 | On
the Road to Peace by
Christopher Patten, Commission for
External Relations, European Commission, European Union [29 March 2002] |
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| Who
Moved My Cheese
We regret to report to our
readers that TamilNation.org closed on 5 July 2001, after three
spectacular years of presence in the worldwide web. With this closure
our Cheese Station C too is gone. |
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| Amnesty News Release & Action Appeal [4
July 2001]
An upsurge in arrests, “disappearances” and
torture linked to paramilitary activity in the Vavuniya area must be
urgently addressed by the Sri Lankan government, Amnesty International
said today in a letter to President Kumaratunga. |
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| LTTE
Response to Ministry of Information Statement [1 May 2001]
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in an
official statement issued from its headquarters in Vanni, northern Sri
Lanka today, accused the Government of Sri Lanka of attempting to
undermine the peace environment by its irrational and dangerous policy
of war and military conquest. |
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| Jaffna's only Daily Newspaper under siege
Ganamylnathan, aged 58, was hit by a pick up van and both he and the
driver of the motorbike sustained serious injuries and are in hospital
awaiting surgery. The paper also reported that in a very similar
incident on May 6 at exactly the same location another employee,
Daily’s manager Nanthakumar, was hit by a pick up van and he died on
the spot. |
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| A
Letter to The European Union from the Consortium of Humanitarian
Agencies - Jaffna
Your
Excellency,While expressing our gratitude for the visit of the EU team
to Jaffna today, we wish to place before you the following aspirations
of ours.We appeal to you to use your good offices to prevail on the
Sri Lankan Government to reciprocate expressly the LTTE’s
declaration of cease-fire. This needs to be done before the expiry of
the latter declaration on Saturday, 24th inst.What we want urgently is
an immediate stop to the war. |
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| Jaffna Consortium to US
Ambassador
Your
Excellency, This letter refers to your press release delivered at the
Jaffna Public Library on March 7th. First
of all, we would like to express our utter disappointment over it.
Your speech absolutely misrepresents the nature of the Tamil
people’s quest for Eelam, undermining the legitimacy of the quest
and ignoring the complexity of its historical background.
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| Subversive Acts in India - Sri
Lankan Role?
The Sri Lankan government is routinely engaged in paying felicitation
money to prominent overseas politicos and media outfits through its
various front organizations to peddle influence. A classic example in
this case is the India Sri Lanka Friendship Association started at the
initiative of the Foreign Minister, Mr. Laxman Kadirgamar. Professor
Suriyanarayanan, a longtime exponent of Sri Lanka in the Indian soil,
heads the association endowed with the task of extrapolating and
rationalizing the Sinhala point of view in the Madarasi press. |
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| South
Asian of the Year
Velupillai Prabhakaran: A concerted campaign by his
supporters took the secretive leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers to
the head of the pack. Most nominators cited Prabhakaran's recent call
for peace negotiations with Colombo. Sadly, we live in a times when a
call for peace is frequently followed by the sound of gunfire (see
Palestine, Kashmir and, for that matter, Sri Lanka itself). If
Prabahkaran proves true to his word and negotiations do begin in the
months ahead, he will be a strong candidate for South Asian of the
Year 2001.
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| Sangam's Salute to Mamanithar Jayaratnam Eliezer
Professor Jayaratnam Eliezer is no longer with
us. He passed away on 10 March 2001, in Melbourne Australia, at the
age of 82. A distinguished son of Thamileelam, he was bestowed the
title Mamanithar by Thamileelam national leader Velupillai Pirabakaran
in 1997. Australia honored him with the ‘Order of Australia’ in
1996. Ilankai Tamil Sangam, USA wishes to pay our tribute to the late
Professor Eliezer by publishing his contribution to the 1997
International Tamil Foundation symposium, titled ‘Plight of the
Tamil Nation’. |
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| Double Standards in the USA
On Friday, December 22, 2000, Washington Post (Page
A32) wrote an editorial on the double standards by which US government
treats its Arab and Jewish citizens. Kahane Chai, a Jewish Nationalist
organization, was listed along with the LTTE in 1997 as a foreign
terrorist organization by the US State Department. Although
fundraising on US soil by organizations in this list is prohibited,
Kahane Chai collects funds with impunity. |
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| Tony's impressions of Jaffna
I have
just returned from a situation that is as far removed from the normal
stability and predictability of Scotland as it is possible to be. A
group of students and lecturers from our College went to Jaffna |
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The U.S. Supreme Court Decision
“The
statute does not prohibit being a member of one of the designated
groups or vigorously promoting and supporting the political goals of
the group. Plaintiffs are even free to praise the groups for using
terrorism as a means of achieving their ends.” - Judge Kozinski |
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| Excerpts of President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s "Chat"
My analysis is that a political leader has never before been
collectively attacked by the media in history... This venomous reptile
of destruction has creeped into a place which is somewhat beyond the
government’s control - the media... |
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| An
Interview with Fr. Emmanuel
The war is getting
prolonged because the majority Sinhalese and their government have
neither a correct understanding of the nature of the conflict nor the
required attitude and good will to solve it with justice and peace nor
the humility to invite help of the international community.
