A LTTE suicide carder blew himself while a group of Police personals trying to search a lodge in Aluth Mawatha, Modara this morning. This explosion has taken place at around 6.00am today and LTTE carder has been died from the incident. However a major disaster has been able to neutralise with the help of civilians.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) is a most dangerous terrorist organisation
If anyone is interested in some virtuoso guitar playing, just check out Jerry C. He has written a lead guitar part into Pachelbel’s canon and calls the result Canon Rock, quite amazing. Sacrilege? Not in the least, because he makes the music his own, t…
Occasionally, government offices pleasantly surprise you. I went to renew my vehicle registration and given past experience, took copies of everything in triplicate. When I arrived at the Divisional Secretariat, there was big bold sign stating that veh…
අද වන තෙක් මා හා මිත්රව දුකේදීත් සැපේදීත් සමසේ අසල සිටිමින් මා දිරිමත් කල ගොරෝසුබව හා කටුක බව යහපත් කල්පනාවෙන් යටපත් කිරීමට උරදුන් මා දයාබර පෑනට මදකුදු සමුදී සයිබර් අවකාශගතවී සැරීසරනට ගන්නාවූ නිරහංකාර ප්රයත්නයක ප්රථම පියවර
simple. Go to Youtube or whatever and view the video you want. On your browser’s adress bar, copy the adress and go to keepvid.com. Past the adress into the box there, selectthe site you took it from (eg: Youtube, Google, Metacafe) - it’s pretty self-explantory, actually. Click download and you’re done!.
One thing of note: save the file (you’ll get it as get_video) in .flv format. Then get yourself GOM player and enjoy!
While reading the excellent birding blog of Timo Janhonen; the Bad Finish Birdwatcher, I read about an (Eurasian) Eagle Owl Bubo bubo invading a football match played in Finland between the host country and Belgium and that the footage captured of this incident is in Youtube. Finland had won this game according to Timo who sound happy; mentioning the footie result in the same breath. I had a look at this and thought it had enough merit to share with my blog readers, not that I am overly fond of owls or anything.
Spectators cheer ‘Huuhkaja’ which apparently means owl in finish. It sounds like a very bad swear word in Sinhalese but I learn that the bird had since then come to be known as Bubi, a sports commentator in Finland. How fitting considering that its scientific name is Bubo bubo! A related form occurs in Sri Lanka, which is called Forest Eagle Owl Bubo nipalensis (Ulama in Sinhalese), of which the shrilling call is considered to bring death and misfortune by the locals. I am on the hunt for one of these and I shall break some news if I succeed in my mission. If any of my readers have any credible information of this or any other owl in day time roosts in Sri Lanka, please let me know.
my eyes are not the best, but I have full 20-20 vision and I do not need glasses to do my day-to-day stuff. but since of late (I mean like since last year) I’ve been getting headaches after a full day of work and every night it’s headache medicine or e…
COLOMBO - SriLankan Airlines will be making an exit from Skywards, the loyalty programme for frequent fliers of Emirates and SriLankan Airlines, according Skywards’ February newsletter. “The existing management agreement between Emirates and Sri…
අද උදෑසන මෝදරදී සිදු වූ මරාගෙන මැරෙන බෝම්බ පිපිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පුළුල් පරීක්ෂණ අරඹා ඇත. ඒ සඳහා විශේෂ පොළිස් කණ්ඩායම් 3…
Tumblr was using my profile photo as the Favicon. Hey that’s nice an idea. This is my blog so now my face is an icon on this blog too.
අද උදෑසන මෝදරදී සිදු වූ මරාගෙන මැරෙන බෝම්බ පිපිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පුළුල් පරීක්ෂණ අරඹා ඇත.
අද උදෑසන මෝදරදී සිදු වූ මරාගෙන මැරෙන බෝම්බ පිපිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පුළුල් පරීක්ෂණ අරඹා ඇත.
