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It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his wife, who lunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress “suspects.” In April 2002, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it “believed” that the plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the UAE and Germany. What they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn’t know 8 months earlier, when Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we do not know, because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if they were presented with evidence—which, as we soon learned, Washington didn’t have. Thus Obama was simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.”

May 6th 2011
As part of bringing awareness to the current plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka and the wider engagement of governments around the world, the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) met with senior civil servants at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London, yesterday. Mr. Andrew Patrick, Director for South Asia, Deputy Director William Middleton and Ms. Christine McNeill, the Head of Sri Lanka Desk at the FCO were met by the GTF delegation lead by its President Rev. Father S.J.Emmanuel, members of British Tamils Forum (BTF), British Tamil Conservatives (BTC) and Tamils for Labour. Father Emmanuel shared the gratitude of the Global Tamil Community for the explicit stance the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has taken by welcoming the UN Panel Report commissioned by the UN Secretary General and the call for an independent and credible inquiry to establish the truth so that sustainable reconciliation can be achieved.

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New Democrat Rathika Sitsabaiesan admits she is still “feeling a little numb” about her historic victory in Scarborough-Rouge River on Monday night. As the first Tamil elected to Parliament, she says she is also humbled. The 29-year-old first-time candidate came to Canada with her family when she was 5. “My parents are very, very proud,” she said Tuesday morning after a night of celebration with throngs of supporters at her Sheppard Ave. campaign office and later with New Democrats from across the city at NDP Leader Jack Layton’s victory party downtown. Despite “still trying to absorb it all,” the advocate for workers, students and newcomers says she wasn’t surprised by her win. The ethnically diverse riding in the city’s northeast end has a large youth population and one of the GTA’s largest concentrations of Tamils. “But it was the entire community of Scarborough-Rouge River that came together for this,” said Sitsabaiesan, who moved to the riding several years ago after completing a master’s degree in industrial relations at Queen’s University.

இன்று , மே 2011, நடைபெற்ற கனடியப் பாராளுமன்றத் தேர்தலில் ஸ்டீபன் ஹார்பரின் தலைமையிலான பழமைவாதக் கட்சி இம்முறை கனடியப் பாராளுமன்றத்தில் 160ற்கும் அதிகமான தொகுதிகளைப் பெற்றுப் பெரும்பான்மையினைப் பெறுகின்றது. அதே சமயம் இதுவரையில் பலம் பொருந்திய முதலிரு கட்சிகளிலொன்றாக விளங்கிய மைக்கல் இக்னைட்டிவ் தலைமையிலான 'லிபரல்' கட்சி மூன்றாம் இடத்திற்குத் தள்ளப்பட்டுள்ளது. மூன்றாம் இடத்திலிருந்த ஜக் லெயிட்டன் தலைமையிலான புதிய ஜனநாயகக் கட்சியினர் இம்முறை 100ற்கும் அதிகமான ஆசனங்களைப் பெற்று பலம் பொருந்திய எதிர்கட்சியினராக உருவெடுத்துள்ளனர். புதிய ஜனநாயகக் கட்சியின் சார்பில் ஸ்கார்பரோ - ரூச் தொகுதியில் போட்டியிட்ட ராதிகா சிற்சபேசன் இதுவரை எண்ணப்பட்ட வாக்குகளில் 15,482 வாக்குகளைப் பெற்று வெற்றி பெற்றுள்ளார். இதன் மூலம் முதன் முறையாகக் கனடியப் பாராளுமன்றத்திற்குத் தெரிவாகும் இலங்கையர், இலங்கைத் தமிழரென்னும் பெருமையினைப் பெறுகின்றார். இவரை எதிர்த்துப் போட்டியிட்ட பழமைவாதக் கட்சி வேட்பாளரான 'மார்லின் ஹல்யட்' 11,243 வாக்குகளையும், 'லிபரல்' கட்சி வேட்பாளரான ராணா சார்கர் 10,021 வாக்குகளையும் பெற்றுள்ளனர். விரிவான கனடியத் தேர்தல் முடிவுகள் ... இங்கே

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Tuesday 26 April 2011 .Ban Ki-Moon has come under attack for failing to push for a war crimes probe in Sri Lanka. But a former UN Deputy Secretary-General tells Channel 4 News Ban is powerless to defy Russia and China. A former senior UN official has defended Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon after critics accused the UN chief of failing to take on China and Russia in pushing for a war crimes investigation in Sri Lanka. Ban said he lacks the authority to personally order an inquiry into allegations of mass killings of civilians in the final months of the island nation's bloody civil war in 2009.