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By Kanthar Balanathan from Australia

The Northern Province population of 993,741, is 31.92% of the total population of 3,113,247 Tamils in the island. The remaining 68.08% of Tamils live outside the Northern Province.

The population composition …

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For the past few days I have been musing about the great Anagarika Dharmapala, whose 152nd birth anniversary falls on the 17th of next month.  Quite apart from the invaluable service Anagarika did with regard …

Score of internationally wanted Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists are living in Canada as Canadian citizen.

The CTV Toronto reported that the case raises questions about the weight of Interpol notices as well as how the Canadian government deals with people …

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By Shamindra Ferdinando

The US has refrained from making its position clear on Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Wignewaran’s request that the visiting American medical personnel examine the rehabilitated LTTE cadres to find out whether …

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By Malinda Seneviratne

Small nations typically do not have much by way of bargaining power vis-à-vis powerful nations; ‘small’ meaning economically and militarily weak rather than land size. Weak, however, does not mean helpless. Indeed there are very few if …

The Joint Opposition, JO  has written to Speaker of the parliament, Mr. Karu Jayasooriya  on the matter of Office of Missing Person, OMP  Bill’s inconsistency with constitution  and standing orders. The very controversial Bill, widely drafted to frame the War …

“Now that the US has undertaken the examination of some of the former LTTE cadres, according to Wigneswaran, the onus is on Washington to reveal the findings of its investigations if it fulfils its promise to the Northern CM; the

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By Shamindra Ferdinando

Chairperson of the Office for National Unity and Reconciliation Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga during a two-day visit to Jaffna beginning Aug. 11, 2016 took credit for scoring impressive battlefield victories during her tenure as …

A high profile state function attended by Americans, US army officers, US Ambassador, Government Ministers, Pro-LTTE TNA MPs and high ranking security forces officers had ignorance to discriminate Sinhala language in Jaffna.

Jaffna Army Commander and others government officials had …