An explosion has taken place in Modara area a short while ago. A search operation was going on at the time of blast. So far 8 people have been admitted to the hospital. Both civilians and police personnel are among casualties. It is suspected that a s…
Another leap-year has come around again and fortunately or otherwise with it, a time for celebration. I did a post on it last year here , in which I briefly described the origins of the anomaly to some extent. But of course, the main reason for the interest in this day is that it happens […]
[TamilNet, Friday, 29 February 2008, 00:10 GMT] In a deadly turn of events, racist Sinhalese civilians have once again thwarted another LTTE’s completly innocent and justifiable attempt to reconstruct 1983. A bomb that was supposed to kill at le…
ඵල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. ත්රස්තවාදී සංවිධානයට අයත් මරාගෙන මැරෙන බෝමිබකරුවෙකු අද (පෙබරවාරි 29) උදෑසන 6.05 ට පමණ මෝදර, ඉබ්බන්වල වත්ත ප්රදේශයේ…
ඵල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. ත්රස්තවාදී සංවිධානයට අයත් මරාගෙන මැරෙන බෝමිබකරුවෙකු අද (පෙබරවාරි 29) උදෑසන 6.05 ට පමණ මෝදර, ඉබ්බන්වල වත්ත ප්රදේශයේ…
I think you’ll agree that one of life’s little pleasures is a good massage. Not a sexy one involving “extras” or the new term I heard recently “a happy ending”, I mean a good proper one by a good proper masseur, with the whole pain / pleasure line bein…
Oh don’t yell at me… I was just echoing what Rauf Hakeem was doing with his mouth, that actually was supposed to be done with his backside. Does he represent the Sri Lankan Muslim (Moors, Malays, Bohrahs etc.)? The hell he doesn’t, at least not the m…
I was just reading an article in tomorrows Island….. that Muttusamy Ilango alias Samy, the LTTE international big gun who was supposedly “abducted” (according to the channel without a head) in Pettah, claims that he was in Sri Lanka to file a lawsuit…
අද කොටහේන අළුත් මාවතේ 4 වන පටුමගේ නිවසක පිපිරීමක් සිදුවී ඇත. එම පිපිරීමෙන් 7 දෙනෙකු තුවාල ලබා කොළඹ ජාතික රෝහලේ…
අද කොටහේන අළුත් මාවතේ 4 වන පටුමගේ නිවසක පිපිරීමක් සිදුවී ඇත. එම පිපිරීමෙන් 7 දෙනෙකු තුවාල ලබා කොළඹ ජාතික රෝහලේ…
I have been trying to convince my friends that the only thing worth reading these days is the Hi!! magazine.A look through the local newsstands reveals a dismal set of publications. The Sunday Times and the Nation are both worth reading, although the n…
Ahoy, ahoy and hear ye all. The worm has turned and the blogger (still unsold despite yesterdays advertisement) has flown (if only for a day).Having sloped off work today, went and got some spares for the jeep, signed some papers for an aunt and have r…
Where did my neighbors Freedom Go? I guess not out his window, cause he looked out there and it was no where to be seen. Or may be my other neighbors dog found it and buried it somewhere in my garden! So in search of his freedom, he needs to dig up my …
මුලින්ම අප ජල අණු, තාපය හෝ රත්වීම හා අනුනාදය ගැන ටිකක් විමසමු. ජල අණුවක් සෑදී ඇත්තේ හයිඩ්රජන් (H) පරමාණු 2 ක් හා ඔක්සිජන් (O) පරමාණුවක් , (H2O),එකට බන්ධනය වීමෙනි . ජල බිංදුවක මෙවැනි H2O අණු ට්රිලියන ගණනක් ඇති අතර ඒවා නිරන්තර චලිතයක යෙදෙමින් පවතී. ඒවා එකිනෙකට සාපේක්ෂව එහාමෙහා යමින්ද, කැරැකැවෙමින්ද එපමණක් නොව ඒවායේ පරමාණු අතර […]
I returned from Sri Lanka last month. At the Galle Literary Festival I was asked to speak to reporters about the relationship of the festival to Sri Lankan readers and writers abroad. Here are my remarks: Words For …
Elliott Bay Books sent me the following. If you’re to be in Seattle this weekend, do come:INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM Saturday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m.Noted poet, essayist, and U.S. Foreign Service Officer Indran Amirthanayagam makes his way down from his prese…
You may have already noticed that if you are using a Google product like GMail, the next time you use Google Search you are ‘logged in’ to search as well. This means that your search queries are attached now with your Google user name. This fact is cle…
It was real pain for me to install ColdFusion on my Linux box with Apache. Anyway we have installed it and I thought to share it because this may help you also to install ColdFusion on a Linux box.
First of all open a shell and then continue on this.
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Wit the disclosing of APRC proposals, there has been a buzz in the media about late president J.R Jayawardana. The APRC proposals have been based on 13 th amendments to the constitution which was resulted with the indo-lanka peace accord. The media in the south is trying hard to white wash the tarnished image of the late fox by trying to highlight that 13 th amendment as a genuine work of JR.
The historical background of 13 th amendment
J R Jayawardana won the general election in 1977 with more than 4/5 of majority in the parliament. However, this short sighted politician did not for see the growth of separatist terrorism in the North. This was aggravated further by burning of Jaffna library and later, the eruption of 1983 riots which were completely orchestrated by dictatorial UNP regime.
The UNP leadership strongly believed in dictatorship and state terror as a critical supportive aid for exploitation which is part of capitalist economy (in raw form). However, the Tamil politicians were able to read this in ethnic point of view to promote separatism and it evolved into separatist terrorism which even the same Tamil politicians were ultimately targeted. The true leadership of a character is tested in crisis situations and when J R ultimately decided to crush the terrorism it was too much for this old fox. When India came in to the picture, old and weary J R was pushed in to the wall.
