NPC councillor promotes joint action by protesters
The affected people from Champoor in Trincomalee, Keappaa-pulavu in Mullaiththeevu, Valikaamam North in Jaffna, Mu'l'li-ku'lam and Ma'richchuk-kaddi in Mannaar should concentrate on joint efforts in shaping their protests in future, says NPC Councillor Ananthy Sasitharan, who spent time with the uprooted people from Mu'l'lik-ku'lam and with the Tamil-speaking Muslims from Ma'richchuk-kaddi opposing a recent gazette notification of declaring their lands as belonging to Vilpaththu Forest Reserve. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB4mEHtsQro
Former TNA Parliamentarian and Leader of EPRLF in the TNA alliance urges ITAK parliamentarians and councillors to course correct the ITAK leadership if they are serious about their policy on the demand of international investigations. Full story: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=37915
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The recent verdict by the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT) on Sri Lanka, which found the Sri Lankan State guilty of genocide, was a landmark decision in the path of justice for Eezham Tamils, say two activists of May 17 Movement from Tamil Nadu, who were present at the session in Bremen as expert witnesses on the genocide against Eezham Tamils.
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The third and final part of the interview with Tamil Nadu activist Thirumurgan Gandhi and Diaspora activist Lathan Suntharalingam focuses on ‘Quisling politics’. The interview was recorded in Switzerland while Thirumurugan Gandhi was taking part in the sessions and at the side-events in the Human Rights Council in Geneva in March 2017.
For an in-depth understanding of ‘Quisling politics’ and they way to face it with “Navaratnam School of Thought,” see TamilNet Feature: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=38730
The coordinator of May 17 Movement has been jailed along with three other activists of Thamizhar Vidiyal Kadchi under the notorious ‘Goondas Act’ after they organised a candlelight vigil on May 21 in remembrance of those who perished in Vanni in 2009.
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The medical staff of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital and the kith and kin of the slain victims of one of the worst massacres committed by the Indian military in the country of Eezham Tamils, on Monday remembered their loved ones who were slain on 21 October 1987 inside the hospital.
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Demanding immediate release of details on the whereabouts of 20,000 victims of enforced disappearances, Tamil women of missing peoples families staged a 3-day continuous fasting campaign at Nalloor and Tamil youth walked from Mu'l'livaaykkaal to Nalloor for 4 days amidst harassment by the occupying SL military
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There will come a day when the Tamil-speaking people who are now waging continuous protests for securing their lands from the occupying military and the people who have been seeking answers on the whereabouts of their kith and kin in the hands of the military to start waging a struggle demanding the SL Army, Navy and Air Force to go home, said Justice C.V. Wigneswaran, the chief minister of Northern Provincial Council, in his memorial address on the occasion of 8th year remembrance held at Mu’l’livaaykkaal on Thursday. Hundreds of people, including the ones who had lost their loved ones in the genocidal onslaught, were paying tribute at the emotional event, side by side along with their politicians, who were standing among the crowd as everyone else. TamilNet Report: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=38681
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Women organisations representing the families of the forcefully disappeared persons staged a protest with the support of a section of TNA politicians, TNPF, DPF politicians. The protesters condemned the deferral of OISL report and demanded immediate answers from the international community on the fate of missing persons at the hands of Colombo. A group of youth activists also burnt the effigy of nominated TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran at the rally.
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People in Pazhai and their medical representatives, as well as the elected local leaders, protest against PTA detention of Dr Sivaruban. TamilNet Report: https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=39549
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