New LTTE leadership’s grand idea of a Transnational Eelam Government suffered an inglorious defeat when 90 percent of the Tamil diaspora showed its contempt by abstaining from voting for the transnational government.

It is reported that when the US economy was hit by the financial crisis, 54 banks in that country had closed down.

The government yesterday said that General (retd) Sarath Fonseka had been allowed to pick his security contingent.

One-time LTTE child recruits, being rehabilitated at Hindu College in Ratmalana, are trying to regain their lost childhood while concentrating on their studies. Chathuri Dissanayake reports. Pix by J. Weerasekera.

Colombo, 20 November, (Asiantribune.com): Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA)’s promotion of the ‘Ramayana trail’ package came in for heavy criticism at a Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) meeting at Colombo recently.

The 30 year war is over and despite the hydra headed maneuvers of the 5th column, the terrorists were annihilated

Whatever the circumstances in which General Sarath Fonseka quit the army, a grateful nation should never forget his leading role in Sri Lanka’s victory over LTTE terrorism.

Nov 18, Colombo: The United Nations Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Sir John Holmes visited the welfare centers in Northern Sri Lanka today.

Ten-year-old Priyanthi is yet another war displaced child in a relief camp in Vavuniya, but she is special because she had scored 162 at the recently-held Grade Five Scholarship Examination

Sri Lanka-born U.S. business tycoon, Raj Rajaratnam, arrested by the FBI on October 16 on charges of vast insider trading, has began selling part of his firm’s holdings in Sri Lanka to cover some of the money required to finance his $100 million bail.

Immigration Minister Chris Evans says no offer will be made to a group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have been holed up on a boat at an Indonesian port for more than a month

Indonesia has finally agreed to detain 78 asylum seekers from Sri Lanka and move them to an immigration detention center in Tanjung Pinang, Riau, more than three weeks after they were first captured by an Australian patrol ship in Indonesian waters.

The Secretary-General of Amnesty International has criticised the Federal Government for its failure to lift Aboriginal people out of dire poverty.

When it comes to human rights, Australia has always seen itself as the fair-go country that sticks up for the underdog.

THE last of the 56 Sri Lankan protesters on board the Oceanic Viking will be removed from the vessel within the next two hours.

THE Church of Scientology is a "criminal organisation" hiding behind religion, the Senate was told last night.

Research Fellow at the Institute of Fundamental Studies (IFS) in Kandy, Dr. Meththika Vithanage, has been selected as the outstanding young scientist to receive the 2009 American Geophysical Union Natural Hazards Focus Group Award for Graduate Research.

Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services Minister Rishad Bathiudeen told Parliament yesterday that the Government spends Rs 9.9 million on a daily basis to supply food and drink to Internally Displaced people living in welfare centers in Vavuniya.

The Sri Lanka Japan Business Cooperation Committee (SLJBCC) hopes to encourage Japanese investors to set up industries in Sri Lanka to capture the huge Indian market taking advantage of the Indo-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement.

The EC and the government are looking at developing a Road Map to retain the EU’s GSP+ duty free export scheme. “We will, after consulting with the Sri Lankan authorities, issue what we call a Road Map, which will address the concerns raised in the final report (of the investigation),” said the Ambassador for the EC in Sri Lanka, Bernard Savage, speaking at the AGM of the Sri Lanka Apparel Exporters Association this week.

Sri Lanka’s rupee-denominated Treasury bond market has become more competitive and vibrant with the receipt of investments amounting to Rs.150 billion (US$ 1.25 billion) from a record number of 60,000 local and 150 foreign investors, said Minister of State for Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya in an interview with the Sunday Times FT.

Henry Jayasena enthralled Melbourne audiences with his Azdak when SPUR sponsored the production of Hunuwataye Kathawa in the mid 1990s. He helped the amateur actors who played the other roles alongside him by encouraging them to give the performance of their life. On his return Henry published a series of articles about his experiences with SPUR and the production. SPUR is privileged to have worked even briefly with Henry and his wife Manel.

In Malaysia, a promise to continue a race-based affirmative action policy will only entrench racism

Recent developments indicate that the international community has initiated the first steps to gradually open up to Myanmar.

There is no end to the incessant wailing over the fate of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Opposition, certain NGOs and the so-called international community.

