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The following, in brief, is the outcome of their discussions:![Tamil Info Service [TIS] - Click to visit Home Page](http://www.tamilinfoservice.com/image/tis/tis_smal.gif){kind=small}
India and Sri Lanka last Monday agreed to expedite the proposed defence cooperation agreement, Indian press reports said.Delivering the presidential address at the second anniversary of the confederation here, Tamil Nationalist Movement (TNM) leader P Nedumaran said any such move would be detrimental to the cause of Tamils, Indian press reports said."Why do they need a security pact with India? It is an island nation and has no visible enemy in the region,” Nedumaran, who is the confederation president said.“Why is that they want to have a defence pact? Because, they want to use the Indian army to crush the Tamil population in Sri Lanka," Nedumaran said, Nedumaran maintained that most of the Sri Lankan leaders including the Presi!
dent,
Prime Minister and External Affairs Minister are making trips to Delhi and insisting that India sign the defence pact. He pointed out that Colombo had 
India has deported a pro-LTTE Tamil member of the Sri Lankan parliament, who had come to attend a conference organised by the pro-LTTE Tamil Nadu leader, P Nedumaran, in Bangalore on Sunday.Official sources in Chennai told Hindustan Times over the phone that Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP, MK Eelaventhan, who had arrived in Bangalore by a Sri Lankan Airlines flight on Saturday, was deported.The case of the other MP and participant in the conference, Up Country Peoples' Front (UPF) leader P Chandrasekharan, had not been decided, the sources said. He had arrived in Chennai by a Jet Airways flight. The Union Home Ministry is believed to be looking into his case.
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Poet laureate Pulavar Pulamai Pithtan, who was the president of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Klagam, the ruling political party of Tamil Nadu since last August, told loud and clearly that the Tamils living in Sri Lanka are related to the Tamils of Tamil Nadu and are their own kith and kin and cannot be simply ignored by the Indian Government as any other foreign country. Pulamai Pithtan who is also a famous lyrics writer and have written over 3,500 lyrics for the Tamil films since 1966 and one of the most popular modern Tamil poet from Tamil Nadu. He has written several Tamil books and his book “Ninaivugalin Oorvalam “ - the procession of retrospection, was the compilation of a serialized article on the life of his mentor, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and matinee id!
ol Late
M.G.Ramachandran.
Mr. Tamilselvan raised the issue of law and order in Batticaloa and the disturbing trend consequent to the activities of the various paramilitary groups. The Political Chief expressed great concern over the risk faced by unarmed LTTE members in the GoSL areas. The Head of the SLMM said that he is aware of the situation and conscious of the violations in the context of article 1.8 of the CFA which clearly prohibits the presence of armed groups. Continuing further he said that he has already urged the Government to take effective measures to arrest the deteriorating situation and will continue to do so in future as well.
Pantrutiyar : Indian Government is least interested in the peace talks. The question of facilitator does not arise.
Mr. Hans Brattskar took time off to visit the newly established NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights (NESOHR)in Kilinochchi and had discussions with the Chair person Rev. Fr. Max. Karunaratnam and Dr. Malathy, Human Rights Activist. Fr. Karunaratnam briefed the Ambassador on the various activities undertaken by the Secretariat and expressed confidence about the future vision in the context of NESOHR's role in the Interim Administration of the NorthEast. The Ambassador congratulated the Chair person and encouraged him to take forward his mission with a relentless pursuit for peace and justice to everybody. 
The rally would create awareness on Dravidian ideologies and stress on caste and communal harmony, besides highlighting the anti-people stand of the State government on various issues. Briefing mediapersons at the end of the party's 13th general council, which met on July 11 and 12 at Thalayuthu, near here, Vaiko said he will lead the rally, which will reach Chennai on Sept 15 after covering 1,025 km and 19 districts. 
In a statement here, he said the Government and the Chief Minister should take immediate action as controversies over entrance examinations, the single-window system, counselling and statements issued by Anna University had created confusion in the minds of students and parents. Though time was running out, things had come to a standstill in admissions to professional courses. Mr. Veeramani said there was no need for conducting entrance examinations for engineering courses, as only 52,000 candidates had submitted their applications for 70,000 seats available in the colleges in the State. However, the practice of holding entrance examinations could continue for medical seats, he said.
