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Sri Lanka - Bomb explosion near Hilton Hotel targets Police bus in Colombo, 9 killed, 85 wounded

A three-wheeler fitted with a bomb rammed into a bus carrying riot control police commandos, few hundred meters away from the Sri Lankan Presidential Secretariat, Friday noon, killing at least 9 persons, 7 policemen and 2 civilians, and injuring more than 50 policemen and 35 civilians. The explosion has taken place on Lotus Road inside the High Security area near the Hilton Hotel. 12 wounded policemen were in critical condition, according to medical sources in Colombo hospital.

by K.S., Tamil Araichchi, May 14, 2008
"I still remember clearly receiving those patients alive - cut and bleeding - and dead from that event, at Jaffna Teaching Hospital as a third year Medical Student. I am glad to hear someone is alive to tell the story." -- Sangam member
Extracts from Wikipedia:
The Kumudini [ Kumuthini] boat massacre happened on 15 May 1985 when at least 23 minority Sri Lankan Tamil men, women and children on a ferry boat named Kumudini sailing from the Island of Delft to the island of Nainatheevu were alleged to have been killed by Sri Lankan Navy personnel.

RAMS India & Sri Lankan Food 17C, 16-20 Henley Road Homebush West 2140 Phone 9763 1456
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Sri Lankan / Indian Grocery , Spice Shops in Sydney, Australia

PYRAMID VIDEO & SPICE Indian, Srilankan & Island Groceries 114, The Cresent, HomeBush West Nsw 2140 Phone (02) 9764 4433 Fax (02) 9764 4477
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Anne Frank , Pryanka-Nalini and Tamil Eelam’s Kids

Adolph Hitler was a famous tyrant in modern history. Many of the gory stories of his genocide and anti Semitic racist atrocities including the gassing of the innocent in his gas chambers received universal condemnation. But none of Hitler’s victims touched the hearts of those who cared for children caught in war like the story of the Jewish girl Anne Frank.
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With a terrible record of torture and disappearanc Sri Lanka not fit to be in UN Rights Council

"With a terrible record of torture and disappearance, Sri Lanka doesn't deserve a seat on the UN human rights council. It should be voted out," says the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, in a comment that appeared on the daily Guardian, U.K., May 15th edition.
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Indian Spy Manmohan Sharma and his Chinese Sex Scandal - RAW official in Beijing recalled

An intelligence official from the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's external intelligence agency, posted at the embassy in Beijing is being recalled for his alleged links with a Chinese language teacher.Manmohan Sharma, who was posted in Beijing a year back, will be returning to headquarters shortly. A departmental inquiry has been initiated."We will find out if there has been any misdemeanour on his part and get to the bottom of this sensitive matter," highly placed government sources told IANS. "In the meantime we have called him back."

Tamil lobby: Do Tamils lobby? - Arvalan

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
Napoleon Bonaparte
The terms Tamil Diaspora, expatriates and lobby are being used by the analysts and media frequently. This creates a perception that these terms are similar and is a matter of semantics. A lobby is “a group of persons who attempt to influence legislators or other public officials on behalf of some particular cause or interest” and lobbying means “to influence (legislators), or urge or procure the passage of” (Reference Macquarie dictionary.) The keyword in defining lobbyists and lobbying is influence”, which is defined as “power of producing effects by invisible or insensible means”.

Tamil Youth Organisation of Australia wishes to bring to your attention the murder of a Tamil Catholic priest,
Father M X Karunaratnam. "A roadside bomb in Sri Lanka said to have been planted by government soldiers in rebel territory killed Father M X Karunaratnam, a Catholic priest and campaigner for the rights of Tamils." [AP, 21/04/08] On Sunday 20 April 2008, the Deep Penetrating Unit of the Sri Lankan Army targeted Father M X Karunaratnam, head of North East Secretariat on Human Rights, whilst he returned from a church service. He now joins the list of several Tamil parliamentarians, journalists and human rights activists assassinated by the Sri Lankan Government.

"Anzac Day mirrors the soul of our nation, And shows the price it was willing to pay, To secure our freedom, knowing if it was lost, That soul would sicken, and would wither away" (Bernard Sprunt)
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Cooking for Jey Book Release on Naattu Pattraalar Naal on ANZAC day

Cooking for Jey Book Release on Naattu Pattraalar Naal on ANZAC day
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Sri Lankan Sinhala Government Invasion into Tamil Homeland thwarted by Liberation Forces

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) units that attempted to break the Forward Defence Line of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) in Ki'laali, Mukamaalai and on several other positions were forced to retreat, leaving behind dead bodies of their troopers, according to LTTE's Northern Forces Operations Command. Heavy fighting lasted till 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The SLA has suffered heavy casualties as the Tigers put up stiff resistance, says TamilNet.

Sydney, April 21, 2008. Caritas Australia is calling on the international community, including the Australian Government, to assist the Sri Lankan Government in challenging the culture of impunity operating throughout Sri Lanka, after the death of Father MX Karunaratnam in a roadside bombing on Sunday.
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United against Tamils, why? - Professor Aaron Rajah, San Diego, California.

Oftentimes international alliances will be formed when nations discover a common enemy, cooperative profits and/or region threats. Why then is the world united to fight against the minority Tamil people in Sri Lanka? Historical analysis would be hard pressed to find worse odds facing such a small group of people.
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