Tamil Nadu & Diaspora activists on Geneva discourse
Tamil Nadu & Diaspora activists on Geneva discourse, significance of regional and global focus of Tamil Nadu, Eezham Tamils and the Tamil diaspora. 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. TamilNet Report: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?artid=38622&catid=13 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxeJT6r3eFM
The mother, sister and brother of Santhan, told their story from Ilakka'naavaththai in Uduppiddi, Jaffna, also revealing that Santhan had gone to India to go abroad to earn money and look after his siblings as the poverty stricken family was dependent on selling spring hoppers to survive in the early 90s. Santhan's father had passed away last year. The only hope of the mother was to see Santhan reuniting with the family before her demise.
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The occupying Sinhala military, stationed at Pa’n’na-vedduvaan sandwiched between Mannaar - Mathavaachchi Road and Aruvi-Aa'ru (Malwathu Oya) in Madu division of Mannaar district, has seized several acres of agricultural lands. In addition, a cable ferry which was put up by the Dutch relief organisation ZOA for the villagers to cross Aruvi Aa'ru and access their agricultural lands has been dismantled by the SL military in 2008. URL: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=38482
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Dr Ameer Ali, a trained Economist and an Educator at Murdoch University, was interviewed by TamilNet in May 2018 when he visited the island. He was stressing that the secular academics and grassroots cultural activists to engage in forging unity between the Tamils and the Tamil-speaking Muslims in the North-East. Without a merged North-East, it would not be possible to at defend the interests of the non-Buddhist communities in the island, he said. TamilNet Report: https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=39427
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Uprooted people of Keappaapulavu are continuing their protests for more than 138 days on their own. They launched the protest 170 days ago with the uprooted people from Pilakkudiyiuruppu. After Pilakkudiyiruppu people were provided access to their lands, 138 families of Keappaa-pulavu have been continuing their protest braving all kinds of hardships. Today, most of them have breathing problems and dust caused illness as they have been living along the street. They are also traumatised by the negligence by the SL State, the international community and the ITAK. TamilNet Report: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?artid=38745&catid=13
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Tamil villager Rasenthiram from Karu-naadduk-kea'ni in Mullaiththeevu says occupying SL military has been blocking Eezham Tamils from entering Pi'l'liaiyaa-temple on Neeraavi-eattam in Naayaa'ru and says it is the locality of ancient Chemmalai. TamilNet report: https://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=39183
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TamilNet interviews Doctor Arudkumar who visited Sri Lanka meeting
Gotabhaya, Kapila, Peiris and KP. Part 2/2
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It would tantamount to betrayal of the victims of war if Tamils were to engage in ‘swap trade’ (pa'nda-maattu) exchanging accountability for the heinous war-crimes that were intentionally committed against them in the past with future reconciliation efforts, said the Chief Minister of Northern Provincial Council Justice C.V. Wigneswaran on Genocide Remembrance, which was collectively marked at Mu'l'livaaykkaal on 18 May 2016. Full story: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=38262
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The protest organised by the university society and the public organisation in Jaffna on Tuesday demanded international prosecutions and denounced supervision of domestic mechanisms.
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Around one thousand kith and kin of the missing persons in the war and its aftermath shed tears as visiting UN Human Rights Commissioner, who was scheduled to witness them, was taken away through the back door of the Jaffna Public Library on 27 August 2013.
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