Stop the refoulement of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers
Sydney Indymedia
We have emails and phone calls from these people seeking urgent legal assistance to apply for protection on grounds that they fear being returned to Sri Lanka. Australia has refouled* more than 1000 asylum seekers to Sri Lanka in the last 6 months in ...

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Sri Lanka says no moves to stop power devolution to Tamil minority
People's Daily Online
COLOMBO, May 22 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan government denied plans to roll back power sharing mechanisms with the Tamil minority on Wednesday despite ruling coalition parties' attempting to stop long overdue elections in the former war-torn north.
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* CID questions Sri Lanka Tamil parliamentarian over war victim ...
Colombo Page
May 22, Colombo: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka Police has interrogated the Vanni District Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian Sivasakthi Anandan yesterday in Colombo over his involvement in a function held last week ...

La « Journée de la Victoire » pour les uns, la « Mémoire du ...
Églises d'Asie
Depuis la fin de la guerre il y a quatre ans, non seulement il n'y a eu aucun progrès, mais le respect des droits et libertés élémentaires ont décliné au Sri lanka », concluait le 20 mai l'ONG Human Rights Watch dans un communiqué cité par le Tamil ...

Sri Lanka: Why Are The Tamil Refugees Not Returning? - Analysis
Eurasia Review
A few years ago, Kasi Ananthan, the Poet Laureate of Tamil Eelam, wrote, “How long may we stay in another man's land?” He added, “The parrot and the woodpecker may return to their nests without hindrance, but we, the Tamil refugees, may not”. Four ...

* Take Katchatheevu back from Sri Lanka and redraw IMBL, Tamil ...
Colombo Page
May 21, Chennai: The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa today reiterated her call to take Sri Lanka's Katchatheevu islet back and redraw the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) to stop the alleged attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen by ...
Tamil Nadu wants Sri Lanka to return KatchatheevuANINEWS
Retrieve Kachchativu from Lanka and redraw International Maritime ...Times of India
Jayalalithaa renews demand for retrieval of Kachatheevu islet from ...NDTV
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Tamil Nadu wants Sri Lanka to return Katchatheevu - News Track India
Newstrack India
Chennai, May 21 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has reiterated that Katchatheevu, the fishing islet has to be retrieved back by India in an endeavour to provide a permanent solution to the problem of Indian fishermen. In a letter to Prime ...
Retrieve Kachchativu from Lanka and redraw International Maritime ...Times of India
Jayalalithaa renews demand for retrieval of Kachatheevu islet from ...NDTV
Take steps to retrieve Katchatheevu, Jayalalithaa tells PMZee News

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LTTE man flees Lanka, caught en route to Nairobi
Daily News & Analysis
Interestingly, the accused, an electronics engineer, initially told cops that he entered India by air, but after sustained interrogation, revealed that he took a boat from Sri Lanka and got off at the coast of Tamil Nadu. He ran out of luck as the Sri ...

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'Reconciliation with Sri Lanka is fake, Tamil Eelam only solution ...
TamilNet
The Mu'l'livaaykkaal Genocide Remembrance event in Los Angeles, USA on Sunday stated emphatically that asking the Eezham Tamil nation to reconcile with genocidal Sri Lanka was fraudulent and that a sovereign state of Tamil Eelam was the only ...
LTTE man flees Lanka, caught en route to NairobiDaily News & Analysis
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Rights, liberties threatened in Sri Lanka, says rights body
Firstpost
Colombo, May 20 (IANS) Respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated the Tamil Tigers, Human Rights Watch said Monday. This week marks the fourth anniversary of the brutal civil war's end.
It's time for US policy toward Sri Lanka to be more symmetricalCeylon Daily News
Rights Group Criticizes Sri Lanka's Rights RecordABC News
Pick another dayThe Island.lk (subscription)
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Business Standard
Tourism in Sri Lanka not impacted due to political tensions with India
Business Standard
Infact it (political crisis) impacted Tamil Nadu and India more as the wholesale business in textiles, dry fruits and other commodities was affected,'' said Bhaswara Senaka Gunarathna, chairman of Sri Lankan Tourism Development Authority said. "When ...

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Rights, liberties threatened in Sri Lanka: HRW - Zee News - India
Zee News
Rights, liberties threatened in Sri Lanka: HRW Colombo: Respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated the Tamil Tigers, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. This week marks the fourth ...
Rights group says respect for basic rights, liberties declined in Sri ...Montreal Gazette

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Chennai event challenges ICE complicity in Tamil Genocide
TamilNet
Therefore, if the US and the UN are really sincere, they should take up the case of Tamil genocide by Sri Lanka in the UN Security Council.” Mr. Umar said. The gathering also saw the participation of MDMK leader Vaiko, Tamizhaga Vaazhvurimai Katchi ...
California Residents Observe Sri Lankan Tamil GenocideSalem-News.Com
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26 Karaikal fishermen to be released from Lanka Monday
The New Indian Express
“Orders for the release have been issued after the intervention of Union Minister for External Affairs Salman Khurshid, Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan Ministers of Tamil origin,” Narayanasamy said. As the relations between India ...

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Salem-News.Com
California Residents Observe Sri Lankan Tamil Genocide
Salem-News.Com
(SANTA MONICA) - 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 ...
Tamil Mauritians allege maltreatment of Tamils in Sri LankaAfrique en Ligue
Hundreds march in memory of Tamil victims in ParisRFI
Journeys In Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 4 Years After The Civil War's Bloody ...International Business Times
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Many outside powers tried to rule Sri Lanka- President Mahinda ...
Lankaweb
History shows that in the Presidential Election of 1982 the Tamil people of the north defeated Ponnambalam who stood for a separate state and elected Kobbekaduwa who was from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. I believe that the feeling that we should all ...
Sri Lanka celebrates fourth Victory Day - Ministry of DefenceMinistry of Defence (press release)
Six myths of the OppositionThe Island.lk (subscription)
The President emphasized that not even an inch of land regained by ...SLBC

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Ceylon Daily News
Victory over terrorism – why should Sri Lanka apologize?
Ceylon Daily News
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam of LTTE had its ground militant force vanquished by the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka on May 19, 2009 after several appeals made by the Sri Lankan President to lay down their arms and surrender were ignored. Close to ...

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RFI
Hundreds march in memory of Tamil victims in Paris
RFI
Marches were organised around the world by ethnic Tamil Sri Lankans yesterday to mark the 4th anniversary of an attack that killed over 40,000 people in northern Sri Lanka. In Paris, several hundred Tamils took to the streets demanding an independent ...
Yasin Malik voices support for Tamil EelamTimes of India
'Idea of the Tamil struggle cannot be killed': Kashmiri LeaderTamilNet
Narayanasamy supports ban on pro-Tamil Eelam meetingZee News
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'Idea of the Tamil struggle cannot be killed': Kashmiri Leader
TamilNet
Question is that romance and idealism, and this I have very much found in the Tamil people here in Tamil Nadu for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. It is a people's movement, it is not terrorism. When it is people's movement, the government and state must ...
Hundreds march in memory of Tamil victims in ParisRFI
Yasin Malik voices support for Tamil EelamTimes of India
Yasin Malik in Tamil Nadu, India...Addressing a gathering 19th May ...Authint Mail
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The Hindu
Don't dilute promise on better deal for Tamils, India tells Sri Lanka
The Hindu
India tried to contain the after effects of a selective briefing it gave on Friday about its relations with Sri Lanka. During a telephonic conversation on Friday, the External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid advised his Sri Lankan counterpart G L ...