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Letter to Presbyterian Church USA from New Profile

Israeli organization New Profile, wishes to express appreciation to PCUSA for contemplating adopting a policy of selective divestment as a means of bringing peace to Palestinians and Israelis.

(TEL AVIV) - Organizations and individuals wishing peace for Israelis and Palestinians needs to work towards ending Israel’s Military Occupation of Palestine.

The occupation is dastardly for the Palestinians and injurious for Israelis.

Minister`s Threat to Tamils of `100 More Massacres`

The minister was responding to TNA leader Sampanthan’s speech at the ITAK convention in Batticaola last month.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka ) - Sri Lankan cabinet minister Champika Ranawaka has warned of “100 more massacres” if the Tamil people of the island were to follow the Tamil National Alliance, who he accused of calling the “nation” out to fight.

Addressing reporters, Power and Energy minister Champika Ranawaka from the JHU, a constituent party of the ruling coalition stated, "Does Sampanthan want to create 100 more Mullivaikkals?

Holding the Line for Tibet

My talk explains why Tibet is geopolitically strategic for USA and India.

(PRINCETON, NJ) - The Tibetan Youth Congress approached me to be their keynote speaker at the end of a large rally and hunger strike in front of the Chinese consulate in Manhattan.

Their peaceful event brought 10,000 supporters, mostly white Americans and Tibetans. Traffic was stopped for a few blocks. There was heavy police presence.

The Diaspora Factor

War on terror revisited: a battle abroad.

(COLOMBO, The Island) - ‘President Rajapaksa is in a hell of a predicament also because as the Commander in Chief of the Military, he is alleged to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.

With mounting evidence, he is trying to negotiate, perhaps barter justice with a political solution as he knows that the day he relinquishes his position as head of state, he is likely to be arrested...

`Work is Worship`: The Work Ethic Success of the Sri Lankan Tamils

Today, the only way to curb the Tamil aspiration for a separate state is to remove from them the many fears they would entertain in coming to Sri Lanka.

(COLOMBO, The Island) - I have often wondered why we, as a nation, cannot progress as rapidly as our neighbour – India.

Any political analyst would of course heap the blame on the politicians and the political authority. I have pondered whether in fact this was true.

Sri Lanka Accused Of Discriminating Against Women

These incidents are linked to the Prevention of TerrorismAct (PTA), which, the statement said, “makes it easier for police and military members to carry out body inspections and ‘searches’ without having to justify doing so.

(COLOMBO Sunday Leader) - A European human rights watchdog has accused Sri Lanka of violating a United Nations (UN) convention on discrimination against women.

The European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in a recent media statement said that women and girls in the North and East are subject to harassment by police and military personnel.

Eezham Tamils: Declare for Referendum in any Unity Meeting

Only the Tamil militancy was able to arrest the process for three decades, but genocidal Colombo is now given with a free licence to carry out colonisation in full swing.

(CHENNAI, India TamilNet) - All groups of Eezham Tamils in the island and in the diaspora, seeking various shades of political solution beyond the present constitution of Sri Lanka, should meet together to present a joint stand of them.

It is an opinion currently pressurising all of them, mainly the TNA, both the factions of the TGTE, GTF and the Country Councils in various Western countries.

Sergey Lavorov: `On the Right Side of History`

An article from Russia's Foreign Minister on the Syrian crisis.

(MOSCOW) - Over the last year or a year and a half, the events unfolding in North Africa and the Middle East have come to the forefront of the global political agenda.

They are frequently referred to as the most remarkable episode in the international life of the new 21st century.

Enforced Disappearance: JSMM`s Muzaffar Bhutto Was Found Dead After More than a Year

He was neither a terrorist nor a criminal, he was a qualified engineer and a political activist working for the rights of people living in Sindh.

(KARACHI) - Muzaffar Bhutto, who went missing on February 24, 2011, was found dead near Hyderabad on Tuesday 22 May 2012.

The 42-year-old’s bullet-riddled body, also bearing torture marks, was found at the roadside near Hatri and was taken to Civil Hospital, Hyderabad.

Five Years and Counting: Israel Creates and Manages Its `Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza`

It is an appalling situation for which Israel, the United States, and the rest of the “good Germans” in the world, are deeply liable and responsible.

(CHICAGO) - Drawing from a report by Save the Children, Electronic Intifada’s Managing Editor describes what she correctly terms, Israel’s managed “humanitarian crisis in Gaza”.

A humanitarian crisis that is managed? Wait a minute; “managing” means controlling what happens. Yes it does.