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Provocative abductions delay Sri Lankan ceasefire talks
[ WSWS ] [ 05:14 GMT, Feb. 11, 2006 ]
The abduction of ten TRO (Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation) members by unidentified gunmen last week put a question mark over talks agreed by the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The TRO is an arm of the LTTE involved in rehabilitation and humanitarian work in the North and East, which has been hard hit by the island’s 20-year civil war. The TRO announced on January 30 that a paramilitary group had kidnapped ten of its members at Welikanda in the Polonnaruwa district while they were travelling from Batticaloa to Vavuniya. According to the TRO, the abduction happened just 100 metres from the Welikanda army checkpoint. Five were later released.
Fate of abducted Tamils causes concern
[ Hindustan Times ] [ 14:18 GMT, Feb. 11, 2006 ]
The fate of seven Tamil relief workers, who were allegedly kidnapped by a pro-government Tamil armed group in eastern Sri Lanka late last month, was causing grave concern, a spokesman of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) said in Colombo on Friday. It was eleven days since the TRO's workers were abducted, but the Sri Lankan police had made no progress in the case, the NGO's spokesman, Arjunan Ethirveerasingam, complained. "Unfortunately, there seems to be a dearth of communication, expertise and professionalism within the police force and between the police, other institutions and the public," Ethirveerasingam charged.
Sri Lanka boat explodes as navy goes to search it
[ Reuters ] [ 16:13 GMT, Feb. 11, 2006 ]
A fishing boat exploded when a Sri Lankan naval patrol boat approached it near rebel Tamil Tiger territory on Saturday, international truce monitors said they had been told by the military. A military source said it might have been a rebel Sea Tiger boat that blew itself up when stopped by a naval patrol rather than be searched. A naval spokesman said he had no precise details of the incident, but that one sailor had been wounded. "The report from the navy is that it was a fishing boat and when the Dvora (naval patrol boat) approached, there was an explosion on board," said Helen Olafsdottir, spokeswoman for the Nordic mission which monitors a 2002 ceasefire. A string of suspected rebel attacks on troops in the minority Tamil dominated north and east pushed Sri Lanka to the brink of war, but tensions have fallen since late January when the two sides agreed to hold direct talks in Switzerland.
Thamizhar Martial Arts
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 21:32 GMT, Feb. 11, 2006 ]
Martial arts have been in existence on the Indian sub-continent for thousands of years practiced by ancient Tamils of Tamil Nadu, Tamil Eelam (Northeast Sri Lanka), Kerala, and the Southern portion of present day Andhra Pradesh. The Malayalam language in Kerala only separated from Tamil as its own language during the 8th century A.D. In Andhra Pradesh, the southern half of that state spoke Tamil, while the northern part spoke Prairie, before the language of Telungu had formed it’s own language in that state. In Sri Lanka, the whole island was Tamil up to the 3rd century B.C. before the arrival of a group of exiles from Bengal penetrated the island. They settled in the Southern and Western and Southern parts of the island. Their offspring later became the present day Sinhalese, which their language is a mixture of Tamil, Pali (from Bengal area), and Sanskrit.
[ WSWS ] [ 05:14 GMT, Feb. 11, 2006 ]
The abduction of ten TRO (Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation) members by unidentified gunmen last week put a question mark over talks agreed by the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The TRO is an arm of the LTTE involved in rehabilitation and humanitarian work in the North and East, which has been hard hit by the island’s 20-year civil war. The TRO announced on January 30 that a paramilitary group had kidnapped ten of its members at Welikanda in the Polonnaruwa district while they were travelling from Batticaloa to Vavuniya. According to the TRO, the abduction happened just 100 metres from the Welikanda army checkpoint. Five were later released.
Fate of abducted Tamils causes concern
[ Hindustan Times ] [ 14:18 GMT, Feb. 11, 2006 ]
The fate of seven Tamil relief workers, who were allegedly kidnapped by a pro-government Tamil armed group in eastern Sri Lanka late last month, was causing grave concern, a spokesman of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) said in Colombo on Friday. It was eleven days since the TRO's workers were abducted, but the Sri Lankan police had made no progress in the case, the NGO's spokesman, Arjunan Ethirveerasingam, complained. "Unfortunately, there seems to be a dearth of communication, expertise and professionalism within the police force and between the police, other institutions and the public," Ethirveerasingam charged.
Sri Lanka boat explodes as navy goes to search it
[ Reuters ] [ 16:13 GMT, Feb. 11, 2006 ]
A fishing boat exploded when a Sri Lankan naval patrol boat approached it near rebel Tamil Tiger territory on Saturday, international truce monitors said they had been told by the military. A military source said it might have been a rebel Sea Tiger boat that blew itself up when stopped by a naval patrol rather than be searched. A naval spokesman said he had no precise details of the incident, but that one sailor had been wounded. "The report from the navy is that it was a fishing boat and when the Dvora (naval patrol boat) approached, there was an explosion on board," said Helen Olafsdottir, spokeswoman for the Nordic mission which monitors a 2002 ceasefire. A string of suspected rebel attacks on troops in the minority Tamil dominated north and east pushed Sri Lanka to the brink of war, but tensions have fallen since late January when the two sides agreed to hold direct talks in Switzerland.
Thamizhar Martial Arts
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 21:32 GMT, Feb. 11, 2006 ]
Martial arts have been in existence on the Indian sub-continent for thousands of years practiced by ancient Tamils of Tamil Nadu, Tamil Eelam (Northeast Sri Lanka), Kerala, and the Southern portion of present day Andhra Pradesh. The Malayalam language in Kerala only separated from Tamil as its own language during the 8th century A.D. In Andhra Pradesh, the southern half of that state spoke Tamil, while the northern part spoke Prairie, before the language of Telungu had formed it’s own language in that state. In Sri Lanka, the whole island was Tamil up to the 3rd century B.C. before the arrival of a group of exiles from Bengal penetrated the island. They settled in the Southern and Western and Southern parts of the island. Their offspring later became the present day Sinhalese, which their language is a mixture of Tamil, Pali (from Bengal area), and Sanskrit.