The potential of buried geothermal energy in Sri Lanka and the feasibility for developing geothermal energy as a source of power generation must be given a serious thought, said Institute of Fundamental Studies Director Prof. C.B. Dissanayake

Keith Vaz, the senior Labour backbencher, claimed more than £75,500 in expenses for a flat in Westminster despite his family home being a £1.15 million house just 12 miles from parliament.

LAHORE: The CIA has funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) since the 9/11 attacks, accounting for as much as one-third of the foreign spy agency’s annual budget – reported an American newspaper, citing current and former US officials.

Indian Finance Minister says delivering Kadirgamar memorial lecture

New Delhi : On top of revelations that the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) bought arms from the Tamil Tigers, a former ULFA leader now says the Assamese separatist group also got military training from the Sri Lankan rebels.

What the events of the last week showed was how different Mahinda Rajapakse is to Ranil Wickremesinghe.

COLOMBO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee LKR= hit its highest level in more than seven months on Monday as the central bank said it was continuing with cautious flexibility in managing the exchange rate against the U.S dollar.

Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka may complete the resettlement of war refugees by the end of January, the government said, as the humanitarian chief of the United Nations prepares to visit the island nation next week.

COLOMBO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's top general bid farewell to his uniform on Monday and said he will announce a decision on entering politics within two to three days, amid speculation he may seek the presidency.

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday called on all patriotic Sri Lankans to get together, putting their differences aside, and work towards the resurgence of the nation to reap the rewards of peace as one people.

Nov 14, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today meeting with a large group of expatriates from several countries invited the entire Sri Lankan expatriate population to join hands with him to rebuild the motherland.

With the end of the bloody war for Eelam, Lanka's Tamil refugees in India are finally picking up the pieces of their shattered lives and heading COUNTRY ROADS: UNHCR is happy that refugees who had fled the war in Sri Lanka are now increasingly looking to return back home in a slow but steady trickle...

The widely expected early presidential election may not take place ahead of scheduled parliamentary polls.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa is scheduled to give a definite word regarding elections at the SLFP Convention on Sunday, November 15, 2009.

Soon it will be election time once again. Whatever its nature, a national election attracts international attention.

TStoke-on-Trent (UK) - Remembrance Day is a deeply emotional and poignant reminder, especially in the West, of all those who sacrificed their lives in the two great wars of the last century.

I just finished reading an excellent article by Gamini Gunawardane, Retired Senior DIG, in The Island of November 12, 2009: ‘How men of integrity saved Sri Lanka’.

It was Mr Justice McKinnon, the judge at the Baha Mousa court martial, who first summed up the deepening sense of disquiet over the truth behind the abuse committed by British soldiers in Iraq.

The rarest commodity under the free market economy, in this country today appears to be Integrity. Not only in this country but in the whole world, judging by what is happening around the world including the British Parliament.

An open letter to Mr. Brad Adams – Asia Director, Human Rights Watch by Asoka Weerasinghe, Canada.

The serial loser Wickremasinghe, we are told, has recently announced a set of conditions to which General Sarath Fonseka must agree if he is to be nominated for the Presidency by his party.

“No government can overlook the importance of the Sri Lankan diaspora in the post- Prabhakaran phase in particular. Its importance is not only in its numerical strength which could run into at least two million but also because of its potential to play an interventionist role in Sri Lankan politics, particularly in the next phase of durable peace-making.”

Their claims of oppression do not sound convincing. For one, it would have been much more expedient to cross the 35km of sea to India if they were really fleeing oppression in Sri Lanka, as many did in the 1980s, yet they chose to travel thousands of kilometres to Australia and even further to Canada.

TANJUNG PINANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Twenty-two Sri Lankan asylum seekers voluntarily left an Australian customs ship in Indonesian waters on Friday after Canberra offered assurances of swift resettlement to end a politically sensitive standoff.

OSLO — Peter W. Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policy makers like Joseph R. Biden Jr. and John Kerry.

Chennai, Nov 12 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government Thursday decided to allocate Rs.100 crore for improving the amenities in the 115 camps for Sri Lankan refugees in the state and also for extending various welfare measures to them at par with Indian citizens

Chief of Defence staff General Sarath Fonseka speaking to reporters a short while ago at the Kelaniya Rajamaha Vihara confirmed that he had handed over his retirment papers and that he will decide if he is entering politics once he officially hands over the uniform.

