Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

Katirkamam also Kathirgamam and Katirgamam (Tamil க த ி ர ் க ா ம ம ் ) is the name of the Hindu temple dedicated to lord Murukan in Sri Lanka. Today it has become primarily a Buddhist place of worship.

The chinkalee Anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere a thug says, `Though historically the god Skanda was a Hindu deity, he has been incorporated into Sinhala Buddhism

explains it self...

The UN and human rights groups have warned that the imminent arrival of monsoon rains could see tents in state-run camps being flooded with sewage, and lead to outbreaks of disease.

But officials argue that enough drainage ditches have been dug to cope with excess water at the camps, where some 250,000 Tamil civilians are currently held.

The government says it is detaining Tamils in camps so that they can be screened for former Tamil Tiger fighters.

Al Jazeera`s Wayne Hay reports.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/10/200910125353600207.html

lowest of the low chinkala savages using their *power* to influence the temple administration and the priest to do the service...

a tajik migrant worker in russia sings *jimmy jimmy jimmy*.......now a big star in russia!

china`s 60 anniversary military parade......2009

Rape - Hillary said!
(By: Gomin Dayasri)


The photograph was released by CBS News in 2004. Iraqi POWs been sexually tortured by a US military woman at the Abu Ghraib prison.

Fury of a woman knows no bounds. Worse, when she is powerful and arrogant but yet failed to achieve her goals. Such is Hilary Clinton. The mighty Secretary of State failed to tame Sri Lanka. The failed Presidential aspirant, knowingly or unknowingly, received terrorist funding for her election campaign and was compelled to return the cash to comply with the law. Notwithstanding her strenuous efforts she could not save the lives of the terrorists, to whom she is obliged. Therein lays the story.

A senior U.N. official was to visit Sri Lanka on Wednesday to discuss the plight of nearly 300,000 war-displaced civilians detained in camps since the island`s civil war ended.
Walter Kaelin, who was to arrive later Wednesday, will visit displacement camps in northern Sri Lanka and hold talks with President Mahinda Rajapaksa during his three-day visit, according to Gordon Weiss, the U.N. spokesman in Colombo.

Kaelin follows a visit made last week by another U.N. official, B. Lynn Pascoe, who expressed concern over the authorities` lack of pace in returning the displaced civilians home.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The former President of Sri Lanka Chandrika Kumaratunga has decried lack of basic freedom in her country.

The former president, who is on a visit to Kerala, was speaking to the media after calling on Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan at the Secretariat on Tuesday. Ms. Kumaratunga said that there was an overall feeling of fear in Sri Lanka. I fear for my life, if I speak freely, though my party is in power (as part of a coalition), she said.

Sri Lanka Tamils fear UK deportation

By Saroj Pathirana
BBC Sinhala service


Tamils in the UK have recently held several high profile protests
Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers in the UK have accused the British government of double standards - trying to send them back to Sri Lanka on the one hand while accusing the island`s authorities of human rights violations on the other.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8195368.stm

self explanatory..

the video is self explanatory..

it is a matter for laughter?? sick bas t rd...

The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Britain, Nihal Jayasinghe, has strongly denied allegations by Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka, who have released footage they claim shows the execution of Tamil Tiger prisoners by the Sri Lankan military.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8223411.stm

interview video attached on that BBC`s page..

Video Evidence Of Extra-Judicial Killings
In Sri Lanka

By Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka

26 August, 2009
Countercurrents.org

A video clip released by Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) has revealed extra-judicial killings being conducted in Sri Lanka.

The Statement by Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka

We, `Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka`, wish to bring to your attention this disturbing video clip. We are not in a position to disclose the way we received it, but we can say that the video was captured during the month of January in 2009.