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S.Lanka's Jaffna likely Tiger focus if war comes
[ Reuters ] [ 01:26 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
If Sri Lanka's two-decade-old civil war flares again, as many fear it will, Tamil Tiger rebels are likely to launch an assault on northern Jaffna as well as hit-and-run guerrilla attacks on supply lines, analysts say. The Jaffna peninsula is seen by the rebels as the center of a future Tamil homeland, but they have held it only intermittently in the past and it is now under government control, albeit surrounded by Tiger territory. "Jaffna is their main focus," said Janes Defense Weekly analyst Iqbal Athas, referring to the Tamil Tigers. "Certainly attacks will intensify. If you are looking at conventional warfare, they cannot take it (Jaffna) but we are also talking about guerrilla warfare."
Mullaitivu civil society questions the international community
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 11:38 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Women Development Organizations of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu held a protest march on Monday in Kilinochchi. Large number of protesters that is entirely made up of women marched through the A9 road. They handed our petitions to, the SLMM, NESOHR, and the Government Agent in Kilinochchi. The full text of their petition follows: 'The recent massacres committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces stationed in Northeast raises an important question. Are we, the Tamils, to be killed in the name of peace or live in peace by winning our rights? We are not eager for war, but events are driving us to into war. The atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces are increasing day by day.
Henricians Canada Appeal To The High Commissioner to Save Man From Torture and Disappearance
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 12:02 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Former students of St. Henry's College, Ilavalai, presently living in many major cities across the world and especially the Canadian branch of the St. Henry's Ilavalai Alumni Association has sent an urgent appeal to the High Commissioner of Canada in Colombo to intervene on behalf of an innocent old student of St. Henry's who was forcibly taken from his home by the Sinhala military. According to reports flashed across the world media this morning, 'on the night of 9th January (i.e. 1.00 am Tuesday 10 January 2006) six or seven persons wearing black balaclava flashed powerful torch lights into the home of Rajivmohan while all the occupants of the house were asleep. The invaders knocked on all the windows around their home and asked them to open the door for checking. Henricians have requested all readers of Tamilcanadian to send emails to Amnesty International and other Human rights organizations on behalf of Rajivmohan whom the Rector of the College described as a very soft-spokenand law-abiding citizen of Sri Lanka.
S.Lanka says foils deadly ambush as war fears mount
[ Reuters ] [ 13:18 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Troops found a boobytrapped claymore fragmentation mine in Sri Lanka's far north and suspected rebels lobbed grenades at army bunkers, the military said on Wednesday, amid mounting fears of a return to civil war. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) accused the army of abducting a Tamil youth from his home in the army-held northern enclave of Jaffna and threatening to shoot his mother, the latest in a litany of reported army abuses the rebels warn could spark war. "While troops were withdrawing after picket duties, they have recovered a claymore mine and two detonators with a 30-meter (100-foot) wire," an army spokesman said, asking not to be named. "A small group of LTTE cadres lobbed grenades, but no one was injured."
Thousands of people gather Tamil Uprising in Muttur
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 13:21 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Reconfirming the proclamation adopted at the Tamil Uprising in Vavuniya on 27 July 2005 and the subsequent endorsements at Batticaloa, Mannar, Kilinochchi, Trincomalee, Mullaittivu and Jaffna, the Tamil people in Trincomalee once again congregated at Kadatkaraichchenai in Muttur east on Tuesday 10th January 2006, reiterated the demand to the SL military to quit the parts of Tamil Homeland that it occupies. Mrs. Gunanayagam Nageswary, mother of Black Tiger Major Jeyam lit the flame of sacrifice. Mr.Thiryagarasapillai Arulananthan, father of Lt.Sivajini and Lt.Sathananthan lit the common flame of sacrifice. Mr.Pathakutty Arasaretnam, father of Major Thamilmaran and Mr.Kuttiyan, a member of auxiliary force hoisted the Thamileelam national flag.
Tamils step up pressure on Sri Lanka troops to quit
[ AFP ] [ 13:22 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Tamil civilians backed by Tiger rebels stepped up demands for the withdrawal of troops from Sri Lanka's embattled regions, the guerrillas said, after the US warned them against returning to war. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a statement posted on their website said thousands of minority Tamils staged a rally in the north-eastern district of Trincomalee Tuesday to demand a military pullout. "...the Tamil people once again congregated on Tuesday (and) reiterated the demand to the Sri Lankan military to quit the parts of Tamil homeland that it occupies," the statement said on Wednesday.
"LTTE is not Al Qaeda"-TNA
[ BBC ] [ 16:53 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
The US looking at the Tamil National question from an Al Qaeda mind set is not very helpful says R.Sampanthan, leader of the Tamil National Alliance parliamentary group.He said 'we denounce violence and should remember that both parties are responsible' The parliamentarian stressed that the LTTE has always attempted to participate in the development process and it is the government that has not been able to accommodate them. 'The LTTE participated in a number of consultations on resettlement but nothing has happened .The government has not been able to implement even the P-toms presented by them for Tsunami rehabilitation'. When asked about the deadlock on the peace talks due to disagreement on the venue between the government and the LTTE Sampanthan said that both parties should come to an agreement soon.
