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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.

Mahinda Rajapaksa and His Despicable and Degraded Morals

Mahinda Rajapaksa also knows he is on death row, for sooner than later he is going to be apprehended and brought to justice.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - These are the irrefutable, immutable laws of the universe, no one has the power to overcome or over rule these laws, for some strange reason Mahinda Rajapaksa thinks otherwise, either he is an ignoramus or an man with a defective gene.

The universe will ultimately dispense the right amount of justice, he has no control over it.

Sri Lanka President Urged to Contain Buddhist Attacks on Muslims

They are using abusive language when referring to our religious practices and publicly calling for a boycott of businesses run by Muslims...

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - In a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, Mr. N.M. Ameen, President Muslim Council of Sri Lanka has urged the President to contain attacks on Muslims by Buddhist extremists.

He says groups are using the traditional and social media, public meetings, posters, leaflets, and the circulation of rumours and misinformation insulting Muslims to inculcate a sense of fear and hatred

Ragged Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees Spend Weeks in Boat Before Reaching Australia

They were fleeing a oppressive occupation that carries out terrible acts against Hindu and Christian Tamils with no fear of reprisal.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Proof of the Tamil's suffering made a showing in recent days in Australia.

66 ragged Sri Lankan Tamils, many of them women and children, sailed into Geraldton port undetected by border authorities.

SRI LANKA: Udayan Arson Attack: Secrets Unraveled

Fingers point toward Maj. Pathirane, who reportedly was instructed to carry out the act by Maj. Gen Haturusinghe.

(JAFFNA) - The Udayan newspaper office in Jaffna was set on fire on the instructions of Jaffna Army commanding officer Major General Mahinda Haturusinghe, and the arson had been committed by an army team under the Gajaba regiment.

This, according to Lanka e news inside information division.

Attack on Tamil Daily in Sri Lanka. UN Urged to Intervene: TGTE

Tamil daily newspaper journalists, printing press and offices were repeatedly attacked by armed groups to intimidate and to silence Tamil newspapers.

(LONDON) - Armed men stormed a Sri Lanka newspaper office and opened fire, they also set the printing press on fire. Tamil journalists were repeatedly attacked and killed.

As a result, Tamil areas are saturated with Sri Lankan Military; the ratio is one soldier for every four civilians, the highest in the world.

Parliamentary Secretary Deepak Obhrai Calls on Sri Lanka to Ensure Media Freedom and Investigate Journalist Attacks

Journalists who covered Sri Lanka's Tamil ethnic cleansing disappear and are murdered frequently.

(OTTAWA) - Canada remains deeply concerned about the state of media freedom in Sri Lanka.

The offices of a newspaper in Northern Sri Lanka were attacked again on Saturday.

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.

The Empty Findings of Sri Lanka`s Military Court of Inquiry

The Panel rejected with utter certainty the notion that the Sri Lankan Military mounted a “humanitarian rescue” and that the war was conducted with “zero civilian casualties”.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Colombo Telegraph) - Colombo’s contempt for the international community seems to be increasing.

The recent media release on the findings of the Military Court of Inquiry stretch credibility.

US Warns Sri Lanka of Return to Conflict

US Ambassador Michele Sison says attacks on independent media and journalists continue unabated.

(COLOMBO) - The US has warned that Sri Lanka could face a return to conflict unless it probes war crimes allegedly committed by its troops and addresses the grievances of its minority Tamil population.

Ambassador Michele Sison said Monday night that “important steps in achieving real reconciliation” had not even begun since Colombo declared an end to decades of separatist war in May 2009.