Who will fill K.P.’s vacuum?
The Tamil diaspora does not appear to be much perturbed over the arrest of K.P alias Kumar Pathmanathan. There are also no signs of chaos and confusion among them going by the announcements made from time to time. It is indeed something intriguing and baffling why the Diaspora which stages demonstrations on even trifles is keeping silent on this issue.
Monsoon onset raising fears for Sri Lanka war‐displaced – Reuters
The onset of monsoon rains in Sri Lanka is raising fears for the safety of thousands of war‐displaced Tamils after rain flooded camps, ruined shelters and caused sewage to overflow, aid workers said on Tuesday.
Around 280,000 Tamils are being held in Manik Farm camp in the Indian Ocean island’s north, after government forces defeated Tamil Tiger separatists and ended a 25‐year civil war.
Abduction of KP shows state terrorism goes on unabated
The Sri Lankan government came out last week with its own military intelligence agents to Malaysia to kidnap the head of LTTE’s International Relations Department. They escorted him in a plane to Colombo and his whereabouts and his destiny are still unknown.
The war in Sri Lanka has ended but the suffering continues
Any health system would have difficulties responding to the needs of over 260,000 people who recently came out of a war zone. And so, facilities in the Sri Lankan IDP camps are overstretched. People sometimes need to wait days before they can see a doctor for treatment and at night non‐medical people decide who gets referred to a hospital and who does not.
Sri Lanka careering back to where it was
After the government of Sri Lanka finally and violently crushed the 25-year-old insurrection by Tamil rebels last May, there were hopes this sparkling island in the Indian Ocean would finally emerge from its dark history into the light. That is already looking forlorn, says Financial Times in its editorial yesterday under the caption ‘Dark triumphalism clouds Sri Lanka.’
KP – he knows secrets that have never been told
The first announcement, as most Sri Lankans prepared to retire to their beds on Thursday night, came just before a special Sri Lankan Airlines non stop flight touched down at the Bandaranaike International Airport. It had taken off from the Kuala Lumpur.
Bemoaning the luxury of three meals a day to Tamil IDPs
Palitha Kohona, a former senior public servant in the Australian Federal government, currently the secretary to the Sri Lankan ministry of foreign affairs serving the terrorist State of Sri Lanka in an interview with the July issue of Himal, South Asian says: “We make sure that they (the Tamil IDPs) get three meals a day which is costing us more than a million dollars a day and medical care (232 doctors have been sent to look after them).
“Operation KP”: Extraordinary rendition of New Tiger Chief
Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias “KP” a.k.a. Kumaran Pathmanathan is currently in the custody of Sri Lankan officials at a secret location. A team of terrorism investigators is interrogating the man who was designated last month as head of the re-structured Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
More Insight to KP arrest
Mr. S Pathmanathan, the new LTTE head
Earlier yesterday the state department reported quoting military sources as saying a top LTTE official has been arrested The identity of the Tiger who was arrested was however not reveled. The suspect is believed to have carried out several key attacks in the country.
Following this story the Daily Mirror published on the arrest of KP in their report it was stated.
Tamils to Endure Three Years of Barbed-Wire Incarceration
Tamils and human rights activists are panicked and shocked at Colombo’s decision to keep the Tamils in internment camps in Vavuniya and even more so with New Delhi’s direct support to keep the Tamils in the camps for the next three years.
