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2013: 2013 Jan 28 23:49 Boycott ‘Sri Lanka Cricket’ campaign to go global 2013 Jan 28 21:31 Ampaa'rai Tamil activist killed after protestin... 2011: 2011 Jan 28 20:05 Rajapaksa sued in US Courts over war-crimes, pl... 2011 Jan 28 18:46 Resettlement worker injured in Vanni explosion ... 2011 Jan 28 01:31 Military in Jaffna district to stay, says SLA C... 2010: 2010 Jan 28 22:50 Tamil civilian arrested in Colombo 2010 Jan 28 03:56 Tamils pay tribute to Holocaust victims 2009: 2009 Jan 28 20:31 Police recover anti-aircraft gun bullets in Raj... 2009 Jan 28 20:30 15 Tamil youths arrested at Katunayake airport 2009 Jan 28 19:08 LTTE denies reports of preventing patients leav... 2009 Jan 28 18:55 British duplicity of proscribing LTTE, inaction... 2009 Jan 28 17:44 Students 'gherao' Indian Army headquarters at C... 2009 Jan 28 17:36 SLA instructs Jaffna GA to open more detention ... 2009 Jan 28 17:10 Death threats to Jaffna Asst. Election Commissi... 2009 Jan 28 16:54 Fasting students arrested, forcibly hospitalized 2009 Jan 28 16:25 200 Journalists stage protest demo in Tamil Nadu 2009 Jan 28 15:40 Brutal attack on civilians, assurance to Mukher... 2009 Jan 28 14:08 French Tamils demonstrate against killings in V... 2009 Jan 28 14:03 Jaffna Catholic community appeals to stop killi... 2009 Jan 28 12:27 46 more civilians killed Tuesday, few wounded s... 2009 Jan 28 10:20 Hospitals, ambulances hit by shelling, hundreds... 2009 Jan 28 09:19 Protest fast in Jaffna against Vanni killings, ... 2009 Jan 28 07:32 Tamil leaders label Pranab visit futile 2008: 2008 Jan 28 20:34 LTTE, SLA clash in Ma'nalaa'ru, SLAF bombs Ira'... 2008 Jan 28 19:34 SLA steps up minor clashes in Madu region 2008 Jan 28 16:30 Suspects in Rupavahini journalist assault relea... 2008 Jan 28 16:29 Court presses State Counsel on Hakeem security ... 2008 Jan 28 16:28 Thinakaran editor stabbed in Colombo 2008 Jan 28 15:30 2 civilians abducted, 2 seek HRC protection in ... 2008 Jan 28 14:13 6 Tamils arrested in Passara, Kandy 2008 Jan 28 14:09 Ampaa'rai-Bibile road temporarily closed for tr... 2008 Jan 28 14:07 Burnt body recovered in Kalladi, Puththa'lam 2008 Jan 28 13:57 Family man shot dead in Poththuvil 2008 Jan 28 13:14 Batticaloa candidates to be provided police pro... 2008 Jan 28 12:46 High-tech Canadian radar sold to Sri Lanka 2008 Jan 28 09:49 Tamil Nadu fishermen on indefinite strike 2008 Jan 28 08:01 Tiger artillery targets Palaali airbase, fighti... 2008 Jan 28 00:44 Sovereignty implies responsibility to protect c... 2008 Jan 28 00:19 LTTE, SLA clash in Ma'nalaa'ru 2008 Jan 28 00:16 SLA attack injures 4 civilians in Mannaar 2007: 2007 Jan 28 21:46 Body found in abandoned well in Jaffna 2007 Jan 28 20:45 Valikamam North displaced to be re-settled 2007 Jan 28 18:34 7500 flee homes due to SLA attacks in Batticaloa 2007 Jan 28 18:32 One SLA trooper killed, two injured in Valvetti... 2007 Jan 28 18:21 UNP Chairman tore MoU copy with SLFP into pieces 2007 Jan 28 17:19 Number of Cabinet rank ministers swells to 52 2007 Jan 28 15:07 International Community's flawed approach assis... 2007 Jan 28 11:16 SLA to strictly enforce curfew in Jaffna 2007 Jan 28 10:16 Defections annul MoU with SLFP- UNP 2007 Jan 28 09:28 UNP dissidents, SLMC join UPFA government, appo... 2007 Jan 28 09:27 18 Tamil civilians arrested in Moratuwa 2007 Jan 28 00:10 White van abductors kill youth, leave body in K... 2006: 2006 Jan 28 15:19 Tamil students allege discrimination in Univers... 2006 Jan 28 15:12 Three vie for Jaffna campus VC post 2006 Jan 28 15:03 LTTE, Muslim leaders meet in Muttur 2006 Jan 28 13:23 Sewing training to tsunami-affected Kaddaikadu ... 2006 Jan 28 12:01 Children Nutrition Park opens in Yogapuram 2006 Jan 28 11:32 Balasingham leaves for UK 2005: 2005 Jan 28 20:10 Japanese, Dutch Foreign Ministers to visit Sri ... 2005 Jan 28 14:20 Tsunami victims in Batticaloa ignored by the Go... 2005 Jan 28 10:43 "Colombo bent on blocking aid reaching NorthEas... 2005 Jan 28 08:34 Eastern LTTE Commanders in Kilinochchi to consu... 2005 Jan 28 08:27 LTTE opens Children's home in Batticaloa 2005 Jan 28 07:45 Pirapaharan's top priority is reconstruction, n... 2005 Jan 28 07:36 Protest in Mannar against Colombo 2005 Jan 28 07:14 Another Tsunami panic in east 2005 Jan 28 03:46 Tsunami relief to northeast inadequate- Chandra... 