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Sinhala occupation continues at gunpoint in East despite ‘regime change’ in Colombo

[Wed, 28 Jan 2015, 19:39 GMT]

A Sinhala squad claiming as ‘forest guard’ raided the huts of Tamil cattle herders in their graze lands situated in Koa'ra'laippattu-South (Kiraan) division of Batticaloa district Tuesday around 5:00 a.m. The squad assaulted the dairy farmers, burned down their huts, robbed off their belongings at gunpoint and separated the cattle herders from the cattle numbering around 1,000. “Although Maithiripala came to power securing Tamil votes, there is no change on the ground for the Tamil dairy farmers who are undergoing untold hardship being caused by the occupying Sinhala settlers, who have encroached into the grazing lands that has been ours for years and years,” Nimalan Chelliah, the president of farm owners association, told TamilNet.

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Singapore Principles of 2013: Tamil polity taken for ride from Oslo to Singapore

[Thu, 22 Jan 2015, 07:19 GMT]

Right from the Indo-Lanka agreement of 1987 to Oslo Declaration of 2002 and to hitherto unrevealed Singapore Principles of 2013 that brought the Sampanthan polity into a conceptual framework for the recent regime change in Colombo, the external forces seeking to influence the affairs of the island have taken the Eezham Tamils for a ride to confine the Tamil polity into the unitary State of genocidal Sri Lanka without securing any concrete and descriptive guarantee from the Sinhala polity. By its latest move, the ITAK has pushed the Tamils back into the past, Tamil political observers in Jaffna said citing the so-called Singapore Principles from 2013. TamilNet brings out the text of the so-called Singapore Principles for the edification of global Tamils. Full story >>

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Mothers of forcibly disappeared persons demand action from SL State, TNA, IC

[Mon, 26 Jan 2015, 23:41 GMT]

The mothers of forcibly disappeared persons in Mannaar staged a silent protest on Monday demanding immediate attention from the Tamil National Alliance, the new Sri Lankan regime and the international community to establish the truth on the whereabouts of the persons who were made forcibly-disappeared by the occupying Sri Lankan military; to release the Tamil political prisoners from Sri Lankan jails; to continue the excavation of mass grave of Mannaar killing field and to continue the international investigations on Sri Lanka. The protesting mothers, who were talking to journalists said they were yet to see any constructive step from the new regime or the TNA. They also questioned why the new regime is asking for a ‘list’ of missing persons from the TNA instead of checking their own lists and coming with answers, the protesting mothers asked. Full story >>

Resettling Tamils silently expelled from Champoor in Trincomalee

[Sat, 24 Jan 2015, 23:43 GMT]

SL military at Champoor expels resettling Tamils

Following the election of Maithiripala Sirisena as new Sri Lankan President, the uprooted families from a section of the 5th Division and 7th Division of Champoor situated along both the sides of Champoor main road, started to clear their lands for resettlement. Their lands, seized by Colombo under the so-called ‘Special Economic Zone’ (SEZ) were to be handed over to a Chinese-owned corporate. The occupying Sri Lanka Navy was blocking the uprooted Tamils from resettling in their lands. Despite the ‘regime change’, the Sri Lanka Navy occupying Champoor and the Sri Lankan Police have chased away the 162 families, who were clearing their plots to prepare for resettlement in the 1,430 acres of lands appropriated by Colombo under the so-called SEZ. Full story >>

Protests erupt in Jaffna against continued militarisation, unemployment

[Wed, 21 Jan 2015, 23:44 GMT]

The owners of five houses and lands that have been illegally seized by the Sri Lankan military for more than two decades at Koozhaavadi, situated on Maanippaay Road at Aanaik-koaddai in Jaffna protested on Wednesday against the attempt by Colombo to transform their lands into State property with the motive of permanently sustaining a war-time military camp, which was notorious for extra-judicial interrogations, abductions and disappearances since 1996. At the same time, unemployed graduates staged a protest in front of Jaffna District Secretariat demanding jobs. Full story >>

UNP Batticaloa branch wants anti-people elements isolated from politics

[Mon, 19 Jan 2015, 23:49 GMT]

The District Organiser of the United National Party (UNP) in Batticaloa Mr Arasaretnam Sasitharan said that a resolution has been passed at the UNP Batticaloa District Executive Committee to the effect that anti-people elements and former paramilitary operatives, who were deployed under the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime, should not be absorbed into the UNP or the polity associated with the UNP in the new regime in Colombo. The resolution has named four persons who should be kept away from the politics of Maithiripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramaisnge if UNP needs to win credibility among the Tamil public in Batticaloa district, Mr Sasitharan further said. Full story >>

Documentary on Tamil Muslims inspires approach to Tamil national struggle

[Tue, 27 Jan 2015, 23:39 GMT]

