A web site worthy of your esteemed clickage

Sri Lankans this is amazing! A GPS site where you can type in a mobile phone number and it finds exactly where the location person is (assuming the mobiles switched on). Try it out – it’s pretty accurate. In fact, in case you have lost your mobile, you can track with instrument. See, where science has taken us today.

Put in the first 4 digits in the first fields, and the remaining digits in the other field.
Click on this link

Hope this will cool off all the bad news, that we report from politics to Amnesty International cricket balls about Sri Lanka:-)

BTW … Just wanted to extend to everyone out there a happy and safe Easter weekend on behalf of all the folks here at Lanka Page!

Tamil Tigers Racket in Paris

By Walter Jayawardhana

As the Tamil Tigers’ fight for independence heats up again in the island nation of Sri Lanka, in Paris, Tamils who fled the fighting find they can never fully escape.

This is a video presentation from 24 hr International News Channel click here

LTTE is paying for its broadcasts and no pirates, records show

By Walter Jayawardhana

INTELSAT CORPORATION IS PAID OUT OF TERRORIST FUNDS TO BROADCAST ALQUEDA LINKED LTTE PROPAGANDA

Though the Washington D.C. based Intelsat Corporation at the beginning of March this year told reporters that the designated terrorist group in the United States the, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are pirates and using their satellite for their violent terrorist programs without paying money reliable government sources said that actually the communication giant is paid out of the outfit’s funds for those terrorist broadcasts and they are no pirates.

Intelsat Corporation higher-ups were quoted having told a website that the Tamil Tigers were pirates using their satellite illegally and they would be discontinued immediately.

But so far the propaganda broadcasts of the terrorist group are without hindrance being beamed across Europe, for which the armed outfit depend heavily for collecting funds for procurement of arms and planning further violence in Sri Lanka.

“LTTE is telecasting their National Television of Tamil Eelam (NTT) and broadcasting the Voice of Tigers (VOT) through INTELSAT 12 (frequency 11.506DHz) to viewers outside Sri Lanka. This has been happening since the end of 2006,” a Sri Lanka government official who does not want to divulge his name told this correspondent.

Records show , according to Lyng Sat, a chart showing all satellite Television channels and radio channels the NTT and VOT are subscribers of INTELSAT 12, managed by INTELSAT based in Washington DC.

The contents of the programs advocate violence and terrorism. The channels are sponsored by the LTTE to promote propaganda for their separatist cause.

After the designated terrorist group by the United States publicly announced that their propaganda programs will be beamed by the Washington based Corporation, the matter was taken up officially at the 31st Extraordinary Meeting of Parties of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) held in Paris from 20-23 March 2007.

David McGlade, CEO of INTELSAT was informed of this issue in person at the ITSO by Sri Lankan diplomatic officials. Mr. McGlade who had initially maintained the LTTE had pirated the TV and radio waves had promised to ensure the Tigers were no longer able to beam out through INTELSAT 12 .

Since no step had been taken to rectify the situation, a representative of the government of Sri Lanka sent a fax to the corporation reminding about the non-action . Mr. Phillip Spector, executive Vice President and General Counsel to the CEO got back to the official and protested why he sent a fax when this matter could have been mutually settled in a man to man discussion. The official reportedly told him that several attempts to contact them failed and his numerous calls were never returned. Apparently, he was upset why the protest this time came in a written form. When he was told the the satellite users were terrorists with links to Al Queda Spector reportedly reminded the Sri Lankan official that it should have been Sri Lanka’s look out to secure its borders. He is also reportedly told him if a thief comes to a grocery stores and steals, the grocery store owner couldn’t do anything about it. Mr. Spector, a leading Washington lawyer, studied law at the Harvard University and is recognized as an expert on the subject of communication law. But unfortunately Inelsat Corporation is having a long history of being paid by well recognized terrorist organizations to carry out their propaganda in the past.

In 2004 Intelsat was badly criticized by the US public for broadcasting propaganda of Al Manar, a TV station related to Hezbollah. It also carried propaganda of the MED-TV related to the Kurdish terrorist group in the past.

Incidentally, both groups have been linked to the LTTE. Meanwhile Ambassador Bernard Goonetilleke told this correspondent that his embassy is scheduled to discuss and sort out this problem with Intelsat on Tuesday and he cannot comment on it further.

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LTTE explodes the second bus bomb in a week

By Walter Jayawardhana

IN THE SECOND BUS BOMB IN A WEEK THE LTTE KILLS SIX CIVILIANS AND ONE SOLDIER ON LEAVE AND INJURES 26 OTHER PASSENGERS

Six civilians and a soldier traveling on holiday in a civilian bus were killed when terrorists of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam targeted the vehicle by a way side claymore bomb the military said.

“A LTTE claymore targeting a civilian bus exploded and killed seven and injured 26,” said Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe, the military spokesman.

This bus bombing that happened on April 7 is the second one exploded by the LTTE in a week targeting public transport after it exploded another bus bomb on Monday killing 17 people in the Eastern Province. Like in the case of the previous one LTTE military spokesman Rasiah Ilantheriyan (Marshal) said, this bus bomb that even victimized an army soldier is the work of the Sri Lanka Army.

The LTTE is involved in civilian killings at this time while suspected LTTE related “human rights organizations” are carrying on an orchestrated anti-Sri Lanka campaign at various platforms including the World Cricket Cup tournament in West Indies. The two bus bombings came after six Tsunami construction workers and four farmers were killed by LTTE terrorists in the Eastern Province.

The latest roadside explosion targeting the Sri Lanka Transport Board bus took place on Vavuniya -Mannar road at 7.30 a.m. Five passengers died on the spot while two died after admission to the Vavuniya General Hospital. The Sri Lanka Army said immediately after they heard the bombing army ambulances were rushed to the spot to evacuate the dead and the injured.

Blaming the LTTE the Sri Lanka Army sources said, hours before the blast, troops on search and clear operations in Vavuniya on Friday night found one land mine weighing some 15 kg (33 lb.), one claymore mine of about 4.5 kg (10 lb.), a pistol and 39 anti-personnel mines.

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