Eelam News - Vanniyan

திருகோணமலை பிரதேசத்தில் உள்ள ஈந்து ஆலயங்களில் கடந்த பல நாட்களாக தெய்வ சிலைகள் உடைக்கப்படும் சம்பவங்கள் குறித்து பொலிஸாருக்கு முறைப்பாடுகள் கிடைத்துள்ளன. திருகோணமலை, ஆதிகோணேஸ்வரர், கள்ளிமேடு முத்துமாரியம்மன், பட்டிமேடு சிந்தாமணி பிள்ளையார், புதுடிக்குடியிருப்பு ஊரிக்காடு பிள்ளையார் ஆலயம் ஆகியவற்றின் தெய்வ சிலைகளே உடைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. இந்த சம்பவங்கள் இனங்களுக்கு இடையில் முரண்பாடுகளை ஏற்படுத்தும் ஒரு திட்டமிட்ட சதிச் செயலாக இருக்கலாம் என இந்துக்கள் சந்தேகம் தெரிவித்துள்ளனர். எனினும் சம்பவம் தொடர்பில் எவரும் இதுவரை பொலிஸாரால்...

அண்மையில் பதுளையில் நடைபெற்ற கிரிக்கெட் மைதான திறப்பு விழாவின் போது ஜனாதிபதி மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ச துடுப்பெடுத்தாடி விளையாட்டை ஆரம்பித்து வைத்தார். இதன் போது அவர் எஸ்.எப் என்ற ரகத்தை சேர்ந்த துடுப்பை கொண்டே பந்தை அடித்தாடினார். இந்த விடயம் அப்போது பெரியளவில் பேசப்படாத போதும் பின்னர் அரசியல் பிரச்சினையை உருவாக்கியுள்ளது. எஸ்.எப் எனப்படுவது  ஜனாதிபதியின் அரசியல் எதிரியான முன்னாள் இராணுவ தளபதி சரத் பொன்சேகாவை குறிப்பதாகும் இதனை வைத்துக்கொண்டே கடந்த ஜனாதிபதி தேர்தலில் சரத் பொன்சேகா தேர்தல் பிரசாரங்களில் ஈடுபட்டு வந்தார். இந்தநிலையில்...

2030 ஆம் ஆண்டில் நாட்டின் தலைவராக வரும் வகையில் இலங்கை ஜனாதிபதியின் மகனும் நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினருமான நாமல் ராஜபக்ச இணைத்தளம் ஒன்றை ஆரம்பித்துள்ளார். நாமல் 2030 என இந்த இணையத்தளத்திற்கு பெயரிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதில் நாமல் தொடர்பான தகவல்களும் அரசியல் அம்சங்களும் உள்ளடங்கியுள்ளன. எனினும் ஏனைய கட்சி உறுப்பினர்களை பாதிக்கும் என்பதற்காக இந்த இணையத்தளத்தை பிரசாரப்படுத்த வேண்டாம் என ஜனாதிபதி மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ச கேட்டுக் கொண்ட போதும் நாமலின் இணையத்தளம் பிரசாரப்படுத்தப்பட்டு வருகிறது. ஏற்கனவே நாமலை ஜனாதிபதியாக கொண்டு வரவேண்டும் என்பதற்காகவே...

சுவிஸ் வட்டக்கச்சி இராமநாதபுரம் ஒன்றியத்தினால் ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்ட "சுற்றத்து முற்றம்" கலைநிகழ்வு நாளை காலை 10:00 மணிக்கு ஆரம்பகாவுள்ளது. இம்மாபெரும் கலை மகிழ்வு ஒன்று ௬டலானது  நாளை காலை 10   மணியிலிருந்து  மாலை 17 மணிவரை, Gemeindezentrum    Brüelmatt Dorfstrasse 10  8903  Birmensdorf  என்னும் முகவரியில் நடைபெறவுள்ளது. இலங்கையிலிருந்து வருகை தந்திருக்கும் தமிழ் தேசிய கூட்டமைப்பு நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர்களான  மாவை சேனாதிராஜா , ...

