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 Gotabaya praises Chinese President, but avoids reciprocating “strategic partnership”[Tue, 14 Jan 2020, 23:06 GMT] “Sri Lanka may have less landmass, but will soon be strong economically. China will be with Sri Lanka in its striving to reach this goal,” said the visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi who met SL President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday. “As Sri Lanka’s strategic partner China will continue to standby Sri Lanka’s interests. China stands for the country’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence. We will not allow any outside influences to interfere with matters that are essentially internal concerns of Sri Lanka”, the Chinese FM said. China was expecting Colombo to reciprocate ‘strategic partner’ status and benefit from its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in a “win-win” manner. However, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was responding to the call in a sophisticated manner. Full story >>
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Jan 15 22:51  Gotabaya seeks US investment in big development of..Jan 14 23:06 Gotabaya praises Chinese President, but avoids rec..Jan 13 23:55  Putting Russian abetment of Tamil genocide in prop..Jan 12 23:29 Geopolitical visits foreshadowed Nepal’s difficult..Jan 11 23:04 Visits by Chinese, Russian foreign ministers to co..Jan 10 23:10 Sampanthan indirectly implicates India, US, EU, UK..Jan 09 22:53 Gotabaya deploys PTA against protesting families o..Jan 08 23:18 Nepal’s balancing act between powers carefully wat..Jan 07 23:31 Gotabaya backtracks on Colombo’s assurances to New..Jan 06 23:30 61 parents of missing persons have perished while ..Jan 05 22:22 Maha Sangha wants anti-LTTE forces mobilised to co..Jan 04 23:46 Gotabaya's China visit postponed as Russian FM's v..Jan 03 23:41 Eezham Cinema takes shape with Chinam-ko'l movie f..Jan 02 23:07 Tamil Political Prisoner passes away after 26 year..Jan 01 23:40 Modi wants “close and extensive” cooperation with ..Gotabaya seeks US investment in big development of IT, high-tech[Wed, 15 Jan 2020, 22:51 GMT] Alice G Wells, the US principal deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs, who met SL President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday delivered a letter from US President Donald Trump to Mr Rajapaksa. At the meeting, Mr Rajapaksa was hinting on a possible renegotiation of the terms of the proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact. He told the visiting diplomat that the MCC agreement would be evaluated considering the views of the public. The Daily Mirror reported that Gotabaya “invited the US to invest in technology-based industries since Sri Lanka is also ready to develop its IT-based sectors.” The Daily News in its report said that Sri Lanka was planning to develop the “IT and other technology-related industries in a big way” with US support. Full story >>Geopolitical visits foreshadowed Nepal’s difficult balancing act between US-MCC and China-BRI[Sun, 12 Jan 2020, 23:29 GMT] There were many visits to and from Nepal in the beginning of 2019 such as the visit by Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kano and Nepali Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali's visit to India, Japan, US and many other countries. Head of US Indo-Pacific Command Admiral Phil Davidson and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Joseph H Felter have visited Kathmandu in 2019 seeking military cooperation. Now, the debate whether the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is part of the US Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS) has heavily divided the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) as the country is set to decide whether to ratify or not the bilateral agreement. The MCC was established in 2002, eleven years ahead of China announcing its massive Road And Belt Initiative in 2013. The MCC signed a USD 500 million Compact with Nepal in September 2017. Full story >>2ND LEAD (Adds Hansard record of Sampanthan's speech) Sampanthan indirectly implicates India, US, EU, UK, Japan, Norway for Tamil predicament post-2009[Fri, 10 Jan 2020, 23:10 GMT] Despite all the valid criticisms against the revisionist TNA hierarchy, which has misled the occupied nation of