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Kūttaṉ-cīmā, Isaṉ-kaṉi-cīmai, Maḍul-sima, Kōraḷa-ima[TamilNet, Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 18:30 GMT] The landholdings of a male dancer or settlement of the community of dancersThe landholdings of Isan Kani The provincial limits or precincts The divisional limits or precincts Full story >> Uprooted Tamils face ultimatum on proving land ownership in strategic Kokku’laay[TamilNet, Friday, 06 October 2017, 23:22 GMT]The Divisional Secretary of Karai-thu'raip-pattu administrative division in Mullaiththeevu district has published a notice in local newspapers on 04 October asking the owners of lands in Mukaththuvaaram to document their ownership to their deed lands before October 20th. The Divisional Secretary, S Gunabalan, has been under increased pressure from the Sinhala colonial Governor to North, Mr Reginald Cooray, to seize the lands in the northern tip of the lagoon-mouth of Kokku'laay, which is situated close to the border of the Northern and Eastern provinces. As reported earlier, the plan of the Colombo establishment is to alienate the lands in Mukaththuvaaram to Sinhala settlers and demographically wedge the contiguity and territorial integrity of the occupied country of Eezham Tamils. Full story >> Diaspora youth organisations re-affirm Tamil sovereignty struggle on Thileepan remembrance[TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 19:32 GMT]The spirit of Eezham Tamil national struggle was given a gust of life through the remembrances held in the occupied homeland of Eezham Tamils this week as the people from all walks of life gathered in their hundreds commemorating the resolve and sacrifice made by Lt. Col Thileepan, who sacrificed his life exposing the Indian geo-political agenda in 1987. The political message coming from those who were addressing the Nalloor event was based on Thimphu-principle centred federal discourse. They were also seen urging the Tamil diaspora to adopt the unworkable ‘federal’ demand on the ground to counter the ‘unitary’ paradigm of genocidal Sri Lanka. However, new grassroots Tamil organisations in Tamil diaspora have awaken to the realities and expressed their resolve towards Vaddukkoaddai Resolution based Tamil sovereignty struggle, particularly at the federal State of Switzerland. Full story >> Tamil village in Batticaloa-Polonnaruwa border Sinhalicized by Mahaweli authority, Survey Dept[TamilNet, Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 22:53 GMT]SL Mahaweli authority has alienated lands belonging to 300 uprooted Eezham Tamil families to Sinhala settlers in Oamadiyaa-madu village, which is situated near the district border of Polonnaruwa-Batticaloa in the East, Tamil civil officials in Batticaloa district said. Oamadiyaa-madu comes under Batticaloa district. But, SL Survey Department officials marked it as falling under Polonnaruwa district in an irrigation survey, marking the village as catchment area of a tank of Mahaweli system in Polonnaruwa. Omadiyaa-madu village is located 58 km north of Batticaloa city and 10 km north of Welikanda, a bordering Sinhala town in the Polonnaruwa district. SL President Maithiripala Sirisena, who has been in charge of Mahaweli ‘development’ for several periods since 1997, hails from Polonnaruwa district. Full story >> Uprooted people find houses destroyed by SL Navy in Ira'nai-theevu after 2008[TamilNet, Monday, 18 September 2017, 18:18 GMT] There were almost 190 concrete-built houses, which stood in good shape when the SL Navy occupied Ira'nai-theevu twin-islands, which are situated 12 nautical miles west of Muzhangkaavil along the coast of Vanni in the Palk Bay. There was no military confrontations wihtin the islands in 2007-2008 when SL Navy occupied the islets. However, last week, three representatives of the protesting villagers, who went to witness the surveying of the lands, were shocked to see majority of their houses being razed to the ground by the occupying SL Navy. Only around 45 houses have standing structures. Among these, 15 to 20 houses could be reconstructed without much investment. The occupying SL Navy should bear the responsibility for the full and partial destruction of 187 houses, they said. Prior to 2007, the owners had dismantled only 3 houses, the villagers further said.