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| Tamil
Parties: Rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic
The crux of the issue is this. It is the war that violates human rights and the right to life of children. It is the Government that is stubbornly waging war. Therefore it is the PA Government that must stop the war immediately to save Tamil children.- TAGOT Press Release |
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| PA’s Military Debacle And The Re-Discovery Of Tamil Children
The crux of the issue is this. It is the war that violates human rights and the right to life of children. It is the Government that is stubbornly waging war. Therefore it is the PA Government that must stop the war immediately to save Tamil children.- TAGOT Press Release |
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| An
Open Letter to Chandrika
We,
on behalf of the 100,000 strong Tamil Americans living in the U.S.A.,
take the liberty to address this open letter to you
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South
Asia Communication Center, Chennai. Press Release
Mr. P.K. Balachandran
reported in the Hindustan Times what Minister Kadirgamar of Sri Lanka
had told the Foreign Correspondents Association on the 24th of Aug. He
had said that India and the world will not accept a separate Tamil
State.How does Mr. Kadirgamar know this? |
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| Hindu Lands in a Buddhist
Land
After repeated
efforts at trying to lull the Tamils into complacency, the government
has once again pulled the rug under their feet... |
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| Tamil
Canadians Dismiss Extortion Claims
In recent years, Canadian
Tamils have been subjected to intense media scrutiny about their
involvement with the LTTE. While the Tamil community has on several
occasions admitted publicly that some individuals are voluntarily
sending money to the LTTE, they have continually denied allegations of
charitable or humanitarian organizations being used as a front to
illegally support the LTTE or the Tamils are being extorted by Tamil
youth gangs... |
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| LTTE
Appeals US Court Ruling
The
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) today filed Petition for
Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc with the United States
Court of appeals for the District of Columbia. [Full
Text] |
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| Who is Afraid
of Peter Schalk
G L Peiris, Minister of Justice, Constitutional Affairs, Ethnic Affairs and
National Integration and Deputy Minister of Finance visited Sweden in April 1999...
According to The Daily News Report, Peiris delivered a largely attended lecture... He
presented his devolution of power as "federalism"... What is the truth behind
this story? |
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| TIME Magazine
Speculates
Freedom Fighters... From Kosovo to Kurdistan,
rebels vie for independence. Here are the reasons some succeed--and some don't. |
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| PASLO Press
Release 1st March '99
The Sri Lankan government refused to allow the
delegations to meet the LTTE, which represents the Tamil Nation. Instead they only allowed
them to speak to their puppets who collaborate with the government in oppressing the Tamil
people. These groups are in the same category as the collaborators we had here in South
Africa |
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| PASLO Press Release
We hear of a mass grave in Bosnia and Kosovo, and the world sends in
investigators and forensic experts to investigate and bring the perpetrators to justice.
It was brought to the attention of the UN that a mass grave was discovered in the Jaffna
district in October 1998. Thus far, the world and the UN has done nothing. They are
depending on the Sri Lankan government’s investigators to furnish them with details.
