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Why Did Palestinian Refugees Come to Lebanon?

Don’t ask. Lebanese schools won’t tell!

(SHATILA CAMP, Beirut) - During a workshop at the American University of Beirut last year on the subject of the right to work and to purchase a home for Palestinian refugees, a young business major from the Christian village of Bikerki posed a question that surprised some in the audience:

“Why if Palestinian don’t like it in Lebanon do they not go home? Why did they even bother coming here in the first place?”

`Sri Lanka`s Killing Fields` to be Screened in California

“Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” is believed to be the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast.

(PALO ALTO) - ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’, a powerful documentary produced by UK Channel 4 Broadcasting Corp., is scheduled to be screened at Ventura Community Centre later this month.

Directed by Callum Macrae, the film that first aired in British television in June 2011 captures horrific footage and extensive interviews with witnesses.

Amid Move to Switch From Criminal Silva, Ban Dismisses Predecessor Criticism

Why didn't UN officials say, don't nominate alleged war criminals?

(UNITED NATIONS) - For a week UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's office has been questioned about accepting alleged war criminal Shavendra Silva as one of Ban's Senior Advisers on Peacekeeping Operations.

While Ban's Spokesman Martin Nesirky has insisted that Ban is powerless to stop what several member states describe as a travesty or a "new low."

On the Anniversary of Sri Lanka`s Independence

On this day of independence of Sri Lanka, let us rededicate with resolve to secure our own independence too!

(NEW YORK) - As a nation and a country, Sri Lanka is entitled to rejoice on this 64th anniversary of its independence.

It revels in the splendidness of the occasion of remembering its release from the British yoke.

Sri Lanka`s Independence Day- a Black Day for Tamil Eelam

Victims of state terrorism have nothing to celebrate.

(SALEM) - How do Native American people really feel each time the 4th of July is celebrated in the United States?

The day Sri Lanka's gained independence from British rule, 4th February 1948, was a black day for Eelam Tamils.

US to Pressure Sri Lanka on Reconciliation Process

Robert Blake said last year that Sri Lanka could be hauled before an international war crimes tribunal if their own internal investigation did not meet international standards.

(COLOMBO RNW) - The U.S. is set to table a resolution against Sri Lanka at the next sitting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva later this month.

The Americans have voiced their concerns over human rights violations in Sri Lanka before, but so far had not taken the step of bringing it forward at the HRC.

Alleged War Criminal as an Advisor to UN Secretary General?

AFTA appeals to the media to initiate a campaign to prevent a bad precedent being set in the UN System.

(STANHOPE GARDENS, NSW Aust.) - The Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations (AFTA), the umbrella body of the peak Tamil associations in Australia and New Zealand, is appalled by the news that Major General Shavendra Silva, Sri Lanka's deputy ambassador to the UN, will be part of a group advising Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

He is one of many military men given top diplomatic posts by Sri Lanka essentially to offer them Diplomatic Immunity.

Tamils Await their Peace Dividend

Any positive outcomes that could flow from the LLRC report will likely remain theoretical...

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - There has been an alarming increase in gender-based violence, including domestic violence, within the Tamil community, as well as forced prostitution and trafficking.

All of this is against a backdrop of credible evidence of wartime sexual violence by government forces...

Sea Tiger Commander Soosai`s Wife Satyadevi Speaks Out

Recently Chamara Lakshan Kumara interviewed Satyadevi for “The Nation” English Weekly published in Colombo. Satyadevi recounted some of her experiences as answers in that interview.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Thillaiambalam Sivanesan alias Soosai was the former commander and special commander of the naval division of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) known as “Kadal Puligal” or Sea Tigers. This native of Polygandy in Vadamaratchy fought to the very end and died in Mulllivaaikkaal in Mullaitheevu district on May 17/18th 2009.

Soosai is a first batch tiger recruit who received training in North India. He was the former LTTE Vadamaratchy area in the 1980's.

At the Crossroads of War: Do NOT Say You Were NOT Warned

Only Israel can save itself or destroy itself, for as a Hebrew prophet once warned that those who live by the sword will die by it too.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Last week The New York Times published an opine by Ronen Bergman, who answered his own question in “Will Israel Attack Iran?”

“After speaking with many senior Israeli leaders and chiefs of the military and the intelligence, I have come to believe that Israel will indeed strike Iran in 2012...”