The “parippu drop” (dhal drop) by IAF’s C-130 transport aircraft escorted by Mirage jets was a flagrant violation of Sri Lankan airspace which intimidated the weary JR more than Sri Lankan nation.
Following the forcibly signing of the accord by Sri Lankan president J.R. Jayewardene and the then Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Sri Lankan parliament passed the 13th amendment to the constitution, which created provincial councils with a modicum of power devolved from the central government.
But the provincial council system did not function where it was primarily meant to, namely, the majority Tamil-speaking north and eastern provinces. This complies with Tamil separatist strategy of ‘now a little, and more later’. We have never witnessed how 13 th amendment will effect North and East provinces and separatists are demanding more and more devolution.
When JR left politics in 1989, he failed to crush either LTTE terrorism or JVP insurgency (which was ultimately crushed by Mr. R. Premadasa) and Indian army had been landed in our mother land. The culture and values of the society was corroded. In short, both north and south was burning. What else this old fox could not have done to our mother land? He did the all the evils to the nation and retired as atypical politician without much of a buzz.
Tamil Diaspora, India and us
The majority of Tamils in India is concentrated in southern Indian state Tamil Nadu and it naturally has the historical, cultural and demographic factors for Tamil autonomy than any other country.
Tamil population:
India => 62.1 Million
Sri Lanka => 3.0 Million
The Indo-Lanka peace accord was a clear attempt to shield this ground reality and make the political balance of issue of Tamil Diaspora. Old foxy JR was more concerned of his political survival than future of our country and therefore give into the poliyical pressure from India.
The current reality
It is in this back drop that APRC has to accept 13 th amendment as the agreed solution. Whether we like it or not, it has been forcibly established provincial councils. This is a tiny island with only 65 610 square kilo meters in area. Still we are forced to maintain eight provincial councils. Couple of hundreds of councilors and provincial ministers has to be paid and maintained by money collected from common tax payers.
Still government has to face the unfortunate reality inherited due to acts of selfish politicians. However some fractions of media in Sri Lanka is trying to mislead the public and trying to clean the dirt of these bankrupt politicians. Their agenda is to pave the way for more and more politicians in the mould of JR. Therefore, they use every opportunity to try and clean political sins of their old political masters. However the common people in the country is now more knowledgeable and vigilant than the politico-media mafia of the country.
- Hanuma of modern era
- Success of Putin and a lesson from Russia
- Tamil Diaspora, Piribaharan and India
- Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord and broken promises
2008 පෙබරවාරි මස 28 වැනිදා සයිබර් අවකාශගතවන ලදී.
Michael Clayton is the second Best Picture Academy Award nominated film for 2008 we’ll be looking at before the night in question. (…)
I just got my CIM results… just as they were released online.. I managed to get through the case study.. but got a marginal failure for the other one.. which means I just lost it by less than 4 marks!! 
It’s the first time I ever came down in a sub…
The current socio-economic, political and ground situation in Jaffna from a resident in the embattled region in the North of Sri Lanka as captured by Vikalpa Video.
Also see Present situation in Jaffna: A video interview in English and Sinhala.
The cost of international capacity between the US and Asia has dropped dramatically in the past ten years. In 1996, US$10,000 would buy a 64kbps IPLC between Asia and the
US. The same money buys a STM-1 (155Mbps) circuit in 2006.
Dramatic drops in the price of international capacity as a result of market deregulation in the […]
RATMALANA, Sri Lanka – Teddy gets down to business after landing on home soil.
Some of you may remember the post I wrote on what I didn’t like about the GLF. In that same post I said that I will, from time to time, write about what I loved and liked about the festival as well. And meeting Shyam Selvadurai was possibly the highlig…
It’s easy. You just lead them a little less. It’s an old joke, born in the Vietnam War, and first recorded by Michael Herr, though Kubrick made it famous with his portrait of the crazed US Marine door gunner in Full Metal Jacket. In layspeak, a shooter “leads” a running figure so that he’s aiming […]
Niro at SLBlogs is at it again , only this time the prizes are bigger and better.So if you are looking to start a new blog with your own domain name then this might be the opportunity you were waiting for. To win all you have to do is write about your favorite Sri Lankan […]
Tigo has extended its mobile coverage up to Elayapattuwa. Elayapattuwa is a small town between Anuradhapura and Mahavilachchiya. Tigo is yet to cover Mahavilachchiya.
Hutch has installed a tower in Mahavilachchiya to provide mobile coverage. The tower installation is almost over and the people hope the coverage will be available very soon.
Late in the day, but I stumbled across this post over on A Voice in Colombo this afternoon, attcking both Amnesty International (AI) and the Colombo-based Free Media Movement (FMM), both human rights NGOs. The post is so far removed…
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