How can a government investigate itself? How can the Tamil people expect justice
when the perpetrator of the crime is investigating itself? |
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| Kadirgamar
in Australia |
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| Politicking
may have wrecked bid for Tiger peace talks
A new bid to bring the Tamil Tiger rebels to
the negotiating table may have suffered a blow due to political manoeuvring ahead of
upcoming local polls, Tamil legislators said yesterday - South China Morning Post Monday
February 22 1999 |
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| Harry Speaks Again
We seem to believe that killing 'terrorists' will
eventually kill 'terrorism', but what is not known is that if terrorists are perceived by
the people who are supposed to be represented by them as freedom fighters, they have
always ended as equal partner with the State. |
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| A Chance
for Peace in Sri Lanka - Boston Globe
"For the first time in four years, there is
a glimmer of hope for peace talks to end one of the world's bloodiest conflicts, the war
between the government of Sri Lanka and that country's Tamil minority" says the
Boston Globe Editorial |
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| KOSOVO LESSON FOR SRI LANKA
By persuading the Yugoslavian
President to withdraw the Serbian troops from Kosovo, NATO is helping end a human tragedy
which has claimed hundreds of lives and driven thousands of Albanians into the mountains. |
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| UN Rally In New York
The Sri Lankan government and its armed forces have been responsible for the deaths of
over 50,000 Tamil civilians, innumerable unaccounted disappearances, hundreds of rapes and
the recently discovered mass graves in Chemmani in the Tamil homelands... Given the
willingness of Courts in the United Kingdom to "pierce the cloak of immunity and
impose personal liability", it is imprudent for the Sri Lankan military and political
establishment to "trot their representatives around the world, while they persist in
terrorizing, torturing and persecuting the Tamil people". |
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| Christian Science
Monitor
With no end to the 15-year-old separatist war
in sight, an increasing number of Sri Lankans believe that the government and the armed
forces are perpetuating the conflict for their own ends. |
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| Chemmani
Graves
"The actions of the government
bears all the hallmarks of a yet another systematic cover-up. The strategy of the
government is not to respond to the public outcry long enough so that it could trash it at
the opportune moment... senior government officials such as the President, Minister [of
Constitutional affairs] Mr.G.L.Pieris, Foreign Minister Mr.L.Kadirkamar, Deputy Defense
Minister Mr.A.Ratwatte, are maintaining unusual silence while trying to work out a
cover-up plan." |
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| DPI Press
Release
Committee on economic, social and cultural
rights hears statements from NGOs on situation in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Poland, Netherlands
and Germany |
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| A
Fact Finding Mission to Vanni
- 1997
A group of Christian Church Leaders who visited
Vanni from 19th of November to 22nd of November 1997, said, "Earlier we attempted
twice to make this trip, but unfortunately we couldn't make it. Fortunately this trip was
made possible by the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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| US
Anti Terrorism Law Challenged
Center for Constitutional Rights Says First Amendment Is Violated by
Law's Restrictions on Legitimate Activities of Supporters of International Human Rights
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| Christian
Aid
Christian Aid, an organization of
international renown, bewails of Tamil Children hit with Night Blindness, as Sri Lanka
government celebrates independence. |
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| Attempt
on Journalist Fails
The Fascist regime in Sri Lanka does not tolerate dissent when it comes to the war against
the Tamils. An attempt on the life of Journalist was foiled by his 7 year old daughter. |
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| Prison Massacre
Torture, Rape and Murder of Tamils taken prisoners is a common occurrence in Sri Lanka.
The well publicized murder of prisoners at a maximum security prison (12 Dec 1997)
is just a tip of the iceberg. The International Federation of Tamils appeals to the
British PM to intervene. |
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| Delhi
Conference
Resolutions passed at the International Convention for Solidarity with the Eelam Tamils of
Sri Lanka |
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| Freedom of the Press
The Sri Lankan ambassador lodged a formal complaint with the Canadian government that a
Pro-Sinhala journalist in Canada was being harassed by Tamils. The Canadian Tamils
respond... |
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| FeTNA Resolution.
The Board of the Federation of Tamil
Sangams of North America representing 32 Tamil Sangams reviewed with great pain of
mind, the US Department of State publication 10433... |
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| LTTE Vs. US State
Department.
The US government departed from the
norms of its international obligations by designating one party to an armed conflict as a
terrorist organization. The LTTE has filed legal action challenging this designation... |
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| Religious
Persecution Against Christians.
The plan to establish Sri Lanka as a
racially-pure Sinhala-Buddhist country has resulted in a war with the Tamil inhabitants of
the island. Tamils, however, are not the only targets... |
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| The Hong Kong Standard
Editorial (10 Sep 1997).
The Hong Kong Standard published an
editorial titled 'Time to smoke out the Tamil Tigers'. The following is a response from an
academic in the US. |
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| EPDP Leader - A
Dangerous Criminal.
Sri Lanka government’s closest
ally Mr. Douglas Devananda M.P. is a dangerous criminal and a merciless killer according
to Mr. T. Mathivaanan who was an area commander for six years in the Eelam People
Democratic Party (EPDP)... |
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