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Tamil refugees sent home, but villages are worse than refugee camps

by Melani Manel Perera

Batticaloa (AsiaNews) Refugees in Welighakandiya and Kudumbimalai, near Batticaloa, went back to their villages of origin after years as war refugees, but now `they seem to have returned to a refugee camp or an open air prison,` said Raajan Francis, coordinator for the Praja Abhilasha network, an organisation that helps settle land disputes.

In 2007, about 600 Tamil families left Welighakandiya fled the war and found refuge in Mailanbawali. On 29 June of this year, after government troops re-captured the North Eastern Province, the first 32 families went home. Instead of moving back into their homes, they were settled in the local school.

The Sri Lankan government has confirmed that the country`s senior military commander has left the United States, where the authorities had intended to interview him regarding alleged war crimes.

Chief of Defense Staff General Sarath Fonseka is to return to Sri Lanka from the United States on Thursday, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) informed parliament.

Following in the footsteps of Puthinam and TamilNaatham, punakku-doling website TamilAwareness.com has been shut down as of October 19th.

According to Tamilawareness.com`s Twitter account, they have been hit by a Denial of Service attack. But most websites bounce back after a few hours or days when hit by a DoS attack, so I don`t know how true their claim is. Another guy on Twitter says that its hosting company has shut the site down indefinitely for some reason.

Anyway, this just adds to the global punakku shortage that has gripped the Donkey Tamil Eelam community all over the world. Refer to the following article to see the devastating effects of the worldwide pubnakku shortage:

This is just too funny!

By Dianne Silva

A top Political leader of a party in Tamil Nadu was among the group that attacked the Sri Lankan High Commission in New Delhi earlier this month, Sri Lankan government sources told Daily Mirror.

Official sources revealed that video footage showed the General Secretary of the Puthiya Tamilagam party within the mob that broke into the premises of the High Commission on the 2nd of October.

According to sources 14 others were identified via the video footage captured by media personnel that had been present at the time of the attack. These 14 persons had subsequently applied for anticipatory bail from the Madras High Court and thereafter been granted anticipatory bail by the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court on the 18th of October.

Canadian Tamil community in crisis

Thursday, 15 October 2009
Written by Michael Swan, The Catholic Register

TORONTO - There`s a mental health emergency in Toronto`s huge Tamil community.

Addictions and alcoholism, depression, family violence, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicides haunt the community as people struggle to cope with death and disappearance of their families back home in Sri Lanka.

The extraordinary stress on Toronto`s 150,000 Sri Lankan Tamils dates back to the Christmas 2004 tsunami that wiped out whole villages in the largely Catholic coastal areas. But just as Toronto`s Tamils began to recover from the grief of burying family and friends and seeing the places they grew up obliterated by the sea, the war then intensified along the same coastal strip.

This is the funniest screenshot I`ve ever seen in my life! `Personal reasons` ROFL! Help! GENOCIDE(TM)!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

XD

The front page headline says it all.

Link to audio clip:

http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=4939Read

This is a most interesting interview! Enjoy the punakku! :O)

Let`s send off the weekend in style! Enjoy :O)

This was filmed at a ceremony at the Wagha border where Indian and Pakistani troops were staging some sort of musical.

Observe how one Indian soldier outdoes his Pakistani counterpart at the high kick salute. Respect, jawan! What a fearsome soldier! How well trained he is! The Pakistanis must be shaking in their boots!

Enjoy the show!

PS- There`s plenty more where this came from :)))

Word is that future hunger strikes by We Thamizh kazhuthais will be most generously sponsored by McDonald`s.

Want a Big Mac?

I chose this video for a couple of reasons:

1) Thanks to the efforts of our soldiers (plus the other security divisions of the SLDF), all our children are free from terrorism.

2) The song itself is simply beautiful.

Happy 60th birthday, dear Sri Lanka Army. Sinha Helaye mura dewathaa obai.

By STEPHEN WRIGHT
Last updated at 1:20 AM on 09th October 2009

He was the hunger striker at the centre of one of the longest-running demonstrations ever mounted in Britain. For weeks Parameswaran Subramaniyan lay in a tent outside the Houses of Parliament as Tamils protested about the plight of relatives under attack in Sri Lanka. At one stage, his supporters claimed he was `critically weak`. The protest finally ended in June, but two revelations put it back in the spotlight yesterday.

Dear friends, today is the first death anniversary of Major-General Janaka Perera. As you all know, his magnificent military career is one of the finest in our nation`s history. Let us take a moment to remember a great son of the soil.

Dear Janaka, you protected the south from the red devils with all your heart, safeguarded the north from the striped demons with the strength of the lion, showed the enemy our true power at Weli Oya! We would not have triumphed without your might. Forgive us for not caring for you in life as you cared for our nation. May you be reborn among us when your time in heaven is done.