UN under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Sir John Holmes is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka next week to inspect the resettlement process of the internally displaced people (IDP) in the north.

The forthcoming visit of Myanmar’s Head of State and Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, Senior General Than Shwe, marks another milestone in the historical relations between Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

Palitha Kohona Joins Lateline from New York to talk about his country's detention centres and the growing problem with Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

South Africa has pledged to help curb LTTE activities overseas and in discrediting the provincial and transnational governments of Tamil Elam.

Veteran actor Henry Jayasena (78) passed away at the Colombo South General Hospital today after a brief illness.

Developing nations should set an example for the world ahead of an international conference on climate change by pledging to become carbon neutral, the president of the Maldives said Monday.

Text of address delivered by K. H. J. Wijayadasa former Secretary to the President On The Public Servant and the Politician: Harmony and Conflict

The IMF says the Vote-on-Account, passed in parliament last week for government expenditure amounting to Rs. 362 billion for the first four months of 2010 in view of presidential and parliamentary elections, was not inconsistent with government obligations to maintain the fiscal deficit at 6.5 percent in 2010, as per the target agreed upon for the US$ 2.6 billion standby facility approved by the IMF last July.

You said, “RCMP thwart 14 suspected terrorist incidents: Several cases involve Tamil Tigers and their supporters”.

Although the war in Sri Lanka is now over, the battle for Sri Lanka’s future has only just begun..

(November 10, Canberra, Sri Lanka Guardian) Des Browne, the British Envoy to Sri Lanka, told the Tamil diaspora in Australia that, after the comprehensive military victory, the only option available is to engage the government in working out a solution for the Tamils.

Being a retired Army Officer I must confess at the inception that I have little or no information regarding the strategy of the present government in its implementation of the Uturu Vasanthaya.

AUSTRALIA last night struck a bargain with Sri Lanka to help track down Tamil Tiger people smugglers in return for greater co-operation in reducing asylum-seeker numbers.

Visiting Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith held talks on the issue of illegal immigrants to their country with his Sri Lankan counterpart, Rohitha Bogollagama today morning, officials said.

FORMER Toronto gang member Sanjeev Kuhendrarajah is heavily tattooed, has a criminal record for death threats and firearms possession that got him deported from Canada six years ago

No sensible and discerning Sri Lankan voter will dispute the contention that this country has been governed for quite sometime without any sense of direction, patriotism and dedication to the needs and aspirations of the general populace.

Hydropower International Ltd, a local hydro power construction company expands its business in East African countries to obtain more foreign revenue.

On Wednesday, Oct. 28, a 26-year-old Fort Carson, Colorado, soldier set to return to Afghanistan intentionally shot himself in the shoulder to avoid deployment

Washington, D.C. 07 November (Asiantribune.com):Democratic Congressman from the State of Illinois Danny Davis The House resolution 711 passed in the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress on Thursday, November 05 called on the Government of Sri Lanka to engage in speedy resettlement of Tamil civilian refugees in welfare camps but significantly recognized the positive initiative Sri Lanka has taken so far regarding the settlement of the IDPs

The IMF Executive Board, Friday, cleared the way for the release of just over $322 million for Sri Lanka. The Board reviewed the Sri Lankan government’s progress on the implementation of reforms agreed to last July, and the November 6th decision means the second installment of the country’s loan can proceed.

6 November 2009 – About 90,000 Sri Lankans displaced by the conflict between Government forces and Tamil separatists have returned to their homes in the past three months, and the pace of returns has begun to accelerate, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

Iraqis head the list of the growing number of people seeking asylum in industrialized countries again this year, just ahead of people searching for safety from war-torn Afghanistan and Somalia, according to a report published by the United Nations refugee agency today.

Sri Lanka delivered its formal response on Friday to a European Union probe that found it in breach of international human rights laws and said it was hopeful of retaining a lucrative trade concession with the bloc

Nepal's ruling parties have angrily accused United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon of political interference after he called for the establishment of a national unity government.

Sri Lanka's Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have earned much media publicity. Hardly a day passes without some reference to them in the international media is made.

Last week the rumour mills went into over-drive with speculation that the Chief of Defense Staff, General Sarath Fonseka, would be throwing his hat into his ring at the presidential election.

