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Tamil Nadu Begins Campaign for UN Referendum on Tamil Eelam

The campaign saw the involvement of university and school students in large numbers.

(CHENNAI, India TamilNet) - Tamil Nadu based civil society group Youth Against War Crimes and Genocide demand for a UN referendum among Eezham Tamils.

Tamils could determine the political future of their homeland.

Postcolonial Theory, Whiteness & Palestine

Zionism, and Israel are actually primarily ‘Judeo-centric’ to the bone.

(LONDON) - Postcolonial, feminist and gay studies share many similarities to the extent that some academics regard these fields as theoretically and ideologically complementary.

These fields of study are primarily concerned with politics, the structure of hegemony, the oppressed and the mechanism that brings about injustice.

Commemorate the Innocent

ACT NOW continues to work side by side with Tamils.

(CHENNAI, India) - This year the Tamil community and their friends are commemorating the genocidal massacre of Tamils that took place in Mullivaikal in May 2009 in a week of action and activities.

Act Now will be attending the two large rallies that are to take place this weekend.

When Seeing Leads to More than Believing

"My pain and suffering is the nursing log out of which so many and so much will grow."

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - What I held in my hand yesterday caused me to flee from the University of British Columbia library, and seek solace in the deep forest that surrounds the campus where I grew up, and where I have discovered the unimaginable.

It was an unusual reaction, for I had encountered much worse over the years.

US Envoys: Losing Lebanon - Visit by Visit?

Graphics by Alex

(BEIRUT Al-Manar) - It might require a semanticist with Noam Chomsky’s erudition to explain to some of us more obtuse the meanings, context and policy nuances of two similar and repeated phases heard in Lebanon earlier this month by two well listened to guests.

During over-lapping visits of top US and Iranian officials to Lebanon; one warned and threatened Lebanon, while the second praised Lebanon’s “achievements”.

War Widows Turn to Sex Work in Sri Lanka

"We try to wean them away from sex work but they say they have no choice" - activist asking not to be named for fear of reprisal.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka IPS) - On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka’s northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of their husbands who disappeared or surrendered at the end of the country's 30-year civil war.

According to government estimates, the ethnic conflict has widowed 59,000 women, the bulk of them in the Tamil-dominated north and east.

Madame D.E.M. O`Cracy: Terminally Ill in India, also Worldwide

Basically, even the largely illiterate villagers in India know what these dregs are.

(CHENNAI, India) - India's government passed an executive order on Information Technology that needs a discussion in the Parliament.

If six Parliamentary sessions pass without discussion, an executive order automatically becomes law.

Sri Lankan Peace Process to be Expedited

Clinton and Singh agree to work closely.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Ceylon Today) - The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh have agreed to work closely in expediting the Sri Lankan peace process.

Hillary Clinton who was on a three day visit to India met the Indian Premier at his residence in New Delhi on Tuesday.

LLRC Recommendations Highly Credible EU Delegation

Many of us in the EU Parliament and in our own Resolution felt that well there are issues to be dealt with and I think it is important that we do not let things slide from the agenda. - Jean Lambert

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sunday Leader) - A parliamentary delegation from the EU visited Sri Lanka last week, its second mission to the country over the past two years.

The delegation headed by EU Parliament MP Jean Lambert comes just weeks after the EU supported a Resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council.

Sri Lanka: Flogging The Tamil Eelam Issue - OpEd

Tamil Nadu leaders have to adopt suitable strategies if they genuinely want to help Sri Lanka Tamils.

(CHENNAI, India Eurasia Review) - May Day celebrations in Sri Lanka this year saw an unusual sight.

R Sampanthan, the septuagenarian leader fighting for Sri Lanka Tamil rights and president of the Tamil National Alliance, standing shoulder to shoulder with the United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, waved a Sri Lanka flag to the cheers of a massive crowd in Jaffna celebrating the May Day.