Eezham Tamils by deviating from the fundamentals of the democratically mandated aspiration after 2009, one should appreciate TNA Parliamentary Group Leader R. Sampanthan for strait-forwardly reiterating, especially in recent times, the names of the regional and international formations ultimately responsible to crush the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The countries and the alliances mentioned by Mr Sampanthan include India, USA, Japan, Norway and the European Union with the UK. Sampanthan refers to the block of countries excluding India as the “international community”, and these countries were formally represented by identifiable individuals who served the formation of Tokyo Co-Chair Donors. A troika of diplomats was representing India at the height of the war. Full story >>Nepal’s balancing act between powers carefully watched in Colombo[Wed, 08 Jan 2020, 23:18 GMT] The ruling Communist Party in Nepal is divided in opinion as the country’s parliament is required to ratify the mega infrastructure project the previous government had negotiated with US foreign aid agency, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in 2017. The critics of the MCC project argue that Nepal would be coerced into the military US Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS) by embracing the project. Why does the bilateral agreement have a binding clause of Indian approval, they ask. India is a major strategic partner to the US and one of the four military powers constituting the emerging Quad alliance led by the USA in the Indo-Pacific. The proponents argue that the US Congress-initiated MCC, which came into being long before the Pentagon’s IPS outlook must be seen as an economic programme without any military dimension attached to it. The Nepalese choices will have an impact on Colombo. Full story >>61 parents of missing persons have perished while continuing protest beyond 1,050 days[Mon, 06 Jan 2020, 23:30 GMT] The kith and kin of Eezham Tamils subjected to enforced disappearances at the hands of the occupying Sinhala military are passing away, one by one. Their deaths occur as the SL State, and the global forces behind the deceptive ‘transitional justice’ mechanism continue to remain deaf to their demand of establishing the truth of what had happened to their loved ones. While a section of families avoid protests succumbing to the so-called pragmatic view that the SL military had assassinated all the missing family members under its captivity, the protesting families want an official answer establishing what had happened to their loved ones. 72-year-old Rasendram Soosaippillai from Oalaith-thoduvaay in Mannaar was the 61st parent to die without a response from the SL authorities on the whereabouts of his son, who was abducted ten years ago in Mannaar. Full story >>Gotabaya's China visit postponed as Russian FM's visit to Colombo coincides with schedule[Sat, 04 Jan 2020, 23:46 GMT] SL President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s scheduled visit to China on 14 and 15 January 2020 has been postponed, media reports in Colombo said on Friday. Mr Rajapaksa visited New Delhi, a major strategic partner of the USA within two-weeks since getting elected as the SL president in November 2019. In the meantime, Chinese President Xi Jinping dispatched a special envoy in December 2019 to invite Mr Rajapaksa to China. The trip, scheduled to take place in January, has now been postponed due to the coinciding visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is expected in Colombo on 14 January. However, media reports in Colombo were trying to give the impression that the re-scheduling was taking place at Beijing’s request. Full story >>Tamil Political Prisoner passes away after 26 years of SL imprisonment[Thu, 02 Jan 2020, 23:07 GMT]  Families of missing Tamils in Vanni turn their protest against EPDP[Tue, 31 Dec 2019, 17:41 GMT] The families of Eezham Tamils subjected to enforced disappearances at the hands of the occupying Sinhala military in the genocidal war up to 2009 have turned the focus of their protest against SL Minister Douglas Devananda, who has been a close ally of the Rajapaksa regime. Mr Devananda's EPDP was a former Tamil paramilitary group, operated by the occupying Sinhala military. The families have been irked by the attempts by Devananda to dilute their continues