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`Murdered With Impunity` - Sonali Samarasinghe on the Assassination of Lasantha Wickramatunga

Widow of Murdered Sri Lankan journalist shares candid information about a great man whose death remains unresolved.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Journalist Sonali Samarasinghe is the widow of the Sri Lankan journalist said to have "predicted his own death", Lasantha Wickramatunga.

She appears in a video released by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), addressing the tragic killing.

US: Exposing the Hypocrisy of a Nation

For its revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, like slavery itself, the doom of the United States of America is certain.

(DENVER) - Abolitionist, former slave and gifted Black orator Fredrick Douglass, offered what was perhaps the most caustic speech ever on July 4 1852.

He spelled out in no uncertain terms what the American Independence day meant to slaves ensnared in the so-called empire of liberty.

Do We Care About Anything Meaningful, or Just Realty TV and Sports?

We don't care that the US government feels it can violate another nation's sovereignty and kill at will? I wonder the public would say if Russia or China used drones to kill innocent US citizens? Would we even care?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Do we care at all that people pronounced innocent by the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA will die in jail?

About 169 prisoners are still being held in Guantanamo of which 87 have been cleared for release by the CIA, FBI, and NSA.

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.

~ 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...

Malaysian Tamil Declaration Upholds Eezham Tamil Sovereignty

The local Malaysian grassroot activists were full of genuine feeling for the cause.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - The World Tamilar Protection Conference held its second session conducted in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia on Friday.

The group recognises the need to understand the question of Eezham Tamils in terms of their claim for Historical Sovereignty, Earned Sovereignty and Remedial Sovereignty in their territory.

Of Benghazi and the Liberty

Only the orders of the President of the USA could have put that nuclear air unit on high level alert.

(ST AUGUSTINE, FL) - A Texas writer, Robert Morrow, sent me the following:

There is an extremely important book that came out in 2003 and was published by Vision. It is "Operation Cyanide-Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III " by Peter Hounam and it is about Israel's attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967.

International Boycott Day - Protests Held Globally Against Clothing `Made in Sri Lanka`

Protestors at the rallies urged American corporations to begin moving their production of clothing to other countries that do not commit rights abuses.

(LONDON) - Consumers and human rights activists across the globe staged protests in front of clothing outlets on December 15, 2012 to warn holiday shoppers to "check the label" and boycott products made in Sri Lanka.

Boycott Sri Lanka Campaign activists in U.S. cities handed out leaflets, held signs and talked to customers in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Washington, Raleigh, and San Francisco.