| 25/03/2008, 09:13am, Tue. | Reuters |
| Family of Sri Lanka massacre victims doubt justice |
Relatives of 17 aid workers massacred in Sri Lanka said on Monday they
did not expect justice as a heated human rights inquiry began into
their execution-style murders more than a year ago. Ravi Shantha, the aunt of one of the Action Contre la Faim (ACF) aid
workers killed in August 2006 in the northeastern town of Muttur, told
a panel of judges appointed to investigate rights abuses in Sri Lanka
that too much time had passed.
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| 21/12/2007, 10:46am, Fri. | Lanka eNews |
| Is the Eastern Province under military rule? |
250,000 civil defense personnel have been recruited for the security of
the Eastern Province in addition to the three armed forces, police and
home guards, said Media Minister Lakshman Yapa at the cabinet press
briefing today (20).
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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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| 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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| 14/07/2007, 01:40pm, Sat. | Tamil Canadian |
| Tiger aircraft flies over Trincomalee |
A light air craft belonging to tiger organization flew over the
northern coastal area in Trincomalee say reports. This has been
confirmed by radar and the S.L. Navy too has observed the air craft say
these reports. Several civilians too have reported seeing the air
craft.
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| 08/07/2007, 07:34am, Sun. | Yahoo! News |
| Tigers say two killed in Sri Lanka sea battle |
Tamil Tiger rebels said Sunday they lost two fighters during a three-hour sea battle with the Sri Lankan Navy off the island's eastern coast.
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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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| 01/07/2007, 02:32pm, Sun. | TamilNet |
| SLA mistook Muslim fishermen for LTTE cadres, say escapees |
Four Muslim fishermen were shot dead by Special Forces of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Mawilaru at Serunuwara on Friday around 2:00 p.m., were mistaken for cadres of Liberation Tigers, two fishermen who escaped the SLA ambush told media Saturday.
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| 18/03/2008, 08:39am, Tue. | Daily Mirror |
| Trinco slaying: Survivor implicates STF |
A key eyewitness yesterday implicated the Special Task Force (STF) in
the killing of five youth in Trincomalee and claimed that the doctors
who treated him and the only other survivor had identified the STF as
the perpetrators of the crime in January 2006
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| 02/10/2007, 10:19am, Tue. | Daily Mirror |
| Elections soon in East: Basil |
With the entire east being cleared by security forces, the government
is ready to hold local polls in the province at a time specified by the
Elections Chief, senior presidential advisor and parliamentarian Basil
Rajapaksa told the Daily Mirror.
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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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| 16/07/2007, 03:43pm, Mon. | Reuters |
| Government official shot dead in east Sri Lanka |
A government official in Sri Lanka's east was shot dead by unknown
gunmen on Monday, police said, days after troops captured the region
from Tamil Tiger rebels. "Provincial Secretary Herath Abeyweera was shot and killed when he was
coming out of his office," said a police official, asking not to be
identified.
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| 07/07/2007, 04:55pm, Sat. | Colombo Page |
| Sri Lanka's northernmost Sinhala village attacked again |
Reports from Athawetunaweva, Sri Lanka's northernmost Sinhala colony, located in Welioya in the Mullaitivu district, said that suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres fired mortars at the village again yesterday.
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| 03/07/2007, 11:02am, Tue. | Daily Mirror |
| Mistaken identity behind Mavil Aru killings? |
The four persons allegedly killed by the Army at Mawil Aru on Thursday (June 28) were reportedly poaching at Mavil Aru and were mistaken by the forces of being Tiger cadres, the Daily Mirror learns.
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| 30/06/2007, 01:06pm, Sat. | TamilNet |
| Moothoor farmers file FR petitions in Supreme Court against HSZ declaration |
Four Moothoor farmers and Dr.Pakkiyasothy Saravanamuthu, Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), a Colombo-based think-tank, Friday filed fundamental rights petitions in the Supreme Court seeking the court to order the Sri Lanka Government's declaration of traditional paddy lands in Moothoor and Sampoor as high security zones null and void, legal sources in Colombo said.
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