protests that have passed one thousand days this month. Full story >>No need for Eezham Tamils to ‘namō namō’ Sri Lanka[Sun, 29 Dec 2019, 21:10 GMT] Eezham Tamils ended their emotional attachment to the 1951 ‘namō namō tāyē’ (‘sri laṅkā tāyē’) when their political move for powersharing in what they aspired as the Federal Republic of Ceylon was thoroughly denounced by the Sinhala nation in 1972. The dream for an inclusive and federal Ceylon/Ilaṅkai (Lanka) or Eezham, as Tamils had identified the island for centuries, lost its meaning with the constitutionalization of the ‘Sri’ prefix. The term meant ‘auspiciousness’, but in practice implied the establishment of the ‘holy’ island as chosen by the Buddha to be exclusively destined for the Sinhala people with the mission to protect Buddhism. When it gained constitutional precedent, the Tamil attachment to it ended. After decades of genocidal hegemony and without a political solution to their national question, Eezham Tamils have no moral or legal connection to the anthem. Full story >>India's CAA deepens “geopolitical schisms” in South Asia, say 14 regional activists[Fri, 27 Dec 2019, 20:05 GMT] Fourteen academics, rights activists and writers from South Asia, including the renowned Sinhala academic Professor Jayadeva Uyangoda, have issued a joint statement condemning the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed by the Hindu nationalist BJP in India. They were identifying themselves as “South Asian citizens” in issuing the statement. The CAA has the potential of “deepening geopolitical schisms” among the countries of South Asia, which should be striving for peace and mutual understanding, the statement issued by the fourteen South Asians said. Full story >>Colombo prepares to trade off China-renegotiations for Quad scaling-down UNHRC Resolution in 2020[Wed, 25 Dec 2019, 23:19 GMT] Susil Premajayantha, the SL State Minister for International Relations, has gone on record on Tuesday stating that the new SL government of Gotabaya Rajapaksa was preparing to propose ‘amendments’ to the UNHRC Resolution 30/1 of 2015 during the March 2020 UN Human Rights Council Session in Geneva. “We have fulfilled 17 out of 20 conditions in the resolution. Sri Lanka has a new government with a new mandate. Therefore, we have every right to prevent any untoward impact on our nation from any quarter,” the minister was quoted as saying by Daily Mirror on Wednesday. Three of the four Quad partners, Australia, Japan and India are going to be the geopolitical powers with active membership of the UN Human Rights Council in 2020. Full story >>Tamils learning lessons from ICJ-case against Myanmar, ICC-investigation on Israel[Mon, 23 Dec 2019, 22:29 GMT] The Tamil diaspora organisations should seriously evaluate their post-2009 international legal activism, comparing the ICC-based war-crimes move of the Palestinians and the ICJ-based genocide case against the state of Myanmar, both of which have gained milestone achievements in December 2019. The Tamil organisations should be asking a pertinent question as to why did they fail to pursue the International Court of Justice (ICJ)-oriented discourse despite repeated reminders coming from international legal experts such as US-based Professor Francis Boyle. The ICJ is the only place where state responsibility for genocide could be addressed. Unlike some Tamils and their academics believe, no organisation has so-far focused on establishing the basis for presenting a ‘prima facie’ case with the particular focus on proving the intent of genocide and a process towards filing a lawsuit at the ICJ. Full story >>Gotabaya: Only concerned about security aspects of Hambantota[Sat, 21 Dec 2019, 23:15 GMT] SL President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was only seeking to ensure the security aspects of the Hambantota port and he doesn't intend to renegotiate the commercial deal as a whole, reported Xinhua, the state-operated news agency of China this week. "I am now not here to renegotiate the agreement as it is a commercial contract and I am not worried about the commercial aspect. But I am concerned about the security aspect as to whether there are any security lapses. That is what I am discussing with China,” Xinhua quoted Gotabaya Rajapaksa as saying on Thursday. Full story >>Putting Russian abetment of Tamil genocide in