Posts Tagged ‘News’
Tamil refugees face deportationBy Editor - March 21st, 2010 |
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In the Christmas Island detention centre’s Alpha Compound — a maximum security-style section holding refugees from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka — Tamil refugees are desperately appealing to the Australian government not to send them back to Sri Lanka. Three Tamils recently had their refugee claims rejected, but are fighting the decision. But the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) could harm their bid for protection. The agency said it was “actively reviewing” and may “downgrade” its international protection guidelines for Sri Lanka. Alarmingly, it is doing the same for Afghanistan. |
Get involved, Real War is Just Beginning : Dr.Brian SenewiratneBy Editor - March 20th, 2010 |
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I have never seen such a result in any poll on any subject anywhere in the world. To say that the overwhelming number of expatriate Tamils want a separate State, Tamil Eelam, would be a gross understatement. Despite my involvement in this over many years, I was taken aback by the result. It is a colonial construct [the State of Sri Lanka] that has failed. All that the Tamils are asking for, and what these current Referenda have endorsed overwhelmingly, is that this failed colonial construct be dismantled. |
Making a Singpore film in TamilBy Editor - March 19th, 2010 |
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MOST of the members of his team may not have understood his film, but that didn’t stop N. Mohamed Yahssir’s short Tamil film, CheckMATE, from bagging four awards at the Panasonic Digital Film Fiesta. The 25-year-old freelance television and film director and producer’s 11-minute movie that follows a conversation between a nine-year-old boy and a 50-year-old man over a chess game won the Best Film, Best Cinematography and Audience Favourite Film awards at the competition. |
Minimum Wage Increase – March 31, 2010By Editor - March 19th, 2010 |
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Minimum wage is the lowest wage rate an employer can pay an employee. Most employees are eligible for minimum wage, whether they are full-time, part-time, casual employees, or are paid an hourly rate, commission, piece rate, flat rate or salary. On March 31, 2010, the rates are going up. Here are the new rates. |
QTSA Performs for CharityBy Admin - March 17th, 2010 |
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On Friday, March 12, 2010 Tamil Students Association @ Queen’s University (QTSA) took part in a multicultural charity event donating towards two charities. One of the charities were Help Tammy Help Haiti, which raises funds for earthquake victims in Haiti. Grandmothers for Grandmothers is another charity in which grandmothers in Kingston help grandmothers in African nations… |
Art is powerful. It is heART.By Editor - March 16th, 2010 |
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Art is powerful. It tells stories in way that other mediums cannot. It’s so expressive, touching and beautiful. This story is about a 17-year who uses art as a tool, art as a weapon to promote positive messages. I don’t know her, but she inspired me. I hope she inspires you as well. We have many talented artists within our Tamil-Canadian community, and just imagine the work that could arise if they dug deep into their hearts and let their emotions spill onto a canvas. There is an upcoming Art Exhibition, Witness, and I look forward to this exhibition for that very reason, because art is powerful. It can move people, it speaks what we cannot say in words. |
Demand US to reveal more inculpatory war crimes evidence, urges BoyleBy Editor - March 16th, 2010 |
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While applauding the U.S. Government for revealing significant amount of details that point to complicity of Sri Lanka Government in committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, Professor Francis A. Boyle of University of Illinois College of Law, urged American Tamils to “pressure the relevant agencies of the United States government to produce as much evidence in public as they possibly can against the Rajapaksas, Fonseka, the GOSL General Staff, etc.” Prof. Boyle noted that “[t]he United States government did this once before against the Serbian genocidaires Milosevic, Karadzic et al. for what they did to the Bosnians and the Kosovars. The United States government can certainly do the same against the GOSL genocidaires against the Tamils,” Prof. Boyle said. |
Star earns 14 nominations for National Newspaper AwardsBy Editor - March 15th, 2010 |
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The Toronto Star has earned 14 nominations for the 2009 National Newspaper Awards. The awards will be handed out at a ceremony on May 14th in Toronto. One of the stories that is nominated was the picture that accompanied the story of 19-year-old Annu Indrakanthan who was beaten to death. In news feature photography, Pawel Dwulit was nominated for the photo of a child wiping tears from a father’s eyes after his son was killed outside a convenience store. |
‘Vanni Mouse’ wins best fiction award in international film festivalBy Editor - March 15th, 2010 |
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A Tamil short film directed by a diaspora Eezham Tamil winning the best award in an international festival is seen as a first with the short film titled ‘Vanni Mouse’, which has won the best film award in the fiction category in the nine-day 11th International Short and Independent Film Festival (ISIFF) at the Shaukat Osman auditorium of Central Public Library in Dhaka on Friday. Commenting on the award, Barrister S. J. Joseph of Eelavar Cine Arts Council, based in London told TamilNet on Monday that this was the first time an Eezham Tamil artist being awarded at an international film festival. |
Fiorito: Ship-bound Tamil refugees need helpBy Editor - March 12th, 2010 |
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What happens there happens here: a small wooden boat is sitting at anchor off the coast of Indonesia. It has been there for five months. On board are some 240 people who cannot come ashore for fear of arrest and deportation. They are Tamils. Five months on a boat meant for 50. You can imagine. No, you can’t.Some of them are from camps in Malaysia. All of them fled the recent war. The Indonesian government is doing nothing to help. Why should that matter to us? |