Six parliamentarians of the main opposition of United National Party (UNP) crossed over to the government benches while the debate on the 18th amendment to the constitution was in progress Wednesday evening. The UNP MPs who crossed over to government benches were Lakshman Seneviratne, Earl Gunasekara, Manusha Nanayakkara, Upeksha Swarnamali, Nimal Wijeysinghe and Abdul Card...

Sri Lanka’s seventy nine year-old Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratna tabled the 18th Amendment to the constitution in Parliament Wednesday morning. According to the 18th amendment, the restriction of the two term executive presidency system is to be removed allowing the incumbent president to contest any number of times. The amendment allows the introduction of a five-member parliamentary advisory council replacing the existing Constitutional Council appointed under the seventeenth Sri Lankan constitution. Mr. Jayaratna said...

Sri Lanka government’s archaeological department with the help of Sri Lanka Army is constructing more structures in Thirvadinilai in Maathakal in Vallikaamam North SLA High Security Zone (HSZ), in addition to a Buddhist temple erected in October 2009. This area had been the home of Tamil families living there since ancient times evicted twenty years ago when Valikaamam North HSZ was established by SLA. Now the families are not allowed even to see their own places in Maathakal while thousands of Sinhala Buddhist pilgrims...

Ranil Wickremasinghe, the leader of the main opposition United National Party (UNP) Tuesday announced in Sri Lanka parliament that his party would not attend the debate on the 18th amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka when it is taken up for debate on Wednesday. UNP parliamentarians led by Ranil Wickremasinghe thereafter walked out. Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne tabled the amendment bill amidst protests from the opposition amidst vociferous protests from the Opposition. However, Speaker Chamal Rajapakse maintained...

Sri Lanka’s Parliament Tuesday adopted a motion to extend the State of Emergency for another month without voting. Prime Minister D. M. Jayaretna tabled the motion seeking the approval of the parliament. Parliamentarians of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) who were present in the house did not ask for division when the motion was put to vote. Hence the Speaker Chamal Rajapakse declared that the motion was passed unanimously. Parliamentarians of the main opposition United National Party (UNP) and Sinhala Nationalist Janatha...

Majority of parliamentarians of the main opposition United National Party (UNP) Tuesday afternoon entered the parliament clad in black as a mark of protest in opposition to the 18th amendment to the constitution. One dissident parliamentarian of the UNP Abdul Cader of Kandy district was present in the house in his usual attire and not in black. Meanwhile a group of lawyers paraded a coffin around the Supreme Court complex in Colombo Tuesday noon as a mark of protest to the introduction of the 18th amendment to the Constitution...

The Thear (Chariot) festival of the historic Nalloor Kanthasuvaami Temple in Jaffna town was held Tuesday morning with at least a hundred thousand devotees from all over the island and abroad participating in the annual festival. The opening of A9 road had enabled the devotees to travel easily to Jaffna. Tamils and Sinhala people from South and expatriate Tamils in particular were among the thousands of devotees, sources in Jaffna...

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Commander Major Gen. Mahinda Kathurusinghe declined to endorse Jaffna Government Ms. Imelda Sukumar’s announcement that uprooted families from Valikaamam North SLA High Security Zone (HSZ) will be soon allowed resettlement in a recent meeting at Jaffna Veerasingham Hall, representatives of welfare organizations for uprooted families from Valikaamam North said. The GA is acting as if she is the spokesperson of Sri Lanka Defence Ministry, they accused. SLA Jaffna continues to deny permission for resettlement...

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) that has a parliamentary strength of fourteen members Monday decided to vote against the 18th amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, according to Colombo media reports quoting TNA media spokesman and Jaffna district parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran. He said the decision was taken at the parliamentary group meeting the TNA held Monday as the said amendment deprives the rights of minority communiti...

The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL), Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP), constituents of the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA), Monday decided to support the 18th amendment in parliament. CPSL is led by Minister D. E. W. Gunasekara, LSSP by Minister Tissa Vitharana and NSSP by Vasudeva Nanayakara. The government is to move the eighteenth amendment to the constitution removing the restriction on two term executive presidency and introducing a five-member Parliamentary Advisory Council...

