04/17/2011
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New Straits Times (Malaysia)
Attempts to map out the future course of Sri Lanka’s Tamil community and elect a leadership from among its diaspora have proved disastrous, writes NEVILLE DE SILVA
04/09/2011
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TamilNet
The US Asst Secretary of State Robert O Blake has set a wrong precedence by choosing to respond to a chauvinistic Sinhala perspective appeared in The Island editorial that “the United States does not support separatism but rather a united, peaceful and democratic Sri Lanka.” In doing so, Blake insults the democratic mandate of the nation of Eezham Tamils and encourages a terrorist state that openly commits genocide on one hand and blatantly denies even an iota of its human rights abuses on the other. The rhetoric of Blake, ‘peace, democracy and united Sri Lanka’, is a historically proven bundle of contradictions that always went against the nation of Eezham Tamils, writes TamilNet political commentator in Colombo.
04/08/2011
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The Island
Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Robert O. Blake says in a letter to The Island in response to our recent reports on his meetings with members of the Global Tamil Forum etc that the US does not support separatism and he has never met individuals or organisations that espouse terror or violence.
06/12/2010
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Sify
New Delhi: A Sri Lankan Tamil minister who accompanied President Mahinda Rajapaksa to India says the Tamil diaspora's refusal to give up the Tamil Eelam dream is only hurting his community.
05/02/2010
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The Globe and Mail
Tamil Canadians turned out by the thousands to cast ballots in a controversial election, described as “illegal” by Sri Lankan officials, to choose members for a “transnational government” of a non-existent Tamil state within the South Asian island country.
Turnout was reportedly high in Toronto, which is home to more than half of Canada’s estimated 200,000 Sri Lankan Tamils, many of whom fled their country after civil war broke out between the separatist Tamil Tigers and the national government in 1983.
03/19/2010
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CBC
Logan Logendralingam is taking a break, although you wouldn't know it, given the barrage of phone calls and staff interruptions he fields.
The editor of one of Canada's largest Tamil newspapers, Uthayan — a Scarborough, Ont., weekly —Logendralingam can be forgiven all the distractions. He was on deadline to put out his newspaper and also to help solve a crime.
03/13/2010
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BBC
The Sri Lankan political party closest to the defeated Tamil Tiger rebel movement has dropped a demand for a separate Tamil homeland.
Eelam, LTTE, separatism, TNA