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`In a Volte-Face, Jayalalithaa Started Supporting Tamil Eelam`

The resurfacing of the Tamil issue is due to the Eelam War which eliminated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and its leader Prabhakaran.

(CHENNAI, India) - The issue of discrimination against Tamils in Sri Lanka has recently led to strong protests against Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa as well as some pilgrims from the island nation.

US Lawmakers Write to Secretary Clinton Urging Continued Engagement with Sri Lanka on UNHRC Resolution

Includes full text of letter, signed by 31 US legislators.

(WASHINGTON DC) - We write to express our concerns regarding reconciliation and accountability progress in Sri Lanka following its 26-year civil war and the alleged commitment of war crimes and crimes against humanity by both sides in the final stages of the conflict in 2009.

We came, We conquered, He died

Reflections on Hilary Clinton’s Libyan triumph, Chris Stevens, and the price of regime change.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - When I read of the sad death of the American ambassador in Libya, I wondered whether Hilary Clinton, who had reacted with such depressing vulgarity and Caesarian pretension to the death of Colonel Gaddafi, registered the link between this killing and what the Americans had done in Libya.

Salley To Put An End To The Silence

"... What happened to Lasantha Wickramatunga? Now everbody calls me and says what happened to Lasantha will happen to me. I don’t care."

(COLOMBO Sunday Leader) - At the recently ended elections Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) contested separately. However after the elections ended they decided to support the government.

Sri Lanka Still Unsafe

New documentary shows that Sri Lankan refugees are fleeing human rights abuses in their homeland and are not merely economic refugees, as claimed by the opposition. Kerry Brewster from Lateline reports.

(MELBOURNE, Aust) - The war crimes against Tamil Hindus and Christians that ended in a terrible bloodbath three years ago have inspired many to write about this disaster.

Most who do lament the way the government of Sri Lanka planned and executed the crimes that left tens of thousands of innocent civilians dead and dying.

Kappang A9 Highway and Kappang Flyway of Sri Lanka

Tamils going through Katunayake International airport are targeted.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - The government’s big banging road development projects in the north is becoming money minting machinery for the police/army patrols and check-points.

Vehicles are stopped with the intent of demanding kappang (bribe) from the drivers on ludicrous charges of violation of road rules.

Eastern Province Election: The Big Lie About Shared Power in Sri Lanka

East is now undisputed proof, this regime is not for any form of devolved power.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - A week gone by and the claim by President Rajapaksa – that his leadership paved for ten successive victories for the UPFA which by itself is a historic feat – is being severely challenged in the East. People are strangling the conscience of the SLMC leadership and the SLMC shopping list is being ignored by President Rajapaksa.

To begin with, the PC elections were NOT free and fair in any way...

Koodankulam: Sri Lanka Condemned to be in a Nuclear Neighbourhood?

Is the island nation going to be permanently compromised by nukes?

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Sri Lanka is not in a position to claim compensation if a nuclear disaster occurs in South India and would also be unable to do anything in the event a nuclear accident occurs in the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), just 240 km away from Sri Lanka.

Meanwhile, several anti-nuclear movements are prevailing upon the Government of India to abandon the entire project in South India.

`Systematic Sinhalisation in Jaffna, Mullaitivu` - Tamil politicians

“...nothing but a systematic campaign to decimate very existence of the Tamil nation” - Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam

(JAFFNA,Sri Lanka) - In the name of keeping the security tight in the former war zones, the government of Sri Lanka “is systematically Sinhalising the traditional fishing livelihood of the war-ravaged Tamils in the northern Jaffna and north-eastern Mullaitivu districts”.

Former MP and leader of the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam said the motive was to “eliminate the very existence of the traditional Tamil nation as a whole”.

US Federal District Court Defers to State Department Sri Lankan President`s Case

Judge Buchwald noted, however, that the plaintiff advanced several arguments to break new jurisprudential ground.

(NEW YORK) - A U.S. District Judge in New York deferred to the Suggestion of Immunity issued by the U.S. State Department and dismissed the lawsuit brought by Vathsala Devi, the wife of Col. Ramesh.

The Plaintiff asserts cause of action against President Rajapaksa for torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and international infliction of emotional distress in violation of the Alien Torts Claims Act, Torture Victim Protection Act and others.