proper context[Mon, 13 Jan 2020, 23:55 GMT] Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has given an email-interview to Colombo-based Daily News before his visit to the island on Monday. The long-serving Russian FM was stressing a set of principles such as “indivisible security” and “non-interference in the internal affairs” of the states in the Indian Ocean. Mr Lavrov also mentioned “peaceful settlement of disputes and non-use of force or the threat of force”. As far as the Eezham Tamils are concerned, they will never forget the use of lethal weapons deployed by genocidal Sri Lanka’s military. Much of those were supplied by Russia, particularly the OFAB-500 cluster bombs deployed by the SL Air Force and the thermobaric infantry weapons such as RPO-A Shmels used by the SL Army against Eezham Tamils. Full story >>Visits by Chinese, Russian foreign ministers to coincide with the stopover of US top diplomat[Sat, 11 Jan 2020, 23:04 GMT] Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to arrive in Colombo on Monday, one day ahead of the already-announced visit by Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov. The Russian FM is scheduled to visit Colombo on his way to attend a conference on geopolitics organised by the Indian External Affairs Ministry and Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. In the meantime, Alice Wells, the US principal deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, scheduled to attend the Indian conference, is also arriving in Colombo on Monday. The Chinese and Russian Foreign Ministers, as well as the US Deputy State Secretary, will be meeting Gotabaya Rajapaksa, media reports in Colombo said. Full story >>Gotabaya deploys PTA against protesting families of missing persons[Thu, 09 Jan 2020, 22:53 GMT] The coordinator of the continuous protest in Vavuniyaa Jeyavanitha Kasippillai is again facing harassment from the ‘Terrorist’ Investigation Division of the SL Police which is compelling her to appear for an investigation under the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). The cabinet of Gotabaya Rajapaksa has recently refused to withdraw the PTA. The latest harassment comes as the attempts by Douglas Devananda, an ex-paramilitary collaborator of Rajapaksa regime, miserably failed to end the continuous protests in the North and East. The families of Tamils subjected to enforced disappearances at the hands of the occupying Sinhala military have spent more than 1,055 days in continuous protests in the North and East. Full story >>Gotabaya backtracks on Colombo’s assurances to New Delhi: Sumanthiran[Tue, 07 Jan 2020, 23:31 GMT] Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran has said that SL President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was regressing from the assurances made by his predecessors, including his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa, to New Delhi on three occasions about the full implementation of the 13th Amendment. When India intervened in 1987, Colombo turned towards the “right direction” and started to “acknowledge the diversity of its peoples,” by amending the Constitution, the TNA parliamentarian said. The equal status between the peoples in the island is not dependent on their respective numerical strength. “This principle must be acknowledged if our democracy is to survive and indeed flourish, and not regress into naked majoritarianism. Regretfully, in his address to Parliament on 3rd January 2020 the President has articulated such a regressive position,” he said. Full story >>Maha Sangha wants anti-LTTE forces mobilised to conquer economic war, international challenges[Sun, 05 Jan 2020, 22:22 GMT] The Maha Sangha of the Sinhala Buddhist Theravada Establishment in the island staged an all-night Pirith Chanting Ceremony at SL President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence in Colombo on Saturday. While delivering a special sermon, Professor Ven Medagoda Abayatissa Thero “pointed out that the alliance that came together to defeat the LTTE should join again to conquer the economic war and international challenges,” a news release issued by the SL Presidential Secretariat revealed on Sunday. The Maha Sangha was invoking “blessings on the President, war heroes, the citizens and the country,” the news release further stated. Full story >>Eezham Cinema takes shape with