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• Aussie men plead guilty to funding LTTE

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Melbourne, Dec 24(ANI): Three Australian men of Sri Lankan origin have reportedly pleaded guilty to providing money to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The three men, Aruran Vinayagamoorthy and Sivarajah Yathavan from Melbourne, and Arumugam Rajeevan from New South Wales appeared at the Victorian Supreme ...
  2 days ago

• Another Interview

  
  Meena Kandasamy — Authority: 91
  (An edited version of this interview appeared in the Indian Express North American. Sujeet Rajan interviewed me for the weekly . This came out about a month ago, but only today I was suitably lazy to do this job) You write candidly of love and love-making; leaving windows open to the bedroom sometimes. If it is ...
  3 days ago

• Tamils in Canada vote for independent homeland in Sri Lanka

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Montreal, Quebec (Canada), Dec. 21 (ANI): Sri Lankan Tamils living in Canada have overwhelmingly voted “yes” for an independent homeland in a referendum held Saturday.A Christian Science Monitor (CSM) report described the voting process as the latest in a series of such votes held in Sri Lankan Tamil communities ...
  5 days ago

• Food for sex rampant in Sri Lankan camps, says British medic

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 20 (IANS) Tamil women seeking shelter from the civil war in Sri Lanka were sexually abused by guards in refugee camps, a British medic has revealed.Vany Kumar, who herself was locked up behind barbed wire in the Menik Farm refugee camp for four months, told the Observer newspaper that guards gave food for ...
  6 days ago

• Sri Lanka denies surrendering Tamil leaders were slaughtered

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Colombo, Dec 13 (DPA) The Sri Lankan government Sunday denied claims by a former army chief, who has turned presidential poll candidate, that orders had gone out not to spare rebel leaders who were willing to surrender during the final phase of the civil war which ended in May.The final phase of the bloody war, [...]
  1 week ago

• US official discusses northeast development

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Colombo, Dec 11 (IANS) A top US official has discussed with Sri Lankan business leaders ways to rebuild the war-hit northern and eastern parts of the country.The American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) and the US embassy here co-hosted a roundtable discussion on reconstruction and rehabilitation in the northeast and new ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senate Report Urges Warmer Ties With Sri Lanka

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 144
  Despite ongoing concern about the country’s human rights situation, the United States should seek a more positive relationship with strife-torn Sri Lanka, primarily for geopolitical reasons, according to a new report released here Monday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.The 18-page report, which was ...
  2 weeks ago

• We are Tamil and Pushtun Today

  
  The Pakistani Spectator — Authority: 149
  Ich  bin ein Tamil and Pustun. We are all Tamil and Pushtun today, back in 1960s American President J.F Kennedy chanted for the freedom of Berliners. We should show our humanitarian solidarity with the civilian victims of terrorism in Tamil and Pushtun areas. The Top news story, across the global media, is the human ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Tamil group People’s Liberation Army vows to start a fresh war in Lanka

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Colombo, Dec.7 (ANI): A Marxist group of Tamil militants with connections to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and Cuba is reportedly preparing to mount a new insurgency in Sri Lanka six months after the Government declared an end to the 26-year-old war there.According to a report in The Times, The People’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• India keen on revival of political process in Sri Lanka

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) India Friday said it was keen to see the revival of the political process in Sri Lanka to meet the legitimate interests and aspirations of all communities.“Government is keen to see the revival of political process in Sri Lanka, which will meet the legitimate interests and aspirations of all ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sri Lankan editor threatened

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 607
  The editor of Sri Lankan newspaper Udayan based in Jaffna has said he will lodge a complaint with authorities after receiving another threatening letter. The letter said “You may have to face danger. Completely stop publishing anything in the nature of boosting the terrorists or that gives the impression that the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sri Lanka unlocks the camps, but not for long

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 133
  I wish, I really wish, that I had only good news to report today.  Today was the day the Sri Lankan government promised that the displaced civilians who’d been held in military-run camps for the last 6 months would be free to leave the camps “sans any conditions being imposed.”  But it hasn’t worked ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sri Lanka frees Tamils held in war camps

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Thousands of Sri Lankan civilians locked in state-run camps during the islands ethnic conflict have been allowed to leave for the first time.
  3 weeks ago

• Is it Martyrs Day already? Where does the time fly?

  
  Dispatches from the Hogtown Front — Authority: 414
  Anthony Reinhart writes in the Globe and Mail (Toronto-area Tamils observe Martyrs Day, Nov. 28) : Their keynote speakers ejection from Canada amounted to barely a hiccup for Toronto -area Tamils, thousands of whom flocked to an annual "Martyrs Day" commemoration of Tamil Tiger fighters who died in Sri Lankas ...
  4 weeks ago

• Martyrs’ Day goes smoothly for Canadian Tamils despite Seeman’s deportation

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Toronto, Nov. 28 (ANI): Despite the deportation of their keynote speaker, thousands of Tamils gathered at a banquet hall in Toronto to observe the annual “Martyrs’ Day” commemoration of Tamil Tigers who died in Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war.The day-long memorial event in Brampton went smoothly on Thursday ...
  4 weeks ago

• Canada follows UK in not backing Sri Lankan bid to host 2011Commonwealth summit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Port-of-Spain, Nov 28 (ANI): The Canadian Government has followed the United Kingdom in announcing that it will oppose Sri Lanka’s bid to host the next summit of 53 Commonwealth countries in 2011.“Canada will not be supporting Sri Lanka as the next host of the Commonwealth summit,” Prime Minister’s Office ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sinhalese Buddhist temple set on fire for second time in Scarborough

  
  Dispatches from the Hogtown Front — Authority: 414
  Alexander Posadzki and John Rieti write in the Toronto Star (Arson suspected in latest Scarborough Buddhist temple fire, Nov. 27) : A Sinhalese Buddhist temple in Scarborough torched in May was set ablaze again in a fire police are calling arson. The fire started before 2 a.m. Friday on the wooden porch that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tamil Tiger supporter deported after speaking at rally

  
  Dispatches from the Hogtown Front — Authority: 414
  Stewart Bell writes in the National Post (Tamil Tiger supporter deported after speaking at rally, Nov. 26) TORONTO -- Canadian immigration officials arrested an Indian man in Toronto on Thursday after he gave a fiery speech at an event where the flag of the outlawed Tamil Tigers rebels was flown. Sebastian ...
  4 weeks ago

• Brown will not back Lanka’s bid to host Commonwealth summit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov.27 (ANI): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that he will block Sri Lanka’s bid to host the next Commonwealth summit because of the conduct of its military campaign against the Tamil Tigers. According to The Times, Brown plans to tell the current Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sri Lanka: Free All Unlawfully Detained

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 657
  (New York) - As it prepares to allow the 130,000 internally displaced persons detained in camps to decide whether to stay or leave, the Sri Lankan government should ensure that no additional persons are subject to arbitrary detentions, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
  4 weeks ago

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