| 29/04/2008, 09:36am, Tue. | Sri Lanka Watch |
| Another Clergy Brutally Murdered |
The demise of Rt.Rev.Fr. Karunaratnam is another example of the inhuman
action of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL). One can understand the
government targeting the military and economic targets of the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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| 06/09/2007, 04:46am, Thu. | TamilNet |
| Colombo aims to carve out Sinhala district between North and East - Sampanthan |
The Government of Sri Lanka is giving in for the demands of the extreme
nationalist Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), with its plans a foot to carve
out a Sinhala district between Trincomalee district in the Eastern
Province and Mullaiththeevu in the Northern Province, aiming to split
the geographical contiguity of the Tamil homeland, charged R. Sampanthan, the senior Tamil parliamentarian and the parliamentary group leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).
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| 17/07/2007, 08:45am, Tue. | Khaleej Times |
| Rajapaksa the liberator? |
THE victory at Thoppigala last week brought the Eastern Province, one of Sri Lanka’s nine administrative provinces, under the control of the government. The defeat of the LTTE in the east is, no doubt, a victory for the security forces.
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| 16/07/2007, 01:14pm, Mon. | The Hindu |
| 14 soldiers die in heavy fighting in Sri Lanka |
2At least 14 soldiers were killed and 34 injured in heavy fighting in
the north even as the military claimed to have ambushed several parties
of Tamil Tigers cadres fleeing the east. The LTTE on Sunday handed over
bodies of four soldiers to the ICRC.
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| 11/07/2007, 10:13am, Wed. | Yahoo! News |
| Sri Lanka claims capture of key Tiger base |
Sri Lanka on Wednesday claimed its forces had captured a key Tamil
Tiger base in the east of the island after months of clashes, as Norway
tried to renew peace efforts by meeting with the rebels.
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| 10/07/2007, 10:30am, Tue. | Yahoo! News |
| Tigers slow Sri Lanka advance on key jungle base |
"We have captured about 98 percent of the territory, but the balance
two percent won't be in a matter of days," Rambukwella said, dismissing
media reports that troops were about to take Thoppigala. "It may even take two years," he said.
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| 07/07/2007, 04:45pm, Sat. | Yahoo! News |
| Sri Lanka says 19 killed in attacks |
Fifteen Tamil Tiger rebels were shot dead as they fled from troops on tractors, the Sri Lankan government said, while four people were killed elsewhere in the embattled island. The number of dead in violence on Friday was the biggest one-day toll in weeks in the tropical nation where the rebels are fighting for an independent homeland for minority ethnic Tamils.
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| 30/06/2007, 01:17pm, Sat. | Asian Tribune |
| Sri Lanka: Karuna’s cadres kill chairman of a local council in the east |
Thillainathan Uthayakumar (35 yrs), Chairman of Thirukkoavil Pradeshya Sabah in the Ampaa’rai district, was shot and killed by the armed cadres of Karuna group. He was shot yesterday night around 8. 30 p.m. outside Uthayakumar’s house at Vinaayakapuram in Akkaraippattu.
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| 07/09/2007, 11:30am, Fri. | Colombo Page |
| Sri Lanka Muslims deny acceptance of new Eastern Province flag |
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, the major constituent of the minority
community that accounts to 7% of the nearly 20 million population of
the country, says that the new flag designed by the recently set up
Eastern Province does not represent the Muslim community.
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| 25/07/2007, 12:23pm, Wed. | Lanka eNews |
| A semi-military rule for the Eastern Province |
Sri Lanka Army Eastern Commander Major General Parakrama Pannipitiya
has advised the security chiefs and the civil administrators by a
circular that the NGOs should not be allowed to engage independently in
the development work in the recently liberated Eastern Province.
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| 12/07/2007, 05:26pm, Thu. | Daily Mirror |
| Toppigala capture a success but holding it difficult - Harry |
The former Air Force commander, Air Marshall Harry Goonetilleke, said that the capture of Thoppigala was a major success for the military. He observed, however, that holding the area would be very costly.
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| 10/07/2007, 12:11pm, Tue. | Associated Press |
| Sri Lanka Cites Success Against Rebels |
Army commandos seized a massive rocky plateau nicknamed "Tora Bora" and
searched grassy fields and brush Monday looking for as many as 200
Tamil Tiger rebels -- the last organized resistance, the military said,
to government forces in eastern Sri Lanka.
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| 10/07/2007, 09:55am, Tue. | Int. Herald Tribune |
| Military says it should complete capture of eastern Sri Lanka by end of July |
Sri Lankan army commandoes seized a massive rocky plateau nicknamed
"Tora Bora" and searched through grassy fields and brush Monday looking
for as many as 200 Tamil Tiger rebels — the last organized resistance
to the government forces in eastern Sri Lanka, the military said.
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| 06/07/2007, 12:43pm, Fri. | The Hindu |
| Huge arms seizure in Sri Lanka |
On the eastern front, police commandos clashed with a group of LTTE cadres in the Ampara district on Wednesday night. During the subsequent search, the troops found two bodies along with two T-56 riffles and three hand grenades. The STF suffered no casualties, the military said.
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