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 2ND LEAD (Update) Chennai Connect and Eezham Tamils reminding Tamil Nadu to assert Tamil geopolitics[Wed, 16 Oct 2019, 23:19 GMT] After wrapping up his informal Summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Tamil Nadu, Chinese President Xi Jinping this week paid a two-day State visit to Nepal, where he announced a strategic partnership with the landlocked country situated between India and China. While the Nepalese President and Prime Minister extended their commitment to China’s Belt & Road Initiative, Xi Jinping announced the plan for the transformation of the landlocked country into a “land-linked” country in South Asia. He was effectively pitching for a ‘Trans-Himalayan Corridor’. China launching yet another land-based economic corridor in South Asia, in addition to that of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, is the latest manoeuvre of geopolitics. Full story >>
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Oct 19 23:31  Pentagon steps up maritime defence trade with Indi..Oct 18 23:43  Monk backing Gotabhaya wants Tamil owners to stay ..Oct 17 19:14 SL Police resorts to violence in grabbing lands of..Oct 16 23:19 Chennai Connect and Eezham Tamils reminding Tamil ..Oct 15 23:50 Colombo destroys dairy-farming economy of Eezham T..Oct 14 23:48 Tamil parties in North-East stipulate ‘acid test’ ..Oct 13 22:15 SL Governor's latest land grab poses danger to arc..Oct 12 22:23 Monks step up campaign against Muslims, want to ca..Oct 11 22:07 Vote for Self-Determination, reject major candidat..Oct 10 23:31 SL Police intensifies restrictions on Saiva devote..Oct 09 20:17 Indian Coast Guard trespassed into waters off Jaff..Oct 08 18:43 Divisional Secretary, TNA MPs must act to release ..Oct 07 23:12 Heinous act by HRCSL: former orphans of Chegnchoal..Oct 06 12:21 EPDP joins Jaffna protest against desecration of N..Oct 05 22:06 Families inheriting lands from parents refused of ..Pentagon steps up maritime defence trade with India, UK seeks IOR opportunities[Sat, 19 Oct 2019, 23:31 GMT] The bilateral defence trade between the USA and India is expected to reach an estimated USD 18 billion by the end of 2019, said US Department of Defence Undersecretary Ellen Lord in a press conference at the Pentagon on Friday. The defence trade was almost zero back in 2008, she said. India has gained same authorisation as USA’s NATO allies, Japan, South Korea and Australia, she said. In the meantime, India has requested the UK to place a liaison officer at the Indian Navy’s Information Fusion Centre for the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) to explore opportunities under the “Make in India” initiative, media reports from India said. Full story >>SL Police resorts to violence in grabbing lands of Tamil fishers in Batticaloa North[Thu, 17 Oct 2019, 19:14 GMT] The livelihood of thirty resettled Tamil fisher families have been severely affected as the occupying Sinhala police have dismantled their centre for marketing and exchanging the fish produce says T. Uthayakumar, the chairperson of Challith-theevu Fisher Association. Challith-theevu is located 66 km north of Batticaloa city and comes under the administrative division of Koa'ra'laip-pattu North (Vaakarai). The occupying SL military is also staging amusement activities for their visitors from the South, and the SL Police is accompanying them, causing cultural disharmony between the communities of the occupiers and the occupied. Full story >>2ND LEAD (Update) Tamil parties in North-East stipulate ‘acid test’ terms to SL presidential candidates[Mon, 14 Oct 2019, 23:48 GMT] The main political parties of Eezham Tamils, which claim to uphold the principles of the concept of Tamil nationhood through the Right of Self-Determination and distinct sovereignty of Tamils to their traditional homeland, have come to an understanding of the terms to be placed as the acid-test conditions to the candidates running for the executive presidency of the unitary state of genocidal Sri Lanka. While the parties have unitedly formed the main demands towards the presidential candidates, they have failed in two crucial aspects. Firstly, the failure to course-correct the ‘Quisling politics’ of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). Secondly, the inability to stipulate the conditions and choices of Eezham Tamils if and when the actors in the South fail to meet