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`Please release our father!` Dinesh`s children plead with Iraqi abductors
Wednesday, 1 December 2004 - 10:31 SL Time
The family of Sri Lankan hostage Dinesh Rajaratnam including his three children who has been abducted by suspected Iraqi militants will send a televised appeal to his abductors pleading for the safe return of their loved one.
Rajaratnam had gone missing since October 28 and is believed to be held by a Iraqi militant group named Islamic Army fighting the Alliance forces.
With no news of Dinesh, a heavy vehicle driver working in Iraq a month after his abduction, the Foreign Ministry has made arrangements to send a video clipping containing the appeal by his family to be telecast in Iraq.
`The Al-Arabiya TV network has been contacted by our mission in Dubai to telecast this recorded appeal,` Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Himali Arunatilleke said.
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Mixed signals from Prabha
Tuesday, 30 November 2004 - 1:59 AM SL Time
LTTE leader Velupiilai Prabhakaran yesterday directly attacked President Chandrika Kumaratunga for acting with what he called a `deceptive mask of peace` and accused her of being captive of her main coalition partner, the JVP.
In his annual broadcast to commemorate the dead LTTE cadres during a two-decade long separatist insurgency, Mr. Prabhakaran labelled the JVP as an `anti-Tamil political party steeped in a muddled ideology of racism, religious fanaticism and othordox communism`, and branded it as an obstacle to a negotiated political settlement to the insurgency
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Sri Lanka mulls Tiger threat to return to war
Tuesday, 30 November 2004 - 1:59 AM SL Time
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka`s president and top aides were studying the latest Tamil Tiger threat to return to war amid mounting tension in embattled northern and eastern regions, officials said.
President Chandrika Kumaratunga was with senior advisors mulling the annual policy statement of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) delivered by the group`s supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran on Saturday
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LTTE wants to disturb normalcy in Jaffna - Army
Tuesday, 23 November 2004 - 1:04 AM SL Time
Nov 22, Colombo: Army Headquarters yesterday said the LTTE instigated a deliberate attempt to provoke Security Forces and disrupt normalcy in the Jaffna peninsula following the murder of two innocent Tamil youth in Velvetithurai.
Protests launched by LTTE-backed groups censored down stores and transportation services over the weekend. The LTTE meanwhile accused Security Forces for the deaths, Army Spokesperson Brigadier Daya Ratnayake said.
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LTTE hit squad nabbed near Parliament
Wednesday, 24 November 2004 - 12:07 SL Time
its way to hitting a target. Their arrest on the road leading to the Parliament fuelled speculation that they were targeting a ruling party politician.
Senior security officials said that they were unable to confirm whether the hit squad was targeting a politician.
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The reintroduction of capital punishment
Wednesday, 24 November 2004 - 12:07 SL Time
An year ago after the horrific killing of the Harmer family many in this country, including editorial writers, deeply concerned with the frightening rise of serious crime, called for the reintroduction of the death penalty.
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Justice Ambepitiya was a fearless and upright Judge
Tuesday, 23 November 2004 - 3:17 AM SL Time
The late Justice Sarath Ambepitiya was a courageous Judicial officer who sacrificed his life in the course of discharging his duties as a fearless and upright judge in Sri Lanka`s judiciary, said President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in a message to Vajira Ambepitiya, widow of the late Justice Ambepitiya.
The President`s message yesterday read at the funeral by Justice Minister John Seneviratne stated that the demise of Justice Ambepitiya was a blow to the independence of the judiciary. Members of the Judiciary could not be intimidated by cowardly acts of this nature.
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Rs.2750 million for Jana Pubuduwa, Gam Pubuduwa
Tuesday, 23 November 2004 - 9:05 PM SL Time
The Government has allocated Rs.2750 million to implement the Jana Pubuduwa and Gam Pubuduwa programs next year under the new development drive titled Suwahas Jana Pubuduwa launched recently by the Samurdhi and Poverty Alleviation Ministry to uplift the socio-economic conditions of low income groups.
These two programs are an integral part of the Sanwardhana Sangramaya initiated by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.
Under the Jana Pubuduwa programme, 100,000 Samurdhi beneficiary families and other low income families will be economically empowered during 2005 by introducing self employment ventures in agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, sales, industries and other services to augment their income levels, Samurdhi and Poverty Alleviation Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi told the Daily News.
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Verdict reserved on woman`s death
Tuesday, 23 November 2004 - 9:05 PM SL Time
A 53 year old woman who was operated on at the Colombo National Hospital on four occasions to remove a stone in the stomach came by her death, allegedly due to leakage of electricity from a surgical instrument used in the operation.
This was revealed at the inquest held in respect of the death of Sammuth Husena Kaleel of Jinthupitiya, Kotahena, who was warded in Ward No. 63 of the Colombo National Hospital with a history of a stone in the stomach.
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