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Last Sunday Samapnthan by appealing for the support of India and the international community for the establishment of a ‘Tamil Homeland’ , has one more time began to mislead the Tamils towards another unknown period of a disastrous future.

In a statement released by Tamils Against Tyrany, a new group that has emerged to safeguard the Tamils of Sri Lanka has categorically pointed out that the Tamil should not at any given circumstances trsut in the empty promises of Sarath Fonseka, though R. Sampanthan, the leader of the Tamil National Alliance has anounced his support to the retired general.

Kathmandu, 12 January, (Asiantribune.com): Senior Maoist leaders on Monday visited different places along Indo-Nepal border as a part of their ongoing fourth phase of agitation to 'inspect' the territories allegedly encroached upon by India.

This is the first time generation Y (born after 1980) in Sri Lanka celebrated their new year with peace and prosperity. (Though this is not a traditional Sinhala –Tamil New Year there is a significance of this at least as a new calendar year). But because of the election environment and the current situation people of the county could not celebrate.

Sri Lanka is in need of healing according to a forum working in the psychosocial sector. The Psychosocial Forum, established 12 years ago, says over two and a half decades of conflict coupled with the devastating tsunami of 2004 have affected the psychosocial well-being of communities to different levels of intensity.

In a New Year Message being circulated on internet in record time on a planetary scale, retired Army General and Presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka, declares his faith in “voluntarism” and calls upon internautes for “their support to reach out to every Sri Lankan, spreading the message of change for our great nation by volunteering with our campaign, recruiting more volunteers to campaign in (their) neighborhoods, signing up for our manifesto updates, Facebook updates, email and mobile alerts, sending out emails to your fellow citizens encouraging them to vote for change and to send us your valuable feed back to make this movement for change a reality.” The retired Army General also appeals to internautes to “join the Fonseka Facebook fan page.”