Tamil righs

Chief Minister of the Northern Province, C.V. Wigneswaran and the Northern Provincial Councillors boycotted a visit by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to Jaffna yesterday, following an exchange of views over the military presence in the North and the views expressed by the PM in an interview with an Indian TV station. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, State […]

US  Ambassador Paula Schriefwer in a pensive mood during the 3rd informal discussion on the Resolution (© sunanda d.) Kumar David Some things are difficult to believe; occasionally they are out of this world, but some are this-worldly perfidious realities. Increasingly vocal UFO-nuts insisting that MH 370 was abducted by aliens to a far away […]

Sunanda Deshapriya / UN Minority Rights Forum INFORM Human Rights Documentation Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka,  would like to take this opportunity to highlight the series of attacks on Christian, Muslim and Hindu communities, particularly in 2012 and 2013, as highlighted by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, after her visit to the country in […]

Military destroying the houses A group of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarians and Northern Provincial Councillors have visited Valikamam North and urged the Army to immediately halt the demolition of the private residences in the area.The delegation comprising TNA Parliamentarian, E. Saravanapavan, and NPC members M.K. Sivajilingam and Dharmalingam Siddharthan visited the former High Security […]

Shivshankar Menon India is to send National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon to Sri Lanka next month for talks with President Mahinda Rajapaksa and other government officials.The meeting will take place amidst the backdrop of moves by the government to repeal the 13th Amendment to the constitution. According to the Uthayan newspaper, Menon is expected in […]

Devolution is a scheme for dividing the country Power should be devolved according the wishes of the majority as this is a democratically elected government.If the powers in Sri Lanka have to devolved it should not be done according to the manner the International community or to the needs of the Tamil Diaspora, but according […]

Athuraliye Rathana, ( with the mike) extremist Buddhist monk form JHU is leading the process Following the construction of Buddhist stupas with the deployment of ‘Army and Archaeology’ where there were no practising Buddhists at all, the genocidal Sri Lankan state occupying the country of Eezham Tamils is now bent upon creating a Buddhist population […]

Demonstration in Colombo by Equal Rights Movement ( photo : Lanka views) The Sri Lankan military and the police continued their arrests of Tamil youth and Jaffna University students in the war-ravaged north over the past week, detaining many under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). Detainees can be held for 90 days without […]

Jaffna students walking past a destroyed building ( photo : Diplomat) Jaffna, the capital of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province and once the bastion of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is once again experiencing unrest.Violent clashes broke out on November 27, Martyrs’ Day for Tamil, between students of Jaffna University and Sri Lankan security […]

RS12712 by Rajavarothayam Sampanthan M.P.(Text of speech made in Parliament on November 30th 2012) Thank you, Mr. Chairman.I am glad to be able to say a few words on the Votes of the Ministry of External Affairs. I do want to assure the Hon. Minister, who is a much beleaguered person, that what I do […]

Jaffna Uni students demands justice (photo:Tamilnet) Global Tamil Forum (GTF) strongly deplores the attack, by members of the Sri Lankan security forces on Jaffna University students staging a peaceful protest, on Wednesday November 28th and calls for the immediate release of four Tamil students subsequently arrested by the Terrorism Investigative Division (TID) on trumped-up charges […]

By ignoring the restorations of ruined Hindu, Christian and Islamic worship centers, by constructing new Buddhist Temples in the north and east will not originate ethnic harmony.If actual harmony should be prevailed between ethnic communities, in all issues equal distribution is needed was urged by Vanni district Tamil National Alliance Member Selvam Adaikalanathan yesterday in […]

Former Foreign Minister, Rohitha Bogollagama yesterday said the Government should not fear international criticism over the issue of the 13th Amendment but should have an alternative if it wanted to scrap it.Bogollagama pointed out that whatever solution the government had the 13th Amendment should be placed before the people for approval. He said if the […]

Several allies of the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) have decided to continue their campaign to pressure President Mahinda Rajapaksa to abrogate the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, by using the two-thirds majority in Parliament, Daily Mirror learns.  The Jathika Nidahas Peramuna (JNP) led by Minister Wimal Weerawansa and the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) […]

Close on the heels of Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa reiterating his call for abolition of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, the National Freedom Front (NFF) leader, Housing Minister Wimal Weerawansa, MP, has urged President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold a referendum to decide on the controversial amendment.MP Weerawansa has sought an urgent meeting with President […]

