OPINION: DIVISION AS THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE OUTCOME FOR THE PROPOSED NIGERIA NATIONAL CONFERENCE 

by: THEWILL-_December 17, 2013

We assume that the aim of any debate engaged in by grown up people and, in this case the Nigerian debate; should be to find and apply reasonable and practical solutions to the real problem of Nigeria. We do not expect that anyone should set out to waste everybody’s time if from the beginning no one is willing to apply the findings and recommendations of honest, sincere and reasonable debaters.

No true father for instance will postpone removing their family from harm’s way while they can. In this instance Igbo leaders, Yoruba leaders, and Hausa/Fulani leaders are the fathers of their different ethnic and religious peoples who they represent. It is expected that the proposed National Conference should serve as an opportunity and space where these different peoples can meet and boldly take action to take their various peoples out of the harm’s way that is one Nigeria. One Nigeria is a very dangerous and harmful monster that has in many ways harmed the peoples who are unfortunately and inadvertently roped into it. This national debate must offer the various ethnic and religious peoples in Nigeria the one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to positively remove themselves from this harm’s way.

Each ethnic and religious group in Nigeria today must use this time to tell each other the truth. They must be bold to tell each other that it is because there is one Nigeria that we have poverty, and no leadership and leaders. The ethnic and religious peoples in Nigeria must be honest and sincere this time around to admit to each other the fact that the reason why there are corruption in government and on the streets, in homes and religious houses, ethnic/religious cleansings and genocides is because there is one Nigeria. They must honestly accept that there can be nothing more dangerous and harmful to the peoples than the continued existence of one Nigeria. Some people who for their myopic vision, transient positions and fleeting personal comfort, such people like the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu who are publicly expressing limitation on the scope of the conference should be ignored. Such people do not represent the interest of the people where they come from. Ekweremadu does not have the mandate of Igbo people in his expressed personal opinion. When he said that referendum for the independence of the different ethnic peoples in Nigeria should not be part of the national debate his statement needs to be explained to avoid confusion. Ekweremadu has not spoken on behalf of Igbo people; he has not even spoken on behalf of the people in his local constituency.

The truth is that the various peoples in Nigeria are very much aware that the United Kingdom of Great Britain is presently engaged in the process of trying to work out the details and set a timetable that states when the ethnic Welsh people and ethnic Scots people in their country will vote in referendums to become independent of the union of Britain. This is one of the references that guide the choice and decisions of the various ethnic peoples in Nigeria. The so-called political jobbers do not decide for them.

The people are aware that a few individuals who may constitute themselves into reactionary minority pressure groups might still be nursing the decadent idea that the national conference will merely discuss the basis on which the various nations of peoples in Nigeria will continue to exist together in one country. It is along that line that some people are talking about “true federalism” or other such fanciful terms. But here we are making it abundantly clear that the real position of the various ethnic peoples in Nigeria is that the national debate will be to discuss and set timetables when and how Nigeria will be divided along the ethnic/religious differences as they exist in Nigeria.

We solemnly recommend that this proposed national debate should serve to end all the debates about Nigeria so that the situation does not degenerate to an uncontrollable level of violence and total destruction. Presently, the truth is that there is no such thing as Nigeria while on the contrary there are such things like Igbo nation, Yoruba nation and Hausa/Fulani nation and each is capable of producing their own leadership institutions and leaders from their native societies and cultures. We are strongly recommending that through this national debate or any other means, everyone should work hard to quickly divide Nigeria along the existing ethnic/religious lines so that we can solve the seemingly endemic problems of poverty, Islamic religious violence and terrorism, genocides and all the other numerous problems of Nigeria.

Written By Osita Ebiem

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11 வயதில் தகவல் தொழில்நுட்பத்தில் பட்டம் பெற்று தமிழ்ச் சிறுமி சாதனை - 

2013-12-18 16:24:12 | General

பானகமுவ நிருபர் 

ஒன்பது வயதில் இணையத்தளத்தை  வடிவமைத்து உலகில் இரண்டாவது இடத்தைப் பெற்று சாதனை படைத்த சிறுமி வஷினியா பிரேமானந்த் 11 வயதில் தகவல் தொழில் நுட்பத் துறையில் பட்டப் படிப்பை பூர்த்தி செய்து உலகில் முதலாம் இடத்தைப் பெற்று தாய் மண்ணுக்கு பெருமை தேடிக் கொடுத்துள்ளார்.

இந்தச் சிறுமி விளையாட்டுப் பொருட்களுடன் நேரத்தை  கழிக்காமல் கூடுதலான காலத்தை தகவல் தொழில் நுட்பப் பாடத் துறையில் சாதனைப் படைப்பதற்காக கழித்து  அயராத முயற்சியினால் இந்தச் சாதனையை நிலை நாட்டியுள்ளார்.

