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LTTE bore a large part of the responsibility Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary of State
Tuesday, 1 February 2011 - 12:50 PM SL Time
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The Assistant Secretary of State made these remarks during an NPR affiliate radio interview on Jan 27th:
WRVO Interview: Grant Reeher speaks with Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asian Affairs
Excerpts of the Interview relating to Sri Lanka:
QUESTION: In case you`ve just joined us, you`re listening to the Campbell Conversations, and my guest today is Bob Blake, Assistant Secretary of State.
I`ve got to ask you a couple of questions about your previous experience in Sri Lanka. Before you took on your current position at the State Department you were Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives. While you were in that position the country was going through a civil war that had some really gruesome levels of violence and cruelty.
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Tamils in Lanka will be wiped out in 2 years
Wednesday, 2 February 2011 - 10:08 AM SL Time
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S J Michael Collins
Published : 02 Feb 2011 03:31:19 AM IST
Last Updated : 02 Feb 2011 08:11:01 AM IST
TIRUCHY: Despite the claim of the Sri Lankan government that rehabilitation work is in full swing in the regions where Tamils live, the real condition is worse. To say the least, it is non-livable and within two years, all the Tamils and everything about them will be destroyed and obliterated from memory if the present squalid condition persists, I Kayal alias Angayarkanni, who was detained in Sri Lanka recently for visiting the northern part of the island nation, said here on Tuesday.
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Paris`s Tamils thrive despite defeat at home
Friday, 4 February 2011 - 5:00 AM SL Time
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By Amanda Morrow
It`s often mistakenly called Little Bombay , but the lively neighbourhood that stretches from the rue du Faubourg-St-Denis north to La Chapelle is actually home to Paris`s Tamil community. The air is often fragrant in this quarter where a colourful mismatch of shops sells everything from silks to spices. This fa ade, however, masks the painful reality behind the area`s birth.
It began back in 1983 when Paris got its first ever Tamil boutique - opened by a refugee fleeing the violent civil war in Sri Lanka. The independence fight waged that same year by the LTTE, or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, went on to last three decades and claim some 80,000 lives.
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Suba Sundaralingam of TGTE `confronts` Maj Gen Shavendra Silva in Boston
Monday, 7 February 2011 - 12:06 PM SL Time
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http://transcurrents.com/tc/2011/02/post_621.html
Does the shaking of hands, a hand-shake, this decent act of touching human flesh, mean anything, anything significant and meaningful? In the realm of politics and public engagement of politicians, this act has come to mean very little in fact, it almost amounts to nothing.
After all, a president and a former army commander shook hands too, smiling. After all, politicians across the divide shake hands too. Shaking hands for the camera, they go on to say and do things that cause disharmony and disunity.
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Ron Paul: Making Mubarak a puppet dictator our mistake
Tuesday, 15 February 2011 - 1:44 PM SL Time
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America`s attempts to spread its ideals around the world should not be achieved by force or money, believes US Congressman Ron Paul, who says Washington`s efforts to buy influence in countries like Egypt have failed and will always fail.
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Sri Lankan Navy disguised as Tamil fishermen apprehends 24 more Indian fishermen
Thursday, 17 February 2011 - 12:10 PM SL Time
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Posted: Thu Feb 17 2011, 10:21 hrs
Colombo:
In a move that could trigger fresh outrage in India, Sri Lankan Police has detained another 24 Indian fishermen, taking the total number of Tamil Nadu fishermen in their custody in the past two days to 136.
A group of local Sri Lankan fishermen yesterday apprehended the Indian fishermen along with their seven boats and handed them over to the Ilawalai police in northern Jaffna peninsula.
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Seizure of Indian trawlers, a token action: Sri Lanka Navy
Friday, 18 February 2011 - 9:07 AM SL Time
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Around 500 Eezham Tamil fishing society representatives who gathered at Point Pedro in Vadamarradchi refused Thursday to hand over the poaching Indian trawlers, which they had seized from the intruding Indian fishermen on Tuesday. Declaring that their action against Indian poaching was a token one, the representatives urged immediate action from the Indian authorities. The fishermen representatives also refused to hand over the vessels to Sri Lankan military, urging the concerned authorities to resolve the dispute by civil means.
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50th Anniversary of 1961 Tamil Satyagraha campaign
Saturday, 19 February 2011 - 7:28 AM SL Time
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February 20th 1961 is a very important date in the history of the Sri Lankan Tamil political struggle to regain lost rights.
It was on this day, fifty years ago that the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) known in English as the Federal Party (FP) led by SJV Chelvanayakam commenced a non violent direct action campaign against the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Government headed by the world`s first woman Prime minister Sirima Bandaranaike.
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Why South Asia needs an Egyptian-Style Revolution?
Monday, 28 February 2011 - 6:32 AM SL Time
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By Prakash Kona
` I consider that in no government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut off his head. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny that will keep us safe under every form of government.` - Boswell: Life of Johnson
There is hope for the pathetic Middle East and the Arab World in general. Whether a similar hope exists for the as pathetic if not more South Asia I`m curious to know. An inhumanly corrupt, degenerate and criminalized civil society -- its middle classes have long sold their souls to the gods of consumerism the emotional dependence on that scourge of humanity -- religion divisions along caste, color, language, ethnicity and communal lines the false aesthetic that comes out of the reactionary media and movie industry, an aesthetic that celebrates violence and sexual slavery as being normal and ethical the elites -- the true wretched of the earth, addicted to power in an insecure, pathological way, a bunch of fiddling Neros living in glass houses and throwing stones at others out of sheer boredom and decadent exhaustion, they`ll use every means at their disposal to preserve their morbid lifestyles - all these factors will come in the way of a genuine revolution.
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Did company use neta-link to bag SL ferry contract?
Tuesday, 1 March 2011 - 7:01 AM SL Time
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MADURAI: The Madras high court on Monday issued a notice answerable by March 7 on a petition challenging letter of award to Flemingo Duty Free Shop Pvt Ltd possibly belonging to a former Union minister to begin a ferry service between Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu and Colombo in Sri Lanka.
In his petition, M V Iyer, director of M/s Yashawi Ferry Service Pvt Ltd, claims he formed a consortium with two other companies and bid for the ferry service between Tuticorin and Colombo for the tenders issued by the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI).
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Dhoni in rage over controversial URDS
Tuesday, 1 March 2011 - 9:23 AM SL Time
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BANGALORE, India: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit out at the controversial Umpire Decision Review System (URDS) after a key decision went against his side in their dramatic World Cup tie with England. England, replying to India`s 338 all out after Sachin Tendulkar`s record-breaking fifth hundred in World Cup cricket, finished on 338 for eight following a magnificent career-best 158 from captain Andrew Strauss.
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