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Colombo's deceptive land release in Keappaa-pulavu exposed[Wed, 19 Jul 2017, 23:19 GMT] The uprooted families in Keappaa-pulavu, who have been engaged in a continuous struggle for 141 days on Wednesday confronted SL minister for ‘Prison Reforms, Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Hindu Religious Affairs’ D.M. Swaminathan, who was visiting Keappaa-pulavu on Wednesday as part of a SL military conceived deception of releasing lands back to the people. None of the plots in the ‘released’ 189 acres of lands belong to the uprooted 138 families in Keappaa-pulavu who have been involved in the protest. The disappointed protesters exposed how the SL military is trying to release lands elsewhere in the jungle outlet and buying time and money without releasing even an iota of the lands of Keappaa-pulavu families. In the meantime, Colombo is scheming Sinhalicisation through seizing 2,524 acres of lands in Kokkuththoduvaay to permanently wedge North and East. Full story >>
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Continuous street protest brings lung disease, trauma to Keappaa-pulavu families[Tue, 18 Jul 2017, 23:28 GMT] 138 uprooted Eezham Tamil families from Keappaa-pulavu, situated west of Nanthik-kadal lagoon in Mullaiththeevu, have been on the street 24 hours a day for more than 5 months waging a continuous protest demanding their lands seized by the occupying SL military to be released for their resettlement. There were only attempts to contain their struggle. None of the promises have been fulfilled, the families told TamilNet in utter frustration. Most of them have become ill due to the dust from the road primarily used by the occupying military. Suffering from trauma, the families have also witnessed exploitation of their resources by the Sinhala military corporatism. 50-year-old Arumugam Velauthapillai said the occupying military, despite getting millions of rupees from Swaminathan's ministry to find alternative lands for itself, has not been prepared to release original lands, he said. Full story >>Colombo rushes ahead with moves to release trawlers confiscated from Indian poachers[Sun, 16 Jul 2017, 13:45 GMT] The SL Attorney General's Department has instructed Ooraaththu'rai (Kayts) Magistrate's Court to release 42 Indian trawlers that are in the custody of the SL occupying Navy at Kaangkeasanthu'rai naval base. The trawlers were confiscated from the Indian poachers. The move comes after the SL Government passed a bill to ban bottom trawling. However, Indian trawlers continue to engage in bottom trawling, Eezham Tamil fishermen in Jaffna complain. The fishermen societies in Jaffna want to see an effective end to the Indian poaching before releasing their vessels. But, Colombo regime, as usual, is preoccupied with its relationship with New Delhi than protecting the interests of the Tamil fishermen in the North, they said. BJP rulers in New Delhi are also engaged in legitimising the genocide culture of the unitary ‘Sri Lanka’, the fishermen societies further blamed citing the recent trends. Full story >>Occupying Colombo attempts to hamper investigation on Kudaththanai murder by SL police[Fri, 14 Jul 2017, 09:37 GMT] A serious question is being raised by rights activists in Jaffna on the underlying motive of SL police of gunning down 24-year-old Yogarajah Thinesh on Sunday while he was transporting illegally scooped sand at Kudaththanai in Vadamaraadchi East. Whether the SL police was hunting a competing group of sandscoopers who were not paying the share to the SL military, or whether the SL police is attempting to cover up something in the investigations, question the rights activists. The occupying SL military with the backing of police exploits the business of illegal scooping of sand in Kudaththanai making millions of rupees of income every month. In the name of conducting investigations on the killing of the Tamil youth, the fellow workers