While global and regional powers engineering new world order of corporate imperialist designs try to play the card of religion to deviate the question of oppressed nations without State all over the world, and try to confine the ideological questions of humanity in the post cold war era within the ambit of ‘Clash of Civilizations’ coloured by religions, Tamils who have evolved their identity and civilization in a different way over millennia due to their location have to be extra- cautious in facing the paradigm. The Tamil struggle that has seen the injustice of all the Establishments will be lost if it doesn’t come out with its own model, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics appreciating a documentary film on Tamil Muslims in Tamil Nadu, produced by Mr. S. Anwar. Full story >>

SL military assaults family man after playground dispute in Jaffna

[Sun, 25 Jan 2015, 23:28 GMT]

The occupying Sinhala soldiers at Ellaang-ku'lam camp in Uduppiddi in Vadamaraadchi brutally assaulted a 29-year-old father of three from the same village Saturday evening around 5:15 p.m. The victim, Selvaratnam Jegan, was admitted to the Valveddiththu'rai (VVT) Hospital with serious injuries. The SL military on Sunday threatened the family not to reveal the news to media and exerted pressure on the hospital administration to send the injured patient home, news sources in VVT told TamilNet. The SL military camp at Ellang-ku'lam has been a notorious place for torture. Full story >>

Investigating ‘root cause’ of injustice to Eezham Tamils

[Fri, 23 Jan 2015, 23:25 GMT]

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPG) in the UK and the British Tamil Forum (BTF), jointly host an annual dinner on 29th January, this time with the theme “Tamil People’s Right to Democracy and Justice in Sri Lanka.” The highlights of the dinner hosts’ requests to British government are: Justice for the war crimes and crimes against humanity (including the ‘intent of genocide’); Political solution to address the root cause to the conflict and that the UK government should put pressure on the Sri Lankan regime. What actually needed is an international investigation on the root cause of Britain forging and enforcing a single State of genocidal dimensions in the island and Washington and New Delhi following the footsteps, resulting the genocide and on-going genocide, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island. Full story >>

SL military in Batticaloa continues to exploit families returned from Vanni

[Tue, 20 Jan 2015, 22:15 GMT]

The Sri Lankan State and its military intelligence in Batticaloa district continue to harass 1,080 families that survived the genocidal onslaught in Vanni in 2009. The families from Batticaloa returned to their native villages situated in 10 of the 14 Divisional Secretariat divisions in the district. The DS Secretaries in these divisions have also been instructed to refuse assistance to these families by the genocidal military. There is no change in the harassments on the ground despite the ‘changes’ taking place in Colombo, the families said. Even those affected by the recent floods have been neglected in the humanitarian assistance. Women-headed families continue to complain about targeted sexual harassments by the occupying Sinhala military in Batticaloa. Two of the 10 divisions where the families have resettled, Koa'ralaippattu South and Koa'ra'laip-pattu North are worst affected. Full story >>

After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to the result from no distrust of them.

-General Robert E. Lee
Lee papers, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond
Best known for commanding the Confederate Army of
..Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
Greatest victories: the Seven Days Battles,
..the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg,
..and the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.
After the war, Lee supported President Johnson's
..program of Reconstruction and inter-sectional friendship.

[22.01.15]
Singapore Principles of 2013: Tamil polity taken for ride from Oslo to Singapore: Right from the Indo-Lanka agreement of 1987 to Oslo Declaration of 2002 and to hitherto unrevealed Singapore Principles of 2013 that brought the Sampanthan polity into a conceptual framework for the recent regime change in Colombo, the external forces seeking to influence the affairs of the island have taken the Eezham Tamils for a ride to confine the Tamil polity into the unitary State of genocidal Sri Lanka without securing any concrete and descriptive guarantee from the Sinhala polity.
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[14.01.15]
Pope Francis at Madu: ‘Our Lady remained always with you’ Pope Francis on Wednesday paid a pilgrimage to Madu shrine, which is the famous pilgrim centre of Tamil Catholics, where even the Sinhalese Catholics of the western coast, who were Tamils a century ago, flock in for festivals. Tamils who came in large numbers from all parts of the island appreciated his call for wartime ‘truth’ in future peace making.
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[07.01.15]
Tamil will expressed only by distancing from racist election: Jude Lal Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithiripala Sirisena cannot be seen as the greater evil and the lesser evil respectively, says Professor Jude Lal of Trinity College, Dublin, in an interview to TamilNet on Wednesday.
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Press conference by Ma'ravanpulavu Sachithananthan

