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Jaffna (Sri Lanka)

Type: City

Name: Jaffna (Sri Lanka)

Country: Sri Lanka

Latitude: 9.67

Longitude: 80.010002

population: 169,126

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Douglas Devananda

Will Devananda meet his Waterlooat NPC polls?

The run up to the Northern Provincial Council election is on and the latest personality to enter the fray is Minister Douglas Devananda who appears to be positioning himself as chief ministerial candidate of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance ... [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Douglas Devananda, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Jaffna (Sri Lanka)

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

On the land issue

We move from the topic Western science, Astrology and Arsenic temporarily in order to discuss one of the important topics in current politics. It is concerned with the power to distribute land as stated in the thirteenth amendment. The thirteenth amendment ... [Published Sri Lanka Island - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Sri Lanka, Jaffna (Sri Lanka), India, Tissa Vitharana

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 2 reports

Sri Lankan army to reduce military presence in northern Jaffna

?We will reduce the existing 17 military camps in Jaffna to just three,? Army Chief Lt Gen Jagath Jayasuriya said.The fourteen camps pulled out from different parts in Jaffna would be relocated in the main Palaly cantonment, he said yesterday.Lands which ... [Published Firstpost.com - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Military/Armed Forces, Jagath Jayasuriya, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Colombo (Sri Lanka)

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Sri Lankan man hacks family, kills self

The house where Sundaresan killed his mother, wife and daughter in Adambakkam on Tuesday | Albin Mathew/ExpressA 48-year-old private tour operator allegedly hacked his wife, mother, and daughter before he threw himself on the path of a speeding train ... [Published New Indian Express - May 22 2013]

Entities: Lankan Tamil, Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Police, Financier, Murderer

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Government protects human rights of the Tamils

Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa presided when Parliament met yesterday at 1 pm. After the presentation of papers and oral questions, the House took up the adjournment motion moved by TNA Parliamentary group leader R Sampanthan.The country is in a crisis situation ... [Published Sri Lanka Daily News - May 22 2013]

Entities: Sri Lanka, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Human Rights

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Bus plunges down precipice injuring 26

A bus proceeding from Jaffna to Diyatalawa fell down a precipice near the Bloomfield Tea factory in Ramboda, on the Kandy – Nuwara Eliya Road, early yesterday morning injuring 26 passengers.The injured from the accident, which took place around 4:30 a.m., ... [Published Sri Lanka Island - May 21 2013]

Entities: Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Military/Armed Forces, Police

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Malaria Mosquito and Dayan Jayatilleka

It was the Anopheles mosquito that prevented Tamil homelands in the dry and arid north and east of Sri Lanka. The retired geography professor G. H. Peiris has explained this using his extensive collection of research data to disprove the Tamil separatist ... [Published LankaWeb - May 21 2013]

Entities: Dayan (China), Sri Lanka, NAD, Colombo (Sri Lanka)

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

News story: Diaspora can help to improve healthcare in Sri Lanka

In November 2012, four young second generation British Sri Lankan doctors travelled to Sri Lanka to learn about healthcare issues on the island. The trip was part of International Alert’s diaspora project, which is funded by the British High Commission ... [Published Cabinet Office - May 21 2013]

Entities: Sri Lanka, Health Care, British Tamil

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Nepal billionaire plans US $ 75mn cement plant in Jaffna

Nepal’s first Forbes billionaire, Binod Chaudhary has submitted a proposal worth of US $ 75 million to the Sri Lankan government to set up a stateof-the-art cement plant in the Jaffna Peninsula, a statement issued by Chaudhary’s office said.In Sri Lanka, ... [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - May 21 2013]

Entities: Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Nepal, Sri Lanka

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Lanka’s woman Thavil players fading away

Pushparani playing the Thavil.Pushparani Thiruchelvam is one of the two woman thavil players in Jaffna, and perhaps in the whole of Sri Lanka. The two women, who were the first and could well be the last, are both above 60 and neither of them has had ... [Published New Indian Express - May 21 2013]

Entities: Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Lanka (India), Sri Lanka

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

A people without a story

Four years ago this week, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam announced that their struggle for an independent homeland in northern Sri Lanka had “reached its bitter end.” The group had been fighting on behalf of the Tamil people for more than a quarter-century, ... [Published The Nation.lk - May 18 2013]

Entities: Velupillai Prabhakaran, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka, Aatish Taseer

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 3 reports

Sri Lanka 1998 plane crash ''victim'' still alive

Colombo, May 17 (PTI) A Sri Lankan woman thought to be dead in the passenger airline that disappeared in 1998 has been found to be alive.It turned out that the woman was not a passenger but her national identity card was being carried by somebody els ... [Published msn.co.in - May 17 2013]

Entities: Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Plane Crash, Sri Lanka, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Quotes

...The English " the human rights of the Sinhalas to be reborn massacred the Sinhala population killing not only males above 15 years but even killing the cattle of the Sinhala people. The record of the English with respect to our independence struggle is most cruel to say the least, and during this Veask week we can only engage in "Maithree Bhavana" towards the governors such as Brownrigg, Torrington and their mothers."