2005 Jan 28 03:09 Rebuilding Trinco fishing industry discussed 2004: 2004 Jan 28 17:55 Sri Lanka navy rams boat, two injured 2004 Jan 28 16:43 UNICEF donates vehicles to education officials 2004 Jan 28 16:39 India should not assist expansion of Palaly Air... 2004 Jan 28 16:36 TULF central working committee to meet Sunday 2004 Jan 28 13:08 Trinco students excel at national level exam 2004 Jan 28 12:13 6000 families received aid from SLRC 2004 Jan 28 11:35 Student protests force Eastern University VC to... 2004 Jan 28 00:10 MIS seminar held in Trincomalee 2003: 2003 Jan 28 18:41 UNESCO photo-book exhibition opens in Trincomalee 2003 Jan 28 18:01 SLA collects details of resettled families in T... 2003 Jan 28 18:00 SLMM chief holds talks with LTTE political head 2003 Jan 28 17:57 New SLA camp in Varani 2003 Jan 28 08:33 LTTE rejects Indian General's terms on HSZs 2002: 2002 Jan 28 18:14 Optimism grows over permanent ceasefire 2002 Jan 28 17:51 SLN assaults fishermen in Trincomalee 2002 Jan 28 16:14 Moragoda hears Trincomalee fishermen's plight 2002 Jan 28 12:48 Amnesty slams zero prosecutions for rape in mil... 2002 Jan 28 05:11 Vanni citizens committee slams block on reconst... 2000: 2000 Jan 28 19:38 Scrap pass plan, says Pararajasingham 2000 Jan 28 12:57 Three navy personnel killed 2000 Jan 28 12:55 Students protest arrest 2000 Jan 28 12:53 Reconstruction aid should not be used for war 1999: 1999 Jan 28 19:34 Election Committee stands by findings 1999 Jan 28 19:26 Orphans recount father's death 1999 Jan 28 18:08 News in Brief: 1999 Jan 28 16:58 SLA death squad spreads terror 1999 Jan 28 12:56 Friendly fire kills one 1998:
1998 Jan 28 23:59 Suresh granted deportation stay order 1998 Jan 28 23:59 Tigers list captured weapons 1998 Jan 28 23:59 Gen. Ratwatte submits resignation 1998 Jan 28 23:59 Tigers hit Valaichenai SLA camps 1998 Jan 28 23:59 Polls overshadowed by developments elsewhere 1998 Jan 28 23:59 UNP opposes devolution package 1998 Jan 28 23:59 Army bans civilians from leaving Vanni ![]()
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Know the Etymology: 332 Place Name of the Day: (332 of 500 revised) Koyilā-maṉai/ Kōyilā-maṉai ![]() The temple house; or the house of the temple servants ![]() [15.01.23] ![]() [05.03.18] FIU of CBSL emerges as networked Intel outfit against Tamils in homeland, Diaspora: The so-called Financial Investigative Unit (FIU) of the Central Bank of the unitary State of genocidal Sri Lanka (CBSL), which is led by a Colombo-based ‘Sri Lankan’ Tamil, Indrajith Coomaraswamy, is scheming rigid controls on Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) in the North-East with a ‘counter-insurgency’ role. Related Story >> ![]() [15.02.18] Wives of enforced disappeared exposed to nightmare on Valentine's Day: At a stage event organised by the so-called Families of Disappeared (FoD) operated by Colombo based NGO and diplomatic community, Tamil women from the East were exposed to the traumatic experience of narrating their love stories with their husbands. Related Story >> ![]() [20.01.18] STF, SL departments harass resettled Tamils in Madu: The guards and officials of various SL departments as well as the notorious commandos of the StF are repeatedly harassing the 300 resettled and poverty-stricken Eezham Tamils of Ira'ndaam-kaddai (2nd Mile Post), which is located between Madu Shrine and Sinhala militarised Madu Road Junction in Mannaar district. Related Story >> ![]() [15.01.18] Sinhala Buddhicisation stepped up in Trincomalee North: SL Presidential Secretariat in Colombo is exerting pressure on Tamil Divisional Secretary not to interfere in the affairs of extreme Sinhala Buddhist monks, who are engaged in cultural genocide in Kumpu'rup-piddi in Trincomalee North. Related Story >> ![]() [01.01.18] Colombo demonstrates ‘foremost place’ to Buddhism at Champoor: The SL Archaeology Department, extremist Sinhala Buddhist monks, Sinhala governor and his wife are all jointly working for Sinhala Buddhicisation of Champoor, where SL Navy, groomed by the U.S. Pacific Command under the notion of 'military-to-military' engagement, is having its training base for the marines of genocidal Sri Lanka. Related Story >> ![]() [25.12.17] SL Army wages Sinhala-Buddhicisaton of Baron's Cap in Batticaloa Northwest: With the collaboration of ministries of Fisheries and Tourism, 232 Brigade of the Army of occupying Sri Lanka is Sinhalicising the Kudumpi-malai area of Batticaloa district. Related Story >> ![]() [17.12.17] Enduring psychological disaster of families of enforced disappeared conveyed through film: The story writer and director of the award winning short-film, Uru (Trance), 49-year-old Gnanadas Kasinathar, narrates the depth of psychological disaster as witnessed by him on the ground. The film, shot in Batticaloa, is inspired by the stories of long enduring sufferings of the enforced disappeared families. Related Story >> ![]() [13.11.17] Factoring political solution more important than addressing human rights: Not only did the Sri Lankan regime won the war against the Tamil liberation force, it might even win the propaganda war if the problems of Tamils in the island are