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Mannaar - Tamil misery continues
Date: Monday 30th of August 2010 Photo

Broken, torn buildings tower over the tiny UNHCR tents on the gardens and court yards. Hanging clothes, pots and pans and carry bags scattered around the land show signs of civilian life. Thirty years of war has taken a lot from the lives of the Mannar farmers and they still await a sense of security

Burnt body of male recovered in Mannaar
Date: Friday 27th of August 2010 Photo

Mannaar police recovered the burnt body of a male from the coast of Kaadduppa'l'li along Moor Road in Mannaar Friday informed by residents of the area. The victim, estimated to be around 45 years old, had been beaten to death and set fire to later, police sources said.

School girl killed in accident in Batticaloa
Date: Friday 27th of August 2010 Photo

A young school girl was killed on the spot when a truck ran over her at new bridge road in Batticaloa Friday around 7:30 a.m. police said. An eyewitness told TamilNet that the driver was alleged to have switched seat with a passenger soon after the accident since he did not have a valid driving license.

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2 Eastern Province youths arrested in Jaffna
02 September, 2010 

Sri Lanka Criminal Investigation Department (CID) special police from Colombo arrested two youths from Eastern Province Thursday in Nalloor in Jaffna claiming they were robbers, Jaffna police sources said. Jaffna magistrate directed the police to place the youths in remand in Jaffna Prison for two weeks when they were produced in the court by Jaffna police.

Rajapaksa blames opposition for 'aiding' LTTE
02 September, 2010 

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has alleged that "some groups who said they did not have money to fight the war, and signed ceasefire agreements with the LTTE, had money to give the LTTE,” the Sri Lankan state-run paper Dinamina quoted Mr. Rajapaksa as saying in its front page lead story on Thursday.

SLA deserters rob jewelry posing as Interpol officers
02 September, 2010 

Kosawathe police in Chilaw district arrested Wednesday six deserters of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) including an officer who had robbed one million rupees worth jewelry from a woman who had recently returned from Middle East, posing as Interpol officers, the police said.

Rememberance of Massacre:

Vanthaa'rumoolai-90 massacre - SL Army

Date: 05th of September 1990

Kaithadi Krishanthi Massacre - SL Army

Date: 07th of September 1996

Vanthaa'rumoolai Massacre - SL Army

Date: 07th of September 2007

Pullumalai massacre - Sinhalese Mobs

Date: 08th of September 1992

Saththurukko'ndaan massacre - SL Army

Date: 09th of September 1990

Natpiddimunai massacre - Special Task Force

Date: 10th of September 1990

Kaagnchiraankudaa Massacre - STF

Date: 10th of September 2002

Manthuvil bombing - SL Air Force

Date: 15th of September 1999

Point Pedro – Thikkam massacre - SL Army

Date: 16th of September 1984

Nilaave'li Massacre - Sri Lanka Army

Date: 16th of September 1985

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Slave Punishment For A Sri Lankan Maid

Forty Nine year-old Lahanda Purage Ariyawathie hails from a sleepy village called Batuwita in Kamburupitiya; a place where there is an unbelievable number of push cycles and winding roads on which cars seldom pass by. Here in Kamburupitiya, worn out women with worry lining their faces wander around with empty bags.

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'Anti-Tamil ideology, international meddling make reconciliation impossible'

Politicising religious reformation

Treading Water in Sri Lanka

The Migrant Mind-Set Of Sri Lankans

Former Battle Zone In Search of A Business Boom

Mervyn under pressure, extorts letter

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Samphoor displaced-where will they go from here?

A tall, forbidding fence stands between Kumaraswamy Nageswaran and the three acres of fertile land he had once cultivated in the hope of spending his retirement farming. The government now wants to build a power station in Samphoor and his cultivation is gone -- but Nageswaran holds on to the dwindling hope that he can return home.