the acid-test terms, especially before the SL Presidential elections. Full story >>Monks step up campaign against Muslims, want to carve out Sinhala colony in Ampaa'rai[Sat, 12 Oct 2019, 22:23 GMT] Sinhala Theravada Buddhist monks in robe have again started to escalate a land dispute along the coast in Poththvuil division of Ampaa'rai district in the East. The elected Divisional Council (PS) was prepared to allocate three acres of lands to the Buddhist vihara, which the monks had put up in illegally seized plot of three-quarter of an acre. The vihara was erected four years ago with the backing of the SL Navy and the presidential election in 2015. Now, the monks want a large tract of land, up to 42 acres and more, MS Abdul Wazeeth, the chairman of the elected Divisional Council told TamilNet on Saturday. The Tamil-speaking Muslims in Poththuvil fear that the monks were scheming a Sinhala colony at the locality, which is known as Mathuragn-cheanai in Tamil. Using the presidential race, the monks seek to secure additional resources for a future Sinhala colony there, they complained. Full story >>SL Police intensifies restrictions on Saiva devotees at disputed ‘chaitya’ hilltop in East[Thu, 10 Oct 2019, 23:31 GMT] The SL Police has started to impose restrictions on Tamil devotees putting up a temporary shed during the annual six-day fast of Kantha Shasti which is to take place between 28 October and 02 November 2019 at Kun'raththoor-malai Murukan temple in Choodaik-kudaa in Trincomalee. The chairperson of the board of trustees of the temple of Murugan deity at Maththa'la-malai, Mr T Jegatheesan, said the SL Police was demanding the board to utilise direct permission from the SL Archaeology Department. Full story >>Divisional Secretary, TNA MPs must act to release Chegnchoalai lands: civil activist[Tue, 08 Oct 2019, 18:43 GMT] The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) seems to have blindly applied the 2013 Circular of the SL State to arrive at its recommendation to reverse the ownership of Chegnchoalai orphanage lands at Malaiyaa'la-puram in Ki'linochchi. The circular proposes that the original landowners, displaced during the times of war, were the rightful owners to their properties. However, the HRCSL has failed to take all the facts regarding the Chegnchoalai lands, says civil activist from Karaichchi, Mr Murugiah Thamilchelvan. The Divisional Secretary and Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarians should take responsibility and cancel the decision mooted by the HRCSL, he said. Full story >>EPDP joins Jaffna protest against desecration of Neeraaviyadi temple[Sun, 06 Oct 2019, 12:21 GMT] Representatives of the EPDP, a paramilitary which was collaborating with the Sinhala military of genocidal Sri Lanka against the Eezham Tamils without course-correcting itself even during the height of genocidal onslaught in 2009, joined a common protest staged in Jaffna against the recent desecration of Neeraaviyadi Pi'l'laiyaar temple in Mullaiththeevu. Ex-militant Tamil parliamentarians in the TNA, which politically collaborates with the failed regime in Colombo also attended the protest. The demonstration demanded action against extremist Buddhist monks and condemned the Sinhala actors, including the SL Police extending tacit support to the ‘Buddhism foremost’ approach of the occupying SL State. Full story >>SL Archaeology, Police continue to disturb Tamils’ right to worship at Vedukku-naa'ri hilltop[Fri, 04 Oct 2019, 21:50 GMT] The Sinhala Police stationed in Nedungkea'ni in Vavuniyaa North has stepped up its harassment of selected members of the trustee board of Vedukku-naa'ri Sivan temple. The SL Police, citing a case lodged by the ‘Sinhala Only’ SL Archaeology Department against the use of ladder during the recent temple festival, has asked the selected members to appear at the station for investigations. The SL Police was already harassing the organisers of the festival against the use of loud-speakers playing Saiva devotional song and issued instructions to remove the ladder, specifying deadlines for the removal. Full story >>No place for human rights in China’s white paper for future world[Wed, 02 Oct 2019, 22:28 GMT] The People’s Republic of China (PRC), with its ambition as a rising global power, showcased this week its 70th anniversary of the founding of the republic staging big celebrations and a massive military parade