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  • BREAKING - Sinhalese protesters disrupt Canadian event for Tamil Genocide monument

    Aug 17

    A group of Sinhalese protesters disrupted a ceremony in which a foundation stone was being laid to mark the beginning of the construction of the Tamil Genocide Monument in Brampton, Canada on Wednesday. 

  • 9-year-old Tamil schoolgirl becomes England's youngest national player

    Bodhana Sivanandan, a 9-year-old Tamil from Harrow, north-west London, has been named as a player in the England Women's Team at the Chess Olympiad this year.

  • LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's memoirs launched in UK

    A book titled 'Enathu Makkalin Viduthalaikkaga' (translated as 'For the Liberation of My People'), a compilation of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's memoirs from 1984 to 2009, was launched in London, United Kingdom on Sunday 12 November 2023.

  • British Tamil youth commemorate Maaveerar Naal

    UK Tamil students and the Tamil Youth Organisation UK (TYO UK) held a Youth Maaveerar Event to commemorate those who sacrificed their lives in the Tamil struggle for freedom.

  • Students commemorate Maaveerar Naal in Copenhagen

    In the lead up to Maaveerar Naal, Tamil university students across the Denmark held events to commemorate those who sacrificed their lives in the Tamil struggle for freedom.

  • Sri Lanka amongst challenges to 'never again' myth - Annan

    The cry of “never again,” raised by so many in the years after the end of the Holocaust 1945, has rung increasingly hollow with the passing decades, Kofi Annan, former secretary general of the United Nations, protested in an op-ed Friday in the International Herald Tribune.

  • Colombo schemes Sinhalicised capital for North
    Similar to the Sinhalicisation of Trincomalee, the capital of the East, Colombo plans for a new, Sinhalicised capital for the North at Kilinochchi, administrative sources working for Colombo on the project said.
  • Development depletes North
    The redevelopment of the North is a major focus of all international efforts to rebuild Sri Lanka now that the war has been deemed over, but the Sri Lankan approach to development has been the also termed exploitation.
  • GSP+ conditions
    The following are the conditions set by the European Commission for a 6 month extension of the GSP+ benefit to Sri Lanka, with the proviso that Sri Lanka had to provide written commitment to these conditions by July 1.
  • Tamil Brahmi inscription found in Tissamaharama
    An early historic inscription in Tamil language and in Tamil Brahmi script, dateable to c.200 BCE, has been found in the archaeological excavations by a German team at Tissamaharama in the south of the island of Sri Lanka.
  • Britain in Jaffna
    Britain must play its role in re-establishing the Tamil homeland’s connections to the world.
  • Sri Lanka dismiss EU conditions for GSP+ extension
    Sri Lanka has refused to comply with European Union conditions for the extending of GSP+ trade concessions, calling them ‘insulting’.
  • U.N. wants economic recovery for north
    With thousands of war affected civilians still without livelihood and an economy still reeling from the aftermath of a decades-long conflict in Sri Lanka’s northern region, plans should be in place to revive local economies and jobs, says a top United Nations official.
  • GSP+ Timeline

    October 2008-2009 – EU investigates Sri Lanka’s commitment to the human rights requirements to receive GSP+ trade concessions and finds that the country had significant shortcomings with regard to three covenants; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Convention against Torture (CAT) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

  • Take the politics out, says professor
    AUSTRALIAN of the Year Patrick McGorry has called for the asylum seeker issue to be taken out of the coming federal election and replaced by a return to a bipartisan approach.
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