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• Release Tamil political prisoners-TNA May 22, 2012
  The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) today renewed its request for the release all ‘Tamil political prisoners’. Making a statement in parliament under Standing Orders 23-II, TNA leader R. Sampanthan said as many as 234 Tamil prisoners had been on a hunger strike for six consecutive days and their health condition had deteriorated. Mr. Sampanthan said the govern […]
• Sri Lanka main Tamil party supports removal of military camps from north May 22, 2012
  Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party is continuing to press for the removal of army camps in the northern part of the country though President Mahinda Rajapaksa had ruled out such a move, an official said here Tuesday. Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan told the media that his party would continue to press for the removal of military camps in the for […]
• Sri Lanka’s Sarath Fonseka urges co-operation over war May 22, 2012
  Sri Lanka must co-operate with any international investigation into alleged war crimes, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka has told the BBC, a day after his release from jail. He said some Sri Lankan leaders were "hiding their faces" over the conduct of the war, as if they were guilty. But Mr Fonseka, who led the army to its 2009 victory over Tamil rebel […]
• Tamil diaspora youth group condemns attack on JUSU leader May 22, 2012
  In a statement issued on Monday, the Global Tamil Youth League (GTYL), a diaspora youth group, said that the assault by a four-member squad on the secretary of the Jaffna University Student Union (JUSU) on the day of Mu’l’livaaykkaal Remembrance was an attempt by the occupying Sri Lankan forces to instil fear in students and silence their voices for justice. […]
• Sinhala-Buddhist temple opened to ‘celebrate’ genocide at Mu’l’livaaykkaal May 22, 2012
  Coinciding the third anniversary of Mu’l’livaaykkaal genocide, a secretly built Sinhala-Buddhist stupa was inaugurated at Vaddu-vaakal, the entrance to the Mu’l’livaaykkaal genocidal strip of land in Mullaiththeevu. As the Tamil public is yet to be allowed into the stretch of land, the building of the stupa at the genocidal site went unnoticed until its inau […]
• General of genocide released in Colombo May 22, 2012
  Sri Lanka’s former military commander General Sarath Fonseka, who led the Sinhala military in the ‘international community’ –abetted genocidal war against the Eezham Tamils, has been released by the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime in Colombo on Monday. While the so-called international community reducing the genocide into mere war crimes, now verbally demands inves […]
• Sri Lanka’s Sarath Fonseka freed from prison May 21, 2012
  The former Sri Lankan army chief, Sarath Fonseka, has been freed after two years in prison. Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa signed the release order over the weekend, but legal formalities had to be completed before he could walk free. He was arrested two years ago after standing against Mr Rajapaksa for the presidency when the two men fell out. […]
• Tamil prisoners on hunger strike in Sri Lanka May 21, 2012
  A total of 234 Tamil prisoners in Sri Lanka, most of them former Tamil Tiger rebels, are on a hunger strike the past five days here, said officials on Monday. Inmates of three prisons, located in Colombo city, Kalutara town and in Vavuniya town, are demanding that they be charged for their crimes or be released, Xinhua reported. The fast began last week with […]
• Supreme Court allows to withdraw Sarath Fonseka’s appeals May 21, 2012
  The Supreme Court has allowed to withdraw Sarath Fonseka’s two appeals against the verdict of the white flag case and terminated proceedings on the appeal against the Second Court Martial a short while ago. Earlier today Lawyers of Fonseka submitted two motions to the Supreme Court. First one was on the three-year jail sentence in the ‘White Flag’ case, whic […]
• LJP President Paswan backs call for UN referendum May 21, 2012
  The president of Lok Janshakthi Party from the state of Bihar, Ram Vilas Paswan, on Sunday, took part in a candlelight vigil organized near the Kannagi statue at the Marina Beach, Chennai by May 17 Movement and signed on the list of the signature campaign calling for UN referendum among Eezham Tamils to assert their political destiny. Mr. Paswan, a Rajya Sab […]