Sanmugam Sabesan from Australia on the Patience of Justice -  நீதியின் பொறுமை "பனங்காட்டு நரிகளே, சலசலப்புக்கு அஞ்சாதபோது பனங்காட்டுப்புலிகள் எவ்வாறு அஞ்சும்?" more

"..The �management� of the ethnic conflict, among other things, is also important for the US to �sufficiently� expand and consolidate its military and intelligence relations with Sri Lanka as an important security partner in the region. The escalation of the war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers has offered the US Pacific Command a wide range of opportunities to do so... ...it is interesting to note what a US Department of Defence study says of potential security partners such as Sri Lanka. 'In the near term, access strategy for Asia should centre on increasing opportunities for deployments and exercises and on the development of contingency agreements...'" more

....together with earlier note by tamilnation.org "-  Given the key role played by India and the United States in the Struggle for Tamil Eelam, it is not without importance for the Tamil people to further their own understanding of the foreign policy objectives of these two countries...In the end, the success of any liberation struggle is, not surprisingly, a function of the capacity of its leadership to mobilise its own people and its own resources at the broadest and deepest level..."

Torture

Murder

Rape

ஓ....எங்கள் குரல் கேட்கிறதா?

2. The Mischievous Game of Muslims  "...Logically speaking, isn�t the Muslim demand for �separate representation� at the Government of Sri Lanka-LTTE Peace talks akin to a wedding guest demanding a seat in the honeymoon bed of newly-wed couple?.."

"The ultimate aim of the Tamil Insight is to serve as an up-to-date 'Thoughts-Pool' reflecting the thoughts and views of the Tamil people spread across all nooks and corners of the world....It proposes to serve as a platform in English to bring to the attention of the world, the translations of editorials in the Tamil dailies, related articles written by monolingual experts and columnists and news appearing in the Tamil media..."

1. Anton Balasingham Meets the Press  "To take part in talks, we are ready even now. But we need a proper environment. We  can be there in Geneva, even tomorrow, for talks. But, back here, if the paramilitary groups start murdering our people, then peace will be jeopardised. We cannot hold talks elsewhere, while home burns. Our people should live in peace. It is important, first and foremost..." more

2. Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) on Sri Lanka's proposed peace talks: the challenge of enforcing cease-fire "..The proxy war that Sri Lanka initiated with Col Karuna finally culminated into the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadiragamar on 12 August 2005, an allegation denied by the LTTE but held by majority in the international community..." more

2.  "I had a wonderful lunch " US Under Secretary of Political Affairs, Nicholas Burns, Press Briefing, Colombo   "I was able to meet the Opposition Leader, to see a number of ministers and representatives of civil society, and, of course, fellow ambassadors from friendly countries to Sri Lanka. I had a wonderful lunch given by the (Sri Lanka) Foreign Minister..."

3. Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse: Word & Deed - பாடுவது திருவாசகம், இடிப்பது சிவன்கொயில்...

Army Man - Kavithai by Mathini Sreetharan, USA
அருகினில் வாழும் தமிழ்ப் பெண் நான் கேட்கிறேன் -  "பெண்ணினைப் பிடித்துத் துகிலினை உரித்துக்
கைகளைக் கட்டி மார்பினை அறுத்து
பலருடன் கூடிக் காமுகப் பசியினைத் தீர்த்து
அவளது உயிரையும் எடுத்துப் புதைகிடங்கினில்
போட்டவன் உன் மகன் என்றால் என்ன நீ சொல்வாய்?" more

2. Sri Lanka: State Terror -  Rape & Murder of Eelam Tamil Women - The Record Speaks... Ilaiyathamby Tharshini, Thambipillai Thanalakshmi, Velu Arshadevi - Mahendiran Nageswari - Vijayaratnam Subashini, Thangiah Vijayalalitha,  Sinnathamby Sivamany, Yogalingam Vijitha - Ehamparam Wijikala, Sarathambal, Ida Carmelitta, Koneswary, Velan Rasamma,  Velan Vasantha, Rajani Velauthapillai, Selvarajah Renuka, Krishanthi Kumaraswamy, Lakshmi Pillai & hundreds of others.

