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Friday, February 13, 2009

இலங்கை சமாதானச் செயற்பாட்டாளர் பிலிப்பைன்ஸ் நாட்டில் கடத்தப்பட்டார்


இலங்கையைச் சேர்ந்த சமாதானச் செயற்பாட்டாளர் ஒருவர் பிலிப்பைன்ஸின் தென் பகுதியில் வைத்துக் கடத்தப்பட்டுள்ளதாக அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

ஓமர் ஜலீல் என்ற இந்த இலங்கையர் பிலிப்பைன்ஸின் கரையோர நகரமான லமித்தான் என்ற இடத்திலுள்ள அவரது வாசஸ்தலத்தில் வைத்தே கடத்தப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

அல்கைதா அமைப்பின் இராணுவப் பிரிவைச் சேர்ந்த ஒன்பது பேர் கொண்ட ஆயுதபாணிகள் இவரை இன்று (13) அதிகாலையில் கடத்திச் சென்றுள்ளதாக ஏ.பி செய்தி வெளியிட்டுள்ளது.


Activist kidnapped in Philippines




A Sri Lankan peace activist has been kidnapped at gunpoint by Philippine fighters suspected of taking a group of Red Cross workers three weeks ago, police have said.

Omar Jalil, 36, a member of the Nonviolent Peaceforce group, was seized on Friday by nine gunmen from his residence in the coastal town of Lamitan on the island of Basilan.

The organisation he was with has been monitoring the decades-old Muslim separatist uprising in the country's south, Salik Macapantar, Basilan's police chief, said.

The Sri Lankan is the latest victim in a spate of kidnappings across the southern Philippines.

Alexander Pama, a Philippine navy commander, said the gunmen ransacked the activist's home before dawn on Friday before dragging him out.

"They fled on foot towards the interior of the island," he said.

The Filipino caretaker of the house, who was shot at, managed to escape unharmed.

Al-Rasheed Sakalahul, the provincial vice-governor, said the caretaker was guiding the Philippine military in combing the nearby jungle to try to locate the hostage.

Police say Jalil is thought to have been taken by members of the Abu Sayyaf, a group of fighters that Philippine and Western intelligence agencies have linked to al-Qaeda.

Last month suspected Abu Sayyaf fighters kidnapped three Red Cross workers including two Europeans.

They are currently being held hostage on the island of Jolo, near to Basilan.

The Abu Sayyaf, notorious for ransom kidnappings and a string of high-profile attacks, is also holding captive three teachers, a nine-year-old boy and an employee of a Basilan money lending company.

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The rest of the world might never understand the violence Velupillai Prabhakaran stood for, but its imprint on Sri Lanka is wide and deep. For 26 years, the elusive leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had waged war with the government to win an independent homeland, or eelam, for the island's Tamil minority. The struggle claimed more than 70,000 lives--including, on May 18, Prabhakaran's. The government says he was killed, along with 17 of his trusted lieutenants, while fleeing an army ambush.

Prabhakaran, 54, was born to a middle-class family on the Jaffna Peninsula. Incensed by discrimination against Tamils and radicalized by a militant grade-school teacher, Prabhakaran founded the LTTE in 1976, a year after a group he headed claimed responsibility for killing Jaffna's mayor. By 1983 the guerrilla movement--which pioneered suicide bombings and the recruitment of child soldiers--escalated the fighting into a civil war.

At the height of his power earlier this decade, Prabhakaran led a de facto government that controlled vast swaths of territory and boasted its own systems of taxes, roads and courts. As the army closed in, he allegedly used thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields. By the final days, just 250 LTTE members remained. They died too, along with the dream of eelam.

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