who were in the vehicle, are going to be subjected to harassment undermining the investigation. Full story >>2ND LEAD (Adds background details) SL ‘national intelligence’ deployed to harass Tamil activists voicing for resettlement in Ampaa'rai[Wed, 12 Jul 2017, 15:05 GMT] The so-called National Intelligene Bureau based in Colombo has started to harass Eezham Tamil social activists who have been actively engaged in resettling uprooted Tamil villagers at 60th Mile Post, which is situated in the administrative division of Poththuvil in Ampaa'rai district. Tamil activists in Poththuvil say that the Sinhala military intelligence operatives have been visiting their houses warning them against their activism. The intelligence officers in civil uniform were also telling the social activists that it was ‘illegal’ to collect details of people in an attempt to silence their activism. The threats have come after a Sinhala NGO personality based in South had obtained the details including the documents of land deeds from the activists. Full story >>Mayiliddi people will not succumb to SL military resettlement farce: Subramaniyam[Mon, 10 Jul 2017, 13:07 GMT] It doesn't matter which regime was in power in Colombo. But, it was a Colombo government that created the mind-set in the ranks of SL military that in turn of war victories, it was ‘rewarded’ with all kinds of abuse of power such as raping Tamil women and seizing the lands of Eezham Tamils. This mindset still prevails in the ranks of the SL military and is the main attitude also behind the deceptive ‘resettlement’ farce in Valikaamam North, says Suntharam Subramaniam, the chairman of Mayiliddi Uprooted Peoples’ Organisation. The 58-year-old father of four, who resides in the so-called welfare camp at Koa'nappulam in Mallaakam in Jaffna, systematically deconstructs the destructive trends of the military-led, international community abetted and ITAK-contained resettlement farce in a video interview to TamilNet. Full story >>Muslims next target of demographic, structural genocide in northern Trincomalee[Sat, 08 Jul 2017, 11:10 GMT]  2ND LEAD (Correction) SL Minister Bathiudeen escalates disunity between Tamils, Muslims in Mullaiththeevu[Mon, 17 Jul 2017, 17:27 GMT] More than a hundred Tamil youth, predominantly males, mobilized through social media took to the streets on Sunday in Mullaiththeevu, opposing controversial SL minister Rishad Bathiudeen, who is pushing ahead with a colony for Muslim settlers in Mullaiththeevu. At a time when Muslims and Tamils should stand together confronting the genocidal Sinhala occupation to the north and to the south of Kokku’laay lagoon, which links the northern and eastern provinces, the SL minister’s scheme attempts to set the Tamils against Muslims in Mullaiththeevu, Tamil activists in Vanni said. The protest by Tamil youth comes after Northern Provincial Council Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran walked out of a District Coordinating Committee meeting 7 days ago as Mr Bathiudeen was insisting on his colony declining to honour the proposal from the Justice Wigneswaran of a proportional formula for resettlement. Full story >>SL Police sustains impunity for crimes of structural genocide in North-East[Sat, 15 Jul 2017, 23:47 GMT] The genocidal State of Sri Lanka has been allowed to get off scot-free from international investigations by the global and regional State actors, who are locked in the geo-political game. As the crimes during the times of war have not been subjected to criminal prosecution, the occupying SL State also finds it easy to sustain impunity for crimes being committed against Tamil social activists and public officials in the East, especially in the Tamil villages of Batticaloa district, Tamil activists in the district complain. The structural genocide against Eezham Tamils cannot be prevented through internal justice mechanisms as impunity is maintained through the police system of the unitary State, they said.