exclusively focused on human rights to the neglect of the fundamental question of a long lasting political solution, commented Deputy Chief Minister of Penang state in Malaysia, Professor P. Ramasamy, told TamilNet on Monday. Related Story >> ![]() [08.10.17] SL constitutional discourse seen coupled with ‘Vision 2025’ policy of genocidal Sri Lanka: The World Bank, the IMF and the WTO are behind the agenda that seeks to permanently lock Eezham Tamils into a Colombo-centric single-unit of genocidal Sri Lanka. The interim report on the constitutional discourse should be seen coupled with ‘Vision 2025’, launched by the Agent State in Colombo in September 2017. Related Story >> ![]() [20.09.17] Sathasivam papers on Sumerian-Tamil connections see the light of day: Four pioneering research papers on the Dravidian connections between ancient Sumerian and Tamil, written between 1964 and 1987 by Eezham Tamil scholar, the late Prof A Sathasivam, gain new significance today because of the current advancements in coupling linguistics with DNA studies. Related Story >> ![]() [04.07.17] Understanding ‘Quisling politics’ and facing it with ‘Navaratnam School of Thought’: Eezham Tamils should grasp the synthesis of the Colombo-centric Quisling politics, which is being brought into them by the global powers and regain their strength to address it through the school of thought embraced by enlightened leaders of Eezham Tamils in the past. Related Story >> ![]() [08.06.17] Netherlands-funded CEPA project wages political ‘counter-insurgency’ on Tamils: Colombo-based NGO outfit, Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA), is tasked to recruit gullible and opportunistic sections of the diaspora expanding Rajapaksa-time ‘KP-Diaspora’ programme. The programme is funded by the foreign ministries of the USA, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, Switzerland and Australia. Related Story >> ![]() [20.02.16] The Tamil Genocide by Sri LankaThe second edition with over 150 new pages traces the ongoing engagement in the Sri Lankan conflict of Professor Francis A. Boyle, an eminent American expert in international law, from the conflict’s last years to the present pursuit of UN recognition of the Tamil genocide and call for reparations. It is the first book to develop an authoritative case for genocide against the Government of Sri Lanka under international law. The book is available from Clarity Press, Amazon in soft cover or in Kindle version. ![]() [11.11.15] South Africa to Singapore: global Tamils grasping geopolitics to act: The South African conference held in Durban has come out with many demands that are dear to the heart of Tamils, such as demilitarisation, stopping Sinhala colonisation, repeal of the 6th Amendment to facilitate free negotiation etc. But the slip was still showing when the conference avoided the term genocide. What was more ironical that betrayed the deception was the slogan of the conference organizers that called the country they want to salvage as ‘Sri Lanka’, boldly written in Tamil. Related Story >> ![]() [04.11.15] Tamil leadership need not shy away or react to unfair challenge coming from Sumanthiran: Eezham Tamil polity seeking pardon from Tamil-speaking Muslims should be unassuming, but it should come in an enlightening way to the edification of the Colombo-centric agenda or the powers-guided agenda, pursued in the past as well as in the present. Otherwise, it may only amount to conferring impunity to the State in Colombo and its abettors. Related Story >> ![]() [06.05.15] Retired land commissioner of Eastern Province on Structural Genocide against Eezham Tamils: The systematic seizure of traditional lands belonging to the Tamil speaking people of the North-East have been widespread under the guise of archaeological, forest and wild-life conservations and subsequently carried out through the acts of demarcating these lands under the purview of the state apparatuses such as the Archaeological Department, Forest Department and the Wild-life Conservation Department, says retired Land Commissioner of the Eastern Province Karthirgamathamby Kurunathan, in an in-depth video interview to TamilNet. Related Story >> ![]() [05.05.15] TNPF rejects ‘domestic investigations’ upheld by USA: The fact that the United States and the US Secretary of State John Kerry would consider the post January 08th 2015 situation in Sri Lanka, with the new government favourable, is understandable. But, for him to suggest that there is a favourable condition for the Tamils, is stretching too far, said Tamil National Peoples Front (TNPF) Leader Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, responding to a question from TamilNet. Related Story >> |
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