Genocide in Sri Lanka targets Tamil women, affects fertility: TNA MP

[TamilNet, Monday, 05 September 2011, 06:17 GMT]
While talking on the past and on-going genocide of Eezham Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian for Vanni, S. Sritharan on Sunday said in a meeting in London that Tamil women are particularly targeted now and the fertility of Tamils is systematically jeopardized. He cited the examples of ‘grease devil’ attacks on women and the plight of young widows in child-producing age group. Eezham Tamils are increasingly convinced today that a united Sri Lanka would not work, he said. Later, when a question was asked why the TNA had not raised the issues of genocide and right to self-determination in the recent meet convened by a Congress MP at New Delhi, the deputy leader of TNA Maavai Senadhiraja answered that their unawareness of the agenda of the organizers and the desire not to exhibit disunity among the invited groups had been the reasons. 
S. Sritharan-Mavai Senathiraja

Answering another question, why the TNA deviates from the principles of the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution and also distances itself from even uttering the name of the LTTE leader Pirapaharan, Maavai said that people have to be patient enough and the TNA will be taking some crucial decisions in three months time.
Maavai preferred to call the UN Panel Report as ‘Darusman’ report as it was not submitted to any formal UN forum. But, he was challenged by the journalists present in the meeting, who cited the usage of UN Panel report in the report itself.---------

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Less Guns Mean More Food

By Amantha Perera

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Experts say the extra capacity will not only make up for shortages of the country’s staple caused by the twin floods that hit the eastern and central regions this year, but actually provide a surplus. 

"I don’t think there will be a shortage this year. The northern harvest is good, it could be better next year," Nimal Dissanayake, who heads the Rice Research and Development Institute (RRDI), Sri Lanka’s premier rice research centre, told IPS. Full Story>>>