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  • Japan to keep up Sri Lanka aid despite rights concerns

    Dec 12
    Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said on Monday Tokyo would continue to offer economic assistance to Sri Lanka despite the suspension of some U.S. and British aid this year over human rights abuses in the continuing civil war.

    Japan is the single largest donor to Sri Lanka, and provides nearly two thirds of all international aid to the island. It has contributed 63 percent of total bilateral
    aid received by the country since 2003.
  • Indian academic doubts world’s understanding of LTTE
    In his contribution to a recent publication, 'Sri Lanka: Search for Peace', by the New Delhi based Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA), Professor P.
  • No safety for aid workers in Sri Lanka
    ‘The record here is one of the worst in the world.'
  • Iran to supply cheap oil and fund Sri Lankan arms buys
    Sri Lanka’s hardline government has approached Iran for a loan to replace aircraft destroyed by the Tamil Tigers in a daring raid last month.
  • UNCHR ‘gravely’ concerned
    UNHCR expressed its ‘grave concerns’ on the deteriorating security situation and various incidents reported from areas in the eastern Sri Lanka, including incidents of involuntary return of displaced people.
     
    “UNHCR has received reports of a number of killings, abductions, incidents of harassment and general insecurity in these areas,” said UNHCR spokesperson, Jennifer Pagonis, at today's Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva.
     
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  • US actions without merit, will bring further misery to the Tamils
    It is with dismay that Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) learns of the actions of the Untied States Department of the Treasury under Executive Order 13224.
     
    TRO reiterates that we are a local NGO providing humanitarian relief, reconstruction, rehabilitation and development to tsunami and war affected persons and NOT a "front to facilitate fundraising and procurement for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)".
  • US freezes TRO’s funds to support war against LTTE
    The United States last week moved to freeze the US-held assets of the largest Tamil charity, the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO), accusing it of acting as a front to facilitate fundraising and procurement for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
     
    The TRO, the largest local Non Governmental Organisation assisting the Tamil population in Sri Lanka’s Northeast, vigorously protested the action by the US Treasury, pointing out that no wrong doing, misa
  • TNA condemns US block on TRO
    Sri Lanka’s largest political party has condemned the US action to freeze the US-based accounts of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) saying Washington was deepening the plight of the Tamil people.
     
    “While the Government of Sri Lanka has imposed an effective economic embargo in Vanni, and the sustained bombardments of Sri Lanka Military have made situation difficult for International Non-Governmental Organizations to work amidst the affected local reside
  • Rape by Sri Lankan troops resurfaces – in Haiti
    The United Nations has asked Sri Lanka to prosecute ‘to the fullest extent of the law’ 108 Sri Lankan soldiers with the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti for sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of minors, including prostitution, the Sunday Times reported.
     
    The number is one of the biggest single withdrawal of soldiers from a UN peacekeeping mission.
  • Rights group wants paramilitary commander charged in UK
    Britain should look at trying a Sri Lankan paramilitary commander, arrested Friday for using forged documents, for war crimes, a human rights organisation has urged.
  • Tamil Peace maker killed deliberately by Sri Lanka
    S. P. Tamilselvan, an internationally respected Peace negotiator for the Political Wing of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was killed by the Sri Lankan Air Force.
     
    The Canadian Tamil Congress is profoundly saddened and deeply hurt on hearing this heartbreaking and painful news.
     
    Tamilselvan was the chief negotiator for various peace talks with the Sri Lankan state since 1994.
  • Condolence poetry by Kalaignar Karunanidhi
    Translated by TamilNet
     
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  • Tamil Tigers political leader S. P. Thamilselvan
    S. P. Tamilselvan, Tamil Tigers political leader: born Chavakacheri, Sri Lanka 1967; married (one son, one daughter); died Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka 2 November 2007.
  • Public face of the Tamil Tigers
    S. P. Tamilselvan – who died in a Sri Lankan air force raid on Friday morning – is the most senior Tamil Tiger leader to have been killed in recent years.
     
    The death of their media-savvy political wing leader at the age of 40 means the LTTE have lost an experienced and suave political negotiator.
     
    For many years S. P. Tamilselvan was the public face of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
  • Slain Tiger was public face of LTTE
    Almost always smiling, smartly dressed and carrying a polished cane, S.P. Tamilselvan was the key contact point between Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers and the outside world.
     
    Killed on Friday in a government air strike, the leader of the Tigers' political wing was the public face and mouthpiece of the LTTE who met foreign diplomats and reporters denied access to reclusive leader Velupillai Prabhakaran when they visited the de facto capital Kilinochchi.
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