Tamil activists' shock on return to Jaffna (BBC)
"People whom I spoke to are extremely happy that the LTTE is defeated," Nirmala Rajasingham ................
EPRLF-P Gen. Sec. Sritharan: We are not thinking of a separate state
Interview by Ranjit J. Perera and Anuradha K. Herath
The end of Sri Lanka’s long-running conflict in May this year has focused attention on the nearly 300,000 internally displaced persons and their rights. But for some Tamil politicians, it has marked the dawn of a new era of greater democratic space ...........
Post-war, India helps Sri Lanka rebuild Tamil areas
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) From vocational training to mine clearing, India is providing sweeping help to Sri Lanka to rebuild vast areas after the end of a quarter-century-long Tamil separatist campaign ..........
IDPs: India pressurizes Govt.
Narayanan sends strong letter; High Commissioner holds talks with President ............
Hindu College in Jaffna Goes for English Medium with Best Results
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has paid special attention to upgrade quality of education of the Northern Province under the Northern Spring (Uthuru Wasanthaya) program, says Northern Province Governor Major General (retired) G A Chandrasiri ........
“Pottu Amman” and the Intelligence Division of the LTTE
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
Shanmuganathan Sivashankar alias Pottu Ammaan a.k.a. Pottu, the intelligence division chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was judicially confirmed dead last week when Colombo High Court Judge Kumudini Wickremasinghe allowed an amendment to the indictment filed in the trial regarding the murder of former Foreign affairs minister Lakshman Kadirgamar.............
TNA changes policy, plays politics of peace with President
The coffee was warm, the hoppers fresh. At the end of three hours, very few picked up what was on offer. Seven members of Parliament of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) had walked into Temple Trees on September 7 with sheaves of papers in their hands and thoughts of uneasy reconciliations. The TNA’s embryonic past with the LTTE and its political future with the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration were playing on their minds..........
MDMA to seek replies from ‘KP’ in Rajiv Gandhi case
The Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (MDMA), which is investigating the conspiracy angle in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, is preparing a questionnaire for LTTE financier Selvarasa Pathmanathan , currently in Sri Lanka’s custody. .............
Focus on development insists Liam Fox in Jaffna
The Shadow Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom Dr. Liam Fox, the first key foreign political figure to visit Jaffna since the collapse of LTTE terrorism, met the representatives of the People’s Council for Peace and Goodwill in Jaffna and insisted on the need for focusing more on developing the region economically ..............
India to seek LTTE leader's extradition
India has decided to place an extradition request for LTTE leader Kumaran Padmanadan, alias KP, nabbed by Sri Lanka earlier this month............
Sri Lanka to resettle refugees with Indian support: Jayasinghe
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) Sri Lanka will work for stronger ties with India and ensure the quick rehabilitation of Tamils displaced in the military conflict, Colombo’s high commissioner Romesh Jayasinghe said after he was named the new foreign secretary ............
‘We can fulfill our potential’ – Dayan Jayathillake
There was a major effort by some Western European states to secure a UN mandate from the Human Rights Council, for a War Crimes inquiry. These elements first tried to get a UN mandate under the guise of a humanitarian ceasefire and protection of civilians, to abort our final operations against the LTTE,” Dr. Dayan Jayathillake said in an exclusive interview with Sri Lanka Guardian in Colombo recently................
New book reveals India’s ‘hidden hand’ in Sri Lanka war
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) India played a critical, albeit covert, role in the success of Sri Lanka’s war against the Tamil Tigers, with the Indian Navy providing vital intelligence in locating and destroying at least a dozen LTTE rogue vessels laden with arms, says the first such detailed account of the operation ............
Rudrakumaran’s role to promote LTTE contravenes US ‘Material Support’ laws
The New York immigration lawyer Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, a Sri Lanka born, United States citizen, for more than a decade has been propagating the agenda of Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE or Tamil Tigers) a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the U.S. under several federal laws ratified by the Congress. .............
Sri Lanka: Detention of Tamil civilians to continue indefinitely
Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse reiterated on Monday that up to 300,000 Tamil civilians who fled the fighting in the final days of the country’s protracted civil war will remain incarcerated indefinitely. Their detention in squalid camps near Vavuniya and Jaffna as de facto prisoners of war is a flagrant abuse of democratic rights ............
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Amnesty: Satellite images show Sri Lanka graves
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A series of satellite images taken over Sri Lanka's former war zone showed the existence of large grave sites and evidence of possible mortar positions near areas that had been packed with trapped civilians, a human rights group said Thursday...............
