heavens knows anyone's life can stand a little of that." 
|
Know the Etymology: 332 Place Name of the Day: (332 of 500 revised) Koyilā-maṉai/ Kōyilā-maṉai  The temple house; or the house of the temple servants  [05.03.18] FIU of CBSL emerges as networked Intel outfit against Tamils in homeland, Diaspora: The so-called Financial Investigative Unit (FIU) of the Central Bank of the unitary State of genocidal Sri Lanka (CBSL), which is led by a Colombo-based ‘Sri Lankan’ Tamil, Indrajith Coomaraswamy, is scheming rigid controls on Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) in the North-East with a ‘counter-insurgency’ role. Related Story >>  [15.02.18] Wives of enforced disappeared exposed to nightmare on Valentine's Day: At a stage event organised by the so-called Families of Disappeared (FoD) operated by Colombo based NGO and diplomatic community, Tamil women from the East were exposed to the traumatic experience of narrating their love stories with their husbands. Related Story >>  [20.01.18] STF, SL departments harass resettled Tamils in Madu: The guards and officials of various SL departments as well as the notorious commandos of the StF are repeatedly harassing the 300 resettled and poverty-stricken Eezham Tamils of Ira'ndaam-kaddai (2nd Mile Post), which is located between Madu Shrine and Sinhala militarised Madu Road Junction in Mannaar district. Related Story >>  [15.01.18] Sinhala Buddhicisation stepped up in Trincomalee North: SL Presidential Secretariat in Colombo is exerting pressure on Tamil Divisional Secretary not to interfere in the affairs of extreme Sinhala Buddhist monks, who are engaged in cultural genocide in Kumpu'rup-piddi in Trincomalee North. Related Story >>  [01.01.18] Colombo demonstrates ‘foremost place’ to Buddhism at Champoor: The SL Archaeology Department, extremist Sinhala Buddhist monks, Sinhala governor and his wife are all jointly working for Sinhala Buddhicisation of Champoor, where SL Navy, groomed by the U.S. Pacific Command under the notion of 'military-to-military' engagement, is having its training base for the marines of genocidal Sri Lanka. Related Story >>  [25.12.17] SL Army wages Sinhala-Buddhicisaton of Baron's Cap in Batticaloa Northwest: With the collaboration of ministries of Fisheries and Tourism, 232 Brigade of the Army of occupying Sri Lanka is Sinhalicising the Kudumpi-malai area of Batticaloa district. Related Story >>  [17.12.17] Enduring psychological disaster of families of enforced disappeared conveyed through film: The story writer and director of the award winning short-film, Uru (Trance), 49-year-old Gnanadas Kasinathar, narrates the depth of psychological disaster as witnessed by him on the ground. The film, shot in Batticaloa, is inspired by the stories of long enduring sufferings of the enforced disappeared families. Related Story >>  [13.11.17] Factoring political solution more important than addressing human rights: Not only did the Sri Lankan regime won the war against the Tamil liberation force, it might even win the propaganda war if the problems of Tamils in the island are exclusively focused on human rights to the neglect of the fundamental question of a long lasting political solution, commented Deputy Chief Minister of Penang state in Malaysia, Professor P. Ramasamy, told TamilNet on Monday. Related Story >>  [08.10.17] SL constitutional discourse seen coupled with ‘Vision 2025’ policy of genocidal Sri Lanka: The World Bank, the IMF and the WTO are behind the agenda that seeks to permanently lock Eezham Tamils into a Colombo-centric single-unit of genocidal Sri Lanka. The interim report on the constitutional discourse should be seen coupled with ‘Vision 2025’, launched by the Agent State in Colombo in September 2017. Related Story >>  [20.09.17] Sathasivam papers on Sumerian-Tamil connections see the light of day: Four pioneering research papers on the Dravidian connections between ancient Sumerian and Tamil, written between 1964 and 1987 by Eezham Tamil scholar, the late Prof A Sathasivam, gain new significance today because of the current advancements in coupling linguistics with DNA studies. Related Story >>  [04.07.17] Understanding ‘Quisling politics’ and facing it with ‘Navaratnam School