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Sinhala Government Should Take Full Responsibility for the Murder in the Cathedral
[ TWG ] [ 12:28 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
This killing is not the single dastardly act committed by a madman on the spur of the moment. It is a calculated act of political assassination of Tamil leaders carried out by the government and its unscrupulous surrogates to eliminate the leadership of the Tamil people and to cower them into subjugation. This is what the odious apartheid regime in South Africa did to the leaders of the African National Congress. The roll call of our leaders killed by the Sinhalese is long and painful. We cannot forget the more than 75,000 Tamil victims of this cruel war on our people. The Sinhala establishment and their surrogates have assassinated in so-called peace-time, our top leaders such as Kumar Ponnambalam, Sivaram, and now Joseph Pararajasingham. How much more can we take before they come for us too.!
Canadians pay tribute to "Mamanithar" Pararajasingham
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 12:53 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Canadians on January 2nd, Monday evening paused to mourn and pay tribute to the slain senior Tamil parliamentarian and human rights activist, Mr. Joseph Pararajasingham at the St. Columbia Church in Toronto, Canada, in a memorial organized by the Canadian Tamil Congress. Led by Canada's Minister of Defence, 4 parliamentarians from the Government, 5 representatives from official opposition, the Conservative Party and the third party, the New Democratic Party, a number of prominent Canadian human rights and peace activists, and a strong showing from the local Tamil community filled the church beyond its capacity. The Canadian Defence Minister and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Bill Graham, who had met Mr. Pararajasingham on two occasions, spoke at the memorial. 'It is a great privilege for me to be joined by fellow members of parliament and candidates of this election to pay tribute to a courageous, wise intelligent member of parliament for Sri Lanka,' said Minister Graham.
Five Tamil students killed by SL Special Forces in Trincomalee
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 13:13 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Five high school students, all under the age of 20, were shot through their ears and killed on Monday. The students, from Trincomalee Sri Koneswara Hindu College and St. Joseph's College, were as usual spending an evening at the popular family seaside location, near the seaside junction of Koneswara Road and Dockyard Road. Some of the students' parents were also with them. As they were standing with friends and family, a grenade was lobbed from an auto that drove past them. Witnesses said after the grenade attack on the students, the auto drove toward the Trincomalee Fort, where a Sri Lankan Army (SLA) camp is situated.
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels accused troops of shooting dead five Tamil students in the restive northeastern port town of Trincomalee.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said the victims together with family members were relaxing at a seafront park on Monday when they were initially attacked with a grenade.
Within minutes, troops rushed to the scene and opened fire, a rebel statement said on Tuesday.
"As five of the students were being shot and killed, four other students tried to escape by running," it said.
"As they ran, the Sri Lankan military's special forces fired at them and the escaping students incurred injuries on their arms and legs."
The defence ministry said a grenade the students were carrying had exploded prematurely and caused the deaths of the five.
"Those young men, suspected to have arrived there in order to carry out an attack on the troops or the police, were on the beach at the time their grenade went off bringing death to five of them," the ministry said in a statement.
It said troops and police rushed to the scene and recovered one more grenade, an abandoned motorbike and four bicycles, believed to have been used by the victims.
The incident sparked tension in Trincomalee, 260 kilometres (160 miles) northeast of the capital. Large crowds gathered outside the main hospital while forensic tests were being carried out on the victims, local police officials said.
There has been a spate of deadly bomb attacks against security forces in the embattled northeast since last month in violence linked to the island's decades-old ethnic conflict.
Tamils flee Sri Lanka enclave, some want to fight
[ Reuters ] [ 13:14 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Carrying their belongings in plastic bags and cardboard boxes, hundreds of residents are fleeing Sri Lanka's army-held northern Jaffna peninsula for Tamil Tiger territory. Some crossing a desolate no-man's land that separates military from Tiger-held areas said they were fleeing military harassment and feared the resumption of a two-decade civil war. Others said they wanted to fight alongside the rebels. At the Muhamalai border crossing to the de facto state the rebels control, a Tiger customs officer said on Tuesday 1,000 families had headed south in the last week. There is no official data.
