Tamils

Source: www.iht.com --- 7 days ago
People in the poor, mainly Tamil neighborhood in Colombo described it as a harrowing day. ...

Source: sulekha.com --- 18 days ago
Retribution for genocidal crimes against Tamils in Sri Lanka - Karadzic music for Gotabhaya Rajapaks ...

Source: www.tamilnet.com --- 25 days ago
Tension and fear prevail among upcountry Tamil residents in Matale district in the central province due to the daily cordon and search operations being conducted by Sri Lanka Police from Monday, sources in Matale said. Police have arrested several Tamil youths and are interrogating the detained youths on suspicion that the youths have links to Liberation Tigers. ...

Source: www.tamilnet.com --- 26 days ago
Nineteen Tamil civilians were arrested in two separate cordon and search operations conducted by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and police since Sunday evening till morning on Monday at Gampaha and Kandy towns, police sources said. ...

Source: www.tamilnet.com --- 26 days ago
Sri Lanka may win the battle against the Tamil Tigers but not the war as 'they haven't got the Tamil population on their side', India's National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan said in an interview with the Straits Times newspaper published Tuesday. Saying India understands the Tamils, Mr. Narayanan asked of Sri Lanka, “Do they want a situation like many countries have faced?” His comments come after a survey in a leading Tamil Nadu weekly suggested the majority of people there support the LTTE and want Indian intervention in Sri Lanka. ...

Source: www.tamilnet.com --- 35 days ago
Six Tamil civilians including a woman were arrested in a cordon and search operation conducted by the Vavuniyaa Police and Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Chettikulam and Mudaliyaarkulam villages in Vavuniyaa on Monday from early morning until 10:00 a.m., sources said. ...

Source: www.tamilnet.com --- 20 days ago
Two Tamil civilians were abducted by unidentified armed groups on Friday night in two separate incidents in Colombo police division, according to complaints lodged with the police by their wives Monday, human rights sources said. ...

Source: www.tamilnet.com --- 1 day ago
Nine Tamil civilians, including two women, were taken into custody Friday morning in a cordon and search operation conducted in Wellawatte area in Colombo district. The operation commenced Thursday evening and concluded Friday morning, sources said. ...

Source: www.tamilnet.com --- 5 days ago
Upcountry Peoples Front (UPF) parliamentarian and a deputy minister in Mahinda Rajapaksa's government, P. Rathakrishnan, has compiled a report with details of around 1,200 Tamil youths of both sexes, languishing in the detention centres and prisons in South after being arrested in Colombo and its suburbs recently. Mr. Rathakrishnan has told media that he would demand the advisory committee of the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry to expedite the inquiries against the detainees and the police to ensure that innocent Tamil civilians are not harmed when enforcing 'law and order.' ...

Source: www.tamilnet.com --- 21 days ago
Twenty nine Tamil civilians were arrested in a cordon and search operation conducted in Gampaha police division from Saturday night till Sunday morning around 9:00 a.m., according to the Sri Lankan Police. Most of them had been working in shops and other institutions. Some had come from Northern Province and Eastern Province but others are Up-Country Tamils. ...

Source: www.tamilnet.com --- 12 days ago
Twenty five Tamil civilians were taken into custody Tuesday morning in a cordon and search conducted in Gampaha police division in the Western Province by the Sri Lanka Army and police with the assistance of homeguards. ...

Source: www.tamilnet.com --- 34 days ago
Sixty-one Tamil civilians taken into custody with several others in cordon and search operations conducted by the police and the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) from Saturday late evening till Sunday early morning in several parts of Negombo town are being detained in Negombo police station. The rest were released after preliminary inquiry. ...

Source: www.tamilnet.com --- 7 days ago
About 30 Tamil civilians were taken in for questioning by the Sri Lankan police following the bomb blast in Pettah, Colombo, Saturday afternoon. Around 45 civilians were injured in the blast. ...

Source: www.geo.tv --- 32 days ago
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government forces killed 11 separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in battle zones of the country on Tuesday, the defense ministry said Wednesday. Government forces killed three women fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at Weli Oya while another four Tiger rebels were killed in a separate confrontation in the same area, the ministry said. It said another four Tiger rebels were shot dead in the northern Jaffna peninsula. Two government soldiers were also killed by a bomb, which went off while they were searching an abandoned house in Chavakachcheri. Military spokesman Sanath Karunaratne said five air force jets bombed a position of LTTE south of Nagarkovil on Wednesday, inflicting heavy losses to the rebels, but he was unable to give any figure. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 37 days ago
India favours 'maximum devolution' for the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka and feels that Colombo is slowly moving towards a federal power structure, a top Indian official said Friday. ...

Source: www.tamilsydney.com --- 25 days ago
Sri Lanka may win the battle against the Tamil Tigers but not the war as 'they haven't got the Tamil population on their side', India's National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan said in an interview published Tuesday.In comments that are bound to prove explosive in Sri Lanka, Narayanan told The Straits Times newspaper: 'I know the Sri Lankan government will be unhappy (at this advice). ...

Source: www.tamilsydney.com --- 23 days ago
Tamil Youth Organisation of Australia wishes to highlight the continuing targeting of Tamil civilians in military operations by the Sri Lankan State. Family and friends of our members have been informed of several incidents where Tamil civilian targets have been attacked by shelling. On Friday 8 August, the Sri Lankan Government Forces targeted Mullaitivu District Hospital. The shelling killed an 18-month infant and injured 16 others. ...

Source: www.tamilsydney.com --- 25 days ago
In the ongoing displacement of people inside Vanni, Sri Lanka, forced out from their settlements by indiscriminate bombing and shelling of the Sri Lanka military, Kilinochchi district has received greater number of the displaced putting the humanitarian efforts of all agencies in the district under great pressure. ...