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Gotabhaya statement reconfirms emptiness in PC model

TamilNet — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:33:28 +0000

While New Delhi and Washington harp on either the 13th Amendment or holding Northern Provincial Elections (NPC) as solutions to the national question in the island of Sri Lanka, a statement coming from SL presidential sibling Gotabhaya Rajapaksa reconfirms the unworkable nature of the Provincial Council (PC) model in a unitary constitution of the Sinhala state, Tamil political observers in the island said. Mr Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was warning the government of his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa that giving police and land [...]

TNA activist in Ampaa’rai abducted, tortured after meeting against land grab

TamilNet — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:57:24 +0000

An armed squad that came in a white van on Tuesday abducted a 68-year-old activist, Thangathurai Veluppillai, a supporter of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in Ampaa’rai district. The victim was blindfolded while he was at Kalmunai public market and was taken away by the squad that tortured him to obtain the names of the TNA activists in Ampaa’rai district. The abduction comes a few days after the intelligence of the occupying SL military ‘investigated’ him following a meeting against [...]

Genocidal military gets into white garb to observe Vesak in Jaffna

TamilNet — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:56:30 +0000

The commander of the occupying SL military in Jaffna, Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe, together with all of his senior officers and a section of soldiers, observed a ‘Sil’ campaign on Thursday, according to a news release by the SL military in Jaffna. At the event, the SL commander Hathurusinghe and his personnel were all clad in white. In contrast, the occupying SL commander and his officers have been wearing military uniform while entering Hindu temples, an act considered as showing [...]

Sri Lanka army to reduce presence in northern Jaffna

Hindu — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:43:37 +0000

(PTI)The Sri Lanka army has said that it would reduce the number of military camps in the former rebel stronghold of northern Jaffna and hand over lands back to their original owners.

“We will reduce the existing 17 military camps in Jaffna to just three,” Army chief Lt Gen Jagath Jayasuriya said.

The fourteen camps pulled out from different parts of Jaffna would be relocated in the main Palaly cantonment, he said on Tuesday.

Lands on which the camps [...]

Penguin India brings out diary of LTTE Captain

TamilNet — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:39:18 +0000

The English edition of ‘War Journey: Diary of a Tamil Tiger’ authored by the late Capt. Malaravan has been published and released by Penguin Books, India this month. The work originally written in Tamil by Malaravan as a first-person account of the battlefield was first published by the LTTE as ‘Poar Ulaa’ posthumously in 1993. The English translation of the work by Dr N. Malathy, a key member of NESoHR and author of ‘A Fleeting Moment in my Country’, published [...]

Occupying STF seizes 600 acres of farmland in Poththuvil

TamilNet — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:37:29 +0000

Sinhala Buddhist extremists, with the backing of the occupying Sri Lankan government in Colombo, have planned to appropriate about six hundred acres of paddy fields belonging to Muslims and Tamils in Pasarich-cheanai in Poththuvil electorate in Ampaa’rai district, claiming that the said lands belong to Sinhala Buddhists. The paddy fields are located east of Naavilaa’ru at Poovarasadith-thoaddam in Poththuvil DS division. The Tamil-speaking farmers have been doing cultivation in these lands for more than five decades, civil sources said.

A group [...]

Sri Lanka opposition says government threatened to sack strikers

Reuters — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:32:01 +0000

Sri Lanka’s opposition parties and trade unions accused the government on Tuesday of threatening state employees with the sack if they took part in planned street protests against a sharp rise in electricity prices.

Only a few hundred people joined the demonstrations, coordinated by the political opposition and trade unions, despite expectations of much larger crowds on the streets of Colombo.

The government rejected the accusations, saying that the planned walkout had simply failed.

Sri Lanka has more than 1.3 million state sector [...]

Indian housing aid to be used for demographic genocide in East

TamilNet — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:29:01 +0000

A part of the 50,000 housing aid promised by New Delhi for the war-affected people in the North and East is planned to be used for demographic genocide in the East at the village of Kachchat-kodi in the Paddip-pazhai division of Batticaloa district, according to Eastern Provincial council member R. Thurairatnam. The village, which was predominantly Tamil a few years ago and was affected by displacement during the war, now has 2 new Sinhala Buddhist Viharas constructed and a number [...]

Colombo brings 1500 Sinhalese from South to Mannaar

TamilNet — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:26:15 +0000

Stepping up the process of colonisation of the country of Eezham Tamils, the occupying Sri Lanka has brought in 1,500 Sinhalese in buses to Musali DS division in Mannaar District, which is bordering the North Western and North Central provinces. The occupying Colombo government had already planned to settle down five thousand Sinhalese families from the South in Mannaar district in an attempt to change the demography of the district before holding the Northern Provincial Council election, according to a [...]

Congress, BJP object to Malik’s presence at pro-Tamil Eelam meeting

Hindu — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:02:44 +0000

(PTI) The presence of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) president Yasin Malik at a meeting organised by a pro-Tamil Eelam outfit, Naam Tamilar party in Cuddalore, has drawn flak from BJP and Congress in Tamil Nadu.

Central and state governments should probe how Mr. Malik came to Cuddalore and also his links with organisers of the meeting on Saturday, TNCC president B.S. Gnanadesikan said in a statement, welcoming the State government banning the public meeting.

Objecting to Mr. Malik’s presence, BJP [...]