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2014: 2014 Feb 03 23:48 Colombo beefs up military presence in Tamil hom... 2014 Feb 03 10:14 USA softer than UK in wooing genocidal Colombo:... 2013: 2013 Feb 03 18:11 Colombo converts Jaffna ‘HSZ’ into zone of Sinh... 2013 Feb 03 17:24 Colombo denies visas to IBA jurists 2011: 2011 Feb 03 13:48 Second wave of floods hit Trincomalee hard 2011 Feb 03 13:27 Two fishermen die in Thirukkoayil Sea 2011 Feb 03 13:17 Colombo ignores uprooted Tamils of Champoor in ... 2011 Feb 03 09:39 Batticaloa, Ampaa'rai heading for second flood ... 2010: 2010 Feb 03 13:28 Dissanayake decides to continue as Election Com... 2010 Feb 03 12:19 Joint opposition demonstrates against election ... 2010 Feb 03 12:15 SLN re-imposes night fishing ban in Mannaar Sea 2010 Feb 03 02:59 Indian fishing trawlers encroach Jaffna seas 2009: 2009 Feb 03 22:47 Gotabaya should be prosecuted for Genocide, war... 2009 Feb 03 21:33 ‘For whom the Co-chairs strive,’ asks Tamil par... 2009 Feb 03 20:43 65 Vanni patients transferred to Mannaar, relat... 2009 Feb 03 19:19 Rajapakse, Karunanidhi governments ideologicall... 2009 Feb 03 18:27 SLN hands over arrested Tamil Nadu fishermen to... 2009 Feb 03 18:13 SLAF personnel being trained in Tamil Nadu 2009 Feb 03 17:52 SLA forces public to hoist lion flag on Indepen... 2009 Feb 03 16:53 Co-Chairs: LTTE surrender will save Vanni civil... 2009 Feb 03 15:36 Obama greetings disregard Tamil aspirations - T... 2009 Feb 03 13:48 The pawns of states and super states: A poetic ... 2009 Feb 03 10:14 Prominent Norwegian politician blames Sri Lanka... 2009 Feb 03 05:35 Hunger strike against killings of Tamil in Vann... 2009 Feb 03 05:14 PTK hospital, legitimate military target - Gota... 2009 Feb 03 04:08 US Senators express concern on humanitarian sit... 2008: 2008 Feb 03 19:55 LTTE, SLA DPU unit clash in Vavuniyaa 2008 Feb 03 16:49 APRC collaborated in a deception game: Kumar David 2008 Feb 03 16:36 U.S. condemns bomb attacks in South 2008 Feb 03 15:40 Jaffna to Colombo flights suspended 2008 Feb 03 14:25 Trincomalee security tightened 2008 Feb 03 14:21 16 arrested in Matale following Dambulla explosion 2008 Feb 03 13:14 Tamil youth abducted in Paalaiyoottu 2008 Feb 03 08:45 14 killed, 103 wounded in Colombo train blast 2008 Feb 03 07:55 Travel between North, South suspended 2008 Feb 03 05:15 Explosion in Dehiwala zoo, 6 wounded 2008 Feb 03 03:54 Mannaar resident arrested in Puththa'lam 2008 Feb 03 03:52 Colombo-Vavuniyaa train services suspended 2008 Feb 03 00:09 Public Transport crisis looms in Jaffna peninsula 2007: 2007 Feb 03 10:39 Rajapakse visits Vaharai 2007 Feb 03 09:26 Auto-rickshaw driver shot dead in Vavuniya 2007 Feb 03 07:57 266 Tamils arrested in search operation in Colombo 2007 Feb 03 03:19 Wickremesinghe returns to lead a depleted oppos... 