| 01/05/2008, 09:27am, Thu. | Daily Mirror |
| Sinhala support for Govt.’s military campaign strong: PCI |
The Sinhala support for the Government's military campaign continues to
be strong whilst their support for peace talks has dropped to 16.6%
according to the results of the March 2008 Peace Confidence Index
survey (PCI).
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| 13/04/2008, 10:42am, Sun. | Tamil Canadian |
| Soldiers wail while VIPs cruise |
While the frontline soldiers in the army are off "crusading to preserve
the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the motherland" in the
deadly battles of the Wanni, some lucky souls associated to the army
have the privilege of ‘cruising’— no crusading for them — in a brand
spanking new Merdeces Benz W221 (2006) S350L.
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| 11/04/2008, 10:57am, Fri. | Sri Lanka Watch |
| Story behind the Army's new rockets |
Some international organizations have charged that the Sri Lanka Army
bought 10,000 missiles from Slovakia against European Union laws. This
is completely false. The procurement and storage of these weapons
occurred outside of Slovakia, in a non EU country.
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| 01/04/2008, 08:50am, Tue. | Washington Post |
| In Sri Lanka, Fear of Being 'Disappeared' |
Under thick tropical rains on a rutted country road, a bus packed with
ethnic Tamil families screeched to a stop here in eastern Sri Lanka. At
a heavily fortified government checkpoint, the families were ordered
off the bus.
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| 22/03/2008, 09:52am, Sat. | Sri Lanka Watch |
| Remembering the tiger stripes of AsianTribune.com Editor |
K. T Rajasigham can be defined as a one of the most degrading media man
who uses his web blog to spread venom and make money for his own
personal agendas. SLW presents you with writing series that K.T
Rajasigham produced for pro LTTE Sangam website during late nineties in
which he criticize Sinhalese people to the core.
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| 21/03/2008, 10:05am, Fri. | Sri Lanka Watch |
| Sri Lanka ranks world highest in disappearances |
The UN Working Group on Involuntary Disappearances found that,
presently Sri Lanka ranks as the country with the highest number in
disappearances in the world, even surpassing Iraq which had the world’s
highest number of disappearances in the recent past.
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| 15/03/2008, 10:01am, Sat. | Lanka eNews |
| Danger! JVP is arming again |
JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva said recently, "JVP will fight to
the fall of last member if the Provincial Councils that lead the
country towards separatism will be brought back. The Provincial
Councils that are to be brought to North and East are not the same
Provincial Councils that are in South. They will have land and police
powers.
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| 02/03/2008, 07:31am, Sun. | The Sunday Leader |
| The President's dance with the Tamil diaspora |
Nine members of the Tamil diaspora in the UK were gifted an all
expenses paid trip to Sri Lanka courtesy the Foreign Ministry to meet
President Rajapakse, prominent ministers and opposition
parliamentarians and to visit the north and east. The group was led by R. Jayadevan.
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| 22/02/2008, 10:33am, Fri. | Daily Mirror |
| Prabha is adept and resilient - Blake |
Says he will get fair trial if extridited to India. LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran who has shown himself to be adept
and resilient continues to be so, US Ambassador Robert Blake said in an
interview this week. According to a transcript posted on the US embassy website, the
outspoken US envoy in an interview with the TV business programme
Benchmark has raised doubts over the possibility of capturing the
elusive rebel leader alive.
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| 17/02/2008, 11:16am, Sun. | The Times of india |
| Lanka procuring arms from Pak to fight LTTE |
Engaged in an all-out military campaign against the LTTE, Sri Lanka
has said it was procuring arms from Pakistan to meet the terror threat
from the Tamil Tigers. "We are facing a problem of terrorism against a democratically-elected
legitimate state. In that situation, the government needs to procure
equipment to resist that terrorism.
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| 14/04/2008, 08:57am, Mon. | Lanka Dissent |
| Gurkhas to protect top politicians? |
The government is considering getting down Gurkha soldiers from India
to beef up the security of top political leaders who face grave threats
to their lives, reports said. A proposal in this regard has already been made to the Ministry of
Defence, and it will be taken up at government level in due course.
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| 13/04/2008, 09:12am, Sun. | Lanka eNews |
| LTTE gets info before Air Attacks |
According to the information sources from Sri Lanka Air Force, we have
been learnt that LTTE is getting information regarding any air attack
before it commences. After the death of LTTE Political wing leader,
Tamil Selvam, they have managed to get prior information of the air
attacks and because of this , SLAF were failed in targeting any of the
LTTE leaders after Tamil Selvam's death.
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| 09/04/2008, 10:33am, Wed. | The Bottom Line |
| Plans to kill TNA website? |
Moves are afoot to block the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) website, on
grounds that the site directly contributes to separation of the
country. The website, www.tamilalliance.net openly promotes the Tamil Eelam
concept and states that, “Geographically, the island of Sri Lanka
appears as one land but historically there have been two nations in it.
North and the East of the island of Sri Lanka is the traditional
homeland of Tamils.
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| 22/03/2008, 09:49am, Sat. | Sri Lanka Watch |
| Politics of gutter journalism |
Unable to cope with the pressure following daring disclosure in the Sri
Lanka Guardian and the Sri Lanka Watch, the Asian Tribune published
from a hellhole in Sweden by the disruptive K T Rajasingam has fired
another salvo titled ‘India’s dreaded RAW infiltrates into Sri Lanka’s
London High Commission and Bars Diplomats from meetings’.
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| 15/03/2008, 10:11am, Sat. | Reuters |
| U.S. throws lifeline to Tamil Tigers |
Smarting at mounting criticism of its human rights record amid
escalating civil war, Sri Lanka's government has accused the United
States of throwing a lifeline to the widely banned Tamil Tiger rebels.
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| 15/03/2008, 09:57am, Sat. | Janes |
| Sri Lanka nears MiG-29 purchase |
Sri Lanka is in advanced talks with Russia over the procurement of five
MiG-29 fighter aircraft, the head of the country's state-owned
procurement agency has said. Jayantha Wickramasinghe, chief executive officer of Lanka Logistics and
Technologies Limited (the company created by the Sri Lankan Ministry of
Defence in 2007 to procure equipment for the armed forces), said that
the acquisition of four MiG-29SMs and one MiG-29UB was "well under
way".
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| 27/02/2008, 09:30am, Wed. | Sri Lanka Watch |
| Another batch of "Sinhala Tigers" undergoing training in Wanni |
Few months ago a startling revelation was made when police made a
crackdown on a clandestine organization working alongside with the
Tamil Tigers. The organization which was named Revolutionary Liberation
Front (Viplawakari Vimukthi Peramuna) was lead by Singhalese some of
whom even had government jobs. Hence they were better known as the
'Sinhala tigers'.
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| 18/02/2008, 11:52am, Mon. | Yahoo! News |
| Sri Lanka says Kosovo independence a threat to world peace |
Sri Lanka said Sunday that Kosovo's declaration of independence from
Serbia could set an "unmanageable precedent" and threaten world peace. The Sri Lankan government, which is battling separatist Tamil Tiger
rebels, reacted swiftly against Kosovo's independence, which it said
was a violation of the United Nations charter.
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| 17/02/2008, 10:57am, Sun. | The Nation |
| US, Sri Lanka in diplomatic row |
The United States and Sri Lankan Governments are on a diplomatic
collision course over former UNP MP Ali Zaheer Moulana being posted to
a high ranking diplomatic position at the Sri Lankan Embassy in
Washington DC.
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