Tension in Trinco
[ BBC ] [ 21:03 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
The number of people fleeing villages is on the increase says RG Dharmadasa reporting from Trincomalee. After the killing of a farmer identified as Dhanapalsinham Tamil villagers specially women and children were seen leaving there homes.According to a complaint made by Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian R. Sampanthan to the Sri lanka monitoring mission the farmer has been beaten up to death by army personal and home guards.The farmer is said to have been attacked while on his way to the paddy field in Manakattukulam, a hamlet close to Trincomalee. In another incident a grenade thrown into a police bunker on Tuesday night a constable has been injured says the Uppuvali police.
Amnesty International concerned about escalation of violence
[ Amnesty International ] [ 21:09 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Amnesty International is appealing to all parties to halt the killings, abductions and 'disappearances' being reported daily from the north and east of Sri Lanka. Over one hundred people including around 40 civilians and 60 security forces personnel have been killed in a month of bloodshed. Amnesty International is appalled by the news of the killing by unidentified attackers of Member of Parliament Joseph Pararajasingam, while he attended mass at St Mary's Church, Batticaloa on Christmas Eve, said Purna Sen, Asia-Pacific Director at the organization.This was followed soon after by the killing on 2 January of five high school students from Sri Koneswara Hindu College and St Joseph's College in Trincomalee. Although the army first claimed they were killed by a grenade that the students were carrying, following a post mortem it was revealed that the students had been shot, three of them in the head. Amnesty International is urging the government of Sri Lanka to institute independent and impartial inquiries into these killings and bring those responsible to justice.
20 forced disappearances reported in December 2005
[ Asian Human Rights Commission ] [ 21:34 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
In recent decades, Sri Lanka has had one of the worst records in the world concerning forced disappearances. In 1971, around 10,000 persons disappeared in the south of the country. Between 1987 and 1991, over 30,000 disappeared in the south, and since the early 1980s there have been constant disappearances in the north and east of Sri Lanka. The exact number of such disappearances remains unknown.Given the current circumstances, it is imperative to establish safeguards and mechanisms for the immediate receipt of complaints of forced disappearances and for prompt and impartial inquiries to be launched. These should include effective legal assistance for the filing of habeas corpus applications in courts and the quick adjudication of such applications.
[ Reuters ] [ 01:26 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
If Sri Lanka's two-decade-old civil war flares again, as many fear it will, Tamil Tiger rebels are likely to launch an assault on northern Jaffna as well as hit-and-run guerrilla attacks on supply lines, analysts say. The Jaffna peninsula is seen by the rebels as the center of a future Tamil homeland, but they have held it only intermittently in the past and it is now under government control, albeit surrounded by Tiger territory. "Jaffna is their main focus," said Janes Defense Weekly analyst Iqbal Athas, referring to the Tamil Tigers. "Certainly attacks will intensify. If you are looking at conventional warfare, they cannot take it (Jaffna) but we are also talking about guerrilla warfare."
Mullaitivu civil society questions the international community
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 11:38 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Women Development Organizations of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu held a protest march on Monday in Kilinochchi. Large number of protesters that is entirely made up of women marched through the A9 road. They handed our petitions to, the SLMM, NESOHR, and the Government Agent in Kilinochchi. The full text of their petition follows: 'The recent massacres committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces stationed in Northeast raises an important question. Are we, the Tamils, to be killed in the name of peace or live in peace by winning our rights? We are not eager for war, but events are driving us to into war. The atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces are increasing day by day.
Henricians Canada Appeal To The High Commissioner to Save Man From Torture and Disappearance
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 12:02 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Former students of St. Henry's College, Ilavalai, presently living in many major cities across the world and especially the Canadian branch of the St. Henry's Ilavalai Alumni Association has sent an urgent appeal to the High Commissioner of Canada in Colombo to intervene on behalf of an innocent old student of St. Henry's who was forcibly taken from his home by the Sinhala military. According to reports flashed across the world media this morning, 'on the night of 9th January (i.e. 1.00 am Tuesday 10 January 2006) six or seven persons wearing black balaclava flashed powerful torch lights into the home of Rajivmohan while all the occupants of the house were asleep. The invaders knocked on all the windows around their home and asked them to open the door for checking. Henricians have requested all readers of Tamilcanadian to send emails to Amnesty International and other Human rights organizations on behalf of Rajivmohan whom the Rector of the College described as a very soft-spokenand law-abiding citizen of Sri Lanka.