பிரேமானந்த் நடராஜ் லக்சுமி  தம்பதியின் ஏக புதல்வியான இந்தச் சிறுமி கண்டியிலுள்ள , கொழும்பு சர்வதேச பாடசாலையில் தரம் 9 இல் கல்வி பயில்கின்றார். 2002.05.13 ஆம் திகதி  பிறந்த இச் சிறுமி  தொழில் நுட்பம் தொடர்பாக பிரித்தானிய கணினித் துறை கற்கை நெறி சங்கத்தின் (BCS IT Degree) பட்டத்தைப் பெற்றுள்ளார். இவருக்கான பட்டமளிப்பு விழா இங்கிலாந்து கல்வி நிலையத்தினால் 2014 ஆம் ஆண்டு செப்டெம்பர் மாதம் கொழும்பில் நடத்தப்படவுள்ளது.

இந்தப் பட்டப்படிப்புத் தொடர்பான பெறுபேறு இணையத்தளத்தினூடாக கடந்த வியாழக்கிழமை வெளியாகியது. இந்தச் சிறுமி  மூன்று வயதிலேயே மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரியைத் திறந்து கொண்டார். சர்வதேச கணினியியல் டிப்ளோமா கற்கை நெறியில் சான்றிதழ் பெற்றுள்ளார்.
வணிகம் இணையத்தள பொறியியல் துறைகளில் சர்வதேச தரச் சான்றிதழ்களை தன்னுடைய ஒன்பதாவது வயதிலேயே பெற்றுள்ளார். அதேபோன்று சிறு வயதிலேயே இணையத் தளத்தை வடிவமைத்தமைக்கான பெருமையும் இந்தச் சிறுமியையே சாரும்.

இதில் இரண்டாம் இடத்தை இந்தியாவைச் சேர்ந்த சிறுமி ஒருவர்  பெற்றுள்ளார். இந்தக் கால எல்லைக்குள் கண்டி நகரிலுள்ள கணினி உயர் கல்வி நிலையங்களில் தகவல் தொழில் நுட்பம் தொடர்பாக பிரித்தானிய கணினி கற்கை நெறி சங்கத்தின் பட்டப்படிப்புக்காக விண்ணப்பித்து 2 1/2 வருட காலத்திற்குள் பட்டப்படிப்பைப் பூர்த்தி செய்து கொண்ட இவர் 11 ஆவது வயதில் பட்டம் பெற்றவர்களில் உலகில் முதலாவது இடத்தைப் பெற்றுக் கொண்டுள்ளார்.

A History Of Tamil Diaspora Politics In Canada: 1978-2013

By Amarnath Amarasingam -December 18, 2013 |

Dr. Amarnath Amarasingam

A History of Tamil Diaspora Politics in Canada: Organisational Dynamics and Negotiated Order, 1978-2013 

On 10 January 2012, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President Mahinda Rajapaksa‘s brother and Secretary of the Defense and Urban Development Ministry, delivered a lecture to the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute and Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. The President‘s brother, arguably the second most powerful man in the country, began his lecture by stating that Sri Lanka still faces ̳several threats‘ following the end of protracted civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) in May 2009. The very first threat mentioned and discussed at length by Rajapaksa was the ―reorganization of the LTTE in the international arena‖ (Rajapaksa 2012). Mentioning several Tamil diaspora groups by name, he argued that even after the defeat of the LTTE, ―the rump of the LTTE‘s global establishment is still active.‖ Rajapaksa argued, for example, that the ̳unwavering intent‘ of LTTE-linked groups overseas ―is the division of Sri Lanka and the establishment of a separate state.‖ He went on to note: ―Most of them say they engage only in political activism and not violence. Almost all of them pretend to have a democratic face. But make no mistake. The Tiger has not changed its stripes‖ (Rajapaksa 2012).

While the Defense Secretary‘s remarks should not automatically be seen to reflect the views of mainstream Sri Lankans nor the broader international community, it is true that with the end of the war in Sri Lanka, many have expressed uneasiness and uncertainty with respect to the activities of the Tamil diaspora around the world. Indeed, such a stark verdict on diaspora activism by someone as powerful as the President‘s brother and Defense Minister is worrisome to say the least. However, in addition to the Sri Lankan government, state officials and media organisations in numerous countries, accustomed to viewing the Tamil diaspora through the lens of national security, were also not entirely clear what the defeat of the LTTE in Sri Lanka would mean for the often sizable Tamil community within their borders.

