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Jul 09
Pulikalin Kural – Voice of Tigers – Back LIVE on July 5th
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Jul 09
Vanni IDP’s – innocent women forcibly used for sexual exploitation
| Displaced people moved from Vanni, detained in the Vavuniya camps are forcibly sexually harassed by the Government officials was mentioned by “The Australian News Media”. The information were given by aid workers functioning in the camps to the media was stated. |
| The aid workers mentioned a business racket is occurring in the Pulmottai detainten camps, by using these innocent women by forcibly using for sexual exploitation. The Australian News media has published that investigations are proposed against the Government and aid workers in regard to these issues. Continue reading → |
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Jul 09
Rajiv wanted Prabha killed at IPKF meeting
Former Army Commander General Cyril Ranatunga reveals
Shocking revelations, such as Indian Peace Keeping Force Commander Harirat Singh defying orders given by the late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to shoot LTTE Leader Prabhakaran when he came to an IPKF camp in 1987 and how a plot to assassinate President J. R. Jayewardene was averted, were incorporated in the book ‘From peace of war insurgency and terrorism’ written by Former Army Commander General Cyril Ranatunga, the launch of which took place last Wednesday. Continue reading →
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Jul 09
No talks until the military operations in the North are suspended
The Tamil National Alliance, (TNA) the main Tamil political party in Sri Lanka has asked a opportunity to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Sri Kantha Nallathambhi, a Jaffna District parliamentarian told the media that he has asked this opportunity from the President after the conclusion of the multi party summit held yesterday. Continue reading →
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Jul 09
Britain relaxes restrictions on travel to Sri Lanka
The British government has relaxed travel restrictions on its citizens visiting Sri Lanka nearly five weeks after Tamil separatist rebels were defeated to end a more then 30-year war in the South Asian country, the British high commission in Colombo said Friday. Continue reading →
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Jul 09
After 56 days in sea, Captain Ali docks in city
After weeks of dilly-dallying, Indian authorities on Thursday gave permission to allow ship MV Captain Ali, which was on a mercy mission to Vanni, to dock at the Chennai Port and unload relief materials sent for internally displaced Sri Lankan Tamils from Europe almost two months ago.
The ship with loads of relief materials gathered from Europe, set sail on May 7 from Port of Fos-Sur-Mer in France on the second leg of the “Mercy Mission to Vanni”. Captain Ali is carrying around 884 metric tons of food, medicines, and other essential humanitarian relief items for the 330,000 Tamil civilians in the Vanni area of Northern Sri Lanka displaced by the war.
According to sources from the mercy mission’s headquarters in the United Kingdom, the ship was permitted to enter Chennai Port around 5 pm and it docked in by 7.30 pm following clearance from the Centre after the shipping agents submitting the necessary papers. Continue reading →
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Jul 09
‘Lanka ignored warning of Tamil separatism in 1970′
Sri Lanka’s terrorist problem, that claimed 100,000 lives, including 1,500 Indian soldiers, could have been nipped in the bud three decades ago, if only Colombo had heeded a warning by a Tamil police officer in 1970, writes Gen Cyril Ranatunga, a former Army Commander and Defence Secretary.
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Jul 09
IMF says awaiting its Executive board approval for Sri Lanka loan
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that it is awaiting for approval of its Executive Board on the payment of a stand by loan to Sri Lanka. “But discussions are continuing, and the finalization of the program, as with any other program, would of course depend on the Executive Board,” Caroline Atkinson, Director of External Relations of IMF told reporters in Washington. Continue reading →
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Jul 09
India to send a delegation to visit IDP camps in Sri Lanka
India is planning to send a delegation to visit the Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps in the North soon, Sri Lanka government said. The visit would be follow-up on an invitation from the Sri Lanka government. This was revealed during a meeting between the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidhi and visiting Sri Lanka Minister of Youth Empowerment and Socio Economic Development Arumugam Thondaman in Chennai. Continue reading →
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Jul 09
Ban asks Lanka to rehabilitate children released by LTTE
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked Sri Lanka to initiate steps to rehabilitate ‘child soldiers’ released by LTTE and ensure them access to care, protection and reintegration programmes. Mr. Ban asked Colombo to ensure effective implementation of its “zero tolerance” position on child recruitment, including systematic and vigorous investigations for every reported case, followed by prosecutions and convictions of responsible perpetrators. Continue reading →
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Jul 09
Tamil refugees may end up in permanent camps, say aid workers
Sri Lankan authorities appear to be building permanent camps to house many of the 300,000 refugees from the last phase of the war with the Tamil Tiger rebels, despite promising to resettle 80 per cent of them by the end of the year.
