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Historic Resolution Passed in Tamil Nadu

Review by Prime Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam V. Rudrakumaran.

(TAMIL NADU, India) - The Tamil Nadu State Assembly unanimously adopted a historic resolution yesterday, March 27, 2013 under the distinguished leadership of Hon Selvi Jayalalitha, the Chief Minister.

This article examines a number of highlights of this resolution...

Memorandum of Urgent Intervention to Stop Continuous Genocide of Muslims in Myanmar

Buddhist monks and others armed with swords and knives stalked the streets of a city in central Myanmar attacking the Muslims.

(LONDON) - Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM) strongly condemns the attack on Muslim population by the Myanmar government.

The recent riot involving Buddhist and Muslim in Meiktila is the interpretation of continuous effort to clean Muslim from Myanmar.

Ignoring Tamil Hindu Genocide in SL is a Sin of Indian Politics

Delhi to Geneva, all Should Make ‘Justice to the 150,000 Tamil Victims'

(TORONTO) - As a key stake holder of World Peace and a neighbouring country, India is responsibility for the ethnic Tamil people (MOSTLY HINDUS) in Sri Lanka who faced human rights violations during the civil war.

That’s why many urgent appeals have been reached urging the Prime Minister and the External Affairs Minister of India to take a strong stand for this ethnic minority at the UNHRC.

Ambassador Donahoe Press Statement After Adoption of HRC Resolution on Sri Lanka

Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, U.S. Representative to the Human Rights Council, at a press stake-out at the United Nations, Geneva.

(GENEVA) - I’d like to open with a few general remarks about the current session and then turn to the important resolution on Sri Lanka that just passed.

This session, which draws to a close tomorrow, has been one of the most significant in the Council’s short history.

INDIA: TN Readies Biers for US Resolution, Demands Genocide Acceptance, Interim Set-up, Referendum

Students demanded India to acknowledge the Eezham Tamils' plight in the island of Sri Lanka as genocide and to call for a UN referendum at Geneva.

(MARINA BEACH TamilNet) - Despite the attempt of Tamil Nadu state to deter the upsurge by closing a section of government colleges, the student movement gained momentum during the weekend.

In the struggle demanding justice, the students' movement prepares biers to take the US resolution to ‘cremation’ on Monday, news sources in Tamil Nadu said.

Rohingya Patriotic Poem

Poem relates story of the most persecuted people on earth.

(RANGOON Mayu Press) - Since last summer, Rohingya Muslims have been the focus of an ongoing Genocide in their native Burma. Rakhine Buddhists are in charge of this country under the leadership of President Thein Sein.

This is a country that until very recently, was closed to the outside world, ruled by an inflexible military junta.

The Green Light for Zionism`s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By 1949 more than 400 Palestinian towns and villages were systematically destroyed or taken over by Israeli Jews; at least 750,000 Palestinians were refugees.

(LONDON) - I find myself wondering how many of our present day leaders, President Obama in particular, are aware of what happened in Palestine that became Israel on 10 March 65 years ago today.

They did not and never would refer to the crime they authorised as ethnic cleansing. Their euphemism for it was “transfer”.

The Suspension of Aid to Rwanda: A Late but Welcome Decision.

By: Emmanuel Hakizimana, Ph.D., Economist, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada and Gallican Gasana, Genocide survivor, Toronto, Canada

(WASHINGTON DC) - Eastern Congo had known peace and stability until the massive exodus of Rwandan refugees of 1994.

This period was followed by the first Rwandan invasion of 1996 and then the first “African World War” of 1998.

Rwanda`s Lessons Not Implemented in Sri Lanka, Says UN

Pillay has also issued a stern warning to the Sri Lankan Government not to repeat last year’s intimidation and threats against human rights defenders at next week’s UN Human Rights Council.

(MELBOURNE, Australia) - The UN Human Rights High Commissioner, Navi Pillay, says Sri Lanka has broken its promise to improve human rights in the island nation.

Pillay said the Rajapaksa regime had failed to investigate atrocities, as it promised the UN a year ago, and that opposition leaders were still being killed or abducted.

The Men Who Killed Me

Survivors of Rwanda's Genocide have inspired people nationally and globally in many ways.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Many books have been written about the 1994 Rwandan Genocide from various perspectives.

The majority of the books analyze the unending question of was this war planned, unplanned, a spontaneous outbreak of mass violence or an organized and strategic event that took the lives of almost one million people in just 100 days.