On the land issue [Published Sri Lanka Island - 10 hours ago]

" As I said, the constitution of this council is my dream. I feel that I should contest. However, the President asked me once not to contest because he did not want to lose a Tamil Minister in his Cabinet "

‘I am not happy about how the northern land issue is being handled’ [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - 17 hours ago]

"We will reduce the existing 17 military camps in Jaffna to just three" Army chief Lt Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya said

Sri Lankan army to reduce military presence in north [Published Deccan Chronicle - 19 hours ago]

S. Bhaskaran, a former councillor of Alandur municipality, who also knew the family, said: "Sundaresan was a very soft-spoken person and friendly with everybody. This is a tragic incident."

Businessman murders family, commits suicide [Published The Hindu - 23 hours ago]

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A bloodied childhood in war-torn Sri Lanka [Published rediff.com - 19 hours ago]
Businessman murders family, commits suicide [Published The Hindu - 23 hours ago]
Sri Lankan man hacks family, kills self [Published New Indian Express - May 22 2013]
‘Tamil Eelam’ sprang from Chola expansionism [Published Sri Lanka Daily News - May 22 2013]
Government protects human rights of the Tamils [Published Sri Lanka Daily News - May 22 2013]
Bus plunges down precipice injuring 26 [Published Sri Lanka Island - May 21 2013]
Malaria Mosquito and Dayan Jayatilleka [Published LankaWeb - May 21 2013]
News story: Diaspora can help to improve health... [Published Cabinet Office - May 21 2013]
Bus topples injuring 24 [Published Lankapuvath - May 21 2013]
Nepal billionaire plans US $ 75mn cement plant ... [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - May 21 2013]
Lanka’s woman Thavil players fading away [Published New Indian Express - May 21 2013]
Chennai Event Challenges ICE Complicity in Tami... [Published Salem-News.com - May 21 2013]
CA allows Jaffna landowners to amend petition [Published Sri Lanka Island - May 21 2013]
Nepal’s first Forbes Dollar Billionaire to expa... [Published Sri Lanka Daily News - May 20 2013]
Four years on, genocide continues off the battl... [Published Open Democracy - May 20 2013]
Chaudhary to invest $75m in S Lanka cement plant [Published MyRepublica.com - May 20 2013]
Four years on, genocide continues off the battl... [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - May 20 2013]
Nepal billionaire plans to set up UIS $ 75mn ce... [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - May 20 2013]
Eastern Fishing Community Pledge to Repulse Ant... [Published The Fish Site - May 20 2013]
Binod Chaudhary to setup $75 million cement fac... [Published Nepalnews.com - May 20 2013]
Sri Lanka: Chennai event challenges ICE complic... [Published TamilNet Newswire - May 20 2013]
26 Karaikal fishermen to be released from Lanka... [Published New Indian Express - May 20 2013]

Blogs

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Reconciliation, Rights & Freedom: Four year... [Published groundviews - May 18 2013] Image courtesy The Telegraph It is now 4 years after the end of the war. The way we Sri Lankans will remember the end of the war is likely to demonstrate once again how divided we are, as North and South, as Sinhalese and Tamils. Some Tamil ...
Freedom of assembly in post-war Sri Lanka [Published groundviews - May 16 2013] Sandya Ekneligoda, wife of missing journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda, center, speaks to reporters during a protest rally out side the parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Relatives, colleagues and opposition activists staged ...
World Press Freedom day, Uthayan and Freedom of... [Published groundviews - May 01 2013] Photo courtesy SIDA “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties” John Milton 3rd May was declared as World Press Freedom day by the UN General Assembly in 1991. Since then, it is ...
Archiving ‘Her Stories’: In convers... [Published groundviews - Apr 28 2013] Her Stories , a unique archive of oral history, was conceived of and curated by Radhika Hettiarachchi. We begin by Radhika going in to what the archive is, and how it came about. Featuring 240 stories of mothers, the archive’s website avers, These ...
ABC, Gordon Weiss and authoress Niromi de Soyza [Published groundviews - Apr 19 2013] Like many people I used to think that such agencies as the BBC and ABC provided balanced reviews and were relatively unbiased. No more. Further confirmation: a recent panel presentation by ABC in March 2013, entitled “Continuing Genocide in Sri ...