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Diaspora Tamils continue to rally in support of Eelam

Tamil Guardian 02 July 2008
Diaspora Eelam Tamils around the world, continue Pongu Tamil rallies in support of the Tamils' right to Self-Determination. Eelam Tamils in the Diaspora countries continued their rallies in support of the Tamils’ right to Self-Determination.The rallies, titled 'Pongu Thamil,' (meaning 'Tamil Upsurge'), are intended as Tamil mobilising through cultural programmes. It resumes a major plank of Tamil political activity.The very first Pongu Thamil was held on January 17, 2001 by university students in defiance of the Sri Lankan military occupying Jaffna and despite the ongoing fighting in the peninsula.

Ilaiyaraja was ruling the Kollywood in the 80’s. Then, little by little, he reduced his speed. A.R.Rahman’s fever spread faster than Ilaiyaraja’s Music! During this time, even the leading Directors moved away from Ilaiyaraja. The main reason was Ilaiyaraja used to hear the whole story and would suggest changes in the story. If, they were not accepting the changes, he would not give his full cooperation it seems.

Sri Lanka's main opposition party has accused the country's most senior army officer of being behind violent attacks on reporters. Opposition MP Joseph Michael Perera told parliament that the attacks were carried out by a "special team" controlled by Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka. Mr Perera said the government should arrest the offenders and "immediately bring them to justice". The army has denied that it is any way involved in attacks on journalists.

Waving the flag of the Tamil Tigers guerrillas, thousands of Canadian Tamils gathered this weekend for their first rally since the federal government shocked the community by outlawing a Toronto-based Tamil non-profit group under the Anti-Terrorism Act. A statement issued by the event's organizers condemned the government for last month's decision to ban the World Tamil Movement as a suspected financial front for the Tigers, and called on Canada to recognize guerrilla-held areas of northern Sri Lanka as an independent state, called Tamil Eelam.

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Hundreds of Tamil Sydney siders say Tamil Tigers ( LTTE ) are sole rep of Tamils - Pongu Tamil 2008

More than 3000 Tamil Sydney siders today ( 06th July 2008 ) gathered at Manson Park in Homebush, Sydney Australia, says Tamil Tigers ( LTTE ) are sole representatives of Tamils and Sri Lankan Government headed by Mahinda Rajapaksa is waging a genocide war against minority tamils in the island, at Pongu Tamil 2008, Tamil upsurge Annual Event. Sri Lankan member of parliament from minority tamil community, who is on a political mission to Australia, Hon Sivajilingam hoisted Tamil National Flag and in speach accused Sri Lankan Government for his genocidal war against tamils.

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.

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