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The tune to P. Ranil`s dance was set by Dinesh Gunawardene, a GENOCIDAL Sinhaloid minister in the totally 100% Sinhala Only government. Minister Gunawardene was probing P. Ranil on whether he had made any statements to our white masters in the European Union about Sri Lanka`s human rights record that would prove detrimental to the Sinhaloids. Now we all know that P. Ranil loves being probed by his male friends like MAN-gala. But this probe was different because Minister Gunwardene is not one of his friends. Therefore the probing was very homophobic indeed.

No police complaint over jeering incident in Kelaniya


Police say they have not received a complaint over the incident late Thursday evening where a group had blocked the gate of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara Temple when Chief of Defence Staff General Sarath Fonseka was about to leave resulting in his security officers having to clear the way. He was later jeered as he left in the convoy.

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Sri Lanka has been ranked at 16 in the World Economic Forum`s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 ahead of France and the USA. Iceland has claimed the top spot from Norway which slipped to third position behind Finland.

The report`s Index assesses countries on how well they are dividing their resources and opportunities among their male and female populations, regardless of the overall levels of these resources and opportunities.

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Two Canadian Conservative Members of Parliament Partick Brown (Barrie) and Paul Calandra (Oakridges Markham) claim they have been denied visas to Sri Lanka to visit the Internally Displaced Persons camps. The MPs told Canadian media he will take up the issue with the Canadian government.

`As members of the Canadian Parliament, we were seeking to verify the status of refugees who were held in these camps by the Sri Lankan Government,` said Patrick Brown, Conservative MP for Barrie.

UN Chief sends a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, told reporters in New York yesterday, he has sent a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa outlining the concerns of the international community on the developments regarding internally displaced persons, the political process and a possible accountability mechanism.

I have spoken directly with President [Mahinda] Rajapaksa about these pressing matters last Monday. This week, I have sent the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Lynn Pascoe, to Sri Lanka to follow-up. I have asked him to deliver my letter to the President outlining the concerns of the international community and immediately report back to me, the UN Chief said.

The name of a Tamil resident of Tamil Vestlan in Norway is being mentioned as a possible new leader of the LTTE, the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reported yesterday.

The Sri Lankan government has said if the news was true it would request Norway to arrest him and hand him over to Sri Lanka.

The LTTE has been listed as a terrorist organization in the European Union, Unites States, India and several other countries, but not in Norway.

Rahman turns emotional on Lankan Tamils` plight
Oscar Winner A R Rahman turned emotional over the weekend on the plight of the suffering Sri Lankan Tamils as an honorary doctorate was conferred upon him by Anna University in Tamil Nadu.

Speaking after receiving the doctorate, the music maestro said that he had been skipping functions in Tamil Nadu keeping in mind the plight of the Tamils suffering in Sri Lanka.

`Soon after I won the Oscar, I was invited for several functions in Tamil Nadu. But I had avoided them because many Tamils were suffering in Sri Lanka. I hope that a solution will come,` he stated.

Michael Jackson`s daughter Paris delivered a tearful goodbye to her father during the memorial in Los Angeles yesterday. She said that her father was the best father one could imagine and that she loves him so much and will miss him.

`Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine,` the 11-year-old told the thousands of people gathered at Los Angeles` Staples Center to mourn the passing of her father. `I just want to say I love him so much.` The emotion overcame her and she left the microphone to sob into her aunt Janet`s arms.

The King of Pop Michael Jackson, who died Thursday, is a two-time inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Jackson 5 and solo), a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a 13-time Grammy winner, and has 13 solo No. 1 hits and another four with the Jackson 5. His album Thriller alone sold more than 27 million copies in the USA. His music will never die.

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(CBS) CBS News will take a look at the life of musician Michael Jackson, who died Thursday afternoon at the age of 50. `CBS News: The Life and Death of Michael Jackson,` will be broadcast at 10 p.m. ET/PT, and anchored live by Harry Smith.

US jetliner lands safely after pilot dies



Continental Flight 61, whose pilot died Thursday while flying from Brussels, Belgium, to Newark, New Jersey, has landed safely, the Federal Aviation Administration and Continental Airlines said.

The Boeing 777 landed at Newark International Airport at 11:49 a.m. ET Thursday, the airline said, after the 60-year-old Newark-based pilot died `apparently of natural causes.`

The airline said the crew on the flight included an additional relief pilot who took the place of the deceased man, and `the flight continued safely with two pilots at the controls.`

Stop Genocide candidate and one of the Sole representatives of the Sole Representatives of the Eelamisthani Tamilsh people , the LTTE, got Genocided at the recently concluded European Parliament polls.

There seems to be a general pattern of Sole representatives of the Sole Representatives of the Eelamish Tamil people being Genocided at the democratic elections emerging. It is realistic and plausible to assume that Sinhaloid government is somehow responsible for this barbaric turn of events though there is no actual evidence to support this theory.

Air France Jet Missing Off Brazil Coast - Updated



Airline spokeswoman Brigitte Barrand said: `Air France regrets to announce that it is without news from Air France flight 447 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.`

She said the flight was carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew members.

Brazil`s air force said a search has begun near the Brazilian archipelago of Fernando de Noronha.

Spotter planes were reportedly flying over the Atlantic Ocean.

French radio were reporting that Air France has `lost hope` of finding the missing jet.

Prabhakaran still alive, say Vaiko

29 May 2009 10:21:47 AM IST

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MDMK general secretary Vaiko on Wednesday said India had made a mistake by voting in support of Sri Lanka in the resolution passed at the UN Human Rights Council.Speaking at a marriage function at the MDMK legal wing secretary Subburathnam`s family in Tirunelveli, Vaiko asserted that LTTE chief Prabhakaran was still alive.For the last five months, 1,45,000 Tamils had been killed in Sri Lanka and 3,50,000 people were living in unsafe conditions.The betrayal by the Indian government had caused immense grief to them, he said.