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Fabricated nonsense
Written on 7 Jan, 2011 at 3:44 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
by Basil Fernando
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AHRC tells the Canada-based Sri Lankan intellectual to stop distribution of false and defamatory material and a death list
Written on 5 Jan, 2011 at 4:43 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
by Wong Kai Shing
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Silence of the Sri Lankan media
Written on 11 Dec, 2010 at 19:18 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
: press officers who masquerade as journalists
by Pearl Thevanayagam
(December 12, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Commemorating human wrongs on World Human Rights Day yesterday (Dec.11) Sri Lankan journalists would do well to ponder on their own abyssmal record of pandering to their media organizations’ policies.
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WikiLeaks and the shrinking of democratic space
Written on 5 Dec, 2010 at 21:20 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
by Kishali Pinto Jayawardene
(December 06, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Leaving aside the barely voyeuristic pleasure exhibited by some regarding the WikiLeaks disclosure of more than 250,000 classified and confidential diplomatic cables sent by United States diplomats from all parts of the world, are...
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From WikiLeaks to WikiLanka: War Is Definitely Savage Though “Accusations” Differ
Written on 24 Oct, 2010 at 10:54 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
The latest WikiLeaks “dump” of around 400,000 US classified war reports on Iraq from 2003 to 2009, the biggest “war leaks” ever in US history, reveals how inhuman and savage the war is, never mind who conducts it and where. A few months ago in July this year, WikiLeaks’ first dump of over 90,000 US...
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Rhyme, Reason, & Realism in Tamil Politics
Written on 12 Oct, 2010 at 16:07 in Against Tamileelam, English | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
"In Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, the Congo, Iran, Nicaragua, and Sri Lanka, the CIA armed and encouraged ethnic minorities to rise up and fight." - John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976(The Secret Wars of the CIA, October 1987)
As far as Tamil politics go, intrinsically and as a sub-set of Sri Lankan politics, the touchstone is not the 18th but the 13th amendment. More: the dominant trend throughout the political history of Tamil nationalism...
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Sri Lanka Surpasses Vietnam as Asian Sovereign Bond `Darling,’ Nomura Says
Written on 5 Oct, 2010 at 17:08 in English, Searched News | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Sovereign bond investors should buy debt of Sri Lanka over Vietnam as the island nation progresses in setting aside three decades of war to record economic growth that outpaces its rival, according to Nomura Holdings Inc....
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Girls defeat Sri Lanka in Asian Junior Volleyball Championship
Written on 15 Sep, 2010 at 8:28 in English, Searched News | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
(MNA), Sept. 15 -- Iran defeated Sri Lanka in the 15th Asian Junior Women’s Volleyball Championship in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Wednesday....
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Sri Lankan Tamil refugees spark racism row in Canada
Written on 7 Sep, 2010 at 10:58 in Canada, English, Full Article News, Sri Lanka, UK | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Government accused of scaremongering after prime minister claims 500 asylum seekers aboard boat a security concern
The arrival off the west coast of Canada of a rusty boat containing nearly 500 exhausted Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers has sparked an angry debate about racism that has divided national opinion.
The merchant vessel Sun Sea limped, under escort, into Esquimalt naval base in British Columbia on 13 August after a four month voyage from Songkhla in...
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All attempts to investigate atrocities in the Tamil Tiger conflict have been stifled, despite promises made to Ban Ki-moon
Written on 5 Sep, 2010 at 21:05 in Against Tamileelam, English | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Sri Lanka is still denying civilian deaths
by Peter Bouckaert
Director of Emergencies Division, Human Rights Watch
During the Vietnam conflict, the US military developed some creative ways to increase the numbers of Viet Cong insurgents it claimed to have killed. "If they're dead, they're Viet Cong," meant that any Vietnamese killed by American soldiers would automatically count as enemy fighters.
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