of Thought’: Eezham Tamils should grasp the synthesis of the Colombo-centric Quisling politics, which is being brought into them by the global powers and regain their strength to address it through the school of thought embraced by enlightened leaders of Eezham Tamils in the past. Related Story >>  [08.06.17] Netherlands-funded CEPA project wages political ‘counter-insurgency’ on Tamils: Colombo-based NGO outfit, Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA), is tasked to recruit gullible and opportunistic sections of the diaspora expanding Rajapaksa-time ‘KP-Diaspora’ programme. The programme is funded by the foreign ministries of the USA, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, Switzerland and Australia. Related Story >>  [20.02.16] The Tamil Genocide by Sri LankaThe second edition with over 150 new pages traces the ongoing engagement in the Sri Lankan conflict of Professor Francis A. Boyle, an eminent American expert in international law, from the conflict’s last years to the present pursuit of UN recognition of the Tamil genocide and call for reparations. It is the first book to develop an authoritative case for genocide against the Government of Sri Lanka under international law. The book is available from Clarity Press, Amazon in soft cover or in Kindle version.  [11.11.15] South Africa to Singapore: global Tamils grasping geopolitics to act: The South African conference held in Durban has come out with many demands that are dear to the heart of Tamils, such as demilitarisation, stopping Sinhala colonisation, repeal of the 6th Amendment to facilitate free negotiation etc. But the slip was still showing when the conference avoided the term genocide. What was more ironical that betrayed the deception was the slogan of the conference organizers that called the country they want to salvage as ‘Sri Lanka’, boldly written in Tamil. Related Story >>  [04.11.15] Tamil leadership need not shy away or react to unfair challenge coming from Sumanthiran: Eezham Tamil polity seeking pardon from Tamil-speaking Muslims should be unassuming, but it should come in an enlightening way to the edification of the Colombo-centric agenda or the powers-guided agenda, pursued in the past as well as in the present. Otherwise, it may only amount to conferring impunity to the State in Colombo and its abettors. Related Story >>  [06.05.15] Retired land commissioner of Eastern Province on Structural Genocide against Eezham Tamils: The systematic seizure of traditional lands belonging to the Tamil speaking people of the North-East have been widespread under the guise of archaeological, forest and wild-life conservations and subsequently carried out through the acts of demarcating these lands under the purview of the state apparatuses such as the Archaeological Department, Forest Department and the Wild-life Conservation Department, says retired Land Commissioner of the Eastern Province Karthirgamathamby Kurunathan, in an in-depth video interview to TamilNet. Related Story >>  [05.05.15] TNPF rejects ‘domestic investigations’ upheld by USA: The fact that the United States and the US Secretary of State John Kerry would consider the post January 08th 2015 situation in Sri Lanka, with the new government favourable, is understandable. But, for him to suggest that there is a favourable condition for the Tamils, is stretching too far, said Tamil National Peoples Front (TNPF) Leader Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, responding to a question from TamilNet. Related Story >>  [02.05.15] Sivaram, Wigneswaran saw futility in convincing Sinhala polity: senior editor: The failure of Sivaram and his transfer into a staunch Tamil nationalist is analogical to the political course and current stand of the NPC Chief Minister, Mr C.V. Wigneswaran, said veteran Tamil journalist and editor, Mr. V. Thevaraj, addressing the 10th assassination anniversary meet of Sivaram held in Batticaloa on Wednesday. Related Story >> |
|
News | Features | Opinion | Palaka'ni | Photo Features | TN Transcription
Web feeds | Feedback | Home | About us |
Copyright © 1997-2018 TamilNet
URL: http://www.tamilnet.com
email: tamilnet@tamilnet.com
URL: http://www.tamilnet.com
email: tamilnet@tamilnet.com