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The Terrorist Investigation Department (TID) has asked Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian, Appathurai Vinayagamoorthy, to appear for an interrogation on 25 May, sources said. However, the parliamentarian, citing a health condition, had refused to appear before the TID on the said date.He has now been asked to appear on a given date in June, sources […]

Northern Province May 25, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s major Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has insisted on complete power devolution to the provinces through the 13th Amendment to the Constitution since problems over the provincial councils are due to the incomplete devolution of power by successive governments. TNA parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran said yesterday […]

An armed squad that came in a white van on Tuesday abducted a 68-year-old activist, Thangathurai Veluppillai, a supporter of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in Ampaa’rai district. The victim was blindfolded while he was at Kalmunai public market and was taken away by the squad that tortured him to obtain the names of the […]

Maneckshaw The Tamil political parties have never demonstrated sufficient unity in the pursuit of a constructive solution to the Tamil question. Alliances were often formed, bringing together Tamil political parties with divergent ideologies under one umbrella. But their political conduct has not resulted in the achievement of their political goals. It is not just the Tamil […]

CVK Sivagnanam The residence of Mr CVK Sivagnanam, a veteran civil activist and joint-secretary of the Ilangkai Thamizh Arasuk Kadchi (ITAK), has been attacked Tuesday night around 11:45 p.m. by alleged operatives of the SL military in Jaffna. Mr Sivagnanam narrowly escaped from the squad that stoned his residence. The attackers, who smashed the windows […]

 More than 1000 uprooted people gathered yesterday (29) morning in front of the Divisional Secretariat at Thellippazhai, situated near the entrance to the former High Security Zone (HSZ). Despite the refusal by the SL Police to stage any protest march on the Kankasanthurai Road, the people who rallied peacefully from 8:30 to 11:30 in front […]

TNA Leader denies reports of a rift  TNA Leader, R. Sampanthan, has denied reports of a split within the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). Speaking at the S.J.V. Chelvanayagam memorial event on Friday (26), he said: “There is much speculation in the media, some of which is unfortunately mischievous, in regard to dissension within the TNA. […]

Frances Harrison Sri Lankan Tamil families hold up photographs of their missing sons during a protest against the Sri Lankan government in Colombo.—Reuters/File Photo LONDON: When they decided to have a meeting at their party office in the north of the island, the four Sri Lankan MPs probably didn’t expect that it would start raining concrete […]

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Spokesperson, and Jaffna District MP, Suresh K. Premachandran was questioned by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Friday (19), over a recent comment he made to an Indian newspaper over the military’s presence in Jaffna.Premachandran told Ceylon Today he was informed by the CID through the Kopay Police in Jaffna […]

Latheef FarookPolitical bankruptcy of Muslim parliamentarians was exposed by the Tamil National Alliance leader R Sampanthan and the TNA parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran when they raised the issue of growing disastrous hate Muslim campaign in the parliament. R Sampanthan MP and M. A. Sumanthiran MP meeting (Jan 2013) with an Australian delegation lead by Scott Morrison […]

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) yesterday said it had not asked for an Interim Self-Governing Authority (ISGA) for the Northern Province till the provincial polls were held. This follows news reports that the TNA, with Mannar Bishop Rayappu Joseph and civil society members, had asked a visiting delegation of Indian Members of Parliament to press […]

Meeting in Jaffna Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka It was doubtless in the spirit of the Sinhala-Tamil New Year that the Tamil (ultra?) nationalists presented the Sinhala hawks the gift of especially moronic remarks to the visiting Indian parliamentary delegation.Here we are, with the 13th Amendment and provincial level devolution hanging by a thread, the most important state […]

 Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party accused the government yesterday of attacking the biggest opposition newspaper in an attempt to silence its political rivals ahead of key local council elections. The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which represents minority ethnic Tamils, said Saturday’s torching of the Uthayan newspaper presses added to a “fear psychosis” among the population in […]

N.Sumanthiran, M.P.The discovery of the skeletal remains of what is reported to be more than a hundred people has dominated the press for some time. It is now clear that the mass graves were of victims of summary executions during the second Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection. It is also clear that the appointment of […]

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has categorically dismissed the findings of the first phase of the inquiry into the allegations against the Army as meaningless charging that the Army has used the six-member panel to hide the accusations that surfaced against it in the final stage of the war in Vanni in 2009. TNA Spokesperson and […]

M. A. Sumanthira interviewd by Mandana Ismail AbeywickremaTNA parliamentarian, Attorney-at-Law M. A. Sumanthiran says the international community has realized that the request for time and space is not a genuine one but only for the government to implement its own agenda. He observed that if the government acts responsibly at least at this stage and […]