in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Along with the fanfare, the RPC also spelt out its worldview for future China and the world combined in a white paper titled “China and the World in the New Era.” Although the Xi Jinping doctrine was upholding the principles of the UN Charter, the term ‘human rights’ was totally missing in the document, which perceives state-to-state relations as the bedrock of international relations. Even the term civilisation was used to defend the states-centric narrative. There were no specific concerns about stateless nations and peoples that don’t fit into the states-centric status quo of the so-called world order. Full story >>SL military, police, traders, exert pressure on civil authorities in Mannaar to alienate lands[Mon, 30 Sep 2019, 20:49 GMT] The occupying SL Police in Mannaar city is under constant pressure from the civil, religious and private property owners to vacate from their premises. The SL Police is harassing the Divisional Secretariat officials to release crown lands as compensation to relocate itself. Similarly, the SL Army from Tha'l'laadi cantonment in the mainland is demanding alternative properties allocated for its use before considering the release of 21 acres of the lands it has seized from a private Tamil land-owner since 1990. In the meantime, millionaire Sinhala investors from the South want large tracts of public lands leased or sold to them to put up wind and solar plants along the coast of the Mannaar island from Oalaith-thoduvaay to Thoadda-ve'li. The officials are already struggling to find lands for thousands of uprooted families from Mannaar, including those returning from exile in Tamil Nadu. Full story >>SL State-owned paper refuses to publish condemnation issued by Hindu Congress[Sat, 28 Sep 2019, 13:24 GMT]  Lt Col Thileepan’s 32nd commemoration gains momentum across North-East[Thu, 26 Sep 2019, 17:49 GMT] Eezham Tamils in the North and East marked the 32nd annual commemoration of the sacrifice of LTTE’s Jaffna Political Head Lt Col Thileepan (Rasiah Parthipan), who sacrificed his life in a historical dry hunger-strike in 1987, which exposed India’s interests-oriented invasion at that time. Tamil National Peoples’ Front organised a march from Vavuniyaa to Nalloor in the North mobilising the youth with significant participation of women. The Tamil National Alliance marked the event in Ki’linochchi and Batticaloa while the former NPC Chief Minister Justice C.V. Wigneswaran’s Tamil Makkal Kootani commemorated the remembrance at Point Pedro. The Remembrance event at Nalloor, where Thileepan sacrificed his life, was marked as a joint remembrance event beyond group affinities. Full story >>Tamils mobilise in Vanni exposing lopsided law enforcement of genocidal Sri Lanka[Tue, 24 Sep 2019, 15:06 GMT] Tamil lawyers in North boycotted the courts on Tuesday condemning the failure of the law enforcement authorities of the unitary SL State that failed to respect the decision by the Magistrate of Mullaiththeevu Courts. Covering their mouths with black ribbons, the lawyers numbering around one hundred, gathered inside the premises of the Magistrates’ Court in Mullaiththeevu. In the meantime, the grassroots organisations including the Catholic and Saivaist dignitaries took to the street in Mullaith-theevu staging a protest march from Mullaiththeevu old hospital to the District Secretariat passing the court on their way. An overwhelming majority of those marched in the protest were young generation Tamils. Full story >>Monk backing Gotabhaya wants Tamil owners to stay away from their lands in interior Batticaloa[Fri, 18 Oct 2019, 23:43 GMT] A Sinhala Buddhist monk engaged in hostile colonisation activities in Batticaloa district along the border to Ampaa'rai district has threatened Tamil farmers who were levelling lands at Maalaiyar-kaddu village to stay away from the ‘reservation’ lands on Friday. The Tamil landowners were stopped by the SL Police who accompanied the monk while they were cleaning the property using a bulldozer. The SL Police has instructed the Tamil farmers to come to Vellaa-ve'li police station on Monday. The Tamil families have been doing agriculture in three acres of lands beside the plot which they were levelling. They had purchased six acres of lands from another Tamil landowner 15 years ago, the families said. However, the monk from Chinna-vaththai was claiming that the SL State had reserved the three acres of lands.
