| 27/04/2008, 01:35am, Sun. | Lanka Dissent |
| Govt. says no to Madhu Church as zone of peace |
The government has rejected a request by the catholic community that
the historic Madhu Shrine in Mannar be declared a zone of peace. Speaking to 'Lanka Dissent', a senior military official said the
refusal has come after defence authorities requested the President that
the church should not be allowed to fall into the hands of the LTTE yet
again. (See photos)
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| 20/04/2008, 07:30am, Sun. | National Post |
| Impose sanctions on Sri Lanka, report urges |
Canada should impose sanctions on Sri Lanka in response to the
country's deteriorating human rights record, says a report that was to
be released at a Conservative party fundraiser last night. The report, written by a group of Ontario lawyers and Canadians of Sri
Lankan origin, says the rule of law is collapsing in the war-torn South
Asian nation, where there have been rising government-backed killings
and abductions.
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| 17/04/2008, 09:59am, Thu. | Lanka Dissent |
| Rajitha didn’t represent govt. at talks with Solheim - Keheliya |
Minister Rajitha Senaratne did not act as a representative of the Sri
Lankan government when he met with Norwegian International Development
Minister Eric Solheim in Oslo recently, Defence Spokesman Keheliya
Rambukwella said today (Apr. 17th).
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| 31/03/2008, 10:36am, Mon. | The Nation |
| Beleaguered or brotherly? |
India’s two-faced two-tongued policy of blowing hot and cold on its
willingness to supply Sri Lanka’s military needs, while expressing
displeasure at Sri Lanka going ‘elsewhere’ for same, is a political ill
wind that blows nobody in the region any good, least of all for India
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| 25/02/2008, 03:59am, Mon. | Lanka eNews |
| Angela Kane, civilian killings and Mount Lavinia bomb |
UN General Secretary Ban Ki Moon's special envoy Ms. Angela Cane
arrived in Sri Lanka on February 20. Reporting her impending visit
under heading 'UN Secretary General sends a special envoy to Sri Lanka
to probe civilian killings' on February 17, we made the following
warning.
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| 11/02/2008, 09:13am, Mon. | Lanka Truth |
| Rama Mani deported |
Dr. Rama Mani, Executive Directress of International Centre for Ethnic
Studies (ICES) has been deported to France states Department of
Immigration & Emigration
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| 11/02/2008, 09:03am, Mon. | South Asian Media |
| I want Prabhakaran alive: President |
President Mahinda Rajapaksa says he wants LTTE leader, Velupillai
Prabhakaran captured alive to face charges of crimes committed by him
including the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv
Gandhi who was killed by a suicide bomber during an election rally in
India.
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| 01/02/2008, 11:12am, Fri. | Gulf Times |
| ‘India trying to stop Lanka forces from defeating Tigers’ |
A radical Sri Lankan nationalist party leader has accused India of
trying to stop the Sri Lankan Army from defeating the Tamil Tiger
rebels militarily.
India was forcing Sri Lanka to accept a political power-sharing
arrangement with the minority Tamils now only to thwart the Sri Lankan
Army’s successful campaign to crush the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE), charged K D Lalkantha, member of the Sri Lankan
parliament representing the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP).
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| 30/01/2008, 10:29am, Wed. | Lanka Dissent |
| Keheliya disturbed by Mannar Bishop remark |
Defence Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella has rejected a statement by
Mannar Bishop Rev. Rayappu Joseph that the actual details of
yesterday’s (Jan. 30th) blast in Periyamadu could have been known, had
the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission been in operation.
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| 25/04/2008, 08:16am, Fri. | AFP |
| Sri Lanka lost 185 soldiers in Jaffna battle: military sources |
At least 165 government soldiers were killed and 20 more went missing
in a major battle against Tamil rebels this week, military sources told
AFP on Friday. The figures were far higher than official defence ministry casualties
which gave 43 soldiers dead and 33 missing from Wednesday's fighting in
the north.
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| 19/04/2008, 10:06am, Sat. | Lanka Dissent |
| FMM treasurer threatened, demanding ransom |
In a press release, the Free Media Movement (FMM) reveals that that its
Treasurer, K. Rushangan, has received threats demanding the payment of
a ransom before 25th April 2008 or face being abducted. The phone number registered on Rushangan's mobile phone was 0774 343791.
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| 05/04/2008, 08:45am, Sat. | Lanka Dissent |
| Sangaree and others contradict Thimpu Now |
I chose to write this essay as an open letter addressing you, after
reading the news item “Grave concern over STF pull out from East; TULF”
in the online edition of the DM on 22nd March, that quotes you very
much on that issue.
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| 14/03/2008, 12:20pm, Fri. | Yahoo! News |
| India meddling in Sri Lanka affairs, says JVP |
A leader of Sri Lanka's third largest political party asserts that
India is again interfering in the country's affairs by forcing Colombo
to devolve powers to minorities. Vijitha Herath of the Sinhala-Marxist Janatha Vimukti Peramuna (JVP)
also said in an interview here that India's backing for a power sharing
formula amounted to giving ideological backing to the Tamil Tigers.
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| 19/02/2008, 10:59am, Tue. | BBC |
| More Tamils 'abducted by police' |
Seven people were kidnapped in Colombo says Mano Ganeshan . Police in Sri Lanka are abducting Tamils in Colombo "like dogs", a leading human rights campaigner says. Convener of the civil monitoring committee (CMC) and leader of the
Western People’s Front (WPF) said: "since 12th February seven people
were kidnapped by white van in Colombo".
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| 11/02/2008, 09:06am, Mon. | The Times of india |
| Look Beyond the LTTE |
Sri Lanka is at the crossroads. The Mahinda Rajapakse administration
has officially called off the ceasefire agreement with the LTTE and
seems convinced that a peacefully negotiated settlement to the
three-decade-old ethnic strife is impossible. Since the ceasefire was
annulled a month ago, over 300 people have been killed in battle and in
bomb attacks and blasts.
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| 03/02/2008, 10:27am, Sun. | Lanka eNews |
| LTTE air raid warning on the independence day |
Intelligence wings have warned the government that the LTTE might fly
its aircrafts on the 60th Independence Day celebrations on February 04.
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| 30/01/2008, 11:01am, Wed. | Lanka eNews |
| Gota turns villain with the power of his brother |
"MP Maheswaran had business engagements with LTTE and finally got
killed by them. The investigations and DNA tests have definitely proved
it. If the suspect was not caught, theat killing could also go to the
account of the Government," says Defense Ministry Secretary Gotabhaya
Rajapakse in an interview with Lankadeepa newspaper on 27 January.
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| 28/01/2008, 03:26am, Mon. | Lanka Dissent |
| Media censorship & defamation law should be introduced at once - Gotabhaya |
Under the current war situation, media censorship and defamation law
should be established immediately, said Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. In its publication on Jan.27th, the ‘Sunday Lankadeepa’ reports a
lengthy interview with the defence secretary on the current war
situation.
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| 27/01/2008, 09:43am, Sun. | AFP |
| Sri Lanka defence chief calls for ban on Tamil Tigers: report |
Sri Lanka's defence secretary has called for a ban on the Tamil Tigers
and said the ongoing military campaign was aimed at destroying the
rebels' top leaders, a report said. Rajapakse, who is President Mahinda Rajapakse's younger brother, said
the military had started a campaign to capture rebel-held areas in the
island's north, after securing the east last year.
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