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New War Crime Videos Surface from Sri Lanka Tamil Genocide

New evidence illustrates extreme violations of international law, yet hope remains as a voice from Canada calls the Tamil Diaspora home.

(SALEM) - Video of dead, captured and possibly doomed Tamil resistance fighters captured by the Sri Lankan Army are more shocking evidence of war crimes in this country's civil war.

A London attorney is hoping that some of the prisoners will be identified from these images.

Cuba Hosted Sri Lanka President / War Criminal

Ample evidence shows Sri Lankan has oppressed and murdered Tamils.

(HAVANA TIMES) - "Cuban President Receives Counterpart from Sri Lanka" read the Prensa Latina headline of June 17.

The agency reported that the four-day official visit by President Mahinda Rajapaksa was at the invitation of President Raul Castro.

Minister`s Threat to Tamils of `100 More Massacres`

The minister was responding to TNA leader Sampanthan’s speech at the ITAK convention in Batticaola last month.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka ) - Sri Lankan cabinet minister Champika Ranawaka has warned of “100 more massacres” if the Tamil people of the island were to follow the Tamil National Alliance, who he accused of calling the “nation” out to fight.

Addressing reporters, Power and Energy minister Champika Ranawaka from the JHU, a constituent party of the ruling coalition stated, "Does Sampanthan want to create 100 more Mullivaikkals?

The Diaspora Factor

War on terror revisited: a battle abroad.

(COLOMBO, The Island) - ‘President Rajapaksa is in a hell of a predicament also because as the Commander in Chief of the Military, he is alleged to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.

With mounting evidence, he is trying to negotiate, perhaps barter justice with a political solution as he knows that the day he relinquishes his position as head of state, he is likely to be arrested...

`Work is Worship`: The Work Ethic Success of the Sri Lankan Tamils

Today, the only way to curb the Tamil aspiration for a separate state is to remove from them the many fears they would entertain in coming to Sri Lanka.

(COLOMBO, The Island) - I have often wondered why we, as a nation, cannot progress as rapidly as our neighbour – India.

Any political analyst would of course heap the blame on the politicians and the political authority. I have pondered whether in fact this was true.

From London to Urbino via Sri Lanka

"It's all in the text" - Jon Snow, Channel-4 News

(LONDON) - In the packed auditorium of the National Gallery in London people I did not know were taking their seats.

Sri Lanka Accused Of Discriminating Against Women

These incidents are linked to the Prevention of TerrorismAct (PTA), which, the statement said, “makes it easier for police and military members to carry out body inspections and ‘searches’ without having to justify doing so.

(COLOMBO Sunday Leader) - A European human rights watchdog has accused Sri Lanka of violating a United Nations (UN) convention on discrimination against women.

The European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in a recent media statement said that women and girls in the North and East are subject to harassment by police and military personnel.

Eezham Tamils: Declare for Referendum in any Unity Meeting

Only the Tamil militancy was able to arrest the process for three decades, but genocidal Colombo is now given with a free licence to carry out colonisation in full swing.

(CHENNAI, India TamilNet) - All groups of Eezham Tamils in the island and in the diaspora, seeking various shades of political solution beyond the present constitution of Sri Lanka, should meet together to present a joint stand of them.

It is an opinion currently pressurising all of them, mainly the TNA, both the factions of the TGTE, GTF and the Country Councils in various Western countries.

The Plight of Indian Tamils in Sri Lanka

Statistics reveal a more than 50 per cent fall in the Indian Tamil population between 1971 and 1981.

(CHENNAI, India) - The Tamils in Sri Lanka can be classified into two groups.

From UN Kangaroo Court, Letter Leaked to Diplomats, Press` Public Reply

A senior UN official told Inner City Press on the night of June 12 that he no longer thought the UN should have an agreement with UNCA, "given what they're up to."

(UNITED NATIONS) - Media coverage of the UN is dying: there were only three journalists beyond Inner City Press asking questions at the June 15 UN noon briefing.