The Sri Lankan Supreme Court on Monday directed ABC Broadcasting (Pvt) Ltd. to provide details of the original shareholders of the company at the time the broadcasting licence was given. The bench comprising Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva, Justices Shirani Tilakawardena and Andrew Somawansa made this order when the matter relating to cancellation of licence of the five radio stations run by ABC Radio was taken up before court.

International community should change its approach, Tamil Eelam National leader in his annual Heroes’ Day statement on 27 November 2007

The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), V Pirapaharan, in his annual Heroes’ Day statement put a heavy responsibility on the shoulders of the international community for the breakdown of the peace process. He said that the involvement of the international community to resolve the Tamil national question has been unhelpful and added that their failure to condemn unambiguously the military path of the current regime has created the present situation in the island.

Full text of the press release issued by the RSF follows:

The attack on the printing press of the Sunday Leader as well as the very manner in which the attack was carried out, comes as no surprise to anyone who has observed the ease with which any form of violence can be perpetrated in present day Sri Lanka. The strategy of this violence is now very much like the tricks one might use in a computer game. It is easy to kill, easy to burn and easy to escape. In Sri Lanka, by sheer experience which is repeated endlessly, over and over again, this strategy is now known to everyone. Anyone who wishes to be a villain does not need much training and the rest of the population has learned how to carry on with life as if nothing has happened.

The LTTE cadres and the Tamils around the world celebrated the 53rd birthday of the LTTE supremo Velupillai Pirapaharan today (November 26). On this occasion, the Diaspora Tamils are sending their greetings through local Tamil televisions and Tamil radios while the locals in Eelam send their messages through Voice of Tigers radio and other media outlets functioning in Eelam. The Tamil Tiger supremo began his military campaign at his early age in the 1970s to fight the discriminatory Sinhala hegemony governments that enacted laws against Tamils and resorted to undemocratic means and violence to suppress the peaceful campaigns of the Tamils for realization of their just demands.