Archive for marts, 2011
Brug som kontekst til kvartal finalen mellem co-værter Sri Lanka og England af Kricket Verdens Cup , TYO-UK (tamilsk Ungdom Organisationen) på lørdag gennemførte en oplysningskampagne om Sri Lanka i London, på en dag præget af store protester fra den TUC (Handel Unions Kongres) mod offentlige nedskæringer. Som op til 500.000 demonstranter marcherede gennem det centrale London, TYO medlemmer i periferien uddelte foldere og indsamlede underskrifter til et postkort kampagne fot at opfordre at England og Wales Kricket bestyrelsen (ECB) til at boykotte Sri Lanka som en sportslig partner. Indsatsen er en del af en større kampagne for at fremme den internationale boykot af Sri Lanka som et turistmål, og som producent af varer, sagde TYO. Sri Lankas cricket hold skyldes at turnere England denne sommer.
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- Sri Lanka: 207 killed, 450 wounded, series of bomb blasts target churches, hotels on Easter Sunday 21. april 2019At least 207 people, including foreign tourists, have been killed in Colombo and Batticaloa in a series of bomb blasts that targeted worshippers, who were attending Easter Sunday services at three Christian churches. Most of the victims at the churches were Tamils. The bomb blasts have also targeted three hotels in Colombo. Thirty-five victims were […]
- Sri Lanka: Tamil journalist released on bail fears targeted persecution by SL military 20. april 2019The SL Police in Mullaith-theevu was acting on a false accusation filed by a Sinhala navy sailor who was blaming Tamil journalist Shanmugam Thavaseelan in Mullaiththeevu as having assaulted him and insulted him on 07th April at Vadduvaakal. It was the intervention by journalists like me that prevented the situation getting into worse when the […]
- Sri Lanka: Colombo closing down schools with less than 50 students tantamounts to educational betrayal 19. april 2019The education of the students living in the rural and remote villages in the North-East would be severely affected if the SL Government goes ahead with the proposed move of closing down schools with less than fifty students in the island, said former Education Minister of Eastern Province S. Thandayuthapani on Friday. The resettlement has […]
- Sri Lanka: Sinhala colonisation escalated in Vavuniyaa North with a multitude of players backing infrastructure 18. april 2019Elected civic members of Vavuniyaa North Divisional Council (PS) complain that the Sinhala colonisation is relentlessly targeting the eastern side of their division. The occupying Sinhala Army and its home-guards paramilitary act as the guardians of the colony while the extremist Buddhist monks coordinate the systematic expansion. Various SL ministries provide the infrastructure. Besides, a […]
- Sri Lanka: Journalist harassed after exposing SLN surveillance on peaceful protest in Vanni 17. april 2019The SL Police in Mullaith-theevu has instructed Tamil journalist, Shanmugam Thavaseelan, to attend questioning at its station on Thursday. The move is interpreted as harassment against the Tamil journalists covering the peaceful protests in the district. A Sinhala intelligence operative of the SL Navy, who was caught red-handed by the Tamil protesters while taking close-up […]