Full story >>Colombo destroys dairy-farming economy of Eezham Tamils in Batticaloa[Tue, 15 Oct 2019, 23:50 GMT] Former Sinhala paramilitary men have shot and killed around 1,500 of cows in the interior pasturelands of Paduvaan-karai region in Batticaloa district within the last ten months, complains Nimalan Kanthasamy, the secretary of Dairy Farmers Association in Kiraan and Chengka'ladi in Koa'ra'laip-pattu South division. In the meantime, the SL State-owned Milk Industries of Lanka Company, also known as Milco Private Limited, is buying the produce at low rates from the Tamil dairy farmers in Batticaloa. The payments also get severely delayed, he says. Full story >>SL Governor's latest land grab poses danger to archaeological traces of Eezham Tamils[Sun, 13 Oct 2019, 22:15 GMT] SL Governor to North Mr Suren Raghavan is attempting to alienate 115 acres of lands at Kauthaari-munai in Ma'na'niththa'lai sandbar of Poo-nakari (Pooneryn) division to a private Tamil diaspora business person from Australia before his Governor term expires. Mr Raghavan is deceptively suppressing objections from the Tamil civil sources and the grassroots activists in Ki'linochchi district, informed grassroots activists in Poonakari told TamilNet. The 25 km long sandbar, which extends towards the Jaffna Peninsula from Poonakari in the main island, is of immense natural beauty and archaeological value to the Eezham Tamils. The area is dotted with archaeological remains ranging from microlithic/megalithic times to the times of the Dutch, covered by massive sand dunes. Full story >>Vote for Self-Determination, reject major candidates for more effective boycott[Fri, 11 Oct 2019, 22:07 GMT]  Indian Coast Guard trespassed into waters off Jaffna, 18 fishers detained since 03 October[Wed, 09 Oct 2019, 20:17 GMT] Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu, where Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to host an informal summit, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has stepped up patrol activities in the Palk Straits and the Bay of Bengal. On 03 October, the ICG has trespassed into the waters off Jaffna peninsula and detained eighteen poor Eezham Tamil fishers, who were engaged in crab fishing off Ezhuvai-theevu island in an offshore vessel with 18 feet fishing bay. The families are yet to hear from the detained fishermen who are believed to be in the custody of Tamil Nadu Police in Puzhal prison, Annalingam Annarasa, the deputy chairman of Jaffna Islets Fisheries Federation said on Tuesday. Ezhuvai-theevu is the island that is seen first when coming from the Indian coast to Kayts Harbour. Full story >>Heinous act by HRCSL: former orphans of Chegnchoalai on the brink of losing lands[Mon, 07 Oct 2019, 23:12 GMT] The so-called Human Rights Commission of genocidal Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has proposed to the Divisional Secretariat office in Karaichchi in Ki'linochchi to evict the resettled former orphans of Chengchoalai who are living at the lands which were bought by the orphanage from the original landowners during the times of war. Cheng-choalai was one of the civilian orphanages operated by the LTTE run de-facto state of Tamil Eelam. It was well known for bringing up children in an exemplary way producing artists and experts within various fields. The lands were allocated to the former orphans through proper purchases during the de-facto civil administration of the LTTE. However, the grounds are now being claimed by greedy elements with vested interests and the SL Human Rights Commission in Jaffna has proposed to do away the arrangement.