Aid workers have told The Times that permanent buildings are being erected at the Manik Farm site where the UN says that 230,000 of the refugees are being held after the Tigers’ defeat in May. The aid workers said that they were able to do humanitarian work in four of six zones at Manik Farm but were barred from two others, including the mysteriously named Zone Zero.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6626563.ece Continue reading →
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Jul 09
Rajapaksa’s actions speak louder than words for sceptical Tamils
When President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka declared victory over the Tamil Tigers in May, he reached out to the Tamil minority that the defeated rebels had claimed to represent over 26 years of civil war. Speaking in Tamil, as well as his native Sinhalese, he told Parliament in Colombo that the war against the Tigers was not a war against the Tamil people, and declared that everyone in Sri Lanka should live with equal rights.
Since then, however, he has done little to convince Sri Lanka’s three million Tamils — let alone the 74 million-strong diaspora — of either of those points, and has, in fact, tolerated or condoned much to persuade them that the opposite is true. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6626658.ece Continue reading →
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Jul 09
War Monk after Britain and USA
 Smiling serenely in his orange robe, the Venerable Athuraliye Rathana does not conform to the image of a warmonger. But the Buddhist monk has been one of the most powerful advocates of the military campaign against the Tamil Tigers, a conflict that the Sri Lankan Government won by adopting the guerrilla tactics and some would argue the utter ruthlessness of its adversaries.Now, after helping to vanquish one of the world`s most vicious terror groups, he has his sights set on another foe: Britain and USA. Yesterday he alleged that the Tigers had been backed by Britain and the United States. He believes they called for a ceasefire as the conflict reached its peak to allow the rebels to regroup. Continue reading →
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Jul 09
Ex-Coventry mayors back Global Care appeal to help children in Sri Lanka
TWO former Coventry mayors have backed an appeal by a city charity to help children in Sri Lanka suffering in the aftermath of the country’s civil war.
The Bishop of Warwick has also given his support to the appeal by Radford-based Global Care. As reported previously in the Coventry Telegraph the charity is sending out much needed funds to provide temporary shelter and toilets for 296 orphaned children living behind barbed wire in a camp for displaced people. Continue reading →
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Jul 09
Mahinda Appoints anti Tamils as new ministers
Nandana Gunatilleka of the Sinhala chauvinist National Freedom Front (NFF), a breakaway from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is to be given the Tourism Cabinet Ministry portfolio today by President Mahinda.
Piyasiri Wijenayaka of the Sinhala chauvinist National Freedom Front (NFF), a breakaway from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will be sworn in as the Non-cabinet Minister of Cultural Affairs. Nandana Gunatilleka and Piyasiri Wijenayake will be sworn in as Ministers according to an arrangement that was reached between the party and the Mahinda’s Government recently. The new Ministers will be sworn in at Temple Trees today evening. Tourism Minister Milinda Moragoga is to be appointed the Justice Minister.
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Jul 09
Buddhism among Tamils is quenched from two sides: Peter Schalk
“To say that Tamil tradition has always been all-inclusive of religions is modern Tamil national ideology projected into an invented past. It is not history of the Tamils”, writes Professor Peter Schalk, challenging the perspectives of looking at Tamil identity from the point of the use of Tamil language that simultaneously accommodated various religions in its history, despite of them contradicting one another or coming and going. Responding to an article on Buddhism appeared in TamilNet, Tuesday, Prof. Schalk said that Buddhism among Tamils he objectifies is different from what the Sinhala-Buddhists are envisaging.
Response from Peter Schalk to a TamilNet article ‘Ploy of Buddhism to nullify Tamil nationalism’:
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=29700
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Jul 09
No special regiments for ex-rebels: Govt.
The Government yesterday said that there will be no room for ‘alien regiments’ within the armed forces, for former rebel cadres as suggested by some former militant leaders who are now politicians.
Responding to a question raised by a journalist on the remarks allegedly made by National Integration Minister Vinyagamoorthy Muralitharan to the effect that ex-LTTE cadres who fled the militant movement with him would be absorbed into the Army as a special regiment.
Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardana said the government has no plans to establish ‘special regiments’ for former militants.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=53569
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Jul 09
Mahinda wants Tamils to leave Sri Lanka.
Mahinda says IDPs can seek asylum in Europe or Canada!
President Mahinda Rajapaksa told the Cabinet meeting last evening that he would not mind Canada and the European countries giving asylum to the internally displaced persons in Vanni.
“Canada has pledged to accept any number of IDPs. I do not mind these countries putting up visa offices in the welfare camps to facilitate people willing to leave the country,” he said. However, the President said that he could not send IDPs to India anymore because that country was not willing to accommodate them. Continue reading →
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Jul 09
Sri Lankan opposition parties join gov’t reconciliation agenda
All major opposition parties in Sri Lanka have heeded a government call to join its development and reconciliation effort in view of the end of the island’s long drawn-out civil war, government and party officials said Thursday. Continue reading →