 .. "..On average, a Tamil woman is raped by members of the Sri Lankan security forces every two weeks. The real number is inevitably higher since many cases are unreported. Every two months a Tamil woman is gang-raped and murdered by the Sri Lankan security forces." Statement by NGO, Women Against Rape, at United Nations Commission on Human Rights more

3.Leader of Liberation Tigers, V Pirapakaran, opens New Sencholai campus, a home for children who lost both parents in the war

2. Nine Famous Irishmen - " In the Young Irish Disorders of 1848, nine men were captured, tried and convicted of treason against  Queen Victoria and were sentenced to death. Their names were: Duffy, Meagher, McManus, Donahue, O'Gorman, Lyene, Ireland, McGee and Mitchell.

Before passing sentence, the judge asked if they wished to say anything. Meagher spoke for all and said, "My Lord, this is our first offence but not our last. If you will be easy with us this once, we promise on our word as gentlemen, to try and do better next time. And next time, we sure won't be fools to get caught..." more

2. An Open Letter to Jeffrey Lunstead, US Ambassador for Sri Lanka  from V.Thangavelu, Canada  "You seem to feign ignorance of the fact that President Mahinda Rajapakse came to power promising to jettison the federal model, concept of Homeland, self-determination, expel or curtail Norway�s role as the facilitator. In other words Mahinda Rajapakse showed his back to the Oslo Declaration and put the clock 50 years back to the Bandaranaike era..." more

2. Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urges Sri Lanka to prevent 'forced disappearances' by security forces  "The BBC Sinhala Service revealed today a report .. regarding 20 complaints of forced disappearances that are alleged to have taken place during the month of December 2005... In recent decades, Sri Lanka has had one of the worst records in the world concerning forced disappearances... Past experience dictates that forced disappearance in Sri Lanka entails the killing of persons following arrest. The arrests are performed secretly, so as to circumvent legal safeguards and to prevent any traces of evidence being left concerning the abduction and any further ill-treatment..." more

1.Abduction of Balakrishnan Rajeevmohan by Sri Lankan Army - Case Report

2. Open Appeal against Sri Lanka Army Atrocities - Dr N Malathy, Secretary General, NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights,   "Over the last six to seven weeks atrocities by the Sri Lankan armed forces and paramilitaries against civilians in Northeast have escalated to alarming levels.Sri Lankan armed forces so far have been responsible for at least 45 deaths and more than 100 disappearances and innumerable shooting/beating and injuring of civilians who were going about their daily lives..." more

2. Oru Paper Editorial - A confused, desperate President Rajapakse in political cuckooland  "..The President�s biggest blind spot appears to be centred down the word �unitary�. He hugs the word to his bosom as if it is some manthram needed to save the Sinhala nation. Addressing a Press conference before his departure to India, he said he wanted to study the Indian model of devolution of power; as if he could not study it from Colombo. ... The Tamils who are running their own government in another part of the country have reason to laugh over President Rajapakse�s great desire to grant them �maximum devolution� through a unitary form of government..." more

Case Report on Rape and Murder of Ilaiyathamby Tharshini - Dr N Malathy, NESOHR Secretary General "The description given below of Tharshini�s disappearance on 16th December 2005 and the discovery of her body in an abandoned village well is put together from statements made by Tharshini�s relatives and neighbours to one of NESOHR�s committee members. NESOHR has made the decision to withhold the identity of the relatives and neighbours from this report because their safety may be compromised if these are revealed. NESOHR is ready to share this information with any leading international human rights organization that is willing to join us in taking up this case of the rape and murder of Tharshini..." more

