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Sri Lanka: Navi Pillay taken through backdoor to avoid public in Jaffna 27 Aug 2013 | 11:01 am
Many among more than a thousand people gathered in front of the Jaffna Public Library on Tuesday morning to personally to convey their feelings to the visiting UN Human Rights Commissioner Ms Navi Pil...
Sri Lanka: Even constitutional restructure is no solution: Kasi Ananthan 27 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
A constitution, even after any reform or restructure, is meaningless in the context of the island Ilangkai (Sri Lanka), as the single State for the whole island is not disposed towards honouring any c...
Sri Lanka: Removing gender bias in social institutions 27 Aug 2013 | 04:02 am
After a hundred years of its establishment, the Young Men Hindu Association (YMHA) of Thirunelveali in Jaffna proposes to do away with gender bias in its membership and name. In a letter to all lovers...
Sri Lanka: Fundamentals diluted behind the scene in Colombo 26 Aug 2013 | 11:09 pm
An elitist group of Tamil lawyers and law academics who have become entrenched in the Colombo-centric system, are collaborating with a section of the foreign Establishments in making Tamil demands no...
Sri Lanka: Trust only the peoples of the Palk Bay: Jaffna fishermen leader 26 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
The perspective of the coastal people of North is that the States of Sri Lanka and India collaborate in the destruction of Eezham Tamils, said Mr N.V. Subramaniam, a fisheries society leader from Maat...
Sri Lanka: Tamil Nadu students burn 13th Amendment, call for referendum 26 Aug 2013 | 01:17 am
Tamil students burnt symbolic copies of the 13th Amendment at a protest at Va'l'luvar Koaddam, Chennai on Sunday, urging that only an internationally monitored referendum could provide a solution to t...
Sri Lanka: Conceiving and designing strategy for Struggle and Development 26 Aug 2013 | 12:08 am
Tamil activists have to reject outright any suggestion of partnership with genocidal Colombo in the international development agendas. They should insist and wage a struggle for a direct deal, wri...
Sri Lanka: Vanni teachers ordered to back Rajapaksa candidate 25 Aug 2013 | 03:47 am
Pre-school teachers who come under the so-called Civil Defence Force have been instructed by three UPFA operatives named Ilangko, Sutharsan and Inthiran, who were ex-LTTE members, now operated by the ...
Sri Lanka: NPC election is no mandate test: Sivagnanam 25 Aug 2013 | 03:11 am
The environment under which the people of the North and East were able to give a mandate [based on Vaddukkoaddai Resolution] in 1977 is not available today or not given to us by the international as w...
Sri Lanka: SL State divides communities in East: Batticaloa MP 23 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
The Sri Lankan government is doing the opposite to what it wants portrayed to the outside world with the beautiful term reconciliation, declared Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian from Ba...