Full story >>Colombo sustains Sinhala colonisation in Southwest Batticaloa[Thu, 13 Jul 2017, 16:19 GMT] Occupying Colombo is continuing to sustain illegal colonies of Sinhala colonists despite recent eyewash measures of annulling encroachment of Sinhala settlers in the deed lands owned by Tamil farmers and in the lands allocated for the purpose of pasture lands in the interior villages bordering Polonnaruwa and Ampaa'rai districts. 10 Sinhala colonist families are intentionally kept in the in the deed lands of Eezham Tamils in Kevu'liyaa-madu while 39 colonist families have vacated the area after selling the roofs and doors of their houses. A Buddhist temple constructed in the area in 4 acres of lands belonging to Tamils is still maintained, Tamil activists in Paddippazhai said. Kevu'liyaa-madu comes under Kachchatkodi Swami-malai GS division in Ma'nmunaip-pattu South (Paddippazhai) DS division and is situated southwest of Batticaloa lagoon, 13 km away from Batticaloa city. Full story >>STF deployed escalating tension in Vadamaraadchi after civilian shot and killed by SL Police[Tue, 11 Jul 2017, 06:08 GMT]  Tamil youth in UK protest against BJP-triggered detention of Thirumurugan Gandhi[Sun, 09 Jul 2017, 23:27 GMT]  Redefining modernity as alternative to extractivist Capitalism: Houtart in 2016[Fri, 07 Jul 2017, 08:47 GMT]  In a tribute to the Belgiam-born Marxist sociologist Emeritus Professor Rev. Francois Houtart who recently passed away, TamilNet publishes an interview recorded with him last year when 2016 Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance was commemorated in Quito, Ecuador. In the interview, which centred on his experiences on Latin American discourses, Rev Houtart said: “We need to redefine modernity, a modernity absorbed by the capitalist system, a mistake done by socialist countries of Europe and China, who have not redefined the definition of modernity and have thus taken to afflicting the people”. He pointed out that radical change of the capitalist system in place in a region was not easy, as it alerted and brought about the US interventions to destroy it as witnessed in Grenada, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. Full story >>
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2012: 2012 Jul 21 23:19 Paramilitary groups threaten TNA candidates in ... 2012 Jul 21 22:18 Genocidal land grab extended to new division in... 2010: 2010 Jul 21 22:38 SLA soldiers sexually abuse resettled women in ... 2010 Jul 21 18:49 Construction of fishing centre for Southern fis... 2010 Jul 21 18:23 Armed men rob fuel station flanked by police, S... 2010 Jul 21 06:12 SLA forces resettled civilians in Ki’linochchi ... 2010 Jul 21 01:02 Tamil Country Councils, TAG announce legal part... 2009: 2009 Jul 21 17:43 Colombo should end the farce, free doctors - Ne... 2009 Jul 21 17:15 Vavuniyaa hospital security tightened 2009 Jul 21 16:42 New political formation of LTTE claimed 2009 Jul 21 15:42 Prayers held in Keerimalai for the souls of Van... 2009 Jul 21 15:11 Altogether 4 bodies washed ashore in the islets... 2009 Jul 21 11:22 Another amnesty for Muslim groups to surrender ... 2009 Jul 21 09:16 Court directs SLA Vanni commander to admit IDP ... 2008: 2008 Jul 21 18:30 LTTE announces unilateral ceasefire during SAAR... 2008 Jul 21 15:35 Corpse of male person recovered from cemetery w... 2008 Jul 21 13:57 2 civilians shot dead in two separate incidents... 2008 Jul 21 13:10 2 SLA soldiers shot dead in Thenmaraadchi 2008 Jul 21 00:18 Price of essential food items soars in Jaffna p... 2007: 2007 Jul 21 19:59 Bodies of 2 Tamil youths recovered in Batticaloa 2007 Jul 21 15:46 Claymore attack injures two SLA troopers in Vav... 2007 Jul 21 12:52 SLA fire injures Mandaitheevu fisherman 2007 Jul 21 12:39 Decapitated body found in Valikaamam East 2007 Jul 21 11:35 Moothoor East children's education suffers 2007 Jul 21 11:35 SLA closes Uyilangkulam checkpoint 2007 Jul 21 04:06 Mullaiththeevu students condemn Sri Lanka aeria... 