ALEX, the well-spoken leader of a boatload of asylum-seekers held in Indonesia on their way to Australia, is a known people-smuggler previously deported from Canada, according to the Sri Lankan government.

Three crises hit the Asian-Pacific region last year. The “Triple Fs”- food-fuel-financial-compounded by climate change, continue to haunt society inflicting a heavy human cost.

With every election, democracy is undoubtedly deepening in India. But it is also exposing the systems limitations.

There is some good news for boat people or those braving the fiery waters of the oceans in crowded boats in search of employment in distant lands such as Australia.

Broadly speaking, the people who vent their opinions publicly can be divided into two categories: 1. those who know their subject and 2. those who think they know their subject.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) highly commended efforts of Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa MP and Resettlement Minister Rishard Badhiutheen in resettling the displaced families in the Northern Province.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said the LTTE terrorists deprived the freedom of Muslim community who co-exist peacefully with other communities in Jaffna, Vavuniya and Mannar districts.

An individual can plead innocence to the world and point finger at structure. But he/she must live with him/herself and the choices he/she makes or does not make.

"The very countries and organisations that are now accusing the Janjaweed of committing genocide, and Khartoum of backing it, or at least failing to control it, are the ones that earlier forced Khartoum to accept an arrangement with the southern Sudanese rebels, led by Colonel John Garang, which has set the basis for secession of the south after a six-year transition period."

There are two stories that I tell young people about learning English. The first is about Ananda Thilak Bandara, a batchmate of mine at Peradeniya University.

Canada's new spy chief accused journalists and human rights advocates on Thursday of often glorifying terror suspects as "quasi folk heroes" and downplaying the risks posed to society by terrorism.

Sri Lanka, after becoming the first country to eradicate terrorism through a successful humanitarian operation, has reached another first by resettling the displaced persons in double quick time.

Human Rights and Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe, in an interview with the Sunday Observer, outlines Sri Lanka’s counteraction to the US State Department Report and the current position with regard to GSP Plus issue.

Sri Lanka demanded Monday that U.S. officials cease efforts to question the country's top general on alleged human rights abuses committed by the government during the final months of the civil war here.

Reports that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has summoned former Sri Lankan Army Commander and present Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Sarath Fonseka, who is currently in the US on holiday, for a meeting has raised many an eyebrow in diplomatic and political circles in Colombo.

A colossal amount of damage has been done by the Indian acolytes of the “string of pearls” thesis. Some dispassionate analysis will be in order.

Australia laments about the war displaced accommodation in Sri Lanka during last 3 months while ignoring the plight of Aboriginees for last 40 years

Mr. Karu Jayasuriya’s letter in the Island newspaper (11/01/2009) reminded me two truths uttered by two politicians in Sri Lanka in the past. JRJ once said that people elected a schoolgirl as their president meaning one cannot expect wisdom and maturity from such person.

This well attended seminar was organized and hosted by the Sri Lankan expatriate community, the ‘Sri Lanka Support Group’. In the main, it was an attempt to take a fresh look at the past and examine how Sri Lanka can steer its way into a peaceful and promising future.

THERE is no doubt now that people fleeing so-called repressive regimes to seek asylum and greener pastures in western democracies is good business for a consortium of people including people smugglers, human rights activist groups and lawyers, aided and abetted by gullible western journalists and media organisations who see the “Third World” as a chain of liberation struggles against dictatorial regimes.

The ethnic Tamils, who are refusing to leave the Oceanic Viking, have reportedly been living in Indonesia for years.

An open letter to Dr.Radika Coomaraswamy Under-Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict-UN by Asoka Weerasinghe,Canada.

A LEADING terrorism expert says a "small number" of Tamil Tigers are in immigration detention in Indonesia having been intercepted on their way to Australia.

THE Rudd government must soon, very soon, bite the bullet on the use of moderate but firm force to get the 78 Sri Lankans off the Oceanic Viking and on shore in Indonesia.

Thanks to a dysfunctional refugee system and politically motivated interference, Canada is swamped with Tamil Tigers and their supporters - former Canadian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka

Talk delivered by Dr Noel Nadesan, at the 'Sri Lanka Way Forward" ar conducted by Sri Lanka Support Group at the Federal Parliament, ACT on 28th Oct 2009

The support and positions of various foreign governments in regards to the diabolic fighting between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan military, which cost the lives of thousands of innocent civilians, says a great deal about the geo-strategic interests of these foreign governments.