Lanka gets 'valuable information' from new LTTE chief
Colombo: In an unusual move, Sri Lanka's powerful Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa himself grilled detained new LTTE chief Kumaran Pathmanathan about the international connections of the Tamil Tigers and is said to have extracted some "valuable information".............
LTTE - Caste is playing big roll to select the Transactional Government of Tamil Eelam Committee Members
By - Kanapathi Kandasamy:
It is the time for a wake up call to all Eastern part of Tamil speaking people to know how we are systematically control and sideline by Jaffna and Vannie Tamil LTTE heads in overseas when they call for Transnational Government Tamil Eelam............
Arrested Tamils do not have legal representations
"LTTE’s Balakumar, Pulavar Puthuvai, Lawrence Christy and fates of many others are still not known as the government is maintaining a tight lip silence about their fate. According to news filtering through Colombo sources, these men have been assassinated by the government death squads." ............
Northern LG elections: An eye-opener
"The solution may be the 13th Amendment, 13A+, 13A -, or ‘home-grown’. Whatever it may be, the need of the hour is to see that some package is on the ground here and now. It may not be the perfect answer but it will be positive evidence of the sincerity of the will to seek a solution.".............
KP apprehension: Blow to LTTE revival?
"There is no doubt that the apprehension of KP is likely to be a blow to revival of the LTTE for he had the right number of contacts and the financial clout to revive the organization in the diaspora community."................
Inside story of Operation KP
“The way I operated 25 years under cover, I never thought that I will be caught. But I was. During the final stages of the battle in the north of Sri Lanka, Prabhakaran wanted me to approach the international community on behalf of the LTTE leadership to force the Sri Lankan government to agree to a ceasefire .........
Swiss Tamils biggest donors for LTTE: KP
Sri Lankan Tamil refugees and expatriates in Switzerland contributed the most to the LTTE’s war chest, the captured LTTE leader, Selvarasa Patmanathan alias KP, reportedly told his interrogators in Colombo, the weekly Nation reported in its latest issue ............
Reconciliate or risk terrorism
WASHINGTON - THE top US diplomat for South Asia says Sri Lanka's failure to share power with minority Tamils following the end of a bloody 25-year civil war in May could lead to renewed violence ...........
The Jaffna blunder
Right now the total number of voters in the Jaffna municipality is not more than 60,000.
That’s why it was reported that only 56,543 ballot cards were delivered this time despite 94,807 being issued.
However, notwithstanding this fact the Elections Department continues to display a streak of stubbornness and sticks to the pre-war figure of 100,417 while almost 40 per cent of these voters have either settled down abroad or left Jaffna for Colombo or elsewhere in the country. Repeated requests by several political parties and independent election analysts to have this discrepancy rectified appeared to have fallen on deaf ears .........
King of Eelam, claiming asylum in Canada – A Report from Canada
A confident report says that Mr. Eelaventhan has sought asylum at an Canadian post, after entering via United States and awaiting for a date from Canadian authorities to enter Canada............
Sri Lanka begins resettling war displaced
VAVUNIYA, Sri Lanka (AFP) – Sri Lanka on Wednesday allowed 1,100 people displaced during the recently-ended ethnic conflict with the Tamil Tigers to return home, in the first phrase of an ambitious relocation plan ..........
K.P. to change the stripes of ‘Tigers’
K.P. who is appointed as the Leader of the Tamil Tiger Organization, today, sees bringing together the International interest to coincide with the Tamil Tiger interest as his primary task before him. K.P. is of the view that, though Prabhakaran nursed great hopes of International intervention during the period of the war, those did not realize because the International interests and the Tamil Tiger interests were not brought on a par ..............
Jaffna comes alive
Jaffna, which was a sleepy town under the siege of terrorism for the past three decades, is now repositioning itself to be one of the busiest and most developed cities outside Colombo.
Jaffna was a self-sufficient and a well-developed city before terrorism took away its glory and also the self-respect of the people ...............
80 more Indians fly to Sri Lanka to clear landmines
Over 80 former Indian soldiers have left for Sri Lanka following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers to join Indians already there ..........
Gota warns of efforts to free hard core Tigers from IDP camps
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that though the LTTE had been military crushed once and for all, attempts were being made to rescue hardcore terrorists taking refuge among civilians accommodated in welfare centres in the Vavuniya region ...........
