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Mahinda Rajapaksa's Achievement - Sri Lanka ranked Top 6th in SAARC Human Rights Violating Countries

Sri Lanka has been ranked the 6th among SAARC countries violating human rights according to a SAARC Human Rights Report released last week.Asian Centre for Human Rights Director Suhas Chakma speaking at the launch of the report at the South Asia Foreign Correspondent Club in New Delhi said Sri Lanka found itself at number 6 among the 7 SAARC countries primarily because of the fragile Cease-fire Agreement of 2002 which has resulted in the disappearance of ethnic Tamils whether journalists, political activists or innocent persons.

Sri Lanka is situated at southern tip of India. Sri Lanka is the name of the island earlier known as Ceylon. “Ceylon” is the name by which the island came to be known to the outside world after Portuguese occupied it in the early 16th Century. It is a medium-sized island, and is strategically situated in the Indian Ocean. It was a trading port in the age of early European maritime adventure and a strategic naval base in the age of imperialism.

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) media spokesman Thaya Master said that the 25 sailors including the Captain of the Jordanian ship, rescued on the LTTE territorial waters off Mullaithivu Saturday, were handed over to ICRC Monday around 10:00 a.m. in Kilinochchi.
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Tamil : Christmas Radiothon by TRO Australia

"..This year for the Christmas Appeal, TRO is fund raising for Children welfare project. During this Christmas fundraiser, we appeal to you for your support and generosity, the only way TRO Australia can rebuild the lives and to alleviate the hardships faced by the affected children of North-East of Sri Lanka..."
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This plan got underway in July where it was decided to build a multimillion dollar bunker within the High Security Zone (HSZ) to face any eventuality and ensure the safety of the powers that be. The exact location of this bunker is not published due to security considerations but more than a handful of outsiders are now in the know of the bunker which is akin to a luxury apartment fully secured to withstand any attack. It is a self-contained safe haven with facilities to cook, sleep and live comfortably.

by N.G., Voice of the Youth for Justice and Peace, New Zealand; pictures by Chandi Sinnathurai
The power of a Black Christmas does not lie with you, as the Tamil Diaspora, denying yourself the Christmas luxuries, but with you telling the International Community why you will not being indulging in Christmas this year. Your message needs to be clear, "How can I celebrate Christmas when my people are dying back home".

"..All the 25 members of the ship’s crew are in good conditions and none of them was hurt, Suleiman, Chairman of the Shipping Company which owns the drifting vessal, said in a statement to Petra..." Meanwhile local reports from Mullaitivu said that, The captain and crew has thanked Tamil Sea Tigers for saving their life.

Tamil Sea Tigers ( Freedom Fighters ) officials have informed International Maritime Organisation in UK that the 25-member crew of the cargo ship that drifted into LTTE waters off Mullaithivu coast due to technical failure, were safe in Kilinochchi. LTTE's U.N. Liaison officer Pavarasan is in touch with the ICRC to facilitate safe passage to the crew members as the cargo ship was grounded, according to LTTE Military Spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan.

In an interview with "Mawbima" – Sinhala weekly, Visuvalingam Kirubaharan of the 'Tamil Centre for Human Rights' said , ''cemeteries full of bodies, hospitals full of casualties, camps full of displaced people, people starving due to the economic embargo, buildings destroyed and lots of other factual evidence are there to support our allegations''. The excerpts of the interview is given below in English :
Why a Tamil Centre for Human Rights? How do you defend your self if I accuse you as a Tiger front organization?

The international community should make further assistance to Sri Lanka dependent on the resumption of the peace process in the country, German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul said in an interview to be published Sunday. Wieczorek-Zeul's interview, which was released a day early and is to be published in Berlin's Tagesspiegel am Sonntag, is to mark the second anniversary of the devastating Tsunami which swept across coastal regions surrounding the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004.

By: Hamish McDonald Asia-Paciifc Editor
"...Dressed in the white sari of Hindu widowhood, the former Gippsland nurse Adele Wilby was chief mourner as 50,000 people filed past the open coffin of her husband of 28 years, Anton Balasingham, in London's Alexandra Palace Hall on Wednesday...."
SYDNEY this week saw a gathering of notables from the Australian expatriate diaspora, mostly suits from the worlds of satellite TV, finance, science and open-fridge diplomacy.Across the world, in a much stranger story of personal development, the reverence of a foreign people for another Australian expat was on display.

Navaratnam's last Interview to TamilNet
1972 Sri Lanka Constitution illegal - Navaratnam
"The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher's recent reference to the responsibilities of the [Sri Lankan] Government was precisely the same as the substance of a speech I made in the Ceylon Parliament on 11th June 1968," noted the doyen of Tamil politics, V. Navaratnam, when he spoke to TamilNet on 02 November. "I am 97 years old and have lived through the makings of history - not global history with British troops marching into Belgium to start World War I, but more particularly the political, constitutional, judicial, cultural and social history of Ceylon, the country of my origin."
Mr. Navaratnam passed away in Canada Friday.

V. Navaratnam, the only surviving founder member of the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK), the Federal Party, and who turned 97 last October, has passed away in Montreal, Canada at 4:10 p.m. Friday. The doyen of Tamil politics who inked the Bandaranaiyake Chelvanayagam pact and negotiated with the Sri Lanka leaders for sharing state power within a federal framework for almost three decades, came to a conclusion that the Sinhala polity would never compromise or agree on any decision to share state power with Tamils, and left the Federal Party, calling upon the Tamil youth to fight for the establishment of a separate self-governing Tamil State, as early as in 1969.

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Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh Friday received five Tamil National Alliance leaders R. Sampanthan, Mavai Senathiraja, Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, Selvam Adaikalanthan and Suresh Premachandran at his office in New Delhi. TNA MPs told media that the meeting was very cordial and that they had brought focus to the humanitarian crisis in Vaharai and Jaffna where food is used as tool of war by Colombo. Dr. Manmohan Singh emphasized that he had conveyed to Colombo that there could be no military solution to resolve the Tamil national problem and that it should address the political aspirations of the Tamil people through a negotiated settlement.

The unfortunate situation of child rights as propaganda tool
LTTE leadership is making every effort to stop the practice of underage recruitment within the movement. It has taken two decisive steps to achieve this goal. It has passed a Child Protection Law that sets the minimum age of recruitment into the movement at 17 and the minimum age for taking part in direct military combat at 18. It has strengthened the Child Protection Authority with certain powers to investigate future allegations of underage recruitment and take immediate action to release them.

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