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A9 closure is `breach of CFA` - SLMM
Monday, 6 November 2006 - 8:38 AM SL Time
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International monitors overseesing Sri Lanka`s truce have criticized the Sri Lankan government for closing the A9 highway at Muhamalai, The Sunday Leader reported. `The government is clearly violating the Ceasefire Agreement and they have trapped more than half a million civilians within the Jaffna Peninsula. The A9 should be opened immediately,` acting spokesperson for the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), Helen Olafsdottir, said.
?We do not know what the government`s intentions are by keeping the A9 closed,` she said.
?We were expecting the government to discuss the opening of the A9 highway at the Geneva talks.?
The SLMM last week informed relief agencies that the opening of the highway was one of their current top most priorities, the paper said.
The paper quoted SLMM as saying while the government continued to ignore the pleas of aid agencies to open the A9, it would continue to mount pressure and hold discussions with the government till such time the road was opened.
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Achilles
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6 Nov 2006 10:29:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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Government are planning to open an alternative safe road to north in place of A9 road soon . The current A9 road is subejct constant terrerists attacks from LTTE and harresing all civilians traveling through A9 by imposing illegal taxes.
The A9 road was closed as a result of heavy attacks by LTTE Terrorists recently. The alternative proposed by the Govt. for all their transportation of supplies of essential goods to the North is by sea. LTTE Terrorists have done some attacks to destabilize this route. |
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6 Nov 2006 12:38:11 GMT Report for Abuse
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Achillies,
who told you this ? lanka Truth?
ask yourself , why dont the government let SLMM or any other independant person to see the place? and judge themselves.
Mahinda have another mathana muthu plan. you all dumbs wait and watch. |
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6 Nov 2006 12:57:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ajan
who told you this ? lanka Truth?
no darling!
Reuters |
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6 Nov 2006 14:10:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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Reuters say this today,
The High Security Zone Residents' Liberation Force, which claimed responsibility for a rash of deadly attacks on troops in the north earlier this year, said it was giving the military a final warning to halt attacks on rebel territory.
The military and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) each accuse the other of provoking near daily artillery and mortar bomb duels in the north and east.
'Purposeful destruction of Tamil civilian lives and infrastructure would lead to Sinhala civilian lives and infrastructure becoming inevitable targets,' the suspected front said in a message faxed to Reuters overnight.
'We are sure that the people of the south are fully aware of the sort of humanitarian catastrophe they would have to face if one of the dams in the south is to burst,' it added. 'Our retaliation may be at anywhere and at any time. We urge civilians and the international community to take due care.'
The group referred to an air raid near a hospital in the rebels' northern stronghold of Kilinochchi on Thursday, an attack which killed five civilians in a nearby house and which the island's main donors -- Japan, Norway, the United States and the European Union -- have condemned.
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'Every action has an equal and opposite reaction,' the group said. 'There are several hospitals in southern Sri Lanka. Not all are guarded by barbed wire and special forces.'
It said it could also disrupt schools in the south if Tamil students' exams were delayed in the army-held Jaffna peninsula, which is cut off from the rest of the island by rebel lines. The group did not say elaborate.
The Tigers say suspected fronts like the high Security Zone Residents' Liberation Force have been formed by disgruntled Tamils who have decided to take up arms, and are not part of their movement.
Analysts said the threats should be taken seriously, and fear that the Tigers could turn to guerrilla attack tactics from the more conventional warfare which the foes have been fighting in the north and east since renewed civil war flared in late July. |
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