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Sri Lanka- born US billionaire accused of funding Tamil Tigers

October 24, 2009 Business

New York: Raj Rajaratnam, the Sri Lanka- born US billionaire has now been dragged to court for allegedly financing the LTTE for over seven years through a fake charity. Before this, he was charged in the largest ever hedge-fund insider trading case in America. However, Rajaratnam’s lawyer Jim Walden has dismissed the charges as “flatly [...]

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US asks Lanka for probe into war crimes

October 23, 2009 World

Washington: The United States has asked Sri Lanka to open to foreign investigations its areas in the war-ravaged north. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly has said, Sri Lanka should take steps to “throughly investigate” what are “credible” claims of brutalities committed by the Sri Lankan Army and the rebels. This is the area, where alleged [...]

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Doctors in former LTTE-held areas under interrogation

June 5, 2009 World

Three doctors who provided information to the media during the height of the military operations against Tamil Tigers in northern Sri Lanka were being questioned by police before being charged in the courts, a police spokesman said. The three doctors, now in police custody, treated people injured in the conflict and also gave media interviews [...]

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Sri Lanka to hold victory parade to mark crushing of rebels

June 3, 2009 World

Sri Lanka would hold a national victory parade Wednesday to mark the crushing of the rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), officials said. A military parade will be held in a ceremony attended by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Galle Face Green, a sea front ground in Colombo, Wednesday morning. The military [...]

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11 Tamil rebels killed in Sri Lanka

May 28, 2009 World

A week after the Sri Lankan government declared the Tamil rebels crushed, army commandos killed 11 rebels in the eastern part of the country and recovered a haul of weapons, the army said Wednesday. The rebels were killed in the Kanjikudichchiaru area in Ampara district, an area that had been declared cleared by security forces. [...]

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Tamil rebels make conflicting claims over Prabhakaran’s death

May 25, 2009 World

Tamil rebels have made conflicting claims over the reported death of their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, with one saying he was still alive and another confirming his death. A day after Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the head of the department of international relations of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), issued a statement confirming Prabhakaran’s death in [...]

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LTTE admits finally that Prabhakaran is dead

May 24, 2009 India

The Tamil Tigers admitted Sunday “with heavy hearts” the death of their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, almost a week after Sri Lanka announced he had been killed. “We announce today, with inexpressible sadness and heavy hearts, that our incomparable leader and supreme commander … attained martyrdom fighting the military oppression,” the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam [...]

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New non-violent group should replace LTTE: Tamil leader

May 18, 2009 World

A new democratically-minded and non-violent group is needed to win the aspirations of Tamils in Sri Lanka following the defeat of the LTTE, a leading member of the Tamil diaspora in Britain said Monday. “At the moment, there is mourning everywhere among the (Tamil) diaspora, but once we have had time to mourn and hold [...]

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New nonviolent group should replace LTTE: Diaspora leader

May 18, 2009 World

A new democratically-minded and nonviolent group is needed to win the aspirations of Tamils in Sri Lanka following the defeat of the LTTE, a leading member of the Tamil diaspora in Britain said Monday. “At the moment, there is mourning everywhere among the Diaspora, but once we have had time to mourn and hold our [...]

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Tamils on night-long protest in Toronto

May 15, 2009 World

With the Tamil Tigers on their last legs against the Sri Lankan forces, the Tamil community of Toronto is out in the streets in support of their `freedom fighters’. After a gap of a day when the community virtually laid siege to the provincial assembly here Wednesday, the fresh Tamil protest erupted suddenly late Friday [...]

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