Sri Lankan cricket Team cancel Oxford visit over security fears
Less than three months after their team bus came under terrorist gunfire in Lahore, members of the Sri Lankan cricket team have withdrawn from a scheduled visit to Oxford due to security concerns.
Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sangakkara and team manager Brendon Kuruppu informed the Oxford Union debating society on Friday they feared a backlash after a front-page story in the Times in which it was claimed that 20,000 Tamil civilians had been killed in recent hostilities between government troops and LTTE.
Tamil Eelam Tamil’s plight getting on screen by Bharathiraja’s hand
Inspired by LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, ace filmmaker K Bharathiraja will make a film on the Sri Lankan conflict highlighting the plight of Tamils caught in the war. “The film will focus on the role of LTTE, against the Sinhala regime,” Bharathiraja told. The maker of superhits said the script is yet to be finalised and that he would be using fresh faces for the film.
India betrays Tamils – Vaiko
Marumalarchi Diravida Munnetra Kalaga General Secretary Gopalasamy stated India by voting in supportive of Sri Lanka at the United Nation Human Rights Council has betrayed Tamils.
During the past five months about 145,000 civilians are killed in Sri Lanka and 350,000 civilians are living without adequate protection.
The Eelam Forecast
So why are they bursting crackers in Colombo as if some IPL match was won? Velupillai Prabhakaran, the LTTE chief, may be dead or alive. But that’s completely beside the point. What everyone should be asking is whether the Tamil question in Sri Lanka is dead. Let’s make no fuzzy mistake. The answer is a resounding no.
UN counted 289,915 Tamils in Detention Camps , UNHCR & ICRC refuse to help locating / tracing relatives
As at 26th May 2009, UN local office in Sri Lanka has counted 289,915 Tamils ( excluding Sri Lankan intelligence classified screening and interrogation camps ) who escaped Sri Lankan Government bloodbath in the beaches in Vanni in 50 barbed wire detention camps and the list is reproduced below. Local UNHCR & ICRC is refusing to help locating or tracing relatives and registering the names of these 289,915 tamils a human rights activist accused. Registration of these 289,915 Tamils are done by Sri Lankan Army.
Top Tiger leaders in security forces net
Among those are Karikalan (former eastern province political wing leader and subsequently in charge of the economic disivion), Yogaratnam Yogi (former spokesman of the LTTE), V. Balakumar (former EROS MP turned advisor to the LTTE), Lawrence Tilagar (a former spokesman of the LTTE, a one time head of LTTE office in Paris and later in charge of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation), Thangan (former Deputy political section leader), Ilamparithi (former head of the political section for Jaffna district), Elilan (former Trincomalee political wing leader), Papa (former head of the LTTE sports division), Puvannan (former head of the administrative division of the LTTE), Gannam (deputy international head).
Sri Lankan MPs meet Karunanidhi; ask help for rehabilitation
A group Sri Lankan MPs belonging to ‘Tamil Desiya Kuttamipu Parliamentary Group’ headed by R Sambantham on Saturday called on Chief Minister M Karunanidhi at his residence and discussed developments in Sri Lanka.
Mr. Sambantham was accompanied by another Sri Lankan Parliamentarian Senathi Raja and organisation members Suresh Premchandran and Selvam Adaikalanathan, official sources said.
EU now wants IMF loan stopped
After failing to nail human rights allegations against Sri Lanka, Britain, France and Sweden are now influencing the Obama administration to block the IMF loan to Sri Lanka until Colombo agrees to accept conditions set by the western block.
The European Union and western powers have now focused on attempting to stop the grant of the IMF loan to Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka seeks to dismantle Tigers’ global network
Sri Lanka appealed for support in dismantling the Tamil Tigers’ international support network after declaring victory over the rebels following the decades-long conflict.
Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told a high-level security forum in Singapore that the global organisation of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remained “largely intact.”
Sri Lanka: Ten Questions
As the gory details of what the Tamil population of northern Sri Lanka have been subjected in recent weeks emerge – bit by bloody bit – there is need for a full accounting of every act of barbarity committed against them by the Sri Lankan government.