Last week was one of the worst Sri Lanka has ever experienced in terms of foreign policy. Two international reports on Sri Lanka were put out by the European Commission (EC) and the US State Department on the human rights situation here.

An open letter to “THE OTTAWA CITIZEN” by Asoka Weerasinghe, Canada.

India’s prime minister on Wednesday called on neighboring Pakistan to crack down on terrorist groups operating from its soil, as he inaugurated a train service to forge stronger ties between Indian-controlled Kashmir and the rest of the country.

Sri Lanka is joining Israel as a country facing a war crimes investigation for effectively fighting back against terrorism. America should support the Sri Lankan government or keep its nose out of Colombo's business.

THE debate in Australia over the influx of Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka should take into consideration the nature of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sri Lankan conflict that ended on May 19

KEVIN Rudd is either a fool or a fraud when he claims he's "disgusted" by Opposition warnings that a few boat people may be terrorists.

A LEADING terrorism expert says a "small number" of Tamil Tigers are in immigration detention in Indonesia having been intercepted on their way to Australia.

Nearly a million people living in the North and the East prior to May 2009 were subjected to immense hardships due to LTTE terror. The Tiger terrorists not only held those innocent civilians as a human shield but also subjected them to untold hardships.

‘There are things that were just not meant to happen. I mean it was thought that they would not and could not happen.

The disastrous state of Australia’s public health systems is about to get a lot worse, if Australia adopts the institutionalised health care rationing that Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is exporting to the world.

It has been a tough couple of weeks for Sri Lanka in the international arena.

The United States is upset.

Michael Elsner of the Plaintiff firm Motley Rice said in the interview , “We think the case is very strong.

An open letter to the Hon. Anthony Albanese, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport,House of Representatives, Canberra by Vajeeragnana Warnakulasuriya Melbourne, Australia

‘Aid’ is a misnomer; it should in fact be read as ‘investment’. It is well known that for every dollar of ‘aid’ that comes into countries such as ours, several dollars go out through numerous avenues of extraction.

The police on Friday claimed to have busted a major credit card racket with the arrest of a Sri Lankan Tamil, said to be the brain behind the operation in which credit cards were cloned using a skimmer, an embossing machine and other equipment.

There is very little that the International Non Governmental Organizations and other local Non Governmental Organizations funded by vested interests can do to destabilize our country, if and when the people of this country stand united.

the If Centre’s decision is in favour of Kerala on the Mullai Periyar dam issue, it is because of Malayali domination in the higher echelons of power,

Following the claim for damages from Rajaratnam filed in US Courts by victims of the LTTE suicide bombings in Sri Lanka the stage has now been set to follow their lead in filing action in our Supreme Court against university academics and other NGOs in Sri Lanka who have been actively supporting the LTTE knowing that it is a terrorist organization.

Russia-China cooperation a step closer to LaRouche’s Four Powers agreement

Sri Lankan Terrorism Victims Charge Wall Street Hedge Fund Manager,Rajaratnam, With Financing Tamil Tigers

SRI LANKAN asylum-seekers have sailed to Australia in a boat donated by Catholic charities to a devastated coastal community in the wake of the 2004 tsunami.

Probe possible link between three groups detained in Indonesia and Australia

the Swiss government has pledged to crack down on any “illegal activities” related to the proposed new Secretariat of the outfit to be se up in Geneva.

Raj Rajaratnam maintained close contacts with the TRO-US head Dr. Nagaratnam Ranjithan

Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet highly appreciated and lauded the bravery and bold steps taken by President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Sri Lankan Security Forces to defeat LTTE terrorism.

It is military intelligence that matters most after a War. Timing is of the essence.

One of the 76 migrants who arrived off the British Columbia coast in a cargo ship last weekend is wanted in Sri Lanka for terrorism

144 LTTE child soldiers are fortunate to pursue their studies in a Colombo School

Using trade as a strategic tool makes the global trading system hostage to endless political posturing and negotiating games.

The government yesterday (20), expressed its “deep disillusionment with several developments” it had encountered while lobbying to secure the continuity of GSP plus facility

AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated:

OHRW needs to do some serious soul searching - is it up to the challenge?

