Genocidal Colombo hijacks NPC education review

[TamilNet, Thursday, 24 April 2014, 23:43 GMT]
A two-day consultancy workshop initiative, named Northern Education System Review (NESR) launched by the Northern Provincial Council Minister of Education, Sports and Cultural Affairs Mr T. Gurukularajah has been hijacked by Colombo's unitary State authorities and the military governor of the North, disrupting the conference team’s initiative to invite independent Tamil educationalists from the Tamil diaspora to take part in the proceedings held in Jaffna on Wednesday and Thursday.
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SL military conceals mass graves at Vara’ni in Thenmaraadchi

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 April 2014, 23:21 GMT]
The occupying Sri Lankan military relocating its 522 Brigade Headquarters, which was the artillery and command base at the Northern front during the war, has been removing the skeletons including the sand from an alleged mass grave site at the locality of the old base in recent weeks, reliable sources in Thenmaraadchi told TamilNet on Monday. After removing all the traces, the bunkers have been filled with sand brought from elsewhere. Despite the claim that it had moved the camp to a new locality, at Aasaippi’l’lai-yeattam at Mirusuvil, the SL military was present at the old site for several weeks to ensure that all traces have been removed, the sources further said.
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SLAF steps up militarisation of Ve'l'lai-ma'nal coast in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 April 2014, 19:02 GMT]
The occupying Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) in Trincomalee city has seized more than 4,000 acres of coastal land in Ve'l'lai-ma'nal, located between Marble Beach and Karumalai-yoottu within the administrative DS division of Trincomalee Town and Gravets. The SL military has completed surveying the public lands and has fenced off the coastal stretch barring the people from accessing the coast, civil sources told TamilNet. After the end of war in the East, the SL military has put up two major camps, one for SLAF and another for Sri Lanka Army (SLA), in the division. The SLAF has also transformed Marble beach into a military-run corporate outfit by launching a tourist resort.
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CSD operative in Vanni detained for murder of woman from Matale

[TamilNet, Saturday, 19 April 2014, 09:45 GMT]
A Tamil woman from Matale in the Central Province was knifed to death allegedly by a ‘Civil Security Division’ paramilitary operative of the Sri Lankan military near Punnai-neeraavi in Ki'linochchi a few days ago. The SL police detained the paramilitary operative after securing the murder weapon from the CSD operative on Wednesday. The identity of the CSD operative has not been revealed. The slain woman, a pregnant, had gone seeking the paramilitary operative who had an affair with the woman, legal sources in Ki'linochchi said.
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Eezham Tamils in Canada evolve common position on Tamil activism

[TamilNet, Friday, 18 April 2014, 21:31 GMT]
In a move interpreted as a sharp response to Sri Lanka's war on Tamil diaspora, more than 80 Tamil community organizations from across Canada have come together in an initiative to create a consensus outlining their collective position and guiding principles on Tamil struggle-centric engagement. The Tamil Assembly rejected the proscription of 16 Tamil diaspora organizations along with 424 individuals by the Government of Sri Lanka and said: The ongoing genocide of the Tamil nation is aided and abetted by institutions, governments, and bodies outside the purview of the Sri Lankan state structure, making them complicit in the ongoing genocide. These external actors have a responsibility to halt the ongoing genocide of the Tamil nation and guarantee the collective rights of the Tamils, the document said.
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SL military assassinated 3 ex-LTTE members after deception, entrapment

[TamilNet, Thursday, 17 April 2014, 13:26 GMT]
After getting the family members of the three slain ex-LTTE members in Nedungkea'ni to identify the victims, the Sri Lankan authorities have refused to hand over their dead bodies to the families to conduct a decent funeral. The family members who were allowed to identify the said the victims were shot in close range. Meanwhile, reliable sources in Vanni and Jaffna told TamilNet that they were not slain in a clash as the SL military has claimed, but caught in advance. It is believed that a Tamil person, who was working as the SL military intelligence officer at Kokkaavil camp in Vanni, was also slain in the sting operation. His identity is yet to be confirmed. The operation has been headed by an under cover operative now working for Sri Lankan military intelligence. He is known as Kalaiyan, an informed source told TamilNet Thursday.
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Terror squad assaults Tamil journalist in Vadamaraadchi, Jaffna

[TamilNet, Monday, 14 April 2014, 23:43 GMT]
A squad, believed to be operated by the Sri Lankan military intelligence on Monday evening chased and attacked 29-year-old Sivagnanam Selvatheepan, a leading journalist in Vadamaraadchi. When the journalist attempted to escape from the squad, the attackers chased him on foot and assaulted him causing severe internal injuries to his head. The squad also broke one of his legs. The brutal assault comes just one week after the so-called Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of occupying Colombo had obtained his motorbike registration number, identity card number and cell phone details through Nelliyadi police in Jaffna.
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Colombo stages smokescreen operations to divert global focus on crimes: TNA councillor