Full story >>Families inheriting lands from parents refused of land registration in Moothoor East[Sat, 05 Oct 2019, 22:06 GMT] The authorities coming under the unitary system of occupying Colombo refuse to register title deeds for lands that are being inherited by newly married couples from their families in Moothoor East of Trincomalee district. The denial causes several other problems as the new families are unable to obtain bank loans or housing schemes without the proof of land ownership. Several appeals were made to resolve this issue since 2008 without any outcome, says I Raveendran, the deputy chairman of Vinaayakar Community Centre in Champoor. Now, the families fear that they would be permanently losing the lands if Gotabhaya Rajapaksa becomes the next SL President. Full story >>Raghavan plans to distribute uncultivatable lands to Tamils to compensate for loss of fertile lands[Thu, 03 Oct 2019, 19:16 GMT] SL Governor to Northern Province Suren Raghavan has come up with another deceptive offer to the uprooted Eezham Tamil land-owners in Mullaiththeevu. Raghavan is planning to release some plots of saline and brackish soil along the coast as compensation for their fertile lands, which the SL State had seized from the Tamil land-owners under the so-called ‘Mahaweli’ L system, civil sources at Mullaiththeevu District Secretariat said. Suren Raghavan met the District Secretary and TNA Parliamentarian Mrs Shanthy Sriskandarajah at the District Secretariat in Mullaiththeevu on Wednesday. Mr Raghavan has proposed to de-gazette some plots that are retained under the System L. However, the plots coming under the planned release were only ‘tharavai’ lands, the officials said. Full story >>2ND LEAD (UPDATE) Genocidal Sri Lanka hits back at UN, claims it passed ‘litmus test’ on human rights in 2019[Tue, 01 Oct 2019, 18:26 GMT] SL President Maithiripala Sirisena deployed his Foreign Secretary to tell the UN Department of Peace Operations (UNDPO) in New York that the 2011 Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability, led by Marzuki Darusman, was “so seriously flawed that the Human Rights Council at the time had rejected to issue it with a formal number, as a UN document.” Brushing away the criticisms being levelled against the SL State for promoting war criminals in the rank and file of the military, Ravinatha Ariyasinha ‘reminded’ the UNDPO that the 2015 OISL report was not an outcome of a criminal investigation. SL Commander Lt Gen Shavendra Silva has not been subjected to any criminal investigation and the public domain reports of the UN cannot be taken as substantive as establishing his culpability, Ariyasinha told the Under Secretary General of the UNDPO, Mr Jean-Pierre Lacroix. Full story >>No to alternative lands, original lands must be released with compensation, say Tamil activists[Sun, 29 Sep 2019, 18:19 GMT] SL Governor to North Suren Raghavan is deceiving the Tamil land-owners by proposing to consider accepting alternative properties in return for the fertile lands, which the occupying SL military wants to retain under its control in Valikaamam North in Jaffna. Out of 47 GS divisions, 21 are affected by SL militarisation. It is the most fertile soil in the entire peninsula. The SL military has continued widespread cultivation, dairy farming and fishing by utilising the resources of the uprooted Tamils even after the end of the war in 2009. It is not justifiable, said Nallathamby Ponrajah, the member of Valikaamam South Divisional Council. In the meantime, grassroots activists are planning to launch a renewed campaign to free their lands said SL State must return the properties and also compensate for the loss of income caused by the unjustified occupation of their areas so far. Full story >>UN employed former Sri Lanka Army officer alleged of killing Tamils in Madu Church[Fri, 27 Sep 2019, 16:50 GMT]  Batticaloa Bar Association protests against contempt of court shown by extremist monks[Wed, 25 Sep 2019, 17:48 GMT] Tamil and Muslim lawyers of Batticaloa Bar Associaton boycotted their work on Wednesday expressing their solidarity with the Tamil lawyers from Jaffna and Mullaiththeevu who were allegedly assaulted by the extremist Buddhist monks on Monday. The representatives of the bar association described the events that unfolded at Neeraaviyadi on Monday as contempt of court both in word and deed. Full story >>2ND LEAD (Adds video) Sinhala extremist monks assault Tamils, say Buddhism stands above Law in Lanka[Mon, 23 Sep 2019, 18:38 GMT] 