Chinam-ko'l movie filmed in occupied Tamil Eelam[Fri, 03 Jan 2020, 23:41 GMT] Sinamkol (Ciṉamkoḷ/சினம்கொள்), meaning “infuriate”, is a theatrical movie filmed in the occupied Tamil Eelam narrating the situation of former LTTE freedom fighters. The critically acclaimed film gets screened in Europe and North America this weekend (03-05 January) in eight countries, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom and the USA, after a series of successful premiere shows. Canada-based Ranjith Joseph, the story writer and the director of the film, has demonstrated incredible ingenuity in circumventing the censorship hazards of the unitary state of genocidal Sri Lanka in making the movie, which was shot in 70 locations in the three districts of Ki'linochchi, Mullaiththeevu and Jaffna in 2017. The approach of the story is genuine to the core in all its aspects. Full story >>Modi wants “close and extensive” cooperation with Colombo[Wed, 01 Jan 2020, 23:40 GMT] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was dialling to seven leaders of five neighbouring countries, except Pakistan, to greet the rulers chose to greet both Gotabaya and Mahinda Rajapaksa on the New Year Day. A statement issued by the office of Indian Prime Minister stated that Mr Modi wanted to expand “close and extensive cooperation” with Colombo. Rajapaksa siblings reciprocated his wishes and expressed their keen desire to enhance relations further, the statement said. Full story >>Sinhalese have right of return to North, says lawyer from South rejecting Tamil rights[Mon, 30 Dec 2019, 22:03 GMT] The North is “just as much the historical habitation of the Sinhalese as it is of the Tamils”. And, the Tamils “do not have a right to sovereignty and self-determination adverse to the rights of the Sinhalese and other groups in the island,” writes Attorney-at-Law Dharshan Weerasekara, a Sinhalese, in an article ‘clarifying’ a judgement delivered by the SL Supreme Court in 2014. The denial of Tamil homeland and Tamils right of self-determination comes as the cabinet led by SL Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa also refused to allow the Tamil version of the SL ‘national anthem’ at the forthcoming ‘independence day’ celebrations on 04 February 2020. “Sinhalese have moral and historical rights in the North and East of the country, and this would include the right of return,” the Sinhala lawyer claimed in his response. Full story >>China, Russia claim technical advancements, stage joint naval drill with Iran in IOR[Sat, 28 Dec 2019, 21:51 GMT] The news of Russia deploying Avangard hypersonic missile, capable of transporting nuclear warheads at 27 times the speed of sound, into combat duty and China launching its heaviest communications satellite on a new powerful rocket, caught the attention of military analysts across the globe on Friday. In the meantime, China and Russia engaged in naval drills with Iran in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman, located to the east of Pakistan, another nuclear power and an ally of China in South Asia. The technological ‘advancements’ made by China and Russia and the zero-sum attitude of the USA, including its withdrawal from crucial disarmament treaties, are going to escalate the militarization of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The militarization drive affects not only the states but also the peoples without a state of their own in South Asia. Full story >>Russian FM to visit Colombo before proceeding to New Delhi[Thu, 26 Dec 2019, 23:28 GMT] After conducting joint naval training with Iran and China in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman in December 2019, Russia is dispatching its Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Colombo on 14 January 2020. He will proceed to New Delhi on the following day. In the meantime, China, Russia and Iran are conducting a four-day naval drill between Friday and Monday. The trilateral training is the first of its kind and comes amidst escalating tensions between the US and Iran since 2018. China is sending a guided-missile destroyer, Xining, to the drill, stated China's Defence Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian in a statement on Thursday. Full story >>After Hambantota ‘clean-up’, US-India alliance expects Gotabaya to reconsider China’s ICT[Tue, 24 Dec 2019, 23:48 GMT] After