[03.01.15]
Tamils of struggle polity need not worry who becomes SL president: While SL president Mahinda Rajapaksa is almost open in telling that electing the next president is choosing between China and the USA, senior Tamil grassroot leaders and activists in the island are of the opinion that Eezham Tamils put in a situation of struggle polity need not worry who succeeds as president.
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[23.12.14]
Tamils can't endorse Sinhala-centric presidential election: TCSF: As long as Sri Lanka’s democratic practice and culture is driven by chauvinist Sinhala Buddhist politics no change of form of Government is going to benefit the Tamil people,” the Tamil Civil Society Forum (TCSF) said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
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[18.12.14]
Tamil people should reject both Mahinda and Maithiripala: Gajendrakumar: Declaring that there is no use for Tamil people by going behind any of the two mainstream candidates of the South in the upcoming Sri Lankan presidential election, the former Tamil parliamentarian and the leader of TNPF, urged the Tamil people to refrain from backing any of the two candidates. The TNPF leader blamed the TNA for betraying the Tamil people for the second time as it did by backing Sarath Fonseka in 2010.
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[26.11.14]
Opinion: Conveying message to Sinhala nation on presidential election: If State Reform is the real question now in the presidential elections, it is better for Eezham Tamil politicians to leave it to the Sinhala nation to decide. But it is not simply keeping quiet or Tamils painting themselves into a corner. It is keeping quiet with a mission and conveying a message in no uncertain terms to the Sinhala nation and to the powers.
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[26.11.14]
Es Po passes away: Veteran Eezham Tamil creative writer, author, translator, columnist, literary critic and publisher S. Ponnuthurai passed away at the age of 82 in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday. He was popularly known as Es Po. Writing nearly for six decades, Es Po was a school by himself in contemporary Tamil literature. His demise creates an irreplaceable vacuum in the literary world of Eezham Tamils.
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[23.11.14]
Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam passes away: Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam, an Eezham Tamil academic who held the rare distinction of being the professor of English in a reputed university of a native English-speaking country, Canada, passed away in Montreal on Sunday. He was Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Recently he has been awarded the highest literary recognition of the country, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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[22.11.14]
Landslide exposes land-related deprivation of Up-Country Tamils: The SL military is interfering in the assistance and resettlement of the Up-Country Tamil landslide victims in Meeriya-bedda in the same manner it interferes in the resettlement of Tamils in the North and East. The military is everywhere monitoring everyone visiting the affected. The military and language are used as means of oppression. A Sinhala-Buddhist supremacist approach is oppressing minorities in the Up-Country, said Rev Fr Fontgallan of the Leo Marga Ashram in Bandarawela.
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[21.11.14]
Recent books on regions of Tamil Eelam: Four voluminous books have recently been published on the Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Vanni and Jaffna regions of the country of Eezham Tamils. The publications, resulting from the efforts and contributions of Eezham Tamils in the island and in the diaspora, show the rise of a new generation as well as the conviction of the old generation in documenting the history and culture of the regions and people of Tamil Eelam with a geographical sense of attachment.
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[16.11.14]
Interest in resettlement cost life to Nakuleswaran: Funeral of assassinated Krishnasamy Nakuleswaran was held on Sunday at his village, Eekam-kudiyiruppu (settlement of sacrifice), at Ve’l’laang-ku’lam in Mannaar. The residents of the village were of the opinion that Nakuleswaran’s interest in working for the proper resettlement of his people had cost him his life.
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[10.11.14]
MSS Pandian passes away: Professor MSS Pandian, a renowned historian of the Dravidian movement and Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi passed away on Monday at the age of 57. Known by friends and colleagues to be a supporter of movements for social justice, he was also a long-standing supporter of the Tamil Eelam liberation struggle.
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[08.11.14]
Professor V. Sivasamy passes away: Professor V. Sivasamy, retired professor of Sanskrit of the University of Jaffna and was teaching until recently at the university, passed away in Jaffna on Saturday at the age of 81. As a multifaceted scholar in Sanskrit, Tamil, History, Archaeology, Epigraphy, Hindu Civilization and Fine Arts, and as a profound writer in Tamil and English, he was a silent legend in shaping the contemporary academic history of Eezham Tamils.
