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TGTE is to have a Suoreme Leader
Friday, 1 October 2010 - 1:08 PM SL Time
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One-person dominated TGTE decided by narrow margin
[TamilNet, Friday, 01 October 2010, 01:49 GMT]
The question of one-person dominated leadership or collective leadership was not at all taken for voting in the TGTE Constitutional Assembly meeting held in New York Thursday and Friday, TGTE members told TamilNet.
The voting took place only on the question of whether there should be three regional deputies or not. 42 voted in favour of having deputies and 41 voted against it.
However, there was another voting to decide whether the `prime minister` as `supreme leader` nominating the three deputies or whether they should be elected by the Assembly.
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JAFFNA KINGDOM Story of Its Beginnings As Related By Historian Mayilvakanam In his book YALPANA VAIPAVA MALAI written during the Dutch period Translated by C. Brito and Published 1879
Friday, 1 October 2010 - 8:09 PM SL Time
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Yalpana Nayanar was a blind minstrel who lived in the Chola country. One day he quarrelled with his wife over a delayed meal , packed up and left for the island Sri Lanka.
Once there somehow he managed to get an audience with the King , and sang for theKing to the accompaniment of his lute.
The King being extremely pleased honoured him with the gift of a tusked elephant, and by the donation of a land on the northern extremity of the island in perpetuity.
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Dedicated to THIVVYA and KURAL
Monday, 4 October 2010 - 1:37 AM SL Time
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Due to the very loud responses from Thivvya and Kural to my previous post about the origin, I feel compelled to give some further explanations on the accompanying picture..`
(Which I repost in a slightly recomposed form)
1. The two ladies wading through the water- This is a picture
of some fisherfolk from Tamilnadu-represents the original
wave of immigrants.
2. MIA was included to represent the HEIGHTS the descendants
of these original settlers have reached in modern times.
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Inter parliamentary Human Rights Commitee rejects plea.
Thursday, 7 October 2010 - 5:47 PM SL Time
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The Human Rights Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union has rejected the complaint lodged by UNP MP Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena regarding the alleged violations of the rights of MP Sarath Fonseka. The Committee decided yesterday, Geneva time, that there had been no human rights violations in the case of the arrest and trial of the former Army Commander General Fonseka.
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Bangladesh to Gain from Lankan Absence in EU Apparel Market
Friday, 8 October 2010 - 5:52 PM SL Time
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Sri Lanka being excised from the Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status from the EU is reported to allow Bangladesh to exploit the space as it is a competing entity to the Lankan ready-made garment industry. According to The Daily Star, the largest subscribed English daily of Bangladesh stated the country was enjoying the benefits of the EU decision to withdraw zero-tariff from Sri Lanka, among other factor helped garment export growth.
The GSP+ status gives 16 poor nations preferential access to the EU in return for strict adherence to human rights and democratic principles. Sri Lanka lost EU`s GSP+ duty free entry for violating international covenants relating to human and civil rights while exacting ethnic control over Tamil diaspora. However, statistics indicate after the loss of GSP+ status, Sri Lanka has not been impacted much though the period is too short to analyse it in detail.
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KENEDIAN KONGRESS (Tamil) Fully Backs Gen Fonseka
Saturday, 9 October 2010 - 11:15 PM SL Time
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Toronto, Oct 9 (IANS) Throwing their support behind their former tormentor and army chief Sarath Fonseka, who was sentenced to 30 months in jail last week, the Sri Lankan Tamil community in Canada Thursday condemned the Rajapaksa government for its treatment of the former military boss.
`We had problems with Fonseka as a military general, but we have no differences with him as a politician. He has been treated unjustly and jailed by a kangaroo court at the direction of (President) Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family clique which is running the country,`` Canadian Tamil Congress national spokesman David Poopalapillai told IANS.
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SEEMAN to have company :)
Thursday, 14 October 2010 - 7:02 PM SL Time
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MDMK chief Vaiko and other party activists were arrested on Thursday for staging a black flag demonstration against the visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.
Activists protesting against the visit of the Sri Lankan President burnt his effigies, police said, adding they recovered six effigies from the demonstrators
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Brothers who tamed the Tigers, says Report
Monday, 18 October 2010 - 1:47 AM SL Time
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Wars can still be won, even against formidable terrorist organisations. And Sri Lanka shows how. That is the core message of the country`s security supremo, Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a rare interview with The Australian.
His office is in the Defence Ministry - his brother, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, holds the title of Defence Minister - a British colonial era building bristling with armed soldiers, alongside a highly fortified military base on a prime location on Colombo`s beautiful sandy foreshore.
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TIGERS Confer `NAATTU PATLAR` Title.
Tuesday, 19 October 2010 - 1:27 PM SL Time
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Tigers confer `Patriot` title on Navaratnam
[TamilNet, Sunday, 24 December 2006, 22:29 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Sunday posthumously conferred `Naattu Patralar` (Patriot) title on V. Navaratnam, who passed away in Montreal, Canada, Friday at the age of 97.
Mr. Navaratnam warned Tamils, at an early stage, of disastarous consequences of the strategy of winning freedom solely through political means of agreements and pacts, with a brutal oppressor.
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