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2013: 2013 Oct 22 15:54 Jaffna hospital observes 26th year of IPKF mass... 2013 Oct 22 08:58 Ram chairs KSL while Ravi becomes Chief Editor ... 2013 Oct 22 00:22 Kenyan snub to add to Sri Lanka's CHOGM woes 2011: 2011 Oct 22 12:44 Consequences of Tamil genocide engulf entire is... 2011 Oct 22 01:42 Dutch court convicts 5 Tamils, says LTTE not "t... 2010: 2010 Oct 22 09:22 CID arrests Vaazhaichcheanai PS Vice Chairman 2010 Oct 22 09:20 2000 sq.kms in North remain to be de-mined - SLA 2010 Oct 22 06:03 Manmohan Singh unworthy to open “Little India” ... 2010 Oct 22 05:33 Civilians’ gold recovered from Vanni should be ... 2010 Oct 22 05:24 TNA appeals people to be aware of betrayers in ... 2009: 2009 Oct 22 12:07 Sri Lanka dismisses allegations in US Congressi... 2009 Oct 22 10:59 U.S. forfeits international responsibility to S... 2009 Oct 22 10:28 Vanni IDP students admitted to Ratmalana Hindu ... 2009 Oct 22 07:45 22nd death anniversary of IPKF killed JTH perso... 2009 Oct 22 04:43 Tamil trader abducted in Batticaloa 2008: 2008 Oct 22 22:24 Jaffna Hindu College Association voices for Tam... 2008 Oct 22 19:54 SLA steps up fighting in Mu'rika'ndi, Akkaraayan 2008 Oct 22 19:12 Sri Lankan DPU attack kills civilian, 2 wounded 2008 Oct 22 14:51 Abducted Tamil trader found dead in Negombo 2008 Oct 22 14:47 RSF: State organizes violence against press in ... 2008 Oct 22 14:43 KKS harbour activities stall following Sea Tige... 2008 Oct 22 14:05 2 STF killed in Ampaa'rai - LTTE 2008 Oct 22 08:10 Sea Tigers sink Sri Lankan supply ship 2008 Oct 22 03:32 Explosions target Sri Lankan ships in the seas ... 2007: 2007 Oct 22 21:12 2 youths abducted in Vadmaraadchi 2007 Oct 22 19:15 LTTE releases names of Black Tigers in airbase ... 2007 Oct 22 11:06 Jaffna Co-operative Official hacked to death in... 2007 Oct 22 05:55 Tigers claim Anuradhapura air base attack succe... 2006: 2006 Oct 22 15:33 6 youths disappear near Chemmani 2006 Oct 22 15:19 Cabinet to meet to finalize MoU 2006 Oct 22 13:46 Claymore injures SLA trooper in Karaveddy 2006 Oct 22 12:42 Aid workers' postmortem scheduled to begin this... 2006 Oct 22 12:36 Two Tamil fishermen shot dead in Mannar 2006 Oct 22 12:16 US should support "confederal Sri Lanka"- Bosto... 2006 Oct 22 10:52 SLA shells injure two youths, child in Vaharai 2005: 2005 Oct 22 15:50 Jaffna fishermen demand removal of restrictions 2005 Oct 22 11:16 Clustered Polling booths to be located 500 mete... 2005 Oct 22 08:28 Trincomalee Declaration demands SL troops to va... 2005 Oct 22 04:52 SLA allows limited cultivation in Thenmaradchi ... 2005 Oct 22 04:49 Civilians given military training in Vadamaradc... 2004: 2004 Oct 22 17:55 SLA gets new spokesman 2004 Oct 22 16:31 Thamilchelvan meets Swedish Foreign Ministry of... 2004 Oct 22 15:25 Civil, Military officials review law and order ... 2004 Oct 22 15:09 Trinco Children Home director remanded on fresh... 2004 Oct 22 11:27 Sri Lanka military responsible for actions of p... 2004 Oct 22 10:51 Court orders TRO to take over Children's Shelter 2004 Oct 22 08:39 Ex Policeman charged for raping fourteen year o... 2004 Oct 22 01:45 Sinhala Buddhists want Norway out 2004 Oct 22 01:32 Sri Lanka Govt. troops threaten VVT fishermen 2004 Oct 22 00:07 IPKF Jaffna Hospital massacre remembered 2003: 2003 Oct 22 16:47 Fisheries project abandoned due to SLA's condition 2003 Oct 22 16:04 Thamilchelvan meets TNA over IA proposals 2003 Oct 22 15:07 JVP holds meeting to publish 'National Program' 2003 Oct 22 14:41 SLA assaults Jaffna fishermen, 20 injured 2003 Oct 22 14:37 Police block anti-peace demonstrators reaching ... 2003 Oct 22 04:30 NECORD opens new building in Trinco Nalanda Col... 2002: 2002 Oct 22 09:59 Norway delegation visits Jaffna 2002 Oct 22 09:12 Speaker informs decision of SC on constitutiona... 1998: 1998 Oct 22 22:20 UNP boycotts peace meet 1998 Oct 22 19:44 Civilians drafted in error 1998 Oct 22 18:59 Troops search Jaffna school 1998 Oct 22 11:55 JVP warns of anti-Tamil violence - paper 1998 Oct 22 08:48 Northern skirmishes continue -SLA 1997:
1997 Oct 22 23:59 Destroyed university awaits repairs 1997 Oct 22 23:59 SLA continue to abandon checkpoints in Jaffna 1997 Oct 22 23:59 Amnesty for deserters called off 1997 Oct 22 23:59 News in Brief 1997 Oct 22 23:59 Amnesty for deserters - yet again 
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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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