The Pararajasingham murder ' the fall-out
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 14:39 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
A senior Tamil politician, a member of Parliament with a national and international standing who is totally committed to the Peace process has been murdered by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and/or their agents. He had the complete backing of the Tamil Tigers and was clearly an important conduit between the Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil Tigers in any peace negotiations. His murder must put the Peace process in jeopardy. There must be a national and international response to this outrage.Where the Tamil people are concerned, there must be some decisive action taken. The Tamils are losing those who can effectively present their problems- nationally and internationally. People who could be their future leaders are being gradually taken out. The Tamils have some serious decisions that they will have to make.
Functioning National Police Commission essential in eliminating crime
[ HREA ] [ 16:01 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
At present then, the body given power by the constitution to exercise disciplinary control is not functioning. The sentiments expressed by the IGP and the Advisor to the Ministry of Defense will not carry much substance until disciplinary control is exerted. Further, crime and corruption will continue to increase, constituting a national menace and threat to people's security. This situation must not be allowed to continue. Those in positions of power must implement the provisions of the constitution without delay; the Constitutional Council must be appointed immediately, to allow for the appointment of commissioners to the NationalPolice Commission.
Card. O'Connor meets president of Sri Lanka
[ Asia News ] [ 16:35 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
The fragile peace process of Sri Lanka was at the centre of a meeting yesterday between Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor and President Mahinda Rajapakse. The Catholic Archbishop of Westminster is in the country to visit tsunami-hit areas on the first anniversary of the catastrophe on 26 December 2004.Cardinal O'Connor assured the president that the 'British Community and myself are very much with you and the people of Sri Lanka to bring peace to this beautiful island.' As regards the question of conversions and freedom of worship in the country, the president had announced ' during a visit to Buddhist monks in Kandy shortly after his election ' his intention of making the Religious Consultative Council effective to resolve controversies which may arise.
Sri Lanka divided on president's India visit
[ World Peace Herald ] [ 16:40 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Rival communities of Sri Lanka are divided on President Rajpaksha's recent visit to India. According to The Times of India the majority Sinhalas feel that precious little has been achieved in terms of the country's number one problem -- the ethnic issue. But the minority Tamils feel that India has shown greater sensitivity to the Tamils sentiment than ever before. "India has indeed been treating us like a leper and avoiding involvement like the plague only because president Premadasa requested them to leave as they had not completed their obligations even after three years in this country, "wrote K Godage, senior columnist. He said India had made no comment on the LTTE's proposal for an Interim Self Governing Authority for the north eastern province though it did not accord with any known concept of a federal structure. "India has treated our leaders like children, "Godage said.
LTTE member and a Tamil Nationalist killed in Claymore attack by the SLA
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 17:29 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Major Jeyananthan, Vavuniya West LTTE Political Head and Mr. Vinotharan Thevarasa, a Tamil Nationalist were killed in a Claymore attack at Valaiyankattu, in Mullikkulam in Vavuniya District today 3 January 2006. The Claymore mine went off when they were travellling on a motorbike around 4.00 pm. Sri Lankan Army's deep penetration team was allegedly behind this Claymore attack, which killed Mr. Jeyananthan, a disabled cadre and the Nationalist.
Tamils youths 'shot in the head'
[ BBC ] [ 17:36 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Tension remains high in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Trincomalee following conflicting reports regarding the deaths of five Tamil students. The Tamil Tiger rebels have accused government troops of a grenade attack on the students as they were sitting on the beach then opening fire as they tried to escape.However a spokesperson for the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM,) Helen Olafsdottir told BBC Sandeshaya there was evidence that all five of the students had been shot in the head in a manner that she described as resembling executions.Large crowds have gathered outside the main hospital while forensic tests are being carried out on the victims.