Much of this uneasiness arose, needless to say, because the LTTE‘s tentacles stretched far beyond the tiny island of Sri Lanka, and were a constant presence in the lives of diaspora Tamils. As Bandarage (2009: 171) has noted, ―Operating like both a multinational firm and an intelligence agency… out of the main centers of its global network in London, Toronto, New Jersey, and Norway, the LTTE utilises the vast resources extracted from the Tamil diaspora and from its illegal and legal enterprises to influence policymakers, media, academia, and other influential sections in the state and Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) sectors within the international community.‖ It was also evident throughout my research that the Tamil diaspora, for the most part, did not have an enviable reputation in governmental and policy circles, and is widely believed to have been overly radical and fundamentally corrosive to the prospects for peace in Sri Lanka.

Read the full article here; A History of Tamil Diaspora Politics in Canada_ Organisational Dynamics and Negotiated Order, 1978-2013 – Amarnath Amarasingam

*Amarnath Amarasingam is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada, and also teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.

முல்லை.நாயாற்றில் நிலக்கொள்ளை; தென்னிலங்கை வாசியின் செயலுக்கு மக்கள் கடும் எதிர்ப்பு

முல்லை. மாவட்டத்தில் பெரும்பான்மையினத்தவர் ஒருவரால் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்ட நிலக்கொள்கைக்கு மக்கள் கடும் எதிர்ப்பு வெளியிட்டுள்ளனர்.

முல்லைத்தீவு மாவட்டத்தில் தொடரும் நிலக்கொள்ளையின் ஒரு பகுதியாக செம்மலை கிழக்கு நாயாறு கிராமத்தில் தமிழ் மக்களுக்குச் சொந்தமான 20 ஏக்கர் நிலப்பகுதியை பெரும்பான்மையின வாசி ஒருவர் திடீரென வேலிகளை அமைத்து ஆக்கிரமிக்க முயற்சித்துள்ள நிலையில் இந்த நடவடிக்கைக்கு மக்கள் கடும் எதிர்ப்புத் தெரிவித்துள்ளனர்.

எனினும் இங்குள்ளவர்கள் கடற்றொழிலையே பாரம்பரிய தொழிலாக செய்து
வருகின்றனர்.

அத்துடன் நாயாறு கிராமத்திற்கு கடற்றொழிலை மேற்கொள்ளும் நோக்குடன் தென்பகுதியில் இருந்து வருகை தந்திருந்திருந்து தொழிலை மேற்கொண்டு வருகின்றனர்.

அதன்படி இவ்வாறு தொழில் நிமிர்த்தம் வந்தவர்களுள் ஒருவரே இவ்வாறான அடாவடியினை மேற்கொண்டு வருவதாக மக்கள் குற்றஞ்சாட்டியுள்ளனர்.

அதன்படி நாயாறு மக்கள் வழங்கிய தகவலின் படி நேற்று பிற்பகல் சம்பவ இடத்திற்கு விரைந்த வடக்கு மாகாண சபை உறுப்பினர் ரவிகரன் நேரில் சென்று நிலைமைகளை அவதானித்ததுடன் சம்பவம் குறித்தும் மக்களிடம் கேட்டறிந்து கொண்டார்.

அவர் சம்வம் குறித்து தெரிவிக்கையில்,

குறிப்பிட்ட காணியானது புலம்பெயர் தமிழர் இருவருக்கு சொந்தமானது. இந்த நிலையில் அவர்கள் இங்கு வந்திருந்த போது குறித்த காணியை அந்தக் கிராம மக்களுக்கு நன்கொடையாக வழங்குவது என தெரிவித்திருந்தனர். அதன்படி தற்போது வழங்குவதற்கான நடவடிக்கைகள் எடுக்கப்பட்டு வருகின்றது.

எனினும் நேற்று காலை முதல் புலனாய்வாளர்களது உதவியுடன் சுமார் 20 ஏக்கருக்கு மேற்பட்ட காணியில் அத்துமீறி நுழைந்து குறித்த பெரும்பான்மையினத்தை சேர்ந்தவர் எல்லையையும் போட்டுள்ளார்.

இதனையடுத்து அங்குள்ள மக்கள் அவரிடம் கேள்வி கேட்க முற்படும் போது நீங்கள் எங்கு சென்று முறையிட்டாலும் பரவாயில்லை இதனை தான் விடப்போவதில்லை என மிரட்டியதாக மக்கள் என்னிடம் தெரிவித்தனர்.

அதன் பின்னர் குறித்த விடயம் தொடர்பில் சம்மந்தப்படவர்களை அழைத்து தெளிவுபடுத்தினேன்.

எனினும் குறித்த இடத்திற்கு வந்த புலனாய்வாளர்களும் சிவில் உடையில் வந்த இராணுவத்தினரும் என்னுடன் குறித்த விடயம் தொடர்பில் விசாரித்தனர்.

அதற்கு நான் சிங்கள மக்களுக்கும் முஸ்லிம் மக்களுக்கும்  சொந்தமான காணிகளில் எந்த தமிழனாவது அத்துமீறி காணி அபகரித்ததாக காட்டமுடியுமா என்றும் அவர்களிடம் கேள்வி எழுப்பியிருந்தேன்.

