Congress and Colombo busy in shielding each other

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 11:26 GMT]
A Congress parliamentarian from Tamil Nadu in Rajya Sabha, Dr. E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan has convened a meeting of ruling and opposition party parliamentarians of India in New Delhi on Thursday, aiming to diffuse the growing political momentum that challenges the crimes committed, and being committed, by New Delhi and Colombo on Eezham Tamils. Meanwhile, genocidal Colombo’s High Commissioner in New Delhi, Prasad Kariyawasam is engaged in preaching ‘ethics’ to journalists and in canvassing to get their support by sending propaganda material prepared by the SL ministry of defence. The Indo-Lanka public relations machinery is in over drive to limit damages caused by media exposing the crimes of the two establishments in partnership. Full story >>
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Colombo camouflages confiscation of Tamil lands

TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 03:29 GMT]
All people of the north and east who cannot confirm ownership of their land through supporting documents are to be given a two-month period to furnish details of such land through a special application to the respective Divisional Secretaries, reports SL state-owned Daily News and SL ‘Defence’ website. “A special procedure is to be followed in cases where state land has been claimed by the people,” the report says, meaning that ‘state’ lands distributed to Tamils during British rule and after independence will be now ‘reconsidered’ if documents or parties are not available. All land issues in the country of Eezham Tamils have to be dealt with only by Tamil sovereignty and by no body else, commented Tamil political circles, adding that the former colonial power Britain and India that backs genocidal Colombo are answerable for not upholding the sovereignty of Eezham Tamils over their land. Full story >>
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Defency Secy. vs The Sunday Leader - Only India could have intervened says Gota

August 16, 2011, 9:08 pm 

By Jayantha de Silva

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, giving evidence yesterday before Mt. Lavinia District Judge M. C. B. S. Moraes, said that during the war only India and no other nation could have militarily intervened.

The Defence Secretary’s evidence was led by Attorney-at-Law Ali Shibry at the hearing of the private plaint filed, against the Leader Publications and the Editor of the Sunday Leader, by him in connection with an article published in the Sunday Leader which allegedly claimed that by virtue of his post he had a role in the procurement of four MIG Jets for the SL Air Force outside tender procedure resulting in a loss of US$ 100.78 million to the country.    Full Story>>>