pararajasingha
Terrorism regardless of where ever it is prosecuted cannot survive without logistical support from outside and so it is with the terrorist activity in Sri Lanka. It is no secret that the the tiger movement is supported by the Tamil Nadu Liberators whose aspiration is to ressuruct the Chola Empire of which Sri Lanka is a part see
http://www.dalitstan.org/tamil/Of the estimated 3.2 million quoted more than 50 percent live outside the homeland. Batticaloa where Pararajasingham was murdered falls within the tiger home land claim which is contested by a Muslim majority. Cosequently there is enough reason to suspect that the Muslim community to be responsible.
Jayanathamoorthy's claim of trageting tamil political actors is a strategy adopted by terrorists and the tigers can claim the record with Rajiv Gandhi and a number of leading Sinhala politicians including including one president, several ministers and the attempted murder of ex President Chandrika.
EU recently made a declaration banning members of the LTTE travelling into Europe for they rightly identified it as a terrorit movement that survives through intimidation, balckmail, terror and coercion.
Tamil Rebels in Sri Lanka Rule Out Talks in Asia
December 18, 2005
Tamil Rebels in Sri Lanka Rule Out Talks in Asia
By REUTERS
KILINOCHCHI,
Sri Lanka, Dec. 17 (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger rebels on Saturday rejected a government offer to hold emergency talks in Asia aimed at averting a return to civil war, insisting that any meeting should be run by Norway, which brokered previous peace talks.
The new Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapakse, a hard-liner elected by the country's Sinhalese majority, has offered to meet the rebels for immediate talks in any Asian country, but not in Europe. He has also angered the rebels by rejecting their demand for an ethnic Tamil homeland outright.
S. P. Thamilselvan, leader of the rebels' political wing, accused the government of trying to freeze the group out of Europe and of trying to convince the European Union to list it as a banned terrorist organization.
"The first round of talks should be held in Norway," Mr. Thamilselvan told reporters in the northern rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi. He added that the rebels considered the government's position that talks should be held in an Asian country and that European countries should ban the rebel group "a coup attempt."
"Our people have established a certain place and status in those countries," he added, speaking of ethnic Tamils who live in Europe. He accused the government of seeking to "sever our relationship with the international community and sideline us."
The government, which announced its offer of talks in Asia on Friday after reconsidering its predecessors' refusal to hold talks outside Sri Lanka, was not immediately available for comment.
The Tigers have threatened to resume their two-decade struggle next year unless the government in Colombo delivers a plan for sharing power, saying that they are offering the last chance to avert a return to a war in which more than 64,000 people have been killed.
But both sides are poles apart, each bickering at the other through the news media. Political analysts say a surge in violence that has set off fears of a return to war is likely to continue.
Truce monitors from Norway on Saturday blamed the rebels for shooting at a military helicopter on Wednesday in the first attack on an aircraft since the cease-fire was signed in 2002. Rebel representatives have denied that they attacked the helicopter.
"As the small-arms fire against the helicopter originated from an area controlled by the L.T.T.E., the L.T.T.E. must bear responsibility," Hagrup Haukland, leader of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission which oversees the truce, said in a statement. He used the initials for the rebel group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
"The L.T.T.E. is urged to do all in its power to avoid similar incidents in future as such incidents can lead to serious consequences jeopardizing the cease-fire," the statement said.
The truce is at its lowest ebb after a rash of killings culminated in two deadly fragmentation mine attacks that killed 14 soldiers earlier this month.
Suspected rebel fronts have since emerged, threatening to shoot soldiers. Sri Lankans in the northern Jaffna peninsula, which is hemmed in by rebel territory, fear they may have to flee and start their lives over yet again.
"We were displaced in 2000," said C. Raju, a 36-year-old schoolteacher. "Our house was totally destroyed. We repaired it."
"The present happenings point toward war," he added. "We have suffered enough, but we are used to this."
elton john union
Sir Elton, 58, and Mr. Furnish, 43, have lived together since 1994, after meeting at a mutual friend's dinner party, but they have been legally prevented from making honest men of each other. That changed on Wednesday, when Britain's new civil partnership law took effect in England, allowing gay couples to legalize their relationships.
On Wednesday, he kept it dignified, arriving for the service at the Guildhall, in the shadow of Windsor Castle, wearing a dark suit and a diamond pin. Mr. Furnish, who is Canadian and makes films, also wore a dark suit.
Only a select few guests attended the Guildhall ceremony. Among those present were Mr. Furnish's black-and-white spaniel, Arthur, and the photographer Sam Taylor-Wood, who later described the ceremony as "beautiful" and "very emotional." Guests said the 20-minute service ended with a kiss.
