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Sooriyaaracchi, a former Minister and later critic of President Rajapakse killed in a suspicious car accident
[ TWG - Editorial] [ 12 Feb 2008 10:25 GMT ]
It is not often that we write about the untimely death of a Sinhalese politician, not because it is in itself not a human tragedy but because the obscene genocide of a Tamil nation is the gruesome tragedy that we have conscientiously set ourselves to expose to the world.
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HYPOCRITICAL BUDDHISM AND THE BUDDHIST RABBLE IN ANURADHAPURA
[ TWG - Editorial] [ 01 Nov 2007 23:51 GMT ]
Any decent human being will have been left with utter revulsion by the spectacle of the Sri Lankan military parading the nude bodies of the Tamil Black Tiger soldiers through the streets of Anuradhapura to satisfy the necrophilia of the assembled Sinhala Buddhist rabble and to seek to dishonour the Tamil soldiers who had fallen in the battlefield.
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OPEN SKIES AND THE SURVIVAL INSTINCT
[ TWG - Editorial] [ 29 Mar 2007 01:05 GMT ]
The Tamil people have a history over 5000 years and have a survival instinct unknown to many in the human race. They have seen many battles, many conquests, and have lived to fight another day. They are convinced of the near hypocrisy of the world to the pain and suffering experienced by their life in Sri Lanka. They are also plainly aware of the duplicity of the motives which drive the West to condemn human rights violations in Zimbabwe, whilst maintaining a diplomatic tolerance of the egregious violations in Sri Lanka.
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A Letter From Mr Ivan Pedropillai, Editor TWG To The Editor Of The Boston Globe Relating To Editorial On 29th June 2006
[TWG] [01 July 2006 0900 GMT]
Globe Editorial: Sri Lanka's uncivil war
Your editorial of 29th June on the "festering ethnic conflict in the island of Sri Lanka" is
very thoughtful and balanced. The Boston Globe has an international reputation for factual
and fair-minded journalism based on liberal philosophy and an empathy with the minorities
and the underdog. Let me congratulate you on the brief but lucid explanation of the issues
involved that have long been lost in the mist of black propaganda.
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An open letter from the Editor of TWG referring to the letter from the Bishop of Mannar regarding the Pesalai Church massacre
[TWG] [June 21st, 2006]
The government of Sri Lanka cannot continue to cover up its blood-dripping trail any more. The Catholic Bishop of Mannar has seen the brutality of the Sinhala armed forces at first hand in his own diocese. He has written this letter to the Vatican via the Apostolic Nuncio to Sri Lanka, as is the proper protocol in such serious matters. He has also copied it to Cardinal George Pell, Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney and the Catholic Association of Sydney Tamils.
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What are we waiting for? The Sinhala Government of Mahinda Rajapakse has started the 'Final Solution'
[TWG] [April 26, 2006 12:00 GMT]
It is over 60 years ago that the German Nazis engaged in the execrable 'Final Solution' of what they termed the Jewish problem in their midst. It was no more and no less than the savage annihilation of the Jews who had been settled in Europe for over a thousand years. The gas chambers of Auschwitz and Buchenwald that are still standing are macabre testimonies to the evil of racist superiority propounded and practiced by the butchers of Nazi Germany.
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The Spider and the Fly - a cautionary tale
[TWG] [April 13, 2006 12:00 GMT]
President Mahinda Rajapakse has to be judged by his actions and not his words.
It is clear from the recent course of events in the heartlands of northeast Sri Lanka that President Rajapakse has ordered his security forces to terrorise the Tamil population and to cause maximum damage to their properties, in order to repress their demands for self-determination and political autonomy. There is presently a genocidal blood bath unleashed on the Tamils of Trincomalee by the Sri Lankan Army and the Sinhala thugs.