அத்துடன் இங்குள்ள சில அரசியல் வாதிகளும் தனிப்பட்ட மனிதர்களும் செய்யும் அத்துமீறிய செயல்களால் தான் இங்கு இத்தகைய நிலை ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது.

எனவே இவை ஏற்றுகொள்ளக் கூடியவை அல்ல என்றும் அவர் மேலும் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

இதேவேளை, குறித்த பெரும்பான்மையினத்தை சேர்ந்தவர் நாயாற்றில் பிறிதொரு காணியை பணம் கொடுத்து பெற்றுக்கொண்டுள்ள நிலையில் அந்தக் காணியைவிடுத்து வேறு நபர்களுக்கு சொந்தமான குறித்த காணிக்கு எல்லையினைப் போட்டிருந்தமை குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.

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Tensions rise between Tamils and Sinhala settlers in Mullaitheevu

17 December 2013
Villagers in Mullaitivu have been embroiled in a land-grab dispute after 20-acres of land was fenced off illegally, reports Uthayan.

The land in the village of Naayaaru belonging to Tamils living abroad was fenced off by a Sinhalese man from the south.

Northern Provincial Councillor Ravikaran visited the site of the dispute and discerned that the owners of the land were reportedly in the midst of proceedings to donate the land to the villagers.

The person reportedly occupied the land with the help of surveyors and told the villagers that he did not plan to leave and was unconcerned about whoever the villagers may complain to.

Although the dispute continues, the government announcing that lands belonging to members of the Tamil diaspora could be appropriated will only serve to encourage similar illegal occupations, likely leading to further disputes and confrontations between Tamils in the Northeast and settlers from the south.

Reconciliation And The Role Of India

By Rajiva Wijesinha - December 18, 2013 

Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha MP

I must admit to being deeply worried about the current state of relations between India and Sri Lanka. I contrast this with the excellent situation that obtained in 2009, when India was the chief component of the protective barrier against efforts to stop us eradicating terrorism from our shores. One might have thought that this was a goal the whole world would have supported, but sadly this is not an ideal world and countries will naturally put their own self interest first. Fortunately, not only did India’s interests coincide with our own at that stage, but given the terrible toll terrorism funded by external sources was taking on both our countries, I think it is also true to say that we worked in accordance with the highest moral perspectives.

But the aim we shared then, of eradicating terrorism on our shores, went hand in hand with another commitment, which was the promotion of pluralism in Sri Lanka. This again is a moral goal, but it also has a practical dimension, in that the full incorporation of the Tamil people in the body politic in Sri Lanka would have reduced the potential for future terrorism.

Sadly Sri Lanka has not pursued the Reconciliation process with the commitment it requires. Given its urgency I believe we should try to understand the reasons for this, and try to overcome them. In this process India has a significant role to play.

The first reason is myopia. Major decision makers in government, or rather the only decision maker in this regard, the Minister of Economic Development, believed that material development would ensure integration of conflict affected areas in the national economy and hence promote reconciliation. He was wrong, and it is a pity that he does not understand the need for consultation of potential beneficiaries as well as professionals when planning benefits for some sectors. But in mitigation it should be said that the strategy had worked to a great extent in the East, and he did not have established institutions to which to turn when making plans for the North. The absence of think tanks in Sri Lanka, the abolishing of the Ministry of Policy and Plan Implementation, as well as the Ministry of Human Rights, left a vacuum which sheer energy cannot fill.Read More

VIOLENT PREVENTION OF PUBLIC PROTEST VITIATES GOVERNMENT’S COMMITMENT TO BASIC RIGHTS

17 December 2013

On International Human Rights Day, December 10, a public protest by families of missing persons in Trincomalee was attacked by goons while the large contingent of police present at the scene remained inactive. They carried photographs and posters about their missing loved ones and demanded that the government should take steps to provide information about their whereabouts. Civil Society and democratically elected representatives of the people also participated in the protest. The goons attacked those participating in the protest and tore their posters, assaulted them, injured them and warned them that they should not carry out protests against the government. This is a continuation of obstacles placed in the path of those who seek to bring the issue of missing persons to the attention of the world.

The action points once again to government acquiescence in the absence of any reported follow up action against the miscreants. We also believe that the impunity with which such attacks take place sends a threatening message to the larger society that even peaceful protest on issues of human rights is not tolerated and will be violently suppressed. This incident sends a mixed and contradictory message about the government’s own commitment to upholding basic rights and the Rule of Law. It can only serve to further undermine the credibility of the government in respect of its repeated pledges to implement the recommendations of the LLRC according to resolutions of the UN Human Rights Council.

