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Tamil Cinema, Chennai : popular comedian Vivek's Solli Adippen in March?

The much awaited Solli Adippen, which is popular comedian Vivek's maiden venture as hero on the silver screen, is expected to release this March.

Recently, the movie's audio launch was celebrated in Chennai in a grand manner with Super Star Rajinikanth and director Shankar taking part.

Australian Parliamentarians Don Randal and Senator Steve Hutchins are due to to visit Sri Lanka on a fact finding mission, funded by Australia - Sri Lanka Friendship Group, sources said. Unconfirmed reports says that, these two parliamentarians request to visit war torn towns in North East of Sri Lanka, including Trincomalee ( where 17 French air workers have been massacred by Sri Lankan Army ) , Vaharai ( where several thousand tamils are displaced ) and Jaffna has been turn down by High Commissioner K.Balapatabandi, as it will expose the current reality in Sri Lanka.

"..Gananathan was one of the activists who worked for exposing Krishanthy's gang rape case by Sri Lanka Army trooppers in 1996. ."
President of the Jaffna Multi Pupose Co-Operative Society (MPCS) and an active social worker in the Jaffna Peninsula, S. T. Gananathan, 64, was shot dead near Mampalam junction Sri Lanka Army camp in Ariyalai, a suburb of Jaffna, around 6:30 a.m., Thursday. Gananathan was one of the activists who worked for exposing Krishanthy's case.

SVT Press Release
Dear Friends and Devotees of SVT..Thai Poosam Greetings!
We cordially invite you with family and friends to participate in this wonderful festival in celebration of Lord Muruga's victory over Asuric forces.Thai Poosam celebrates the conquest of demon Tharakasura by Lord Subrahmanya. According to the legends, Lord Shiva & Parvathi asked their son, Subrahmanya, (Skanda or Lord Murugan as he is known in Tamil) to destroy the wicked demon who was troubling the Rishis and Saints.

Australian Human Rights Activists expose Sri Lankan's Human Rights Violations
Candle Light Vigil - by Australians for Human Rights of the Voiceless

At : Church Street Mall, Parramatta
Date: 04th Feb 2007, 6.00 pm

Letter to UNHCHR Arbour and Special Advisor on Genocide Mendes
by Karen Parker, IED, January 29, 2007
We now consider that the situation has disintegrated even further, placing the Tamil people on the island, already victims of ethnic cleansing, at serious risk of genocide.

“taking advantage of the silence of the international community, including India, on its policy of using its Air Force, heavy artillery and forced starvation to force the Tamils to submission.” [1]

A set of Canadian Memorial Stamps and First Day Cover were issued at a memorial function in Toronto Saturday, honoring the contribution by late V. Navaratnam, a doyen of Ilankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK), the Federal Party, and who called upon the Tamil youth to fight for the establishment of a separate self-governing Tamils State in 1969. Mr Navaratnam urged the youth to fight, when he left the Federal Party and founded Thamil Suyadchi Kalaham, the Organisation for Tamil Self-Governance, after witnessing failed negotiations for power-sharing with Sri Lankan leaders for almost three decades.

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Free Media Movement (FMM) together with other journalists organisations Monday launched an International and national campaign to release journalist Parameshawary who has been detained in Sri Lanka prison for seventy days without trial, civil sources in Colombo said. She was arrested under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism (PTA) act. The authorities have filed no charges and have failed to establish any links with terrorist activity, the letter of appeal says.

Macquarie University & Sydney University - Tamil Societies present MayuraNila 2007 07th April 2007 - Saturday
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda not worried about abducted tamil aid workers - 1 Year On no progress

One year has passed since the abductions of the TRO humanitarian aid workers on the 29 & 30 January 2006. To date the Sri Lanka Police have yet to conduct any meaningful investigation or inquiry into these disappearances. The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka investigated this case and made a report to its head that has never been released. The atmosphere of impunity has lead to a steady decline in the status of human rights on the island.

Australian Prime Minister, John Howard today announced Richard B. Cheney's visit to Australia and reiterated australia's strong bilateral relationship with USA, sources close to canberra said. Full text of John Howard's press release;
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Sri Lanka History : The Tamil struggle for national liberation By Sérgio Rodrigues

*Courtesy: Socialism and Liberation Magazine* On Nov. 26, the Tamil people of Sri Lanka celebrated Heroes Day. It is the day when the first fighter of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lost his life in combat in 1982—a day dedicated to the memory of all Tamils who have died fighting for the right to self-determination.
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War savy Sri Lanka President Mahinda appoints ‘Jumbo’ cabinet with 105 members to smash tamils

The Australian, South Asia correspondent, Bruce Loudon describes war savy Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s move to build a 'Jumbo' cabinet with 105 members our of 225, to smash tamils as follows;
Cabinet deals target Tamil Tigers
HOPES of a peace agreement with Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels faded yesterday after weeks of political horsetrading led to mass defections from the parliamentary Opposition to the Government and the swearing in of a new "jumbo" cabinet with 105 members.

Situation report in Jaffna
Reported by Fr Paramavalan Peter CMF from Jaffna Sri Lanka, B.A. (India), B.Th. (Rome), M.A. (Philippines) S.T.L.(Frankfurt), S.T.D (Philippines).
The military machinery and the Sinhalese collectivism of the Buddhist State has abridged the dignity of the people of Jaffna to the subhuman condition. Imposing economic embargo and closing the A9 highway it has blocked the supply of food, medicine, fuel and other essential commodities for the normal life of the people. Even the pregnant mothers, newborn babies, bedridden sick are being deprived of their food. The Sri Lankan Government has made the Jaffna Peninsula as an open prison and deliberately and systematically torturing them and making their lives bitter day by day.

Kittu Cup Cricket Match is an important day in Queensland Tamils Calendar and this time they played it on 26th January 2007,at Jindales State School Ground. The Cricket Match is organised in memory of Sathasivam Krishnakumar, well known in the Tamil Diaspora by his nick name 'Kittu".
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