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Demonstrating UK Tamils Expose India`s Defiance of International Refugee Conventions

Demonstrators organized by the TCC-UK, supporting the demands of the hunger strikers at Chengalpet.

(LONDON TamilNet) - Tamils in the UK are demanding the release of the detained inmates of the Chengalpet (Chengkal-paddu) ‘special camp’ and for the closure of that facility.

Separate petitions submitted by TCC-UK to the UNHCR and the Indian High Commission called for a revision in the Indian approach to Eezham Tamil refugees in India.

UN Urges Sri Lanka to Consider Asylum Requests by 300 Foreigners

Immigration officials have expressed concern over foreigners overstaying their visas, saying some have been trying to illegally migrate to Australia via boat.

(NEW YORK CITY) - The UN refugee agency urged Sri Lanka to postpone deportation orders for more than 300 foreigners seeking asylum, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Chemical Warfare on Indians

The final game is panning out from the gene revolutionaries.

(NEW DELHI, India) - Some decades ago a term ‘democide’ was coined. In Latin, ‘cide’ means killing. The ‘cide’ suffix was added to the prefix ‘demo’ as in democracy. Thus democide came to mean death by the people’s elected government.

SRI LANKA: `Lot of talking and not much improvement` in the north

Not enough has been done to reach a political settlement between the sometimes antagonistic ethnic groups of Tamils and Sinhalese.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Sri Lankan parliamentarians in favour of acting on the recommendations in a report into the final stages of the country’s civil war by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) are slowly gaining ground over those who are not, says a presidential peace process adviser.

The government’s initial reaction to the LLRC recommendations was positive...

Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives launched

Torture is the result of a long and systematic process of social control, which uses old tactics of the powerful and unaccountable, without respect for past or present.

(HONG KONG) - The Asian Human Rights Commission has launched its new initiative, Torture: Asian and Global perspectives.

Data Reveals Scheme for Sinhala Military Colonies in Country of Eezham Tamils

The Sinhala genocidal state is nakedly setting a paradigm on how to conduct genocide by openly naming Sinhala military colonisation schemes as ‘War Heroes villages’.

(JAFFNA, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - Details emerging from four divisional secretariats of Mullaiththeevu district in Vanni, indicate a concerted and structural move by the occupying Sri Lanka military establishment there.

20% of Mannaar Faces Genocidal Land Grab, TNA Activists to Protest on 07 July

Some of these lands occupied by the military, have been recently subjected to legal transfer from the owners to the SL military.

(MANAAR, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - The Secretary of Youth Affairs of Ilangkai Thamizh Arasuk Kadchi and a TNA political activist in Mannaar, VS Sivakaran, say Colombo has appropriated at least one fifth of the lands in Mannaar district.

It is being taken for military purposes and a long-term Sinhalicisation and colonisation of the district.

Belgian Left Group Expresses Solidarity with Eezham Tamils` Struggle

The meeting was organized by the Tamil Cultural Organization, Belgium and TYO-Belgium.

(BRUSSELS TamilNet) - Activists belonging to Links Socialistische Partij, a leftist political organization in Belgium and civil society.

Jews & Buddhists Back Hindus Upset at Mishandling of Goddess Kali by Game Developer

Portrayal of goddess Kali, who was highly revered by Hindus, appeared like a porno star in the SMITE version shown on the company website

(RENO, NV.) - Hindus are upset at the inappropriate usage of Kali and other Hindu deities by the Georgia (USA) online games developer Hi-Rez Studios.

They plan to use these images in the upcoming online action video game SMITE.

Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives - a comment from an Editor

In this issue, the magazine takes an in depth look into Sri Lanka’s relationship with torture.

(HONG KONG) - I was amazed at how quickly the pieces of Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives fell into place, turning an idea for a magazine into a quality, finished product.

When Nilantha Ilangamuwa, whom I’d previously worked with at the Sri Lanka Guardian, asked me to launch a magazine with him for the Asian Human Rights Commission, I knew I had to be a part of this project.