Алекс
09-17-2007, 10:03 PM
http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_8653.shtml
http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/uploads/norway_election.jpg
Oslo – This is the first time great numbers of Tamil immigrants were elected to the public office in Norway. Diaspora Tamil community in Europe and North America are showing greater interests in local politics and many Tamils are elected to the public offices in these countries to serve all the communities in the respective area, according to the sources in Norway.
Fifteen Sri Lankan origin Tamils were contested the local council election on last Monday. At least 8 Tamil contestants to the local council election were elected to the public offices as councilors in Norway.
Hamsayini Gunaratnam was elected to the Greater Oslo city council with 2, 123 votes. She contested the election under the banner of Labour party and 18 of 59 Labour contestants were elected as councilors for Greater Oslo council.
Thusyianthy Ganachandra and Sumathy Viyajaraj both were elected for Grorud and Stovner city councils respectively as councilors under the banner of Labour party.
Thilakavathy Shanmuganathan elected as a councilor for Lawrence city council, and she is the first councilor with immigrant background.
Pulenthiran Kanagaratnam and Athithan Kumarasamy both were elected for Grorud and Stovner respectively as councilors for the local councils under the banner of Socialist party.
Maria Sriharan was elected for the Thuromsa local council while Anpalagan Ratnasingham elected to Norweic as councilors under the banner of Red Alliance party.
Close to one million Tamils were displaced to Europe, North America, Australia, India and many other countries of the world to escape the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka. The war which was going on for more than three decades claimed at least 80,000 so far and Tamils in Sri Lanka saying, they were discriminated [against] by the majority Sinhalese community and treated as second-class citizens in their own county for more than five decades.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is involved in armed struggle to establish an independent state for the Tamils in Sri Lanka since late seventies. Norway inspired Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) back in 2002 between the government and the LTTE brought relative peace for short period. CFA is only valid in paper as violence has intensified between both government and the LTTE.
Last 2 years of escalating violence in Sri Lanka alone claimed at least 5,400 people lives while thousands were either abducted or disappeared and close to half a million people were internally displaced in the north and east of Sri Lanka with limited access to food, medicines and other basic essentials according to the international rights groups.
:)
http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/uploads/norway_election.jpg
Oslo – This is the first time great numbers of Tamil immigrants were elected to the public office in Norway. Diaspora Tamil community in Europe and North America are showing greater interests in local politics and many Tamils are elected to the public offices in these countries to serve all the communities in the respective area, according to the sources in Norway.
Fifteen Sri Lankan origin Tamils were contested the local council election on last Monday. At least 8 Tamil contestants to the local council election were elected to the public offices as councilors in Norway.
Hamsayini Gunaratnam was elected to the Greater Oslo city council with 2, 123 votes. She contested the election under the banner of Labour party and 18 of 59 Labour contestants were elected as councilors for Greater Oslo council.
Thusyianthy Ganachandra and Sumathy Viyajaraj both were elected for Grorud and Stovner city councils respectively as councilors under the banner of Labour party.
Thilakavathy Shanmuganathan elected as a councilor for Lawrence city council, and she is the first councilor with immigrant background.
Pulenthiran Kanagaratnam and Athithan Kumarasamy both were elected for Grorud and Stovner respectively as councilors for the local councils under the banner of Socialist party.
Maria Sriharan was elected for the Thuromsa local council while Anpalagan Ratnasingham elected to Norweic as councilors under the banner of Red Alliance party.
Close to one million Tamils were displaced to Europe, North America, Australia, India and many other countries of the world to escape the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka. The war which was going on for more than three decades claimed at least 80,000 so far and Tamils in Sri Lanka saying, they were discriminated [against] by the majority Sinhalese community and treated as second-class citizens in their own county for more than five decades.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is involved in armed struggle to establish an independent state for the Tamils in Sri Lanka since late seventies. Norway inspired Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) back in 2002 between the government and the LTTE brought relative peace for short period. CFA is only valid in paper as violence has intensified between both government and the LTTE.
Last 2 years of escalating violence in Sri Lanka alone claimed at least 5,400 people lives while thousands were either abducted or disappeared and close to half a million people were internally displaced in the north and east of Sri Lanka with limited access to food, medicines and other basic essentials according to the international rights groups.
:)