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Chennai Event Challenges ICE Complicity in Tamil Genocide

Candlelight Vigil Event Organised by May 17 Movement

(CHENNAI TamilNet) - Articulating right demands and slogans in Genocide Remembrance events is crucial at a time when the Eezham Tamils in their homeland are barred from even silently mourning their heroes.

They sacrificed their lives in the culmination of the genocidal war at Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal, one political activist from Jaffna said at the May 19 event at Marina beach in Chennai.

Upcoming Action at Dow Chemical`s Shareholder Meeting

The ongoing chemical disaster occurring in Bhopal, India, has claimed over 25,000 lives in the past 29 years.

(DA NANG Vietnam) - An upcoming action at is planned for the Dow Chemical shareholder meeting in Michigan, the event is organized by the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal--North America (ICJB-NA)

ICJB-NA strives to hold Dow Chemical accountable for the ongoing chemical disaster occurring in Bhopal, India, which has claimed over 25,000 lives in the past 29 years.

Did China Just Invade India?

According to news reports in India Chinese troops have set up checkpoints 19 KM inside Indian borders with a banner that reads “You are in Chinese Territory”.

(WASHINGTON DC IntelliHub) - Hostility is rising between India and China over their disputed Himalayan border and shared water resources.

All of this comes just before Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is scheduled to visit New Delhi next month.

The `Hidden Hand` in the `Killing Fields of Sri Lanka` Exposed: It`s India!

There is an untold story about how New Delhi became instrumental in the brutality and the present inhuman sufferings of Sri Lankan Tamils.

(CHENNAI) - The air has been full with the “Killing Fields of Sri Lanka”, the Channel 4 documentary.

The visuals showed naked Tamil prisoners shot in the head, dead bodies of naked women who had been raped and dumped on a truck and other atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces...

Indian News Magazine Highlights Accelerated Sinhalization of Sri Lanka`sTamil North

Already 165 Sinhala families have been resettled in Kokkachchaankulam, which is to be renamed...

(CHENNAI TamilNet) - Sinhalisation of the Tamil Homeland takes several shades.

One is land grabbing and changing the names of villages and roads. The next is replacing Hindu temples with Buddhist temples.

False Complaint by Mullahs in Srinagar Rejected

Men arrived with huge stones and sticks and attacked and beat Agape Home guests who tried to escape.

(SRINAGAR, India) - The mullahs of Srinagar in Kashmir lodged a police complaint saying that many foreign visitors come to the Agape Home and try to convert children to Christianity in Shivapura area of Srinagar.

The local newspapers also printed this false story the next day. But after proper investigation, the police have rejected the complaint by the mullahs.

A Tamil Spring?

Political parties no longer lead but are being led – at least for the moment.

(CHENNAI) - A new generation of college students in Tamil Nadu has taken up the cause of the Tamils of Sri Lanka.

Articulate, well informed and uncontaminated by the influence of time-serving politicians they have successfully forced an agenda on the three main political parties in the state.

INDIA: Indira Government Acted Tough Against Catholic Bodies: WikiLeaks

India imposed strict conditions on appointment of bishops in the country after they opposed the mass sterilization drive.

(NEW DELHI) - A recent revelation by WikiLeaks states that the former Indira Gandhi government in India acted tough against Catholic bodies for resisting the compulsory sterilization program.

This was revealed after the WikiLeaks released the Kissinger Cables, a cache of US diplomatic cables.

Sri Lanka: `TN Student Movement Opens Possibilities of New Political Futures`

Formerly ‘apolitical’ and aloof sections in Tamil Nadu are being roused into participating in protests.

(CHENNAL TamilNet) - The Tamil Nadu student movement has “thrown up a new young leadership” that is unaffiliated to any political party.

They are challenging the US-sponsored UNHRC resolution on conceptually firm grounds “clearly shows that here is a new generation of Tamils which is imagining new political futures...”

Corporate India Versus Indigenous Indians

Violence In The Name Of Development.

(LONDON) - Consistent with the unjust, decaying economic model of our deficit times, the commodification of everything and everyone proceeds apace in India.

The commercialisation of the land is shattering the lives of millions of India’s poorest, hungriest most malnourished people, who are being murdered and raped, violently displaced and falsely arrested as huge multi nationals, financially favoured and militarily armed by the Indian government, ravage the land.