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[24.08.14]
TNPF leader speaks on independent, concerted, Tamil foreign policy: Realising that our struggle has long been used by powers in their engagements with the island, we as a nation must work towards a concerted foreign policy, although we don’t have State, said Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) leader Mr. Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam in an interview to TamilNet on Saturday.
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[26.06.14]
Eezham Tamils and duplicity of West’s human rights campaigns: The progress in women security achieved through liberation movements in Asia are more substantive than any that was achieved or could be achieved by the campaigns of the West-activists. Yet, why do they ignore the former and focus only on the latter? Is it because it gives the West-activists and by implication those in the West in general the moral high ground to look down upon the “others”, asks Dr. N. Malathy, in an article sent to TamilNet.
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[29.04.14]
Sinhala military operates US-trained ‘counterinsurgency’ in Jaffna: The commander of the genocidal Sri Lankan military in the Jaffna peninsula, Maj. Gen. Udaya Perera, who was trained and awarded in the US Army War College in 2012, after his role as director of SL Army operations in the genocidal onslaught in 2009 followed by counter-insurgency foreign service targeting Tamil diaspora from Malaysia, is deploying new tactics for furthering the structural genocide against Eezham Tamils in his position as the commander of SL military occupying the peninsula.
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[24.03.14]
UK long blighted cause of Eezham Tamils, contributed to genocide: “The UK’s permanent representative at the United Nations, a man called Sir John Sawers, who was at that time the permanent representative to the UN, stopped any Security Council discussion about the crisis in Sri Lanka in February 2009. This was the exact point, as we know very well from the Petrie Report that the UN officers were raising massive alerts inside the organisation about the impending massacre,” said British criminology academic Dr Andy Higginbottom, addressing a media meet in Geneva.
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Full story >> Latest Reports: Jan 28 19:39 Sinhala occupation continues at gunpoint in East d.. Jan 27 23:39 Documentary on Tamil Muslims inspires approach to .. Jan 26 23:41 Mothers of forcibly disappeared persons demand act.. Jan 25 23:28 SL military assaults family man after playground d.. Jan 24 23:43 Resettling Tamils silently expelled from Champoor .. Jan 23 23:25 Investigating ‘root cause’ of injustice to Eezham .. Jan 22 07:19 Singapore Principles of 2013: Tamil polity taken f.. Jan 21 23:44 Protests erupt in Jaffna against continued militar.. Jan 20 22:15 SL military in Batticaloa continues to exploit fam.. Jan 19 23:49 UNP Batticaloa branch wants anti-people elements i.. << Flashback More Reports >> Singapore Principles of 2013: Tamil polity taken for ride from Oslo to Singapore [Thu, 22 Jan 2015, 07:19 GMT] Right from the Indo-Lanka agreement of 1987 to Oslo Declaration of 2002 and to hitherto unrevealed Singapore Principles of 2013 that brought the Sampanthan polity into a conceptual framework for the recent regime change in Colombo, the external forces seeking to influence the affairs of the island have taken the Eezham Tamils for a ride to confine the Tamil polity into the unitary State of genocidal Sri Lanka without securing any concrete and descriptive guarantee from the Sinhala polity. By its latest move, the ITAK has pushed the Tamils back into the past, Tamil political observers in Jaffna said citing the so-called Singapore Principles from 2013. TamilNet brings out the text of the so-called Singapore Principles for the edification of global Tamils. Full story >> 2ND LEAD Mothers of forcibly disappeared persons demand action from SL State, TNA, IC [Mon, 26 Jan 2015, 23:41 GMT] The mothers of forcibly disappeared persons in Mannaar staged a silent protest on Monday demanding immediate attention from the Tamil National Alliance, the new Sri Lankan regime and the international community to establish the truth on the whereabouts of the persons who were made forcibly-disappeared by the occupying Sri Lankan military; to release the Tamil political prisoners from Sri Lankan jails; to continue the excavation of mass grave of Mannaar killing field and to continue the international investigations on Sri Lanka. The protesting mothers, who were talking to journalists said they were yet to see any constructive step from the new regime or the TNA. They also questioned why the new regime is asking for a ‘list’ of missing persons from the TNA instead of checking their own lists and coming with answers, the protesting mothers asked. Full story >> Resettling Tamils silently expelled from Champoor in Trincomalee [Sat, 24 Jan 2015, 23:43 GMT] Following the election of Maithiripala Sirisena as new Sri Lankan President, the uprooted families from a section of the 5th Division and 7th Division of Champoor situated along both the sides of Champoor main road, started to clear their lands for resettlement. Their lands, seized by Colombo under the so-called ‘Special Economic Zone’ (SEZ) were to be handed over