May 20, Colombo: Sri Lanka's major Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) says the government still has a lot to do after releasing the names of the persons being detained. ...
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May 19, Colombo: More former LTTE cadres currently in Sri Lankan prisons have joined the hunger strike that was launched by 80 prisoners last Thursday (17). ...
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May 19, Colombo: Sri Lanka restored the freedom of the Tamil people of the North by defeating three-decade long terrorism, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said today and urged the world to understand that Sri Lanka will not abandon its responsibilities to the Tamil community. ...
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May 19, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) and the major Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) have in writing informed the government of their stance on participating in the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to formulate a political solution....
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May 18, Colombo: Sri Lanka's major Tamil constituent Tamil National Alliance (TNA) held a commemoration of war victims in Vavuniya of the Northern Province today....
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May 15, Colombo: Unemployed graduates in Sri Lanka have opposed the government's move to get teachers from India to teach in the country's schools while a large number of Tamil graduates remain unemployed in the country. ...
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May 11, Brooklyn, NY: A United States federal judge in New York on Friday sentenced a top Tamil Tiger, who pled guilty to terrorism charges in 2009, to time served in jail and freed the man. ...
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May 11, Madurai: Sushma Swaraj, the Leader of Opposition in the lower house of Indian parliament Lok Sabha has criticized some political parties in Tamil Nadu for demanding a separate state of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka even though the Tamil leaders in Sri Lanka favor a unitary state. ...
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May 10, Colombo: Sri Lanka Freedom Party General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena, the Minister of Health, today accused that the defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) activists who are active in foreign countries are using the major Tamil party, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) as a bridge to re-enter the country. ...
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May 09, Vavuniya: Police sources from Sri Lanka say that some posters appeared in Vavuniya town of the Northern Province requesting Tamil people to light oil lamps on May 18 to commemorate the members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) killed in war. ...
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