[TamilNet, Friday, 11 April 2014, 18:26 GMT]
The so-called revival or regrouping of the LTTE and the arrests made during the sessions in Geneva, targeting of rights activists, and now claiming the episode over by killing three alleged ex LTTE members under suspicious circumstances, looks like a political smokescreen operation carefully managed by the Sri Lankan military intelligence, blames TNA councillor and former parliamentarian M.K. Shivajilingam. The reaction comes after the Sri Lankan military claimed that it had slain three LTTE members who were re-organising the movement. The killings seem to have taken place in Nedungkea’ni in Mulaiththeevu district. But, the dead bodies were taken to Sinhala colony Padaviya division in Anuradhapura district. No independent journalists have been allowed to witness the episode or those slain at the claimed site where the cordon and search operation had taken place, he said.
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Colombo’s Gazette confirms colonial rule over Tamils

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 April 2014, 22:54 GMT]
Apart from its atrocious content, the Tamil version of genocidal Sri Lanka’s extraordinary Gazette declaration, dated 21 March and signed by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa itself is an evidence for the State’s non-rightful rule over Eezham Tamils and their territory in the island. If a State doesn’t know how to properly spell the names of places it claims as ‘integral’ parts of its country, that only shows an alien rule and questions the very right of the State to rule over that territory, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island, citing the way many of the Tamil villages and places in the island are notified in the Gazette that individually lists out around 400 Tamils in the diaspora as ‘threats’ to its genocidal and colonial rule.
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Namal Rajapaksa’s Mullaiththeevu operative detained on human trafficking allegation

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 April 2014, 21:47 GMT]
A key operative of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s ruling UPFA and two of his close associates have been arrested in Mullaiththeevu by the SL police on 05 April following reports from Australia that they were operating a human trafficking agency. The UPFA operative, who is a close confidante of Namal Rajapaksa, was identified as 45-year-old Arul Jenyberd, who lost in the NPC elections on UPFA ticket. In the meantime, the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) has arrested a group of fishermen on the following day at Polika’ndi in Point Pedro on allegations that they had bought a boat from money obtained from overseas, in an attempt to project them as having ‘LTTE’ connections. More than 50 people have been arrested within the last 5 weeks on various allegations by the TID.
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India’s ‘cricket’ with Sri Lanka contrasts its response to apartheid

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 08 April 2014, 12:13 GMT]
If international sports is part of statecraft or tradecraft of the Establishments, India playing cricket with genocidal Sri Lanka, after partnering the genocide, having ‘military to military’ relationship and backing the genocidal State in every international forum, is in sharp contrast to how Non-Aligned India of 1960s and 70s responded to Apartheid South Africa by refusing to play cricket with it, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island. India losing the game is not merely ‘sports’. The very participation of India itself marks the moral lose of a country of one billion peoples and their media that have the legacy of fighting British imperialism, but now unable to check their own Establishment, the activists said.
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India continues to backstab Eelam Tamils: NPC Councillor Sivajilingam

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 April 2014, 22:45 GMT]
New Delhi continues to backstab Eezham Tamils, ignoring the reality that it is the nation of Eezham Tamils that would be the only friendly force India could count on if Indian interests were to be geopolitically compromised in the future, said M.K. Sivajilingam Councillor of the Northern Provincial Council and Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in Jaffna after returning from taking part in the meetings and press events held in Geneva. There is no use in the powerless 13th Amendment. The international community should create a UN-backed interim management to secure the nation of Eezham Tamils from the protracted genocide in the island he said. Any permanent solution should recognise the sovereignty of Eezham Tamils and their absolute right to self-determination, he said.
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Peace Studies philosopher advises Tamils to tell the story with a vision

[TamilNet, Sunday, 06 April 2014, 11:37 GMT]
“Let us say you have one million Tamils in the Tamil diaspora. They used to collect money for the LTTE. They collected a lot of money. Let me put it in very plain simple terms: these one million work on the media of the world and make the story better known,” said 84-year old Peace Studies Professor Johan Galtung, in an interview to TamilNet-Palaka'ni last month. Acknowledging that the Eezham Tamils face genocide and structural genocide, identifying the Mahavamsa mentality in the Sinhala-Buddhists as the impediment for solutions, and at the same time blaming the armed struggle of the LTTE as a mistake, Galtung stood by “federation with a high level of autonomy,” which he had advocated and failed during his 34 visits to the island at the time of the peace talks.
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Genocidal Sri Lanka declares war on Tamil Diaspora