The National Peace Council condemns this attack on peaceful protest which vitiates the rights to peaceful assembly and to freedom of expression. International treaties that Sri Lanka has signed contain clear enunciations of these rights. The 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, especially Articles 18 to 22, refers to the rights of free speech and the right to freedom of assembly. All States are bound to protect them and uphold them.

We find it particularly deplorable in the context of the government’s appointment of a Commission to inquire into missing persons, which makes it evident that an unresolved problem of missing persons continues to exist. So far the Commission has received 5711 complaints. The Commission has granted an extension to families of those missing to provide information about missing persons until the end of this year. Chairman of the Commission Maxwell Paranagama has also stated that the Commission is going to recommend that payment of compensation be made to the relatives of the disappeared. Attacks such as this will undermine the government’s efforts to show that it is serious about implementing the LLRC recommendations and regaining its credibility in the eyes of the world.

Governing Council
The National Peace Council is an independent and non partisan organization that works towards a negotiated political solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. It has a vision of a peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka in which the freedom, human rights and democratic rights of all the communities are respected. The policy of the National Peace Council is determined by its Governing Council of 20 members who are drawn from diverse walks of life and belong to all the main ethnic and religious communities in the country.

SL military further stifles civil life in North

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 16:53 GMT]
Following the instruction from occupying Colombo's Defence Secretary and Sri Lankan Presidential sibling Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, a number of 'Terrorist Investigation Department' (TID) cells have started to function inside the Sri Lankan Police stations in the North in recent days. SL intelligence operatives claiming as TID investigators are engaged in muzzling the civilians, relatives of the victims demanding justice, social media activists and journalists. Those who interacted with the US Embassy delegation that visited Jaffna recently, were being invited for interrogations over the phone, news sources in Jaffna said. 

The 'military' TID operatives engage in surveillance operations. 

All the activities of ‘white’ foreigners are being strictly monitored and reported to Colombo, according to informed sources. 

The US delegation was visiting to 'inspect' the programmes supported by the USAID in the North, sources close to US Embassy said. 

In the meantime, the SL 'Military' Governor of North Maj Gen (retd.) G.A. Chandrasiri has been insisting that the foreign officials and diplomats visiting Jaffna should call on him. 

It has almost become a military protocol that foreign officials visiting the North to meet with SL military commanders at the military headquarters at Palaali or Vanni before the proceed further. 

Even after the election of the Northern Provincial Council (NPC), the SL Governor and military commanders insist that the foreign envoys visiting North should be taking their route through them as before. 

The SL military, monitoring all civil activities through its intelligence outfits, is controlling the civil affairs at its fingertips, leaving no room for democratic institutions.

Our Eviternal Conversation

By Jagath Asoka -December 18, 2013 

Dr. Jagath Asoka

Only a very few people would contemplate on the eviternal source whence all pairs of opposite proceed: male and female, peace and strife, and creation and annihilation.  Only a very few would think of God as a collective being, combining the characteristics of both sexes, transcending youth and age, birth and death, practically immortal, and exalted above all temporal change. If such a being existed, the present and the moment of creation that occurred some 15 billion years ago or the period before that would mean neither more nor less. If such a being existed, that being would be the dreamer of all dreams; we would have an eviternal conversation about that being, yet we would not be able to fully depict or describe that being; that being would be omniscient, omnipotent, and ubiquitous, not a troglodyte.

I feel like a troglodyte, who, now and then, would come out of his cave to be among fellow human beings. I am surrounded by the images of gods and goddesses from all over the world. My meditative state of mind is supported by these images in front of me, and my mind’s eye is focused eviternally on a human image that lines the margin of my soul. The Buddha and Jesus are among these images.

Can you imagine having a long evening around the fire with the Buddha, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed? I would love to sit in on that. If such a conversation occurred, I am certain that the Buddha that I have read about would not talk only about Buddhism, and Jesus would not talk only about Christianity. Each participant of these somewhat omniscient beings would talk about comparative religion. To listen to such a marvelous conversation would be truly blissful.

Why do we have to study comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization? The best answer that I have seen was given by the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark:“One’s education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization.”                      Read More

Ethnic unrest eruption interrupts pooja at Matara Lakshmi Kovil even on Poya day
(Lanka-e-News- 17.Dec.2013, 11.30PM) The Lakshmi pooja conducted every poya day at the Sivasubramaniam kovil at Kataragama Devale situated at Matara railway road met with obstruction yesterday(16) (poya day). Owing to this hindrance , the Hindu devotees who congregated at the Devale to perform their religious observances had to carry out their pooja on the main road . It is learnt that this is because an attack was launched on the Devale and the family of the incumbent in the night recently.

There had existed a long drawn out dispute involving the Kovil . One faction (Sinhala) that represents the ownership of the Kovil had been forcibly obstructing the Hindu devotees from entering the Kovil premises. Although there is a court order against those pressures , it is a matter for regret that the order is not being duly implemented.

