October 15, 2013 · 2:13 am….…http://thuppahis.com/2013/10/15/malala-yousafzai-speaks-to-the-world/
This exposure is the work of an anonymous hand/or set of hands just as some of the reportage and footage in the BBC documentary is pseudonymous. Readers should first absorb the BBC video located at the end of this stunning news item after skimming through the item itself; then perhaps re-read the details in this report. ALSO SEE http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24849699
WITNESS’S ACCOUNTS ON SRI LANKA ASYLUM SEEKERS By Dead and Missing Person’s Parents Front …. http://www.eyesrilanka.com/2014/10/07/witnesss-accounts-on-sri-lanka-asylum-seekers/
NANDANI ‘RAPE’ STORY WINS HER ASYLUM IN UK
Sri Lanka’s Unfinished War, a BBC Documentary presented by Frances Harrison, fulfilled every criteria of an attention-grabbing piece of fiction. Unfortunately, the story that emerges is very much a piece of fiction as evidence will expose not only the story of Nandani but a dangerous racket taking place in the UK manipulating the innocent asylum seekers to live in Western nations. The version we present is no fiction but it will alarm and shock readers making them wonder if such actions can take place in the UK under the eyes of democracy, rule of law and equal justice. It will establish a link that would require British authorities arrest the evil minds involved in the asylum racket making money out of a desire to want to live in a First World Nation. We do not blame Nandani. There are thousands of females like Nandani who have fallen prey to the advice given simply because they either want to join their husbands or to just tell their family back home that they are earning dollars and pounds. Continue reading
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In a fruitful initiative the pseudonymous collective known as “Social Architects” (SA) interviewed a few former female Tiger fighters who are residing in the northern Vanni districts. Their life-world is apparently oppressive and mentally traumatic. In interweaving their distressing stories while maintaining their anonymity, the SA presented a video documentary in Groundviews on 27th May 2013 which brought to light a strand of existence in the Tamil population affected by the war that is little known within mainstream circles.
In listening to their distressing tales I was struck by the similarity in style of expression with the Sinhala tele-dramas that I have occasionally witnessed — where a grieving mother or wife laments over the actions of some kin (often male). That is, there seem to be cross-ethnic similarities in style of “sob-story”. But that is a mere aside that is of limited significance. What matters more is the depth of grief that SA have brought to light
That is why I asked some scholars with experience in working/researching in Tamil areas to comment on “Haunted by Her Yesterdays.” These comments are presented here under pseudonyms that protect their identity.
Readers are advised to absorb “Haunted by Her Yesterdays” [a wonderful title] at https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nSSv9Kk3tkI before studying the comments. Let reflections and debate then continue. Continue reading
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Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha MP interview with News 1st on 3rd October 2014 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1vmRS9fDr8.
ALSO SEE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sajin_Vass_Gunawardena
Michael Roberts
In step with my initiation of reports on the last phase of Eelam War IV that had receded from memory or been buried unknown, and the Tammita-Delgoda series, I bring to your attention here the Al-Jazeera footage from behind the SL Army lines on three occasions:
In contrast with the still pictures utilised by Tammita-Delgoda and more extensively by me in Tamil Person and State. Pictorial (2014), video footage is not only more lively and evocative, but encompasses sweeps of space and people in motion. To be sure, video documentaries involve editing with its cutting and splicing together. The continuity is not as continuous as it seems.
Situation Map, 23 December 2009 –thus two month later than the Al Jazeera video
From Ministry of Defence web site ….. “The SL Army’s main successes in 2008 were on the western front and the advance occurred from circa April 2008, the point where Madhu was captured. The SLA threatened the crucial A9 arterial road from November 2008 and, in fact, once Paranthan fell in December, the LTTE had perforce to abandon its administrative capital at Kilinochchi. The 55th Division in the meanwhile began its advance southwards along the north-eastern coast. They faced a “bleached and burning landscape of sand and water” and had perforce to pursue what was at times an amphibious war demanding improvisation (Tammita-Delgoda 200: 1,-3, 8-10). From the south the 59th Division pressed forward from Oddusudan towards Mullaitivu, which remained the LTTE’s bunker fortress where the high command was located. The three lakhs or so of people who were citizens of Thamilīlam had been ready to adhere to the LTTE’s enforced movement eastwards because they had little faith in the government of Sri Lanka” (Roberts, in Fig. 77, TPS. Pictorial).
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Sandun Jayawardana, in The Nation, 28 September 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s historic visit to Sri Lanka earlier this month was widely seen as heralding a new chapter in bilateral relations between the two nations. During his visit, which was the first to Sri Lanka by a Chinese President in 28 years, Xi pushed for the country’s cooperation on China’s initiative to create a Maritime Silk Road (MSR) for the 21st century. The ambitious project aims to establish a lucrative sea-trade route between China and other countries in the region and beyond.
The initiative was first proposed by President Xi during a speech to the Indonesian Parliament in October, last year. The original proposal called for the establishment of such a route to increase maritime cooperation between China and member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). However, China later expanded the concept to include other countries further south of the region and beyond. As such, it came as no surprise that China touted the proposal to countries such as Sri Lanka and the Maldives to expand the new MSR further. Continue reading
Source: World News Radio, 30 Sep 2014 – 1:24 PM UPDATED 30 Sep 2014 – 5:14 PM …
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/09/30/dateline-turned-back-torture
Serious claims of abduction and abuse at the hands of Sri Lankan authorities are emerging from asylum seekers returned from Australia. The allegations will be explored in a special investigation by Dr David Corlett, to be aired on SBS’ Dateline program. Then, in a live cross, the claims will be put to the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia.
Dr Corlett, the presenter of SBS’ Go Back To Where You Came From series, is speaking to Kristina Kukolja about his undercover report. ….. Click on the audio tab above to hear the full report). Continue reading
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Michael Roberts
The Western world is in shock as ISIS has gained control of a swathe of territory across Syria/Iraq and set up a caliphate state as a symbol of resurgent Islam of their crusading character; and, thereafter, when ISIS (A) beheaded several Western hostages in chilling video-theatre and (B) called upon like-minds in Western centuries to venture forth on random acts of decapitation in the heart of cities.
Australia has been in the grip of alarm for several days this past week as the ISIS call reverberated and the Federal Police launched precautionary raids on those radical Muslims they had been monitoring. Then, on the night of 23rd September one young Muslim of Afghan descent, Numan Haider, raised the scales by slashing and nearly killing two policemen in the vicinity of a Melbourne police station.
So, references to “Islamic fundamentalism” have ruled the air waves. Continue reading
Ibn Wirriq, being the pseudonym adopted by an Ordinary Aussie Bloke
Surely it’s time for the Australian National Islamic Council [ANIC] and other major Islamic organizations here came to realize that the “100 plus verses” in the Koran which specifically direct all Muslims to avoid, dislike, discriminate against and direct violent attitudes and actions towards all Jews, Christians, other Infidels and Atheists, were eliminated from it and from other Islamic “so-called” holy books, to end, once and for all, the radicalization process which still is an integral part of Islamic indoctrination for its youth and converts [both male and female], in so many places around the world. Continue reading
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