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2013: 2013 Jan 30 03:01 NZ routinely rejects Tamil "Mandate-Refugees" f... 2013 Jan 30 02:28 U.S. Senators call for international probe into... 2011: 2011 Jan 30 20:07 Flood victims express anger on public servants ... 2011 Jan 30 00:17 US legal effort to seek justice for son's killi... 2010: 2010 Jan 30 16:36 CID continues to detain editor of Sinhala weekly 2010 Jan 30 16:25 Swiss journalist to be evicted from Sri Lanka 2010 Jan 30 14:53 New Chief of Staff appointed for SLA 2010 Jan 30 13:24 Brisk early voting in UK referendum 2010 Jan 30 10:33 EPDP supporters set fire to SLTB bus in Jaffna 2010 Jan 30 04:42 SLA, SLN restrictions in Jaffna peninsula impos... 2009: 2009 Jan 30 23:51 LTTE appoints Pathmanathan as head of internati... 2009 Jan 30 23:20 Train service to Vavuniyaa suspended until furt... 2009 Jan 30 23:19 Trincomalee Tamil civilian arrested in Peradeniya 2009 Jan 30 19:56 SLA separates relatives of seriously wounded, s... 2009 Jan 30 17:07 Shut down observed in East despite SLA threats 2009 Jan 30 16:23 Tamils held in prisonlike SLA detention centres... 2009 Jan 30 13:22 'Vision' of a Sinhala sociologist 2009 Jan 30 13:02 TNA salutes Muthukumar’s sacrifice of life to t... 2009 Jan 30 13:00 Maya tells of Sri Lanka Genocide to U.S., world... 2009 Jan 30 12:56 South Africa calls for permanent ceasefire in S... 2009 Jan 30 12:54 Nadesan regrets misinformation of Colombo UN of... 2009 Jan 30 12:17 ‘Allow food, medicine, international mercy miss... 2009 Jan 30 11:49 UN spokesperson ducks, Ban Ki Moon meets Basil 2009 Jan 30 10:18 LTTE salutes sacrifice of Tamil Nadu Journalist... 2009 Jan 30 09:14 Only international-sponsored ceasefire can lead... 2009 Jan 30 07:47 Batticaloa district Tamils condemn killing of T... 2009 Jan 30 07:01 4 Indian military experts wounded in Vanni 2009 Jan 30 06:58 Tamil family man reported missing in Colombo 2009 Jan 30 06:41 4 SLA soldiers killed in Trincomalee 2009 Jan 30 06:39 Advocates in Tamil Nadu announce indefinite cou... 2008: 2008 Jan 30 19:49 Young father reported missing in Mannaar 2008 Jan 30 19:44 3 SLA soldiers killed in Ma'nalaa'ru clashes - ... 2008 Jan 30 19:33 SLA hands over 4 female corpses to Mannaar Police 2008 Jan 30 18:45 Sri Lanka police arrests 3 Tamils in Colombo 2008 Jan 30 17:34 SLA dumps dead soldiers in the stretches of Arippu 2008 Jan 30 15:32 Tamil Nadu Government warns against expressing ... 2008 Jan 30 15:29 Wasgamuwa national park closed after killings 2008 Jan 30 14:13 Police violate privacy rights of Mukaththuvaara... 2008 Jan 30 12:18 Tamil youth abducted in Trincomalee 2008 Jan 30 10:17 LTTE Political Head writes to UN Secretary General 2008 Jan 30 08:55 SLN restricts NGOs entry into islets of Jaffna 2008 Jan 30 08:10 Military censorship alleged in reporting Northe... 2008 Jan 30 08:03 UNP to boycott official Independence Day celebr... 2008 Jan 30 00:41 50 election candidates get police protection in... 2007: 2007 Jan 30 21:05 Eastern university reopens with VC still held c... 2007 Jan 30 18:38 Mortar attack prompts search operation in Morawewa 2007 Jan 30 17:19 Court issues summons on Colombo TRO officials 2007 Jan 30 16:47 Jaffna University employee shot dead, youth's b... 2007 Jan 30 16:17 Canadian Memorial Stamp issued for late Navaratnam 2007 Jan 30 12:13 IFJ mounts campaign to free journalist Paramesh... 