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Opinion:
Counterinsurgency, development conquistadors and economic integrators

Many Eezham Tamils wonder at some recent political developments but they waste their energy in concentrating on individuals. The individuals, whether KP, section of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, others who come out one by one with statements and ‘development’ agenda in support of the KP-line of politics, and the members of the ‘task’ group that executed the sequence are unimportant. Why they are mobilised so and what makes them to take that line of polity are more important.

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Interview:
Ahilan wins prestigious Human Rights award

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) presented Americal Civil Liberties Uniion (ACLU) Attorney Ahilan Arulanantham with the 2010 Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Award, a media release from AILA said. AILA mentioned Ahilan's "innovative litigation and its enormous benefits for countless vulnerable non-citizens for their rights and dignity," in presenting the award. Arulanantham, whose parents are from Jaffna, is a former law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a graduate of Yale Law School, and a graduate of Oxford University, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar.

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Press Release:
Anglican Bishop: 18th Amendment will lead to destructive erosion of democracy

The 18th Amendment, proposed by the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, if passed by the SL Parliament, will lead to destructive erosion of already fragile democratic culture said Rt. Revd Duleep de Chickera, the Anglican Bishop of Colombo in a statement issued Thursday.

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Analysis:
Fonseka’s Perils of Playing Politics and its Implications

For General Sarath Fonseka who revamped a demoralised Sri Lanka army and led it to final victory in the nearly three-decade long campaign against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009, its aftermath had not been peaceful. His woes appear to be mounting after an army court martial found him guilty of dabbling in politics while in uniform and recommended his cashiering.

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Guest column: What's happened to Canada's compassion?

If the 492 Tamil asylum-seekers who recently arrived by boat on B.C.'s shores are "queue-jumpers," then I guess my parents were too. They came as Vietnam War draft dodgers from the U.S. in 1967. Like a couple of the Tamil women who just arrived, my mom was pregnant with me. My parents did not seek advance permission from Ottawa to immigrate. They did not fill out any paperwork before arriving. And they could no more seek permission to leave from their home government than these Tamils could, for what they were doing, as far as the U.S. was concerned, was illegal and would result in my father's arrest.

 
Flash back:

2009

Only 93 elders allowed to leave Vavuniyaa camp

03rd of Sep 2009

U.N. investigator wants Sri Lanka executions probe

03rd of Sep 2009

Statement by Minister Cannon on Sri Lanka’s Sentencing of Journalist

03rd of Sep 2009

Displaced people are dying from diarrhea and cholera diseases - JVP

03rd of Sep 2009

Scourge of the white van still rages -A Muslim youth abducted by an armed group who came in a white Van

03rd of Sep 2009 Photo

SL reports of 10000 IDPs missing – confirm UN reports of 13000 IDP disappearances ?

03rd of Sep 2009

Media Minister orders ITN and Rupavahini Chairmen to take custody of video tapes amidst Channel 4 controversy

03rd of Sep 2009

Rajapaksa rejects Western models of development

03rd of Sep 2009

FR petition against SSP, others in student abduction incident

03rd of Sep 2009 Photo

Vanni war front videos under Media Minister's custody

03rd of Sep 2009

7 govt. officers with their families released from Pulmoaddai camp

03rd of Sep 2009

Tea workers protest in Sri Lanka

03rd of Sep 2009

Sinniah suspect in Piliyandala bus bomb explosion dies in prison.

03rd of Sep 2009

2008

Tamil youth shot dead in Nilaave'li

03rd of Sep 2008

Body washed ashore on Jaffna, Ma'nkumpaan beach

03rd of Sep 2008

60-year-old woman shot dead in Ampaa'rai

03rd of Sep 2008

SLA artillery fire injures fisherman in Vadamaraadchi

03rd of Sep 2008

Tamil businessman missing in Vavuniyaa

03rd of Sep 2008

Beheaded male body in woman's dress found in Thenmaraadchi

03rd of Sep 2008

SLA shells A9 road in heart of Kilinochchi

03rd of Sep 2008 Photo

2007

Tamil woman abducted in Trincomalee

03rd of Sep 2007

Sri Lanka army blocks Muslim farmers from cultivating their lands

03rd of Sep 2007

Iqbal Athas rejects media minister’s claim

03rd of Sep 2007

Nine civilians including two children and five women were killed by the Sri Lankan military in Mannar