getting ‘US-citizen’ Gotabaya Rajapaksa to sort out Hambantota port-related security concerns of the Quad partners, the US-India strategic partnership is aiming to contain what it considers as a risky cybersecurity infrastructure in India’s backyard. The US-India alliance is posed to ‘discipline’ the SL State to abandon or phase out China’s information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure in the island, a highly-placed Tamil source within the mobile technology sector in Colombo told TamilNet this week. India’s Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh is holding the stick, and Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be under pressure to deliver in favour of US-preferred ICT to be favoured instead of China’s ICT in the island, the source further revealed. Full story >>New SL Governor warns Tamils and Muslims in East: ‘One Country, One Law’[Sun, 22 Dec 2019, 23:56 GMT] The SL Governor to Eastern Province, Anuradha Yahampath, recently appointed by SL President Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has gone on record stating that her duty was to see whether the unitary status of the SL State gets threatened from the province. “You can have cultural differences and values. But, we all are citizens of Sri Lanka. For marriage, we have to have one law. A lot of Muslim women met me and stressed the need for it. I stand up for one country, one law,” the Sinhala nationalist governor was quoted as responding in an interview to Daily Mirror on Sunday. Full story >>Indian Navy Chief on 4-day visit to discuss maritime relations in Colombo with Trinco visit[Fri, 20 Dec 2019, 23:52 GMT] The Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy, Admiral Karambir Singh, is on a four-day visit to Colombo from 19 to 22 December 2019 to “consolidate and enhance the bilateral maritime relations between India and Sri Lanka,” a news release from the Indian Navy said. Admiral Karambir Singh was also scheduled to attend the passing out parade of midshipmen at the Naval & Maritime Academy, Trincomalee on Sunday, the report said. Upon his arrival to the island on Thursday, Karambir Singh called on SL Defence Secretary Major General (retd) Kamal Gunaratne. Full story >>
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2013: 2013 Jan 17 21:31 TMVP faction wants Batticaloa Tamils to observe... 2013 Jan 17 18:31 Violence against Tamil women on increase in Amp... 2013 Jan 17 01:43 Indian diplomat hints at Colombo sitting on dev... 2012: 2012 Jan 17 22:34 Fishermen from South deployed in recent attacks... 2012 Jan 17 04:11 Toronto declares January 2012 Tamil Heritage Month 2011: 2011 Jan 17 19:42 Paramilitary assaults Village Officer in Battic... 2011 Jan 17 16:13 Gunmen open fire at priest's house, wife seriou... 2010: 2010 Jan 17 17:16 Weeratunge statement proves India's complicity ... 2010 Jan 17 13:46 Two die in Vavuniyaa bus crash 2010 Jan 17 13:43 SLFP member arrested with weapons in Batticaloa 2010 Jan 17 13:36 Matale UNP councilor's house comes under gunfire 2010 Jan 17 02:19 SLA holds greater part of Ki’linochchi as HSZ 2009: 2009 Jan 17 22:13 Tamil Nadu CPI, BJP leaders slam Delhi’s inaction 2009 Jan 17 21:08 Ramdoss exhorts Karunanidhi to urgent action in... 2009 Jan 17 16:52 Norwegian Tamils urge Norway to stop Sri Lanka'... 2009 Jan 17 16:46 Menon restated India’s support for war – Sri Lanka 2009 Jan 17 14:21 Karuna group men abduct washerman in Kalmunai 2009 Jan 17 14:07 Muslim businessman shot dead in Ea’raavoor 2009 Jan 17 12:37 India should stop war, instruct Colombo to talk... 2009 Jan 17 08:31 SLN restricts fishing to limited areas in Jaffn... 2009 Jan 17 06:55 Catholic priests appeal to UN to intervene in V... 2009 Jan 17 03:24 2 Tamil youths shot dead in Moneragala 2008: 2008 Jan 17 19:26 Youth found dead with bullet wounds in Irupaalay 2008 Jan 17 18:33 SLA fires artillery on Northern Fronts 2008 Jan 17 18:21 LTTE foils STF penetration in Ampaa'rai 2008 Jan 17 13:09 790 schoolchildren escape SLAF attack 2008 Jan 17 04:28 SLA withdraws from Mu'l'likku'lam - LTTE 2008 Jan 17 04:09 SLAF bombs Ki'linochchi suburb, 1 killed, 7 wou... 2007: 2007 Jan 17 23:19 Kohona assumes duties as Sri Lanka's Foreign Se... 2007 Jan 17 19:51 Two more youths surrender to Jaffna Human Right... 