All precautionary steps will be taken to ensure that no damage to the Gulf of Mannar biosphere is caused while implementing the Sethusamudram canal project, the Union Minister for Shipping and Transport, T.R. Baalu, said today. Addressing newspersons here, he said the nearest island would be 20 km from the canal. As one who had been Environment Minister, he was aware of the need to protect the biosphere and hence a new alignment was chosen in the place of two earlier ones. The third alignment was drawn up in a manner which would not affect the biosphere. The National Environment Engineering Research Institute presented its report on the environment impact of the project and a techno-economic feasibility report was expected by !
this
month-end. One of the greatest achievements of the project would be the reclamation of Dhanuskodi, he said. [
The action committee of the secretariat headed by Father Karunaratnam consists of Proctor Sivapalan, Dr. Sivapalan (Medical Faculty Jaffna University), Mr. Joseph Pararajasingam (Member of Parliament), Miss. Arulananthan (University of Jaffna), Mr Puleedevan (Secretary General, Peace Secretariat), Mr. Gajendran (Member of Parliament), Prof Sriskandaraja (Denmark), and Dr. Malathy (Human Rights Activist, New Zealand).
We consider the attack in Colombo on 7th July 2004 to be one of the operations of some elements who are working to disrupt the peace efforts between the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Eelam. We strongly condemn this act, which could, confuse the people who are hoping for peace, and disrupt the prevailing peaceful environment. It is well known that as a result of activities by armed groups, aimed at disrupting the peace efforts, our cadres and civilians are being killed in the east. We strongly believe that these groups are operating with the help of the Sri Lankan military intelligence unit and the SriLankan Armed Forces. We have informed the SriLa!
nkan
government, through the Norwegians and the SLMM, that the peaceful environment can be preserved only if the military intelligence wing and the security forces halt all assistance given to these armed groups. We are suspecting that it is, the granting of refuge to these groups, and the permission given to them to act freely, in Colombo that has paved the way for yesterday's attack in Colombo. Clause 1.8 of the ceasefire agreement states that all armed groups in NorthEast must be disarmed. Accordingly all these armed groups involved in disruptive activities must be disarmed immediately. We request that, the Sri Lanka military intelligence unit and the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, act according to the rules of the ceasefire agreement, and stop all such activities aimed at disrupting the peace efforts, and create an environment amiable for the peace efforts soon. We like to reiterate again at this juncture, that as one of the signatory to the ceasefire agreement, we will, preserve !
the
environment for the peace efforts, and abide by the ceasefire agreement.
Tamil Tiger rebels today honoured the bloody legacy of their suicide bomber squad, openly commemorating “Black Tiger Day” in some government-controlled areas of war-torn Sri Lanka.The separatist guerrillas widely used suicide bombers – known as Black Tigers – in their campaign for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka’s 3.2 million ethnic Tamil minority. The fighting started in 1983, but was halted by a ceasefire in 2002. Peace talks have now stalled.Today’s rallies in the northern Jaffna peninsula mark the 17th anniversary of the first suicide attack in 1987, when the newly formed Black Tiger squad drove a truckload of explosives into an army camp, killing 40 soldiers.Since then, the suicide wing has carried out !
at least
67 bombings. In all, 241 suicide soldiers, including 64 women, have died.
Since Miller's mission, according to official estimates by the LTTE, 265 others including 53 women have followed him. However the LTTE does not acknowledge cadres who perished in attacks that are politically sensitive like the murders of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and former President Ranasinghe Premadasa. According to the armyan estimated total of 66 major suicide missions have been carried out by the LTTE up to September 2001, of which 10 were directed at prime economic targets. On September 16, just five days after the 9/11 attacks in the US, the LTTE suicide cadres in speed boats attacked 'MV Pride of South', a ship carrying 1200 soldiers returning on leave, killing 11 navy personnel and injuring another 58 service personnel on board. 
Mr. Erik Solheim accompanied by H.E. the Norwegian Ambassador Hans Brattskar arrived in Kilinochchi today 30th June 2004 by an SLAF helicopter. The Special Envoy and the Ambassador had a meeting with Mr. S. P. Tamilselvan, Head of the LTTE Political Wing in its Head Quarters. The Norwegian team briefed Mr. Tamilselvan of the meetings they had in Colombo with Foreign Minister Laksman Kadirkamar, Government Officials and the Leader of the opposition Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe. At the outset the Ambassador told Mr. Tamilselvan that he has conveyed the concerns of Mr. Tamilselvan discussed in the last meeting to the government. Referring to the response of Laksman Kadirkamar on the issue of SLBC Tamil service accommodating the vicious campaign !
against
the LTTE carried on by TBC in London the Ambassador said that the Minister promised to look into it and rectify any lapses. 
'Sinhala capitalist government will never accommodate a just resolution of the Tamil National problem. Neither do they have the political will nor the capacity to restore lost rights of the Tamil people. Therefore freedom of the Tamil people must be secured by the Tamil people themselves. The Sinhala working class should lend their support to their just struggle' said Prof. Sucharitha Gamlath in a book longing ceremony held at Muththiah Hall in Vavuniya yesterday 20th of June 2004. 