Rajaratnam is charged in the courts

Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR) is a non-governmental organization based in Victoria, Australia whose mission is to fight against the LTTE's international anti-Sri Lanka propaganda and lobbying.

My reflections on retirement are inspired by a comment made by Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa during an interview with The Island.

Security forces today stumbled upon “hard evidence” of Ulfa purchasing arms from the LTTE.

For generations now, Australians have been spoon-fed the crock that the European settlement of Australia was caused by the need to “relieve prison overcrowding” back in good ol’ England,

On Friday, FBI agents arrested Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group Hedge fund, at his Manhattan home

Sri Lankan-born billionaire Raj Rajaratnam's arrest in the largest U.S. hedge fund insider trading case has fuelled a 5 percent drop this week on the Colombo stock market .CSE, where he is one of the top investors.

The rusty freighter Ocean Lady sailing unannounced in Canadian waters off the BC coast with 76 Tamil men on board was apprehended by the RCMP on October 17, 2009 and taken to Vancouver for questioning.

Their claim that Tamils have no opportunity to live in Sri Lanka and the threats faced by them were rather lame excuses as Sri Lanka is home to nearly two million Tamils.

Rape of Afganistan by NGOs and Business groups in the West

Your news item of 76 suspected Tamil “‘Irregular’ migrants to be scrutinized: official,” who floated in to Vancouver Island on a rusty freighter “Ocean Lady”...

Now we are a proud nation. Our children can go alone all over the country with their heads held high. Ten years ago we had a dream. It was a dream deep rooted in all Sri Lankans. Now this dream has come true. Finally we are free.

A Ministerial Committee was appointed by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa to monitor the development and IDPs resettlement activities in the Jaffna peninsula

India on Sunday offered another tranche of Rs 500 crore assistance to Sri Lanka to undertake reconstruction work in the war-ravaged northern zone so as to speedily resettle 2.5 lakh people uprooted from there.

The Red Cross Movement has spent Rs.700 million from to date 2009 in responding to the humanitarian needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Vavuniya, Mannar, Jaffna and Trincomalee districts.

Dozens of men who were on board a freighter seized by RCMP officers off the coast of B.C. on Saturday have been taken to an unknown corrections facility in Vancouver.

An RCMP emergency response team boarded and took control of a vessel carrying 76 people off the British Columbia coast and piloted it to port on Saturday.

"The final defeat of the `killing might’ of the LTTE on the 18th May 2009 ushered in a new era to our tortured land ”

Talking to newsmen here at the end of his 2-day visit to Indian capital, Burns, said Pakistan should take immediate steps to root out terror infrastructure on its soil

India will join Indonesia on October 18 to undertake ‘coordinated’ patrolling of Malacca Straits.

Sri Lanka yesterday said that hardcore LTTE cadres and their families could be among a boat load of Lankans, now held by the Indonesian government

"The on-going local and international campaign against the detention of IDPs appears to be one of the most formidable problems the Government is facing after overcoming the LTTE.”

The forces defeated the LTTE on the battlefield. It is now up to the statesmen to preserve and strengthen that victory, and win the new war...

“Small-arms conflicts are known to kill an estimated 500,000 individuals each year; approximately one death every minute.

An open letter to Mr. Patrick Brown, MP,Conservative MP for Barrie,House of Commons,Ottawa by Asoka Weerasinghe Conservative Party Member

President Mohammed Nasheed and 13 other government officials submerged and took their seats at a table on the sea floor — 20 feet (6 meters) below the surface of a lagoon

The Defence Secretary said that people should be on vigil since separatist forces were still active though terrorism has been defeated fully in the country

Indicted N.Y. Financier Gave Big to Hillary and Terror Charity - Raj Rajaratnam Accused in $20 Million Insider Trading Case

"The countries of Asia can succeed in rebuilding our continent by greater reliance of our own bonds of unity, strengths of history, and capabilities of our own people”

Why have not New Delhi and Islamabad sat together to plan a common strategy?

Sri Lanka’s US$ 500 million Sovereign Bonds offered to international capital markets was priced at 7.4 percent and 13 times oversubscribed, the Central Bank said last morning.

The National Water Supply and Drainage Board said yesterday it had fined the US Embassy in Colombo...

International financial institutions, that play an increasing role in our region, should be more concerned about the burdens they impose through conditions for assistance.

