Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

[TamilNet, Friday, 20 February 2004, 16:39 GMT]

In an undisclosed location in Vanni, Pirapaharan, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, participated in the passing out ceremony of a crack Motorbike brigade which completed its special training today, sources in Vanni said.

Pirapaharan took the salute at the beginning of the ceremony to the motorbike parade and after that inspected the special troops, according to Vanni sources.

Selected cadres of the group performed stunts to the assembled audience.

Notorious Toronto gangster re-emerges as Sri Lankan asylum seeker

Stewart Bell, National Post
Published: Monday, November 09, 2009

TORONTO -- When a migrant smuggling ship bound for Australia was seized in Indonesian waters last month, a 27-year-old with a thick beard stepped forward to speak for the boat people.

He said he was Alex and that the more than 200 asylum seekers aboard the wooden cargo ship were ethnic Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka, but it was the way he said it that stood out: He spoke in a distinctly Canadian accent.

The global shortage of punakku is now at an all-time high. The following websites have also been taken out of action:

www.lttepeacesecretariat.com

www.tamileelam.com

www.NITHARSANAM.COM

This is in addition to these other punakku sites that were shut down earlier due to `personal reasons(R)`:

www.Puthinam.com

www.TamilAwareness.com

www.TamilNaatham.com

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?