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2013: 2013 Sep 24 23:48 UXO claims life of 30-year-old man in Jaffna, 2... 2013 Sep 24 20:27 SL operatives step up psy-ops war on Tamil poli... 2012: 2012 Sep 24 10:33 IDP camp dismantled, inmates appeal directly to... 2012 Sep 24 00:44 UN complicit in Mu'l'livaaykaal killings, say U... 2011: 2011 Sep 24 07:13 Tamils protest outside Rajapakse's UN address 2011 Sep 24 00:50 Torture case filed against Sri Lanka's ex-Gener... 2010: 2010 Sep 24 14:09 Armed men in police uniform rob 70 million in C... 2010 Sep 24 11:40 Wickremesinghe tells possible rebels to leave p... 2010 Sep 24 11:33 SLA intruder attacked by house-owner in Vanni 2010 Sep 24 04:43 Indian Mumbai private contractor company offici... 2010 Sep 24 03:57 Tamil businessman abducted in Wellawatte 2010 Sep 24 03:54 UNP withdraws Freedom of Information Bill 2009: 2009 Sep 24 17:56 Denial, bravado, defiance cannot erase Rights i... 2009 Sep 24 15:33 Tamil technologist feared extra-judicially exec... 2009 Sep 24 15:22 Transferring IDPs, instead of releasing them, m... 2009 Sep 24 03:55 2 fishermen gone missing in Point Pedro sea 2008: 2008 Sep 24 18:01 Arson attack destroys Grocery store in Kaaththa... 2008 Sep 24 17:59 40 civilians arrested in Vaazhaichcheanai 2008 Sep 24 14:55 STF commando killed, 3 wounded in Ampaa'rai - LTTE 2008 Sep 24 06:38 2 SLA killed in ambush in Trincomalee - LTTE 2008 Sep 24 05:51 Canada says Bahu an LTTE member, refuses visa 2007: 2007 Sep 24 17:37 Tamil sovereignty, basis of peace talks - LTTE 2007 Sep 24 16:42 Farmer shot dead in Akkaraipattu 2007 Sep 24 16:24 Mannaar offensive thwarted - LTTE 2007 Sep 24 12:49 SLA suffer heavy casualties in Northern Front -... 2007 Sep 24 10:50 Jaffna officials explore setting up of Vigilant... 2007 Sep 24 10:46 One SLA trooper killed, 6 injured in Ki'laali c... 2007 Sep 24 08:49 Barmy Army to Sri Lanka 2007 Sep 24 07:10 Artillery duel in Mannaar, hospitals on red alert 2007 Sep 24 04:02 Court releases Hindu priest, trustee charged un... 2006: 2006 Sep 24 16:26 Teenage woman reported missing in Mannar 2006 Sep 24 16:18 SLN arrests 4 Mannar boat operators 2006 Sep 24 15:47 Homeguard injured in Vavuniya grenade attack 2006 Sep 24 15:37 Youth shot in Mannar, Uyilankulam 2006 Sep 24 14:54 Education in peril, say Jaffna students 2006 Sep 24 13:47 SLA, LTTE exchange rocket fire in Batticaloa 2006 Sep 24 09:50 TNA "reassured" by India’s thinking on Sri Lanka 2006 Sep 24 09:21 "White van" squad kills TNA MP's bodyguard 2006 Sep 24 00:19 ‘Talk to Tigers,’ Rice tells Samaraweera 2005: 2005 Sep 24 16:37 Youth shot dead in Batticaloa town 2005 Sep 24 14:20 LTTE-SLMM hold talks in Pallai 2005 Sep 24 13:48 LTTE - Muslim leaders meet, resolve Batticaloa ... 2005 Sep 24 12:42 Youths arrested for putting up posters against ... 2005 Sep 24 09:08 SLA troops, Police round up Eravur village, pub... 2005 Sep 24 08:06 Parties should strictly adhere to Election Laws... 2005 Sep 24 07:57 SLA soldiers assault Vadamaradchchi fishermen 2005 Sep 24 02:57 DLF split on support to Rajapakse 2004: 2004 Sep 24 23:27 UNP holds demonstration in Colombo 2004 Sep 24 17:20 LTTE militarily strong to face another war- Elilan 2004 Sep 24 17:06 Gurunagar sea sports meet held after 8 years 2004 Sep 24 12:59 USAID inaugurates four projects in Batticaloa 2004 Sep 24 12:41 LTTE says arms, documents recovered from Reggie 2004 Sep 24 01:11 TNA criticizes SL President's UN speech 2003: 2003 Sep 24 19:11 Pongu Thamil calls for IA with 'adequate' powers 2003 Sep 24 18:40 Hospital strike enters eighth day, no solution ... 2003 Sep 24 16:50 Pipe explosion kills mother and child in Vavuniya 2003 Sep 24 16:08 Thileepan's commemoration to conclude Friday 2003 Sep 24 12:18 'War destroyed all infrastructure of Northeast' 2003 Sep 24 11:44 Vavuniya Pongu Thamil festival draws thousands 2003 Sep 24 10:17 'Codbay harbor rehabilitation benefits big busi... 2003 Sep 24 08:43 Jaffna agrarian services said neglected by Colombo 2003 Sep 24 03:38 Festival atmosphere marks Vavuniya Pongu Thamil 2002: 2002 Sep 24 23:34 SLA escorts LTTE convoy to Vanni 2002 Sep 24 17:52 Fifteen petitions against 19th constitutional a... 2002 Sep 24 14:37 High Court allows bail for rape victim 2002 Sep 24 14:35 AG withdraws eleven PTA cases 2002 Sep 24 11:42 New SL Navy base violates ceasefire - LTTE 2002 Sep 24 03:52 Karainagar resettlers barred after dark by SL Navy 2001: 2001 Sep 24 10:41 Family killed in Jaffna mine blast 2001 Sep 24 08:53 Tamil MPs walk out in protest 2000: 2000 Sep 24 12:54 SLA assaults Jaffna journalist 2000 Sep 24 12:53 "We pleaded but Navy kept firing"- survivor 1999: 1999 Sep 24 14:12 Convoy attack kills 20 1999 Sep 24 10:34 Communal tension before massacre - Bishop 1999 Sep 24 10:19 Protest fast adjourns Parliament 1998: 1998 Sep 24 20:53 Tamils from Europe harassed 1998 Sep 24 20:50 Jaffna news summary 1998 Sep 24 20:48 SLA destroys Tiger memorial 1998 Sep 24 18:14 Protest planned in Jaffna 1998 Sep 24 17:04 Civilians killed in cross-fire 1998 Sep 24 11:30 Police arrests council chairman 1998 Sep 24 09:06 Norwegian delegation visits Vavuniya 1997:
1997 Sep 24 12:05 Massacre in eastern Tamil village: 8 killed 1997 Sep 24 12:04 Jaffna is afraid: former UN representative 1997 Sep 24 12:03 Kadirgamar's divisive scheme stalls ![]()
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. All their lives, forces which they do not recognize and cannot name, have been tugging at them — inherited instincts, traditional beliefs, acquired convictions; and the resultant is an outlook on life, a conception of social needs. ... In this mental background every problem finds it setting. We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.
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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 ![]() [28.04.23] Taraki Sivaram remembered: TamilNet remembers with pride the service rendered to the media by Maamanithar Dharmeratnam Sivaram (Taraki), the well-known political analyst and senior editor of TamilNet, on the 18th anniversary of his assassination. Related Story >> ![]() [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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