Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

November 25 has been marked as the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women by women activists worldwide. This day is marked with the brutal assassination, in 1961, of the three Mirabal sisters who were political activists in the Dominican Republic. The Mirabal sisters are a symbol of resistance against the dictatorship in the Dominican Republic then. Since 1981 women`s activists have celebrated this day as the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women to gain momentum and solidarity in their struggle against violence against women.

Singapore-based professor and his information not credible, IRB hearing told ship carrying the 76 men arrived on the West Coast last month

Lawyers for Sri Lankan migrants whose ship landed on the West Coast last month GRILLED Singapore-based terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna Thursday on his claims about the men, questioning his sources, connections to the Sri Lankan government and the reliability of the information that he publishes on a terrorism database.

UNITED NATIONS, November 20 -- In Haiti on November 10, UN peacekeepers fired live ammunition resulting in injuries to civilians. Inner City Press asked spokesperson Michele Montas about the incident, and about UN peacekeepers using live ammunition instead of rubber bullets. Video here, from Minute 12:31. Inner City Press also asked about the CREDIBILITY OF PREVIOUS UN INVESTIGATIONS.

Ms. Montas replied that after an emergency landing, `some Haitians entered the helicopter.` She said a person in the helicopter fired and a cartridge hit a civilian. She also said that `a person in the plane.. shot in the air.` (This is reminiscent of the incident in 2008 during the Security Council`s visit to Goma in the Congo, where a UN security official shot his weapon in the plane to try to show that it was empty, triggering an all night bus ride by Ambassador to Kigali, Rwanda.)

Sri Lankans had been found living under this bridge after losing their employment for various reasons earlier too and the Saudi Government had taken steps to send them back to Sri Lanka after the necessary legal procedure.

A Sri Lankan maid stranded in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia cried her heart out at a press conference held by Uva Provincial Council Opposition leader Ranjan Ramanayake via a teleconferencing facility at Hotel Nippon yesterday.

A Sinhala guy is speaking Tamil. Chinese Tamil was charming, Let see how Sinhala Tamil sounds.

Chinese Boy singing tamil song-Vasantham Star 2009

The Sinhala Buddhist chauvinists and other non Buddhist Sinhala racists often use the word `SRI LANKANS` in this forum. Even the Sinhala president used the word Sri Lankans to deny the existence of minorities and their grievances in Sri Lanka. I think the Sinhalese in this forum use the word Sri Lankans and fancy phrases like `Sri Lanka for all Sri Lankans` etc to deny the rights of minorities in Sri Lanka. Many of them use the word` Sri Lankan` to try to hide their anti Tamil racism and pretend like they are peace loving humanitarians.

In ancient times, especially in Republican Rome, IT WASN`T CONSIDERED SEEMLY TO PUT THE PORTRAIT OF A LIVING PERSON ON A COIN. Sometimes gods were depicted bearing a marked likeness to the actual ruler, but to boldly place your own likeness on the coins was to risk BEING SEEN AS A KING. In fact, it was Julius Caesar`s likeness on his own coins that helped foment the insurrection against him.

The monarch`s portrait was a guarantee of the coin`s value in ancient societies, sort of an assay mark. However, the ancient republicans, the pro-democracy philosopher sort who formed the Senate in ancient Greece and pre-Imperial Rome, felt very strongly that a living man`s portrait did not belong on the coinage of a Republic. In fact, it was Julius Caesar`s audacity in putting his living visage on his silver coins that helped spark the rebellion that resulted in Julius Caesar`s Assassination. The early Amercian Patriots were anti-royalists by definition, and royalty have always, since ancient Greek and Roman times, taken pride in putting their image on their coins.

When we think of martial arts, we usually think of China or Japan. Only recently, people have discovered that martial arts had its roots in India somewhere . The location of what part of India martial arts came from still remains a mystery to a lot of people.

