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2013: 2013 Jan 31 01:01 Sinhala colonisation in sacred land of Tamil ma... 2013 Jan 31 00:36 Sinhala military, Malayala martial arts to mark... 2012: 2012 Jan 31 23:57 Destructive trend of Sinhalicisation harmful fo... 2012 Jan 31 19:20 Colombo steps up Sinhalicisation of Batticaloa,... 2011: 2011 Jan 31 21:12 Family man from Jaffna reported missing on way ... 2011 Jan 31 03:59 Fire destroys offices of website critical of Co... 2010: 2010 Jan 31 17:07 Tamils undisputed champions of diaspora politic... 2010 Jan 31 16:32 Voting continues in British Tamil Eelam referendum 2010 Jan 31 12:35 Swiss journalist visa reinstated 2010 Jan 31 02:39 SL foreign minister visits Jaffna 2010 Jan 31 02:00 First day of British Referendum draws to a close 2009: 2009 Jan 31 22:42 Jaffna woman arrested in Habarana 2009 Jan 31 22:24 Jaffna University students call off boycott tem... 2009 Jan 31 21:50 British Tamils stage largest ever march protest... 2009 Jan 31 20:07 Nagesh, made generations to laugh, passes away 2009 Jan 31 18:03 Colleges closed indefinitely in Tamil Nadu to d... 2009 Jan 31 17:44 Artillery-fired cluster shells, aerial bombing ... 2009 Jan 31 14:40 Grenade attack on SLA sentry post in Jaffna 2009 Jan 31 13:44 Tamil activists besiege Tanjore Air Force base 2009 Jan 31 12:11 Only 26 respond to Rajapaksa's 48-hour ultimatum 2009 Jan 31 10:28 'UN subtly abets Colombo's genocide' - MP 2009 Jan 31 09:34 Umbrella front announces February 4 statewide b... 2009 Jan 31 08:37 SLA shelling continues on 'safety zone', Colomb... 2009 Jan 31 08:18 Stop the human tragedy in Vanni – CJPCD Jaffna 2009 Jan 31 07:23 Family man immolates himself, Tamil Nadu tense 2009 Jan 31 06:30 Canadian Tamils form human chain to protest Sri... 2009 Jan 31 05:13 Muththukumar hailed as hero, tension escalates ... 2008: 2008 Jan 31 18:01 Police collects personal details of Tamils in M... 2008 Jan 31 13:47 Paramilitary operative shot dead in Chengkaladi 2008 Jan 31 12:44 Search operation in Paalaavi, Puththa'lam 2008 Jan 31 10:46 SLA, police cordon, search Akkaraippattu 2008 Jan 31 08:02 Grenade attack on SLMC contestant’s house in Va... 2008 Jan 31 07:48 Bomb blast kills 4 civilians, injures 15 in Jaffna 2008 Jan 31 05:01 Three siblings shot dead in Thenmaraadchi 2008 Jan 31 02:53 Delayed Jaffna mailbags arrive in KKS 2008 Jan 31 01:05 SLN confiscates passes of Vadamaraadchi fishermen 2007: 2007 Jan 31 20:36 Telephone link to Vanni, most of peninsula, cut... 2007 Jan 31 12:34 Two youths shot dead in Vavuniya 2007 Jan 31 11:36 Union: Navy destroyed fishing boats, not Tiger ... 2007 Jan 31 11:31 SL parliament to meet on February 6 after new p... 2007 Jan 31 11:19 UNP to expel dissident MPs 2007 Jan 31 10:53 SLA trooper killed in bomb blast in Vaharai 2007 Jan 31 09:51 Acute shortage of newsprint in Jaffna 2007 Jan 31 08:40 Abducted TRO officials remembered 2007 Jan 31 08:09 7 policemen, 3 SLA troopers, civilian killed in... 2007 Jan 31 06:29 JHU appoints militant leader as parliamentarian 2007 Jan 31 06:11 SL new Foreign Minister visits India 2007 Jan 31 03:31 Eleven civilians arrested in Nugegoda 2007 Jan 31 00:43 Disabled person shot dead in Jaffna 2006: 2006 Jan 31 17:17 Another five TRO staff reported missing 2006 Jan 31 16:57 PAFFREL files Court action to stop local elections 2006 Jan 31 16:51 Trinco SLA commander meets NGO representatives 2006 Jan 31 15:11 US urges Sri Lanka to investigate kidnapping of... 2006 Jan 31 12:27 More UNP Pradeshya Sabha members cross over to ... 