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Cornell Students Cite Trayvon Martin, Throw Bottles at Black Students

“I feel like it was targeted and racially motivated … we felt very threatened.” - Beverly Fonko

(SYRACUSE, NY) - A group of students at Cornell University have been accused of racism, when it was reported that they were throwing bottles at black students while referencing the Trayvon Martin shooting.

LLRC Recommendations Highly Credible EU Delegation

Many of us in the EU Parliament and in our own Resolution felt that well there are issues to be dealt with and I think it is important that we do not let things slide from the agenda. - Jean Lambert

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sunday Leader) - A parliamentary delegation from the EU visited Sri Lanka last week, its second mission to the country over the past two years.

The delegation headed by EU Parliament MP Jean Lambert comes just weeks after the EU supported a Resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council.

Sri Lanka: Flogging The Tamil Eelam Issue - OpEd

Tamil Nadu leaders have to adopt suitable strategies if they genuinely want to help Sri Lanka Tamils.

(CHENNAI, India Eurasia Review) - May Day celebrations in Sri Lanka this year saw an unusual sight.

R Sampanthan, the septuagenarian leader fighting for Sri Lanka Tamil rights and president of the Tamil National Alliance, standing shoulder to shoulder with the United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, waved a Sri Lanka flag to the cheers of a massive crowd in Jaffna celebrating the May Day.

Fear-Fuelling Conspiracies - Part II

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. --Franklin D. Roosevelt

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - How long does it take to be discouraged by the seemingly impossible? One year? Five? Ten (Viet Nam)...Iraq...Afghanistan)? Try 60 (Palestine)!

The Israeli lobby in America can be credited with denigrating Palestinians (whether Christian or Muslim) beyond any hope for resolving their conflict.

Life of a Sri Lanka Tamil Catholic Bishop in Danger

Most Rev Dr Rayappu Joseph and others in danger 'Our Lady of Madhu' and Bishop Rayappu Joseph.

(BRISBANE, Aust.) - This is an urgent appeal to prevent the possible assassination/ ‘disappearance’ of the outspoken Roman Catholic Bishop of Mannar, his fellow Catholic priests in the North and East.

It is also for others who call themselves ‘Civil Society’, the only voices for the Tamil people in that part of Sri Lanka.

A Buddhist Monk and Child Abuse in London

The Monk is likely to be deported to Sri Lanka after he serves his prison sentence, which will be delivered on Monday.

(LONDON dbsjeyaraj.com) - This is a personal journey, which has touched our lives deeply and thus I will not pretend that it is an unbiased account.

I have changed the names of the persons involved to attempt to safeguard the little privacy that they have.

Justice for Genocide: Tamil Americans to Hold UN Rally

146,000 Tamil civilians were lost to the Sri Lankan state during the last eight months of the war.

(NEW YORK CITY) - On May 18, 2012, the Tamil Diaspora of North America will hold an awareness rally and candlelight vigil in front of the United Nations in New York City.

Those gathered will pay their solemn respect to the victims of Tamil Genocide in the Island of Sri Lanka and to observe the Tamil National Mourning Day.

Not In Our Name: Against Religious Extremism in Sri Lanka

Close to 1,000 signatures on Not In Our Name: Against religious extremism in Sri Lanka

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Groundviews) - The mosque attack at Dambulla by angry Buddhist monks is soiling the reputations of Buddhists everywhere.

It is renewing suspicions that this is a dangerous government that fails to speak out over ethnic strife without exception, when it isn't solely responsible for the suffering due to its own policies.

Tamils for Obama to Clinton: Stop Rape in Sri Lanka

In Sri Lanka sexual violence is being used as a tool of political oppression. Tamil women in the northeast, usually war widows without homes and confined to “transit camps,” are visited and raped at will by Sri Lankan armed forces.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Secretary Clinton spoke to the UN Security Council in September 2009 and urged the members to take a stand against sexual violence used as a tool of war.

In Sri Lanka, armed forces are using it as a tool of political suppression. In a letter to Clinton on May 1, Tamils for Obama requested that Clinton use her influence to stop it.

S&P Warns Sri Lanka of Credit Downgrade

The rupee has depreciated almost 20 percent since November 2011 with the worst fall happening since February.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Xinhua) - Sri Lanka, already struggling under high fuel prices, could be in for a credit downgrade along with its neighbor India if prices continue to increase and subsidies are not reduced, a credit agency report said here on Monday.

"In India and Sri Lanka, we expect fuel and related subsidies to markedly worsen fiscal and external deficits unless subsidy levels fall," Standard and Poor's said in a report, adding "In the absence of offsetting positive developments, these sovereigns could see negative rating actions as a result."