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More than 2,000 civilians feared slaughtered in a single night
[TamilNet, Sunday, 10 May 2009, 02:55 GMT]
Indiscriminate barrage of shelling by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on the `safety zone` starting from Saturday night to Sunday morning slaughtered more than 2,000 civilians including large number of women and children, medical sources in Vanni said quoting the injured who managed to reach the makeshift hospital. Dead bodies are scattered everywhere and 814 wounded managed to reach the makeshift hospital up to 9:25 a.m., doctors said. Every kind of lethal weapon such as the internationally banned cluster shells and shells fired from Multi Barrel Rocket Launchers and Cannons were used turning the so-called safety zone into a killing field. The SLA usually chooses weekends for its massacres to minimise international attention.

Shells thundering
Bombs blasting
50 Tamil civilians died and 500 tigers born

How long it`s going to go?

Even if we die in the fight for survivl we die as a human but singhalese will live forever as animals.

We the Tamils in all over the world will make sure the sacrifices you made will never ever go in vain.

Lion Of The Desert
Directed by Moustapha Akkad

Produced by Moustapha Akkad

Written by H.A.L. Craig

Starring Anthony Quinn,
Oliver Reed,
Rod Steiger

Distributed by Moustapha Akkad

Release date(s) 17 April 1981 (USA)

Running time 206 min

Language English

Budget US$35,000,000

Lion of the Desert is a 1981 historical film starring Anthony Quinn as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar fighting Mussolini`s army prior to World War II. It was directed by Moustapha Akkad and sponsored by Libyan interests.

It should be pointed out that suicide attacks by terrorists are nothing new the phenomenon appeared among the Jewish Sicaris in the 1st century, among the Moslem Hashishiyun in the 11th century, and among the Asians in the 18th century , citing a source identified as Stephen Fredric Dale, Department of History, Ohio State University.
For these quasi-scholars on suicide warfare, history does not exist before the birth of Christ, circa 2000 years ago. In my research I found out that the real `inventor of suicide warfare` should have lived nearly 5,000 years ago. He is a venerated name in ancient Hindu codes of warfare, and I believe Pirabhakaran wouldn`t mind dipping his head to that great teacher Guru Dronacharya, who trained both the Pandavas and Gauravas in archery.

GANDHI OPPONENTS BACK MOVE

SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: June 5, 1987
LEAD: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi won opposition support for India`s air drop of relief supplies for the Tamils in northern Sri Lanka Thursday night and moved to explain and defend the Indian action to leaders of other nations.

Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi won opposition support for India`s air drop of relief supplies for the Tamils in northern Sri Lanka Thursday night and moved to explain and defend the Indian action to leaders of other nations.

Gabriel Jos de la Concordia Garc a M rquez (born March 6, 1927) is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garc a M rquez, familiarly known as `Gabo` in his native country, is one of Latin America`s most famous writers. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, and in 1982 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his early years he was strongly influenced by his grandfather who raised him. As he grew, he pursued a highly self-directed education that resulted in his quitting law school in order to begin a career in journalism. Early in this career he demonstrated he had no inhibitions to be critical of politics within Colombia and beyond. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha and they have since had two sons together.

The main temples of Murugan are located in Southern Tamil Nadu. They include the Aru Padaiveedu (six houses- rather, military camps in his campaign against demon) - Thiruchendur, Swamimalai, Pazhamudircholai, Thirupparangunram, Palani (Pazhani), Thiruthani - and other important shrines like Mayilam, Sikkal, Marudamalai, Kundrathur, Vadapalani, Kandakottam, Vallakottai, Vayalur, Thirumalaikoil, Kukke Subramanya. Malai Mandir, a prominent and popular temple complex in Delhi, is probably the only major one dedicated to Murugan in all of North India.

Black (Hindi: ब ् ल ॅ क ) is a Hindi and Indian English film released in 2005 and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The first half of the film was based on the 1962 Hollywood movie The Miracle Worker.

Time Magazine (Europe) selected the film as one of the 10 Best Movies of the Year 2005 from across the globe. The movie was positioned at number five.[1] Indiatimes Movies ranks the movie amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films.[1]

May your soul rest in peace.

Wesak (Buddha Day) - First Full Moon in May - around 20th May 2008
Wesak or Vesak, also known as Buddha Day, celebrates the Buddha`s birthday, enlightenment and death. It is the most important day in the Buddhist calendar. In Japanese Buddhism, 8th April marks the birth of the Buddha, 8th December his enlightenment and 15th February his death.

In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Jatayu (Sanskrit: ज ट ा य ू , jatā yū ) is the son of Aruna and nephew of Garuda. A demi-god who has the form of a vulture, he tries to rescue Sita from Ravana when Ravana is on his way to Lanka after kidnapping Sita. Jatayu fought valiantly with Ravana, but as Jatayu was very old Ravana soon got the better of him. As Rama and Lakshmana chanced upon the stricken and dying Jatayu in their search for Sita, he informs them of the fight between him and Ravana and the direction in which Ravana had gone (i.e., south).

just to remember my vilage and the uforgetable happy and sad memeories...