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ஐ.நா. மனித உரிமை ஆணையரின் அறிக்கையின் தவறுகள்: சுருக்கமான மதிப்பீடு[Tue, 08 Sep 2026, 07:31 GMT] ஐ.நா. மனித உரிமைகள் உயர் ஆணையர் அலுவலகம் மனித உரிமைப் பேரவையின் அறுபத்துமூன்றாவது அமர்வுக்குச் சமர்ப்பித்துள்ள A/HRC/63/18 அறிக்கையில், இன அழிப்பு என்னும் சொல்லோ அதன் நோக்கம் பற்றிய பரிசீலனையோ ஒரு முறை கூட இடம்பெறவில்லை; செம்மணியில் நானூற்று எழுபத்தேழுக்கும் மேற்பட்டோரின் எலும்புக்கூடுகள் தோண்டியெடுக்கப்பட்ட நிலையிலும், சான்றுகளைப் பேணும் அதிகாரம் குற்றம்சாட்டப்பட்ட அரசிடமே விடப்பட்டுள்ளது. உள்நாட்டு நீதிமுறைமை ஒன்றைப் பரிசீலிக்குமாறு கோரும் 62(i) பரிந்துரையும், 2002 க்கு முந்திய குற்றங்களை எட்டவே முடியாத 62(k) பரிந்துரையும், ஏற்கெனவே தோல்வியுற்ற வழியையே மீண்டும் முன்வைக்கின்றன. 46/1, 51/1 தீர்மானங்களை நிராகரித்து, பொறுப்புக்கூறல் திட்டத்திற்கு நேரடிப் பிரசன்னத்தை மறுத்து, அலுவலகத்தின் சொந்த அறிக்கையையே ஒதுக்கிய ஓர் அரசிடமிருந்து மீண்டும் உறுதிமொழிகள் கோரப்படுகின்றன. அறிக்கை பொய்யானதல்ல; ஆனால் அது தன் ஆதாரத்தாலேயே தகுதியிழக்கச் செய்யப்பட்ட ஒரு தரப்பை நோக்கி எழுதப்பட்டுள்ளது. Full story >>
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Sep 08 07:31  ஐ.நா. மனிĪ..May 18 12:19 18 May is not for repackaging surrenderMay 14 14:14 Vaddukkoaddai Resolution at fifty: From commemorat..May 06 22:19  Colombo re-emerges as strategic U.S. platform amid..Apr 24 16:12 தமிழிலக&..Mar 05 18:16 Multipolar rivalries elevate Indian Ocean geopolit..Jan 19 14:44 ITAK, DTNA and TNPF: Need for recalibration withou.. 2ND LEAD (Adds sources to quotes) 18 May is not for repackaging surrender[Mon, 18 May 2026, 12:19 GMT] 18 May is not a day for empty remembrance. It is a day that tests whether Eezham Tamils will remain faithful to the political meaning of Mu'l'livaaykkaal and Vaddukkoaddai, or allow both to be folded back into a ‘safer’ language of accommodation. The issue is not whether formulas can be drafted. It is whether a people whose claim rests on homeland, sovereignty, and the insistence that Tamil political status was never validly surrendered should once again be pushed into recasting that claim as an internal arrangement within the very state whose legitimacy they dispute. That, in essence, is what lies behind the current push toward “maximum devolution” and similar formulas. Rather than opening a new path, it risks drawing Eezham Tamils back into the constitutional grammar of containment. Full story >>Colombo re-emerges as strategic U.S. platform amid Persian Gulf crisis[Wed, 06 May 2026, 22:19 GMT] The escalating confrontation involving the U.S., Israel and Iran, combined with the growing denial of operational access to American forces in the Persian Gulf, is rapidly elevating the strategic importance of the island of Sri Lanka within U.S. military calculations in the Indian Ocean, writes Norway-based Eezham Tamil political analyst and anthropology scholar Athithan Jayapalan. As Washington faces increasing difficulties in sustaining its naval and military presence in the Gulf due to Iranian missile capabilities, drone warfare and maritime interdiction strategies, the island’s geographical position, naval infrastructure and longstanding defence ties with the United States are once again assuming major geopolitical significance. Full story >>Multipolar rivalries elevate Indian Ocean geopolitics[Thu, 05 Mar 2026, 18:16 GMT] Intensifying rivalries between major powers are reshaping global geopolitics and elevating the strategic importance of the Indian Ocean. As the unipolar dominance of the United States faces increasing challenges from Russia and China, emerging fractures within the Western alliance system and expanding military confrontations across several regions are drawing renewed attention to the island of Sri Lanka. Situated at a critical maritime crossroads, the island is becoming increasingly significant within the evolving strategic calculations of competing global powers. Full story >>2ND LEAD (Adds relevant PDFs) Vaddukkoaddai Resolution at fifty: From commemoration to actionable sovereignty[Thu, 14 May 2026, 14:14 GMT] Fifty years after the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution articulated the restoration and reconstitution of Eezham Tamil sovereignty as the political objective of the nation of Eezham Tamils, the central challenge facing Tamil politics is no longer remembrance but action. The Resolution did not merely speak of abstract self-determination, improved internal arrangements or ‘maximum devolution’ within Sri Lanka. It explicitly called for the “Free, Sovereign, Secular, Socialist State of Tamil Eelam,” a position democratically endorsed by the 1977 TULF mandate. Yet today, while the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution is ceremonially commemorated, attempts persist to dilute its juridical and political meaning through federalist internalism, symbolic international lobbying and post-2009 narratives that detach Eezham Tamil nationhood from sovereignty. Full story >>தமிழிலக்கியத்தில் சிவராமின் (தராகி) ஆளுமையும் தேடலும்[Fri, 24 Apr 2026, 16:12 GMT] “தமிழ்நெற்றில் இணைய முன்னர் பல புலி எதிர்ப்பு கட்டுரைகள் எழுதியவராமே சிவராம்”, என்று எம்மைச் சிலர் அவ்வப்போது வினவுவதுண்டு. இந்தக் கேள்வியை அவரை நாம் எம்மோடு இணைத்துக்கொண்ட 1997ஆம் ஆண்டிலும் சிலர் கேட்டார்கள். பின்னர் அவர்கள் அவ்வாறு கேட்பதை விட்டுவிட்டார்கள். இப்போது வேறு சிலர் கேட்கிறார்கள். தமிழ்நெற்றில் இணைந்த போதும் சரி, அதற்கு முதலும் சரி, பிறகும் சரி, கொழும்பில் இருந்து வெளிவரும் பத்திரிகைகள், சஞ்சிகைகளில் சிவராம் பல விடயங்களையும் வெளிப்படையாக எழுதி வந்தார். வெளிப்படையாக எதிரித் தேசத்தின் தலைநகரில் இருந்து ஆங்கிலத்தில் எழுதினாலே அது தமிழ்த் தேசியத்துக்கு எதிரானதாகத் தான் இருக்க வேண்டும் என்று சிலர் சில்லறைத்தனமாக நினைத்துவிடும் வழக்கம் உண்டு. Full story >> 2ND LEAD (Adds Tamil PDF) ITAK, DTNA and TNPF: Need for recalibration without capitulation[Mon, 19 Jan 2026, 14:44 GMT] The present moment in Tamil politics demands far more than tactical adjustment or rhetorical caution. It demands a fundamental reassessment of the assumptions that have gradually come to govern political engagement since the end of the genocidal war in 2009. What is at stake today is not merely the content of constitutional proposals, but whether the Tamil political project itself is being quietly stripped of its historical, legal, and moral foundations. This erosion has not occurred overnight. It has unfolded through a slow narrowing of political imagination, in which positions once regarded as foundational have been recast as impractical, excessive, or even dangerous. Full story >>
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2012: 2012 Oct 03 23:47 SL military stops renovation of Hindu temple, a... 2012 Oct 03 21:40 Colombo snatches away even little power devolve... 2010: 2010 Oct 03 15:33 Dublin follow-up on Sri Lanka war crimes 2010 Oct 03 13:29 Child abuse escalates in Sri Lanka – SL Deputy ... 2010 Oct 03 12:57 Acute shortage for wheat flour in Colombo due t... 2010 Oct 03 05:46 Indian High Commission to open office in Jaffna 2010 Oct 03 02:14 Ban, Rajapakse collusion undermining UN action ... 2009: 2009 Oct 03 22:25 Duplicitous Colombo bereft of excuses on holdin... 2009 Oct 03 11:27 SLA soldier opens fire, Captain, soldier killed 2009 Oct 03 07:19 Tissainayagam's wife accepts Mackler award 2009 Oct 03 05:11 Former Tamil Director on hunger strike in Magaz... 2009 Oct 03 05:05 5 Tamil youths arrested in Negombo 2009 Oct 03 04:59 Jaffna producers lose millions of rupees due to... 2009 Oct 03 04:10 SLN camps in the islets worse than Vavuniyaa in... 2008: 2008 Oct 03 13:44 SLA soldiers attacked near electricity transfor... 2008 Oct 03 13:40 SLA soldiers search Point Pedro SLTB depot 2008 Oct 03 13:36 SLA begins 4th recruitment drive 2008 Oct 03 13:22 Multiple air strikes target civilian infrastruc... 