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Australia based Kumarasamy Nanthakopan alias Ragu or Kokulan heads TMVP death squad in Sri Lanka

Australia: Sydney based Kumarasamy Nanthakopan alias Ragu or Kokulan heads TMVP or Karuna Group or Pillaiyan Group or Gothapaya Group , a deadly paramilitary Group in Sri Lanka, news sources said. In an interview to AT Webblog, political head of deadly paramilitary Group in Sri Lanka Sivanesathurai Chanthirakanthan, popularly called Pillaiyan confrmed that a former Sydney resident in Australia, Mr Kumarasamy Nanthakopan alias Ragu or Kokulan is their leader.

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Listen online - ATBC Australia's Tamil Radio - now via web

ATBC Radio Station
Australian Tamil Broadcasting Corporation (ATBC) is a radio station broadcasting programs primarily in Tamil language 24 hours a day. Tamil people have migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka, India, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa and Fiji. There are approximately 35,000 first and second generation Tamils living in the Sydney Metropolitan area and there are more than 80,000 Tamils live in Australia.

The presentation of the History of Eezham Tamils, in some of the international reference material such as Britannica Concise Encyclopedia and The World Factbook by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has become a matter of serious concern for Tamils all over the world. When the discipline of history itself is being deconstructed in the portals of knowledge of the postmodern era on one hand, these international sources of information are still harping on colonial brand of Orientalism, by basing history on myths, says, TamilNet Culture Columnist Akazhaan. Sri Lanka Country Brief Updated on June 2008, published by Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade too mistreat Sri Lankan Tamil history, analysts said.

Sri Lanka Standards Institution, under the perview of Ministry of Science and Technology yet as another insult to Tamil Language & minority Tamil Community fighting for self governance in Sri Lanka, introduce standards for Tamil Computing with Clensing Material and Coconut Product, as per advertisement. The Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka, under war savvy President Mahinda Rajapaksa which is behind the architecture of this standard has been accused of showing step motherly approach in taking the advancement of ICT to Minority Tamil Communities living in North and East, analysts said.

Col Karuna was sent to jail in the UK in January for identity fraud after being arrested in London late last year. He said his forged diplomatic passport and visa were arranged for him by the Sri Lankan defence secretary. Human rights group Amnesty International expressed disappointment that despite six months of investigation the British authorities did not find enough evidence to charge him for war crimes.

Sri Lanka’s army chief says the government has won its 25-year war against the Tamil Tigers. This is not true
MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE, Sri Lanka’s president, shakes out his white outfit and spreads his bare toes with a satisfied air. “We have concentrated on the LTTE [the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam],” he says, “because unless we defeat them, we will have no peace and development.” In January he abrogated a ceasefire and stepped up a brutal two-year offensive against the no-less-brutal LTTE. This week his army commander, General Sarath Fonseka, claimed the operation had succeeded. The Tigers, said the general, had lost the capability of fighting as a conventional army. “We have defeated them.”

Australian parliamentarian for federal state of Lowe, Mr John Murphy, submitted to the House of Representatives Wednesday, a petition signed by more than 4000 Australians calling the Australian Governmen "to do everything in its power to get a peaceful resolution" to Sri Lanka's conflict, and pressed for the "proper implementation of the 2002 ceasefire agreement" that brought optimism for all Sri Lankans that there would be an end to the needless death and displacement of innocent people.

On June 16, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced that the World Tamil Movement would be added to Canada's list of terrorist entities. This announcement was entirely unprecedented. Prior to June 16, every one of the 40 organizations listed was foreign-based, the vast majority (over 80 per cent) based in the Middle East or South Asia. Now, for the first time, a community-based, non-profit organization legally incorporated in Canada – one which has provided settlement, counselling and cultural services to members of the Tamil Canadian community for more than 22 years – has been proscribed.

My name is Sudharshana Rajasingam. I am now 52 years old. I came to Canada in October 1986. Before the 1983 July riots, I was teaching at Methodist College in Colombo and I was eight months pregnant. My husband was working abroad. On the 25th of July, I got a phone call from a colleague telling me not to come to school because of “troubles.” The word trouble was not new to us - it meant racially motivated riots. It happened in 1971 and again 1977.

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ACF demands an international inquiry into the '06 assassination of its 17 aid workers.
Muttur, Sri Lanka—On August 4, 2006, 17 members of Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) were brutally executed while carrying out humanitarian programs in Muttur, Sri Lanka—the most heinous crime ever committed against a non-governmental organization. Following these atrocities, several legal proceedings were initiated in Sri Lanka, but today, after nearly two years of effort, ACF is forced to recognize the failure of these procedures and the blatant lack of will of the Sri Lankan government to establish the truth.

Defy ban on KW Street marches: Greens

Greens MLC Mark Parnell has called on organisers of future marches and street protests to walk down King William Street, following the revelation that an agreement was made between officers of the Adelaide City Council, SAPol and the Public Transport Division that King William Street could not longer be utilised for marches, parades or rallies."Faceless bureaucrats are claiming the right to decide where ordinary citizens can and cannot march - that is simply appalling," said Mark Parnell.

Water management: not bound by borders

ACT Greens MLA Deb Foskey said today that the evidence that the Murrumbidgee River is in dire straits is not news but indicates the increasing urgency for action."The Murrumbidgee is the one part of the Murray-Darling system where the ACT has a direct role in management," said Dr Foskey today."The Coorong is dying because there's not enough water flowing through the Murray, so much is used for agriculture and towns along the way, and the existing flow is constrained by human use and misuse."

Sri Katphaga Vinayakar Temple in Sydney hosts Music Program on 27th June 2008

Note from Author
My name is S. Vijaya Bharati. I am a granddaughter of Indian National (Tamil) Poet C. Subramania Bharati, living in Canada (presently in Vancouver) for the past 40 years. I have edited and just published (in 2008) a Standard Edition of C. Subramania Bharati’s Works Volume 1 Desiya Githangal. This is the 1st authentic edition of my grandfather’s Desiya Githangal, since his death in 1921. This book is to be followed by a projected 9 more volumes over the next 7, or 8 years.

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