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Last Updated: 04.05.2008, 03:50am, Sun. |
| 04/05/2008, 03:49am, Sun. | Sunday Times |
| After Muhamalai debacle, war on free media |
Just yesterday, the United Nations-designated World Press Freedom Day,
to create greater awareness on the role of media in democracy and
development, was observed worldwide. In Sri Lanka, listed by many international media rights groups as a
country where media freedom is violated with impunity, the Free Media
Movement (FMM) will mark the occasion on Tuesday with a vigil for
journalists and media workers killed in action. They will gather at
6.30 p.m. opposite the Fort Railway Station holding flowers instead of
placards.
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| 30/04/2008, 11:00pm, Wed. | Lanka Dissent |
| OVER-CONFIDENT SL ARMY AGAIN WALKS INTO A DEADLY LTTE TRAP |
For the second time in less than two years, an over-confident Sri
Lankan Army (SLA) has walked into a deadly trap laid by the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the Muhamalai area near Jaffna in the
Northern Province of Sri Lanka on April 23 ,2008, and faced a rout. It
not only lost over 150 soldiers, who were killed by the LTTE, but
also enabled the LTTE to seize a large quantity of arms and ammunition
from the battle scene.
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| 09/04/2008, 10:41am, Wed. | The Bottom Line |
| Police under fire over Jeyaraj murder |
LTTE suicide Black Tigers have killed six VIPs, including former
President Ranasinghe Premadasa, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandi, Presidential candidate Gamini Dissanayake, former Defence
Minister Ranjan Wijerathne, former Industrial Minister C.V.Gunarathne,
former Minister Jeyraj Fernandopulle and also attempted to kill former
President Chandrika Kumaratunge, Minister Douglas Devananda and
Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva.
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| 28/03/2008, 09:52am, Fri. | Sri Lanka Watch |
| VELUPILLAI PIRABAHARAN - Interview with Sunday Magazine - 1985 |
" A liberation fighter has to transcend the confines of his ego and his
self to immerse himself whole-heartedly in the struggle. We are only
symbols of the aspirations of the Tamil people.... We don't want to
pass the burden of a liberation struggle to the next generation: they
must enjoy the fruits of our toil... Fight we must, till our goal is
achieved.
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| 16/03/2008, 03:08am, Sun. | Sunday Times |
| Prabha reappears, seemingly very much in command |
The re-appearance of Mr. Prabhakaran is not without significance. The
message he wanted to convey was that he is still very much in charge of
his men and women in the face of speculation that he was badly wounded.
How that will play in the battlefields and outside it, the coming weeks
and months will tell.
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| 27/02/2008, 11:51am, Wed. | Reuters |
| Sri Lanka ahead in war, but don't write off rebels |
Sri Lanka's government has the upper hand in a new phase of a 25-year
civil war against the Tamil Tigers, but it would be foolish to write
the rebels off, experts say. After opting to take the war to the rebels and formally scrapping a
six-year truce, the government banished Nordic truce monitors who were
cataloging violence and accused elements of the military of an aid
worker massacre and other rights abuses.
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| 13/02/2008, 10:12am, Wed. | Sri Lanka Watch |
| The EROS and Eastern Muslims |
In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the EROS became a relatively
popularized Tamil politico-militant organization attracting students,
teachers and ordinary youths in the Eastern province. The Muslim boys
who studied in Tamil schools were also attracted to the EROS through
their political classes.
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| 02/02/2008, 11:49am, Sat. | Ground Views |
| Ethnos Or Demos? - Questioning Tamil Nationalism |
As the major military onslaught against the LTTE gathers pace to the
accompaniment of increasingly jingoistic rhetoric of ruling party
politicians, bureaucrats and military top brass, Tamil nationalism in
Sri Lanka finds itself at a critical crossroads. What may or may not
happen in the battlefield this year is still a matter of conjecture, in
spite of the bellicose rhetoric of both parties.
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| 20/01/2008, 11:04am, Sun. | The Nation |
| Tiger Game Plan in the South |
The Tigers’ apparent game plan is to disrupt the south, as a
diversionary tactic to the military operations in the Wanni and the
north. However, there are other aims, such as putting a stranglehold on the
economy and conveying manifold messages to different players. The post Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) events this week, clearly
demonstrate continuity on the part of the Tigers, in their chosen path.
