Sunday 13th April: Tamil New Year, Vishu Punyakalam
1008 Sanghu Abhishekam for Sri Varasiddhi Vinayakar
Starts at 8am with Maha Ganapaty Pooja, Trisathi Homam, Maha Abhishekam etc. and concludes with procession of Lord Ganesa around the temple around 1.30pm. Devotees are requested to sponsor one sangu (konch) at $10 only. Tickets at temple counter. All are welcome. |
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 Address to the East Asia Forum - in conjunction with the Australian National University,
Advancing Australia's Global and Regional Economic Interests
The Australian Government’s mission is to implement a reform agenda to build a modern Australia capable of meeting the challenges of the 21st century – to secure both the nation’s long-term future, and a future for working families. |
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 War savvy Sri Lankan Government sponsored Tushara Peiris's 'anti-Tamil' film Prabhakaran has been busted and banned by Indian Tamils new reports says.
Full Story by TamilNet,
Politicians and film personalities from Tamil Nadu have taken strong exception to a Sinhalese film that seeks to "vulgarize the Tamil liberation struggle in Sri Lanka." Tamil Nadu Film Producers' Association President Rama. Narayanan condemned the film for disgracing the Tamil people at the end of a special screening. Tamil Protection Movement President Thol. Thirumavalavan vowed to take legal action to prevent the film's release in Tamil Nadu since he felt that it not only degraded the Eelam liberation struggle and hurt Tamil sentiments but it was also capable of disrupting communal harmony in Sri Lanka. |
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 Anura Bandaranaike - A candid contra view
by Sachi Sri Kantha
"..In sum, Anura’s personal and political careers seem to fit a few lines of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem ‘Fame’ (1824).
“Were it not better done,- To dine and sleep through forty years;
Be loved by few; be feared by none; Laugh life away; have wine for tears” |
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Accusing the Sri Lankan Consulate in Chennai of false propaganda, unlawful intelligence gathering and tipping off exercises, Agni Subramaniam, the Executive Director of Chennai based Manitham Human Rights Organization is requesting the authorities to close down this Consulate. He has made several accusations against this Consulate in an interview to Kumudam Reporter, the well known Tamil weekly magazine from Tamilnadu. The English translation of this week''s (23 03 2008) Kumudam Reporter article is as follows: |
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 Contrasting U.S. State Department’s institutional bias in favor of governments, and Bush administration’s willingness to overlook abuses by foreign governments in the name of fighting terrorism, with the recent U.S report on Human Rights in Sri Lanka, Bruce Fine, an attorney for a Tamil activist group in the U.S., in a statement released to the media Wednesday, asserts that, “[t]he fact that the United States would savage the human rights record of the GOSL [Government of Sri Lanka] means that its [Sri Lanka’s] actual terrorism record is far more gruesome than represented. The report thus fortifies the moral and legal entitlement of Tamils to a separate statehood.” |
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 Tamil Australians pay tribute to Maamanithar T Jeyakumar on his 1st year rememberance - Saturday 29th March 2008
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Statement by Paul Willms at the International Seminar regarding the situation in Sri Lanka (London)
The historic conflict between the Singhalese and Tamil nation has recently deteriorated after the cease fire agreement between the Sri Lankan government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam came to a formal end on 16 of January 2008.Unilaterally ending a cease fire agreement by a democratic elected government is considered as an irresponsible policy that will have serious consequences. |
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“Jaffna people are treated by the Sri Lanka military worse than slaves, in the most humiliating and terrifying style”, said the Jaffna Members of Parliament who are in touch with their electorate people by phone. They said they are unable to even visit their electorate due to death threats against them. These MPs described the conditions facing their people as follows. |
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 Sri Lanka : Official Website of Tamil National Alliance (TNA)
http://www.tamilalliance.net/
It is a great pleasure to learn that a website is to be established on behalf of Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi ( ITAK) and the Tamil National Alliance ( TNA). In this period of the struggle for the Liberation of the Tamil National Community of the island of Sri Lanka, the opening of this website would become a milestone.The struggle of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eealm for the last three decades for the Liberation of the Tamil National Community in this island is unique, because it has created numerous achievements. |
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 "..The inquiry into the killing of 17 aid workers in Mutur in August 2006 took an unexpected turn yesterday when President’s Counsel Desmond Fernando allegedly claimed a Cabinet Minister in a confidential discussion with him said the Minister was aware who the perpetrators were. Mr. Fernando said he no longer wished to participate in the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the killing of Action Contra La Faim (ACF) workers because he was privy to such information. .." |
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 "..The stories ran in newspapers around the world -- as Reuters stories often do -- with most of those reading unaware the writer was paralyzed..."
Peter Apps is a Reuters correspondent who was badly injured in a car crash on Sept 5, 2006 while on assignment in Sri Lanka. He lost the use of his limbs and is now confined to a wheelchair. He has written previously on his slow recovery and return to work. In the following story he describes going on his first foreign reporting trip since his accident. |
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 Professor Ramasamy, a Political Scientist who left Malaysia and taught in Germany and Singapore, beat former Penang Chief Minister Dr Koh Tsu Koon at the recently held Malaysian elections and has been appointed Deputy Chief Minister for Penang, widely regarded as the Malaysia's economic heartland. Professor Ramasamy participated as a member of the LTTE's constitutional affairs committee prior to Geneva Talks in June 2006. |
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Tamil Competition 2008 in Australia & New Zealand - Application closes on 23rd June 2008
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