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Army lost 300 soldiers in Muhamalai Sunday, 3 December 2006 - 12:35 AM SL Time Army Commander Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka has admitted in the United States last week that the military had had to sacrifice about 300 soldiers within a week-and-a-half of battle in Muhamalai. It was a larger figure than had ever been cited by the military in Sri Lanka following the Muhamalai battles. `However, engaging in such battles was necessary in order to deny the LTTE strategic advantage into security forces controlled areas, as they were seeking to do recently by trying to retake the Jaffna peninsula,` Fonseka is reported as telling US Under-Secretary of State Nicholas Burns on Tuesday. 
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Six including Army Major detained for leaking info to Tigers Saturday, 2 December 2006 - 4:28 AM SL Time While the country was plunged into panic following the suicide bomb attack in Colombo yesterday, a Colombo court ordered the detention of a high ranking army officer and six others including deserters for amassing millions of rupees by allegedly selling vital information to the Tigers. Colombo Chief Magistrate Kusala Sarojini Weerawardena detained the suspects for two months and ordered that they be produced in court on January 1, 2007. The army officer who was said to be a high ranking officer in the Sri Lanka Army and others had allegedly been in possession of money and property worth nearly Rs. seventy million. According to investigations the suspects had carried out several robberies and taken ransom from wealthy persons. The suspects are to be produced before an identification parade soon.
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Proposal in the cabinet to ban tigers Saturday, 2 December 2006 - 12:04 AM SL Time A special proposal has been presented to the cabinet to proscribe tiger terrorist organization. The cabinet met this evening with President Mahinda Rajapakse and is still deliberating on this proposal. The Government has been greatly concerned regarding the murders of Luxman Kadirgamar, renowned Foreign Minister, Deputy Head of Govt. Peace Secretariat Kethesh Loganathan and the suicide attempt on the Army Commander Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka. The immediate cause for the proposal to be presented is today`s unsuccessful suicide attempt on Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse. Further, the mass murder at Kebethigollawa, Habarana attack on unarmed Navy men, Mawil Aru incident too have been taken into consideration for presenting the proposal to the cabinet today.
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LTTE collaborates with India`s Assam terrorists Monday, 4 December 2006 - 12:31 AM SL Time The Tripura Police Chief has revealed that there is credible evidence of military relations between the banned Assam Liberation Movement in India and the LTTE. Assam Liberation Movement is a terrorist organization, which fights for a separate, sovereign state in North East India. According to the Tripura Police Chief the Assam Liberation Movement maintains relations with separatist organizations in the Asian region to enhance their mutual military strength. In fact recently three LTTErs have conducted one month training camp for Assamese terrorists. The Tripura Police confirm that the LTTE and the Assam Liberation Movement operate together in collecting weapons and Utilising Naval routes to transport weapons. Their area of naval operation extends as far as Cambodia, it is reported.
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Suicide bomber posed as a Muslim Monday, 4 December 2006 - 12:31 AM SL Time Defence Secretary Colonel (retd.) Gotabhaya Rajapakse yesterday said that the LTTE cadre, who mounted a suicide attack on him last Friday, had been operating in the Kollupitiya police area for about a month. The killer had posed as a Muslim, according to an identity card recovered by the Army, Rajapakse said. The killer drove an explosive-laden three wheeler and exploded it close to Rajapakse`s bullet proof vehicle. He expressed belief that that an LTTE operative had been in touch with the assassin minutes if not seconds before the blast. `I have no doubt the operative stayed close proximity to the scene of the blast,` he said, adding that he noticed the trishaw shortly before the blast. According to him the trishaw had been struck in traffic near Red Cross headquarters. LTTE operatives and the assassin are believed to have been in touch through a mobile phone network. Speculation is that the government is considering measures to curb this.
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SLAF bombs civilian settlements in Mullaithivu Sunday, 3 December 2006 - 6:45 AM SL Time At least one civilian was wounded and three houses were damaged when Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir bombers hit a civilian area where temporary settlement for the tsunami-affected in Mullaithivu district, Saturday around 11:30 a.m. Another village, Vadduvahal, was attacked within an hour in another sortie while two Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) were engaged in reconnaissance mission over Kilinochchi. 2 Israeli built Kfir bombers dropped 8 bombs in Thevipuram. Further casualty details are not available at the moment. A UAV was spotted over Mullaithivu Saturday morning before the bombardment. -Tamilnet
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Inside story of journalist Parameshwary Sunday, 3 December 2006 - 6:47 AM SL Time Journalist Parameshwary Munusamy and roommate Susanthi Thambirajah were arrested by the Terrorism Investigations Department (TID) on Thursday, November 23 in Wellawatte in the vicinity of the Savoy Cinema. They were arrested on suspicion of being suicide bombers. Information is now surfacing that the 24-year-old journalist working for the Mawbima newspaper and her roommate, whom she met by chance on a decision made by her house-owner to have another boarder, were not as dangerous as she were purported to be. Though initial reports published that they had explosives with them, investigations reveal that no claymores, mines or such other explosives were found in the possession of these young women or in their boarding house. Questions are being asked whether the Mawbima newspaper itself is being targeted, with this arrest of their crime reporter by the authorities for having published an article critical of the government that irked the authorities and caused a furore at the highest circles just two weeks back. The newspaper at that time was personally warned by the powers that be to refrain from publishing articles critical of key players in the government in general and the Defence Ministry in particular.
