Karunanidhi slams AIADMK government

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam President M Karunanidhi on Sunday flayed the Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Nadu for its advertising campaign listing its "achievements" on completing one year in office, saying it had spent a "huge amount" of people's money....

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Jaya raises another river issue; seeks PM’s intervention

Taking on Karnataka over yet another river issue, Tamil Nadu chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday accused the state of planning to build check dams across Pennaiyar River and sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to advise it against going ahead with the work....

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Sri Lanka Tamil party commends decision to release details of detainees

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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Jaya raises another river issue; seeks PM’s intervention

Taking on Karnataka over yet another river issue, Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa today accused the state of planning to build check dams across Pennaiyar River and sought the intervention of PM to advise it against going ahead with the work.


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Victory Over Terrorism Not Yet

The annual Victory Parade which has now become a ritual in Sri Lanka’s official calendar took place with the usual military razzle-dazzle.
Colombo last week was rattled in the mornings with the Air Force doing their practice runs and streets around Galle Face closed for military rehearsals. Commemorating the military victory over terrorism is amply justified but whether all the military trappings evident at the ceremony were justified with the poor and the middle class reeling under the price  hikes...

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A Triumphal-March To A Mythical Past

“…for a myth does not analyse or solve problems. It represents them as already analysed and solved…”
Edward Said (Orientalism)

By Tisaranee Gunasekara

In the collective memory of the Sinhala South, the past was a happy country, a place where all Lankans lived in amity and harmony. Vellupillai Pirapaharan spoilt it all by igniting a war out of nothing.
Three years after the victorious ending of the Eelam War, Sri Lanka is busy...

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Thousands Still Missing

Three years after the government of Sri Lanka declared an end to decades of civil conflict with separatist rebels, thousands of people are still missing, according to the UN and Sri Lankan activists.
The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) of the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights has recorded 5,671 reported cases of wartime-related disappearance in Sri Lanka, not counting people who went missing in the final stages of fighting from 2008 to 2009.
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‘இராணுவ முகாம்களை அகற்ற முடியாது’: மகிந்த

வடக்கு கிழக்கில் இராணுவ முகாம்களை அகற்றுமளவுக்கு பாதுகாப்பான நிலைமை இல்லை என்று போர் வெற்றி விழா மேடையில் ஜனாதிபதி மகிந்த கூறினார்....

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More Sri Lankan prisoners join the hunger strike

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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Sri Lanka will not abandon its responsibilities to the Tamil people in the North, says President

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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