Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Courtesy The Island:Features
The period immediately following the elections to the District Development Councils (DDCs) in June 1981 witnessed the further development of Tamil militant organizations - particularly the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO). In addition the Eelam Revolutionary Organizers (EROS), whose founder-leaders were based in London, split resulting in the formation of the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF). All of the above organizations, which were to play a key role in the parallel processes of militarization of the ethnic conflict as well as those of negotiations mediated by the Government of India, had succeeded in establishing areas of influences in Tamil Nadu by the late 70s. (more…)
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Courtesy:Srilanka Guardian
( An open Letter to the President of Sri Lanka, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa)
(July 29, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Within the next few days another feather is going to adorn your cap. You are going to be installed as the Chairperson of perhaps the largest regional organisation in the world the SARRC comprised of eight nations with a total population of over 1.7 billion people. I congratulate you, Your Excellency on your achievement in advance. (more…)
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Courtesy: The Island:Opinion
A reply to Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka’s article titled “In Defence of Douglas Devananda” appearing in The Island of 18.06.2008
Having found no one coming forward to defend me against Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka’s accusations, I have to write in defence of myself.
An article authored by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka that appeared in “The Island” of 18.06.2008 gave me a great shock. All these years Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka’s writing were not only supportive of me and of my views, but also very much admirable and hardly with any disagreement.
He once wrote: “He is a model of a moderate representative of any ethnic community anywhere in the world, and must surely be given the chance to serve his people and country in this dark hour. His time to play a role in history has come, if only we give him the chance”. I do not know why he has become very critical of me, all of sudden. He might have had any sentimental compulsion to defend Douglas Devananda, but I cannot understand as to why he should come at me like this. However, what he wrote of me at this juncture is irrelevant, unwanted and uncalled for. My regret is that he has with one stroke of his pen destroyed my image and good name I earned over a period of time as a patriotic non-communal and moderate Tamil leader, loved and respected by a fair section of all ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. (more…)
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Courtesy: Daily News
Chamikara Weerasinghe
The President of the Tamil United Liberation Front, V. Anandasangaree has called on LTTE leader Prabhakaran to declare a permanent ceasefire with the Sri Lankan Government surrendering their arms in the wake of the SAARC summit.
He also appealed to President Mahinda Rajapaksa to make the best of the SAARC summit by soliciting the support of the Heads of States of the SAARC countries to find a lasting solution to the country’s ethnic problem. (more…)
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Courtesy:sunday observer
by our political correspondent
The current military operations by the security forces in the Wanni have weakened the LTTE terribly and reports from Kilinochchi indicate that the outfit is in complete dissaray as they are unable to face the advancing troops, the Tamil Democratic National Alliance (TDNA) delegation led by Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) Leader Veerasingam Anandasangari told the visiting European Union delegation. (more…)
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
(On account of the ninth death anniversary of Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam, Prof. Gowher Rizvi, Director, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, will deliver the memorial lecture titled “Democracy, Governance and Development” on Sunday, July 27 at the SLFI Auditorium at 6:00 p.m. We reproduce below an article by Britain’s highly respected and prestigious morning daily, The Times, carried an obituary on the assassinated Neelan Tiruchelvam in its issue on August 2, 1999. It is rarely that Sri Lankans have merited mention in the obituary pages of The Times, except for Presidents and Prime Ministers. More than a tribute, an obituary in The Times is considered as a ‘posthumous award or reward’ among the people in Britain.)
Neelan Tiruchelvam was a tireless activist in the sphere of human rights and on behalf of ethnic minorities, not least in his native Sri Lanka. (more…)
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