[TamilNet, Friday, 04 April 2014, 16:09 GMT]
Issuing an extra-ordinary gazette notification and citing a UN Security Council Resolution (1373), the genocical State of Sri Lanka on Friday officially proscribed 16 Tamil groups and 424 Eezham Tamil individuals, most of them foreign citizens settled in the Western countries. The 16 organisations range from the LTTE to democratically elected diaspora bodies. Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris has justified the ‘proscriptions’ by signing the United Nations Security Council Resolution of 2001, especially after the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka was passed in Geneva last week. Indian writers allegedly working for the Indian Intelligence have also been attacking the diaspora in the recent days raising suspicions whether the current move of Colombo is in partnership with New Delhi, Tamil political observers in the diaspora said.
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Colombo’s Defence bares its colonial attitude towards Eezham Tamils

[TamilNet, Friday, 04 April 2014, 07:02 GMT]
Genocidal Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) on Monday cited British government appointing General Peter Cosgrove as the Governor General of Australia, and has questioned why there is a big qualm about Colombo having a Military Governor in the North. By bringing in the parallel, the Colombo Establishment concedes that it is occupying and ruling the Tamil land as a colony with an attitude that has been inherited by the Sinhala State from the European colonialism of the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island.
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Kithul-gaha-araawa

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 April 2014, 06:08 GMT]
The newly prepared and detached cultivation field in the Kithul palm locality
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UN wants cooperation despite Colombo’s rejection of Geneva resolution: ICP

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 April 2014, 19:55 GMT]
Having Sri Lanka’s genocidal military commander Major General Shavendra Silva as an adviser to UN Peacekeeping and giving more significance to Syria and North Korea than to the crimes Sri Lanka, the United Nations Secretary General and officials under him are encouraging Sri Lanka to work with the UN Human Rights Council’s mechanisms in Geneva despite Colombo categorically stating that it will not cooperate with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) after the resolution passed last week in Geneva. Mr Ban was recalling the commitments made to him on accountability by the SL President Mahinda Rajapaksa in their “Joint Statement of 2009” through a “pre-prepared answer” to ICP’s question on Tuesday. In the meantime, Colombo has extended an invitation to Mr Ban Ki-moon in May 2014 to visit the island, the ICP further reported.
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SL military ‘punishes’ families opposing forced conscription of Tamil women

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 April 2014, 23:48 GMT]
More than 30 soldiers and intelligence personnel of the occupying Sri Lankan military, who came in 5 vehicles, rounded up the village of Ka'nukkea'ni in Tha'n'neer-oottu in Mu'l'liyava'lai of Mullaiththeevu district on Monday and arrested 28-year-old brother of a woman as the woman had refused to join the SL military. A Sri Lankan military commander was exerting pressure on the two survivors of a family, which lost both the parents and a sister in the genocidal onslaught on Vanni in 2009, to enlist the remaining girl. The ‘arrests’ come as the girl declined to enlist herself and her brother too opposed the SL military, news sources in Mullaiththeevu told TamilNet.
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New Delhi imperialism’s show of ‘culture’ in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 March 2014, 05:15 GMT]
The full moon day that falls in the traditional solar month of March–April is a major festival day for Saivaite Eezham Tamils as well as Tamils in Tamil Nadu. Known as Pangkuni Uththaram, it marks the grand finale of the annual festival, including the car festival, of all the Siva temples. The folk of Tamil Nadu and the Up-Country Tamils of Tamil Nadu origin in the island celebrate it as Kaaman festival, marking Siva reducing Kaaman (cupid) into ashes. It is a major festival for the Up-Country Tamils. But this year, the New Delhi Establishment’s Consulate General in Jaffna, brought in a ‘cultural’ concept altogether new to Tamils in the island, by introducing Holi and smearing colours on that day.
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OHCHR investigation sabotaged by several quarters

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 March 2014, 10:16 GMT]
“An intrusive investigation has so far not yielded genuine reconciliation, and a life of dignity and self-respect for people anywhere. Sri Lanka can’t be any different,” said The Hindu in an editorial on Saturday, shedding crocodile tears for the dignity and self respect of Eezham Tamils and joining the forces that are determined to sabotage even a weak international investigation at the outset. The freedom of the investigation on the ground has already been ditched by the US withdrawing the demilitarisation part of the resolution, and the international weight as well as the result yielding capacity of the investigation has considerably been wrecked by New Delhi abstaining from the voting and openly declaring against the investigation, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island.
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