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Govt. prepares strong challenge to Rock charge Sunday, 3 December 2006 - 6:43 AM SL Time The Government is preparing a written challenge to contest allegations made by a UN Representative for Children and Armed Conflict on Sri Lanka, Allan Rock, that the security forces were aiding and abetting the LTTE`s breakaway Karuna faction to abduct child-soldiers. Allan Rock The Sunday Times learns that this challenge would include a report from a senior UNICEF official who accompanied Ambassador Rock during his recent visit to the North and East. This official was prevented from joining Ambassador Rock when he visited certain refugee camps and met foreign NGO officials to assess the situation in those areas. In a report to the UN Security Council Ambassador Rock had repeated his allegation made in Colombo a fortnight ago that his mission in Sri Lanka discovered a disturbing development involving abductions by the Karuna group. He said there was strong and `credible evidence` that certain elements of the security forces were supporting and sometimes participating in the abductions and forced recruitment of children by the Karuna faction.
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MoU can help viable settlement: Ranil Sunday, 3 December 2006 - 1:11 AM SL Time UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe making a landmark speech before the Indian Institute of Management in Indore said on Friday that a great responsibility lay on the country`s two main political parties?the UNP and the SLFP?to make the peace process work. `The onus is thrown on the two main political parties...,` he said. `It is a challenge we must take up. If we fail, the peace process will fail.` He said that it was imperative that the government-appointed committee of experts conclude their tasks by making their recommendations on the political solution.
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`e-Citizen` programme empowers citizens with IT knowledge` Monday, 4 December 2006 - 12:34 AM SL Time Computer usage is widely considered to be an important source of economic and educational opportunities as well as a means of communication and connection with the global community. Unfortunately in Sri Lanka, most of the population remains cut off from this important resource. According to a survey by the Department of Census and Statistics in 2004, ICT literacy is as low as 10%. This figure is shocking considering that Sri Lanka tops other South Asian countries with its high rates of overall literacy. Although this problem seems immense, hope is here in the form of the `e-Citizen` program, an initiative of the Information and Communication Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA). `e-Citizen` is targeting an initial 100,000 citizens and ICTA is mounting an island-wide ICT literacy drive.The project promotes internationally recognised ICT certifications to the Sri Lankan public at greatly lowered rates in order to make the courses more accessible. As an added incentive ICTA refunds the cost of the examination fee to all participants upon passing the final examination.
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CBN SAT services to start this week Monday, 4 December 2006 - 12:33 AM SL Time Dialog Telekom Ltd has announced that its subsidiary Asset Media (Pvt.) Ltd., had completed the acquisition of Communiq Broadband Networks (Private) Limited and CBN Sat (Private) Limited (CBN SAT). Following the completion of the acquisition of CBN SAT by Asset Media, the Direct to Home Satellite TV operations of CBN SAT will commence under the management of Asset Media, the Television Broadcasting subsidiary of Dialog Telekom Ltd. Asset Media sources confirmed that transmission of CBN SAT services would commence in test transmission mode on or around the December 2 and would be uplifted to full commercial operations within a few days. The acquisition was also followed by the appointment of a new Board of Directors for the acquired companies comprising of Yusof Annuar Yaacob (Chairman), Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Nihal Seneviratne Epa, Moksevi Prelis and Wan Zaidan Wan Mahyudin.
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Iran gets greenlight to build liquefied natural gas plant in Sri Lanka Sunday, 3 December 2006 - 6:49 AM SL Time Sri Lanka plans to build a 300 megawatte liquefied natural gas plant with Iranian assistance, the government said Saturday. Cabinet has given the greenlight to carry out a feasibility study to build the plant in Mirissa. Iran`s Energy Ministry is to assist in this project, following a memorandum of understanding signed between Colombo and Teheran earlier this year. `Iran is highly developed in power plant manufacturing industry and is able to meet the domestic requirement of power plant construction. Sri Lanka power industry can benefit through mutual cooperation between the two countries,` the statement said.