Veteran Eezham Tamil scholar Professor Karthigesu Sivathamby, Emeritus Professor of Tamil of the University of Jaffna, Sunday denied a report that he had been in the forefront in organizing the so-called 'World Tamil Writers Conference' in Colombo scheduled for January next year. His denial was carried in the Sunday edition of a leading Tamil weekly, Thinakkural, published from Colombo. Prof. Sivathamby said he had once been contacted by a friend from Australia over the proposed 'International Tamil Writers Conference...

Eezham Tamils are a nation having historical sovereignty and territory in the island called Sri Lanka. Members of the Indian Establishment should stop humiliating them any further by calling them as ‘minority’. Tamil brethren of Tamil Nadu should be sensitive enough and stop such fundamentally faulty approaches and psyop war of the New Delhi-Chennai-Colombo axis on the historical nation of Eezham Tamils in the island. Edification of Chennai and New Delhi is basic to make the world see the crisis in realistic perspectives....

Devotees in their thousands from across Sri Lanka and abroad filled the temple precincts at the annual Chappa’ram festival of Nalloor Kanthasuvaami temple in Jaffna held Monday night. Jaffna peninsula devotees took part in greater number than they had in previous years, sources in Jaffna said. The Chappa’ram festival will be followed with Thear (Chariot) festival Tuesday and Theerththam (Water cutting) festival Wednesday. Civil...

Sri Lanka National Environment Commission (NEC) has stopped the deepening of the fisheries jetties in Vadamaraadchi saying prior permission had not been obtained from NEC. The deepening of the jetties had commenced after a long period. Fishermen societies in Vadamaraadchi said that they will gather fishermen to launch protest demonstrations unless Sri Lanka government finds a solution for the problem. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) had refused to permit deepening of the said jetties in areas from Valveddiththu’rai to Ma’nattkaadu...

During the pre-trial phase of a lawsuit accusing two Tamils and a Tamil charity for allegedly providing funds to the Liberation Tigers which is listed as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)" by the US Department of State, and thereby aiding the Liberation Tigers in causing the death of several Sri Lanka civilians, U.S. District Judge Dennis Cavanaugh dismissed all but two charges, legal sources in Washington said. The suit was filed by relatives of 24 Sri Lankan civilians under a 1789 US statute Alien Tort Claim...

Comparing how the United States accounted any Vietnamese killed as Viet Cong, Peter Bouckert, in the British Daily Guardian said Sunday that "Sri Lanka's defence secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, has taken such creative accounting to new heights. The United Nations reported that at least 7,000 civilians were killed and tens of thousands wounded during the final months of the brutal conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which ended in May 2009. But Gotabhaya has repeatedly cast aspersions on the idea that...

Sri Lanka Public Administration Affairs Ministry held its first all island District Government Agents conference in Jaffna Monday in District Secretaiat hall at 9:00 a.m presided by Sri Lanka Minister of Public Administration, John Seneviratne. Jaffna Government Agent Ms. Imelda Sukumar told Tamilnet that past development activities in the North and future devolpment projects were discussed in the meeting. Allocation of funds for various projects was also considered, the GA said. The newly appointed Government Agents...

Parents and relatives of one hundred and seventy four Tamil youths disappeared after arrest by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) from Vanthaa'rumoolai campus of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka in Batticaloa district two decades ago held prayers in memory of them Sunday. SLA troops had come in buses and taken 158 Tamil youths by force from Vanthaa'rumoolai campus on 05.09.1990 and 16 youths eighteen days later on September 23. Since then for the last two decades parents and relatives of these youths are in the dark whether their...

The Association of Tamil Creativists in Tamil Nadu against the Colombo International Tamil Writers Conference to be held in Colombo from 5th to 8th January 2011 has appealed to all Tamil writers to boycott the Colombo conference in a message to media released Tuesday in Chennai. Several leading Tamil creativists including writers, artists, film industry persons and journalists who took part in the Tuesday press meet have signed the appeal. The English version of the appeal follows: Let us boycott Colombo International...