03rd of Sep 2007

Controversial population census again in Jaffna

03rd of Sep 2007

2006

Who is behind the scene of the kidnapped of the Rev. Father of Allaipitty

03rd of Sep 2006

Another Trishaw driver killed in Trincomalee

03rd of Sep 2006

Does the world know what is happening to Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Nowadays US develops close relations with India to preclude India from 'bandwagoning' with either China or Russia or Both or with France to undercut US strategic interest in Asia. No Solution for Tamils in Sri Lanka Upto, US and anti-US alliance's amendment to the existing strategic policies of Sri Lanka are occured.until Sri Lanka's preplanned executions and Violations on Minority Tamils will be continued....

Confidential UN documents acquired by The Times record nearly 7,000 civilian deaths in the "no-fire" zone up to the end of April 2009. At least 20,000 Tamil people were killed on the Mullaitththeevu by Sri Lanka Army atrocities in "Safety zone". Aerial photographs, official documents, witness accounts and expert testimony collected by medias, “present clear evidence of an atrocity".

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A young school girl was killed on the spot when a truck ran over her at new bridge road in Batticaloa Friday around 7:30 a.m. police said. An eyewitness told TamilNet that the driver was alleged to have switched seat with a passenger soon after the accident since he did not have a valid driving license. The victim was identified as 16-year-old Satkunam Kokila 16, a student of Vincent Girls School in Batticaloa.

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VICTIMS DIRECT REPORTS:

Heartrending tale of Jaffna family, Nowhere to go...

For view: 11th of July 2010

If you tour Jaffna and happen to visit the Jaffna railway station, you will not miss a family of three residing in one of the abandoned office rooms of the station. Selvaratnam Jayalingam (48) his wife Jayarubi and their girl child Dharshika (4) have been living there for the last four months surviving on the food and money given by visitors of the South who are going in large numbers to Jaffna these days and also soldiers who are in the vicinity.

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'I just wanted … freedom'

For view: 10th of July 2010

RAJ, a Sri Lankan Tamil granted asylum in Australia last November, wants to tell his story. But, like several other Tamil refugees who spoke to the Herald, he says having his full name or a photograph of his face published would pose grave risks for his family in Sri Lanka. Raj, 33, says he is worried they could be tortured or kidnapped by government soldiers or anti-Tamil paramilitary groups as retribution for him speaking out.

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East feels left behind as agencies move north

For view: 02nd of July 2010

Communities in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province - a region of 1.5 million people still recovering from civil-war violence - fear they have been forgotten as humanitarian agencies shift recovery efforts to the north. "There are no jobs here. I have to support my family with what I earn here," said Ravidranathan Valarmadhu, 18, from Pillumallai Village of Batticaloa District.

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A Former Woman Combatant Struggles to Pick Up the Pieces

For view: 30th of June 2010

As a young woman, Ranjani (not her real name), a 32-year-old Tamil from Sri Lanka’s eastern Batticaloa district, only had bright hopes for tomorrow. Then her dreams were dashed in an instant. In 1990 a group of secessionist Tamil fighters came knocking on their door, looking for additional warm bodies to beef up their forces. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tigers, as the combatants were also known, was then fighting a bloody protracted war against the government for a separate state for the minority Tamils.

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NorthEast situation Reports:
The state of denial and the descent to silliness

For several decades now the Sri Lankan people have been exposed to extraordinary acts of separation, large scale forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, illegal arrest and detention. This and large scale displacement of people from their homes by way of internal displacement or by leaving the country altogether and the disappearance of even elementary forms of protection available to people within the legal and social sphere are among the many issues that have caused massive forms of trauma in the population as a whole.

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