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To ban or not to ban... Monday, 4 December 2006 - 12:32 AM SL Time The government is said be under pressure either to ban the LTTE in response to its violence or to re-introduce the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). Those are the measures that a powerful country would have adopted at once, had it come under savage terror attacks. The United States asked Osama bin Laden to go to hell (where he, in fact, belongs), when he offered a truce, and told him in no uncertain terms that `the best way to deal with terrorism is to put the terrorists out of business.` No one has ever questioned America`s right to do what is good for her. India won`t negotiate with the Assamese separatists as well as others who pose a threat to her sovereignty and territorial integrity. She is right in taking up that position as it is her interests that have been threatened. Britain shoots terror suspects in the head slap-bang in public, let alone negotiating with them, while mollycoddling the terrorists of others.
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Beyond the terror Sunday, 3 December 2006 - 1:12 AM SL Time Yesterday`s issue of The Island led its front page with a memorable quote from Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa who told our reporter over his mobile phone that ``God saved me.`` Another newspaper headlined the event which stunned the nation as ``The Great Escape.`` What would have happened had the explosive laden three-wheeler hit the vehicle Rajapaksa was riding on his way for a National Security Council meeting at `Temple Trees` is a matter for speculation. In the event it did not, but two soldiers died as a result of Prabhakaran`s single-minded commitment to eliminate the leadership of the South. His successes are too numerous to mention ? Ranjan Wijeratne, Ranasinghe Premadasa, Lakshman Kadirgamar, General Denzil Kobbekaduwa and more recently Parami Kulatunga and Admiral Clancy Fernando to mention just a few.
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Stop him in his tracks! Saturday, 2 December 2006 - 4:33 AM SL Time Yesterday, we saw yet another dastardly terror attack in Colombo. Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse had a narrow escape from an LTTE suicide bomb attack. That was the fourth LTTE bomb blast targeting a VIP in Colombo since last April, when the LTTE made an abortive attempt on the Army Commander`s life. It was not for nothing that Prabhakaran declared in his recent heroes` day speech that the ceasefire agreement was defunct. However unpalatable it may be to the Norwegians and others, he has, for once, told the truth. The CFA has been long dead. If there is a truce, how can there be a war churning out so many deaths of combatants and civilians with attendant mass displacement. If the CFA is defunct as he says, then the question is whether there is any need for truce monitors to stay here. Some LTTE spokesmen are reported to have said they will adhere to the CFA, which, their leader says, is not existent. The SLMM had better take it up with the LTTE leader and allay the confusion in the public mind.
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Cricket figures in Mahinda, Manmohan talks Monday, 4 December 2006 - 12:32 AM SL Time Cricket had figured in last week`s talks between Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and President Mahinda Rajapakse in New Delhi. During the 90-minute meeting on the last day of his visit, Rajapakse`s had pointed out India`s growing enthusiasm for cricket. This prompted Sri Lanka`s High Commissioner to India Romesh Jayasinghe to point out Home Secretary V. K. Duggal as the senior who cleared the Indian Cricket team`s visit to Sri Lanka despite security concerns. Foreign Secretary Shiv Shanker Menon added that presidential advisor Tyronne Fernando had led the Indian Sub Continent`s campaign to secure the rights to host the 1996 World Cup.
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Tharanga ton puts SL in command Sunday, 3 December 2006 - 1:13 AM SL Time After a sound performance by their seamers, Upul Tharanga and Sanath Jayasuriya put the Sri Lankans in a strong position against Otago at the University Oval in Dunedin. Tharanga scored 108 while Jayasuriya fell 15 short of his ton as the Sri Lankans ended the day at 240 for 2, with an overall lead of 377. Earlier, Otago collapsed for 276 in their first innings. At one stage, Otago looked set to match the Sri Lankans` score of 413 as Aaron Redmond and Greg Todd capitalised on the solid platform created by the openers. Dilhara Fernando got the first breakthrough, trapping Redmond leg before for 53 with the score at 197. Todd and Neil Broom added 38 for the fourth wicket before Farveez Maharoof`s double strike brought his side right back into the game. Otago lost their last seven wickets for just 41 runs, as the seamers, led by Lasith Malinga, mopped up the tail. Malinga finished with three wickets while Akalanka Ganegama, Maharoof and Fernando bagged two apiece.
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Sri Lanka finish 18th out of 47 countries Saturday, 2 December 2006 - 4:35 AM SL Time Sri Lanka finished in the 18th place out of 47 countries in the overall rankings at the conclusion of the FESPIC Sports Festival for the handicapped, worked off at the Bukeet Jalil Stadium in Kuala Lumpur here on Friday. The Lankans collected a total of 27 medals including two gold medals, 15 silver medals and ten bronze medals. China finished on top with a total of 199 gold medals, 72 silver medals and 36 bronze medals followed by Thailand, Korea and hosts Malaysia. This was also Sri Lanka`s best performance in a FESPIC Sports Festival with their two gold medals coming from athletic events and swimming events through Shantha Kumara and Chaminda Priyadarsha respectively. Altogether a total of 26 records were shattered and a further 66 new records were established at this Sports Festival.
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