A Tamil Tragedy
Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam was slated to be a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in the fall of 1999. A renowned constitutional lawyer from Sri Lanka, Neelan was better known to me as a leading Tamil human rights activist who had thrown his hat into the political ring .............
Life during peacetime-NP
With Sri Lanka's war over, there is no excuse for anti-Tamil policies............
Fully implement the 13th amendment forthwith – Toronto based Tamils
Toronto, , (Asiantribune) The Canadian Tamils for Peace and Democracy has insisted Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa to implement the 13th amendment in full and find an amicable solution to the minority issues within the framework of a united Sri Lanka. ............
India willing to give more money for resettling Sri Lankan Tamils
New Delhi (IANS): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is willing to give more funds, besides the Rs 500 crore which India has already pledged, for resettlement of around 3,00,000 civilians displaced by the conflict in Sri Lanka, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said on Thursday............
Decision to give up armed struggle taken by Prabakaran: KP
In a statement posted on his website KP, supposedly operating out of South-East Asia and wanted by the Interpol, dealt at length on his earlier statement about the LTTE’s decision to achieve the goal of Tamil Eelam ...........
Remembering Neelan: Tenth death anniversary
DBS Jeyaraj
Ten years ago on this day (July 29th 1999)that Dr. Neelakandan Tiruchelvam known generally as Neelan was brutally assassinated by a suicide killer of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) near his office on Kynsey terrace. ........
Tamil aspirations and 13th Amendment-2
The 13th Amendment continues to be the focus of public debate despite the announcement by Minister Tissa Vitharana, the chairman of the All Party Representative Committee (APRC) that its proposals for a durable political solution will be submitted to President Mahinda Rajapaksa this week........
Face -to-face with a human bomb-NP
A Sri Lankan journalist tries to find out why a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber would want to blow himself up........
Canada a key source of Tamil Tiger funding
Stewart Bell, National Post
Canada was one of the top sources of funding for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers rebels, providing up to $12-million a year, says a secret intelligence report obtained by the National Post .......
Dayan Jayathilleka: A victim of extremism
Sinhala extremism is not showing any signs of abating and it is sidelining all hopes for a lasting peace that is badly needed for Sri Lanka to be seen as a responsible nation ..........
Sri Lanka meeting with global investors - source
HONG KONG, July 21 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is meeting global investors in New York, Boston and London this week to appraise them about the situation in the country after the end of its 25-year civil war, a source close to the development said............
Douglas Devananda likely to join SLFP
EPDP leader Douglas Devananda, who is a minister in the UPFA government, is likely to join the SLFP .........
People above 60 released from camps: Rajapaksa
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said his government has released all people above 60 from the temporary camps for the war-displaced while 40,000 children are being given education. Nearly 15,000 people above 60 had reported in the camps ............
Lessons from Sri Lanka-WT
Defeating the enemy on the battlefield
Sri Lanka recently emerged victorious from one of the world's longest-running conflicts, once termed an "unwinnable" war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers .............
Justifying a Costly War in Sri Lanka
History will decide whether Mr. Rajapaksa will be remembered as a nationalist avenger or a unifying peacemaker ...... ....
Sri Lankan diplomat who advocated power sharing is sacked
One of Sri Lanka's most outspoken diplomats who consistently argued for devolution of power to the country's minorities has been sacked by Colombo.
In one of the most significant developments since the Tamil Tigers were decimated in May, Dayan Jayatilleka, Sri Lanka's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, has been told to go home by Aug 20.............
July 15 2009
Sri Lanka cancels $200 mln China, Pakistan weapons buy
COLOMBO, July 15 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has cancelled a $200 million purchase of ammunition from Pakistan and China after the end of its war with the Tamil Tigers, the island nation's new top military commander said on Wednesday ........
JVP delegation in China
Ten members of the JVP including Parliamentarians Vijithe Herath and Premasiri Manage left to China yesterday (14th) on a ten day study tour. ..........
Sri Lanka receives int'l support for conflict displaced
COLOMBO, July 14 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan government said on Tuesday that it has received international commitments for about 60 percent of the money needed to resettle the Tamil civilians displaced by the final battles between the government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. .......
Special Report
UK Parliament paper reveals efforts at UN mandate for SL
‘war crimes’ probe
A United Kingdom Research Paper dated June 5,2009 revealed an account of developments conflict between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE when a ceasefire was agreed and hopes raised and rapidly dashed since 2002 when there might have been a peaceful resolution to the conflict ............
