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2013: 2013 Sep 27 23:43 ‘Tamils vote in NPC not a legitimation of unita... 2013 Sep 27 09:24 Navi Pillay's oral update, a gross betrayal of ... 2010: 2010 Sep 27 18:06 Explosion kills SLA soldier, injures another in... 2010 Sep 27 11:38 Batticaloa district ignored in post-war 'develo... 2010 Sep 27 11:17 Girl drowns in Verukal river in Batticaloa 2010 Sep 27 11:04 War-widowed mother, daughter reported missing i... 2010 Sep 27 02:33 Moon, Rajapaksa nexus to restrict UN panel mand... 2010 Sep 27 02:30 Police, SLA search for buried weapons in Jaffna 2009: 2009 Sep 27 18:18 Champoor power plant awaits Sri Lanka cabinet a... 2009 Sep 27 15:48 Tissainayagam, a prisoner of conscience - paper... 2009 Sep 27 00:55 Indian envoy listens to preparations on IDPs wi... 2008: 2008 Sep 27 15:01 British PM meets Rajapaksa, conveys acute concern 2008 Sep 27 10:08 Civilian killed, 8 including 4 children wounded... 2007: 2007 Sep 27 20:51 Thousands mourn slain priest in Mannaar 2007 Sep 27 11:43 Eachchilampathu IDPs' houses destroyed to estab... 2007 Sep 27 11:11 Civilian shot dead in Koandaavil 2007 Sep 27 11:01 Artillery duel in northern front, civilian shot... 2007 Sep 27 10:27 LTTE condemns killing of Rev. Fr. Packiyaranjith 2007 Sep 27 07:35 3 civilians killed, 30 wounded in bomb blast in... 2007 Sep 27 02:55 12 Tamils arrested in Gampaha 2007 Sep 27 00:10 Jaffna doctors protest reduction in intern appo... 2006: 2006 Sep 27 16:42 Young family man shot dead in Pesalai 2006 Sep 27 12:23 Colombo's refusal to open A9, serious Humanitar... 2006 Sep 27 11:51 Chandrakanthan sworn in as TNA national list pa... 2006 Sep 27 11:40 SLA soldier injured in Ariyalai grenade attack 2006 Sep 27 10:47 "White Van Squad" terrorise devotees in battica... 2006 Sep 27 05:38 "Lift embargo, re-open land routes," - TNA in s... 2006 Sep 27 05:28 Civilians stranded in Vavuniya arrive by vessel... 2006 Sep 27 00:48 Telecom worker abducted in Trincomalee 2005: 2005 Sep 27 20:16 'EU Statement, an impediment to peace, says IFT 2005 Sep 27 18:49 SLN allows students entry into Mandaitivu after... 2005 Sep 27 15:41 Batticaloa auto-rickshaw driver shot dead 2005 Sep 27 12:37 India to train Sri Lanka Police 2005 Sep 27 11:47 SLN blocks Pongu Thamil group from entering Man... 2005 Sep 27 11:06 Woman shot dead in outskirts of Jaffna 2005 Sep 27 10:53 UNP manifesto promises to End Separatism 2005 Sep 27 10:35 UNP will oppose submission of budget before polls 2005 Sep 27 10:26 Hakim meets EU representatives, raises security... 2005 Sep 27 02:03 "LTTE no longer welcome in EU member states" 2005 Sep 27 00:52 Retired Commanders denounce JVP Leader's call t... 2005 Sep 27 00:32 SLA extends checkpoint hours to assist Conventi... 2005 Sep 27 00:05 HRC officials meet LTTE cadre in KKS Police Sta... 2004: 2004 Sep 27 18:37 Universities open after workers' strike 2004 Sep 27 15:56 Transport fares increase again 2004 Sep 27 13:29 Fingerprints to appear on Sri Lanka passports 2004 Sep 27 12:02 TRO to assist war affected families in Muttur east 2004 Sep 27 10:05 Police assault Jaffna human rights commission o... 2004 Sep 27 09:45 Paramilitary cadre shot dead in Jaffna 2004 Sep 27 07:29 Sri Lanka experiences heavy rainfall 2003: 2003 Sep 27 19:10 SLMM, LTTE district political heads to meet in ... 2003 Sep 27 18:44 Tamil monthly from Trincomalee released 2003 Sep 27 15:08 Failure to devolve power will lead to war, sece... 2003 Sep 27 13:13 JVP, SLFP foot march begins from Kandy 2003 Sep 27 11:40 Ex-EPRLF cadre shot dead 2002: 2002 Sep 27 17:15 "Muslims rights should be respected" - Karuna 2002 Sep 27 15:14 UK envoy holds discussion with Thamilchelvan 2002 Sep 27 09:26 Disabled Tigers return overland to Batticaloa 2002 Sep 27 08:11 LTTE protests Jaffna cadres' harassment 2001: 2001 Sep 27 17:02 Tigers, SLA fight artillery duels in Jaffna 2001 Sep 27 15:42 'Fundamentalist’ mosque demolished in east 2000: 2000 Sep 27 17:01 Tigers launch Unceasing Waves 4 2000 Sep 27 12:32 Heavy fighting continues in Jaffna 1999: 1999 Sep 27 18:39 120 PLOTE cadres face arrest 1999 Sep 27 18:37 Trooper wounded 1999 Sep 27 18:34 Officials appeal for food 1999 Sep 27 07:35 Damaged merchant vessel towed to port 1999 Sep 27 07:14 Tigers warn paramilitary groups 1999 Sep 27 07:12 New homeguard units raised 1998:
1998 Sep 27 18:15 Confusion surrounds Kilinochchi fighting 1998 Sep 27 18:13 Indian fishermen face repatriation 1998 Sep 27 11:18 Search operation in Nelliady 1998 Sep 27 10:34 MoD says 'in control' 1998 Sep 27 06:29 Heavy fighting at Elephant Pass ![]()
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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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