Sri Lanka: attacks on free media put displaced civilians at risk

" Vigil marking the first anniversary of the detention of Sri Lankan journalist Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam, London, March 2008 © Amnesty International" "If you read Sri Lankan newspapers,...

Get ready for sacrifice, Tamils urged

"Tamil Eelam is the only solution for the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and the Tamil Diaspora should be prepared for any sacrifice to achieve it, declared leaders of the Sri Lankan Tamils Protection Movement...

Tamils re-affirm desire for self-rule

Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the party ran on the platform of self-determination won a key council in Sri Lanka. The government was expected to do well for the following reasons: The election was held too soon after the end of the war for people to vote and for democracy...

No excuse for anti-Tamil policies

National Post, a new paper that was "broadly sympathetic to the Sri Lankan government's goal of confronting and subduing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam", posted an opinion that "there is no excuse for anti-Tamil policies. "Sri Lanka must now be judged by the...

Download 800pg Indictment Document against Sri Lankan officials

On Feb 5th, Thursday, Bruce Fein, counsel for US-based group Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), submitted to United States Attorney General, Mr Eric Holder, the Model Indictment charging U.S. citizen and Sri Lanka's Defense Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and U.S. green card...

Tamils' transit to Australia, 'land of freedom'

" Tamils' transit to Australia, 'land of freedom' July 4, 2009 Among the 100,000 refugees in Malaysia, many Sri Lankans are ready to risk all on a clandestine...

LTTE: Comeback Trail

" The distance between the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) sheltered in the camps in search of a new life and the Externally Displaced Diaspora engaged in a self determining exercise of rediscovering themselves...

Sri Lanka can do it says Akashi

" Japan’s Special Envoy Yasushi Akashi last night called on all Sri Lankans to draw strength from its greatness to overcome challenges in the highly favourable post-war era. “I am not aware of any other...

Sri Lanka - Eelam 2.0 the transnational government

" With the fall of the final pocket of land under LTTE control and the death of the organisation’s founder and leader, the LTTE’s visions of a separate state seem to have been consigned firmly to history. Sri...

Sri Lanka won an important victory over LTTE - Blake

"  June 26, 2009  10:14 am Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the new Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia, Robert Blake, new told at the hearing of the Congressional...

Tamil Tiger Mobs Attack Sri Lankan Cricket Fans

" Tamil Tiger Mobs Attack Sri Lankan Cricket fans after the ICC Twenty 20 Final London, 25 June, (Asiantribune.com: Several Sri Lankans were attacked by Tamil Tiger mobs in London soon after the ICC Twenty20 Final...

Child soldiers fight LTTE Ghosts

"Kumudha absent-mindedly fiddles with her left forefinger. Then, looking embarrassed, she hurriedly tucks it into the foldsof her skirt. She often forgets that she has no forefinger. Only a stub. The finger was...

LTTE’s Eelam without borders

" With the Sri Lankan armed forces having wiped out the LTTE and brought the war for an independent Eelam to an end, the rebel group’s international relations head Selvaraja Pathmanathan has announced a plan to...

Tamils protest against Sri Lankan team for World Twenty20 Cricket

Sri Lankan Cricket team playing T20 World Cup in Trent Bridge, UK were greeted by some 70 people waving banners in protest against what they claimed was killing of innocent Tamils by the Sri Lankan armed forces...

Paris Tigers try to hoodwink diaspora

" Top LTTE fund collectors in France try to persuade Tamil diaspora to disbelieve KP’s acknowledgement that Prabhakara had died. While the top diaspora members fight over the future strategy of the Liberation...

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