Tamil Diaspora to discuss ways to assist Govt. help IDPs
by Franklin R.Satyapalan
The Tamil Diaspora living in Europe are scheduled to convene a meeting in Germany on July 18and 19, to discuss the main issues of how they could contribute to the Sri Lankan Government’s efforts to commence the healing process to resettle the IDPs and rehabilitate the LTTE cadres who have surrendered, Tamil Diaspora sources said yesterday ............
UK aid helps Sri Lanka recover after decades of fighting
The UK has today committed to help rebuild the lives and livelihoods of the 284,000 Sri Lankans who were forced to flee their homes during the recent fighting. .......
Post reporter wins award for coverage of Sri Lanka
The National Post's Stewart Bell has won an award from the South Asian Journalists Association for his investigative series on the civil war in Sri Lanka. ..............
July 142009
10,000 expelled Muslims to vote in Jaffna MC
Nearly 10,000 expelled Muslim voters from Jaffna Municipal area living in other districts, such as Puttalam, Anuradhapura and Kalutara are to cast their votes at the forthcoming Jaffna MC .........
US aid for the displaced
The United States Government will provide Rs. 200 million worth ambulances, medical equipment and other items to Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry under an agreement, a Ministry spokesman said..........
The Man Who Tamed the Tamil Tigers
Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war between the government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) came to a dramatic end in May with a decisive military victory and the killing of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tigers' fearsome leader. President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the man who tamed the Tigers ........
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July 12 2009
Highway through nature reserve opposed
The indigenous community in Sri Lanka known as the Veddhas, are opposing a highway that is being built through a nature reserve..........
Advice to NGOs in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: The government of Sri Lanka on Saturday announced that representatives of local and foreign Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), who intend to enter former conflict areas in the north to transport goods and conduct other activities, should obtain prior permission from the Presidential Task Force (PTF )..........
Tamil identity politics did not die on the banks of Nandhikadal lagoon
There have been three civil wars fought against the Sri Lankan state: 1971, 1986-89, 1979-2009. The Sri Lankan state prevailed in all three. These three wars settled three basic questions. The first uprising was about the character of the State, society and the economy and it was settled in favor of the market economy and multiparty democracy. ..........
Sri Lanka's former rebels undergo retraining
WELIKANDA, Sri Lanka (AFP) – They begin each day saluting the national flag of the country they had vowed to defeat or die trying.............
Indian radar spotted every raiding LTTE aircraft
COLOMBO: The INDRA Mark II radars gifted by India to Sri Lanka, had spotted every LTTE aircraft that had raided civil and military targets in South Sri Lanka during the just concluded Eelam War IV..........
Sri Lankan doctors retract death claims-Video
Plans afoot to reduce CoL in Jaffna
Jaffna’s famous Windsor cinema hall will be turned into a Lak Sathosa outlet within two weeks to bring down the prevailing high prices of essential goods in Jaffna, Trade, Commerce and Cooperatives Minister Bandula Gunawardena told a meeting in Jaffna yesterday. ...........
July 09 2009 ................................................................................................
Full Implementation of Thirteenth Amendment Is NOT Ultimate Solution To Ethnic Question
The defeat of the LTTE as a military force has not made the ethnic question in Sri Lanka go away. If anything, the need for a political solution has become ever more urgent. .........
How Prabhakaran went down in Nanthi Kadal – the last battleground (Part 01)
The Dunkirk expected by the Tamils turned out to be a Dumb-kirk.
"All this pomp and glory were short-lived. In the last days when the forces were closing in on Prabhakaran none of them was there to hold his hand. He was a lonely man on the run, hunted by the Sri Lankan forces. "................
Last days of Prabhakaran – a humiliated Tiger on the run (Part II)
The historical fact is that before the Security Forces could get Prabhakaran the Tamil people kicked him out of their lives contemptuously and unceremoniously. The Tamils had no compunction in kicking out the Tamil “thalivar” who had deceived them and misled them into the depths of misery and despair............
July 08 2009
From terror to training
Over 800 former LTTE combatants and 12000 IDPs in Jaffna are to be provided with a new lease of life with training in technical skills ..........
Sri Lanka won't let Ottawa see detained Canadian
Sri Lanka's government has refused Ottawa's request to visit a Canadian citizen who is accused of being a Tamil Tiger combatant and is being detained in a “rehabilitation” camp ..........