S.Lanka says foils deadly ambush as war fears mount
[ Reuters ] [ 13:18 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Troops found a boobytrapped claymore fragmentation mine in Sri Lanka's far north and suspected rebels lobbed grenades at army bunkers, the military said on Wednesday, amid mounting fears of a return to civil war. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) accused the army of abducting a Tamil youth from his home in the army-held northern enclave of Jaffna and threatening to shoot his mother, the latest in a litany of reported army abuses the rebels warn could spark war. "While troops were withdrawing after picket duties, they have recovered a claymore mine and two detonators with a 30-meter (100-foot) wire," an army spokesman said, asking not to be named. "A small group of LTTE cadres lobbed grenades, but no one was injured."
Thousands of people gather Tamil Uprising in Muttur
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 13:21 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Reconfirming the proclamation adopted at the Tamil Uprising in Vavuniya on 27 July 2005 and the subsequent endorsements at Batticaloa, Mannar, Kilinochchi, Trincomalee, Mullaittivu and Jaffna, the Tamil people in Trincomalee once again congregated at Kadatkaraichchenai in Muttur east on Tuesday 10th January 2006, reiterated the demand to the SL military to quit the parts of Tamil Homeland that it occupies. Mrs. Gunanayagam Nageswary, mother of Black Tiger Major Jeyam lit the flame of sacrifice. Mr.Thiryagarasapillai Arulananthan, father of Lt.Sivajini and Lt.Sathananthan lit the common flame of sacrifice. Mr.Pathakutty Arasaretnam, father of Major Thamilmaran and Mr.Kuttiyan, a member of auxiliary force hoisted the Thamileelam national flag.
Tamils step up pressure on Sri Lanka troops to quit
[ AFP ] [ 13:22 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Tamil civilians backed by Tiger rebels stepped up demands for the withdrawal of troops from Sri Lanka's embattled regions, the guerrillas said, after the US warned them against returning to war. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a statement posted on their website said thousands of minority Tamils staged a rally in the north-eastern district of Trincomalee Tuesday to demand a military pullout. "...the Tamil people once again congregated on Tuesday (and) reiterated the demand to the Sri Lankan military to quit the parts of Tamil homeland that it occupies," the statement said on Wednesday.
"LTTE is not Al Qaeda"-TNA
[ BBC ] [ 16:53 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
The US looking at the Tamil National question from an Al Qaeda mind set is not very helpful says R.Sampanthan, leader of the Tamil National Alliance parliamentary group.He said 'we denounce violence and should remember that both parties are responsible' The parliamentarian stressed that the LTTE has always attempted to participate in the development process and it is the government that has not been able to accommodate them. 'The LTTE participated in a number of consultations on resettlement but nothing has happened .The government has not been able to implement even the P-toms presented by them for Tsunami rehabilitation'. When asked about the deadlock on the peace talks due to disagreement on the venue between the government and the LTTE Sampanthan said that both parties should come to an agreement soon.
Tension in Trinco
[ BBC ] [ 21:03 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
The number of people fleeing villages is on the increase says RG Dharmadasa reporting from Trincomalee. After the killing of a farmer identified as Dhanapalsinham Tamil villagers specially women and children were seen leaving there homes.According to a complaint made by Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian R. Sampanthan to the Sri lanka monitoring mission the farmer has been beaten up to death by army personal and home guards.The farmer is said to have been attacked while on his way to the paddy field in Manakattukulam, a hamlet close to Trincomalee. In another incident a grenade thrown into a police bunker on Tuesday night a constable has been injured says the Uppuvali police.
Amnesty International concerned about escalation of violence
[ Amnesty International ] [ 21:09 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
Amnesty International is appealing to all parties to halt the killings, abductions and 'disappearances' being reported daily from the north and east of Sri Lanka. Over one hundred people including around 40 civilians and 60 security forces personnel have been killed in a month of bloodshed. Amnesty International is appalled by the news of the killing by unidentified attackers of Member of Parliament Joseph Pararajasingam, while he attended mass at St Mary's Church, Batticaloa on Christmas Eve, said Purna Sen, Asia-Pacific Director at the organization.This was followed soon after by the killing on 2 January of five high school students from Sri Koneswara Hindu College and St Joseph's College in Trincomalee. Although the army first claimed they were killed by a grenade that the students were carrying, following a post mortem it was revealed that the students had been shot, three of them in the head. Amnesty International is urging the government of Sri Lanka to institute independent and impartial inquiries into these killings and bring those responsible to justice.
20 forced disappearances reported in December 2005
[ Asian Human Rights Commission ] [ 21:34 GMT, Jan. 11, 2006 ]
In recent decades, Sri Lanka has had one of the worst records in the world concerning forced disappearances. In 1971, around 10,000 persons disappeared in the south of the country. Between 1987 and 1991, over 30,000 disappeared in the south, and since the early 1980s there have been constant disappearances in the north and east of Sri Lanka. The exact number of such disappearances remains unknown.Given the current circumstances, it is imperative to establish safeguards and mechanisms for the immediate receipt of complaints of forced disappearances and for prompt and impartial inquiries to be launched. These should include effective legal assistance for the filing of habeas corpus applications in courts and the quick adjudication of such applications.