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Vanni medical student in Jaffna commits suicide due to mental stress
[TamilNet, Thursday, 29 October 2009, 18:49 GMT]
Jaffna University students paid homage Thursday to their fellow final year medical student from Ki`linochchi in Vanni who is suspected to have his taken his life Wednesday due to mental stress, sources in Jaffna said. Vignarajah Gowribalan, 26, who had been staying in a house in Aanaikkoadai in Jaffna, has been undergoing severe mental agony, being separated from his family detained in one of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) internment camps in Vavuniyaa, Gowribalan`s fellow students said.

Earlier Tamils and NGOs did not want better camps to be built. They were complaining about the possible Camp life for the long haul.

Now, Temporary huts got water during the Monsoon storms and outside had water gathered.

Now, they are complaining again.

Will Tamils ever stop complaining and live in harmony with others in Sri Lanka.

I don`t think so.

Size of our Sun in relation to everything else in our solar system.

Trying to fathom just how large our star is can be rather difficult to impart to average folks. After all it`s a yellow dwarf with a spectral classification of G2 V and fairly common it`s one of perhaps more than 100 million G2 stars in our galaxy. However, it alone accounts for 99.9% of the mass of our solar system. This includes all the planets, satellites (moons), asteroids, meteoroids, comets and a plethora of dust and anything else that`s out there. Another point that makes it far from ordinary, common or typical... It is the only known star that supports life

SLA massacres patients with targeted shelling, 64 killed in hospital
[TamilNet, Saturday, 02 May 2009, 08:07 GMT]

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on Saturday attacked the only remaining makeshift hospital twice, killing 64 patients and attending relatives, and causing injuries to 87. Two artillery shells fired by the SLA hit the hospital at Mu`l`li-vaaykkaal around 9:00 a.m. killing 23 and maiming 34 and later several shells were fired at 10:30 a.m., killing 41 and maiming 53. The attack has taken place, after the Sri Lankan military was provided with the exact coordinates of the hospital premises three days back through the ICRC, and as Sri Lanka Air Force Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was monitoring the hospital area. The massacre is calculated to coerce the civilians said a rescue worker citing leaflets air dropped Friday with Mahinda Rajapaksa`s message asking civilians to come to the SLA side dropped on Friday.

I listened to the interview of Tavis Smiley of the Public Service Broadcasting (PBS) with Mathangi (aka Maya) Arulpragasam a hip-hop artist (stage name M.I.A.- Missing in Action) who has been nominated for Grammy and Oscar Awards for 2009.

Maya was born in Sri Lanka, so she claims (though I cannot confirm this fact but give her the benefit of the doubt) but lived most part of her life first in India and then in the UK and currently a British citizen, to the best of my knowledge. I don`t think she has visited Sri Lanka ever since her family migrated to India in the early 1980s (and later to the UK), to the best of my knowledge.

What do you say ?

See how happy the escaping tamils are and they are being treated by Soldiers who seem to be tamils.

Velus`s Vehicle is from Island

Blow by blow
One of our most ancient traditional martial arts, angan pora, that was used in many a battle against the Portuguese and Dutch and then went underground when the British prohibited it, is seeing a new revival in an angan maduwa in Kaduwela.
Kumudini Hettiarachchi reports, Pix by Sanka Vidanagama

What did Kataragama Mahasen of the Yaksha tribe, as legend would have it, who strode this land 25,000 years ago and showed off his prowess during a sura-aura battle, Ravana`s grandfather Pulathisi, Kuveni, Acharya Pandula, Parakrama Bahu I, Dutugemunu and the Dasa Maha Yodayas, Vijaya Bahu I, Seethawaka Rajasinghe, Leuke Disawa, Meegasteene Adikaram and Wickremasinghe Mudliyar have in common?

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 01:15 GMT]

Nearly 400,000 Out-of-work Norwegian Tamilstani Toilet Cleaners gathered Tuesday between 7:30 a.m and 10.00 a.m in front of Norwegian Foreign Ministry in Oslo and Raised a Stink about the LTTE getting Militarily GENOCIDED from its last Main town of Mullaitivu and to beg for Janitor Jobs in this global Recession that seems to have hit the Scandanavian countries of the EU very hard.

Khajuraho invokes the mind, Fires the
imagination. Hundreds of miles from civilization, deep
in the hinterlands of central India where the tiger still
has its own domain and where the depths of the forests
hold their own secrets are a small clearing. Here: a village,
modest by any standards a tank, ambitiously called a
lake groups of ancient temples, some in ruins.
For most people, Khajuraho continues to remain an
enigma, a quest in the arena of world art.

The Sri Lankan government claimed today they found evidence to suggest that the International Organisations like UNDP are involved in fraudulent development scheme in the terrorist held territories to fund the terrorist outfit.

Recently Sri Lankan Troops came across this UNDP project site that supposed to have initiated for development of Wanni civilians at Kiranchchi, but it is only a primitive cattle shed, a name sake project office where the actual funds may have been used by the LTTE for its own purposes. `Can such construction projects bring development to any community in the world?` Security forces have come across many similar projects that may have hoodwinked its main donors, funding a terrorist outfit. Concerns arise about the mode of operandi of such organisations as authorities responsible are bond to justify themselves.

Tigers` `Mendis Special` & Beer Stocks Uncovered in Wanni

VAVUNIYA: IN WHAT appeared to be a strange added twist to the different dimensions of the LTTE terrorist network, WANNI troops in VAVUNIYA Thursday (13) afternoon uncovered not a huge stock of LTTE weapons, but a consignment of Mendis Special arrack (liquor) bottles, bound for Tiger terrorists in un-cleared areas, sending shock waves among members of the Security Forces.

JAFFNA: THE JAFFNA University student who swallowed cyanide and died when caught for questioning by patrolling JAFFNA troops at ARIYALE area last Saturday (1) noon was now confirmed to be one of the key figures in the planning and execution of terrorist activities outside the JAFFNA university compound targeting troops, JAFFNA Police said.

The terrorist turned varsity student, popularly called, PURISOTHAMAM alias SELLATHURAI had been also instrumental in organizing intermittent fire attacks against the troops, taking cover inside the University since the Security Forces were not in the practice of intruding the university premises.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Officials say a rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found nesting on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in about 200 years.

Four leathery, white eggs from an indigenous tuatara were found by staff at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellington, during routine maintenance work Friday.

Conservation manager Rouen Empson says the nest proves that the animals are breeding and suggests there may be more.

Empson says baby tuatara could be born any time between now and March.

Nice buttocks (bottom, posterior or whatever your preference in terminology may be) are usually an integral part of the whole that makes a body attractive, and in most cases, desirable. It appears that the protuberant buttocks are the one desired more than any of the other shapes.

Steatopygia is a condition that is caused by an accumulation of fat around the Buttocks, which, is said to be a genetic characteristic originating with the Khoisan tribals of the sub-Saharan regions of Africa. The reason for the accumulation of the fat would most probably have to do with the storage of energy for these hunter-gatherer tribes to survive during the extended periods that they had to endure without a regular source of food. Interestingly, we are told that a study of their Y-chromosomes reveal that they belong to the oldest human lineage which could well have diverged from the evolutionary tree of over 100,000 years ago. This characteristic has now been genetically transferred to other tribes such as the Bantu, the Bushmen of the Kalahari, the Pygmies of Central Africa and possibly others. However, it must be very clear to those who admire nice asses, that the genes have spread all over and now innumerable descendents of Africans all over the world have been blessed or cursed (depending on how extreme the condition is) with the asses they have that reflect those steatopygic origins.