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  • Canada sells radar to Sri Lanka

    Feb 05
    A high-frequency surface wave radar, hailed as the only one of its kind in the world and developed with Canadian taxpayer's money at a cost of $39 million has been sold to Sri Lanka.

    A Canadian defence firm, with the help of a state agency, has sold the high-tech radar system to the Sri Lankan government which, earlier this year, unilaterally terminated the Norwegian sponsored ceasefire agreement that was in place for the past six years plunging the island back into a bloody war.
  • Three foreign firms bid for Mannar oil exploration
    Sri Lanka has received six tenders from three foreign companies for oil exploration in its northwestern offshore Mannar basin, the country’s petroleum resource minister said on Thursday.

    The blocks being put up for bids are estimated to contain 1 billion barrels of oil and would significantly alter the country’s energy sector and economy.
  • 60 Years of Oppression
    Whatever suffering the Sinhala state and its international allies inflict on us, we are not going to give up now.
  • The moderate position on Eelam

    This is the moderate position on Eelam: Eelam is your right. It is not a gift, not an act of charity but something that is already yours. As with all things, you can claim it or lose it. Others can try to take it away from you but that would constitute an assault, a theft.

  • Tigers blunt Sri Lanka offensive
    Sri Lankan leaders are gung-ho about capturing by the year-end the country's northern regions the Tamil Tigers now control.

    But ground realities do not match the optimism, say military observers who are predicting a military stalemate rather than an outright victory for either party.
  • Pathetically unenforceable' – Colombo's reply to UN war crimes warning
    We will not be deterred by thinly veiled threats, trying to undermine the morale of the military and save separatist terrorism'
  • UK: world must act to protect threatened peoples
    In a keynote speech Monday during his official visit to India, Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, called for the shaping of a “new world order” in which the international community intervenes where populations are being threatened by "genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes or crimes against humanity, and the state is unwilling or unable to halt or prevent it." The world has "a responsibility to protect" Mr. Brown said.
  • Fonseka vows not to leave war to successor
    Sri Lanka Army Commander Lt. Gen. G.S.C Fonseka, due for retirement this year, has claimed that he would not leave the war to his succeeding commander, at a New Year party hosted by him on January 11 to select local and international journalists at his residence at Bauddhaloka Mawatha in Colombo.
     
    Fonseka was being tactfully upbeat as news of an explosion inside Fort Railway station threatened to dampen spirits at the cocktail party.
  • iTRO urges countries to allow Diaspora help
    Allow space for the Tamil Diaspora to provide much needed humanitarian assistance to their people'
  • A game that will speak not its name
    The Sri Lankan government is not declaring formally that a military operation into Vanni has already begun.
  • We send them the money: so don’t complain
    So Mahinda Rajapakse has abrogated yet another solemn pact with the Tamils for peace. And, we the Tamil expatriates keep sending his government billions of dollars every year with our spending habits. Our grocery spending is the most grotesque.
     
    There are those who ask why?
     
    “Why boycott ONLY the Sri Lankan groceries?” Why not the other ways in which the Tamil expatriates are sending money to Sri Lanka?
  • Clashes continue in Mannar
    Clashes continued in Mannar over the past two weeks, with over eighty fighters killed in the region according to the claims by the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and the Liberation Tigers.
     
    On Saturday January 19, a massive ground operation, by the SLA against LTTE bases in Paalaikuli and Adampan, was defeated after fierce resistance by LTTE cadres.
  • Genocide, the world and us: lessons from Jaffna.
    What has the international community been doing in Sri Lanka?
  • Alarming increase in Mannar abductions
    As conflict continues in Mannar, with ongoing clashes between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers, unofficial violence against civilians have also increased, with an increased rate of disappearances, with locals accusing government forces of having a hand in the abductions.
     
    In the past three weeks, Mannar has witnessed the abduction of five Tamil civilians, including a leading businessman and a young mother, in broad daylight.
  • Tamil Diaspora calls for SriLankan boycott
    Tamils around the world have called for a global boycott of SriLankan Airlines, the island nation’s main international carrier, in protest at the Colombo government's decision to unilaterally end the Norwegian facilitated ceasefire agreement between the government and the LTTE.
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