The newly constructed Buddha shrine and the name board at the site of Kanniyaa Hot Wells [TamilNet] A Buddhist shrine has been built at the precincts of Kanniya Hot Wells a Saiva sacred site in a traditional Tamil village in Trincomalee district. A fifteen-acre land has been appropriated by the SL Government Agent Major General […]

UJ030313B The Tamil National Alliance expresses its grave concern over an attack today, 3rd March 2013, by armed assailants of the Kilinochchi distribution office of the Uthayan newspaper. UJ030313D Two staff were hospitalized after sustaining injuries, and property – including vehicles – has been damaged. The attack took place when a vehicle carrying copies of […]

Video posted by the Jaffna based Uthayan  news paper clearly shows the  Official sanction and Police complicity in violent attack tool place  against  main Tamil political party , the Tamil National Alliance  in Kilinochchi on 31st March 2013. see video 01  Here See Video 02  Here Anarchism in Kilinochchi, with the help of government forces. Alliance […]

……..waving of lion flags while the dastardly attack was in progress D.B.S.JEYARAJSri Lanka’s national flag was disgraced and disrespected in the Northern town of Kilinochchi on Saturday March 30th 2013 when a motley crew of “State Terrorists” launched a stone attack on the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) office premises while a political discussion was in […]

Military style subtle operation against  TNA in Kilinochchi 30 March 2013/Four Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarians, Mavai Senathirajah, S. Sritharan, E. Saravanapavan and MA Sumanthiran, who visited Ki’linochchi Saturday morning for a meeting at Sritharan MPs office, were surrounded by a mob that was carrying Lion flag and shouting slogans against the TNA parliamentarians. The […]

During the voting of resolution L.1/REV.1, Promoting Reconciliation and Accountability in Sri Lanka on the the 22nd Session of the Human Rights Council. 21 March 2013. Photo by Jean-Marc Ferré-UN M.A. Sumanthiran MPThe recent passage of the second UN Human Rights Council resolution on reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka was a triumph for all […]

M.A. SumanthiranIt is said that truth is the first casualty of war. I want to say today that truth is also the first step towards reconciliation. It is in recognition of this principle that after the struggle to end Apartheid in South Africa, the process that united the country was called the Truth and Reconciliation […]

M.A. Sumanthiran: It is the Truth that will lead to any kind of meaningful reconciliation Speech  made on 1 March 2013 by TNA M.P.M.A. Sumanthiran at the UNHRC Event in Geneva titled ‘The No Fire Zone’ On behalf of the Tamil People I wish to thank you Callum for the film. Our thanks are due […]

TNA Calls Upon Sri Lankan Govt to Cooperate with any UNHRC Resolution Seeking Implementation of LLRC Recommendations and Ascertainment of Truth.M.A.Sumanthiran M.P.(Text of Address by MA Sumanthiran MP at the Global Tamil Federation 3rd Anniversary Conference held in Londonat the British Parliament)I count it a privilege and an honour to have been invited to address […]

A four-member Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentary delegation will leave for UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions in Geneva, to brief the representatives of the member countries, who will be dealing with the US resolution on Sri Lanka.TNA Spokesperson and Jaffna District Parliamentarian, Suresh K. Premachandran told Ceylon Today the Alliance took the decision to […]

Who is this Mr. Hathurusinha? he can’t speak for the Govt. Lands in Valikamam North must be given back- Sampanthn South Africa experiences could be useful for  Sri LankaThe Tamil National Alliance has no obligation to bail out Sri Lanka Government in the international forum, when the Government has failed so far to actively engage […]

Image Caption: Sri Lankan journalists demonstrate over a dozen killings of editors, reporters and newspaper workers, and press freedoms in Colombo on January 29, 2013 by Simon Bradley Almost four years after Sri Lankan government forces crushed Tamil rebels, Switzerland is backing a South African post-Apartheid reconciliation initiative to bring parties to the negotiating table, […]

Kumar DavidThe theme of this essay is the need for a multisided and flexible long-term approach that is free from narrow isms and prejudices in countering the threat to the rule of law, decency and democracy posed by the Rajapaksa Regime (RR). The essay distances itself from three categories of people, all good anti-RR folk, […]

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) today called for further action by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) against the Sri Lanka government. The party in a statement said that appropriate action at the UNHRC is absolutely necessary to persuade the Sri Lankan government to comply with the said resolution and to discontinue with what it […]