Colombo, Facing an onslaught from the international community for alleged war crimes, the Sri Lankan government released a video on Wednesday which they claimed carries "authentic evidence" of LTTE's atrocities during the last phase of the military assault. The video captioned "Ruthless" claims to have recorded eye witness accounts of LTTE's child recruitment and its violence against Tamil civilians. "These are authentic evidence coming from Tamil civilians who had been...
04:09 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities released a batch of 73 rehabilitated ex-members of the rebel outfit LTTE in the eastern district of Batticaloa on Sunday. "This is another batch to be released from the 11,000 ex-members of the LTTE," said A Dissanayake, the secretary to ministry of rehabilitation. Dissanayake said with the release on Sunday there will only be around 550 who are left to be freed. They are currently being...
04:27 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Colombo: Sri Lanka has accused the LTTE's international fronts of influencing foreign governments, including India, to support their separatist cause. Addressing a public lecture in Colombo on Tuesday titled 'Future Challenges to National Security in Sri Lanka', Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who is the brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, claimed these elements have won over a number of politicians overseas. "The Global Tamil Forum has successfully won over a number...
05:38 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Colombo: A Sri Lankan Appeal Court on Friday rejected a former Army chief Sarath Fonseka's plea against his 30-month jail term. The Appeal Court in a unanimous decision upheld the verdict of the court martial which sentenced Fonseka in September of 2010. The military court martial found Fonseka guilty of following wrong procedure in procurements when he headed the Army between 2005 and 2009. Fonseka was also sentenced to a...
06:44 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Oslo: Even as it publicly advocated peace when the Sri Lankan conflict was raging, India quietly informed Norway that the LTTE must be "put in its place", reveals a Norwegian government sponsored study on why the peace process failed in the island nation. The exhaustive document, released here on Friday, shows that New Delhi's sympathy lay with Colombo vis-a-vis the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as the peace process began...
06:01 PM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: Anguished by what they say is New Delhi's apathy, Indians jailed in Sri Lanka want Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa to intervene and seek their extradition to India. A spokesman for 34 Indian prisoners -- 27 from Tamil Nadu and seven from Kerala -- said they were being ignored though India and Sri Lanka signed a pact in June on exchange of sentenced convicts. An almost sobbing...
03:51 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Colombo: An Indian army team has undertaken a visit to Tamil dominated Wanni region in northern Sri Lanka, which was once a battlefront between the government forces and the rebel LTTE during the three decades ethnic conflict, the military said on Wednesday. The representative delegation of the Indian Army Higher Command Course-2011 is currently touring Sri Lanka, country's Army said. The 16-member delegation is led by Air Commodore P R...
05:03 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Melbourne: Ahead of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, a Sri Lankan man, who migrated to Australia, has filed war crimes charges against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a city court. Rajapaksa will arrive in Australia on Tuesday to participate in the CHOGM to be held at Perth. Jegan Waran, a retired engineer who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka, said before the Magistrate that he witnessed and...
08:42 AM, Oct 25, 2011
ChennaiP: The death row politics over Rajiv Gandhi's killers is heating up in Tamil Nadu. Almost 1000 Youth Congress workers are on a day-long fast in Chennai demanding that the death sentence for Rajiv Gandhi killers be carried out. The Congress workers are protesting against the Tamil Nadu Assembly resolution calling for mercy for the assassins of the former prime minister. Already several members have courted arrest and have gathered...
11:54 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Chennai: Three convicts sentenced to death in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have filed a petition in the Madras High Court. Chandrashekharan N filed a petition on behalf of the three convicts - Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan - on grounds of executive delay of over 11 years before rejecting the mercy plea of the prisoners. The court will hear the petition on Tuesday. Advocates Ram Jethmalani and Mohit Choudhary will...
12:04 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Colombo: Sri Lanka on Thursday announced the lifting of the state of emergency imposed nearly 30 years ago to confront the threat from the Tamil Tigers. The announcement was made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Parliament saying, "I am satisfied that the state of emergency is no longer required. So we will not extend it". Rajapaksa said, "Today I propose to this assembly the withdrawal of the emergency laws to...
03:33 PM, Aug 25, 2011
Chennai: With President Pratibha Patil rejecting the clemency petitions of three killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the mother of one of them on Friday demanded a 'fresh and transparent trial' and claimed her son was not at all connected with it. "While A1 (prime accused) Nalini's punishment was reduced to life imprisonment from death, why can't the same be applied to my son (Perarivalan) who is only 18th...
07:31 PM, Aug 12, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil has rejected the clemency petitions of three killers of Rajiv Gandhi whose death sentences were confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2000. The apex court had sentenced members of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) Murugan, Santhan, Perarivalan and Nalini to death in 1999 for the assassination of the former prime minister in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991. A Rasthrapati Bhavan spokesperson said...
03:53 PM, Aug 11, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said that she has always maintained that DMK was indirectly behind the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. She said that she has always lived under death threats while referring to the claims made by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) former international arms procurer and V Prabhakaran's right hand man, Kumaran Pathmanathan, that if the LTTE had a chance...
12:13 PM, May 24, 2011
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