UNDP REGIONEL CENTRE IN COLOMBO CLOSED DOWN
According to reports the UNDP Regional Centre in Colombo has been authorized by United Nation Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to close down. A United Nation spokesperson said an announcement has been made in New York a while ago, that Ban Ki Moon has recalled the United Nations Resident Coordinator, Neil Buhne, to New York for consultations Read more
SLN MADE INDIA NAKED
Denuding Indians is equal to denuding India, once great virgin of virgins has become a prostitute and lost all her glory. Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) soldiers brutally attacked fishermen from Vethaaraniyam in Tamil Nadu, killing one of them besides denuding and torturing fellow fishermen as they were fishing in Tamil Nadu seas on Wednesday. This is not the second time or third time, it has been going for many years and several time.
SINGHALESE REBELS BARRICADE THE UN STAFF IN COLOMBO
Singhalese rebels, sponsored by the Sri Lankan government, and organized by the Sri Lankan Minister of Housing, Construction, and Engineering Services and National Freedom Front leader Wimal Weerawansa, are at the UN premises in Colombo barricading the UN staff in the compound. Associate spokesperson for UN Secretary-General, Farhan Haq at the press briefing today (06) said the UN is seriously concerned over the situation which prevented the staff and visitors to the UN office from entering or leaving the premises. Read more
NO GSP PLUS to SRI LANKA – EU
Failing to respond to the conditions laid down by the commission, ended in loosing the GSP trade concessions for Sri Lanka as of August 2010, The European Union officially announced. The British clothing retailer, NEXT, has already stopped sourcing its garments from Sri Lanka, last week, because of the uncertainty of the continuance of the GSP+ duty concession from the European Union. NEXT is a British retailer, with its headquarters in England., and it is one of the United Kingdom’s largest clothing retailers, number three behind Marks & Spencer and Philip Green’s retail empire of Bhs and Arcadia Group. Read more
THE DUAL DANCE OF KARUNANITHI (Karunaganari)
DMK president and Tamil Naadu Chief Minister M Karunanithi is not only a great writer, speaker, and a poet but also a political actor and a dancer as well. To glorify his Tamil Conference 2010, he ordered to release 1400 criminals from prisons in Tamil Naadu while 700 Eelam Tamil families were locked up inside their refugee camp in Vedar Colani. Coimbatore where the conference was held is only 40 Km away from vedar colani, the pathetic thing is these Thoppulkodi Tamils were not allowed to go out of their camp even for their daily work or for shopping till the session of the World Classical Tamil Conference ended. Roman king Nero was fiddled (playing music instrument) while Rome was burning, Karunanithy was writing letters, sending telegrams and staging his drama while thousands of Tamils were perishing by the hands of the barbaric Srilankan forces supported by his central government and their allies. Read more
TamiL Eelam Liberation Tiger’s Intelligence Division is still functioning?
Following the arrest of the 35 years old Easwaran Chandrakumaran by the Matara police, Sri Lankan intelligence unit has turned it’s attention towards the southern part of Sri Lanka. The news agency which published this news reports that the LTTE’s Intelligence Unit is observing the activities of eminent person’s movements in the Southern part of Sri Lanka. Read more
Erick Solheim meets Sri Lankan Journalists
Norway has once again brought to the attention about the incident of senior members of liberation tigers surrendered at the final stage of war to the Sri Lankan government. The former Envoy to Sri Lanka Erick Solheim made this statement in the midst of some Journalists visited Oslo.
Development without politics to Tamils is equal to allowing your own mother to prostitute for your bread and butter
‘Development’ the same old story, the bait and the sinister plan, of unconverted Sri Lankan government for the past several decade to cheat not only the Tamil Diaspora but also the whole world. Colombo is seeking acquittal of its crimes in the international arena as well as money for its greed. Norway based Professor N. Shanmugaratnam, a leading development specialist among Eezham Tamils, repeatedly warns against development without political solution, even though he is a supporter of ‘united Sri Lanka.’
G8 and G20 summits in Toronto
Germany’s chancellor has insisted that Europe’s leaders are making good progress in talks with the US about how to strengthen fragile economic growth. The twin summits, being held in and near Toronto, have come at a time when the world’s largest economies are divided over whether to pursue austerity measures to cut deficits, or continue public spending to stimulate economic growth. Canada spends $1.1bn (US$1.1bn; £730m) to host this week’s G8 and G20 summits, While a staggering 90% of the summits’ budget is for security
UN chief appoints Sri Lanka war crimes panel
UN chief Ban Ki-moon Tuesday set up a panel to investigate allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka during the government’s war against the Liberation Tigers, a UN spokesman said. The three-strong panel would be chaired by Marzuki Darusman from Indonesia, the UN’s special envoy for North Korea, and hoped to complete its work in four months, AFP reported. The other two members of the panel are human rights expert Yasmin Sooka from South Africa and Steven Ratner, an expert in international law of war from the United States. Mr. Ban launched the investigation “to advise him on the issue of accountability with regards to any alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the final stages of the conflict in Sri Lanka.”
