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15509 matching reports found. Showing 3701 - 3720 [TamilNet, Saturday, 08 May 2010, 17:20 GMT]Amnesty International in Australia have slammed the Federal Government’s decision to freeze asylum claims from Tamil and Afghan refugees, accusing both Ruling and opposition parties of “using some of the world’s most vulnerable people as political footballs”, and urging the nation to adhere to its “legal and moral obligation” to provide protection to refugees who have “suffered torture, violence, fear and persecution that we could never imagine”. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 07 May 2010, 22:01 GMT] The country of the Naakar
The island / peninsula of the Naakar (The Jaffna Peninsula) Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 07 May 2010, 16:53 GMT]More than 200 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers are engaged in constructing a military base since Friday morning on the very place of E’l’aangku’lam Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) War Heroes Resting Home in Vadmaraadchi which had been razed to the ground by SLA 03 May night using heavy equipments, sources in Jaffna said. Defence Secretary Gothabaya who recently visited Jaffna is understood to have issued the orders to demolish the above War Heroes Resting Home and to build a military base on the ground where it had stood, the sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 07 May 2010, 15:18 GMT]Third court martial is likely to be appointed against former Sri Lanka Army Commander (retd.) General Sarath Fonseka, six Colonels and a Brigadier of the SLA over alleged arms deals committed by them when Fonseka was serving as the Commander of the SLA, Colombo media reported quoting Sri Lankan Defence ministry
sources. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 May 2010, 18:07 GMT]Colombo has embarked upon a vicious campaign as though a new power centre of Eezham Tamils had already set in after the elections for the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) last Sunday. Some elements among the diaspora who have been conceiving the TGTE as a ‘high power centre’ also seem to think that it is now ready for their occupation with some manipulations here and there. Both commit serious damages to the cause of Eezham Tamils, the former overtly and the latter covertly. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 May 2010, 16:58 GMT]Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Menon Rao will be inaugurating an international conference on ‘Taking the Sri Lankan Peace Process Forward’ in New Delhi, scheduled on May 10 and 11. The conference will be participated by experts from Sri Lanka and representatives of Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, media reports said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 May 2010, 16:20 GMT]The Speaker Chamal Rajapakse Thursday directed that the Court Martial
inquiry against Sarath Fonseka, parliamentarian from the Colombo
district, should not be held on dates when parliament meets. Former
Commander of the Sri Lanka Army Sarath Fonseka has been facing two
court martial inquiries by the Sri Lanka Army. He is under detention
in the Navy Headquarters since his defeat in the presidential election
held on January 26.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 May 2010, 11:04 GMT]While on the one hand keeping uprooted civilians subjugated in open prisons and inside internment camps under a military-led administration, engaging in systematic demographic genocide in Tamil homeland in the form of Sinhala colonisation encroachments, abetting cultural genocide by erecting the symbols of Mahavamsa mindset and destroying the Tamil heritage, on the other hand the Sri Lankan President and Commander-in-Chief Mahinda Rajapaksa has come up with the announcement of appointing a commission for truth and reconciliation. Announcing the move, the Sri Lankan Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne said in SL parliament on Wednesday that his government had categorized around 1,350 ex-LTTE members as "criminals who will be dealt with according to the law." Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 May 2010, 13:54 GMT]Sandun Jayasekara, a senior journalist of the Daily Mirror, the English
daily published from Colombo, is said to have been assaulted Wednesday
morning by some security officers who are members of the Sri Lanka
Army (SLA) on security duty at the Maharagama cancer hospital. The
journalist went to the hospital with an official media invitation to
cover an event President Mahinda Rajapaksa was attending
Wednesday morning in the hospital. The matter was reported to the new Media
Minister Keheliya Rambukwella immediately, sources in Colombo said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 May 2010, 01:24 GMT] Noting British foreign policy is unlikely to change after the May 6th election, and that United Nations is better at "normative diplomacy than at launching action on the ground," Lord Patton, current chancellor of University of Oxford, and who as European Commission External Relations Commissioner visited Kilinochchi during the ceasefire, said, while having endorsed the principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) to prevent atrocities, "UN was paralysed when political and diplomatic intervention was required to protect Tamil civilians in the Sri Lankan government campaign to wipe out the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam," in an article in Financial Times. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 04 May 2010, 14:16 GMT]In the wake of alleged death threats to Chaavakachcheari magistrate K. Pirabakaran by Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) operatives, Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Jaffna Commander, Major Gen. Mahintha Kathurusinghe, has provided military protection to Chaavakachcheari courts in addition to police protection from Tuesday. The Commander said that he has also arranged for military protection to Pirabakaran’s vehicle when he travels from Jaffna to Chaavakachcheari and back. Meanwhile, another suspect in the above case, Regan, Deputy Mayor of Jaffna, a key operative of EPDP, has gone into hiding following his associate Charles, EPDP Thenmaraadchi organizer, being arrested and detained in Jaffna prison, sources in Jaffna said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 04 May 2010, 09:54 GMT]“There is no threat to the sovereignty of the country any longer. As