Full story >> Uprooted fishermen vow to continue their fight for Pa'l'li-munai in Mannaar[TamilNet, Sunday, 10 September 2017, 23:24 GMT]The uprooted Eezham Tamil fishermen from the coastal village of Pa'l'li-munai, located within the urban limits of Mannaar city, have reiterated that they are not prepared to succumb to the designs of the occupying SL Navy, which wants them to give up their demand of resettlement in their own village. The SL Navy is stationed in the private lands belonging to 23 families since 2000. It has also occupied their fish-market. The Tamil people were uprooted for the first time in November 1990, when the SL Army occupied their settlement. SL Navy is stationed there since the year 2000. After 2009, and more recently since January 2016, the SL Navy has been fortifying its naval installations along the Mannaar coast, which is commanding both the Palk Bay and the Gulf of Mannaar as well as commanding the closest communication line with the Tamil Nadu coast. Full story >> Muḷḷiya-vaḷai, Kaḻutā-vaḷai/ Kaḷutā-vaḷai, Kumpaḻā-vaḷai, Āḻiya-vaḷai, Kōṇā-[TamilNet, Saturday, 09 September 2017, 18:30 GMT] The circuit or surroundings found with Muḷḷi plantsThe circuit or surroundings found with Kaḻutai-muḷḷi plants The circuit or surroundings found with Kampaḻā shrubs; or the Potters' circuit The seaside circuit or surroundings The remote circuit or the corner circuit The secluded or detached circuit Full story >> Cāṭṭi, Kurakkaṉ-cāṭṭi, Kampañ-cāṭṭi, Āvarañ-cāṭṭi, Kāṉṟai-cā&am[TamilNet, Tuesday, 05 September 2017, 18:30 GMT] The cultivation field; or the abandoned cultivation field; or the pasturelandThe finger-millet cultivation field; or the abandoned finger-millet cultivation field The bulrush-millet cultivation field; or the abandoned bulrush-millet cultivation field The abandoned cultivation field found with Āvarai shrubs; or pastureland found with Āvarai shrubs The abandoned cultivation field found with Kāṉṟai shrubs or pastureland found with Kāṉṟai shrubs Full story >> Ira'nai-theevu without Tamil people constitutes threat against Indian security in Palk Bay[TamilNet, Thursday, 31 August 2017, 22:43 GMT]Occupying Sinhala Navy was adamantly refusing to release the occupied residential and livelihood twin-islet of Ira'nai-theevu, informed Ilangkai Thamizh Arasuk Kadchi (ITAK) sources told TamilNet. The SL Navy officers were citing the ‘defence’ of the so-called ‘sovereignty’ of genocidal Sri Lanka as the prime reason, at a meeting held in Muzhangkaavil on Thursday, when two ITAK MPs from Vanni met SL ‘State Minister’ for Defence Ruwan Wijewardene, SL Navy commanders and D.M. Swaminthan, a SL ‘Cabinet Minister’ of Resettlement, Prison and Hindu affairs. Finally, a token measure has been promised in the form of allowing Poonakari Divisional Secretariat to survey only 159 of the entire 1,200 acres of lands. At least 783 Eezham Tamil families were living there when they were uprooted for the first time on 10 August 1992. The islets have continuous residential history of 400 years.Full story >> Valaip-pāṭu, Āḻvāṉ-pāṭu, Kuḍā-pāḍuva, Cem-pāṭu[TamilNet, Wednesday, 30 August 2017, 18:30 GMT] The beach for dragnet fishing; or the area of sea to lay and draw dragnet from the beachThe area of sea deeper than usual to lay and draw dragnet from the beach The beach or area of sea where dragnet fishing is of small-scale; or the smaller beach for dragnet fishing The red-soil area Full story >> Kōyilāk-kaṇṭi, Kaṇakkaṉār-kaṇṭi, Poli-kaṇṭi, Kaṇṭiyāṉ-kuḷam, Aḍik-kaṇ&[TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 August 2017, 18:30 GMT] The temple partThe settlement part or quarters of the accountant/ teacher The paddy (field) part or the paddy field The tank of the paddy field The bottom part or the lowest part The small part, embankment or paddy field The paddy field at the hill bottom or the paddy field of the hill neighbourhood Full story >> Undeclared censorship imposed on books, magazines reaching Jaffna by post[TamilNet, Friday, 18 August 2017, 23:22 GMT]The occupying state of genocidal Sri Lanka has imposed an undeclared censorship on printed magazines, weeklies and books that are being posted from outside the island to addresses in Jaffna. The latest censorship is being practiced by the Customs section, which is attached to the SL Postal Department in Jaffna, informed postal department workers told TamilNet on Friday. Sinhala Custom officials are removing printed material in letters or parcels that carry any photo or image related to the Tamil struggle in the past. Even a magazine that