[ TWG ] [ 12:28 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
This killing is not the single dastardly act committed by a madman on the spur of the moment. It is a calculated act of political assassination of Tamil leaders carried out by the government and its unscrupulous surrogates to eliminate the leadership of the Tamil people and to cower them into subjugation. This is what the odious apartheid regime in South Africa did to the leaders of the African National Congress. The roll call of our leaders killed by the Sinhalese is long and painful. We cannot forget the more than 75,000 Tamil victims of this cruel war on our people. The Sinhala establishment and their surrogates have assassinated in so-called peace-time, our top leaders such as Kumar Ponnambalam, Sivaram, and now Joseph Pararajasingham. How much more can we take before they come for us too.!
Canadians pay tribute to "Mamanithar" Pararajasingham
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 12:53 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Canadians on January 2nd, Monday evening paused to mourn and pay tribute to the slain senior Tamil parliamentarian and human rights activist, Mr. Joseph Pararajasingham at the St. Columbia Church in Toronto, Canada, in a memorial organized by the Canadian Tamil Congress. Led by Canada's Minister of Defence, 4 parliamentarians from the Government, 5 representatives from official opposition, the Conservative Party and the third party, the New Democratic Party, a number of prominent Canadian human rights and peace activists, and a strong showing from the local Tamil community filled the church beyond its capacity. The Canadian Defence Minister and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Bill Graham, who had met Mr. Pararajasingham on two occasions, spoke at the memorial. 'It is a great privilege for me to be joined by fellow members of parliament and candidates of this election to pay tribute to a courageous, wise intelligent member of parliament for Sri Lanka,' said Minister Graham.
Five Tamil students killed by SL Special Forces in Trincomalee
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 13:13 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Five high school students, all under the age of 20, were shot through their ears and killed on Monday. The students, from Trincomalee Sri Koneswara Hindu College and St. Joseph's College, were as usual spending an evening at the popular family seaside location, near the seaside junction of Koneswara Road and Dockyard Road. Some of the students' parents were also with them. As they were standing with friends and family, a grenade was lobbed from an auto that drove past them. Witnesses said after the grenade attack on the students, the auto drove toward the Trincomalee Fort, where a Sri Lankan Army (SLA) camp is situated.
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels accused troops of shooting dead five Tamil students in the restive northeastern port town of Trincomalee.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said the victims together with family members were relaxing at a seafront park on Monday when they were initially attacked with a grenade.
Within minutes, troops rushed to the scene and opened fire, a rebel statement said on Tuesday.
"As five of the students were being shot and killed, four other students tried to escape by running," it said.
"As they ran, the Sri Lankan military's special forces fired at them and the escaping students incurred injuries on their arms and legs."
The defence ministry said a grenade the students were carrying had exploded prematurely and caused the deaths of the five.
"Those young men, suspected to have arrived there in order to carry out an attack on the troops or the police, were on the beach at the time their grenade went off bringing death to five of them," the ministry said in a statement.
It said troops and police rushed to the scene and recovered one more grenade, an abandoned motorbike and four bicycles, believed to have been used by the victims.
The incident sparked tension in Trincomalee, 260 kilometres (160 miles) northeast of the capital. Large crowds gathered outside the main hospital while forensic tests were being carried out on the victims, local police officials said.
There has been a spate of deadly bomb attacks against security forces in the embattled northeast since last month in violence linked to the island's decades-old ethnic conflict.
Tamils flee Sri Lanka enclave, some want to fight
[ Reuters ] [ 13:14 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Carrying their belongings in plastic bags and cardboard boxes, hundreds of residents are fleeing Sri Lanka's army-held northern Jaffna peninsula for Tamil Tiger territory. Some crossing a desolate no-man's land that separates military from Tiger-held areas said they were fleeing military harassment and feared the resumption of a two-decade civil war. Others said they wanted to fight alongside the rebels. At the Muhamalai border crossing to the de facto state the rebels control, a Tiger customs officer said on Tuesday 1,000 families had headed south in the last week. There is no official data.