Tamils debate: What went wrong?
Tamils, mainly diasporas, tried to find answers to the questions: ‘What went wrong with the armed struggle?’ and ‘Why India played the role it played?’............
Makings of an LTTE suicide bomber - The inside story
I was seated face to face with a Human Suicide Bomber once the dreaded weapon of destruction so often utilised by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to create mayhem in public life, in its failed dream of a Tamil homeland of Eelam.............
July 07 2009
LTTE computer engineer arrested
Police in Colombo have arrested a computer engineer of the LTTE who is said to have spread false propaganda against Sri Lanka via the internet ........
Tamils are being persecuted in Sri Lanka is bunkum”- George Masters Daughter
The daughter of George Pancharatnam, better known as George Master, the LTTE’s one-time media spokesman, visited her father at the CID last week..........
Yal Devi - way to prosperity
Recently at a meeting held at BMICH pertaining to development program for North sending Yal Devi up to Kankesanthurai was discussed.............
Election campaign hotting up in the North
The Tamil Diaspora is keen on the outcome of the first polls to be held in the North after the defeat of the LTTE which is a three pronged campaign involving the UPFA,ITAK and the TULF to wrest control of the two key local bodies in the Northern Province, Jaffna Municipality and the Vavuniya Urban Council, Tamil sources living abroad said ...........
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Get Indians freed from Sri Lankan prisons: Kerala MP
New Delhi, (IANS) India should hold talks with Sri Lanka to bring back around 40 Indian prisoners from there, a Kerala MP demanded in the Lok Sabha Wednesday ...........
Why didn't the Liberals ban the LTTE? -NP
For nearly 10 years, the Chretien and Martin Liberals stalled on recognizing the LTTE as a banned terrorist group. This despite the actions of such other Western governments .........
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Triumphalism fails to recognise the enormous destruction of life and property this conflict engendered- Upali Cooray
Com. Upali Cooray a veteran socialist leader and an ardent advocate of equal rights for all communities in Sri Lanka respond to a Face Book commentary made by an enthusiastic second generation Sri Lankan...........
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July 06 2009
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India offers US$100mn for Sri Lankan Tamils NEW DELHI, July 6, 2009 (AFP) - India on Monday offered 100 million dollars for the tens of thousands of Tamil civilians displaced by conflict in Sri Lanka.............KP - Shylock in 'Merchant of Venice'
Those who command those business ventures under their individual names have reportedly told KP that the LTTE was no longer in existence after the death of Prabhakaran and they would not follow any orders given by KP.............
Wives of 2 LTTE leaders arrested
Police have arrested the wives of two LTTE leaders from a welfare camp in Vavuniya on July 03, said police spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunasekara........
July 04 2009
Implementation of 13th Amendment is a Guarantee of our National Security
by Dayan JayatillekaWhy compromise on the basis of the 13th amendment, ask the extremists on both sides of the ethnic divide. The answer is that anything else would be too risky. Open up the issue again and the Sinhalese may offer less, the Tamils may ask for more and the world may see an even more divided island ................
Visiting the Vavuniya IDP camps: an uplifting experience
N. Ram
Colombo: The last phase of Sri Lanka’s low-intensity military conflict saw the elimination of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as a military force..........
July 03 2009
China pledges to enhance relations with Sri Lanka
BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- China would work with Sri Lanka to promote the comprehensive and cooperative partnership to a new height, said Vice Premier Li Keqiang here on Friday..............
Sri Lanka's disregard for public opinion
India’s Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has expressed displeasure at steps taken by the Sri Lankan government to rehabilitate internally displaced Sri Lankan Tamils. ............
July 02 2009
Lankan president vows to implement political solution
President Mahinda Rajapaksa wouldn’t tolerate any dissent within his government to proposed devolution of power to the provinces on the basis of 13th Amendment to the Constitution, Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said at a press conference at the Information Department. The President had emphasised that he wouldn’t give in to pressure from any party, he said.............
New era in Sri Lankan politics
Tamil National Alliance joins D & RC
This is the first time that the TNA broke the ice to search for a solution for the Tamil people in a manner in which is most welcome ,by participating in today's vital inaugural session of the D & RC chaired by the Head of State ...........
July 01 2009
Tamil govt will be formed in Lanka: MK
Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday expressed hope that a government led by Tamils would be formed soon in Sri Lanka. He also said that the ailing Tamils in the island nation could at present get respite only through the Mahinda Rajapakse government..................
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