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Raping and Murdering Your Way Into War Crime Court
`Indisputable` - the Only Word for Sri Lanka`s Guilt

Sri Lanka's army messed up big time in deciding to rape and murder a famous TV reporter named Isaipriya.

(SACRAMENTO) - Sri Lanka did not follow these rules of war. In the first photos of Isaipriyaa, she is dead, her clothes are stripped away from her body, her hands are tied behind her back and her pants are pulled down, her legs are spread.

Either way, dead women with their legs open and their clothing stripped away, who are bound, are generally rape/murder victims.

SRI LANKA: Realities Of An `International Investigation`

It is pertinent that anyone calling for an international investigation do so under the powers of Article 99 of the UN Charter routing this through the UNSG instead of the UNHRC for more effective action and avoiding political factors...

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - It is important to point out that nobody should have any illusions of where an "international investigation", if conducted through the UNHRC, is leading to.

If an international investigation is commissioned by the UNHRC as promised by March 2014, it does not mean the Rajapaksas will be taken to court the next day.

Tamil Tigers Honored on Maaverar Naal Heroes Day in Tamil Eelam

It became a tradition in the LTTE to pay tribute to all the cadre's contributions to the movement on this day.

(SACRAMENTO) - The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or Tamil Tigers, were defeated in May 2009 but their spirit is honored each year on 27^th November 2009, Heroes Day in Tamil Eelam. Heroes Day (Tamil: Maaverar Naal) in the Sri Lankan breakaway state of Tamil Eelam recalls the incredible sacrifice of the Tamil Tigers.

The military group formed to defend the Tamil people in the north and east of this island nation from a government set on establishing a Sinhala Buddhist nation. The LTTE staved off the establishment of "Sinhalazation" of the Tamil areas which is taking place in the wake of the war, one that ended as a Genocide.

UK Calls for Probe on Tamil Massacre in Sri Lanka

Cameron also underlined the need for genuine reconciliation between the Tamil and Sinhala communities to work together for a bright future of Sri Lanka.

(LONDON) - British Prime Minister David Cameron today demanded a "transparent, credible and independent" probe into the alleged massacre of Sri Lankan Tamils, days after he pressed President Mahinda Rajapaska for an enquiry into rights violations during the final days of the civil war in 2009.

During the CHOGM summit in Colombo this month, he had said that if the Sri Lankan government fails to launch an independent enquiry by March 2014, UK will call for an international enquiry through the United Nations.

Family of Tamil Activist Threatened in Mannaar After `Sri Lanka CHOGM`

The relatives of missing persons, while peacefully demonstrating and demanding the visiting British PM to witness their plight, were attacked by the Sri Lankan Police...

(MELBOURNE TamilNet) - There is absolutely no democracy in Sri Lanka. Any activist runs the risk of making a disappearing act without a trace. Jude Bashil Sosai (Suresh) is in that process right now. His only crime was that he fought for his people's rights.

Disobeying the orders of the military, whether they are reasonable or not is a crime in Sri Lanka. The punishment for which, is that they would disappear in a white van and there will be no information on him.

Sri Lanka`s Human Rights Situation is Deteriorating and Time is Running Out

CHOGM – The morning after...

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - In the heady days leading up to Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 a government minister stated that:

'The CHOGM will …bring more fame to our country and provide a great opportunity to showcase Sri Lanka's post war developments….this conference…will provide a great opportunity for them (the Commonwealth Heads of State) to witness the development activities in the country….’

Prabhakaran`s Philosophy and Ideology

Let us see some of the useful but very important messages in Prabhakaran’s speeches especially in 2007 and 2008. Let us start naturally with reference to the great country, our India.

(LONDON) - The day November 27th has the holiness and significance of Tamils. They remember and honour their dearly beloved heroes whose supreme sacrifice for the liberation of our motherland continues to fill all their hearts.

Heroes Day speeches clearly tell the world the policies and actions of the LTTE and can be taken as indicators of Prabhakaran’s philosophy and ideology.

United Nations: URGENT APPEAL: Renowned Tamil Poet Arrested and Detained

A Sri Lanka Police Spokesman told the BBC Tamil Service, that he was arrested as he was ‘disrupting the ethnic harmony in the country.’

(JAFFNA) - Shanmugampillai Jayapalan, famously known as VIS Jayapalan in the Tamil literary world, was born in Uduvil, Jaffna in north of Sri Lanka. He began his writing in the 70s while studying at the University of Jaffna and published his first anthology in 1986. Since then he has published at least 12 anthologies of poetry and short novels.

As the war escalated, he fled Sri Lanka in 1988 and was granted asylum in Norway.

Court in Jaffna Dismisses SL Military Claim on Tamil Memorial Site at Theeruvil

No civilized army or government will ever destroy the memorials of the dead, but Sri Lanka will do it. Here is a Sinhalese government that not only destroyed the memorial, but also claimed the property as their own, fit only for Sinhalese colonization. - Visvanathan Sivam

(JAFFNA TamilNet) - District Court of Point Pedro in Jaffna on Wednesday dismissed the claim by the Sri Lankan military that the land, which the Urban Council of Valveddith-thu’rai (VVT) had chosen to build a public park at Theeruvil was a property that should belong to the SL military.

Legal sources in VVT said the civic body could now proceed with building the park which is situated at a key memorial site...

Tamils for Obama: Praise to Cameron on his Ultimatum to Sri Lanka

Tamils for Obama wrote a letter to UK Prime Minister David Cameron praising him for his courage and firmness in delivering an ultimatum to SL President Rajapaksa, and also praising Cameron for extending his trip into the Tamil-inhabited northern province.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Tamils for Obama recently wrote a letter to UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who was in Colombo for the Commonwealth conference.

The letter praised Cameron for taking the time to visit the northern province, and for demonstrating conviction and firmness in issuing an ultimatum demanding that Rajapaksa "begin an inquiry into alleged war crimes by March or face international intervention..."