Already , about ten of the 25 Tamil families living in Matara town have received letters ordering them to leave the Matara town. It is most unfortunate that though a large group including Minister Dallas Alahaperuma, the Matara police , DIG south, Matara district secretary, divisional secretary as well as the Minister’s secretary who got caught well and truly trying to participate in a sordid game recently ,posed to act for and on behalf of the aggrieved Kovil incumbent , nothing tangible was done by them by way of assistance to him.

Dallas who spoke loudly and proudly about religion and life at the Kovil function , after coming outhas been acting contrary to his sermons along with his associates, by taking the side against the Kovil. This Dallas alliance , it is reported runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds.

Despite the complaint lodged with the police in connection with today’s incident , no action has been taken to remedy the situation . Consequently , the Hindu and Buddhist devotees had to perform the Lakshmi pooja on the Railway road in front of the Kovil (see photograph)

NEW ID LAW IS SIGN OF GOVT. WORKING AGAINST MUSLIM COMMUNITY - SALLEY

December 18, 2013
UNP Central Provincial Council member Azath Salley stated that laws preventing Muslim men and women from wearing caps and hijabs for their identity card photographs were signs of the government working against the Muslim community of the country.

He said that the Muslim community will have no choice but to engage with the international community regarding the continued agenda against the Muslim community in Sri Lanka.

Salley claimed that the police were now engaged in closing down Islamic places of worship in Colombo citing three mosques in Attidiya, Kadawatha road and Vaidya road which were asked to halt its religious activities by the police who claimed that they were unauthorised establishments.

He questioned as to why the police were targeting these places of worship instead of the countless other unauthorised buildings in the country.

Speaking at a press conference held today (December 18) in Colombo, Former Colombo Mayor Salley stated that the those within the government were no longer interested in helping the President from winning and that the government would be defeated if a secret ballot was taken right now.

Salley added that those within the government were calling for the immediate removal of the Prime Minister following his office’s involvement with a container of heroin.

He also said that ‘Thunmulle Lemon Puff’ had claimed that only foreigners should be allowed to go to the casinos but challenged the media to visit the casinos from Galle Road along Marine Drive and report on who is really gambling in those casinos. 

TNA should be banned – Deputy Min Sarath Weerasekera 

 December 18, 2013 

Labour and Labour Relations Deputy Minister Sarath Weerasekera told Parliament today that the government should ban the TNA which is propagating the LTTE ideologies of separatism even after the defeat of the terrorist organisation.

Participating in the third reading stage debate on budget 2014 under the expenditure heads of the 23 ministries and the Secretariat for Special Functions referred to select committee, the deputy minister said that the government should have banned the LTTE proxy party soon after the war ending.

“We are paying the price for not banning them then and it is so clear we made a mistake by not doing so,” he said.

The TNA should make a public statement that it would not support or propagate the separatism and it should state clearly that it would stay away from terrorism; the deputy minister said adding that unless the political party should be banned in Sri Lanka.

The Deputy Minister said that soon after the World War II Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party was banned and Pol Pot’s Communist Party too was banned soon after the political turmoil in Cambodia for the same reasons and the government of Sri Lanka too should ban the TNA for propagating terrorism and separatism. (Ceylon Today Online)

தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பினை பிளவுபடுத்தியவர்களின் சதிவலைக்குள் அனந்தி எழிலன்

 thinakkathir.com. 

December 14, 2013

தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பினை மீளயும் பிளவுபடுத்தும் முயற்சி பிரான்சில் முன்னெடுக்கப்பட்டு வருகிறது. இந்த சதி வலைக்குள் தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பில் வடமாகாணசபை தேர்தலில் யாழ். மாவட்டத்தில் போட்டியிட்ட அனந்தி எழிலன் வீழ்ந்துள்ளார்.

அன்று தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பினை பிளவுபடுத்தியிருந்ததோடு தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்புக்கு வாக்களிக்க வேண்டாம் என தீவிர பிரச்சாரத்தில் ஈடுபட்டிருந்த பிரான்ஸ் தமிழ் சங்கங்களின் கூட்டமைப்பு தற்போது அனந்தி எழிலன் அவர்களை முன்னிறுத்தி மக்கள் சந்திப்பொன்றுக்கு அழைப்பு விடுத்துள்ளது.

பாரிசின் புறநகர் பகுதியான முலான் எனும் இடத்தில் உள்ள விடுதியொன்றில் பூட்டிய அறைக்குள் கடந்த வெள்ளிக்கிழமை முதல் கஜேந்திரகுமார் தலைமையில் மந்திராலோசனை இடம்பெற்றுள்ளது.

ஜேர்மனியில் இருந்த அனந்தி எழிலன் அவர்கள் தற்போது பிரான்ஸ் சென்றுள்ளதாக உறுதிப்படுத்தப்பட்ட தகவல்கள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன.

