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ALBA countries must support Tamils not Sri Lanka’s War Criminal Government

Eva Golinger is known for her counter-intelligence analysis in the service of Venezuela’s peaceful revolution against the local oligarchy and the United States Empire. She is a noted author (“The Chavez Code: Cracking US intervention in Venezuela”). A dual citizen of the US and Venezuela, she is an attorney, and a personal friend of President […]

2Jun2010 | Admin. | 6 comments | Continued
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Sri Lankan Presidential Election: Vote Vickramabahu

Presidential Election 2010  Why  vote Dr. Vickramabahu ?

Below is the text of an appeal for signatures to support the electoral campaign of  Vickramabahu Karunaratne, better known as Bahu. He is the only candidate in the election calling for self determination for the Tamil people. To aid his appeal for funds, send cheques payable to NSSP […]

19Jan2010 | Administrator | 8 comments | Continued
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A Rejoinder to Ron Ridenour’s series on Sri Lanka

I fear that the attitude of supporters of the Tamil cause towards Latin America is rather subjective, and that their approach is still sentimental. I will come to that later in my response, but, before that, the Tamil nationalist, especially pro-LTTE, claims need to be studied with care.
Firstly, accepting the right […]

30Nov2009 | Admin. | 7 comments | Continued
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Post-War Internment Hell in Sri Lanka

“The impunity with which the Sri Lankan government is able to commit these crimes [referring to 2009 war atrocities, including brutal internment of 300,000 Tamils] actually unveils the deeply ingrained racist prejudice that is precisely what led to the marginalization and alienation of the Tamils of Sri Lanka in the […]

27Nov2009 | Ron Ridenour | 2 comments | Continued
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The Terrorists: International support for Sri Lanka racist discrimination

The Geneva Declaration on Terrorism, passed May 29, 1987 by the UN general assembly, points out that the main perpetrators of terrorism are governments striving to keep down parts of their populations or other peoples. In this document, at that time, the main culprits are the United States, Israel, South Africa […]

26Nov2009 | Ron Ridenour | 1 comment | Continued
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Sri Lanka: Equal Rights or Self-Determination?

“At independence, in 1948, the new political elite, in its rush for power, cultivated ethnic support in a society whose real imperative should have been the eradication of poverty. Language became the spark,” journalist-documentary filmmaker John Pilger recently wrote. (12)
The Tamil people in Sri Lanka had expectations that they […]

23Nov2009 | Ron Ridenour | 2 comments | Continued
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Will Bonapartist Foneska outgrow Sri Lankan democracy?

Former Sri Lankan army chief General Sarath Fonseka’s entry into the country’s political arena might alter the geo-political equations in South Asia permanently. The Pentagon-friendly solider might win widespread support from the business community were he to run for president. However, as M K Bhadrakumar points out in the article below, it would have disastrous […]

19Nov2009 | Admin. | 7 comments | Continued
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Tamil Eelam: Historical Right to Nationhood

Sri Lanka—formerly Ceylon, in English, and Serendib in Arabic (which gave rise to the word serendipity)—is commonly referred to as the “pearl of the orient” due to its beauty and wealth of natural resources, flora and fauna. Today, it is a land torn apart by hatred: racist government policies, ethnic cleansing, […]

18Nov2009 | Ron Ridenour | 2 comments | Continued
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Cuba & ALBA Let Down Sri Lanka Tamils

“Those who are exploited are our compatriots all over the world; and the exploiters all over the world are our enemies… Our country is really the whole world, and all the revolutionaries of the world are our brothers,” President Fidel Castro. (1) “The revolutionary [is] the ideological motor force […]

17Nov2009 | Ron Ridenour | 1 comment | Continued
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Sri Lanka - West looks on as repression escalates

Fred Leplat reports on the defeat of the Tamil liberation movement.
The vicious offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) launched by the Sri Lankan army at the start of 2006 ended in May with a brutal defeat for the Tamil national liberation movement. Civilians taking refuge in agreed no-fire zones were bombarded along […]

9Nov2009 | Administrator | 3 comments | Continued
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Several thousand march for Tamil human rights

Several thounsand Tamils marched through London on Saturday 17 Oct 2009 to protest against the continued detention of civilians in Sri Lankan camps, calling on the UK government to press for their release.

Ban Ki-Moon - Tamil blood on your […]

18Oct2009 | Admin. | 1 comment | Continued
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Protest against Sri Lanka’s death camps


11Oct2009 | Administrator | 0 comments | Continued