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Letter from the Chairman, Tamil Writers Guild to Mr Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Geneva regarding the dire danger to Dr Manoharan and family in Trincomalee
[TWG] [March 11, 2006 12:00 GMT]
We have received a moving and desperate letter from Dr Manoharan and Dr (Mrs) Manoharan, whose son was one of the five students murdered in the infamous execution style killing by the Sri Lankan Forces in Trincomalee on 2nd January 2006, stating that they are themselves now under severe intimidation and death threats from those who perpetrated the killing, to deter them from pursuing the due judicial process for their son's murderers. Their lives are now in daily danger, and they and their remaining two sons are physically under siege day and night, and no police protection is given to them. They have appealed for help in their distress. The Tamil journalist who reported the execution style killings has himself been murdered by the same forces in order to eliminate him as a witness
Similar letters were also sent to the following recipients:
1. Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Chairperson, Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka
No. 36, Kynsey Road, Colombo 8, SRI LANKA
2. Mr. K. C. Kamalasabesan, Attorney General, Attorney General's Department
Colombo 12, SRI LANKA
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Letter to the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse regarding the plight of Dr Manoharan and family of Trincomalee
[TWG] [March 11, 2006 11:30 GMT]
We write to voice our concerns over the welfare and safety of a Dr. Manoharan and his family from Trincomalee, who have recently received death threats and been subject to other forms of threat and intimidation merely for seeking justice following the murder of his son, one of the five students who was murdered on the 2nd January 2006 near the Mahatma Gandhi statue between the Dockyard Road and the seaside, in Trincomalee.
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ENGLISH CARDINAL CORMAC MURPHY O'CONNOR REFUTES MISCHIEVOUS SRI LANKAN PRESS REPORTS AND URGES A NEW PUSH FOR SRI LANKA PEACE
[TWG] [London 15.00 GMT 12 January 2006]
You might have read earlier Press Reports originating from Sri Lanka about three weeks ago that appeared to suggest that His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor of the Diocese of Westminster in England on a courtesy visit to the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse had concurred with the President's request to 'look into' funds collected by Tamils in the UK for terrorism. I am pleased to report on the authority of the Cardinal's Director of Public Affairs that this was a mischievous twist given by the Sinhala Sri Lankan Press to a gratuitous statement made by the President which was heard by the the Cardinal out of courtesy but about which the Cardinal had not expressed an opinion. Attached are two releases from Mr Austen Ivereigh, the Cardinal's Director of Public Affairs.[Full Story]
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Letter to Ms. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU - Commissioner for External Relations
[TWG] [London 15.00 GMT 12 January 2006]
I write as the Chairman of the Tamil Writers Guild in the UK. This is
just a message to congratulate you on what appears to be a very sincere
and even-handed message from you released on Thursday, 12th January 2006
for peace in Sri Lanka.
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Letter to Mr Herve Jouanjean, Deputy Director General for External Relations, EU Commission
[TWG] [London 15.00 GMT 27 December 2005]
I am writing again this time to bring to your notice, in case you are
not already aware of it, of the brutal murder of Mr Joseph Pararajasingham
MP by the Sri Lankan security forces operatives during Christmas Mass in the
Batticaloa Catholic Cathedral. You might, if you wish, say that the evidence
is not yet available as to the SL government's culpability in this brutal
murder. But that may not be quite ingenuous given Mr Pararajasingham's
known position on Eelam Tamil self-determination and that the new SL
Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka has quite openly stated his trenchant
and uncompromising view on his hardline position towards the Tamil
political struggle. We have to exercise our intelligence and political nous to
establish motive, opportunity, and history to avoid closing our minds
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Christmas Day 2005 murder most foul - Joseph Pararajasingham MP slain in church at Christmas Mass
[TWG] [London 19.00 GMT 25 December 2005]
It was not my original intention to write about callow murder, particularly inside a Catholic Church, on Christmas day. The commemoration of the Nativity of Jesus Christ is universally associated with the bringing of good tidings for all people of goodwill. For Christians, the birth of Jesus was the Advent of the Messiah who had been promised by God to save mankind. Yes, to save even those criminals and cowards who have sought with this despicable act to desecrate the portals of the Catholic Cathedral in Batticaloa on this Christmas day.
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A sequel to the Sri Lankan Presidential election - a month on – A Sri Lankan Rip Van Winckle
[TWG] [London 18.00 GMT 16 Dec 2005]
Let me at the outset inform our readers that any resemblance to any character, either living or dead, is unintentional. This is a short story of Dingiri Banda Sinnelebbe Joyrajah, known facetiously as DBS (Dangerous Buffoon Sinnelebbe) by those who had been victims of his regular rants. His names allowed him the flexibility to assume the different guises of a Sinhala, Muslim or Tamil man as befitted the occasion. He was a very imaginative writer, who let his fertile imagination to do the talking and writing without having to be trammelled by facts. His Uncle Sam had educated him on the merits of writing to please those who commissioned him. He thought and felt like a circus bear with its trainer performing for an audience.