2006: 2006 Jul 21 16:57 Jeyananthamoorthy MP's house attacked 2006 Jul 21 13:53 Young woman shot dead in Jaffna town 2006 Jul 21 12:34 Two Mannar Tamils reported missing 2006 Jul 21 11:42 Eastern Muslims protest against Israel attack o... 2006 Jul 21 10:02 Paramilitaries abduct 2 youths in Valaichenai 2006 Jul 21 09:58 Magistrate rules Sathurukondan deaths were murders 2006 Jul 21 08:27 Swedish Envoy meets LTTE Political Head 2006 Jul 21 02:23 Man killed in SLA gunfire after grenade attack ... 2006 Jul 21 00:57 Constitutional safeguards proved inadequate – H... 2006 Jul 21 00:03 EU special envoy to visit Killinochchi 2005: 2005 Jul 21 18:40 Humedica assists tusnami-affected fishermen in ... 2005 Jul 21 15:55 Three injured in grenade attack on Police check... 2005 Jul 21 07:56 Two STF soldiers, policeman injured in grenade ... 2004: 2004 Jul 21 23:52 Police oppose granting bail to Gurunagar fishermen 2004 Jul 21 23:31 SLMM head to meet LTTE political leadership Thu... 2004 Jul 21 19:13 Jaffna fishing production increases amid poachi... 2004 Jul 21 16:37 INGOs' funds not fully utilized in Jaffna district 2004 Jul 21 10:11 Journalists thwart Police attempt to stop demo 2004 Jul 21 09:30 EPDP cadre shot dead in Akkaraipattu 2004 Jul 21 01:50 Navatkuli SLA Commander to appear in Court 2004 Jul 21 00:46 SLA opposes student participation in LTTE events 2004 Jul 21 00:32 Six new Parliamentarians sworn in 2003: 2003 Jul 21 19:39 US demining team to collaborate with SLA in Jaffna 2003 Jul 21 16:25 French army officer visits Batticaloa 2003 Jul 21 16:23 US demining team hands over cleared area 2003 Jul 21 16:20 SLA fears big fish in Jaffna 2003 Jul 21 14:06 Hartal in the East to protest arrests 2003 Jul 21 05:01 Baratha Natya Arangetram held in Trincomalee 2000: 2000 Jul 21 19:33 Students protest SLA killing 2000 Jul 21 16:25 Strike over suspected police abduction 1999:
1999 Jul 21 23:02 LTTE officials meet NGOs over route 1999 Jul 21 19:06 Three SLA soldiers, policeman killed 1999 Jul 21 19:00 Youth killed in STF ambush 1999 Jul 21 18:21 Body of Ida Hamilitta exhumed 1999 Jul 21 18:17 Bomber ruse to disrupt protest ? 1999 Jul 21 18:12 Fishermen killed in SLN attack 1999 Jul 21 17:57 TELO sulks over lost contract 1999 Jul 21 12:33 Journalists demonstrate over assaults 1999 Jul 21 12:32 Blast kills two soldiers 1999 Jul 21 12:28 Woman murdered over affair 1999 Jul 21 12:26 Patients await Vanni access route 1999 Jul 21 02:13 Two youths shot dead 
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Know the Etymology: 284 Place Name of the Day: (284 of 500 revised) Raṁbuk-oluva, Hal-oḷuva, Daň-koḷuva, Murutōluva, Olu-pẹliyāva, Kańda-oḷuvāva  The jungle or thicket of Raṁbuk cane The forest of Hal trees The forest of Daň trees The forest of Muruta trees The forest part The hill forest or the hilltop  [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 >>  [02.05.15] New generation of organic intellectuals needed to continue Sivaram’s work: Informed by Tamil literature as much by Tamil history, Marxism as much as Poststructuralism, Thucydides as much as contemporary COIN theorists, Sivaram worked for the Eelam Tamil cause as a leading politico-military analyst and as a true “organic intellectual,” writes RM Karthick. Related Story >>  [02.05.15] Sivaram commemorated in Tamil Nadu on 10th anniversary of his assassination: Journalist Revati Laul, who served as special correspondent at Tehelka and NDTV, journalist Priyamvatha Panchapagesan, an associate editor with News X, journalist Radhika Sudhakar, writer Aazhi Senthil Nathan and activists Thirumurugan Gandhi, coordinator of May 17 movement and Dr. Ezhilan Naganathan, the founder of I'laignar Iyakkam were among the speakers at the memorial event held in Chennai on the 10 anniversary of Sivaram's assassination. Related Story >>  [29.04.15] Constitutionally recognise Tamil homeland to prove bona fides, exiled poet tells Colombo: “Would the Sinhala rulers of Sri Lanka ever be prepared to constitutionally recognise the joint North-East as the homeland of Tamils,” questioned exiled Eezham Tamil poet Kasi Anandan on Wednesday, speaking from Chennai, in an Internet-based video address on the occasion of a memorial event held in Batticaloa on the 10th