1. Media Section: Review by Sachi Sri Kantha of Sadhanaigal Padaitha Thamizh Thiraipada Varalaru (Tamil Film History and Its Achievements) � in Tamil, edited by Kalaimamani �Film News� Anandan,

2. Eelam Section: Review by Ana Pararajasingham of  Primary Sources for History of the Sri Lankan Tamils - World Wide Search by Dr. M. Gunasingham

"....A feeling or a thought, the aspiration towards liberty, cannot be estimated in the terms of concrete power, in so many fighting men, so many armed police, so many guns, so many prisons, such and such laws, ukases, and executive powers. But such feelings and thoughts are more powerful than fighting men and guns and prisons and laws and ukases. Their beginnings are feeble, their end is mighty. But of despotic repression the beginnings are mighty, the end is feeble... But the despot will not recognise this superiority, the teachings of history have no meaning for him. ..He is deceived also by the temporary triumph of his repressive measures.. and thinks,

�Oh, the circumstances in my case are quite different, I am a different thing from any yet recorded in history, stronger, more virtuous and moral, better organised. I am God�s favourite and can never come to harm.� 

And so the old drama is staged again and acted till it reaches the old catastrophe..."  more

at  the funeral on 5 January 2005 in Trincomalee, Tamil Eelam, of five Tamil students shot dead by Sri Lanka Army on 2 January 2005..

1. Sri Lanka Army  murders Tamil civilians, breaches Ceasefire & Lies Again - This Time, the Brazen Lie  "On 19 December 2005, the Sri Lanka Army claimed that Sri Lanka troops shot in the air and Tamils on the ground suffered gun shot injuries. On 25 December 2005, the Sri Lanka Army adopted the technique of the big lie and claimed that the LTTE was responsible for the assassination of Joseph Pararajasingham. Now, the Sri Lanka Army excels its own record of lying by alleging  that 5 Tamils who were shot in the back of their heads in Trincomalee on 2 January 2005, died as a result of an 'accidental explosion of a hand grenade' in the victims hand. The Sri Lanka army murders, breaches  the Ceasefire Agreement and then brazenly lies. The record speaks" more

2. Unarmed civilians need protection against a Vindictive Armed state - International Federation of Tamils "This is the second urgent appeal the IFT, International Federation of Tamils is making to the IC, International Community within a week... In complete contrast to the statement made by the military spokesman on the killing of five teenage boys in Trincomalee that they were LTTE cadres killed accidentally in a blast while assembling an incendiary with an intent to attack a military installation, the autopsy made by the state medical officers on their bodies, has revealed that they were shot through their ears at a very close range....A spokesperson for the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Helen Olafsdottir, told BBC Sandesaya, that there was evidence that all five students had been shot in the head in a manner she described as resembling �executions.�...The IFT considers this a war declared by the Sri Lanka Government .. Unarmed civilians need protection against a vindictive armed state." more

3.Involuntary Disappearances in Sri Lanka Looming Large Again - International Federation of Tamils "...More than 920 Tamils have been arrested and detained in Colombo alone in one overnight search. Sri Lanka armed forces are descending on Tamil homes in the middle of the night, privacy of the Tamil bedrooms is trespassed, men and women, young and old, in their night-clothes are bundled up in awaiting vehicles and taken away for interrogation and detention. Although the government tells the international media that many are being released after an identity check-up, they are being arrested over and over again, and subjected to an ordeal of being fingerprinted, photographed, and videoed..." more

2. Exchange of Letters between International Federation of Tamils (IFT) and European Union: IFT to European Commission External Relations Directorate General "...a crisis such as the present one may also hopefully lead to a meeting of minds � and create opportunities to progress the cause of justice and peace. The question is whether two peoples sitting together as equals cannot agree upon political structures which protect each of their perceived interests...The European Union itself stands as an example of what may be achieved in this regard..." more

Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. (Amen) Say that I was a drum major for peace. (Yes) I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. (Yes) I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. (Amen) And that's all I want to say.  more