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Invitation to Join the `Black Friday` Protest - 11 January

Media Release: To All News Editors / News Directors, Media Institutes and Press. Sinhala version included.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - We strongly protest the government's action in organising mobs against the peaceful protest march called by the Lawyers' Collective.

An Open Letter to Indian Decision Makers!

A serious mistake should not, yet again lead to another blunder. India wake-up!

(PARIS, France) - First of all let me give a brief introduction about myself. In the 1980s

I was one of the people who wrote a few articles and letters to Editors of various newspapers, justifying India’s support to the Tamils including Indian food drops in Jaffna.

Black January

January 8th unfolds; Two goings-on entwined:
Lasantha Remembered on his Fourth Death Anniversary
& Sri Lanka's hassled ramble towards the Slaying of its Judiciary

(LOS ANGELES) - Another year has dawned, and the opening week of this brand New Year ‘Twenty Thirteen’ has already come to a hazy conclusion.

And then comes along that horrific day of this ‘Black January’.

Sri Lanka`s War Likened to Wiping out British PM Cameron`s Constituency

Interestingly, Hague had asserted that the reconciliation process would have a greater chance of success if investigations were led by the GoSL rather than externally imposed.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ) - MP McDonagh has alleged that thousands of her constituents had been indirectly affected by the atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan military.

She represents Mitcham and Morden. In a hard hitting letter to Prime Minister Cameron, MP McDonagh has said that his government cannot ignore the Tamil community in the UK numbered more than a quarter of a million persons.

The Face of Suffering

The Tamil diaspora, which played a significant part in the war, now confronts a recently displaced population that is likely to seek revenge.

(NEW DELHI) - From 2000 to 2004, at a time when the peace process in Sri Lanka was arguably working, Frances Harrison was the chief BBC correspondent in Colombo.

She made several trips to Vanni, a predominantly Tamil region and the heart of LTTE resistance in the north.

Sri Lanka Appoints Military to Teach Sinhala in Vanni Schools

The language policy in practice, just like ‘reconciliation’ upheld by Colombo’s abetters, is a policy of naked genocide, Tamil education circles commented.

(JAFFNA, Srl Lanka TamilNet) - Sri Lanka has appointed occupying military to teach Sinhala as second language to Tamil school children in Vanni.

The Sinhala military personnel went in uniform to schools to report as Sinhala teachers and they claimed that they had permission from the SL education authorities...

SC Interpretation, Parliament and Wickramasinghe`s `Arrogant` Supremacy

Wickramasinghe should know best that the vote his party received at the 2010 parliamentary elections is not reflected in this parliament any more.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Colombo Telegraph) - Who ever who drafted this statement for Tissa Attanayake, needs to at least have some sense of ‘logic’ in arguing a case.

Why go with the SC determination to have “Latimer House Principles” adopted for the conduct of judges, IF you don’t accept the judiciary has a right to interpret what is legal and what is not, about the impeachment?

~ Dear LASANTHA, May Your Sweet Soul Rest In Peace

One of Sri Lanka's murdered journalists who will never be forgotten.

(LOS ANGELES) - FOUR YEARS PASSED BY, as of January 8, 2013, and the CULPRITS are still Merry-Making, in the Land Like No Other.

The ‘murder’ of someone close to us shall eternally leave us shocked with grief...

EPDP Accuses Occupying Sri Lankan Military for Inaction on Child Rape

More than 300 people, including the officials at the government offices and civic bodies, took part in the protest.

(JAFFNA, Srl Lanka TamilNet) - A strange turn of affairs has taken place in Sri Lanka.

Minister Douglas Devnanda’s Eelam People Democratic Party (EPDP), a paramilitary collaborating with Sri Lanka government, demonstrated against the rape and murder of a 4-year-old child, shouting slogans against the occupying SL military.

Missing Woman Found Slain, Dumped Inside Well Near Sri Lanka Military Post

People around Jaffna are in shock after witnessing a series of brutal rapes and killings of women and children.

(KAARAINAKAR, Srl Lanka TamilNet) - Medical staff at two Sri Lankan hospitals told TamilNet that policemen visited their hospital with the mentally disabled female on 07 December seeking medical assistance.

However, the SL policemen later ‘explained’ that they had dropped the female off around 1:30 a.m. on 08 December.