anniversary of the assassinated TamilNet Senior Editor and popular columnist Sivaram Dharmeratnam (Taraki). Related Story >>  [24.04.15] Break vicious circle of political obfuscation: Sivaram in 2003: Educating the masses on the designs of Powers and politically mobilising the people for the struggle was the central theme of the piece late Senior Editor of TamilNet Sivaram Dharmeratnam wrote to Northeastern Herald on May 02, 2003, two years before he was assassinated by the Sri Lankan military intelligence. Related Story >>  [24.04.15] Task of real Tamil political leadership: Sivaram in 2003: Sivaram Dharmeratnam alias Taraki, the late senior editor of TamilNet, wrote an article in January 2003, explaining the deadlock of the Sri Lankan unitary constitution which cannot provide for a solution within its framework. The international backers were also aware that a federal solution to the ethnic conflict was practically, legally and politically impossible with the Sri Lankan Constitution, he wrote. Related Story >>  [13.03.15] New Delhi should stop looking at Eezham Tamils through Colombo: Whether China or the USA, or both – whatever may be the ultimate foreign policy concern of India, the times are such that New Delhi should learn to approach Eezham Tamils as a nation of its own right. Related Story >>  [10.03.15] Ki Pi Aravinthan's 2008 interview to TamilNet serialized: TamilNet serializes this week a 2008 interview with veteran former Tamil militant, poet and writer Ki Pi Aravinthan (Christopher Francis alias Sunthar), who passed away on Sunday in Paris at the age of 62. Related Story >>  [14.02.15] Palaka'ni: NPC resolution gives hopes on Tamil political unity The recent resolution presented and unanimously adopted in the Northern Provincial Council on historic and recent genocide against Tamils in the island, has rung alarm bells at necessary diplomatic quarters, say Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran (EPRLF) and TNA Councillor M.K. Shivajilingam (TELO). In a Palaka'ni interview to TamilNet this week, Mr Shivajilingam said there were attempts afoot to influence certain Tamil diaspora activists to issue sophisticated statements urging the UN Rights Chief to postpone the OISL report. Related Story >>  [13.02.15] Opinion: Understanding accountability: international investigation on outlook crime: NPC Chief Minister Justice CV Wigneswaran observed that such an investigation would make Sinhala people to see the truth and would help getting justice. Equally important or more important is an international investigation on the adamant ‘outlook crime’ of certain powers that fundamentally contributed to the genocide, especially in the recent decades. Related Story >>  [12.02.15] Wigneswaran exposes US delay tactics at Geneva: “In my recent conversation with Ms Biswal, I understood that the USA wants to be in favour of the present Sri Lanka government, as this government is favourable to the USA,” Wigneswaran said. “When Ms Biswal asked what could be the appropriate time for the release of the Geneva report and when I replied that it should be in March, she didn’t accept it,” the NPC-CM said. Related Story >>  [11.02.15] Key to struggle is to change outlook of powers: Gajendrakumar: The outlook of Powers with regards Tamil national question in the island doesn’t come from lack of knowledge, Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam said in a Palaka'ni interview last week, naming US-dominated West, India and China as actors primarily involved. The change in their outlook to accommodate Tamil interests is certainly not going to be through education, it is something that has to come through a struggle, he said. Related Story >>  [10.02.15] Wigneswaran calls for international investigation on genocide: In a key development, the Chief Minister of Northern Provincial Council (NPC), Justice CV Wigneswaran, on Tuesday called for real international investigations on genocide against Tamils committed by the successive governments since Ceylon's independence from the British in 1948. Related Story >> |
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