The Pararajasingham murder ' the fall-out
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 14:39 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
A senior Tamil politician, a member of Parliament with a national and international standing who is totally committed to the Peace process has been murdered by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and/or their agents. He had the complete backing of the Tamil Tigers and was clearly an important conduit between the Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil Tigers in any peace negotiations. His murder must put the Peace process in jeopardy. There must be a national and international response to this outrage.Where the Tamil people are concerned, there must be some decisive action taken. The Tamils are losing those who can effectively present their problems- nationally and internationally. People who could be their future leaders are being gradually taken out. The Tamils have some serious decisions that they will have to make.
Functioning National Police Commission essential in eliminating crime
[ HREA ] [ 16:01 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
At present then, the body given power by the constitution to exercise disciplinary control is not functioning. The sentiments expressed by the IGP and the Advisor to the Ministry of Defense will not carry much substance until disciplinary control is exerted. Further, crime and corruption will continue to increase, constituting a national menace and threat to people's security. This situation must not be allowed to continue. Those in positions of power must implement the provisions of the constitution without delay; the Constitutional Council must be appointed immediately, to allow for the appointment of commissioners to the NationalPolice Commission.
Card. O'Connor meets president of Sri Lanka
[ Asia News ] [ 16:35 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
The fragile peace process of Sri Lanka was at the centre of a meeting yesterday between Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor and President Mahinda Rajapakse. The Catholic Archbishop of Westminster is in the country to visit tsunami-hit areas on the first anniversary of the catastrophe on 26 December 2004.Cardinal O'Connor assured the president that the 'British Community and myself are very much with you and the people of Sri Lanka to bring peace to this beautiful island.' As regards the question of conversions and freedom of worship in the country, the president had announced ' during a visit to Buddhist monks in Kandy shortly after his election ' his intention of making the Religious Consultative Council effective to resolve controversies which may arise.
Sri Lanka divided on president's India visit
[ World Peace Herald ] [ 16:40 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Rival communities of Sri Lanka are divided on President Rajpaksha's recent visit to India. According to The Times of India the majority Sinhalas feel that precious little has been achieved in terms of the country's number one problem -- the ethnic issue. But the minority Tamils feel that India has shown greater sensitivity to the Tamils sentiment than ever before. "India has indeed been treating us like a leper and avoiding involvement like the plague only because president Premadasa requested them to leave as they had not completed their obligations even after three years in this country, "wrote K Godage, senior columnist. He said India had made no comment on the LTTE's proposal for an Interim Self Governing Authority for the north eastern province though it did not accord with any known concept of a federal structure. "India has treated our leaders like children, "Godage said.
LTTE member and a Tamil Nationalist killed in Claymore attack by the SLA
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 17:29 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Major Jeyananthan, Vavuniya West LTTE Political Head and Mr. Vinotharan Thevarasa, a Tamil Nationalist were killed in a Claymore attack at Valaiyankattu, in Mullikkulam in Vavuniya District today 3 January 2006. The Claymore mine went off when they were travellling on a motorbike around 4.00 pm. Sri Lankan Army's deep penetration team was allegedly behind this Claymore attack, which killed Mr. Jeyananthan, a disabled cadre and the Nationalist.
Tamils youths 'shot in the head'
[ BBC ] [ 17:36 GMT, Jan. 3, 2006 ]
Tension remains high in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Trincomalee following conflicting reports regarding the deaths of five Tamil students. The Tamil Tiger rebels have accused government troops of a grenade attack on the students as they were sitting on the beach then opening fire as they tried to escape.However a spokesperson for the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM,) Helen Olafsdottir told BBC Sandeshaya there was evidence that all five of the students had been shot in the head in a manner that she described as resembling executions.Large crowds have gathered outside the main hospital while forensic tests are being carried out on the victims.