Let us take note that India is a sub-continent with roughly 18 languages and various dialects of certain languages. Each state has its own language and writing script. Moreover, there are three major ethnic groups which are the Indo-Aryans of the Northern part, the Mon-Khmer of the Eastern part, and the Dravidians (Thamizhars) of the Southern part. The Indian sub-continent is more comparable to Europe geographically even though it is a country in itself created by the colonial British for their own economical achievements.

JUSTICE BEFORE RECONCILIATION. NOT ONLY THE TAMILS, EVEN THE HAITIAN CHILDREN ARE WAITING FOR JUSTICE.

HLLN Letter to the UN asking for investigative reports, specific actions taken and punishment metered, reparations provided to Haitian victims of rape and sexual abuse by UN soldiers in Haiti.

In 2007, it was discovered and reported that girls as young as 13 were having sex with U.N. peacekeepers for as little as $1 in Haiti. Moreover, Sri Lankan soldiers were accused of systematically raping Haitian women and girls, some as young as 7 years old.

UNKNOWN SOLDIER

Valiant Canadian Son,

Did you know the ridge was taken when you fell? Could you have died aware of the importance of the victory wrought by you and your fellow soldiers of the Canadian Corps? Were you alone, in that mud, where now the twin spires of a glorious monument to your sacrifice and your contribution to Canada`s maturation as a nation now dominates the skyline? The mournful statue of Canada, weeping on the northern edge of the monument remembers, as do we, the great gifts of freedom you have given us. Now, at home on Canadian soil you rest, under the stolid gaze of soldiers of the Great War on the monument above, as they too strive towards a victory, seemingly visible to them but eternally beyond reach. And every November the nation will lay its thankful tribute at your resting place. You are the Canadian, stalwart patriot of Dominion and Empire, representing us all as you did in the mud of that hotly contested ridge. Our father, brother, son, uncle, cousin - we miss you, we mourn you, we thank you for our freedom and the years of peace your death and so many, too many, others won for us.

FOUR CATEGORIES OF SINHALESE POLITICIANS

These are as follows:

(1) SCHEMERS: This breed pretends to dispense justice to Tamils but practices only opportunistic politics e.g: all the past and present leaders of the UNP and the SLFP, who became the prime ministers and presidents of the island.

(2) SCREAMERS: This vocal breed (mostly originating from the non-Govigama castes among Sinhalese) pretends to be the patriots of the Sinhala nation. Since they could NOT ASPIRE to the top echelons of power, they vented all their frustrations on the Tamils with demonic intensity e.g: K.M.P. Rajaratne, C.P. de Silva, I.M.R.A. Iriyagolle, Philip Gunawardena, Rohana Wijeweera, Cyril Mathew and Merril Kariyawasam and Sarath FONSEKA.

The Singapore-based terrorism expert who asserts Tamil terrorists were aboard a ship that brought 76 Sri Lankan migrants to Canada will be called to explain his allegations under cross-examination.
Rohan Gunaratna, who heads a terrorism think tank at Nanyang University in Singapore, has been the chief adviser to federal investigators trying to determine the identities of the migrant men, who arrived off Canada`s West Coast in a decrepit cargo ship on October 17.

The Srilankan flag, the state and its Mahavamsa ideological role in promoting RACISM, HATRED, and GENOCIDAL ACTS against TAMILS

` If you are of the opinion that the Sri Lankan flag and the state glorify Racism Hatred and genocidal acts , then please explore legal prospects of banning the state and the flag under racism and hatred law in UK and other relevant countries.`

Please see the link:
http://site.ofapsuk.com/Home.html

The ethnic problem was largely due to the Tamil people feeling alienated particularly over the language issue and lack of equal access to the public service. It has become an urgent need to implement the language policy, says Chairman of the Official Languages Commission Raja Collure.

The Sinhala government did not magnanimously include Tamil as an official language of Sri Lanka in the constitution. But the Tamils of Sri Lanka spilled their blood for that to happen. The Sri Lankan Tamils are proud of their proper Tamil language usage and they have produced more than their share of Tamil scholars. The Eelam Tamils have been in the forefront of the protection of Tamil language and culture. Now the Sinhala government is corrupting the Tamil language on government websites, name boards and publications etc with unnecessary Sinhala words.