to a Chinese-owned corporate. The occupying Sri Lanka Navy was blocking the uprooted Tamils from resettling in their lands. Despite the ‘regime change’, the Sri Lanka Navy occupying Champoor and the Sri Lankan Police have chased away the 162 families, who were clearing their plots to prepare for resettlement in the 1,430 acres of lands appropriated by Colombo under the so-called SEZ. Full story >> Protests erupt in Jaffna against continued militarisation, unemployment [Wed, 21 Jan 2015, 23:44 GMT] The owners of five houses and lands that have been illegally seized by the Sri Lankan military for more than two decades at Koozhaavadi, situated on Maanippaay Road at Aanaik-koaddai in Jaffna protested on Wednesday against the attempt by Colombo to transform their lands into State property with the motive of permanently sustaining a war-time military camp, which was notorious for extra-judicial interrogations, abductions and disappearances since 1996. At the same time, unemployed graduates staged a protest in front of Jaffna District Secretariat demanding jobs. Full story >> UNP Batticaloa branch wants anti-people elements isolated from politics [Mon, 19 Jan 2015, 23:49 GMT] The District Organiser of the United National Party (UNP) in Batticaloa Mr Arasaretnam Sasitharan said that a resolution has been passed at the UNP Batticaloa District Executive Committee to the effect that anti-people elements and former paramilitary operatives, who were deployed under the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime, should not be absorbed into the UNP or the polity associated with the UNP in the new regime in Colombo. The resolution has named four persons who should be kept away from the politics of Maithiripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramaisnge if UNP needs to win credibility among the Tamil public in Batticaloa district, Mr Sasitharan further said. Full story >> Documentary on Tamil Muslims inspires approach to Tamil national struggle [Tue, 27 Jan 2015, 23:39 GMT] While global and regional powers engineering new world order of corporate imperialist designs try to play the card of religion to deviate the question of oppressed nations without State all over the world, and try to confine the ideological questions of humanity in the post cold war era within the ambit of ‘Clash of Civilizations’ coloured by religions, Tamils who have evolved their identity and civilization in a different way over millennia due to their location have to be extra- cautious in facing the paradigm. The Tamil struggle that has seen the injustice of all the Establishments will be lost if it doesn’t come out with its own model, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics appreciating a documentary film on Tamil Muslims in Tamil Nadu, produced by Mr. S. Anwar. Full story >> SL military assaults family man after playground dispute in Jaffna [Sun, 25 Jan 2015, 23:28 GMT] The occupying Sinhala soldiers at Ellaang-ku'lam camp in Uduppiddi in Vadamaraadchi brutally assaulted a 29-year-old father of three from the same village Saturday evening around 5:15 p.m. The victim, Selvaratnam Jegan, was admitted to the Valveddiththu'rai (VVT) Hospital with serious injuries. The SL military on Sunday threatened the family not to reveal the news to media and exerted pressure on the hospital administration to send the injured patient home, news sources in VVT told TamilNet. The SL military camp at Ellang-ku'lam has been a notorious place for torture. Full story >> Investigating ‘root cause’ of injustice to Eezham Tamils [Fri, 23 Jan 2015, 23:25 GMT] The All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPG) in the UK and the British Tamil Forum (BTF), jointly host an annual dinner on 29th January, this time with the theme “Tamil People’s Right to Democracy and Justice in Sri Lanka.” The highlights of the dinner hosts’ requests to British government are: Justice for the war crimes and crimes against humanity (including the ‘intent of genocide’); Political solution to address the root cause to the conflict and that the UK government should put pressure on the Sri Lankan regime. What actually needed is an international investigation on the root cause of Britain forging and enforcing a single State of genocidal dimensions in the island and Washington and New Delhi following the footsteps, resulting the genocide and on-going genocide, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island. Full story >> SL military in Batticaloa continues to exploit families returned from Vanni [Tue, 20 Jan 2015, 22:15 GMT] The Sri Lankan State and its military intelligence in Batticaloa district continue to harass 1,080 families that survived the genocidal onslaught in Vanni in 2009. The families from Batticaloa returned to their native villages situated in 10 of the 14 Divisional Secretariat divisions in the district. The DS Secretaries in these divisions have also been instructed to refuse assistance to these families by the genocidal military. There is no change in the harassments on the ground despite the ‘changes’ taking place in Colombo, the families said. Even those affected by the recent floods have been neglected in the humanitarian assistance. Women-headed families continue to complain about targeted sexual harassments by the occupying Sinhala military in Batticaloa. Two of the 10 divisions where the families have resettled, Koa'ralaippattu South and Koa'ra'laip-pattu North are worst affected. Full story >> Top Flashback: 2014: 2014 Jan 29 08:54 More skeletons exhumed from Mannaar mass grave 2013: 2013 Jan 29 23:58 Sri Lanka cricket ban getting closer, says note... 2013 Jan 29 22:44 Colonial governor diverts more education funds ... 