[TamilNet, Monday, 27 February 2012, 23:14 GMT] Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack (DDoS), identified by the service provider of TamilNet as originating in an orchestrated way from certain affluent parts of the world, has been disrupting web traffic of TamilNet.com since Saturday. The attack on the independent media reporting to the world on Tamil affairs coincides with the opening of the 19th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in Geneva on Monday, where the USA and Sri Lanka have already pitched positions in hijacking the focus of issues concerning the cause of genocide-affected Eezham Tamils. TamilNet has been forced to seek expert services in regularising the web traffic. As a media arguing for Eezham Tamil public to take up the issues into their hands, TamilNet depends on the support of nobody other than the Tamil masses and the alternative world.
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In the past too, TamilNet in its 15-years of web transmission had been targeted to similar web attacks, but in minor scale.Sri Lanka has been blocking the web traffic of TamilNet inside the island since June 2007.
In the long struggle of Eezham Tamils, in the pre-Internet era, regimes in Colombo were jamming broadcasts including those of the Tamil services of the BBC and Radio Veritas. Full story >>