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| 10/01/2008, 11:20am, Thu. | Transcurrents |
| Slow Burn in Sri Lanka War |
The Sri Lanka security forces’ strategy of “Hastening Slowly” at last
appears to be yielding handsome dividends in the Eelam War-4. They made
two serious breaches in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
defences in their sustained operations in the north during the month.
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| 30/12/2007, 10:22am, Sun. | Sunday Times |
| 2008 Year of War, ban on LTTE likely |
Heavy casualties in post-Christmas sea battle, but was it a diversion for huge smuggling operation? Govt. leaders breathe fire, ceasefire may be abrogated. Despite the customary lull during the Christmas season, an intelligence
warning last Monday sounded a note of caution. It said the Sea Tigers
were planning to attack Dvora fast attack craft (FACs) of the Navy in
the North in the next day or two. There had been considerable radio
traffic as preparations had got under way for this purpose.
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| 27/04/2008, 01:42am, Sun. | Sunday Times |
| The aftermath of Muhamalai confrontation |
The aftermath of Muhamalai confrontation
Official claims say Tigers attacked but other accounts tell a different story
Conducted media tour onApril 5 turns out to be counterproductive
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| 04/04/2008, 09:40am, Fri. | World Sikh News. |
| Ethnic Cleansing of Tamils in Sri Lanka |
This factual account of the Tamils in Sri Lanka was received by WSN in
response to the Open Letter to M. Karunanidhi by Jagmohan Singh carried
in the WSN edition of --- . We publish this in the belief that
accounts and reasoned self descriptions of struggling nations in
India’s neighborhood will interest the readers of WSN. The author
explains why Tamils are struggling for Tamil Eelam.
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| 26/03/2008, 07:08am, Wed. | Transcurrents |
| Tigers Get Ready to Face the Mechanized Infantry of the Army in North |
The 57, 58 and 59 divisions of the army continue to battle it out with
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) within the Mannar, Vavuniya
and Mullaitheevu districts in the North - west, south and South - east
of the Northern Province while the 53 and 55 divisions are engaging in
combat along the Kilaly - Muhamaalai - Nagar Kovil axis inside the
Jaffna peninsula.
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| 15/03/2008, 10:25am, Sat. | Ground Views |
| How to kill innocent women and children |
It’s easy. You just lead them a little less. It’s an old joke, born in
the Vietnam War, and first recorded by Michael Herr, though Kubrick
made it famous with his portrait of the crazed US Marine door gunner in
Full Metal Jacket. In layspeak, a shooter “leads” a running figure so
that he’s aiming at where the target will be when the bullet reaches
it. Women and children run slower than an adult male.
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| 18/02/2008, 11:58am, Mon. | New Kerala |
| India's covert role in Sri Lanka's ceasefire |
Now that Sri Lanka has jettisoned the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) with
the Tamil Tigers, one of India's best kept secrets can be revealed: it
was New Delhi that quietly authored the process that led to the
Norway-brokered pact.
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| 11/02/2008, 09:44am, Mon. | India Today |
| Getting Prabhakaran |
The Sri Lankan Army Headquarters in the heart of Colombo is among the
most heavily fortified complexes in the country. To get to the office
of Lieutenant-General Sarath Fonseka, commander of the army, one has to
go through a confusing maze of security checks.
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| 24/01/2008, 10:37am, Thu. | Tamil Canadian |
| Genocide, the world and us: lessons from Jaffna. |
What has the international community been doing in Sri Lanka? “Genocide is a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the
destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups
with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.” So said Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jewish academic, who first coined the term ‘genocide’ in the context of the Holocaust.
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| 30/12/2007, 12:05pm, Sun. | Transcurrents |
| Jaffna has now become a “prison, propped up by a military government” |
In an interview with AsiaNews, the OMI provincial superior in Sri
Lanka, Fr S.M. Selvaratnam, recounts the dramatic situation of the
Tamils in the northern part of the country: the widespread culture of
war, the paralysis of education, the impossibility even of crossing the
street without the permission of the army, the absence of an authority
to guarantee the rights of citizens.
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| 16/12/2007, 09:33am, Sun. | Sunday Times |
| Showdown in the sky |
Govt. declares flight restricted zones to protect military, strategic installations, Dalada Maligawa and Tangalle. High-powered Indian team here to discuss defence matters. Anuradhapura air base attack: More shocking details emerge
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