2012: 2012 Jan 29 16:56 Sinhala gang attacks Tamil residents in Trinco ... 2012 Jan 29 01:26 STF killed Trinco students, Basil Rajapakse tol... 2011: 2011 Jan 29 22:20 EPDP area organizer recovered dead in Vadamaraa... 2011 Jan 29 16:49 Ambassador, an honest man sent to lie for Sri L... 2011 Jan 29 12:13 Kokkaddichchoalai massacre of 65 Tamil civilian... 2010: 2010 Jan 29 17:16 British Politicians express support to Tamil re... 2010 Jan 29 15:26 'Lanka' weekly news paper editor arrested 2010 Jan 29 14:11 STF searches Fonseka’s political office in Colombo 2010 Jan 29 12:45 UK referendum committee releases poll-procedure... 2010 Jan 29 04:42 "Referendum on Eelam is our right and responsib... 2010 Jan 29 03:05 Youth killed, dumped in well in Ki’linochchi 2009: 2009 Jan 29 18:11 ANC urges immediate ceasefire between GoSL, LTT... 2009 Jan 29 17:24 British Foreign Office calls for 'Humanitarian ... 2009 Jan 29 16:06 Pull back Indian military help to Lanka: Thirum... 2009 Jan 29 15:25 Artillery barrage kills 44 civilians, 178 wound... 2009 Jan 29 12:48 UN Rights Chief expresses concern at rapidly de... 2009 Jan 29 11:53 Stop killing Tamils in Vanni now - Jaffna Catho... 2009 Jan 29 11:32 LTTE not opposed to individual right of a civil... 2009 Jan 29 07:14 Tamil youth abducted in Ampaa’rai 2009 Jan 29 07:02 Tamil Nadu journalist burns himself to death co... 2009 Jan 29 06:13 Tamil Nadu parties launch Eezham Tamils Protect... 2009 Jan 29 03:48 10,000 French Tamils demonstrate in Paris 2008: 2008 Jan 29 20:28 5 SLA killed, 15 wounded in Mannaar clash - LTTE 2008 Jan 29 16:12 Contain threats against media, RSF appeals to R... 2008 Jan 29 13:52 Bruce Fein: U.S. Declaration of Independence va... 2008 Jan 29 10:37 Endorsement of media repression in Sri Lanka, a... 2008 Jan 29 10:08 TN Congress scorns freedom of expression favour... 2008 Jan 29 10:07 40 Tamils still in custody after Ja-ela claymor... 2008 Jan 29 09:59 20 killed, 14 wounded, SLA attacks bus carrying... 2008 Jan 29 08:54 FMM Condemns stabbing of Thinakaran associate e... 2007: 2007 Jan 29 17:01 Youth shot dead at Anpuvallipuram 2007 Jan 29 16:47 Youth seeks safety at Jaffna Police station 2007 Jan 29 16:43 Five more arrested in Jaffna for breach of curfew 2007 Jan 29 16:15 Jaffna-wide schools boycott begins Monday 2007 Jan 29 14:23 US backs Sri Lanka, urges talks and access for ... 2007 Jan 29 11:17 Development Vision can't exist independent of c... 2007 Jan 29 10:19 Tamil youth abducted in Eravur 2007 Jan 29 10:08 SL Development Forum begins in Galle under tigh... 2007 Jan 29 10:03 9 Tamil civilians arrested in Colombo 2007 Jan 29 09:03 9 civilians arrested in Jaffna for curfew viola... 2007 Jan 29 05:47 Grenade attack in Vavuniya 2006: 2006 Jan 29 19:19 ILO funds computer center in Mannar 2006 Jan 29 16:02 2948 places of worship destroyed in war, tsunami 2006 Jan 29 15:57 Kalmunai tsunami-affected schools to be developed 2006 Jan 29 15:47 CTTU to raise troop presence near schools with ... 2006 Jan 29 15:07 Passing out parades held for Sea Tiger auxillia... 2006 Jan 29 13:20 SLA troop presence at school entrances irks par... 2006 Jan 29 12:34 Tamil farmer shot dead in Lingapuram 2006 Jan 29 11:16 Three wounded in grenade attack on Vavuniya tra... 2006 Jan 29 03:40 Floods worsen tsunami refugees' woes 2006 Jan 29 01:11 Two attacks against troops Saturday night, says... 2005: 2005 Jan 29 17:19 Ratwatte to give evidence in election massacre ... 2005 Jan 29 15:51 Dissanayake's Rights violated, UNP to petition UN 2005 Jan 29 15:35 Ranil Wickremasinghe leaves for Norway 2005 Jan 29 14:01 TCF assists Eachchilampathu tsunami victims 2005 Jan 29 11:55 WHO aids CHC with medical supplies towards reli... 2005 Jan 29 10:05 US to complete withdrawal of Marines from Sri L... 2005 Jan 29 06:22 Tigers meet Muslim refugees in Ullai 2004: 2004 Jan 29 17:40 Jaffna Police officer arrested for assaulting c... 2004 Jan 29 16:55 WorldBank funded NEIAP Phase II to commence 2004 Jan 29 16:07 Kumaratunge's message read out at UPFA rally 2004 Jan 29 14:29 JVP for elections -Amarasingha 2004 Jan 29 13:15 Thondaman raises questions on alliance call 2004 Jan 29 12:26 Jaffna to launch pro-peace signature campaign o... 2004 Jan 29 12:23 Protesting parents want school back from military 2004 Jan 29 02:21 Kokadichcholai massacre anniversary remembered 2003: 2003 Jan 29 23:38 GOSL, LTTE and WB to meet again in Colombo 2003 Jan 29 23:30 Saudi aid for road construction in Trincomalee 2003 Jan 29 17:13 No evidence that ragging took place - LTTE 2003 Jan 29 15:50 Victims of Mahiladi village massacre remembered 2003 Jan 29 15:39 'LTTE, IRA have political goals' - British Mini... 2003 Jan 29 12:50 "Sri Lankan peace process holds lessons for the... 2003 Jan 29 12:34 ICRC ready to support 24-hour A9 opening 2002: 2002 Jan 29 18:05 EPDP MP further remanded for Kayts murder 2002 Jan 29 18:04 SLA assaults fishermen in Jaffna 2002 Jan 29 17:27 JVP steps up protests against autonomy for Tamils 2001: 2001 Jan 29 20:30 Tigers "already implementing" Norway's MOU 2000: 2000 Jan 29 22:17 Vasavillan school boycott to continue 2000 Jan 29 20:23 Jaffna Telecom Tower construction delayed 1999: 1999 Jan 29 