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Tamil Cinema Kollywood stars’ side business in US visas

The US consulate has uncovered a racket, in which actors or directors in the South Indian film industry “used their positions to lend credibility to a second unqualified applicant” and has banned 200 people from getting into the US.THE TAMIL film industry may be a poor cousin to the mainstream Hindi film business. But, it has always been acknowledged as an innovative pioneer. Several Hindi super hits are remakes of Tamil films, with icons like Vinod Khanna of yesteryears to the current rage Aamir Khan trying their hands at redoing red-letter performances by Tamil movie greats like Kamalahasan and Surya.

The Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and “disappearances” that are a national crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Human Rights Watch urged the government to reveal the whereabouts of the “disappeared,” immediately end the practice, and hold the perpetrators accountable.Since major fighting between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) resumed in 2006, Sri Lankan security forces and pro-government armed groups have “disappeared” or abducted hundreds of individuals, many of whom are feared dead.

If in 1936 a group of world leaders had called on Chancellor Adolf Hitler and told him to stop the cruel treatment of the Jews, he could well have replied: ‘That is not your business, but mine. This is an internal matter.’ And he would have been legally right as international law stood at the time.If today a similar group said something similar to a modern tyrant, and he replied it was internal matter, he would be wrong. For international law has progressed, and the welfare of a person or community is the responsibility of people everywhere.

The International Community must appreciate that what is going in Sri Lanka is a war. The claim by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) that it is “nothing but Tamil Terrorism” is unacceptable. The bottom line is the determination of a succession of Sri Lankan governments to make multiethnic, multilingual, multicultural, multireligious Sri Lanka into a Sinhala-Buddhist nation, by discriminating against the Tamils (18%) to gain the electoral support of the majority (74%) Sinhalese.

The Sri Lankan government in its undue haste to win the support of the Sinhalese people and the coalition partners, has taken President Rajapaksa’s manipulations and maneuvers since coming to power in 2005 not very far despite all the fanfare and talk. If he continues to misguide and misdirect the armed forces in the manner he does he will go nowhere. His armed forces have gained minor victories since he came to power, but past Eelam wars have proven that there is no winner or loser and there will be no winner or loser. Although the government forces have been working to be liberate eastern Sri Lanka, it is not an easy task for Sri Lanka to maintain peace because LTTE is a strong presence in the region. The northern fronts opened last July began to collapse as the LTTE fighters fighting for a cause do so with determination and courage under the leadership of LTTE Supremo Velupillai Pirapaharan.

Hundreds of tamil australians in sydney paid homage Tuesday to the slain Jaffna District Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian K.Sivanesan assassinated Thursday in a claymore mine attack allegedly carried out by a Deep Penetration Unit of the Sri Lanka Army, south of Maangku'lam on A-9 Road in Vanni.
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Reality Joke: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse & Abductions unleashed on Tamil civilians

Mahinda Rajapakse goes to a primary school to talk about the war.

After his talk, he offers time for questions.

One little boy puts up his hand and MR asks: What is your name?
Amara
And what is your question, Amara?

Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) from its Head Quarters in Vanni on Monday released a statement condemning the Indian 'State welcome' extended to Sri Lanka Army Chief Lt. Col. Sarath Fonseka and the statements made by Indian military chiefs in this context. "[The] Indian State must take the responsibility for the ethnic genocide of the Tamils that will be carried out by the Sinhala military, re-invigorated by such moves of the Indian State," the statement said. "LTTE wishes to point out to the Indian State that by this historic blunder, it will continue to subject the Eelam Tamils to misery and put them in the dangerous situation of having to face ethnic genocide on a massive scale."

Tamil: Memorial Meeting for K Sivanesan, MP, in Sydney - Tuesday 11 March 7pm - 9pm 11th March 2008 ( Tuesday ) Strathfield Community Centre, 1B Bates Street, Homebush. "Tamil Legislator Maamanithar K Sivanesan MP assasinated by Sri Lankan Government Security Forces"
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The name is Rajinikanth – The first official biography of Tamil superstar Rajini

The first official biography of Tamil superstar ‘Rajinikanth’, written by Dr. Gayathri Srikanth, was released in Chennai on Thursday at Hotel Taj Connemera.Titled ‘The name is Rajinikanth,’ the book has been published by Om Books International, and is priced at Rs 460.Well-known journalist plus dramatist Cho Ramaswamy released the book and presented the first copy to Rajini’s daughter Soundarya Rajinikanth. In a short speech, Soundarya said, “It’s a tribute and he's very happy that someone has taken this effort.”

Malaysia's long-serving Tamil Minister Samy Vellu was on Saturday handed down a surprise defeat in Malaysian snap polls seen as a "litmus test" for the ruling coalition, which faces the danger of getting its majority dented. Though Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's Barisan Nasional party won all the six seats for which results were announced, it may lose in provincial polls in Penang and Kelantan. Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) President Vellu, who had served eight terms in Parliament and was Works Minister of Malaysia for long, was given the worst birthday gift on a day he turned 72.

More than thirty international leftwing political parties and organisations who met last week as part of a conference organized by Fourth International in Amsterdam made an appeal to “left wing and progressive forces to come forward in defence of the just cause of the Tamil people.” In a public statement they demanded that the Sri Lankan government “stop imposing its will militarily on the Tamil people.”

"..Unfortunately, serious human rights abuses continue throughout the world, and we expect these to be addressed during this session. At the UN World Summit in 2005, the international community recognised the basic principle that governments have a ‘responsibility to protect’ their citizens. The Council, as the UN’s principal human rights organ, has a critical role to play as a forum for early warning and prevention of gross and systematic human rights violations. There is no excuse for inaction in this forum, and Australia looks forward to helping the Council achieve its objectives. The lives of countless people depend on it..."

Bruce Fein challenges Bernard Goonetilleke to open debate in the U.S
By Satheesan Kumaaran
Who could have seen this coming? Former U.S. Associate Attorney General Bruce Fein has called upon an eminent Sri Lankan diplomat and present ambassador to the U.S. to an open debate at the National Press Club on American soil. Does the call challenge the intellectuality of our Sri Lankan generations? Will Sri Lankan Ambassador to the US Bernard Goonetilleke accept this call to show that Sri Lankans are prepared for any challenge?

By SOMINI SENGUPTA,COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 9, 2008 FOR 25 years, the dirty little war on this island in the Indian Ocean has stretched its octopus arms across the world. The ethnic Tamil diaspora has provided vital funding for separatist rebels; remittances from Sri Lankan workers abroad have propped up the economy; the government has relied on foreign assistance to battle the insurgency.
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