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Sri Lanka: An overview of the enforced disappearances phenomenon under President Mahinda Rajapakse

"..What is frightening about this racket is suspected connivance and condonement at very high levels. At least one cabinet minister has demanded and received money for the release of abducted persons. There are also instances of the families and relatives of abducted persons obtaining their releases through contacts at very, very high levels of government. .."
"..Up- Country Peoples Front MP and Deputy Minister Radhakrishnan went public with the telephone numbers of some abductors. Instead of follow up action some police sleuths summoned Radhakrishnan for an inquiry about how he got his information.
Against this backdrop the average Tamil victim does not trust the police, armed forces or the government. Those who have high level contacts use that influence to get their loved ones out. .."

Adi Sankaracharya and Ramanujacharya were great philosophers of India, responsible for Hinduism's revival and strength. While, Sri Sankara, in a short life of 30, set ablaze the intellectual world with his enquiry, debates and treatise on Vedanta under Advaitam (non-dualism), Sri Ramanuja expounded the relation between world and God through Vishishtadvaitam (containing elements of both Advaita & Dvaita-Dualistic Philosophy) and developed a strong Vaishnavite theology.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's government is using anti-terrorism laws to muzzle the media, a global press freedom organization said Saturday, calling for the immediate release of a publishing executive held under the rules.Dushantha Basnayake, the financial director of Standard Newspapers Private Ltd., was arrested Feb. 26 under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and has been held since without charge, Reporters Without Borders said in a statement."No evidence has been presented against Basnayake," the media advocacy group said.

The United States Foreign policies in Sri Lanka have always been a revolving door in which even the policymakers of the state department lose sight of the obvious, accountability, and deliver lip services. Earlier today Mr. Boucher once again came out of his annual hibernation and made some much needed seasonal noise, such as..
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Sri Lanka Opposition Leader Ranil stirs the pot in the south as US turns the heat on human rights

By: Suranimala, Courtesy: Sunday Leader - April 15, 2007
With the international community continuing to mount pressure on the government to curb human rights excesses, President Mahinda Rajapakse last week called on his ministers to project a positive image of the administration through the media even as the opposition UNP opened another frontier by calling for Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse’s ouster.

The drama performed at MathuraNila 2007 was the combined effort of Sydney and Macquarie Universities to relfect the issues and concerns of our current society. The plot is based in Australia, in its most basic form, consists of two groups of people, four international students from Sri-Lanka and a first generation Sri-Lankan family.
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Tamil Cinema : A Crap and Rubbish Movie - Mayakkannadi by Cheran

"..The moment of reckoning for Mayakkannadi came at the end of the first show of the movie at the Cine Plaza Theater in North Bergen (New Jersey) when the audience started clapping joyously in sheer relief at the close of this lengthy nightmare..."

"..All in all, Cheran's Mayakkannadi is awful to endure, rotten to contemplate and unpleasant to narrate..."

Tamil Sydney dot Com wishes its readers a Happy Tamil New Year 2007
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Ten year old tamil girl raped by Sri Lankan Navy in an islet off Jaffna peninsula

A ten year old girl in Mankumaban, an islet off the coast of Jaffna was raped by two Sri Lankan Navy soldiers on Monday, 9 April 2007 at noon.The girl had just gone outside her home to play when she was grabbed by the Navy soldiers and raped.
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Terrorist lists have greatly impacted our ability to work in an increasing number of cases- Research

'Terrorist lists have greatly impacted our ability to work in an increasing number of cases.' So said a senior official in a medium-sized humanitarian organisation in response to my question about how counter-terrorism measures, and terror listings in particular, had affected their work. Other humanitarians were more specific about the effect of lists, and outlined the problems as follows: staff members of particular nationalities can risk prosecution in their home countries; banking regulations in some donor countries make salary payments to staff abroad difficult; restrictive clauses in funding agreements constrain certain activities; demands on monitoring the end use of funds can be intrusive and hard to gauge.

Distortion of Amnesty internationals 'Play by the Rules' campaign by Sri Lankan Government and its High Commissions around the world "..is a ploy to distract attention from the increasingly desperate plight of hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankan people..", says Amnesty International.
"We are concerned at abuses by all parties to the conflict -- civilians are killed, abducted and forcibly disappeared every day at the hands of government forces, Tamil Tigers, the Karuna faction and other armed groups," said Purna Sen, Asia Pacific Director at Amnesty International. "Let us be clear -- no side in this conflict has anything to be complacent about. On the contrary, all parties are breaching international law by failing to protect civilians."

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