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Jaffna mourns Parvathi Amma amidst SLA harassment

February 22, 2011 no comments

Jaffna: The people of Jaffna have flown black flags on Sunday, mourning the demise of 80-year-old Parvathi Amma (Vallipuram Parvathi), the mother of LTTE leader Velupillai Pirapaharan. Community orga...

Flood displaces 100,000 in Vanni, 25,000 in camps

February 6, 2011 no comments

VANNI, Feb.6: At least 100,000 Tamil civilians of around twenty five thousand families have been affected by the flood in the two districts of Vavuniyaa and Mullaiththeevu in Vanni. Sand bunds erecte...

Offices of anti-govt website in Sri Lanka set on fire

January 31, 2011 no comments

COLOMBO: A group of men broke into the offices of a website critical of Sri Lanka’s government and set fire to it Monday, a journalist from the publication said, adding that he suspected a gove...

Rajapaksa sued in US Courts over war-crimes

January 31, 2011 no comments

WASHINGTON D.C: Three Tamil plaintiffs whose relatives were killed in three different incidents, all considered to be war-crimes, filed a civil case in the District Court of District of Columbia agai...

Tamil applicants discriminated in civil service: Inter-religious group...

December 19, 2010 no comments

Ampaarai: Only one of 29 new recruits appointed to Tamil-speaking divisional secretariats was a Tamil person from the region, complained Ampaa’rai District Inter-Religious Federation in a state...

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