The Centre will “take a fresh look” at a range of issues related to coastal environment management and the 1991 coastal regulatory zone notification that several states have opposed, Union environment and forests minister A. Raja has said. The minister said it has been “brought to my notice” that the livelihood of the poor in coastal areas could be adversely affected because of the notification. Several states have complained that it stood in the way of tourism projects worth crores and fishermen’s groups cried hoarse against restrictions on netting their source of livelihood. There are “certain difficulties” in implementing the notification, which impedes development work without contributing to environment
conservation, Raja said. Thus, the decision to re-examine it. An expert committee headed by agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan has been set up to consider all relevant issues and come out with “science-backed and practical recommendations” to manage coastal resources, Raja said after inaugurating a two-day workshop organised by the Institute of Ocean Management, Anna University. Raja clarified that the review of the notification was an independent exercise that did not have anything to do with two “draft notifications” issued by the environment ministry under T.R. Baalu in the NDA government. 
Early morning LTTE traffic police officers troop out of their stations for traffic duties. They man busy intersections, attired in their blue uniforms and white helmets. The speed limit can get as low 40km per hour at certain sections of the A-9 and spot fines are levied against those caught speeding. LTTE has also taken control of private entrepreneurship. There is the LTTE run restaurant - Pandiyan, its walls decorated with quotes from Velupillai Pirapaharan. "No country in the world has gained its freedom without shedding blood or sacrifice," read one. There are LTTE controlled guest houses like the 1-9 Lodge in Kilinochchi where an A/C room goes at Rs. 1,200 per day. Pretty reasonable given that there is no power grid other than gene!
rators
run by the LTTE. The bar that is in the same compound does brisk business. 
There were demands on common grounds by various organisations as summed up herebelow, 
At the outset the Ambassador explained the outcome of the co-chairs meeting in Brussels and continued at length about the various steps that Norway is taking to reactivate the peace process. Mr. Tamilselvan briefed the envoy on the current thinking of the LTTE and the Tamil people and expressed concern over the lack of progress in the political arena. Progress in the peace process notwithstanding, Mr. Tamilselvan raised serious concern about non-implementation of the CFA in bringing about normalcy, minimising military violations and lack of proper mechanism for the delivery of humanitarian assistance. 
India : The Indian Government remained steadfast in its desire to combat terrorism in 2003 and has worked closely with the United States in this regard. For example, several hundred Indian law enforcement officials participated in training as part of the Antiterrorism Assistance program. During the year, the Indian Government also moved to strengthen its international cooperation in curbing terrorism financing. In January, the Parliament enacted an anti-money laundering law that provides the legal basis for establishing a financial intelligence unit to monitor suspect transactions. In March, the Indian Government announced that 32 terrorist organizations had been listed under the Prevention of Terrorism!
Act and,
in July, informed Parliament that 702 persons had been arrested under the Act. 
Among the participants were country and field representatives from UNICEF, UNHCR, ILO, WHO, ICRC, FORUT, OXFAM, CARE, World vision etc. The participants contributed immensely in the discussions relating to practices and procedures in the areas of development, resettlement, rehabilitation and many of them suggested valuable ways and means of cutting down bureaucratic and administrative delays in effective humanitarian delivery. Associated Mr. Tamilselvan were Mr. Thuyavan, Director of the PDS assisted by Eelamaran who provided the audience with a detailed power point presentation and Mr. Thgangan, Deputy Head of the Political Wing. Mr. Selvin Ireneus, Director of SIHRN explained graphically the necessity of capacity building of civilian based organisations and local
NGOs. 
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At Barammulla, I went to rural areas like Sopur and Rafiabad. These are very border areas of Pakistan. I met lot of people. As per my knowledge, I can tell that Kashmiris has not casted their vote willingly.!
This is
true story.
Extreme Emotions of Dalit Liberation: Thirumaavalavan; Translated into English from the Tamil original by Meena Kandasamy, Pub. by Samya, an imprint of Bhatkal and Sen, 16, Southern Avenue, Kolkata-700026. Rs. 200. 
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adivasis (tribal people) – was exacerbated by widespread use of security legislation, political interference with the criminal justice system and slow judicial proceedings in a continuing climate of impunity. Tensions remained high in the state of Gujarat in the aftermath of widespread communal violence in 2002. Witnesses to the violence and human rights defenders were threatened and concerns grew about the impartiality of institutions of the criminal justice system in the state, including the police, prosecution service and elements of the judiciary. A committee constituted by the Ministry of Home Affairs suggested recommendations for the reform of the criminal justice system which could potentially undermine human rights protections even further.
