Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, ordered an Indian General to kill LTTE leader Vellupillai Pirapaharan in cold blood when the latter attended a meeting under a white flag in September 1987. In a new book, the then chief of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), Major General (retd.) Harkirat Singh, says he refused to carry out the order as “good soldiers do not shoot an adversary in the back.” He also says that as the Tigers began disarming in 1987, but India’s intelligence service, RAW, on Rajiv Gandhi’s orders, began arming anti-LTTE militant groups, triggering inter-Tamil violence.Maj. Gen. (retd) Harkirat Singh published his book ‘Intervention in Sri Lanka: The IPKF experience retold’ (available through Vijitha Yapa Publications) earlier this year.

Colombo - Sri Lanka used its diplomatic channels to call on the British Ambassador, Dominic Chilcott, to the foreign ministry office expressed "deep displeasure" on Thursday over his remarks of Britain was against the tactics adopted by the Tiger guerrillas, but did not consider their demand for a separate state as illegal on early this week public meeting in Colombo. The British Ambassador also warned Sri Lanka to clean up its human rights record or risk international sanctions. "I am not saying that the political aspiration for Eelam is illegitimate, any more than I would argue that the Scottish National Party's (SNP) goal of an independent Scotland is illegitimate," the British Ambassador, Dominic Chilcott said in the meeting.

In Sri Lanka, a person “disappears” every five hours, according to Mangala Samaraweera, the former foreign minister of Sri Lanka.Abductions and extrajudicial killings are commonplace.Mano Ganesan is working to change that.  Ganesan is a leading human rights activist and an opposition member of the Sri Lankan Parliament.In 2006, Ganesan founded the Civil Monitoring Commission (CMC) and serves as its convener.  Relatives of those abducted, “disappeared” and killed often register their complaints with the CMC rather than with the police or the national Human Rights Commission, in which they have little confidence.  

The human rights group, Amnesty International, has criticised the Sri Lankan government, accusing it of violating the human rights of thousands of Tamils who were arrested days after two bombs exploded in the capital, Colombo.The bombs, which killed 20 people last week, have been blamed on the Tamil Tiger rebels.The government has denied infringing the rights of those arrested, saying the move was a necessary security measure.

RAMESWARAM  
Cast: Jeeva, Bhavana, Manivannan, Karunas, Vennira Adai Nirmala & others
4:00PM Sunday, 9 December 2007
Venue: Schonell Theatre, University of Queensland, St Lucia
Direction: S Selvam
Production: S N Raja
Music: Niru

Courtesy: TamilCanadian - December 3, 2007
Part 1 - The Unholy Alliance: Iran and Sri Lanka
Government of Sri Lanka’s management of the war against the Tamils has taken the island on the road of no-return. Sri Lanka’s GDP is about $27.4 billion. Its military expenditure alone accounts for a large portion of that. In Oct. 21, 2007, forecasted economic growth for this year was lowered to between 6.5 percent and 6.6 percent from an earlier projection of 7 percent, and the outlook for 2008 has been cut to 7.5 percent from 8 percent. It has been reported that Sri Lanka’s “inflation as measured on a 12-month moving average was 17.5 percent in September - its highest level in 13 years - rising from 17.3 percent in August and way above 11.2 percent in September last year”. On November 30, 07, the IMF warned Sri Lanka and “to take tough measures to cut subsidies, especially on fuel, in order to salvage the country's 27-billion dollar economy”.

Report on Sri Lankan State Terror unleashed on minority Tamils
 "..Extortion through telephone intimidation is going on unabated. The sad fact is that the victims are so threatened that they do not attempt to communicate with anyone. We too are helpless because in spite of the Bank account number and even the caller’s phone number having been furnished to the top ranking service personnel, noting tangible has been done. The victims even after paying the demanded sum do not talk about it to any one except those who they consider are reliable and that too under promise of confidentiality. One can imagine how terrified our people are about abductions by those in white vans or motor cycles, followed by corpses being thrown on roads. It is an irony that such vehicles move about quite freely even during curfew hours. .."

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has condemned the air strike on the Voice of Tigers radio station that killed five of the station’s staff. A total of more than ten people are reported to have been killed in the attack. “I condemn the bombing of the Voice of Tigers radio station,” the Director-General declared, “regardless of the content of the broadcasts aired by the Voice of Tigers, there can be no excuse for military strikes on civilian media.""Such action contravenes the Geneva Convention which requires the military to treat media workers as civilians."

Sri Lankan sinhala armed forces under special directions from war savvy President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother Gothapaya Rajapaksa, who are on a genocidal campaign against ethnic minority tamils, arrested 1,500 Tamils in South, code named, "Operation Carpet Arrest" reports said. Tamil Parlimentarian Mano Ganesan said , “There is no discrimination shown between men, women, children and students and any consideration shown for the sick. Tamils were bundled in bus loads and taken for interrogation.”

Malaysian Police atrocities against Tamils - Capturd in Photo - Are they treated as a human?

Surya (dual role) & Asin in

VEL

This film is full of action, comedy and sentiments.
6:30PM Saturday, 1 December 2007
Venue: Schonell Theatre, University of Queensland , St Lucia