19:05 Catholic church condemns rigged elections 1999 Jan 29 14:16 Boats attacked in Jaffna Lagoon 1999 Jan 29 14:14 NEPC to open regional offices 1999 Jan 29 12:23 Kadirgamar shaken up, down under 1999 Jan 29 12:11 Serum ban increases deaths -MO 1999 Jan 29 12:05 Women accuse Islamic fundamentalists of attack 1999 Jan 29 12:00 First SLAF passenger flight 1999 Jan 29 11:38 Chavakachcheri library to stay closed 1998: 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Low turnout in quiet polls 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Varied results seen in Jaffna polls 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Low turn out at clustered booths 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Police rampage in Akkaraipattu 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Election rules breached in Jaffna 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Civilians injured in pre-poll shelling 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Sporadic violence in Jaffna 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Voter numbers come in 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Voters said trickling in 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Demonstrations in support of Gen. Ratwatte 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Poll day begins with deserted streets 1998 Jan 29 23:59 Rigging said underway in deserted Jaffna After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to the result from no distrust of them. -General Robert E. Lee Lee papers, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond Best known for commanding the Confederate Army of ..Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. Greatest victories: the Seven Days Battles, ..the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg, ..and the Battle of Chancellorsville. Surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. After the war, Lee supported President Johnson's ..program of Reconstruction and inter-sectional friendship.	Know the Etymology: 390 Place Name of the Day: Poo-malarnthaan, Poop-pooththaan-ku'lam The flower-blossomed (pond or tank) The flower-blossomed tank Read more >> [22.01.15] Singapore Principles of 2013: Tamil polity taken for ride from Oslo to Singapore: Right from the Indo-Lanka agreement of 1987 to Oslo Declaration of 2002 and to hitherto unrevealed Singapore Principles of 2013 that brought the Sampanthan polity into a conceptual framework for the recent regime change in Colombo, the external forces seeking to influence the affairs of the island have taken the Eezham Tamils for a ride to confine the Tamil polity into the unitary State of genocidal Sri Lanka without securing any concrete and descriptive guarantee from the Sinhala polity. Related Story >> [14.01.15] Pope Francis at Madu: ‘Our Lady remained always with you’ Pope Francis on Wednesday paid a pilgrimage to Madu shrine, which is the famous pilgrim centre of Tamil Catholics, where even the Sinhalese Catholics of the western coast, who were Tamils a century ago, flock in for festivals. Tamils who came in large numbers from all parts of the island appreciated his call for wartime ‘truth’ in future peace making. Related Story >> [07.01.15] Tamil will expressed only by distancing from racist election: Jude Lal Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithiripala Sirisena cannot be seen as the greater evil and the lesser evil respectively, says Professor Jude Lal of Trinity College, Dublin, in an interview to TamilNet on Wednesday. Related Story >> [03.01.15] Tamils of struggle polity need not worry who becomes SL president: While SL president Mahinda Rajapaksa is almost open in telling that electing the next president is choosing between China and the USA, senior Tamil grassroot leaders and activists in the island are of the opinion that Eezham Tamils put in a situation of struggle polity need not worry who succeeds as president. Related Story >> [23.12.14] Tamils can't endorse Sinhala-centric presidential election: TCSF: As long as Sri Lanka’s democratic practice and culture is driven by chauvinist Sinhala Buddhist politics no change of form of Government is going to benefit the Tamil people,” the Tamil Civil Society Forum (TCSF) said in a statement issued on Tuesday. Related Story >> [18.12.14] Tamil people should reject both Mahinda and Maithiripala: Gajendrakumar: Declaring that there is no use for Tamil people by going behind any of the two mainstream candidates of the South in the upcoming Sri Lankan presidential election, the former Tamil parliamentarian and the leader of TNPF, urged the Tamil people to refrain from backing any of the two candidates. The TNPF leader blamed the TNA for betraying the Tamil people for the second time as it did by backing Sarath Fonseka in 2010. Related Story >> [26.11.14] Opinion: Conveying message to Sinhala nation on presidential election: If State Reform is the real question now in the presidential elections, it is better for Eezham Tamil politicians to leave it to the Sinhala nation to decide. But it is not simply keeping quiet or Tamils painting themselves into a corner. It is keeping quiet with a mission and conveying a message in no uncertain terms to the Sinhala nation and to the powers. Related Story >> [26.11.14] Es Po passes away: Veteran Eezham Tamil creative writer, author, translator, columnist, literary critic and publisher S. Ponnuthurai passed away at the