2007 Feb 03 02:25 TE Law College releases book on 'Family Law' 2007 Feb 03 01:22 Jaffna MPCS officials protest, seek assurance o... 2007 Feb 03 00:27 Release East undergraduates immediately- TNA MP 2006: 2006 Feb 03 17:55 Court begins inquiry into Jaffna students FR ap... 2006 Feb 03 13:53 Another TRO staffer released 2006 Feb 03 12:34 Red Cross hands over fishing boats to tsunami a... 2006 Feb 03 12:26 Protest against Batticaloa abductions held in M... 2006 Feb 03 12:15 Valaichenai school principal missing, school sh... 2006 Feb 03 11:05 Underage paramilitary recruit attests to SLA-Ka... 2006 Feb 03 05:45 STF opens fire at hartal observers in Akkaraipattu 2006 Feb 03 04:55 Released TRO abductees detained at Batticaloa P... 2006 Feb 03 01:27 Anbu Illam student wins poetry prize 2005: 2005 Feb 03 21:48 Jaffna Civil groups call for Independence Day b... 2005 Feb 03 17:41 Germans give boats, engines, bicycles 2005 Feb 03 16:43 Police security tightened at Kalmunai hospital 2005 Feb 03 16:23 SLN stops school building construction in HSZ 2005 Feb 03 15:32 Underage youths handed over to NESOHR 2005 Feb 03 12:49 Radical decentralization of relief work needed,... 2005 Feb 03 01:23 Sri Lanka needs USD 1.5 billion for tsunami rec... 2005 Feb 03 01:03 "Hung upside down, beaten in genitals"- torture... 2005 Feb 03 00:12 "Disaster Relief" used to bolster Colombo's air... 2004: 2004 Feb 03 23:06 "No agreement on peace process with PM" - Kumar... 2004 Feb 03 19:02 Indonesian manpower minister visits Trincomalee 2004 Feb 03 18:46 Teachers proficient in 'Marine Fishery' needed ... 2004 Feb 03 18:22 SC confirms death sentence on Krishanthy murder... 2004 Feb 03 12:42 LTTE medical corps' feats unparalleled - Balaku... 2004 Feb 03 12:19 Military readies for Sri Lanka’s Independence D... 2004 Feb 03 11:39 Pallai school reopens after 8 years 2003: 2003 Feb 03 23:04 'Independence celebrations not for Tamils' -JSU 2003 Feb 03 17:47 Court allows eight Tamil civilians on bail 2003 Feb 03 15:37 ‘Remove SLA camps from schools’ ... 2003 Feb 03 12:05 General Nambiar to visit Jaffna 2002: 2002 Feb 03 21:51 Covert moves to scuttle peace in east – K... 2002 Feb 03 21:43 'I'll don the stripes if UNF peace fails' -Chan... 2002 Feb 03 21:41 Presidential Security chief surrenders to court 2002 Feb 03 15:51 “Remove fishing ban , release PTA suspects" -TNA 2002 Feb 03 12:19 TNA rally exhorts political prisoners' release 2000: 2000 Feb 03 18:36 Third bus bomb explodes in Colombo 2000 Feb 03 18:33 News in Brief: 2000 Feb 03 15:05 Bus bomb wounds 20 2000 Feb 03 11:22 Expulsion of dissident MPs "not valid in law" -... 2000 Feb 03 09:52 Two arrested, three 'missing' in Jaffna 2000 Feb 03 06:50 Three wounded in bomb blast 1999: 1999 Feb 03 20:15 SLA ban hits fishermen 1999 Feb 03 20:13 Sri Lankan Army detains Indian fishermen 1999 Feb 03 17:35 Police hand over two bodies 1999 Feb 03 17:31 News in Brief: 1998:
1998 Feb 03 23:59 Assaults over Lion flags 1998 Feb 03 23:59 Skirmish in Valaichenai 1998 Feb 03 23:59 Independence celebrations overshadowed by conflict 1998 Feb 03 23:59 Tigers capture Kilinochchi town 1998 Feb 03 23:59 Classes being held in the open 1998 Feb 03 23:59 Massive Canadian rally said 'significant' 1998 Feb 03 23:59 Tigers hand over SLA bodies 1998 Feb 03 23:59 450 troops wounded - Radio 1998 Feb 03 23:59 Civilians visit captured town 1998 Feb 03 23:59 Children injured in grenade blast ![]()
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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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