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2011: 2011 Jun 11 21:16 Koppe: Tamil demand for retributive justice jus... 2011 Jun 11 15:23 War crimes documentary publicity infuriates Col... 2011 Jun 11 12:43 Rathika makes maiden speech in English, Tamil a... 2011 Jun 11 07:06 SL Intelligence intimidates Tamils to sell land... 2010: 2010 Jun 11 23:38 India treats Sri Lankans on a par with Chinese ... 2010 Jun 11 16:55 Douglas Devananda says charges against him in M... 2010 Jun 11 14:17 China, India, USA work to increase influence in... 2010 Jun 11 04:23 Students, schools in Vanni disregarded 2010 Jun 11 02:08 Tamil Commemorative stamp released in US 2009: 2009 Jun 11 22:44 SLA impedes transport of goods by lorries to Ja... 2009 Jun 11 22:06 Independent group pays deposit for Jaffna MC El... 2009 Jun 11 20:13 11 journalists killed, 50 abducted since 2005 –... 2009 Jun 11 19:06 Sinhala goons destroy Jesus statue in Minneriya 2009 Jun 11 14:00 62 dead bodies of IDPs unclaimed at hospital mo... 2009 Jun 11 11:35 Neelson accuses NGO of supporting "dictatorship... 2008: 2008 Jun 11 23:53 Veteran Tamil civil servant Sangaravel passes away 2008 Jun 11 22:07 19 SLA killed in Vavuniyaa fighting - LTTE 2008 Jun 11 20:01 CID arrests Tamil lady doctor in Dambulla 2008 Jun 11 19:11 Muslim civilian abducted in Puththa'lam 2008 Jun 11 19:09 Police seek electronic media assistance to ensu... 2008 Jun 11 19:05 UNP, SLMC councilors attend EPC meeting 2008 Jun 11 17:31 Persons arrested in Kaaththaankudi unrest released 2008 Jun 11 17:28 Jaffna SLA Command announces security measures ... 2008 Jun 11 12:51 22 Tamil youths arrested in Colombo suburb 2007: 2007 Jun 11 21:58 10 000 Tamils march towards UN in Geneva 2007 Jun 11 18:24 12 Tamils detained, search operation in North C... 2007 Jun 11 10:41 SLN slaps travel ban to Jaffna islets 2007 Jun 11 10:38 Tamil villager reported missing in Kuchchave'li 2007 Jun 11 09:42 IIGEP faults Commission of lacking Independence... 2007 Jun 11 08:54 Moothoor Tamil youths file FR petitions in Supr... 2006: 2006 Jun 11 18:47 Swiss youths celebrate Students Uprising Day 2006 Jun 11 15:59 LTTE's Constitutional Affairs Committee meets i... 2006 Jun 11 14:07 Agitation planned across Tamil Nadu districts a... 2006 Jun 11 12:34 Sri Lanka's FM to visit Norway, Finland 2006 Jun 11 12:23 SLA guns down youth at Vavuniya checkpoint 2006 Jun 11 12:09 LTTE, SLMM discuss Trincomalee ground situation 2006 Jun 11 08:12 Thirunelvely market blast injures 9 2006 Jun 11 06:29 Two civilians killed by SLA fire in Kinniya 2006 Jun 11 05:39 Two civilians killed in DPU Claymore attack 2005: 2005 Jun 11 17:16 Gurunagar mourns its two youths, observes Hartal 2005 Jun 11 17:01 ADB funds housing project for war displaced Kan... 2005 Jun 11 15:35 Thenmaradchchi displaced hold sit-in-protest 2005 Jun 11 06:35 Claymore attack kills Intelligence officer, EPD... 2005 Jun 11 06:21 Parliamentarian monk withdraws fast unto death 2004: 2004 Jun 11 16:11 SL President to give televised address 2004 Jun 11 16:05 Two SLA personnel reported missing in Jaffna 2004 Jun 11 10:34 US Pacific Commander arrives in Jaffna on two-d... 2004 Jun 11 09:59 Legal wrangle over dissident JHU MP 2003: 2003 Jun 11 16:54 Polikandy resident abducted 2003 Jun 11 16:44 First dengue death in Trincomalee reported 2003 Jun 11 11:46 LTTE insists on draft framework for interim adm... 2003 Jun 11 11:14 Grenade attack on Trinco EPDP office 2003 Jun 11 03:19 Disappearance investigations need GoSL, LTTE su... 2003 Jun 11 00:24 Villagers oppose new police station in communit... 2003 Jun 11 00:15 NGO to assist farmers affected by HSZ 2002: 2002 Jun 11 23:07 Changes in SLA senior ranks 2002 Jun 11 21:40 New SLA camp at Sakkottai 2002 Jun 11 13:16 TRO's Trincomalee office begins work 2002 Jun 11 12:36 Paper lists public places occupied by military 2002 Jun 11 06:32 Jaffna protests planned over truce breaches 2002 Jun 11 06:22 Fury after worship is blocked 2001: 2001 Jun 11 21:31 Jaffna hospital a human shield - doctors 2001 Jun 11 19:01 Resident pass restrictions afflict Trinco too 2001 Jun 11 18:53 ICRC course for senior army NCOs 1999: 1999 Jun 11 23:00 Two arrested in Jaffna 1999 Jun 11 21:57 Youth released after evidence of torture 1999 Jun 11 11:34 Clear majority eludes PA 1999 Jun 11 07:47 SLA Pooneryn thrust repulsed -VoT 1999 Jun 11 06:54 Teachers Union to launch campaign 1999 Jun 11 06:51 Three Jaffna civilians missing 1998:
1998 Jun 11 23:59 UNP has 30 days to submit Proposals - PA 1998 Jun 11 23:59 New Regulations for foreign investors ![]()
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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 ![]() [28.04.23] Taraki Sivaram remembered: TamilNet remembers with pride the service rendered to the media by Maamanithar Dharmeratnam Sivaram (Taraki), the well-known political analyst and senior editor of TamilNet, on the 18th anniversary of his assassination. Related Story >> ![]() [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 >> |
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