Sharing Success - World Tamil Leaders Conference in Sydney Australia
A three-day World Tamils Economic Conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, in November 2007.
The conference aims to bring all Tamilians from across the world on a common platform to enhance their economic activities through the exchange of information, organiser and industrialist Bala Balendran told the media on Wednesday. Convenor V.R.S. Sampath said the meet would aim to form a Tamil Chamber of Commerce.
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 by Anthony Dias, security analyst
In conclusion, it is the cream of the international representation in this island that was caught between the warring parties in Batticaloa. For reasons yet to be revealed, they, who are supposed to doctor the prolonged ethnic wound via their various modes of facilitation, were unable to gauge the actual situation in the east.
How can one hope that they can gauge the actual situation of the whole island? |
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 Bodies of five Tamil persons were recovered from Mutturajawela marshy land in Kandana police division north of Colombo, Friday and Saturday. Three bodies were recovered on Friday and two more on Saturday, police said.
Some of the bodies were found blindfolded and were in highly decomposed state, Kandana Police said. |
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 Former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera alleged Thursday that Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Ghotabhaya Rajapaksa is an American citizen and the US government must monitor his conduct against freedom of media in Sri Lanka. |
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 Tamil Patriots Day - 25th April 2007 in Melbourne Australia
Hungarian Community Centre
760 Boronia Road Wantirna Victoria |
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 The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has urged the Government of India to desist from providing lethal military assistance to Sri Lanka. Referring to recent media reports that the Indian Government is to either grant or lease a large warship to the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN), the Parliamentary group of the TNA in a press release issued Wednesday observed that these reports have come against the backdrop of repeated assurances given by the Indian leadership, including the Indian Premier Dr. Manmohan Singh, that the India, as a matter of policy, will not provide any lethal weapons to Sri Lanka.
SLN has a "long history of violence against Tamil civilians both at sea and on shore," the statement noted. |
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 "..Amnesty International is extremely concerned by reports that 83 Sri Lankan men may be returned to their country without having their claims for asylum assessed. ..""..This is despite recent reports from the UNHCR highlighting the deteriorating human rights situation in Sri Lanka, and calls for governments not to send asylum seekers back at this time. .." |
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 Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have expressed "deep regret" for an artillery attack which wounded three Western diplomats but accused the government of risking their lives by taking them to a war zone.The rebels said the Sri Lankan government and the diplomats had failed to inform them that they would be flying in two military helicopters into an area where only the air force operated. |
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 Press Release: Project SafeCom
"Bringing the Sri Lankans within the vicinity of Mr Janaka Perera is equivalent to notifying the local SS office of a shipment of Jews having arrived in town, and allowing the SS to take their photographs. It seems that the Immigration Minister is either totally incompetent to hold his portfolio, or refuses to look at the facts that blatantly stare him in the face. He would endanger all the families of the refugees back in Sri Lanka," Mr Smit said.
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 Greens Immigration and Multiculturalism Spokesperson, Senator Kerry Nettle, today warned the government that if they attempted to return the Sri Lankan asylum seekers on Christmas Island to Sri Lanka they would be threatening the integrity of the worldwide refugee protection system."The world is watching what Australia is doing on this issue," Senator Nettle said. |
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The Financial Director of the Sinhala language weekly "Mawbima", Dushantha Basnayake, has been detained by the Sri Lankan Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) Monday evening at his workplace in Colombo. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, in a televised address, Saturday had charged that the weekly was "pro LTTE." The paper is owned by Tiran Alles, a close confidante of Mangala Samaraweera, the former SL Foreign Minister who was recently sacked by Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse. Mr. Tiran Alles was also removed from Sri Lanka's Civil Aviation Authority this month. |
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