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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Type: Organization

Name: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, Ellalan Force, The Tamil Tigers)

Nationality: Sri Lanka

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

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

Mahinda Rajapakse

Low turnout in Sri Lankan strike reflects no confidence in the unions and opposition

Despite growing opposition among workers to President Mahinda Rajapakse’s assault on living standards and democratic rights, there was only limited participation in a one-day general strike on Tuesday. The low turnout expressed the deep distrust among ... [Published World Socialist Web Site - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Workers, Trade Union, Mahinda Rajapakse

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

Anniversary May 19 Sri Lanka Tamils defy ban on remembering war dead

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said it staged the remembrance in the northern town of Vavuniya for those who died in the final battle which also killed Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and his entire top leadership."We had a meeting to commemorate ... [Published Lanka Business Online - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Vavuniya (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 5 hours ago - 2 reports

Refugee first as ASIO reverse adverse assessment

A refugee widow and her six-year-old son will taste freedom in Australia after ASIO dramatically reversed an assessment she posed a threat to national security.The decision followed an internal ASIO review into her case and is not related to an inquiry ... [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 22 2013]

Entities: Refugees, Custody, Australia

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Complaint lodged against Narayanasamy

A complaint has been lodged against Union Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office, V Narayanasamy, for his recent statement on LTTE chief Prabhakaran and Naam Tamizhar Katchi.Advocate C Ramesh of Madurai filed a complaint with the IGP of South Zone ... [Published New Indian Express - 5 hours ago]

Entities: V Narayanasamy, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Madurai, Antagonism

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 2 reports

Penguin India brings out diary of LTTE Captain

The English edition of ‘War Journey: Diary of a Tamil Tiger’ authored by the late Capt. Malaravan has been published and released by Penguin Books, India this month. The work originally written in Tamil by Malaravan as a first-person account of the battlefield ... [Published Web Newswire - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, India, NESOHR

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Pkaran miscalculates launch of eelam war II

Had the LTTE launched its offensive in mid 1989 instead of June 1990, the government wouldn’t have survivedBrigadier Wijaya Wimalaratne, the founder of the Gajaba Regiment with the then Lieutenant Colonel Gotabhaya Rajapakshe (Center) and Colonel Premachandra, ... [Published Sri Lanka Island - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Ranasinghe Premadasa, Nalin Seneviratne

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 2 reports

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Sri Lanka denies scuttling power devolution

Colombo, May 22 (IANS) Sri Lanka denied Wednesday plans to roll back power sharing mechanisms with the Tamil minority despite attempts to stop long overdue elections in the former war-torn north.Technology and Research Minister Champika Ranawaka announced ... [Published Mangalorean - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Sri Lanka, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Roll Back

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 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 - May 22 2013]

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

A bloodied childhood in war-torn Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Tamil poet and journalist Theepachelvan Pratheepan shares the experiences of his petrified childhood days spent in the war-torn island nation with Rediff.coms There had to be an outpouring of the troubled mind that saw blood, gore, hatred and ... [Published rediff.com - May 22 2013]

Entities: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka, Lankan Tamil, Refugees, Rediff.com India Ltd

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

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 - 1 reports

Sri Lanka remembers to forget

Celebrations to mark the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war perform the function of collective forgetting.If the country looked back at recommendations made in the past, Sri Lankansmight understand better how to go forward. On 18 May 2013 the government of ... [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - May 21 2013]

Entities: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka, Armed Conflict, Terrorists, Ministry of Defence

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

LTTE man flees Lanka, caught en route to Nairobi

Crime branch officers in India on Sunday arrested a 35-year-old Sri Lankan, who was an operative of banned outfit Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), when he was attempting to catch a flight to Nairobi.Interestingly, the accused, an electronics engineer, ... [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - May 21 2013]

Entities: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Lanka (India), Nairobi, Sri Lanka

Quotes

"We will not allow a single inch of the land that you won by the sacrifice of your life to be taken away" Rajapakse said. "There will be no room for separation."

Anniversary May 19 Sri Lanka Tamils defy ban on remembering war dead [Published Lanka Business Online - 3 hours ago]

Counsel for the petitioner referred$ to the injuries$ in the postmortem report establishing torture. The Chief Justice said, "We don't send nursery children to quell a siege. You've got to expect injuries."