2007 Jan 30 11:07 27 civilians arrested in Colombo north 2007 Jan 30 10:41 Irate civilians smash travel office in Jaffna 2007 Jan 30 10:36 Monks' party to join UPFA government 2007 Jan 30 08:56 Tamil farmer shot dead in Sambaltivu 2007 Jan 30 01:07 TRO staffers disappearance reaches one-year ann... 2006: 2006 Jan 30 19:54 Paramilitaries abduct 5 TRO staff in Welikande 2006 Jan 30 17:03 CWC, UPF to jointly contest local elections 2006 Jan 30 14:04 Indian Air Force Chief arrives in Colombo 2006 Jan 30 11:55 Rights commission to meet SLA officials in Jaffna 2006 Jan 30 11:44 SLA soldier killed in accidental firing 2006 Jan 30 08:38 Another grenade attack on civilian residence in... 2005: 2005 Jan 30 19:30 TRO supplies relief to Trinco railway employees 2005 Jan 30 17:42 Catamaran fishing to recommence in northern sea... 2005 Jan 30 11:44 Navy harassment adds to fishermen's woes 2004: 2004 Jan 30 18:08 Attacks on Sri Lanka churches said well planned 2004 Jan 30 15:17 Seven SLA soldiers discharged from murder case 2004 Jan 30 15:00 Tamil villages to be annexed to Sinhala-dominat... 2004 Jan 30 12:47 TNA calls for postponement of Amparai local aut... 2004 Jan 30 12:29 Maj.Gen.Furuhovde assumes duties as Head of SLMM 2004 Jan 30 11:23 Russia, Sri Lanka sign military co-operation tr... 2004 Jan 30 10:35 Tamil fishermen to fly black flags on Sri Lanka... 2004 Jan 30 00:15 Religious bigotry used for political mobilizati... 2003: 2003 Jan 30 16:35 GOSL, LTTE hold high-level conference in Battic... 2003 Jan 30 05:31 ICRC to focus on missing persons this year 2003 Jan 30 05:23 Public angered as police removes billboard 2003 Jan 30 01:00 Mirusuvil massacre accused remanded, warrant on... 2001: 2001 Jan 30 18:40 Heads shaved to tighten Vanni embargo 2001 Jan 30 16:49 PM invokes Ruhuna ethos for SLA recruiting 2000: 2000 Jan 30 17:32 Stop transfer of detainees to Anuradhapura - MP 2000 Jan 30 16:45 Resettlement, a distant dream to refugees 2000 Jan 30 16:44 Welikade Tamil detainees assaulted 2000 Jan 30 16:38 Security for EPDP MP withdrawn 2000 Jan 30 13:08 Bomb explodes in bus 2000 Jan 30 08:34 Claymore blast kills two 1999: 1999 Jan 30 20:19 Census planned for Vanni region 1999 Jan 30 20:17 Three Sea Tigers killed - radio 1999 Jan 30 20:13 Clashes kill 4 1999 Jan 30 11:04 SLA ambush kills 7 1999 Jan 30 11:01 SLMC calls for urgent electoral reforms 1999 Jan 30 03:03 Two Tigers killed - VoT 1998:
1998 Jan 30 23:59 TULF leads council by narrow margin 1998 Jan 30 23:59 PLOTE driven out of Kayts office 1998 Jan 30 23:59 Election commissioner releases results 1998 Jan 30 23:59 SLA denies arresting youths 1998 Jan 30 23:59 TULF to run council alone 1998 Jan 30 23:59 Kattankudy youth shot by police 1998 Jan 30 23:59 Four Tigers killed in Jaffna - SLA 1998 Jan 30 23:59 Grenade thrown at SLA patrol 1998 Jan 30 23:59 Malaria compounded by drug shortage ![]()
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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 ![]() [15.01.23] ![]() [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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