such the government should completely lift the State of Emergency
Regulation,” former Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and
a parliamentarian from Colombo district representing
Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Tuesday, said participating in a debate
on the extension motion moved by the government. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 03 May 2010, 20:49 GMT]Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Jaffna using bulldozers completely destroyed E’l’laangku’lam Liberation Tiger War Heroes’ Resting Homes in Uduppiddi in Vadmaraadchi Monday night, former Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Sivajilingam said. He told that local residents in Uduppiddi had conveyed the information by phone. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 03 May 2010, 20:24 GMT]Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal Monday issued interim order restraining the
Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from proceeding with the first Court
Martial against General Sarath Fonseka until May 21.The President of
the Appeal Court Justice Sathya Hettige dissented from the majority
decision of the bench. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 03 May 2010, 20:08 GMT] Senathirajah Jeyananthamoorthy, former TNA parliamentarian of Batticaloa district is elected for Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) topping the list of North West London. He secured 8,357 votes. The others elected from the constituency to TGTE are: Deluxon Morris (6,334), Balambigai Murugadas (5,879), Lalithasorubiny Pratheeparaj (5,521) and Jeyavani Atchuthan (5,446). Meanwhile, another former TNA parliamentarian, Mr. M.K.Eelaventhan has been declared elected for TGTE from Canada. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 03 May 2010, 05:00 GMT]The earlier decision taken by Jaffna Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Commander Major Gen. Mahintha Kathursinghe to withdraw SLA forces in stages is to be reconsidered as per request of newly appointed Defence Secretary, Gothabaya Rajapakse, the brother of President Mahintha Rajapakse, Mahintha Kathurusinghe told the editors of Jaffna dailies in a meeting Sunday night at Gnanams Hotel SLA base. The decision is to be reconsidered due to the current deterioration of law and order in Jaffna peninsula which the Defence Secretary explored into with the key officials of SLA and Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) at Palaali SLA Head Quarters Saturday, the Major General told the editors. He further alleged that armed men of Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP), a constituent of ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA), were involved in the social crimes in Jaffna peninsula in the meeting with the editors. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 02 May 2010, 23:53 GMT]Sri Lankan Police in Chaavakachcheari Sunday arrested the EPDP coordinator of Thenmaraadchi zone, Alexander Soosaimuththu alias Charles, for allegedly threatening Chavakachcheari Magistrate K. Prabakaran for having issued arrest warrant on EPDP suspects involved in the abduction and murder of student Kapilnath. Mr. Charles would be brought to the courts on Monday, according to Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Jaffna Commander Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe, who met local press at Gnanam Hotel Sunday night. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 02 May 2010, 17:51 GMT]A 26-year-old male, Sivalingam Satheesan, an uprooted civilian who settled in Jaffna after leaving the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) operated internment camp in Vavuniyaa, has been gunned down on Jaffna - Point Pedro Road Sunday around 7:30 p.m. by armed men riding a motorbike. The killing has taken place in SLA-guarded road near Ceylinco insurance company and Vadamaraadchi telecommunication building.
This is the first killing by gunmen reported in Jaffna after the Eelam War - 4 ended in May 2009 in Vanni. The targeted killing of Vanni IDP comes in the wake of a recent visit by Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to Jaffna. Tension prevails in the area. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 02 May 2010, 17:15 GMT] In a recent release of a video called "Born Free" containing "a hyper-violent mini-film" as a pre-release to her forthcoming album to be released on June 29, Oscar and Grammy award nominee, Eezham born music phenom, Maya Arulpragasam (MIA) expresses her sympathy for genocide victims with the powerful imagery of her video. YouTube yanked her video Tuesday, triggering an avalanche of publicity, including a detailed narrative of MIA's album that appeared in the weekend edition of the Washington Post, MTV, and Los Angeles Times among other media outlets. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 02 May 2010, 15:46 GMT]Professor Tissa Vitarane's omission from the ministerial list "reinforces the contention that the APRC [All Party Representative Committee] was set up for the sole purpose of placating the international community and India in particular," said Dr. Paikiyasothi Saravanamuttu, director of Colombo-based think-thank, in the Saturday edition of Daily Mirror, adding that the APRC was "never meant by the regime to be anything else." Saravanamuttu was one of the few who were unique in articulating publicly that APRC was constituted for mere presence than for action. Full story >>
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