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Wear a black armband on Monday February 4 2008 - In solidarity with suffering Sri Lankan Tamils

February 4 2008 is the Sri Lankan Independence Day, but since that day 60 years ago, the Tamils inhabiting that island have only witnessed discrimination, suffering, torture and genocide at the hands of the Sri Lankan government.Tamil Youth Organisation of Australia encourages you to wear a black armband to work/school/uni on Monday Feb 4 in solidarity with the native Tamils of NorthEast Sri Lanka, and explain to your collegues that whilst many other countries celebrate their independence, the Tamils of the NorthEast are mourning this day as it was day that they were granted their death sentence. They have seen nothing but death, discrimination and destruction over the last 60 yrs.

New Zealand Tamils Protest on 4th Feb 2008 - against the CFA abrogation in Sri Lanka by President Mahinda Rajapaksa
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Sri Lanka : VanniTech Graduates Showcase Their Prowess in VanniVision’08

VanniTech, Kilinochchi – January 24th, 2008 – VanniVision - the annual high-tech exhibition, was held at the VanniTech campus on January 24th 2008. The recent graduates – Class of 2007, who have successfully completed their 1-year programs in IT related fields, showcased their newly acquired skills through various computer hardware and software products.The event started off with the lighting of the traditional oil lamp by the President of VanniTech Mr. Thayapararajh, and was inaugurated by the chief guest Mr. T. Gurukularajah, government Zonal Director of Education-Kilinochchi, who is also a member of the Board of Directors of VanniTech. The lamp of the event was lit by Mrs. Antony Qbert Gowry, Secretary of the Board of Directors of VanniTech.

Chris Slee,26 January 2008
The Australian Federation of Tamil Associations (AFTA) has called on the Australian government to impose sanctions on Sri Lanka, following the Sri Lankan government’s decision to abrogate the 2002 Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The CFA was supposed to end a 20 year war between the government and the LTTE, who are fighting for self-determination for the Tamil people in the north and east of Sri Lanka.

BBC UK News
Sri Lanka's powerful Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, 'arranged everything' for him to come to UK using a diplomatic passport, Karuna has told British immigration authorities. Karuna sat behind a protective screen inside the courtroom Reading Karuna's statement at the open court, the prossecution said President's Rajapaksa's younger brother was known to him since he defected from the LTTE. The prosecutor said he pleaded guilty to a criminal offence under British immigration law, but said it was the Sri Lankan government that arranged a diplomatic passport for him.

The cease-fire in Sri Lanka officially came to an end last week, but violence has been flaring for months. SPIEGEL spoke with Norwegian peace negotiator Jon Hanssen-Bauer about monitoring the country's collapse and Sri Lanka's bleak future.
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Untold and unsolved mysteries of the FBI - Professor Aaron Rajah, San Diego, California.

J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) once said, “Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth. Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.”
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Sri Lanka : Will Rajapaksa be successful in hoodwinking the International Community one more time ?

APRC: Will President Rajapaksa, be successful in hoodwinking the International Community one more time with another deadline?
By: Dr. Victor Rajakulendran, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
BackgroundAll party conferences (APCs) have been common phenomena in the history of Sri Lankan politics in dealing with the burning issue of ethnic conflict. Successive Sri Lankan Singhalese dominated governments from both sides of politics have convened APCs to pretend to the International Community (IC) that the government in power at that time was genuinely trying to find a peaceful resolution to this longstanding ethnic conflict.

Greg Combet, the Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement, announced that tomorrow the Air Force will accept its fourth C-17A Globemaster III aircraft during a ceremony at Boeing’s plant in Long Beach, California.Just two years after Australia decided to purchase four Globemasters for the heavy air lift role, the accelerated acquisition program has delivered the giant aircraft on time and on budget.

Hatton Police Headquarter Inspector (HQI) Chandana Gamage, Friday night, entered a restaurant in the town, after consuming liquor and dragged an Up-Country Tamil girl into his jeep along with seven other Tamil youth and took the girl to an unknown location after releasing the boys on his way. The HQI is yet to return to duty and the girl was not traced, an NGO official in Hatton told TamilNet Saturday.

British Tamils Forum (BTF) has organised a campaign by Tamils in the UK to boycott travel by Sri Lankan airlines flights to Colombo and other destinations. BTF is an umbrella organization representing a confederation of several Tamil organisations in the UK. There are around 300,000 Tamils from Sri Lanka living in the UK and it is estimated that some 30,000 of them travel each year to Colombo to visit their relatives. It is reckoned that Sri Lankan airlines earns about £12million a year in foreign currency revenue from Tamils traveling from London and this adds to the war chest of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL).

CIA Confirms Cyber Attack Caused Multi-City Power Outage On Wednesday, in New Orleans, US Central Intelligence Agency senior analyst Tom Donohue told a gathering of 300 US, UK, Swedish, and Dutch government officials and engineers and security managers from electric, water, oil & gas and other critical industry asset owners from all across North America, that "We have information, from multiple regions outside the United States, of cyber intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands.

Musical Concert - Sri Katphaga Vinayakar Temple - 01st March 2008
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Indian Tamil Cinema Stars Nanda & Mathumeetha celebrate Thai Pongal at Tharisanam TV Office

Actor Nanda and actresses Mathumeetha celebrated Thai Pongal with the Tharisanam Staff at the London Office. The artists who came to London to attend the White Pigeon’s Mega musical night held at the Alexandra Hall on the 12th visited the Tharisanam London office and celebrated the Thai Pongal day with the staff. This festival is celebrated by all Tamils as it is non-relevance to any particular religious faith. The whole Tamil population of the world celebrates it without any differences. Therefore it is widely known as "Tamil Thai Pongal" or the "Festival of the Tamils".

"The only alternative to coexistence is co-destruction. "
Jawaharlal Nehru
17th January 2007, the island of Sri Lanka officially steps into armed conflict mode after the Government of Sri lanka (GOSL) unilaterally decided to withdraw from the ceasefire agreement. It is worth pointing out that it was the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which unilaterally declared a ceasefire on the Christmas Eve of 2001, which was subsequently mutually formalised on 22nd February 2002 with the mediation of Norway.

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