2007 Jan 17 19:43 Wife appeals for release of Eastern University VC 2007 Jan 17 17:19 SL Appeal Court to decide on CFA inquiry 2007 Jan 17 15:20 White van squad abducts disabled man in Jaffna 2007 Jan 17 13:48 Hartley College student disappears 2007 Jan 17 12:14 Mannar civilian blindfolded and killed 2007 Jan 17 11:35 SLA hands over 7 LTTE bodies to ICRC 2007 Jan 17 10:35 STF commandos leave behind dead paramilitary - ... 2007 Jan 17 06:05 Six civilians killed in Vavuniya, 2 abducted 2007 Jan 17 05:02 Col. Kittu remembered in Kilinochchi 2007 Jan 17 02:05 Senior journalist passes away in Vanni 2007 Jan 17 01:24 Tutory owner shot dead in Chavakachcheri 2007 Jan 17 00:44 High school student disappears in Jaffna 2007 Jan 17 00:05 Family seeks protection with Rights Group 2006: 2006 Jan 17 18:27 Tamil shop employee injured in Trinco grenade a... 2006 Jan 17 15:31 State terrorism rising in NorthEast, say Tamil MPs 2006 Jan 17 14:48 SLMM suspends operational activities in Trincom... 2006 Jan 17 13:02 Mannar playgrounds out of bound for sportspersons 2006 Jan 17 12:22 Deputy Solicitor General leads evidence in slai... 2006 Jan 17 12:11 Muslim businessman beaten to death in Akkaraipattu 2006 Jan 17 11:33 Balasingham to visit Vanni next week 2006 Jan 17 11:25 Mannar hospital staff protest against SLA presence 2006 Jan 17 10:09 Ground conditions will dictate process forward ... 2006 Jan 17 08:41 Two SLA soldiers killed, one wounded in Claymor... 2006 Jan 17 07:56 Tamil MPs protest in parliament against killing... 2006 Jan 17 06:19 Navy convoy attacked in Trinco, 2 civilians kil... 2006 Jan 17 03:22 Ten civilians said arrested by SLN in Karainagar 2006 Jan 17 03:09 Man found shot dead in Urumpirai 2006 Jan 17 03:06 Mannar residents struggle to get petrol 2005: 2005 Jan 17 17:49 Japanese MP to visit Sri Lanka 2005 Jan 17 16:03 Pirapaharan meets disaster management planners 2005 Jan 17 14:30 Canadian PM meets with TNA, TRO delegations 2005 Jan 17 14:14 Colonel Kittu remembered in Jaffna, Trincomalee 2005 Jan 17 11:26 Fourth anniversary of Pongu Thamil Declaration ... 2005 Jan 17 10:03 US Marines will not stay any longer than wanted... 2005 Jan 17 06:19 Canadian Red Cross visit Trincomalee Tsunami vi... 2004: 2004 Jan 17 18:31 Judge extends remand for detained LTTE cadres 2004 Jan 17 18:02 Colombo urged to repeal PTA 2004 Jan 17 14:00 NECORD begins capacity building workshop in Tri... 2004 Jan 17 13:39 SLA Commander to assist tracing Jaffna disappeared 2004 Jan 17 13:23 Tamils should be vigilant of JVP - Jaffna VC 2004 Jan 17 06:11 NE development conference to be held in Kilinoc... 2003: 2003 Jan 17 21:33 Floods in Ampara leave many homeless 2003 Jan 17 17:45 World Bank vice president visits Chavakachcheri 2003 Jan 17 17:38 'Govt. to take final decision on HSZ soon'-Peiris 2003 Jan 17 12:07 Pirapaharan welcomes Japanese envoy, President ... 2002: 2002 Jan 17 18:16 'Pongu Thamil nailed Chandrika's canard' - Stud... 2002 Jan 17 16:19 Tamil parties unite in Constitutional Council n... 2002 Jan 17 11:16 Trinco fishing ban drives thousands to destitution 2001: 2001 Jan 17 19:02 Heavy casualties in Jaffna fighting 2001 Jan 17 17:09 'Pongu Thamil' demos in Batticaloa and Vavuniya 2001 Jan 17 12:28 Massive demonstration in Jaffna 2001 Jan 17 06:53 Australian, Canadian Tamil students in 'solidar... 2000: 2000 Jan 17 16:42 Election Commissioner 'Valid In Law' 2000 Jan 17 14:31 HRC asked to initiate legal action 2000 Jan 17 11:57 Shell wounds three 2000 Jan 17 11:55 President security stops letter bomb 1999: 1999 Jan 17 22:40 Houses damaged in rampage 1999 Jan 17 13:23 NGO's demand negotiated settlement 1999 Jan 17 13:19 Three SLA casualties in Jaffna 1999 Jan 17 13:10 Many disappearances still unaccounted for 1999 Jan 17 04:21 Heavy fighting in Mankulam 1998:
1998 Jan 17 23:59 Canadian court rejects stay order request 1998 Jan 17 23:59 Planned deportation takes toll on family, friends 1998 Jan 17 23:59 SLA patrol ambushed 
The shells thrown from our battery were constant and regular discharges, so beautiful in their flight and so destructive in their fall. It was awful! My heart bled fro the inhabitants. The soldiers I did not care so much for, but it was terrible to think of the women and children.
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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  [15.01.20]  [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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