Sri Lanka: Ganeshan Nimalaruban Case [Published Scoop - 8 hours ago]

"Why is Sri Lanka pursued relentlessly and castigated by some representatives of the government of Canada. Even though the LTTE is not presented physically their influence is still there" Prof. Peiris has asked

External Affairs Minister questions why Canada is relentlessly pursuing Sri Lanka [Published Colombo Page - 19 hours ago]

"There's probably plenty of people that walk around in Australian society that ASIO think at some point or the other have warranted an adverse security assessment, it doesn't mean that they all get locked up without charge."

Asylum seeker to be freed after ASIO overturns ruling [Published ABC Online - 22 hours ago]

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Low turnout in Sri Lankan strike reflects no co... [Published World Socialist Web Site - 3 hours ago]
Anniversary May 19 Sri Lanka Tamils defy ban on... [Published Lanka Business Online - 3 hours ago]
Complaint lodged against Narayanasamy [Published New Indian Express - 5 hours ago]
JHU makes public Draft Bill to repeal 13A [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - 6 hours ago]
Workers’ strike: Oppn given a resounding slap [Published Sri Lanka Daily News - 6 hours ago]
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Stung by BJP flak, Congress fires salvo [Published New Delhi Pioneer - 8 hours ago]
Sri Lanka: Ganeshan Nimalaruban Case [Published Scoop - 8 hours ago]
Will Devananda meet his Waterlooat NPC polls? [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - 9 hours ago]
Penguin India brings out diary of LTTE Captain [Published Web Newswire - 9 hours ago]
Sri Lanka: Penguin India brings out diary of LT... [Published TamilNet Newswire - 9 hours ago]
Historical Role Of Buddhism And Significance Of... [Published Eurasia Review - 15 hours ago]
Pkaran miscalculates launch of eelam war II [Published Sri Lanka Island - 15 hours ago]
External Affairs Minister questions why Canada ... [Published Colombo Page - 19 hours ago]
Asylum seeker to be freed after ASIO overturns ... [Published ABC Online - 22 hours ago]
Sri Lanka denies scuttling power devolution [Published Mangalorean - 22 hours ago]
‘I am not happy about how the northern land iss... [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - 23 hours ago]
Sri Lanka says no moves to stop power devolutio... [Published Xinhua News Agency - May 22 2013]
Sri Lankan army to reduce military presence in ... [Published Firstpost.com - May 22 2013]
Sri Lankan army to reduce military presence in ... [Published Deccan Chronicle - May 22 2013]
A bloodied childhood in war-torn Sri Lanka [Published rediff.com - May 22 2013]
Refugee first as ASIO reverse adverse assessment [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 22 2013]
As a High Court challenge looms, are there alte... [Published Monash University - May 22 2013]
Congress invokes Rajiv to revive fortunes [Published New Indian Express - May 22 2013]
‘Tamil Eelam’ sprang from Chola expansionism [Published Sri Lanka Daily News - May 22 2013]
Victory Day Is Victory Day, not mourning day [Published Sri Lanka Daily News - May 22 2013]
Government protects human rights of the Tamils [Published Sri Lanka Daily News - May 22 2013]
Nimal warns colleagues against switching allegi... [Published Sri Lanka Island - May 21 2013]
India has 3000 child soldiers! [Published LankaWeb - May 21 2013]

Blogs

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America’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ Legacy to Iraq... [Published Informed Comment - May 21 2013] Bombings killed at least 95 people on Monday in Iraq, with 10 car bombs going off in the capital of Baghdad alone. Two car bombs were detonated in the southern Shiite port city of Basra, and the mostly Sunni city of Samarra north of the capital was ...
Sri Lanka: No Progress 4 Years On [Published Human rights news - May 20 2013] Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email (Colombo) – Respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Human Rights Watch said today. This week marks ...
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 ...
A New Political Regime Post-2010 in Sri Lanka: ... [Published groundviews - May 15 2013] Image courtesy Brisbane Times by Laksiri Jayasuriya , University of Western Australia Introduction The 2010 Sri Lankan Presidential and Parliamentary elections that took place shortly after the end of a debilitating 25 year-old civil war ...

Audio/Video

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Sri Lankans seek for their missing relatives [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Mar 07 2013]
VIDEO: IT teacher who lost hands as a child [Published BBC News Video - Technology - Feb 05 2013]

Press Releases

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Research and Markets: Sri Lanka - Key Statistic... [Published Business Wire Technology News - Nov 29 2012]