Any expatriate Tamils wanting consultant positions for Jaffna Municipality must contact Minister Douglas Devananda

நவம்பர் 27 கொலைகாரர்களின் தினம்:அமைச்சர் டக்ளஸ் தேவானந்தா

வீரகேசரி இணையம் 11/28/2009 5:13:11 AM - நவம்பர் 27 கொலைகாரர்களின் தினம் என சமூக சேவைகள் மற்றும் சமூக நலத்துறை அமைச்சர் டக்ளஸ் தேவானந்தா தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

விடுதலைப் புலிகளின் மாவீரர் தினமான நேற்று மன்னார் நகர மண்டபத்தில் இடம்பெற்ற நிகழ்வில் கலந்து கொண்டு உரையாற்றுகையில் அமைச்சர் இதனைத் தெரிவித்தார்.

அவர் மேலும் தெரிவிக்கையில்,

"இன்றைய தினம் கொலைகாரர்களின் தினம். உயிர் நீத்த போராளிகள் மக்களுக்காகவே உயிர் நீத்துள்ளனர். இவர்களை மன்னிக்க முடியும்.ஆனால் இதனை ஏவிவிட்டவர்கள் தற்போது

இல்லை.இவர்கள் அனைவரும் தங்களைத் தியாகம் செய்துள்ளனர்" எனத் தெரிவித்தார்.

இந்நிகழ்வின் போது மன்னார் மாவட்டத்திலுள்ள 7 பாடசாலைகளுக்கு 17 லட்சம் ரூபா பெறுமதியான பாடசாலை உபகரணங்களையும் அமைச்சர் பகிர்ந்தளித்தார். நிகழ்வில் சமூகசேவைகள்

அமைச்சின் உயர் அதிகாரிகளும்,மடு வலயக் கல்விப் பணிப்பாளர்,7 பாடசாலைகளினதும் அதிபர்கள் ஆகியோர் கலந்துகொண்டனர்.

இதனையடுத்து மன்னார்-தலைமன்னார் பிரதான வீதியிலுள்ள சிங்கள பாடசாலையில் தொண்டர் ஆசிரியர்கள் மற்றும் பட்டதாரி ஆசிரியர்களையும் அமைச்சர் டக்ளஸ் தேவானந்தா சந்தித்து

கலந்துரையாடினார்.




Any expatriate Tamils wanting consultant positions for Jaffna Municipality must contact Minister Douglas Devananda
by admin on Dec.02, 2009, under Sri Lanka
By Palmyra Beetle
Those who went on the delegation on a fact finding mission to Sri Lanka and met the President at the beginning of the year have become Douglas’s activists and consultants. So far, London based solicitor Rangan has been appointed as Municipal Councils legal consultant. Another London based Mylvaganam Sooriyasegaram has been engaged as consulting engineer. In addition, positions have been given to Dr Bala from London Dr Nadesan of Australia. According to information, many others have been approached and offered positions and they are said be undecided take on the positions.
A close Tamil ally of the President (name withheld) confirmed that whenever Douglas meet the President he always ask for ‘Sally’ (money). The President has said once: ‘I know how to handle Douglas. His main interest is money, once it is given he is subdued’.
(December 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The controversial paramilitary leader and the non-cabinet Minister Douglas Devananda is currently spearheading his one man show in the northern Jaffna peninsula. Heavily backed by the President and the military, Douglas is said to be enjoying absolute control over the affairs of Jaffna. His dictates is said to extending beyond the Jaffna municipal boundaries and people in Jaffna peninsula are said to fear for the arms held by his group. Minister Douglas Devananda and other Tamil paramilitary groups patronised by the President have not surrendered their weapons to the authorities yet.
Hiring and firing of officials by Douglas Devanada are said to be taking place in Jaffna without any check and balance by the government. In addition, his tight grip on Jaffna with the backing of the military is preventing other Tamil political parties to conduct their affairs in the peninsula.
Douglas Devananda’s Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) is said to be a one man’s show of its leader. Except for managing his party offices in Colombo and Jaffna, there are no general membership or branch level political activities of members. Further, EPDP had never held elections to select its party officials.

Following the defeat of the LTTE, the EPDP leader is on the spree to recruit some diaspora Tamils to work for him. His very loyal friends overseas are said to be providing to their leader details of individual Tamils who are opposed to the LTTE. Douglas is said to personally approaching them and offering titled appointments as consultants for the Jaffna Municipal Council. These title offers are said to be his triumph card to lure the expatriates in the fringes.

His roping exercise has been successful and many of those who went on the delegation on a fact finding mission to Sri Lanka and met the President at the beginning of the year have become Douglas’s activists and consultants. So far, London based solicitor Rangan has been appointed as Municipal Councils legal consultant. Another London based Mylvaganam Sooriyasegaram has been engaged as consulting engineer. In addition, positions have been given to Dr Bala from London Dr Nadesan of Australia. According to information, many others have been approached and offered positions and they are said be undecided take on the positions.

With the help of these extraordinary consultants, Douglas Devananda is planning to hold an international conference on the theme of ‘Development’ in Jaffna to attract more expatriate Tamils.

