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Tamils fear bout of ethnic cleansing

As the powerful rebel group fighting for Tamils is now destroyed, tamils are now fearing of the ethnic cleansing.      " In the wake of President Mahinda Rajapakse's declaration of...

9 Tamils arrested in Gampaha

"9 Tamils arrested in Gampaha [TamilNet, Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 20:24 GMT] Nine Tamil civilians were arrested in several cordon and search operations conducted in ten police divisions in the Gampaha district Tuesday. Nearly ten thousand residents were subjected to...

Urgent Appeal for Immediate Medical Assistance & Medical Supplies

Civil sources from the rebel controlled northwest of Sri Lanka describe the aftermath of a Sri Lankan Army's multi barrel rocket & shell barrage on the densely populated area as a carnage with more than 300...

Sri Lankan troops shell "safe zone" for civilians

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) unilaterally announced a "secure zone" for civilians on Wednesday 21-Jan 2009. However, in the early hours of Thursday 22-Jan 2009 the “secure zone” came under Multi Barrel Rocket...

Vanni, a humanitarian catastrophe in the making

Since the escalation of hostilities in early 2006, the movement of goods and people into the northern part of Sri Lanka was restricted by the government. Ever since the attention of the government’s military...

Under reported underdogs

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted on 10th December 1948 by the United Nations at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. Since then this day has been celebrated all over the world as...

How Can My Brother Walk?

Following is a narration by a 4th grader from the northern part of Sri Lanka (Vanni) of the Sri Lanka Airforce attack on an internally displaced hamlet on  29-November 2008. Because we have no father, my mother,...

My Son's Shattered Arm & Future

Another narration by an internally displaced father about a Sri Lankan airforce bombing raid that led to his teenage son’s loss of right arm. My son qualified for faculty of arts through the 2006 university...

Abbas accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing

" DAKAR, Senegal - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of implementing policies he claimed were part of an "ethnic cleansing" campaign in the Palestinian areas of Jerusalem. ...

Darfur continues to deteriorate: UN report

And so do blind eyes continue to be turned..."U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday in a new report to the Security Council that the situation in Sudan's Western Darfur region was deteriorating and more peacekeepers were urgently needed."Over the past two...

UK's last 1,000 soldiers rushed out to Balkans

I hope we have enough Services personnel stationed in the ountry in case they are needed at short notice.. "Britain's overstretched Armed Forces are to send as many as 1,000 troops to the Balkans in a move that will see the military's last remaining reserve unit deployed on...

Nose Bidet Achieves Sudden Popularity

"In recent decades, Western culture has become more open-minded to Eastern medicine and remedies. Many health insurance companies now offer competitive reimbursements for patients seeking care via acupuncture and...

Concrete Solutions for Clean Air

The Italcementi Group in Italy have developed a concrete solution to air pollution which may soon find it's way to Canada.  Concrete which absorbs  air pollution, with the dirtier the air the better the...

F13 Racial ‘Cleansing’ in L.A.

This is a small picture of something many in the Latino community have been warning people about. These Gangs are separated by race and if not squashed soon may spread to other cities and we will have a major...

A Mock Columnist, Amok

"Stephen Colbert on Race: "On race: “While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.”"" Recently, Stephen Colbert went on a rant about the horrific evil that is the...

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