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Lankans nominated for HR defenders award

Two Sri Lankans have been nominated for the prestigious Martin Ennals Award (MEA) for Human Rights Defenders 2007.

Prof. Rajan Hoole and Kopalasingham Sritharan, co-founders of the University Teachers for Human Rights are among the six nominees for the award.

The jury will announce the final MEA laureate on May 4 and the award will be presented at a ceremony in Geneva on October 2. The MEA, set up in 1993, is granted annually to an individual or an organization who has displayed exceptional courage in combating human rights violations.

As co-founders of the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) (UTHR(J)), Rajan Hoole and Kopalasingham have addressed human rights abuses by both the government and the LTTE.

?At great personal risk they have reported on the effects of armed conflict on children, women, minorities and displaced persons. Often alone in exposing abuses by all parties, both men are under death sentences from the LTTE and their co-founder, Rajani Thiranagama was assassinated. They have been forced to work underground,? MEA said.

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Prof. Rajan Hoole and Kopalasingham Sritharan, co-founders of the University Teachers for Human Rights are among the six nominees for the award.

Sripathi and Mangala become hapless
Ousted former Minister Sripathi Sooriaarachchi has alleged that there?s a mud slinging campaign against him and ousted former Minister Mangala Samaraweera.

As far as anyone can see, no one needs to sling mud at them because they are already covered with their own mud arising out of their irresponsible an unpatriotic statements.

Sripathi?s statement that the Government Forces rescued a deserted Vakarai is an insult and humiliation to our heroic soldiers.

Mangala in his letter to the President saying that the President overlooked human rights abuses by the forces has played into the hands of the LTTE enhancing their false propaganda machine and bringing shame and humiliation to the Government.

Both of them should not be seated as back benchers but should be expelled from the SLFP.

Both Sripathi and Mangala have become hapless and they can join the bankrupt pro-LTTE Marxist politician Wickremabahu Karunaratna that will make an ideal threesome of stooges.

Sripathi?s statement that the Government Forces rescued a deserted Vakarai is an insult and humiliation to our heroic soldiers.

Mangala in his letter to the President saying that the President overlooked human rights abuses by the forces has played into the hands of the LTTE enhancing their false propaganda machine and bringing shame and humiliation to the Government.