Hunting The Tigers – Amos Roberts from Sri Lanka
This week Amos Roberts reports from Sri Lanka, where the feared Tamil Tigers are surrounded in small pocket of the country and the government is moving in for the kill. The 25 year old war against the Tigers has seen thousands killed and now an estimated 150,000 civilians are trapped in the middle of this brutal conflict.
(2nd update: video added) Sri Lankan State Terrorism On Tamil Eelam: Shelling doesn’t spare even babies in wombs
While four pregnant mothers were killed in SLA shelling on Friday inside the safe zone, another mother who was admitted to the makeshift-hospital after injuries in her lower abdomen gave birth Saturday to a baby girl, but the hospital staff noticed the child having shrapnel on her left thigh. The newborn child went through a small surgery even before her first feeding, according to the medical staff at the hospital in Maaththa’lan.
The Debate: The Tear Drop Civil War
TVO Canada presents a debate featuring two Sri Lankans who were very critical of the LTTE, two Canadian Tamils who would speak more from the point of view that Tamils have been mistreated by the Sri Lankan government, and someone from the respected NGO Human Rights Watch who had recently been to the island and who felt both sides had been guilty of war crimes, in other words a knowledgeable third party observer.
Diaspora prepares to send relief to forsaken civilians in Vanni
The Tamil diaspora in Britain is organising a direct ‘mercy mission’ taking food and medicine to the civilians of Vanni, forsaken by the conscience of the International Community, said Dr. V. Arudkumar from London, on Tuesday. Prominent humanitarian personalities are expected to participate in this mission. The expedition will be supported and participated by diaspora Tamil professionals in the medical field.
Kohona says it’s best for MIA to stay with music
Ravi Nessman has been covering events there for the Associated Press. He is the Colombo bureau chief for the AP
Tavis: Let me start by asking, for those here who do not understand what this civil war is all about, what’s going on with regard to the back story of this civil war, take a minute or two just to explain to me what this civil war’s all about.
Nessman: Sure. There’s been ethnic tension in this country for a very long time – since independence, in fact, between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority, who make up less than 20 percent of the population. After independence, there were quite a few laws passed by the Sinhalese majority that the Tamil minority felt marginalized – their culture, their language, their religion.
EVIDENCE FOR GENOCIDE ON TAMILS – Fighting for survival is not terrorism
Warning: the pictures below are very horrible, I appologize to bring it out to your eyes. But I don’t see any other way to stop this Genocide
Dear “so-called” journalist,
Do you regard yourself as a True Journalist doing the job according to the standard norms. It appears as if you are so biased that you will cover stories only when you or your country(ies) has(ve) some vested interests in those countries that you want to cover (for example, Darfur, Congo…). Because these countries have invaluable natural resources like petrol, minerals, gold, LPG that you have a significant “welfare” of these countries.
An Australian Doctor talks about the genocide of Tamils in Sri-Lanka by State Terrorists
An Australian Doctor who worked in the Vanni region talks about the genocide of Tamils in Sri-Lanka by the Sinhaleese. Exposes the duplicity of UN and the International Community towards the genuine Tamils grievance.
(2nd update – Video Added) Genocide in Sri Lanka
THE BARRAGE of media reporting of the grim conflict in Sri Lanka has captured popular imagination, but has overlooked the grisly Sinhalese Buddhist genocide of innocent Hindu or Christian Tamil civilians by a US dual citizen and US green card holder. The two should be investigated and prosecuted in the United States.