carried an article about an asylum case of an Eezham Tamil in UK was removed from the post and the recipient was warned to instruct the sender not to post anything related to Tamil nationalism. There are also reports that journalists entering North-East are being subjected to strict surveillance. Full story >> New Delhi suppressing memorialisation of VVT massacre wants to renovate forgotten IPKF tomb[TamilNet, Thursday, 17 August 2017, 20:30 GMT] The New Delhi Establishment, repeatedly losing in the race for strategic influence over the island since the times of Jawaharlal Nehru due to its botched Colombo-centric approach, has only managed to earn the ire of the Eezham Tamils during the times of war and after. The Consul General of India in Jaffna Mr A Natarajan has recently received flaks from Tamils for attempting iron fist control on journalists and newspapers in Jaffna. The CGI was not only trying to censor the coverage of a protest that demanded release of Tamil Nadu activist Thirumurugan Gandhi in June, but it was also suppressing the 28th annual remembrance of the Valvaddiththu’rai massacre by the IPKF. Now, the CGI wants to renovate a tomb stone of an IPKF soldier, which has been forgotten for three decades. It is situated 400 meters close to the obliterated Tamil Eelam Heroes Cemetery of thousands of Tamils in Koappaay.Full story >> Aiyaṉār-kōyilaṭi, Nātaṉār-kōyil, Antōṉiyār-kōyil-veḷi[TamilNet, Monday, 14 August 2017, 18:30 GMT] The Aiyaṉār-temple neighbourhood The temple of Nātaṉār (Buddha) The open place or expanse of the St Antony's church Full story >> Tiriyāy, Tiruk-kōyil/ Tiruk-kōvil, Tirumēṉiyūr, Kiri-bamuṇē-gama, Siri-saman-pura, Śrī Jayavardhana-pura Kōṭṭē[TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 August 2017, 18:30 GMT] The sacred expanse or the expanse of the sacred placeThe sacred temple The sacred person's or the prelate's village The auspicious Brahmin village The town of the sacred deity, Saman; or the auspicious town of the deity, Saman The fort of the prosperous, victory-increasing city Full story >> Kaḍavat-maḍuva, Maḍu-gas-talāva, Oya-maḍuva[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 August 2017, 18:30 GMT] The border check-post shedThe tableland open-glade found with Maḍu palms The pond or tank of the stream Full story >> Legal ruling opens door for dismantling LTTE ban in other jurisdictions[TamilNet, Friday, 28 July 2017, 18:42 GMT]Although the EU's de-proscription of the LTTE is promising, the Tamil right to assembly, speech, and expression remains transnationally undermined by the persistence of post-war LTTE bans in multiple jurisdictions. These bans should be challenged on legal grounds to reclaim Tamil political space in North-America and Europe, said a Tamil diaspora legal activist who worked with Netherlands-based lawyer to prepare the legal basis for the case. The decision by the European Court of Justice, albeit belated, is not self-executing at the nation-state level within the EU. As such, ‘terrorism’ related national security policies of European governments will likely continue to operate as bulwark against Tamil asylum claims and as a non-invasive surveillance model for Tamil political mobilization. Full story >> Colombo rushes ahead with moves to release trawlers confiscated from Indian poachers[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 July 2017, 13:45 GMT]The SL Attorney General's Department has instructed Ooraaththu'rai (Kayts) Magistrate's Court to release 42 Indian trawlers that are in the custody of the SL occupying Navy at Kaangkeasanthu'rai naval base. The trawlers were confiscated from the Indian poachers. The move comes after the SL Government passed a bill to ban bottom trawling. However, Indian trawlers continue to engage in bottom trawling, Eezham Tamil fishermen in Jaffna complain. The fishermen societies in Jaffna want to see an effective end to the Indian poaching before releasing their vessels. But, Colombo regime, as usual, is preoccupied with its relationship with New Delhi than protecting the interests of the Tamil fishermen in the North, they said. BJP rulers in New Delhi are also engaged in legitimising the genocide culture of the unitary ‘Sri Lanka’, the fishermen societies further blamed citing the recent trends. Full story >> Mullēriyāva, Nēriya-kuḷam, Tuvaranēri[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 July 2017, 18:30 GMT] The main lakeThe dammed tank or the tank of the dam The tank in the locality of Tuvarai trees Full story >>
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