Indian MP and member of Dravida Munnethra Kalagham Party J.M.Aaron, presently on a visit to Sri Lanka with a group of Indian Parliamentarians, said that the IDPs in the camps in the North did not seem to have been suffering as the Media in India had painted.

“The Nation” met Prof. Gunaratna in order to obtain his expert opinion on the challenges the country is facing in the post war period.

Secessionist forces opened several fronts in a bid to destroy this country––they were military, economic, diplomatic, propaganda and political.

I must admit that I too often wondered, why GOSL could not set free or settle all those LTTE-victimized people, (I do not accept the term IDPs), now in temporary camps, who have been screened ...

The ‘Sudete factor’ still seems to figure unpleasantly in Indo-Lanka relations.

The symbolism of Beijing dispatching its second top leader for celebrations with the reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il almost at the same time as Washington was deciding to break a tradition by refusing...

The report from Belfast, Ireland, announced your statement, “To me terrorism is terrorism.

The concerns generated worldwide by the offer of the 2009 Nobel Peace prize to U.S. President Barack Obama call for a deeper look at Norway ’s expanding role in global peacemaking.

German Police bust int’l human trafficking ring

The Southern PC election has ended giving strong political message to MR government.

Examining the events that led to the passing of the 13th Amendment revealed the following...

Migrant labour not sustainable in long term economic goals

To get away after making that statement in the UN Security Council session on September 30, 2009 presided by her would not have been easy for Hilary Rodham Clinton.

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton has been almost as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel.Hillary Clinton's Failure of Leadership on the World Stage

A response to Ranil Wickremasinghe and Mangala Samaraweera

There was a time when anyone who uttered the word ‘Motherland’ was immediately subjected to all manner of vilification.

A voter’s plea: ‘You don’t have to do anything, but please don’t steal’

Following the recent defeat of a terrorist group [LTTE], it had been discovered that their networks were being transferred to arms smuggling and drug trafficking on the international arena...

Sweden asked to substantiate allegations

General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of 68,000 US troops as well as 100,000 NATO forces deployed in Afghanistan, recently revealed serious differences over US military strategy in Afghanistan.

For weeks Parameswaran Subramaniyan lay in a tent outside the Houses of Parliament as Tamils protested about the plight of relatives under attack in Sri Lanka. At one stage, his supporters claimed he was 'critically weak'.

Defeating the LTTE terrorist is one thing, but overcoming the remaining worldwide LTTE sympathizers’political aspirations and demands, is another.

Clinton’s irresponsible statement on Security Forces:

Now that you have announced your Sri Lanka Truths provided to you from your information suppliers, permit me to tell you the Sri Lanka Facts,

When the the inter- agency task force on women, peace and security of the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1820 in June 2008...

THE United Nations mission in Afghanistan appears to be as fractured as the country. For the comity of nations, this must be the astonishing message of the recall of the senior American diplomat who was the UN’s deputy special representative in Kabul.

The military phase of Sri Lanka’s conflict ended on the 18h of May 2009. The legacy was a reported 300,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

There is a pithy Sinhala saying (well, there are many), kata boru kiwwath diva boru kiyanne nehe (even if the mouth lies, the tongue does not).

About 6-7 years ago, when I was working at the Sunday Island, in the course of a conversation with senior reporter and good friend, Franklyn Satyapalan, I mentioned that I am all for a strong Tamil nationalist movement...

SECURITY officials may move to expel some of the Sri Lankan boatpeople detained at Christmas Island over concerns they are Tamil Tiger fighters and could pose a risk to the community.

While appreciating the efforts made by the government to shelter the IDPs and provide them with all facilities...

Report by Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence, Public Security, Law and Order website on 5 October

When I received your call "(Global Alliance) Re: Join the Sri Lanka campaign for peace and justice" from a friend of mine by e-mail on October 2, at 2:03 P.M., I was enormously troubled by the information that you had presented in that Global SOS...

Politicians come and go and this is true for every country. Statements stay, in heart and memory. Some politicians are remembered not for the good they do ...

Attorney Gomin Dayasiri said on Thursday (Oct.1) that after winning the hot war Sri Lanka was now facing a cold war. He called for public support to deal with this crisis since the State’s intelligence services alone could not handle the problem.

