Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with military www.salem-news.com 2010 Since the end of the conflict in 2009, a new phenomena has emerged. That of Buddha statues being erected along the A9 route that leads to Jaffna. Over 28 Buddha statues have been counted along this route since the war concluded in May 2009. The comedy of this charade (what else can one call it?) is that these statues are placed in areas where little or no Buddhists reside. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/buddhist-zealots-im.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/buddhist-zealots-im.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:24:00 PST On January 17th, 2012 four generals were arrested in Rwanda and placed under house arrest. Much speculation has been raised as to the reason for their arrest and detainment. The Government of Rwanda stated that, “According to the official statement of the military authorities, the four senior officers stand accused of having had illegal business dealings in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/kagame-generals-jf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/kagame-generals-jf.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:51:00 PST The truth is not only wasn’t there a decisive victory in Iraq. There was a sense of loss. A loss of 5,000 soldiers, a million Iraqis, trillions of dollars, and the demolishing of a country’s infrastructure based on a pack of lies by George Bush that Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/no-victory-iraq-jm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/no-victory-iraq-jm.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:15:00 PST The volatile situation in Syria generated by the Saudi-Qatar-funded Wahhabi armed group known as the Free Syrian Army and backed by the West is now an accident waiting to happen. There is certainly one ulterior motive behind the US-friendly Syrian crisis extravagantly fuelled by the presstitute media which keep distorting the facts on the grounds. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/western-shenanigans-is.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/western-shenanigans-is.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:06:00 PST When examining the recent Genocide in Sri Lanka committed against the minority Tamil population by the country's Sinhalese Buddhist government, many disturbing facts surface. The thousand excuses offered by Sri Lanka' politicians mean little, when the facts reveal that the government 'practiced' Genocide in the years preceding it. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/genocide-colombo.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/genocide-colombo.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:11:00 PST There are few crimes more despicable then stealing your neighbour’s water.and polluting what’s left, then watching him and his children suffer thirst, disease and ruin. Most of us would want nothing to do with the perpetrators of such evil. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/water-thieves-sl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/water-thieves-sl.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:45:00 PST I know many Americans are wondering what is really going on right now in Iraq with the formerly massive, U.S. military presence now evacuated. We know that a large American political force remains behind and that contractors... mercenaries, are providing security. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/iraq-now-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/iraq-now-tk.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:43:00 PST On 19 May 2009, an accountant named Sivarajan ran to the winding lunch queue in the Anandakumaraswami Zone 3 refugee camp to serve food. Swarna, a former militant, yelled at her mom for revealing to the army that their family was from a region where the war between the Sri Lankan Army and the separatists—“Tigers,” she called them—was still raging. http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/lanka-hell.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/lanka-hell.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:21:00 PST The West Bank and Gaza are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. Restrictions on movement, home destruction and widespread violence against Palestinians, have created an ongoing emergency. http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/unrwa-gaza.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/unrwa-gaza.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:57:00 PST Homs is now the physical and political frontline of the unrest engulfing Syria. Heavy fighting continues for the fifth straight day in the rebel stronghold city. The rebel opposition is imploring the international community to intervene and displace President Assad, despite his commitment to engage the opposition in talks to resolve the conflict. http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/hons-conflict-rt.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/hons-conflict-rt.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:00 PST Landmine clearance in Sri Lanka's conflict-affected north could take more than a decade, experts say. "It is expected to take [in] excess of 10 years to fully mitigate all remaining contamination in Sri Lanka," the Mine Action Project of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka told IRIN, citing a lack of resources coupled with the difficult nature of the work. http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/landmines-sri_lanka.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/landmines-sri_lanka.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:51:00 PST Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted marine for nearly 25 years. As a drill instructor in the Marine Corps, he was responsible for training thousands of new recruits. But when Jerry’s nine-year-old daughter Janey passed away from a rare type of leukemia, his structured world began to collapse around him. http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/semper-fi.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/semper-fi.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:37:00 PST Knowing that in Sri Lanka, a genocide of epic proportions hung in the delicate balance, it leaves the burning question... Why didn't a world-scale revolution kick into gear when a 26-year old journalist self immolated in Chennai, India on behalf of the Sri Lankan Tamils? http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/tamil-immolation-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/tamil-immolation-tk.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 PST "Ultra-Orthodox, Israel Police clash in Beit Shemesh; officer wounded …" At first many imagine Muslim extremists in Afghanistan or Somalia. Maybe not a far-fetched guess, but to everybody’s astonishment the Ha'aretz report is about Jewish extremists in Tel Aviv, the heart of Israel. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/jewish-islam-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/jewish-islam-ae.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:22:00 PST Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley wrote to President Barack Obama to express his strong support of the announcement of an accelerated transition in Afghanistan. The letter came on the heels of comments by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that the United States will complete its transition from major combat operations in Afghanistan to a “training, advice and assist role” by mid-to-late 2013. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/merkley-afghanistan.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/merkley-afghanistan.