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No time to get comfy for Mahinda Rajapakse, the chickens are coming home to roost
[TWG] [London 14.00 GMT 3 Dec 2005]
The Hindustan Times comment of 2 December 2005 is a balanced analysis
of the reality of the post-election situation in Sri Lanka. President Rajapakse has been hoist by his own petard. He has not got much elbow room for wriggling, with the JVP baying on the one side and the West, the country's donor-paymasters, suspicious of him and considering him a recidivist Marxist, Sinhala hardliner.
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Sri Lankan Presidential Election result - Tweedledee or Tweedledum; it does not matter a jot or a tittle to the Tamils
[TWG] [London 16.00 GMT 18 Nov 2005]
The Sri Lankan presidential election that was held on Thursday, 17th November 2005 has produced a result that is of supreme irrelevance to the Tamils of the country. The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse of the UPFA has won the race receiving 4.88 million votes or 50.3% of the total cast to become the Sinhala nation's fifth President. He has beaten the former Prime Minister and UNP candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe who received 4.70 million votes or 48.4% in a close-run race . It is reported that most Tamils did not cast their votes in this election. The Election Commissioner has put the voter turnout at some 75%.
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Ivan Pedropillai - Letter to Mr Robert Evans MEP
[TWG] [London 21.00 GMT 5 Nov 2005]
We have met a few times some years ago, once when I presided at some public meetings for Barry Gardner and some other Labour Party candidates in the Brent area before the 1997 general elections. As President of the Tamil Writers Guild (in English), I wrote recently to Mr Barroso, President of the European Commission regarding the EU ban on travel by the LTTE which we thought was misconceived and detrimental to the Peace Process in Sri Lanka. [Full Story]
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Ivan Pedropillai - Appreciation for Jeyam
[TWG] [London 18.00 GMT 4 Nov 2005]
The mortal remains of Jeyam Thamotheram were laid to rest in London , England on 4 th November 2005 . He passed away on 27 th October at 87 years of age after a lifetime of service to the Tamil community. He was loving a husband, a father, a grandfather, a brother, an uncle, a friend, a counsellor and above all the conscience and the motivating force that unceasingly mustered and rallied the intellectual and professional classes of expatriate Tamils to uphold and advance the cause of the oppressed Tamils of Sri Lanka in their struggle for freedom. The institutions he created and the network of friends that he made by his immense capacity of persuasiveness and his infectious energy will remain as edifices to his selfless devotion to the cause of justice and self-determination for Tamils in the northeast of Sri Lanka . [Full Story]
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Ivan Pedropillai - Response to EU on LTTE ban
[TWG] [London 21.00 GMT 2 Nov 2005]
On behalf of the Tamil Writer's Guild, representing Tamil Writers and professionals in the UK , I wish to express our serious concerns regarding your declaration banning the travel of Liberation Tigers to EU countries at a time when the stalled peace process in Sri Lanka needs to be carefully nursed and nurtured back into life. We are law-abiding subjects of the UK and the objective of our letter is to help preserve and protect the peace process in Sri Lanka . [Full Story]
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My talk at Tsunami Mass
[TWG] [London 16.00 GMT 16 July 2005]
We welcome all of you to this memorial mass today to mark the memory of all the victims of the tsunami that struck Sri Lanka on Boxing Day last year. While we have come to pray for the repose of the souls of 40,000 dead and the million ravaged and homeless from our own country, we must not forget the nearly 250,000 who were lost and the millions devastated in all the countries on the rim of the Indian Ocean that were battered by these raging waves of mountainous height. [Full Story]
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Letter to the Editor, Sunday Times
[TWG] [London 20,00 GMT 16 Feb 2002]
The fragile peace process - treat it with love and care
These are crucial times in the nation's modern history. The legacy of human suffering, economic stagnation , devastation and social deprivation bequeathed on the country by the protracted ethnic war is an unmitigated catastrophe from which we have to extricate ourselves. The courageous stance of the Prime Minister (and UNF) and the LTTE to pursue peace in a fragile climate of fear and suspicion on both sides is much to be admired. Your editorial, 'The peace frenzy' on Sunday, 24th February 2002 , unfortunately pours scorn on a peace process as yet in its infancy. It is reckless and self-indulgent at this critical juncture for the President or anyone else to 'fiddle' while ' Rome ' ( Sri Lanka ) burns.
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