US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Patricia Butenis has issued a statement: ‘Clinton did not implicate anyone in Sri Lanka’.

The United States went back on the statement of Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton and said the US does not have any recent evidence of women being raped while in Sri Lankan government custody.

There is no doubt that Resolution 1888 was long overdue and Hillary Clinton was doing something good for women...

Even amidst the strident criticism by some mischievous elements and the Opposition carrying out propaganda aiming at personal political advantage, the Government is successfully carrying out the resettlement of IDPs and the infrastructure development in the North

Swedish move to disgrace Lanka countered at HRC

By now, the whole world is aware of the decadent, perverted and immoral abuses that took place inside the dungeon near Baghdad known as the Abu Ghraib prison...

Sri Lanka's Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU, Ravinatha Aryasinha has urged that the displaced persons in Sri Lanka be not used as a political tool, but instead that those being critical,..

Where is the proof with credible evidence? Was there a single complaint lodged against the Forces of having raped a woman during the period of conflict? Where are the complainants- where are the victims?

Hillary Clinton Lives in the Biggest Glass House of them All - Hillary Clinton’s statement about rape being used as a weapon during the Sri Lankan war against the LTTE terrorists.

A letter in response to "Analysis: Canada's UN General Assembly speech" by Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon..

Are there moves to globally revive the separatist LTTE and has the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora living in Western and European Union nations a fertile ground to revive the Eelam agenda overseas?

There is a time to refer that interesting adage about complaining that one didn’t have shoes until one sees a cripple and then there are times when the reference to the worse-case is not a legitimate response..

Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights in Sri Lanka (SPUR), said the LTTE which was pushed under ground after its ‘hard to swallow’ military defeat, was very much active in its vicious propaganda campaign in Australia as well as elsewhere..

The communications watchdog has found SBS breached broadcasting rules when it aired a radio program biased in favour of Tamil Tiger rebels...

If at this egalitarian conference, where all nations can express, through their votes the hopes of their peoples, a solution satisfactory to the majority can be reached, a unique step will have been taken in the history of the world. However, there are many forces at work to prevent this from happening..

The then Sri Lankan government had not been aware of Norway’s surreptitious move to strengthen the conventional fighting capability of the LTTE..

Stephen Rapp, President Obama’s point man on war crimes does not believe that Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa brothers have committed genocide and mass atrocities during the final stages of the Eelam War-4..

He has for a long time operated like an authority of international relations, advocating an alarmist don’t-upset-the-West line..

The IDP issue is currently the main topic that allows the UN & western forces & their allies to stampede upon Sri Lanka with varied accusations...

It is a well established legal principle that consent obtained under coercion/duress is no consent..

An attempt to liken welfare centres, in the northern Vavuniya District, run by the Sri Lankan government, to Nazi-era concentration camps could not have come at a worse time...

By sending a report to the Congress simultaneously with the posting of Ms. Butenis, America is signaling that it intends to escalate its confrontations with Sri Lanka to a higher level...

Recently liberated Sri Lanka lead by its respected president Mahinda Rajapaksa is currently under siege by the European Union, the USA and even some UN agencies such as UNICEF..

The Sri Lankan ambassador in Brussels Ravinatha Ariyasinghe, sent the interim report of the European Commission’s three external experts investigating Sri Lanka, to ministers Rohitha Bogollagama, Mahinda Samarasinghe, G.L.Peiris, and ten other officials involved in the GSP+ case from the Sri Lankan side...

Had the Opposition bothered to peruse the international press it would know the extraordinary counter-terrorism measures adopted by the US and its allies though they criticized Sri Lanka for being callous in her security strategy, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said on Friday. ...

In alerting the Parliament to oppose moves by western nations to harass Sri Lankan VIPs the Speaker, W. J. M. Lokubandara, has given leadership to a cause that has been without a voice for too long. His voice should be a warning to the foreign interventionists that Sri Lanka is not going to roll over and fawn at the feet of the Western bullies..

Caution: Images shown on this web site exposing LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorist atrocities maybe disturbing for some users. Please proceed at your own discretion.

The United States' top intelligence agency, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) says that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is the most dangerous and deadly extremist organization in the world. The official website of FBI in its tops story said that LTTE is far more dangerous terrorists outfit than al Queda, Hezbullah or even HAMAS. Read more...

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