age of 82 in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday. He was popularly known as Es Po. Writing nearly for six decades, Es Po was a school by himself in contemporary Tamil literature. His demise creates an irreplaceable vacuum in the literary world of Eezham Tamils. Related Story >> [23.11.14] Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam passes away: Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam, an Eezham Tamil academic who held the rare distinction of being the professor of English in a reputed university of a native English-speaking country, Canada, passed away in Montreal on Sunday. He was Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Recently he has been awarded the highest literary recognition of the country, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Related Story >> [22.11.14] Landslide exposes land-related deprivation of Up-Country Tamils: The SL military is interfering in the assistance and resettlement of the Up-Country Tamil landslide victims in Meeriya-bedda in the same manner it interferes in the resettlement of Tamils in the North and East. The military is everywhere monitoring everyone visiting the affected. The military and language are used as means of oppression. A Sinhala-Buddhist supremacist approach is oppressing minorities in the Up-Country, said Rev Fr Fontgallan of the Leo Marga Ashram in Bandarawela. Related Story >> [21.11.14] Recent books on regions of Tamil Eelam: Four voluminous books have recently been published on the Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Vanni and Jaffna regions of the country of Eezham Tamils. The publications, resulting from the efforts and contributions of Eezham Tamils in the island and in the diaspora, show the rise of a new generation as well as the conviction of the old generation in documenting the history and culture of the regions and people of Tamil Eelam with a geographical sense of attachment. Related Story >> [16.11.14] Interest in resettlement cost life to Nakuleswaran: Funeral of assassinated Krishnasamy Nakuleswaran was held on Sunday at his village, Eekam-kudiyiruppu (settlement of sacrifice), at Ve’l’laang-ku’lam in Mannaar. The residents of the village were of the opinion that Nakuleswaran’s interest in working for the proper resettlement of his people had cost him his life. Related Story >> [10.11.14] MSS Pandian passes away: Professor MSS Pandian, a renowned historian of the Dravidian movement and Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi passed away on Monday at the age of 57. Known by friends and colleagues to be a supporter of movements for social justice, he was also a long-standing supporter of the Tamil Eelam liberation struggle. Related Story >> [08.11.14] Professor V. Sivasamy passes away: Professor V. Sivasamy, retired professor of Sanskrit of the University of Jaffna and was teaching until recently at the university, passed away in Jaffna on Saturday at the age of 81. As a multifaceted scholar in Sanskrit, Tamil, History, Archaeology, Epigraphy, Hindu Civilization and Fine Arts, and as a profound writer in Tamil and English, he was a silent legend in shaping the contemporary academic history of Eezham Tamils. Related Story >> [24.08.14] TNPF leader speaks on independent, concerted, Tamil foreign policy: Realising that our struggle has long been used by powers in their engagements with the island, we as a nation must work towards a concerted foreign policy, although we don’t have State, said Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) leader Mr. Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam in an interview to TamilNet on Saturday. Related Story >> [26.06.14] Eezham Tamils and duplicity of West’s human rights campaigns: The progress in women security achieved through liberation movements in Asia are more substantive than any that was achieved or could be achieved by the campaigns of the West-activists. Yet, why do they ignore the former and focus only on the latter? Is it because it gives the West-activists and by implication those in the West in general the moral high ground to look down upon the “others”, asks Dr. N. Malathy, in an article sent to TamilNet. Related Story >> [29.04.14] Sinhala military operates US-trained ‘counterinsurgency’ in Jaffna: The commander of the genocidal Sri Lankan military in the Jaffna peninsula, Maj. Gen. Udaya Perera, who was trained and awarded in the US Army War College in 2012, after his role as director of SL Army operations in the genocidal onslaught in 2009 followed by counter-insurgency foreign service targeting Tamil diaspora from Malaysia, is deploying new tactics for furthering the structural genocide against Eezham Tamils in his position as the commander of SL military occupying the peninsula. Related Story >> [24.03.14] UK long blighted cause of Eezham Tamils, contributed to genocide: “The UK’s permanent representative at the United Nations, a man called Sir John Sawers, who was at that time the permanent representative to the UN, stopped any Security Council discussion about the crisis in Sri Lanka in February 2009. This was the exact point, as we know very well from the Petrie Report that the UN officers were raising massive alerts inside the organisation about the impending massacre,” said British criminology academic Dr Andy Higginbottom, addressing a media meet in Geneva. Related Story >>
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