Sri Lanka: Thousands attend Nallur Festival in Jaffna today
" Crowds of devotees numbering close to 50, 000 have flocked to the Nallur Kumaran Kovil in Jaffna today, for the 24th day of the annual festival being held for the first time since the end of the war. The historic...
Sri Lanka: Over 15,000 IDP families to be resettled
" The Government yesterday said over 15,000 IDP families from the Jaffna district will be resettled in their original homes soon. According to Resettlement and Relief Services Minister Rishad Badiudeen, the...
Your New World of Tomorrow
The Age of Atomic Power Even more sensational is the new age of atomic power, ushered in when the first tremendous atomic bomb exploded over Japan. The awful power of the atom bomb is the same almost inconceivable power that keeps the universe running, the same energy that...
India’s High Commissioner Meets IDPs & Expresses Satisfaction
" India’s High Commissioner Meets IDPs & Expresses Satisfaction on Infrastructure [Updated :: 2009-06-19 15:30:31 Hours || Home] INDIA’s High Commissioner for Sri Lanka Mr. Alok Prasad along with a few other embassy officials was...
tragedy of Tamils in Sri Lanka, hidden from the world
06/19/2009 13:29SRI LANKA The tragedy of refugees in Sri Lanka, hidden from the eyes of the worldby Nirmala CarvalhoThere is still no precise data on the number of people living in the centres. Colombo media do not speak of the plight of the internally displaced persons. An...
A story of the "Yal Devi" Train
A glimpse into the rebuilding of the Yal Devi rail-track.... A once vital link between the North and South of Sri Lanka. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izh0lX9-FOc
Cemmani Mass Grave, 600 Tamil youth disappeared!!!
Cemmani Mass Grave in Jaffna 1996 under Sri Lankan army control!Sri Lankan Army Lance Corporal Somaratne Rajapakse, facing a death sentence for the rape and murder of student Krishanti Kumaraswamy and her family,...
Electricity for North: A9 road from Omanthai - Mankulam completed
Plans are already underway for the development of the North. Meanwhile infrastructure development in the East has been ongoing and building much needed roads and a large number of bridges has been the number...
created by Hiranya Malwatta | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago
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The day cricket came back to Jaffna! Aravinda in Jaffna!
It was so heartening to hear about Aravinda De Silva, the world famous SL cricketer getting involved in training Jaffna children. It very much looks like Northern people are eagerly waiting to live their new life...
created by Hiranya Malwatta | 35 wks ago | updated 35 wks ago
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747 views | 32 recommendations | 28 comments
Sri Lanka- Civilian explains what happened(translation available)
Plight of the civilians in the North, (and the Eastern Province before that) at the hands of LTTE has been no secret during the past few decades. Tamil leaders who spoke on behalf of these civilians were brutally...
created by Hiranya Malwatta | 41 wks ago | updated 41 wks ago
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625 views | 10 recommendations | 15 comments
Hunger strike against killings of Tamil in Vanni continues, in Ja
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 05:35 GMT] More than a hundred persons including women, men, children and priests led by Jaffna Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Saundaranayagam, continued the hunger strike at...
created by WilliamBaptist | 42 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago
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Peoples power -
Residents of Jaffna held a protest today calling on the LTTE to release the civilians held back by them in the Vishvamadu, Puthukudiiruppu area as a human shield.Pic: Daily News. When the war zone is heating up,... International fears for Tamil civilians caught in Sri Lanka war
As Sri Lankan army is progressing forward and about to completely eradicate the control of LTTE, the future of innocent Tamil civilians have come to fore. Thousands of Tamil civilians have been caught in a...
Sri Lanka Army 'completes Jaffna takeover'
Sri Lankan government forces are progressing forward in rebel held areas after sucessfully capturing two major strategic vantage points. And now the last remaining strip of rebel-held land on the northern Jaffna peninsula is now in government hands. The peninsula and its...
86 Tamil civilians reach security forces seeking safety - Jaffna
" Eighty-Six Tamil civilians who were able to escape LTTE's grip have reached to the security forces in Jaffna seeking safety for their lives this morning, 13 January. According to the available information, civilians have arrived at security forces controlled area...
created by Hiranya Malwatta | 45 wks ago | updated 45 wks ago
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