2006 Jan 31 11:20 Meeting with SLA constructive- Rights officials 2006 Jan 31 10:55 Police constable shot, injured in Muttur 2006 Jan 31 10:26 SLA cordon, search Thumpalai area 2006 Jan 31 01:39 Chulipuram student missing, familes continue to... 2006 Jan 31 01:21 World Bank, ADB, UN representatives to meet LTT... 2005: 2005 Jan 31 23:35 Washington residents ship relief supplies 2005 Jan 31 18:25 NEPC to hold Tsunami drawing competition, exhib... 2005 Jan 31 15:54 GTZ to rebuild six schools in Vadamaradchchi east 2005 Jan 31 12:26 Trinco railway workers protest over tsunami relief 2005 Jan 31 11:17 Peoples Bank launches microfinance website with... 2005 Jan 31 11:07 Finnish Foreign Minister to visit Sri Lanka 2005 Jan 31 10:04 Tigers walk out in protest against JVP 2004: 2004 Jan 31 19:43 LTTE finance division forms Price Regulatory Au... 2004 Jan 31 18:04 Ten youths from UNICEF list sent to Kilinochchi... 2004 Jan 31 17:45 Sri Lanka military fails to dissuade Jaffna dea... 2004 Jan 31 14:57 Talk only to LTTE -Anandasangaree tells Sri Lan... 2004 Jan 31 13:37 Colombo political crisis discussed in Jaffna Se... 2004 Jan 31 02:03 Public Services Trade Unions to support Railway... 2003: 2003 Jan 31 17:52 'Peace talks enter crucial stage'- Ranil 2003 Jan 31 17:33 UNICEF-LTTE agree to work to uplift war affecte... 2003 Jan 31 14:52 SLA presence is ethnic cleansing in another for... 2003 Jan 31 12:03 Rotarians to honour Trincomalee senior citizens 2003 Jan 31 11:54 GA seeks permission to transport rice from Vann... 2003 Jan 31 11:25 Protests force Minister to cancel Jaffna visit 2003 Jan 31 01:49 Jaffna Magistrate remands Indian fishermen 2003 Jan 31 01:41 WHO to donate eight ambulances to NE 2003 Jan 31 01:27 'UNF govt is helping LTTE to achieve Eelam'-JVP 2003 Jan 31 01:18 Jaffna residents to protest against visits by m... 2001: 2001 Jan 31 21:30 SLA tenders qualified apology as officer retires 2001 Jan 31 17:15 Chavakachcheri not suitable for resettling -Mayor 2001 Jan 31 06:52 Grenade attack on Oxfam office 2000: 2000 Jan 31 19:57 Indictment served on SLRC co-ordinator 2000 Jan 31 16:48 News in Brief: 2000 Jan 31 14:42 Arrest of two carrying banned goods 2000 Jan 31 14:40 Transformers blasted 2000 Jan 31 14:37 Parcel bomb at Gal Oya 2000 Jan 31 14:36 Ban on air travel to Jaffna lifted: VoT 1999: 1999 Jan 31 19:54 Half Kilinochchi under-5s malnourished 1999 Jan 31 19:50 Ten Tigers killed 1999 Jan 31 19:46 Malaria on the increase 1999 Jan 31 19:45 Massacre inquiry delay continues 1999 Jan 31 12:17 Four Sea Tigers killed -SLN 1999 Jan 31 12:15 42 Tiger casualties - SLA 1999 Jan 31 12:13 SLA repulsed at Mankulam - LTTE 1999 Jan 31 12:11 Blasts injure two 1998:
1998 Jan 31 23:59 Palai hospital short of equipment 1998 Jan 31 23:59 New publications in Jaffna 1998 Jan 31 23:59 Day of mourning in Kandy 1998 Jan 31 23:59 Body of missing policeman found 1998 Jan 31 23:59 Grenade attack at Kandy UNP office 1998 Jan 31 23:59 Tigers attack SLA truck 1998 Jan 31 23:59 Demonstration in the Dalada Maligawa ![]()
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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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