வீட்டு பாடத்தை செய்யாததற்கான தண்டனையாக கடும் வெயிலில் நிற்க வைக்கப்பட்ட 11 வயது மாணவி மரணமான சம்பவம் தொடர்பாக இந்தியாவில் பள்ளிக்கூட தலைமை ஆசிரியரும், மற்றுமொரு துணை ஆசிரியரும் பணி இடைநீக்கம் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர். பல மணி நேரம் வெயிலில் நிற்கவைக்கப்பட்டதை அடுத்து மயங்கிவிழுந்த அந்த சிறுமி, டெல்லி மருத்துவமனையில் அனுமதிக்கப்பட்டு, பின்னர் மரணமானார். இந்த மரணம் தொடர்பாக பொலிஸார் விசாரணைகளை ஆரம்பித்துள்ளனர். இது ஒரு பெருந்துயரமான சம்பவம் என்று இந்தியாவின் பெண்கள் மற்றும் சிறார்களின் மேம்பாட்டுக்கான அமைச்சர் விபரித்துள்ளார். BBC நண்பர்களுக்கு [...]
முல்லைத்தீவு மாவட்டத்தில் உள்ள புதுக்குடியிருப்பு மக்கள் பாதுகாப்பு வலயத்தின் மீது இன்றும் சிறிலங்கா படையினர் நடத்திய தாக்குதல்களில் 102 தமிழர்கள் படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளதுடன் 156-க்கும் அதிகமானோர் படுகாயமடைந்துள்ளனர்.
Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent
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The Sri Lankan immigration officer's eyes narrowed as soon as she swiped my passport at Colombo's international airport last week.
"Come this way," she said, leading me into a side room, where a colleague typed my details into a computer. A message flashed up on his screen: "DO NOT ALLOW TO ENTER THE COUNTRY".
With that, my passport was confiscated, I was escorted to an airport detention room, locked up for the night, and deported the next day.
I can't say I was surprised – although it was my first deportation in 12 years of reporting from China, the former Soviet Union and South Asia.
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Despite multiple applications, I've been denied a journalist's visa for Sri Lanka since August – making it impossible to report first-hand on the Government's military campaign against the Tamil Tigers.
For almost two years, the Government has prevented most independent reporters from getting anywhere near the fighting, taking only a hand-picked few on day trips arranged by the army since January.
So I was trying to enter as a tourist (you can usually get a visa on arrival) to write about the 150,000 civilians the UN estimates are trapped in a no-fire zone with the remnants of the Tigers.
For the record, other countries where foreign journalists regularly have to pose as tourists include Zimbabwe, Turkmenistan, North Korea and Burma.
I know why I'm blacklisted: the Government thinks, or pretends to think, that I support the Tigers. That is nonsense. I have no personal connection to either side of this 26-year civil war.
I have repeatedly reported that the Tigers are banned in the EU, US and India as a terrorist group that uses civilians as human shields, forcibly recruits children and has killed thousands of innocent people.
But I have also reported criticism of the Government's strategy and tactics from ethnic Tamils and Sinhalese – mostly MPs, academics, aid workers, and former government officials.
This is what journalists do in a democracy – and even in more authoritarian states.
I regularly interview members of the Taleban in Afghanistan. In Russia, I reported on both sides of the Chechen conflict. In China, I interviewed dissidents and Tibetan independence activists.
To do the equivalent in Sri Lanka, however, is not only forbidden: it is highly dangerous if you are a local reporter.
The last time I visited (on a tourist visa after another failed application for a journalist's one), it was to write about Lasantha Wickrematunge, a Sri Lankan newspaper editor who was murdered in January.
He left behind a partly-written obituary in which he accused the Government of assassinating him because of his criticism of the war.
The Government denies this, but has yet to catch those who murdered him – or the 14 other media workers killed in Sri Lanka since 2006.
Another story that annoyed the Government was about its plan to keep all Tamils fleeing the fighting in camps run by the army and ringed by barbed wire for up to three years.
I sought reaction – as any reporter should – from representatives of the Tamil community (and one MEP with an interest in Sri Lanka), several of whom likened the plans to concentration camps.
The Government responded by denouncing me personally at a news conference (although it later toned down its plans following protests from the UN).
But the most surreal response came in a letter from Rajiva Wijesinha, the head of the Government's Peace Secretariat, who accused me of sensationalising the use of barbed wire in the camps.
"Unfortunately, a man from a cold climate does not realize that, in the sub-continent, barbed wire is the most common material to establish secure boundaries, to permit ventilation as well as views," he wrote.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6112835.ece
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The Sri Lankan immigration officer's eyes narrowed as soon as she swiped my passport at Colombo's international airport last week.
"Come this way," she said, leading me into a side room, where a colleague typed my details into a computer. A message flashed up on his screen: "DO NOT ALLOW TO ENTER THE COUNTRY".
With that, my passport was confiscated, I was escorted to an airport detention room, locked up for the night, and deported the next day.
I can't say I was surprised – although it was my first deportation in 12 years of reporting from China, the former Soviet Union and South Asia.
Times Archive
Call to Ceylon Tamils, 1956
Tamils' protest march to be banned
Hooliganism in Colombo
Related Links
UK Tamil Tigers 'chief' guilty of bombmaking
Fighting resumes in Sri Lanka
Tamil flags seized as Westminster protest grows
Despite multiple applications, I've been denied a journalist's visa for Sri Lanka since August – making it impossible to report first-hand on the Government's military campaign against the Tamil Tigers.
