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World Cup Sri Lanka Vs Australia - Sri Lanka "breakes the rules" , Amnesty's Human Rights Campaign

Amnesty has launched a campaign to address the human rights abuses related to the conflict in Sri Lanka in order to get international human rights monitors on the ground. The campaign will focus the Cricket World Cup in the West India which ends on April 28th.

The powerful US based think tank Freedom House is to further downgrade Sri Lanka in May over serious press freedom concerns. Speaking from its New York office, Karin Karlekar Senior Researcher for Freedom House and Managing Editor of the Freedom of the Press Survey told The Morning Leader the statement will come at a time media freedom was under grave threat in the country.
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War savy Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse To Attend World Cup Final

War savy Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, who is currently under immense criticism for escalating Human Rights issues by state machineries, will fly to Barbados to cheer the national team in the cricket World Cup final on April 28, sources said.
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What is the Main Plank of US Foreign Policy? - by Chandi Sinnathurai, realpolitik

"And it's slow and hard and you get -- it takes time and there's no quick fixes and there's no simple answers and everybody knows the answers. I don't have to repeat 'em: you have to educate, you have to learn, you have to organize, you have to find ways of acting and so on. That's all there's ever been in history, and nobody's going to find another magic answer -- and there's no magic answer on this.

A senior U.S. representative of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Karunakaran Kandasamy, was arrested in Queens, New York, according to a news release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, Wednesday. The charge in the complaint is merely an allegation, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty, it further says. A leading political analyst says that this timely arrest will open public debate on Sri Lankan Tamil’s decades of freedom struggle against oppression and will pave ways to expose Sri Lankan State sponsored atrocities through the court proceedings and related media coverage.

Increasing abductions, illegal killings and child recruitment in Sri Lanka are all going on unchecked and victims do not receive justice. The intensified fighting over the last year has forced over 300,000 people to flee their homes. At least 1000 people have been forcibly disappeared since the beginning of 2006. To coincide with Sri Lanka's Cricket World Cup Semi-Final Clash with New Zealand, the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament are supporting Amnesty International's campaign "Play by the Rules," pressing for independent human rights monitors and calling on all sides to the conflict to respect international human rights and humanitarian law.

By Dr C P Thiagarajah
The BBC’s news item titled “Motorists hit by card clone scam” published in their web-site on 21 April was of very poor quality. It went on that it was believed cards were being skimmed at petrol stations and the details and pin numbers used for cloning. Money was thereafter withdrawn from the account using the clones. About 200 of the UK's 9,500 petrol stations were thought to have been involved. This was what the BBC found out from reliable sources although the word ‘believed’ used in the piece of writing led one to suspect the credibility of the statement.

A Canadian Tamil peace activist in Toronto, Dr. Sri Skanda Rajah, on Saturday concluded a six day Ghandian fast, he undertook to sympathize with the victims in NorthEast Sri Lanka, TamilNet says. In Sydney, Tamil Apex Organisations, which are said to be representing many tamil organisations, like, Australian Federation of Tamil Associations (AFTA ) and Consortium of Tamil Associations of NSW are seriously considering to organise alike Ghandian fast to highlight the pathetic plight of their brothern in Sri Lanka, unconfirmed sources close to them said.

In a news report filed today, Peter Apps of Reuters says "An investigation by Sri Lanka into the killing of 17 tsunami aid workers was seriously flawed, a group of international lawyers said on Monday, warning the rule of law on the Indian Ocean island was under threat. The 17 local Sri Lankan staff from French aid group Action Contre la Faim were found shot at close range in the northeastern town of Mutur last August after fighting between the government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). They had been working on rebuilding after the 2004 tsunami."

"..Tallapaka Annamacharya was one of the greatest saint composers of South India. For a period of 96 years in 15th Century, he graced this earth composing a total of 32,000 kritis in the carnatic music tradition, a feat which is near impossible to replicate! They were found engraved on copper plates which were hidden for centuries inside the Sri Venkateswara temple at Tirumala. .."
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Breaking News: Tamil Tiger aircrafts bomb Sri Lankan military base used for indiscriminate shelling

Two attack air-crafts of the Tamileealm Air Force (TAF) have bombed Palaali military base Tuesday early morning at 1:20 a.m., inflicting heavy damage to the Sri Lankan military garrison in Jaffna's High Security Zone, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) military spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan told to a media. It is reported that this Palaali military base, is one of the main base used by Sri lankan government to indiscriminately fire artillary shells and mullti baller rocket launchers towards civilian settlements in North part of Sri Lanka.

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