DMK chief M Karunanidhi today urged his partymen to dedicate themselves to reviving the cause for Tamil Eelam peacefully as advocated by Mahatma Gandhi. “The Sri Lankans exploited the fratricide among Tamil groups to emerge victorious, leading to the downfall of the Tamil race,” Karunanidhi said about the military victory, PTI reported. In a letter [...]

The car of the Editor of the Global Tamil News was set on fire in Scraborough, Canada on Wednesday. According to reports from Canada K. Kamalavasan , the editor Global Tamil News had parked his car outside his house and he was informed by the neighbourhood when his car was ablaze. The reports also added [...]

The Sri Lanka Army and special task forces have been entering Kalmunai mosque of Batticolo district, roundup the area, sources from Kalmunai said, yesterday evening. As Muslim Rights Organization has been agreed that this Friday the 27th to be declared as an “All Island Black Friday” with full day Hartal and protest to be carried [...]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa must address human rights issues in the country in a speedy and judicious manner. Ban has told the Press Trust of India (PTI) that he has been urging the Sri Lankan leadership to take all necessary measures to ensure human rights are protected and [...]

Action Against Hunger (ACF) and human rights initiative SPEAK are to reportedly submit a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in advance of the UNHRC’s review of Sri Lanka’s human rights practices in October 2012. On August 4, 2006, 17 aid workers working for humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger (ACF) International were [...]

Sri Lanka’s president has rejected a call by Indian legislators to withdraw soldiers from the island’s former war zone in the north where minority Tamils are concentrated, his spokesman said Sunday. SL President Mahinda Rajapakse told a delegation of visiting Indian lawmakers that troops could not be pulled out despite the end of the decades-long [...]

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and the DMK Leader M. Karunanithi in an interview said he was also against terrorism and extremism, but supported a separate state for Tamils in Sri Lanka . In the backdrop of the Indian Parliamentary delegation’s visit to Sri Lanka, Karunanithi said a few days ago, the UN should take [...]

Iran’s Minister of Economy and Finance Sayed Shamsedin Hosseini and Sri Lanka’s Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa stressed need for expansion of relations between the two countries in Wahington on Friday. Hosseini and Rajapaksa held a meeting on the sideline of semiannual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington. The [...]

The Sri Lankan government has plans to dissolve several provincial councils, including the Eastern PC. According toSL government sources, the EPC has agreed to go for an election early, although its term ends in March next year.  Heads of the PC have told the government that they are in agreement if there is an early [...]

“The Secretary sought Indian assistance to persuade the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) to resettle the internally displaced persons in Sri Lanka.” a US State Department cable says. The Colombo media found the related leaked “CONFIDENTIAL” cable from the WikiLeaks database. The cable was signed on October 27, 2009 by the US Secretary Of State [...]

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, a constituent of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance at the Centre, on Tuesday urged the Union government to press the United Nations for a referendum on a ‘Tamil Eelam’ in Sri Lanka, an Indian media reports. Welcoming the demand for the referendum made by the Tamil community, Mr. Karunanidhi recalled his [...]

Two more MPs have deserted Indian delegation to Sri Lanka yesterday. TMC and JDU have withdrawn from the team. The TMC and JDU have withdraw its representative from the all-party parliamentary delegation left for Colombo on April 16 on a six-day tour of Sri Lanka to assess the rehabilitation of the internally displaced Tamils. The [...]

More than seven homes belonging to the Tamils were badly burned and several Tamil people were assaulted by a Sinhala mobs in Galle area, Southern Lanka. The attack had taken place yesterday. A gang of around 20 Sinhala people had taken part in this attack. People in the streets and those inside houses were attacked. [...]

The European Union worked hard together with the United Nation to get a resolution against Sri Lanka passed at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva last month. The EU was one of the 40 co-sponsors of the resolution. Now the Sri Lankan government has turned its cannon to Sri Lanka’s close associate European [...]

A 73-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil, presently living in Colombo, proudly remembers that he had taught Yousuf Raza Gilani, the prime minister of Pakistan, way back in the 1960s at the La Salle High School in Multan. Bro. Emmanuel Nicholas, who belongs to the teaching order of De La Salle Christian Brothers, was barely 27 when [...]