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday reiterated that post-war political strategy of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) left him with no alternative but to strongly recommend the abolition of the 13th Amendment. He urged the government, the Opposition as well as the international community to examine the conduct of the one-time mouthpiece of the LTTE.It was up […]

Tamil politicians and civil activists on Wednesday protested condemning the brutal attack Sunday on Paramsothy Vasanthakumar, the elected chairman of Nalloor Piratheasa Chapai (PS). Vasanthakumar was on his way to prepare a legal suit after lodging a formal complaint against the illegal SL military occupation of 5 acres of land belonging to the civic body […]

UP country Tamils:a section of the citizens who voted in the 1947 elections were deprived of their citizenship itself and their franchise soon after that by a democratic majority vote in the first Parliament!(Photo:secure. flickr) The TNA Position on the Prevailing Stalemate regarding the Parliamentary Select CommitteeM.A. Sumanthiran M.P.Today the most important question that is […]

Ambassador Ariyasinghe Addressing the 63rd Session of the Executive Committee of the UNHCR on Tuesday (2nd October 2012) Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha has said, “Those who downplay the significance of Sri Lanka’s post-conflict achievements and constantly keep shifting goal posts, show disrespect not only to Sri Lanka […]

Recent photo of a resettled IDP family Tamil National Alliance Chief Rajavarothiam Sampanthan today debunked the Sri Lankan government’s claim that all of the nearly 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who vacated the Menik Farms have returned to their homes in the civil war-ravaged Northern and Eastern Provinces.“At least 75,000 of the nearly 300,000 Tamils […]

Life in Aananthapuram, a neighbouring place to Keappaapulavu The Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) organized a protest in front of the Mullaitivu Government Agent’s office on Friday the 21st of September 2012 urging resettlement of the Keappapulavu people in their native village. The protest was well attended by people of Keappapulavu living with host families […]

LTTE leaders arrested but disappeared  Tasha Manoranjan/Pasumai Thaayagam / 21 session HRC Thank you Madam President.   Pasumai Thaayagam welcomes this Council’s attention to the tragic situation unfolding in Syria. We support the Council’s Commission of Inquiry for Syria, and urge the Council to extend the Commission’s mandate in order to ensure that accountability – a […]

Anti Deportation protest in London by Tamils More shocking evidence of torture in Sri Lanka has been published today by Freedom from Torture, highlighting the risk faced by Tamils returning to the country from the UK. The latest research relates to 24 people who were tortured in Sri Lanka after returning voluntarily from the UK […]

The result The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) yesterday proposed that the government and the Opposition explore the possibility of forming a joint provincial administration in the Eastern Province. The CPSL said that the ongoing post-war national reconciliation efforts would receive a tremendous boost through setting up of an all-party provincial administration. Having consulted […]

Chief Minister Jayalalitha: tough stand Gulbin Sultana/Institute of Defence studies and Analyses The much-talked about Tamil Nadu factor in India-Sri Lanka relations has come to the fore recently again in the wake of strong reactions of the provincial government to the training of two Sri Lankan defence personnel in the state in August 2012. This […]

EX: 5th March 2009   Groundviews  When in early 2009, UNOSAT released satellite imagery of what later turned out to be the final weeks of Sri Lanka’s 27-year old war with the LTTE, the images were met with vehement Government condemnation, and counter-analysis by the Ministry of Defence. During this heady, hellish time, the subject […]

 WATCHDOG “This is my home, this is my sister’s home, this is my neighbour’s home…and now we’re not even permitted to enter our own land,” says *Rajan, a villager living at the Malankaadu temporary resettlement camp, pointing to their homes, where Navy families currently reside. Since their eviction by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) in […]

Sampanthan: East won by parties opposed to UPFA The elections to the Eastern Provincial Council have concluded and the results have been announced. The ruling UPFA violated all norms of democracy and good governance in a polls campaign that was marked by a well documented pattern of gross abuse of the state apparatus and resources. […]

TNA campaiging in East The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) was getting 7 seats and was leading in the counting of votes for the Batticaloa district, taking place at Vincent Girls College. Then, there was a 30 minutes ‘power cut’ and when the lights came back, it was announced that the TNA got only 6 seats. […]

 Blue Brigade headed by Namal Rajapaksha enters  East Certain events have occurred in the past several days which have raised grave misgivings in regard to whether the elections to Eastern Provincial Council to be hold on Saturday would be free and fair, tells R. Sampanthan, the parliamentary group leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) […]