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20521 matching reports found. Showing 5161 - 5180 [TamilNet, Thursday, 17 March 2011, 01:37 GMT] "Colm O'Riain is an Irish violinist. Pireeni Sundaralingam is a Sri Lankan Tamil poet. They’re married and have created a unique music that sounds out their common experience of exile and immigration," writes VoA news, adding shared history from British colonialism, and experiences surrounding living in islands surrounded by large oceans allows the couple to mesh the two art forms. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 05:27 GMT]Problems faced by Tamil people cannot be solved by deploying 80% of public servants from Sinhala community in government departments located in areas where one hundred percent of the population is Tamils, said Mr.M.M. Zarook, Kalmunai Regional Coordinator of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) while addressing a public awareness discussion on Human Rights (HR) held at Vellaave'li DS division. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 00:43 GMT] The grassland or thicket of Alangium lamarckii trees
The tank of Alangium lamarckii trees or Lantana indica plants Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 23:27 GMT]Colombo Chief Magistrate, Rashmi Singapuli, Tuesday ordered remand for 48 Tamils, all residents of Jaffna, till March 27, legal sources in Colombo said. Terrorist Intelligence Division (TID) of Sri Lanka Police last week arrested fifty two persons, including four children less than 10 years of age, while they were staying in lodges in Colombo and Negombo. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 19:13 GMT] A classified cable of the US embassy in India accessed by The Hindu through WikiLeaks shows that the US embassy made a particular note of the bias of M K Narayanan, the former National Security Advisor (NSA) of India, against the LTTE. “US Consulate General Chennai officials recall his repeatedly expressed and profound distaste for the LTTE,” notes the cable. Narayanan was the chief of India’s Intelligence Bureau during the IPKF times and was the NSA during the Vanni war. He and the present NSA, Shiv Shankar Menon, handled India’s role in the war and in the way the war ended. During the war, both were accused of wielding ‘extra-parliamentary’ powers. The US cable noted Narayanan as part of the traditional "coterie" around Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi and as a part of the Keralite “Mafia” in the Prime Minister’s Office. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 05:46 GMT]Sri Lanka has sinister plans to confiscate the three large coastal villages, Mu’l’livaaykkaal East, Mu’l’livaaykkaal West and Ampalavan Pokka’nai, where the last stages of the Vanni war took place. Original inhabitants of 18 hamlets of the villages are not allowed to resettle and there are secret plans to relocate them to confiscate the stretch of rich marine wealth, said a press release of the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF). Mines are still the pretext, but even after 22 months the SL military has not even permitted de-mining the land where thousands of Eezham Tamils and their fighters sacrificed their lives. Meanwhile, with Chinese assistance, colonial SL occupying the country of Eezham Tamils has recently built a fortress-like military base over a cemetery of the LTTE heroes at Koappaay in Jaffna. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 14 March 2011, 01:31 GMT] Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based rights organization, called on countries worldwide to boycott a conference to be held in Colombo between 31 May to 02 June labelled "Defeating Terrorism Sri Lankan Experience” aimed at sharing Sri Lanka's war experience, BBC reported. “What we are telling the militaries around the world is that they should not attend a meeting to celebrate a military policy that involves killing so many civilians,” HRW Executive Director Brad Adams told BBC. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 13 March 2011, 10:23 GMT]Unless infrastructure facilities are made available to the people, the resettlement could take place only at snail’s pace in Jaffna peninsula, Thellippazhai Divisional Secretary S.Muralitharan responded to reporters who questioned him on the restrictions prevailing there. Currently, the occupying Sri Lankan military is limiting the freedom of movement of civilians to their native villages by keeping the access roads to resettlement areas closed most of the time and is only allowing them to use the roads for few days in a week. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 13 March 2011, 10:23 GMT]A paramilitary group that works with the Sri Lanka Armed forces in Vavuniyaa has been identified as the group behind the abduction and brutal murder of a Tamil woman from Meesaalai In Thenmarachchi last week. In an inquiry statement as part of the inquest proceedings held by the Magistrates Court, the husband of the murdered woman, has revealed that he had hired the Vavuniyaa-based group to abduct and murder his wife. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 12 March 2011, 14:45 GMT]Trincomalee town has been put on red alert from Friday for the forthcoming visit of Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse who is scheduled to address an election rally on Sunday morning in the Trincomalee McHeyzer Stadium in support of the ruling United peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) contesting the Trincomalee urban Council. Roads leading to the McHeyzer Stadium are under heavy checking by army and police personnel. Vehicles and other mode of transports are stopped and checked by security personnel, sources in Trincomalee said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 12 March 2011, 14:38 GMT]"The Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP) party led by the Chief Minister of the Eastern Provincial Council Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan is a political party full of corruption and deceit. Pilliayan has no support from the government," said Resettlement Deputy Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralidharan alias Karuna. "Pilliayan became the Chief Minister due to votes of Tamils. He is now hanging on the government to show Tamils that he has the support of the government. He cannot act alone," said Karuna who has been spreading Mahinda Chinthanaya in Ampaarai district. Both are leaders of two Para military groups in the east. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 11 March 2011, 05:21 GMT]UK National Statistics has circulated forms to all residents in UK to take census for 2011. “What is your ethnic group” is Question 16 of the form. 16 C is for people of Asian/ Asian British background. Under that Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Chinese are mentioned by name. Others have to specifically write in their ethnic background under the column “Any Other Asian Background.” Whether citizens of UK or just residents, Tamils originating from the island called Sri Lanka today, should write in their ethnic identity as Eezham Tamils. Apart from all contemporary politics, Eezham is the oldest ethnic identity claimed for at least 2000 years by Tamils hailing from the island, as testified by literature and inscriptions. Equally important is answering Question 18 that Tamil is their main language. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 11 March 2011, 01:06 GMT] Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard when asked by Inner City Press at the UN press conference to comment on the filing to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against UN Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Dr. Palitha Kohona, for war-crimes, the Prime Minister replied, "I'm not personally aware of all details of that case. We are a supporter of the ICC and a supporter of proper legal procedure and practice, one rule... is that political leaders should not comment on legal matters that are underway.” Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 10 March 2011, 19:41 GMT]Large number of Tamil families from Mullaiththeevu district of Vanni, forcibly displaced and still held behind barbed wire camps in Menik Farm and other places, are yet to be allowed into their native villages in Puthukkudiyiruppu. The occupying Sri Lankan military has only allowed civilians to enter 6 of 19 Village Officer (GS) divisions in Puthukkudiyiruppu. So far, Only 68,846 persons from 23,050 families have been resettled in 65 out of 92 Village Officer divisions in Mullaiththeevu district. Thirty percent of the civilians are not allowed to resettle in the entire district of Mullaiththeevu, according to the data from the Mullaiththeevu District Secretariat. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 10 March 2011, 12:40 GMT]The Indian High Commission in Colombo Thursday denied the claims made by Sri Lanka's Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne that there were three LTTE training camps in Tamil Nadu, according to a news report carried this evening by Times Online. Spokesman for the Indian High Commission in Colombo Birender Singh Yadav said that the statement was ‘baseless’ and a detailed response will follow. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 10 March 2011, 12:35 GMT]The body of Tamil youth Jeyaraj Vijayan, 29, of Vachchikuda in Aalaiyadivempu area was recovered Wednesday near a culvert located at Karunkoditheivu in Aalaiyadivempu area in Akkaraippattu police division in Ampaa'rai district. On receipt of information from the public the Magistrate went to the site with Akkaraippattu police and held preliminary inquiry and directed the police to hand over the body to the hospital mortuary. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 10 March 2011, 07:58 GMT]Over the attack on his vehicle at Nochchiyagama on Monday, Tamil
National Alliance Ki'linochchi district parlimentarian S. Sreetharan
said in Parliament on Wednesday, “It is clear that there is no
security guarantee for MPs in this country. How can a Tamil here
expect security from the state?” He further stated that while he was passing Medawachchiya on Monday at 5:30 p.m., a white colored van without a number plate overtook their vehicle. When they approached Ullukku'lam the said vehicle was parked on the side of the road and three men got off from the vehicle
and fired at them using small weapons. In return, his security guards fired back before the assassins threw a grenade at his vehicle and fled the scene. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 10 March 2011, 03:02 GMT] Deputy Chair of Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (FAD&T) Legislation Committee, Russell Trood (Liberal, Queensland) during deliberations last week of February raised with David Stuart, First Assistant Secretary, South and West Asia and Middle East Division and Peter Rowe, First Assistant Secretary, North Asia Division, the potential International Criminal Court (ICC) investigations on war-crimes against Australian-Sri Lankan dual national Palitha Kohona and the appointment of ex-Navy commander Admiral Samarasinghe, who has been accused of war crimes, as the next High Commissioner for Sri Lanka to Australia, the official publication Hansard said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 10 March 2011, 02:41 GMT]Two parliamentarians of the main opposition United National Party
(UNP) and a parliamentarian from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) are among ten witnesses who will be giving evidence in the white flag case in which former Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Sarath Fonseka is charged for causing disrepute to the Sri Lanka government by making allegedly false statements to The Sunday leader, an English weekly published in Colombo. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 March 2011, 12:10 GMT]Jaffna district Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian S. Sritharan’s shooting incident in Nochchiyagama on March 7th, received minimal coverage in the state run leading Sinhala newspaper Dinamina, sources in Colombo said. Dinamina carried the report in page-4 with minimal details of the incident. Full story >>
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