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Sinhala policeman found slain to death in Vanni (Tamilnet)
Written on 12 Jun, 2011 at 11:12 in English, Searched News, Uncategorized | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
A 41-year-old Sinhala policeman from Ki'linochchi police station was found slain to death at Umaiyaa'lpuram in Paranthan in Vanni Sunday morning. The dead body in civil, with beaten injuries on face and chest, was first believed to be a civilian and was taken to the mortuary at Ki'linochchil hospital. Later, the body was identified as that of Sinhala policeman, Ananada Samarakoon, sources in...
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Why aid agencies allowed LTTE holding of hostages to go on without criticism
Written on 12 May, 2011 at 14:52 in English, Searched News, Uncategorized | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
One of the saddest aspects of the treatment of citizens of the Vanni as hostages was the manner in which several international agencies did nothing about this....
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LLRC: Submission by the Catholic Diocese of Mannar
Written on 10 Jan, 2011 at 4:03 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
by Rt. Rev. Dr. Rayappu Joseph , Rev. Fr. Victor Sosai, Rev. Fr. Xavier Croos
(Januaru 10, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) This is a presentation on behalf of the people of Mannar district by the Roman Catholic Bishop and Priests of the Diocese of Mannar[1] to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC).
At the outset, we...
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Hear My VOICE: Thenuja Tharmeshwaran ~ “I am always my father’s favourite”
Written on 7 Jan, 2011 at 20:00 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Thenuja Tharmeshwaran struggles and unable to forget the traumatic past
Thenuja Tharmeshwaran (15) waits with hope at the entrance of her school~ Kondavil Hindu Maha Vidyalayam in Jaffna district in Sri Lanka. Her eyes are full and filled with tears and roll down her cheeks while she shares her agony with me sitting closer in Jaffna, North of Sri Lanka. She wears a pristine White pleated frock which is the school...
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Hear My VOICE: Jalajakumari Selvarasa ~ “I could often feel the nostalgia”
Written on 5 Jan, 2011 at 20:00 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Jalajakumari Selvarasa is convinced and lives daily with hope
Jalajakumari Selvarasa (41) is very duty conscious in a bottle green traditional Shalwar Kameez. She sits at the entrance of the women’s side of the springs, and gives the instructions in Tamil to the devotees who visit “Keerimalai” springs in Jaffna district, North of Sri Lanka. She shows the way with her shiny smile to the new comers here in “Keerimalai“.
Keerimalai literally translates...
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46 local council members to be chosen in Mannar elections
Written on 3 Jan, 2011 at 22:02 in English, Pro Tamileelam | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is to contest all the five local authorities in the Mannaar electoral district in the forthcoming election, according to Vanni district TNA parliamentarian Selvam Adaikalanathan. Elections to local authorities are to be held after a lapse of thirty five years in the district to elect 46 members to an Urban Council and the four Pradeshya Sabas in the district....
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Killed Tamil youth of postal department was an environmentalist
Written on 1 Jan, 2011 at 12:27 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
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Top 20 posts on Sri Lanka over 2010
Written on 30 Dec, 2010 at 22:23 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Featuring satire, poetry, photography and video to critical commentary and analysis, Groundviews covered major political events and processes in Sri Lanka over 2010.
The site’s comprehensive coverage of the first commemoration of the end of war in Sri Lanka resulted in the publication of a seminal book that has been critically acclaimed by academia. Coverage of the 18th Amendment to the constitution was sui...
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Tamil, Sinhala detainees clash in Vavuniyaa remand prison
Written on 29 Dec, 2010 at 21:15 in English, Pro Tamileelam | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Two were injured in a clash that erupted between detainees in the Vavuniyaa remand prison Tuesday around 5:30 p.m. when Tamil detainees assaulted a Mannaar-based Christian priest and a long-time humanitarian worker, who was recently held in remand over alleged charges that he had sexually abused Tamil girls displaced due to the Vanni war. Altercation ensued as a group of Sinhala detainees rushed in defense of the priest and started assaulting their Tamil detainees with pointed weapons and blades. The...
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CaTpad rejects Rudrakumaran’s claim
Written on 25 Dec, 2010 at 8:03 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Canadian Tamils for Peace and Democracy rejects claim of TGTE Rudrakumaran’s “Thamilarin Thaakam Thamil Eelath Thaayakam” ( Tamil Eelam is the Thirst of Tamils) as not the Thirst of Tamils but as ‘Pulikalin Thaakam” (Thirst of Tigers).
(December 25, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) We Canadian Tamils...
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