பிரான்சில் நடந்தேறிவரும் இச்செயற்பாடுகள் குறித்து தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பு வட்டாரங்கள் மௌனமாக அவதானித்து வருவதாக தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

பிரான்சில் நடந்தேறிவரும் இச்செயற்பாடுகள் குறித்து தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பு வட்டாரங்கள் மௌனமாக அவதானித்து வருவதாக தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

எதிர்வரும் செவ்வாயக்கிழமை அனந்தி எழிலன் அவர்களை முன்னிறுத்தி கூட்டத்தினை ஒழுங்கு செய்துள்ள பிரான்ஸ் தமிழ் சங்கங்களின் கூட்டமைப்பு கடந்தகாலத்தில் வெளியிட்டிருந்த அறிக்கையினை கீழே தருகின்றோம்.           Full story >>

தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பினை பிளவுபடுத்தியவர்களின் சதிவலைக்குள் அனந்தி எழிலன்

 thinakkathir.com. 

December 14, 2013

தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பினை மீளயும் பிளவுபடுத்தும் முயற்சி பிரான்சில் முன்னெடுக்கப்பட்டு வருகிறது. இந்த சதி வலைக்குள் தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பில் வடமாகாணசபை தேர்தலில் யாழ். மாவட்டத்தில் போட்டியிட்ட அனந்தி எழிலன் வீழ்ந்துள்ளார்.

அன்று தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பினை பிளவுபடுத்தியிருந்ததோடு தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்புக்கு வாக்களிக்க வேண்டாம் என தீவிர பிரச்சாரத்தில் ஈடுபட்டிருந்த பிரான்ஸ் தமிழ் சங்கங்களின் கூட்டமைப்பு தற்போது அனந்தி எழிலன் அவர்களை முன்னிறுத்தி மக்கள் சந்திப்பொன்றுக்கு அழைப்பு விடுத்துள்ளது.

பாரிசின் புறநகர் பகுதியான முலான் எனும் இடத்தில் உள்ள விடுதியொன்றில் பூட்டிய அறைக்குள் கடந்த வெள்ளிக்கிழமை முதல் கஜேந்திரகுமார் தலைமையில் மந்திராலோசனை இடம்பெற்றுள்ளது.

ஜேர்மனியில் இருந்த அனந்தி எழிலன் அவர்கள் தற்போது பிரான்ஸ் சென்றுள்ளதாக உறுதிப்படுத்தப்பட்ட தகவல்கள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன.

பிரான்சில் நடந்தேறிவரும் இச்செயற்பாடுகள் குறித்து தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பு வட்டாரங்கள் மௌனமாக அவதானித்து வருவதாக தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

பிரான்சில் நடந்தேறிவரும் இச்செயற்பாடுகள் குறித்து தமிழ் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பு வட்டாரங்கள் மௌனமாக அவதானித்து வருவதாக தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

எதிர்வரும் செவ்வாயக்கிழமை அனந்தி எழிலன் அவர்களை முன்னிறுத்தி கூட்டத்தினை ஒழுங்கு செய்துள்ள பிரான்ஸ் தமிழ் சங்கங்களின் கூட்டமைப்பு கடந்தகாலத்தில் வெளியிட்டிருந்த அறிக்கையினை கீழே தருகின்றோம்.           Full story >>

TNA should be banned – Deputy Min Sarath Weerasekera 



 December 18, 2013 
Labour and Labour Relations Deputy Minister Sarath Weerasekera told Parliament today that the government should ban the TNA which is propagating the LTTE ideologies of separatism even after the defeat of the terrorist organisation.

Participating in the third reading stage debate on budget 2014 under the expenditure heads of the 23 ministries and the Secretariat for Special Functions referred to select committee, the deputy minister said that the government should have banned the LTTE proxy party soon after the war ending.

“We are paying the price for not banning them then and it is so clear we made a mistake by not doing so,” he said.

The TNA should make a public statement that it would not support or propagate the separatism and it should state clearly that it would stay away from terrorism; the deputy minister said adding that unless the political party should be banned in Sri Lanka.

The Deputy Minister said that soon after the World War II Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party was banned and Pol Pot’s Communist Party too was banned soon after the political turmoil in Cambodia for the same reasons and the government of Sri Lanka too should ban the TNA for propagating terrorism and separatism. (Ceylon Today Online)

Ananthi Goes To Oslo For Talks With Norwegian Officials

December 17, 2013

Ananthi Sasitharan,  the Tamil National Alliance’s only elected female Member of the Northern Provincial Council met with Norway Parliamentarians and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Officials in Oslo last week.