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:42:00 PST The Global March to Jerusalem/GMJ commences on 30 March and coincides with the 36th anniversary of LAND DAY. As “reality leaves much to the imagination” [John Lennon] I imagine the third intifada could finally erupt if those two events were joined into from every city, town and village throughout Israel by contingents of nonviolent residents. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/global-revolution-ef.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/global-revolution-ef.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:00 PST Monsanto, the U.S. corporation controlling an estimated 90 percent of the world’s seed genetics, is gearing up for a return to Vietnam. Monsanto isn’t a household name in Vietnam. But one of it’s former products, the killer Vietnam War-era military defoliant Agent Orange, remains infamous. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/monsanto-vietnam-pw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/monsanto-vietnam-pw.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:32:00 PST Mahinda Rajapaksa appears to be walking away from promises he had made to seek out a political solution based on devolution of powers to autonomous provincial councils. The modern history of Sri Lanka, centered around the politics of its Tamil minority population and its umbilically bound relationship with India, is one of broken promises... http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/captive-lanka-vv.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/captive-lanka-vv.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:47:00 PST Tim King and his tireless band of peaceful warriors deserve an encomium for their efforts to spread truth, justice, and peace throughout the world instead of hate, oppression and imperialism, and Agron Belica has given it to the them in Beautiful Hope. Now supplied with an accompanying video, the pop & rock hit is set to make its rounds again. http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/beautiful-hope-jc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/beautiful-hope-jc.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:39:00 PST Two senior men with the LTTE, V Balakumar and Yogaratnam Yogi, are reportedly are held in detention with other senior men of the LTTE south of Sri Lanka, under strict military supervision. This news rings contrary to the government's claim of that both were dead in the battle front. http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/ltte-leaders.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february062012/ltte-leaders.php Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:51:00 PST During a workshop at the American University of Beirut last year on the subject of the right to work and to purchase a home for Palestinian refugees, a young business major from the Christian village of Bikerki posed a question that surprised some in the audience: “Why if Palestinian don’t like it in Lebanon do they not go home? Why did they even bother coming here in the first place?” http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/palestine-lebanon-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/palestine-lebanon-fl.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:00 PST A report this week by Xinhua news agency, describes the extreme, freezing conditions families in Afghanistan are attempting to survive. They won't all make it. Never in all of my life will I forget my freezing 2006/08 winter covering the war in Afghanistan. http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/afghan-winter-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/afghan-winter-tk.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:30:00 PST ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’, a powerful documentary produced by UK Channel 4 Broadcasting Corp., is scheduled to be screened at Ventura Community Centre later this month. Directed by Callum Macrae, the film that first aired in British television in June 2011 captures horrific footage and extensive interviews with witnesses. http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/killing-fields.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/killing-fields.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:16:00 PST State media reported renewed scuffles between security forces and demonstrators- including hardcore soccer fans like the Ultras, who were on the frontlines of last year's protests against the military. The Ultras played a prominent role with anti-government activists in the uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak a year ago. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/soccer-violence-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/soccer-violence-ae.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:00:00 PST For a week UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's office has been questioned about accepting alleged war criminal Shavendra Silva as one of Ban's Senior Advisers on Peacekeeping Operations. While Ban's Spokesman Martin Nesirky has insisted that Ban is powerless to stop what several member states describe as a travesty or a "new low." http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/silva-ban-un.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/silva-ban-un.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:58:00 PST After a few hours of following the current debates between the Republican candidates for the presidency in America, I couldn't resist the thought that "democracy" had become much less than promoted. The U.S. is touted as having a great democracy. Everything good--either real or imagined—is supposedly due to their principles of democracy. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/democracy-utopia-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/democracy-utopia-pb.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:43:00 PST As a nation and a country, Sri Lanka is entitled to rejoice on this 64th anniversary of its independence. It revels in the splendidness of the occasion of remembering its release from the British yoke. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/tamil-eelam-vr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/tamil-eelam-vr.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:07:00 PST How do Native American people really feel each time the 4th of July is celebrated in the United States? The day Sri Lanka's gained independence from British rule, 4th February 1948, was a black day for Eelam Tamils. http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/tamil-black-day-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/tamil-black-day-tk.php Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:14:00 PST CNN has revealed (not that most people will drop from shock) that President Bush and his teammates issued 935 false statements to the U.S. public about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following 9/11. The information evolves from a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups proving that the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information. http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/cnn-iraq-bush-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/cnn-iraq-bush-tk.php Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:07:00 PST The simmering tensions over the Malvinas Islands or Falkland Islands (off the coast of Argentina in the South Atlantic) as called by the British occupiers. The British Royal Navy is planning to send the Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless, a state-of-the-art warship, to the region on her maiden mission http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/malvinas-britain-is.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february032012/malvinas-britain-is.php Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:08:00 PST