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Salem-News.com (May-20-2013 17:33)

Chennai Event Challenges ICE Complicity in Tamil Genocide

Candlelight Vigil Event Organised by May 17 Movement

(CHENNAI TamilNet) - Tamil memorial at Marina Beach Articulating right demands and slogans in Genocide Remembrance events is crucial at a time when the Eezham Tamils in their homeland are barred from even silently mourning their heroes.

They sacrificed their lives in the culmination of the genocidal war at Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal, one political activist from Jaffna said at the May 19 event at Marina beach in Chennai.

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Salem-News.com (May-19-2013 14:31)

California Residents Observe Sri Lankan Tamil Genocide

For the voice of Justice for Eelam Tamils (Candle light Vigil @ SantaMonica Beach in remembering 146,679 people including 25,000+ children)

(SANTA MONICA) - Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka Any western parent who comprehensively understood what the government of Sri Lanka did to its own population in May 2009, would demand the U.S. end all support of this war crime state.

Children were butchered, countless women and children were raped, soldiers with white flags were shot dead in their tracks. Sri Lanka is dangerous.

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Salem-News.com (May-18-2013 20:12)

Journeys In Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 4 Years After The Civil War`s Bloody Conclusion

U.N. estimates say between 70,000 and 100,000 people died in this tear-shaped island, as the ethno-political conflict came to a bloody end four years ago.

(JAFFNA Int; Business Times) - A group of Tamils leave a temple on the Jaffna Peninsula The dusty army checkpoint along the infamous A9 highway was the first sign I’d entered the “other” Sri Lanka.

This is the one that required an additional copy of my passport, my purpose and an inspection of my things.

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Salem-News.com (May-08-2013 20:52)

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Can Now Visit Sri Lanka With Authority!

“The significance of the US draft is the establishment of an international mechanism to monitor an internal process.” -- Tamara Kunanayakam, Sri Lanka’s representative at the UN Geneva, 2011-2012, in an interview on 17 March 2013

(PARIS, France) - Navanethem Pillay The resolution gives monitoring powers to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - OHCHR.

An external mechanism is mandated to monitor the Government of Sri Lanka!

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Salem-News.com (May-03-2013 12:49)

Sri Lanka Needs to Come Clean on Rights Issues

Tamils’ rights need to be restored and they should be allowed back into the nation’s mainstream.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Tamil Genocide by Rajapakse The government of Sri Lanka should sense an opportunity to get into the good books at the UN by using the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government summit.

Sri Lanka should herald confidence-building measures against the country’s minorities, particularly the Tamils.

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Salem-News.com (May-02-2013 23:55)

Hurray ! Hurray ! ~ Once again it’s May Day !!!

(LOS ANGELES) - Far, far away...
Where the sun shines away…
Paramount desires of the public, lay…

One day in reaching them,
They certainly may…
Endure obstacles, all along the way,
At times causing a gaze to sway,

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Salem-News.com (May-02-2013 22:02)

Bishop Warns of `Buddhist Taliban` in Sri Lanka

Hindu temples and Christian churches have been destroyed and frequently replaced with Buddhist structures.

(GALLEM, Sri Lanka) - Buddhist Taliban brigade visits USA Bishop Raymond Wickramasinghe of Gallem, Sri Lanka, is seeking the prayers of the faithful worldwide as the nation’s Christians and Muslims suffer persecution from Bodu Bala Sana (BBS), the “Buddhist Taliban.”

The Fides news agency reported that Buddhist monks were involved in 50 attacks on Christians in 2012.

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Salem-News.com (Apr-27-2013 13:39)

The `Hidden Hand` in the `Killing Fields of Sri Lanka` Exposed: It`s India!

There is an untold story about how New Delhi became instrumental in the brutality and the present inhuman sufferings of Sri Lankan Tamils.

(CHENNAI) - Sri Lanka war crime protest The air has been full with the “Killing Fields of Sri Lanka”, the Channel 4 documentary.

The visuals showed naked Tamil prisoners shot in the head, dead bodies of naked women who had been raped and dumped on a truck and other atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces...

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Salem-News.com (Apr-25-2013 22:52)

People Rise Up Against SL Military Seizure of Valikaamam in Jaffna

Mahinda Rajapaksa says he liberated Tamils. But, from whom is not clear... - Dr Vickramabahu Karunaratne

(JAFFNA, Srl Lanka TamilNet) - Protest in Jaffna Hundreds of people braved the hurdles put up by the Sri Lankan military Wednesday in front of the District Secretariat in Jaffna.

They protested the systematic seizure of their already SL-military occupied lands in Valikaamam North, transforming the former ‘High Security Zone’ area into a permanent Sinhala Military Zone (SMZ).

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Salem-News.com (Apr-25-2013 18:09)

Indian News Magazine Highlights Accelerated Sinhalization of Sri Lanka`sTamil North

Already 165 Sinhala families have been resettled in Kokkachchaankulam, which is to be renamed...

(CHENNAI TamilNet) - Salem-News.com Sinhalisation of the Tamil Homeland takes several shades.

One is land grabbing and changing the names of villages and roads. The next is replacing Hindu temples with Buddhist temples.

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