TNA Provincial Councillor Sasitharan, who is also a woman activist working on behalf of the disappeared persons and surrendered liberation fighters met Kristian Norheim, Member of Parliament from Progress Party, Coalition Partners in the present Norwegian Government, and member of Standing Committee  on Foreign Affairs and  Defence,  Helge Orten,M.P. from ruling Conservative Party and Lasse Bkorn Johannessenfrom the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Sasitharan was accompanied by Steven Pushparajah, Local Councilor from Conservative Party and Kannan Nagendra.

Ravana,Vijaya, Tissa Hindu kings – TNA MP

By Saman Indrajith-December 17, 2013, 8:45 pm 

Tamil National Alliance parliamentarians yesterday said, in Parliament, that Sri Lanka was originally a Hindu nation and its national anthem should be sung in Tamil. If Lanka’s national anthem could not be sung in Tamil in the North, there was no point in singing it in Sinhala there.

"Sri Lanka is a Hindu country. Ravana ruled this land. He was a Hindu king. The Mahavamsa confirms these facts. Therefore, Hindus’ rights should be protected. Ravana is a Siva follower," Batticaloa TNA MP S Yogeshwaran said.

Participating in the third reading stage debate, on budget 2014, under the expenditure heads of 23 ministries and Secretariat for Special Functions (Senior Ministers), MP Yogeshwaran said: "Vijaya too was a Tamil King. King Devanampiyatissa, too, converted to Hinduism. He also gave Hindu names to his children. Pandukabhaya, too, was a Hindu king who had followed Shaivism."

Batticaloa District TNA MP P. Ariyanethran said that there was no need to sing the national anthem in Tamil areas if it was not sung in Tamil. The North does not have the need of a national anthem sung in the Sinhala language, he said.

Public Relations Affairs Minister Mervyn Silva, responding to the demands of the TNA MPs, said: "Maha Ravana was a great Sinhala King. Sinhala kings brought princesses from India and married them. For the use of those women, brought down from India, the kings built kovils. So you cannot point out to these Kovils and say that Lanka was ruled by Hindu kings. This is not a Hindu land. God Kataragama was born in the Sakya clan. Do not misinterpret the history of this country.

Boycott the national anthem in Tamil areas: P.Ariyanendhran

[ Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 04:42.33 AM GMT +05:30 ]

The SriLankan national anthem should be sung in Tamil among the district where the Tamil speaking nationals lives. If this cannot be done we should boycott the national anthem in our areas, Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian P.Ariyanendhran today warned today.

MP issued this warning while addressing the budget debate at the parliament today.

Reconciliation Is Not A Matter Of Ignoring A Cruel Past

By Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran -December 18, 2013 

Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran -PM – TGTE

While the Inaugural Session of the 2nd Parliament of the Transnational Government of  Tamil Eelam was being convened in New Jersey, USA, we received news of the passing of the great icon, Nelson Mandela, the embodiment of the aspirations of people yearning  for freedom.   He was not only a liberator of South Africa, but a liberator of humanity from the shackles of hate, oppression and racial prejudice.

The TGTE salutes and conveys its respect to a transcendental man who thrust human rights into the vernacular of the International Community. The TGTE also identifies with the mourning international community.

Nelson Mandela has been a symbol of the liberation struggle and its sentiments. He stands as testimony to the triumph of peoples’ struggles. He was a strong and resolute figure who fought against racism and discrimination, the evils of human nature that persist even until this day.

The man was labeled as a “terrorist” and sentenced to prison for twenty-seven years, but he succeeded in pushing the struggle of the South African people to the International community. Through his uncompromising style, he awoke the conscience of the world to the inequalities occurring in South Africa.

Even though Nelson Mandela was elected as the first black President of South Africa in 1994 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and considered as a world leader, his name was not removed from the “Terrorist Watch List” by the US Government until 2008.  Why was there such a long delay? This demonstrates to us that the walk for change, walk for justice and walk for freedom is a long one.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) set up by President Nelson Mandela in South Africa under the chairmanship of Archbishop Desmond Tutu was a mechanism to achieve a peaceful transition towards a race neutral democracy. However, as US President Obama mentioned in eulogy, “reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past”, we firmly believe that TRC should not serve as an escape mechanism for accountability.

With this in mind, the TGTE passed a resolution in its Parliament on Sunday 8th December, stating that ‘in view of the primacy of accountability under International Law espoused by the International Criminal Court, calling for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sri Lanka should come after the birth of an independent and sovereign State of Tamil Eelam’.

However insurmountable the obstacles had been for him, Nelson Mandela’s life demonstrated to the rest of us that through fierce commitment to the cause, sacrifice, and determination, eventually we too shall prevail.

We, the people of Tamil Eelam, hold our hands in solidarity with all who yearn for freedom around the world. Let us rededicate ourselves to the long walk to freedom.in the footsteps of Madiba.

Long live his memory!

The thirst of Tamils is Tamil Eelam!!