2008 Oct 03 04:58 SLAF attacks Tamileelam Police HQ, artillery ba... 2007: 2007 Oct 03 14:55 Allaippiddi massacre witnesses fear travel to J... 2007 Oct 03 14:42 IFJ condemns SL defence ministry attack on Jour... 2007 Oct 03 14:32 WFP welcomes food shipment to Jaffna 2007 Oct 03 14:09 Youth shot dead in Thirunelveali, Jaffna 2007 Oct 03 08:07 Sri Lanka says tourism ‘picking up’ as European... 2007 Oct 03 04:15 Grenade attack on SLA sentry post in Point Pedro 2007 Oct 03 04:03 Family man abducted, civilian seeks HRC protect... 2007 Oct 03 02:37 Muslim youth shot, injured in Aarayampathi 2006: 2006 Oct 03 11:30 SLFP, UNP hold third round of talks 2006 Oct 03 11:27 TNA continues sit-in-protest in Sri Lanka's par... 2006 Oct 03 11:07 SLAF bombs Vanni as Special Envoy meets Thamilc... 2006 Oct 03 10:25 Jaffna fisher familes driven to abject poverty,... 2006 Oct 03 10:23 Jaffna students boycott enters seventh week 2006 Oct 03 09:21 Murunkan Police retaliates against attack, 1 ki... 2006 Oct 03 03:33 JVP to protest, calls for ouster of Norway 2006 Oct 03 02:55 12 Tamils arrested in Colombo 2006 Oct 03 00:02 Arrested Kalpity fishermen to appear in Mannar ... 2005: 2005 Oct 03 21:03 Court remands Tamil youths arrested in Trincoma... 2005 Oct 03 17:26 Gunmen fire at Police Jeep, Sub-Inspector wounded 2005 Oct 03 13:57 Jewellery shop owner shot in Chunnakam 2005 Oct 03 12:40 CWC to support Wickremasinghe for President 2005 Oct 03 10:53 University student killed in Vadaramardchi 2005 Oct 03 08:24 EPDP cadre shot dead in Jaffna 2005 Oct 03 05:25 Father of paramilitary cadre killed in Welikanda 2004: 2004 Oct 03 18:40 Solheim addresses LTTE meeting in Geneva 2004 Oct 03 17:06 Rains threaten to worsen Thenmaradchi farmers' ... 2004 Oct 03 16:48 SLA soldiers assault Vadamaradchchi youth 2004 Oct 03 14:24 Estate workers demand wage increase 2004 Oct 03 13:15 SLA bars priest, trustees from entering temple 2004 Oct 03 11:27 Women's "Coming Together" event held in Kilinoc... 2003: 2003 Oct 03 17:55 Women's issues discussed in Jaffna gathering 2003 Oct 03 17:17 Two youths die in SLA truck collision 2003 Oct 03 16:31 Compensation demanded for SLA's use of estate p... 2003 Oct 03 15:36 SLA bars devotees from temple in Thenmaradchi 2003 Oct 03 13:25 TNA briefs Australian parliamentarians on peace... 2003 Oct 03 11:06 US says LTTE continues to engage in terrorist a... 2003 Oct 03 01:55 Postal employees threaten strike demanding sala... 2003 Oct 03 01:42 SLFP to mobilize people support against UNF gov... 2003 Oct 03 00:04 More skeletons found in Kilinochchi 2002: 2002 Oct 03 18:05 Prelates stress need for patience 2002 Oct 03 18:05 SC concludes constitutional amendments inquiry 2002 Oct 03 15:28 SLA to be camped among resettlers 2002 Oct 03 15:04 Saddened that he didn’t join LTTE says PA MP 2002 Oct 03 12:21 LTTE demands release of Tamil political detainees 2001: 2001 Oct 03 14:49 Investigators find more in Jaffna hospital grave 2001 Oct 03 12:06 Fisherfolk killed in Batticaloa amid SLA ban 2000: 2000 Oct 03 15:04 Demonstrators attack TULF office 2000 Oct 03 05:41 Ambush kills 2, injures another 1999: 1999 Oct 03 23:01 Search operation in Nuwara Eliya 1999 Oct 03 18:59 Widowed mother gang raped in Varani 1999 Oct 03 15:13 Batticaloa MP raises Rights question 1999 Oct 03 15:11 PLOTE leader admits to past mistakes 1999 Oct 03 11:15 Transport restriction hits villagers 1999 Oct 03 09:50 Police, SLA blamed for rising crime 1999 Oct 03 08:38 Transformer blasted in Vavuniya 1997:
1997 Oct 03 23:59 EPDP attacks referendum plan 1997 Oct 03 23:59 Wounded soldiers condemn Sri Lanka's war 1997 Oct 03 23:59 Former Jaffna GA granted bail 1997 Oct 03 23:59 News In Brief 
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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  [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 >> |
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