It has been 13 years since many of the Tamils standing in Sri Lanka’s Mullivaikkal village Wednesday (18) lost their loved ones — husbands, wives, sons, daughters, brothers, or sisters — in the war between the Sri Lankan army and the…
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Sri Lankan protesters lit flames and offered prayers Wednesday (18) remembering thousands — including ethnic Tamil civilians — killed in the final stages of the country’s decades-long civil war, in the first-ever event where mostly majority…
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The state response to the aragalaya, although not of the proportions as the response to the Tamil struggle, has been the close-to-standard state response to dissent. Its response has been violence and repression both by abusing the law and…
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This week, Selvarani passed away, becoming one of over 115 Tamils to have died while protesting for their forcibly disappeared family members, with no answers, and no justice
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COLOMBO – A meeting between Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the main minority Tamil party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), rescheduled for Tuesday (15) was once again postponed for March 25 due to a protest by main opposition…
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COLOMBO - As the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council gets underway in Geneva, Switzerland, the British Minister for South Asia, Lord Tariq Ahmad, has met with Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister G. L. Peiris and pressed him on progress…
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By Sivanandini Duraiswamy The year was 1930! The date was December 10, when Ceylon was under Colonial rule and the Hindus were at the crossroads losing our innate Hindu Tamil identity. That was the time when a band of young Hindu women…
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By Diane Taylor LONDON - The Home Office has U-turned on plans to deport a leading scientist carrying out ground-breaking research into affordable forms of solar energy and allowed him and his family to remain in the UK. Initially, the…
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By N. Sathiya Moorthy Canada is among the nations where the Tamil Diaspora has a strong and vocal presence. On the Sri Lankan ethnic issue, local society and polity, starting with the Government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, treat the…
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COLOMBO - Armed troops broke up Tamil memorials for Sri Lanka's civil war dead and beat up journalists covering one ceremony in a former battle zone, residents and media organizations said Monday (29). Grieving relatives were forced out…
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