Mr. Furnish and Sir Elton emerged from the Guildhall beaming, to cheers from onlookers. Although they did not kiss outside, robbing the tabloid photographers of the photograph of the day, they blew kisses at the crowd before sweeping into a black car and driving off. Sir Elton mouthed the words "I love you" in the general direction of the well-wishers.
world briefings NY times 12/22
CANADA: ORGIES RULED LEGAL IN CLUBS The Supreme Court ruled that swingers clubs featuring group sex were legal since consensual partner swapping does not pose a threat to the public. The ruling on two clubs in Montreal said public sex was still indecent but that orgies in private were not. CLIFFORD KRAUSS (NYT)
Chad oil war
December 19, 2005
Chadian Rebels Kill 100; Chad Blames Sudan
By LYDIA POLGREEN
DAKAR, Senegal Dec. 18 - At least 100 people were killed in an attack by a rebel group on a town in Chad near its border with Sudan, Chadian officials said, the latest violence to erupt on the long, porous border between the two troubled nations.
A rebel group made up largely of deserters from Chad's army attacked the town of Adré early Sunday morning, Hourmadji Moussa Doumgor, Chad's minister of information, told Reuters.
He blamed the Sudanese government, saying it backed the rebel group, known as the Rally for Democracy and Liberty. The group is demanding that President Idriss Déby of Chad step down.
Sharon, Health an Issue, to Face Netanyahu
By
STEVEN ERLANGERJERUSALEM, Dec. 19 - Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon of Israel is expected to be released from the hospital on Tuesday with little damage from the mild stroke he had Sunday night, his doctors said Monday.
But how much damage the stroke has done to his chances for re-election on March 28 was a subject of much speculation, even as the party that Mr. Sharon abandoned, Likud, chose
Benjamin Netanyahu as its leader on Monday. Mr. Sharon's new party, Kadima, is widely favored in the election, but questions about his health could alter the equati
Evo Morales Bolivian President
December 20, 2005
Bolivia's Newly Elected Leader Maps His Socialist Agenda
By JUAN FORERO
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 19 -After his decisive win in the election for president on Sunday, the December 20, 2005
Bolivia's Newly Elected Leader Maps His Socialist Agenda
By JUAN FORERO
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 19 -After his decisive win in the election for president on Sunday, the Socialist indigenous leader, Evo Morales, vowed Monday to respect private property but repeated his pledge to increase state control over the energy industry and reverse an American-backed crusade against coca, the plant used to make cocaine.
Wearing his trademark black jeans and tennis shoes, Mr. Morales arrived in La Paz to begin laying the groundwork for an economic and political transformation that he says will give voice to the poor, indigenous majority that fueled his campaign. "The voice of the people is the voice of God," he said late Sunday, vowed Monday to respect private property but repeated his pledge to increase state control over the energy industry and reverse an American-backed crusade against coca, the plant used to make cocaine.
Wearing his trademark black jeans and tennis shoes, Mr. Morales arrived in La Paz to begin laying the groundwork for an economic and political transformation that he says will give voice to the poor, indigenous majority that fueled his campaign. "The voice of the people is the voice of God," he said late Sunday
DN editorial
The LTTE should have realised by now the futility of waging war to achieve its objectives - both sides have gone down that path with no long term success. The only option is to let the peace process run its course to a conclusion that can fulfil the aspirations of all communities in the country.
You write some garbage for the futility is on our part for we have not the capacity to protect the soveriegnity and the territorial integrity of our country. The aremy defence service commanders are talking a lot of popy cock. They troops are being killed at will. If the army cannot afford the resources to equip the soldiers then they should be brought and not be dependent on philantrophy.
If the people who vote Mahinda into power has not lost faith in he should be able beef the defence svices with more recruits and then he should be able to contain the situation> This may not hold out unless India takes on some of the responsibility for what is happening up North.
The Alarmists claimed that over 50,000 took refuge in India most likley in the Tamil Nadu. How ws this engineered.
wakula
Wakula
Tmail Nadu Liberation Movement website gives some inight to our `ethinic" problem. It is not ethinic but and extension of TNLD's aspirations of the Periya Tamil Nadu as they like to call it. This is long time coming for states contigous with the Tamil Nadu are not prepared to pander to the Nadu whims.
M has freaked out. The TNLM has got hime where they want him, giving them a free reign to their politic up north. They kill at will and old P is cluless as to what is going on. His days are numbered regardless, but then what else could he do. His fate will be that of Louis just that there want be a guillotine.
Without friends Our best best bet would be a grand coalition with the LTTE hoping that someday TNLM colonise us massacre our men and take our women as slaves to the greater glory of Periya Nadu. There then will be peace the peace that our kinsmen voted for..
Mahinda is nothing but a paper tiger in a lungi. cannot expect anything more from effeminate politicians intellectually sterile reday to please. Perhaps we ought to have seen through when he started bragging about the MChintana which is as hollow as the sarama that he wears.
My blog address is
wakula
Wakula
Tmail Nadu Liberation Movement website gives some inight to our `ethinic" problem. It is not ethinic but and extension of TNLD's aspirations of the Periya Tamil Nadu as they like to call it. This is long time coming for states contigous with the Tamil Nadu are not prepared to pander to the Nadu whims.
