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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,...

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...

Family of Baluch martyrs: Ibrahim Saleh killed

Can you snatch the desire for life by killing people, a Baluch liberation poet Mir Gul Khan Naseer had asked many decades ago. In Mekran a family dedicated to the independence of Baluchistan has lost a second...

Victimization of Tamil Peopel must stop - Elie Wiesel

Holocaust surviver, Jewish icon, and Nobel laureate, Professor Elie Wiesel stated that victimization of Tamil people must stop, and they should be able to live in peace in their homeland. " TAMIL PEOPLE STATEMENT:...

Pakistan embassy in DC faces Iran protest heat

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan -- the country most allied with Iran's theocracy -- represents Iranian interests in the United States and is facing the ire of pro-democracy Iranian exiles and their supporters here...

Philippines captures 'rebel base' on Mindanao

" Troops in the Philippines have seized a separatist camp and killed 30 rebels on Mindanao island, the military says. The army said its soldiers found large caches of weapons and ammunition when they entered the...

Can Artists Be Labels? Reznor, Radiohead, and the Mass Market

While artists rail against exploitative labels, those labels do fulfill a role in the entertainment-biz ecosystem: basically, everything other than actually recording and performing the music. However, thigs are...

FBI Justifies Sri Lanka war on Terror

It would be interesting for those sympathizers of terror organizations to know they indeed become indirect participants of the terrorist activities of such groups.The LTTE - one such Terrorist outfit, the US...

Lankan Tamils- One of the most priviledged minority in the world

Douglas Wickramaratne , The president of the UK,s Sinhala Assosiation and a Tamil spokeman Arjun Ediriweerasingham debated the contraversial London demonstration carring the official LTTE flag and blocking...

Who can protect Tamil civilians ? USA? UK? UN? LTTE? GOD? NOBODY?

" Dozens of Sri Lankan civilians are being killed and many more wounded every day even as the government moves to restrict foreign diplomats and journalists from what has been called a "war without witnesses". While war rages in north-eastern Sri Lanka, aid agencies say that...

Stop shooting and start talking: Lanka, LTTE told

"An LTTE plane has been shot down. This is of concern. Political solution has to be found to the LTTE issue and military action will not do."" New Delhi: India on Saturday said the Sri Lankan government and the...

Gory video shows torture marks on victim's body

Sattar Baloch is an educational supervisor but faced electric shocks on his penis and all over and his hands, legs on an alleged charge of being linked to the freedom movement in Baluchistan. "I don't think you see such kinds of atrocities in Iraq, Palestine or Kashmir," he...

China's War Against Weather

"In Shandong Province, cannon troops of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had fired more  than 300 rockets and 2,000 artillery shells in cloud-seeding operations by 5 p.m. Sunday. The operations brought an...

Hamas leads suicide For Palestine.

Hamas has murdered more Gazans  than Israel has killed. Now theywant to kill the Palestine hopeof a free state. "Some might ask; what about Hamas? Unfortunately the Muslim brotherhood-affiliated movement has...

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