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TamilNet is an online newspaper that provides news and feature articles on current affairs in Sri Lanka, specifically related to the erstwhile Sri Lankan Civil War. The website was formed by members of the Sri Lankan Tamil community residing in the United States and publishes articles in English, [ 1 ] German and French.
The 2008–2009 SLA Northern offensive was an armed conflict in the northern Province of Sri Lanka between the military of Sri Lanka and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The battle began with a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) offensive attempting to break through the LTTE defence lines in the north of the island, aiming to conclude ...
Taraki Sivaram or Dharmeratnam Sivaram (11 August 1959 – 28 April 2005) was a popular Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka.He was kidnapped by four men in a white van on 28 April 2005, in front of the Bambalapitya police station.
The following is a list of commanders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, a separatist militant Tamil nationalist organisation, which operated in northern and eastern Sri Lanka from the late 1970s to May 2009, until it was defeated by the Sri Lankan Military.
Tamilnet is a controversial but an essential news website that is a source of information on the current Sri Lankan civil war particularaly from minority Sri Lankan Tamil perspective. It is used extensively by the BBC, Reuters, AP and others as a source. There are controversies associated with this web site.
According to TamilNet, a pro-rebel website, the event attracted thousands of people in these countries including over 7,000 in France, [76] 30,000 in England [77] and over 75,000 in Canada. [78] Australia is said to have attracted about 2000 people displayed the Australian flag, Tiger symbol and picture of Velupillai Prabhakaran. [79]
On 24 December, when the captain of the crew was contacted by TamilNet and when asked whether the Sri Lanka Navy and the Sea Tigers have engaged in a military standoff, the ship captain told that, "this, I guess is all political. We are all safe and we have good cooperation here. We were offered a good place to sleep." [57]
Vavuniya South Tamil Divisional Council was established as the local authority for Vavuniya DS Division, except for the town of Vavuniya which had its own local authority. However, according to the pro-LTTE TamilNet, the Sri Lankan government had suspended all local government in the north and east of the country in 1983 using emergency ...