M has freaked out. The TNLM has got hime where they want him, giving them a free reign to their politic up north. They kill at will and old P is cluless as to what is going on. His days are numbered regardless, but then what else could he do. His fate will be that of Louis just that there want be a guillotine.
Without friends Our best best bet would be a grand coalition with the LTTE hoping that someday TNLM colonise us massacre our men and take our women as slaves to the greater glory of Periya Nadu. There then will be peace the peace that our kinsmen voted for..
Mahinda is nothing but a paper tiger in a lungi. cannot expect anything more from effeminate politicians intellectually sterile reday to please. Perhaps we ought to have seen through when he started bragging about the MChintana which is as hollow as the sarama that he wears.
My blog address is
SOMINI SENGUPTA DIARY
December 7, 2005
Risk of Renewed Conflict After 7 Sri Lankan Soldiers Are Killed
JAFFNA,
Sri Lanka, Dec. 6 - In a second precision attack on the Sri Lankan Army in three days, two explosive devices, strapped to trees along the side of a road, struck a military tractor on Tuesday morning, killing seven soldiers, wounding an eighth and sharply raising the alarm over the prospect of renewed conflict in this country.
The attack on the soldiers, who had just finished delivering lunch to troops stationed at checkpoints along the peninsula, occurred two days after a land mine attack on another army tractor nearby, which killed seven soldiers. There were also grenade attacks reported near here Tuesday morning, as well as angry demonstrations against an army occupation of a college sports field. Streets were littered with the remains of burning tires, and at least at one crossroad, the shell of a car set ablaze. In many areas, shops remained shuttered.
The latest of the strikes in the Tamil-majority north and east in recent weeks represent the most serious escalation of tensions since the signing of a cease-fire in early 2002 between the Sri Lankan government and the ethnic Tamil rebels, known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The Tamil Tigers have fought for an independent Tamil homeland for more than 20 years, and the recent attacks threaten to unravel the fragile cease-fire.
In a statement on Tuesday, the government blamed the Tamil Tigers for what it called "stealth attacks" under the cover of a truce.
Whether the attacks will provoke government retaliation is unclear. Sri Lanka's newly appointed army commander, Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseca, blamed the Tamil Tigers for both attacks and acknowledged that communications between the warring parties had broken down. He added that his forces would be prepared to respond if necessary. "I hope to be a challenge to any terrorist activity in the country," General Fonseca told reporters in the capital, Colombo.
A Tamil Tigers spokesman denied the involvement of his group, according to Reuters.
The attacks come barely three weeks after the election for president in which Sri Lanka's majority ethnic Sinhalese elected a hard-liner, Mahinda Rajapakse. The new president has vowed to take a fresh look at the cease-fire agreement, which the Tamil Tigers are reluctant to do.
Responding to some of the recent attacks, Norwegian officials assigned to monitor the cease-fire warned of irrevocable damage to the already languishing peace process.
"There is a real danger that these disturbances and hostilities can spread and result in irreparable deterioration of security and prevent any real restoration of normalcy in the affected communities," the head of the Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission, Hagrup Haukland, said in a statement on Sunday.
A streak of fuel, mixed with blood, marked the site of the explosion outside town here. The army tractor lay on the side of the road, no more than 60 feet from where it had been struck by what the police here surmised were two remote-controlled bombs. Three bodies were inside the tractor bed and another body was on a road just below. The bombs also blew out the windshield of a Swiss aid organization vehicle, the police said; none of the aid workers were injured.
The Jaffna peninsula in the island's north is under the control of the Sri Lankan government, and the Sri Lankan Army has a heavy presence here. But the Tamil Tigers wield considerable influence on its residents
Seven Army personnel killed in Jaffna blast
by Ranil Wijayapala
The Government yesterday called upon the international community to exert maximum pressure on the LTTE after a LTTE claymore mine killed another seven Army personnel in Jaffna.
What is the sort of pressure that tha international community could exert on a renegade movement orchestartaed by the Madras based Tamil Nadu Liberation Movement. Their asipirations are not secret and mapped out their inmtentions with immeadiate ob jective of undermining Indian sovereignity to achieve in order to resusucitate the Chola Empire. Elam is part of ther grand plan and it and Prabhakaran is nothing more than a puppet in the scheme of things.
This proposition is a horrific thought but if the events over the past few years were examined critically then it cannot be otherwise. The war that Elamist brag about is that of covert operations and there is no doubt that it will escalate regardless peace inititives.
Our only salvation is to get India to adopt a hard line to contain Tamil Nadu Liberation activities.
Abesiri
United Nations
UNITED NATIONS
ANNAN CANCELS TRIP OVER BUDGET Secretary General Kofi Annan canceled a two-week trip to Asia because of a looming impasse over a United States proposal to delay approval of the usual two-year budget and replace it with a four-month interim budget to push through reforms. Telling a staff meeting that the action would produce a "financial crunch," he said, "We should not take any initiative that will not only risk the reform, but also the ongoing activities, and that's one of the reasons I decided to stay here." Warren Hoge (NYT)
