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Attack on Mosque at Dambulla by Buddhist Thugs in Yellow Robes

Buddhist Chief Incumbent refers local Muslim residents to 'crows'.

(DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka) - Sumangala Thera says the only way to win one’s demands in Sri Lanka right now is to engage in protest campaigns.

Sri Lanka's Muslim Congress, which is against relocating the mosque, had the power to change the government’s stand on the issue.

Oh, Douglas Devananda!
Where is Your Adventurous Sailing to India!!

Days have passed and a week has gone and the much publicised adventure still remains a mission to be accomplished by the claimants.

(LONDON) - There was huge publicity on the claim by the paramilitary leader and the government minister Douglas Devananda that he will be storming Tamil Nadu with 5,000 Tamil fishermen from Jaffna.

He said the goal was to protest against poaching by the Indian fishermen in the territorial waters of Sri Lanka.

The Lilies of the Field, and Krista Lynn: A Prescription for Tired Hearts, and Bishops

The tired functionaries of Rome don’t live by the human heart anymore, but like all of us, they once did. I know them, for I was once like them.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - The first of so many aboriginal friends of mine who have died for speaking up was a young woman named Krista Lynn.

On January 29, 1995 - the Sunday after I was barred from my pulpit at St. Andrew’s United Church in Port Alberni - Krista stood up in my place and did like Jesus did, and caused a riot in the synagogue by calling down the Pharisees.

President Instigates Inamaluwe Thero Against Muslims

The Muslim mosque in question is over 40 years old and had been completely renovated recently.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Lanka News Web) - Ven. Inamaluwe Sumangala Thero has organized a protest campaign on the 18th against the construction of a Muslim mosque in the Dambulla city on a Presidential directive, it is reliably learnt.

The Thero had summoned several donors to the temple and said that the protest was being organized on a Presidential directive.

Sri Lankan Mosque Forced to Abandon Prayers by Protesters

Last September a monk led a crowd to demolish a Muslim shrine in Anuradhapura, not far from Dambulla.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka BBC) - A mosque in Sri Lanka has been forced to abandon Friday prayers amid community tensions in the central town of Dambulla.

About 2,000 Buddhists, including monks, marched to the mosque and held a demonstration demanding its demolition.

India`s U-turn on Sri Lanka

It remains to be seen how far the gamble has paid off...

(CHENNAI, India) - India's decision to vote in favor of a US sponsored UN Human Rights Council resolution censuring the Sri Lankan government for alleged Human Rights aberration during the ethnic conflict has raised several eyebrows.

Colombo has for long perceived its connection with Southern India as the primary source of a perennial concern to Sri Lanka’s territorial integrity.

India`s Diplomatic Stand on the Resolution Against Sri Lanka

Includes brief timeline of India and Sri Lanka's political history.

(LONDON) - India has tried to strike a balance between support for the Sri Lankan government and calls for Tamil rehabilitation - ultimately backing the UN resolution↑ urging Sri Lanka to investigate abuses of international law during the final phase of the civil war.

Behind this lie a number of external, internal and strategic factors.

Three Powerful Women Leaders who could bring about Justice and Peace for the Tamil People!

An Appeal to Hon. Hillary Clinton, Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Smt Jayaram Jayalalitha.

(LONDON) - It is with much humbleness, I write this appeal expressing my sincere feelings on the stands taken by both India and America on the issues affecting the Tamil people of Sri Lanka.

Both are powerful nations on their own strengths.

T-Junction in the Road

Two years later the T-word is back.

(CHENNAI, India Hindustan Times) - At one point in May, four years ago, it seemed a golden age in India-Sri Lanka relations was imminent.

Tamil Tiger supremo V Prabhakaran had been killed and the 26-year-old Lankan civil war had come to an end. India was pleased. Both sides were one the need to defeat the LTTE.

India Should Support Referendum for Tamil Eelam: Karunanidhi

He said India should given necessary support and pressure for the measure.

(CHENNAI, India NDTV) - DMK president M Karunanidhi on Tuesday welcomed the idea of a referendum for creation of a separate Tamil Ealam and called for India to play a role in this regard.

"The demand for a referendum among Tamils for a separate Eelam is welcome..." he said in 'Murasoli.