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.
Tragic Story of a ”War refugee separated from her 3 Children”
The ethnic battle continues to rage back and forth; the insurgency may have been defeated, but conflict remains in the form of words and increasingly polarised ideologies. Yet, in the midst of these vociferous exchanges, who can hear the IDPs themselves; the ones who have been firmly planted into a situation that is the direct result of a conflict they have no say in?
“Unified Tamil voice is the need of hour for Independent Tamil Eelam”
While the Sri Lankan state and its allies are relieved that the war is over in Eelam, the Tamils and their allies are in deep shock as to what will happen in the next phase of the LTTE proclaimed political/diplomatic struggle. After the LTTE leader’s decision to silence their guns, the LTTE leadership has not come out publicly to speak in front of the Tamils.
Life during peacetime: With Sri Lanka’s war over, there is no excuse for anti-Tamil policies
During the recent military campaign in Sri Lanka, this newspaper was broadly sympathetic to the Sri Lankan government’s goal of confronting and subduing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers), the guerilla-cum-terrorist force seeking to carve out a Tamil homeland in the northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka.
Phantom aid; The politics of humanitarianism
The US government, which wields considerable influence at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has sought to delay Sri Lanka’s USD 1.9 billion loan appeal. Washington’s hesitance is tied to the context of the humanitarian crisis that preceded the defeat and destruction of the LTTE and the killing of its leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
do Indian High Commissioners dread to come to SL?
India’s High Commissioner (HC) to Sri Lanka (SL) , Alok Prasad had to leave SL even before his official term was over. It is reported that India’s Foreign Ministry is placed in a deep quandary, for there is no one to take over as the Indian HC to SL after Alok Prasad. The reason for this is, many of them who were nominated to take over the post have expressed reluctance to come to SL.
