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“Explore federal set-up for Sri Lanka”
(The Hindu, 07 01 2009) - CHENNAI: The establishment of a federal structure in Sri Lanka is among the options that can be discussed across the negotiating table between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according to Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss.
In an interview with The Hindu on Tuesday, Dr. Ramadoss recalled that the LTTE once supported the idea of a federal model when Anton S. Balasingham was the organisation’s theoretician and political …
Peoples support will help surmount challenges: LTTE Political Head
(TamilNet, Tuesday, 06 January 2009) - Pointing out that Ki’linochchi was where Sri Lanka military has suffered previous historic debacles, LTTE Political Head B. Nadesan, in an interview with TamilNet on Monday dismissed the occupation of the town as an insignificant setback in the context of a liberation struggle, and said, Tamil people’s support has always been LTTE’s strength, and with the moral backing of the global Tamil community the movement will surmount current and future challenges. “We have taken …
‘Pro-Tamil’ TV station attacked in Sri Lanka
(IANS, 06 01 2008) - A private radio and television station on the outskirts of Sri Lanka’s capital has been attacked by an armed gang, causing extensive damage to the studio complex and interrupting its broadcasts, a spokesman for the station said Tuesday.
A gang of 15 to 20 men stormed the Maharaja TV and Maharaja Broadcasting Corporation at Pannipitiya, 20 km southeast of the Colombo, holding the staff at gunpoint and assaulting some of them before causing the damage early …
Indian Naval Personnel to Mullaiththeevu: Thirumavalavan lambasts New Delhi
(TamilNet, Monday, 05 January 2009) - Thirumavalavan, a Tamil nationalist leader and the president of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) in Tamil Nadu, on Monday condemned the Indian Government for “betraying the entire Tamil people” by sending civil clothed Indian naval personnel to Mullaiththeevu through the Chennai international airport. Addressing the media in Chennai, he said that New Delhi was “totally responsible” for the “ruthless genocide” of Tamils in Sri Lanka. “Even the future generations of Tamils will never forgive the …
Indian Government gets notice on plea to retrieve Kachchatheevu island
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the government on a plea of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalitha to retrieve a 285-acre island in the Palk Strait off Rameshwaram from Sri Lanka.A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice Markandey Katju and Justice P. Sathasivam issued the notice on the AIADMK chief’s plea that the late prime minister Indira Gandhi had ceded the Kachchatheevu island to Sri Lanka in 1974 without suitably amending …
Centre “humiliating” TN Government: PMK
Chennai (PTI): PMK on Monday charged the UPA government with “humiliating” Tamil Nadu and the DMK government in the state by not taking steps to ensure a ceasefire in Sri Lanka but remained non-committal on whether it will quit the ruling UPA at the Centre.
Tamil Nadu Assembly had passed two unanimous resolutions urging the Centre to press Sri Lankan government to enforce a ceasefire. “But the Centre had not taken any action on it,” PMK founder S Ramadoss told reporters …
TNA accuses Colombo of war crimes and key international States for providing military assistance
(Tamilinsight, 05 01 2008) - Parliamentaty group of the Tamil National Alliance in a press release issued from Colombo on Sunday noted with disappointment that the international community has not only been by and large silent whilst the Genocide of the Tamil people is taking place, but also that key international States are continuing to provide military assistance to the Sri Lankan State using various pretexts.
Highlighting the events where Sri Lankan …
Lift ban on the LTTE: Tamil Nadu BJP
(TamilNet, Sunday, 04 January 2009) - The Tamil Nadu unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the principal opposition party in India, has given clear indications of the necessity for lifting the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam according to news reports in the Indian media. Vaithiyalingam, a senior BJP leader and member of the party’s national general council, proposed this idea. In an exclusive interview to a Tamil biweekly, he said that although his party did not believe …
Sri Lanka: Aerial Attacks on Vanni Civilians – UN Gen. Secretary Mr Ban Ki Moon’s intervention sought to halt this carnage
(Tamilinsight, 03 01 2009) - Vanni Thamil Forum in a letter to the UN Gen. Secretary Mr Ban Ki Moon has drawn his attention to the heavy bombings and casualties in Vanni and pleaded his meaningful steps to halt this carnage. While congratulating the Gen.Secy for his condemnation of the Israeli attacks on the Palestinian civilians, it reminds the necessity for a similar condemnation of the Sri Lankan attacks on Vanni civilians.
Full text of the letter is as follows:
Vanni …
Despite setback LTTE will keep fighting, claims Tamil MP
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) A Tamil MP from Sri Lanka asserted Saturday that the Tamil Tigers would never give up even after losing a key town and retreating into their last remaining fortress Mullaitivu. M.K. Shivaji Lingam admitted, however, that the fall of Kilinochchi was “indeed a setback” but he said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) would keep fighting a la Vietnam.
“And even if the LTTE were to lose Mullaitivu also, then too they will continue their …
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18 12 2008
Video: British Parliament on Thursday (18 12 2008) debated the present situation in Sri Lanka. Parliamentarians of various parties highlighted the concerns of the Tamil diaspora on the situation in their homeland. The adjournment debate on Sri Lanka was proposed by Mr Andrew Pelling MP (Independent Conservative Croydon Central) and chaired by Deputy Speaker Sir Michael Lord.
Vanni Situation
Members of British Parliament from all three main political parties in a show of solidarity and concern spoke on 14 Oct 2008 in support of Tamils and the general suffering of the Tamils, particularly in Vanni, North of Sri Lanka.