According to news filed in a leading newspaper in Colombo ‘The Douglas Devananda-led EPDP, a constituent party of the ruling UPFA, has laid down several conditions including a demand for a political

solution and power devolution beyond the 13th Amendment, if it is to support President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the upcoming presidential election’. Having failed to influence the President, to properly

implement the 13th Amendment without any manipulations in the East whilst serving as Minister, Douglas Devananda is now up in arms for devolution beyond the 13th amendment to the constitution. This is

said to be a combined effort of both the President and Minister Douglas Devananda to convince the Tamil voters to back the President in the forthcoming Presidential election.

A close Tamil ally of the President (name withheld) confirmed that whenever Douglas meet the President he always ask for ‘Sally’ (money). The President has said once: ‘I know how to handle Douglas. His main interest is money, once it is given he is subdued’.

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தொடரும் துரோகம்

Three captured LTTE ships being brought to Sri Lanka
First phase of govt. operation to seize Tigers’ overseas assets
Vessels expected to reach Colombo within next few days
by Norman Palihawadena

In what could be described as the third biggest blow to the LTTEsince the decimation of its leadership in the Vanni last May, followed by the arrest and ‘extraordinary rendition’ of its self-appointed leader and

chief arms procurer K. Pathmanadhan alias KP, Sri Lanka has seized three LTTE ships and is in the process of bringing them to Colombo, The Island learns.

The rogue vessels being brought to Sri Lanka by the Lankan Navy were expected to reach the Sri Lankan shores within the next two weeks, highly placed government sources said yesterday. They refused to

divulge the port of embarkation.

Information about the LTTE ships had been revealed to the security forces during the interrogation of KP arrested on August 6 from the capital of an Asian country and flown to Sri Lanka. He had provided

valuable information to the security forces on the past activities of the LTTE and the outfit’s future plans, sources said. Interpol had helped the security forces to act on information provided by KP, sources

said.

Information about local contacts of the LTTE, provided by KP, was being verified, source said.

The ships being brought to Sri Lanka under tight security are expensive craft used by the LTTE for transportation of arms, ammunition and human smuggling.

Earlier during the war, the Sri Lankan Navy destroyed 10 LTTE ships engaged in arms smuggling.

Sources said it was the first step in the Government’s endeavour to seize LTTE’s overseas assets.

"Such assets and high ranking LTTE cadres now hiding in foreign capitals will be captured soon and brought to Sri Lanka," source said.

Once Sri Lanka taken over the three ships, their agents had gone missing but Interpol was helping Sri Lanka to trace them, source said.

உயிர் வாழும் மாவீரர்

2000 ஆயிரம் பெண்போராளிகள் உட்பட 11000 புலிப்போராளிகள் பக்ச பாசிஸ்டுக்களின் வதைமுகாம்களில்!
Over 11,000 detained Tigers to vote at presidential election 2010
by Shamindra Ferdinando

Over 11,000 LTTE cadres, including 2,000 women are expected to be given an opportunity to exercise their franchise at the forthcoming presidential election.

The Election Secretariat has directed relevant authorities to take action in this regard.

The Election Secretariat, the Defence Ministry and Justice and Law Reforms Ministry will work out modalities to set up polling booths within detention facilities in the Northern region.

Prisoners are held at 17 centres, including three permanent detention facilities.

Recently, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that he would give the Vanni population an opportunity to vote at his re-election bid though the LTTE disrupted the last poll in November 2005.

Government sources said that this gesture would not be missed by the Tamil speaking people and the international community.


Sources said that this would expose those who accused President Rajapaksa of running concentration or internment facilities similar to death camps run by the Nazi Germany.

Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Major General Daya Ratnayake yesterday told The Island that they had categorised all detainees, including children and were in the process of launching a rehabilitation

programme. Responding to our queries, he said that ex-combatants had responded positively to the government programme supported by the international community.

Ratnayake, who played a key role in the liberation of the Eastern Province, said that the detainees would definitely welcome an opportunity to exercise their franchise. "We not only liberated civilians but

thousands of LTTE cadres," he said.

Contrary to criticism of detention centres, the government had allowed parents of the detainees to visit them. According to him, except for about 400 detainees, others had been able to meet their loved ones

regularly. "We are still trying to locate families of others," he said adding that INGO personnel, too, had been given access to detention facilities. He appreciated the support given by the UNICEF, IOM and

the World Food Programme (WFP) to run these centres.

The serving officer said that of the 586 under 18 persons, those who continue studies had been given an opportunity to study and the rest vocational training as part of the rehabilitation process.

Justice Minister Milinda Moragoda has visited detention facilities on several occasions to explore ways and means of improving the conditions.

Major General Ratnayake expressed confidence that the Vanni community would appreciate their liberation and action taken by the government to rehabilitate both civilians and combatants.

He said that the vast majority of them were fighting cadres, both men and women. He said that the rest was cross section, including political wing members and intelligence cadres.

The government yesterday also opened up welfare centres in the North, thereby helping ongoing efforts to restore normalcy in the region.

Earlier, the government had allowed INGOs to resume operations in the Vanni west in support of the resettlement programme.

ஒபாமா: ஆப்கானிஸ்தானில் ஆப்பிளுத்த குரங்கு

KAL's cartoon -Nov 26th 2009 -From The Economist print edition