For almost two years, the Government has prevented most independent reporters from getting anywhere near the fighting, taking only a hand-picked few on day trips arranged by the army since January.
So I was trying to enter as a tourist (you can usually get a visa on arrival) to write about the 150,000 civilians the UN estimates are trapped in a no-fire zone with the remnants of the Tigers.
For the record, other countries where foreign journalists regularly have to pose as tourists include Zimbabwe, Turkmenistan, North Korea and Burma.
I know why I'm blacklisted: the Government thinks, or pretends to think, that I support the Tigers. That is nonsense. I have no personal connection to either side of this 26-year civil war.
I have repeatedly reported that the Tigers are banned in the EU, US and India as a terrorist group that uses civilians as human shields, forcibly recruits children and has killed thousands of innocent people.
But I have also reported criticism of the Government's strategy and tactics from ethnic Tamils and Sinhalese – mostly MPs, academics, aid workers, and former government officials.
This is what journalists do in a democracy – and even in more authoritarian states.
I regularly interview members of the Taleban in Afghanistan. In Russia, I reported on both sides of the Chechen conflict. In China, I interviewed dissidents and Tibetan independence activists.
To do the equivalent in Sri Lanka, however, is not only forbidden: it is highly dangerous if you are a local reporter.
The last time I visited (on a tourist visa after another failed application for a journalist's one), it was to write about Lasantha Wickrematunge, a Sri Lankan newspaper editor who was murdered in January.
He left behind a partly-written obituary in which he accused the Government of assassinating him because of his criticism of the war.
The Government denies this, but has yet to catch those who murdered him – or the 14 other media workers killed in Sri Lanka since 2006.
Another story that annoyed the Government was about its plan to keep all Tamils fleeing the fighting in camps run by the army and ringed by barbed wire for up to three years.
I sought reaction – as any reporter should – from representatives of the Tamil community (and one MEP with an interest in Sri Lanka), several of whom likened the plans to concentration camps.
The Government responded by denouncing me personally at a news conference (although it later toned down its plans following protests from the UN).
But the most surreal response came in a letter from Rajiva Wijesinha, the head of the Government's Peace Secretariat, who accused me of sensationalising the use of barbed wire in the camps.
"Unfortunately, a man from a cold climate does not realize that, in the sub-continent, barbed wire is the most common material to establish secure boundaries, to permit ventilation as well as views," he wrote.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6112835.ece
இரட்டைவாய்க்கால் சந்தியை கைப்பற்ற சிறிலங்கா கடும் முயற்சி - புலிகளின் தாக்குதலில் 500 படையினர் பலி : முல்லைத்தீவு - புதுக்குடியிருப்பு பகுதியில் உள்ள இரட்டைவாய்க்கால் சந்தியை கைப்பற்ற சிறிலங்கா படையினர் மேற்கொண்ட பாரிய படை நர்வு முயற்சிகளுக்கு எதிராக தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள் நடத்திய தாக்குதல்களில் 500-க்கும் அதிகமான படையினர் கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளதுடன் 600-க்கும் அதிகமானோர் படுகாயமடைந்துள்ளனர்.
மோதல் பிரதேசங்களில் உள்ள பொது மக்கள் வெளியேறும் பொருட்டு, இலங்கை அரசாங்கம் தற்காலிக யுத்த நிறுத்தம் ஒன்றினை மீண்டும் அறிவிக்க வேண்டும் என இந்தியா வலியுறுத்தியுள்ளது என்று பிரணாப் முகார்ஜி தெரிவித்துள்ளார். கொல்கத்தாவில் பிரணாப் முகர்ஜி செய்தியாளர்களிடம் கூறியதாவது : இலங்கை தமிழர்கள் மீதான தாக்குதல் கவலை அளிக்கிறது. இலங்கை நடவடிக்கைகளை இந்தியா கூர்மையாக கவனித்து வருகிறது. இராணுவத்தினரால் அப்பாவி தமிழர்கள் கொல்லப்படுவது மிகவும் வருத்தமளிக்கிறது. தமிழர்களின் பாதுகாப்பை ராஜபக்சே அரசு உறுதி செய்ய வேண்டும். இலங்கை தமிழர்களை காப்பாற்ற தேவையான முயற்சிகளை இந்திய எடுத்து வருகிறது.
மோதல் பிரதேசங்களில் உள்ள பொது மக்கள் வெளியேறும் பொருட்டு, இலங்கை அரசாங்கம் தற்காலிக யுத்த நிறுத்தம் ஒன்றினை மீண்டும் அறிவிக்க வேண்டும் என இந்தியா வலியுறுத்தியுள்ளது என்று பிரணாப் முகார்ஜி தெரிவித்துள்ளார். கொல்கத்தாவில் பிரணாப் முகர்ஜி செய்தியாளர்களிடம் கூறியதாவது : இலங்கை தமிழர்கள் மீதான தாக்குதல் கவலை அளிக்கிறது. இலங்கை நடவடிக்கைகளை இந்தியா கூர்மையாக கவனித்து வருகிறது. இராணுவத்தினரால் அப்பாவி தமிழர்கள் கொல்லப்படுவது மிகவும் வருத்தமளிக்கிறது. தமிழர்களின் பாதுகாப்பை ராஜபக்சே அரசு உறுதி செய்ய வேண்டும். இலங்கை தமிழர்களை காப்பாற்ற தேவையான முயற்சிகளை இந்திய எடுத்து வருகிறது.
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