Prabhakaran

Political poster war in Tamil Nadu over Sri Lankan issue

Written by Uma Sudhir | Sunday March 24, 2013

A political poster war is playing out in Tamil Nadu over the Sri Lankan issue. Ironically, rival parties are groups are using the same face, of a 12-year-old boy, to score political points. Balachandran, son of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, has ...

Blog: The face that launched a thousand protests

Written by Uma Sudhir | Thursday March 21, 2013

One of the first things that I noticed on the drive from Chennai's Meenambakkam airport to Chennai's IT hub,Tidel Park was the posters all along the route. The face that launched a thousand ships they say, but this one is of an innocent 12-year-old, ...

Blog: Infosys employee on why he joined protests against Lanka

Lalith Raja MS | Thursday March 21, 2013

Finally, a group that has been endlessly and mindlessly accused as the sole reason behind price rise, skyrocketing house rents and wayward lifestyle, has come out of plush air conditioned office cubicles to the streets to join hands and express solid...

UN Rights Council to vote on resolution on Sri Lanka

Nick Cumming Bruce, The New York Times | Tuesday March 19, 2013

The UN Human Rights Council is preparing to vote this week on a resolution that urges Sri Lanka to deliver on promises to investigate allegations of mass civilian slaughter in the army campaign that crushed a rebel group in May 2009. It also expresse...

Tamil Nadu shuts down colleges to prevent student protests against Sri Lanka

Reported by Sam Daniel; edited by Mala Das | Friday March 15, 2013

The government has asked 438 arts and science colleges in Tamil Nadu to be closed immediately till further orders as student organisations across the state gear up to organise massive protests from Monday.

Students on hunger strike demand India should vote against Sri Lanka at UN meet

Sam Daniel Stalin (With PTI inputs) | Wednesday March 13, 2013

Protests by college students in Tamil Nadu on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue continued today in a bid to mount pressure on India to vote against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council meet in Geneva later this month. Several political parties, includi...

India should vote against Sri Lanka at UN, Karunanidhi reiterates

Reported by J Sam Daniel Stalin; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt (with inputs from agencies) | Sunday March 3, 2013

The DMK in Tamil Nadu is mounting pressure on the Centre to vote against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The US is moving a motion against Sri Lanka on war crimes and rights violations against Tamil civilians during the ...

Sri Lanka rejects film on alleged war crimes shown at United Nations as 'orchestrated campaign'

Reuters | Saturday March 2, 2013

A documentary purporting to show the execution of civilians and other war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan army had its first public screening on Friday but was swiftly rejected by the government as part of an "orchestrated campaign" against it.

Mahinda Rajapakse denies Sri Lankan army killed LTTE chief's son

Agence France Presse | Saturday March 2, 2013

Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapakse has firmly denied that government troops had executed the 12-year-old son of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran in 2009.

Choose your friends, ally DMK tells government over Lanka policy

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Wednesday February 27, 2013

The Congress' biggest ally, the DMK, today said it had lost faith in the government as it joined opposition parties in demanding that India make its stand clear on alleged war crimes by the Sri Lankan government against Tamils in that country. In a s...

Slogan-shouting during President's address to Parliament

Press Trust of India | Thursday February 21, 2013

DMK and AIADMK MPs shouted slogans over Sri Lankan Tamil issue during the maiden address of President Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament on Thursday.

Jayalalithaa cancels Asian Athletics Championships, says she won't host Sri Lankans

Sam Daniel Stalin (With inputs from agencies) | Thursday February 21, 2013

Tamil Nadu will not host the Asian Athletics Championships scheduled for July, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said, because the Centre has not asked Sri Lanka to skip the event.

Photos of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's son morphed: Sri Lanka

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday February 20, 2013

Sri Lanka's envoy to India said on Wednesday that photographs showing the late LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's son alive before being killed were morphed.

Killing of LTTE chief's son is a war crime, says Jayalalithaa

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday February 20, 2013

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday described as "a war crime" the alleged cold-blooded killing of the son of the late Tamil Tigers' chief Velupillai Prabhakaran.

Sri Lanka denies LTTE chief's son was killed in cold blood

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Wednesday February 20, 2013

New photographs have emerged claiming that the 12-year-old son of the LTTE leader Prabhakaran was killed in cold blood by Sri Lankan forces.