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Shocking execution of 9, bodies in dump Saturday, 9 June 2007 - 4:50 AM SL Time As fear gripped the country over the spate of killings and abductions, police yesterday revealed shocking news that nine unidentified bodies were found near a garbage dump at Dummaladeniya in Wennapuwa. `The bodies were in a badly decomposed state and mutilated. We are still searching the area because there could be more bodies,` a senior police official of the area told the Daily Mirror last night. He said the victims including a woman had been killed in `execution style with their hands tied behind their backs and blindfolded.` He also said the police suspected the bodies might have been brought to the area yesterday after carrying out the killings elsewhere about a week ago. `The killers had shot and killed these unidentified persons,` the official said adding that there were gunshot wounds in the bodies. 
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Sri Lankan court orders end to Tamil expulsions; clashes in east kill 10 rebels Friday, 8 June 2007 - 11:40 PM SL Time Sri Lanka`s highest court ordered police on Friday to stop expelling Tamils from the capital, a lawyer said, after a rights group warned the recent removal of hundreds of Tamils could further fuel a 24-year separatist ethnic conflict. Meanwhile, fierce clashes between government soldiers and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in eastern Sri Lanka on Friday left at least 10 guerrillas dead, the military said. Also on Friday, police recovered nine decomposed bodies abandoned in shrubs in the northwest, a region not affected by government and rebel fighting. The Defense Ministry said earlier this week 376 people were rounded up in Colombo and sent back home to Sri Lanka`s north and east ? areas that have been beset by bloodshed for most of the past year ? as a security precaution amid the rising violence that has claimed more than 5,000 lives in 19 months.
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Cleaning up of Colombo lodges begin Friday, 8 June 2007 - 8:32 AM SL Time It is being reported that a group of Tamil lodgers that were staying over in Lodges in Wellawatte were detained by the police early this morning and boarded onto buses immediately and sent to the North and Eastern areas. Wellawatte police said it was not a group of policemen from their police that were engaged in the venture. But its OIC said around 50 to 75 lodgers were loaded to three buses and taken away to Pettah. Pettah police said some buses of that sort arrived in Pettah and were directed to the North and East. Speaking to LeN two Tamil and Muslim persons said they were brought to Pettah from Wellawatte and dropped there, and were planning to go to Batticaloa. A journalist of an electronic media had met the group of persons that are being taken away in the buses in Kandy and they had said that they were unaware of where they were being taken to.
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Bogus cops assaulted, tied to a tree Monday, 11 June 2007 - 7:54 AM SL Time Two persons, who posed off as plainclothesmen, had been attacked by villagers at Labuwewa, Mihintale on Friday. Villagers had confronted them when they were engaged in checking national identity cards and making inquiries about those who were engaged in the illicit kassippu trade. Police identified them as extortionists. A group of people had pounced on them soon when they failed to establish their identity as police officers. `They had been assaulted and tied to a tree by villagers before we were called,` Sub Inspector Sanjeewa Mahanama, the Officer-in-Charge of Mihintale police said.
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We have vital info on Dummaladeniya bodies: Police Monday, 11 June 2007 - 7:52 AM SL Time The nine bodies found abandoned at Dummaladeniya last Friday were sent to the Ragama Hospital for DNA tests to determine their identities. Chilaw Division SSP Roshan Fernando said five police teams have been deployed to investigate into the incident that sent shock waves across the nation and that they had already received some vital information. `Villagers said they saw two Pajero vehicles in the area,` he said while requesting for public assistance to unravel the mystery.
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Mysterious noise causes panic in several areas Monday, 11 June 2007 - 7:51 AM SL Time A mysterious noise similar to an explosion heard in several areas in the Gamapaha and Kurunagala districts caused panic among many people in the these areas last night. Police and the military confirmed there had been a loud sound of an explosion and a simultaneous glow in the sky but the cause of the noise was not known at the time this edition went to press. Police said the noise had been heard in Gampaha, Bingririya, Pannala and Kuliyapitiya police divisions and they had sent out teams to investigate. The army last night ruled out the possibility of the noise being a sonic boom from a jet aircraft. The Media Centre for National Security said the police were checking on the noise. Meanwhile there were also reports that the noise and the light could be from a falling meteorite of some magnitude. When contacted the Met department said it was a possibility.
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New Book Outlines Negotiations with Tigers Monday, 11 June 2007 - 7:57 AM SL Time Dr. John Gooneratne, a senior foreign service officer and a former Secretary-General of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP), has written what is described as the first authentic, undiluted account of negotiations between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Titled `Negotiating with the Tigers,` the book covers the period from the emergence of the United National Front Government led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in December 2001 to the end of the administration of President Chandrika Kumaratunga in November 2005.
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Terrorism, a major setback for womens` development - First Lady Monday, 11 June 2007 - 7:56 AM SL Time First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa underscored the importance of the Women Leaders subject to tremendous pressures in various spheres, in the developing world, having a distinct vision in overcoming their obstacles. Addressing the second International Women`s Conference in Bangalore, India last Friday, Madam Shiranthi Rajapaksa said, `women, especially in the developing world face much hardship as a result of terrorism, poverty, lack of education, lack of resources in childcare and healthcare and the spread of HIV/AIDS and war. The majority who face such problems in the global community are women and children. Our Sri Lankan women in the North and South, confront these obstacles and more. The main setback of the century has been Terrorism`.
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British police dismiss murder rumour triggered by Norway-based LTTE websites Monday, 11 June 2007 - 7:55 AM SL Time Police have dismissed internet rumours that a Sri Lankan-born man, who died in a freak accident last month, was murdered. Kandiah Thangarajah, an ethnic Tamil of Hamilton Crescent, Harrow, died after a collision with a cyclist on Saturday, May 26. The 60-year-old was on his morning walk along Eastcote Lane, in South Harrow, when the accident occurred at about 8.55am. The father of two died the following day after he was transferred to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen`s Square, London according to the online edition of Harrow Times. Police confirmed that the male cyclist - a white European - had stopped at the scene and had been spoken to by officers. Rumours circulated on several Norway-based pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) websites that Mr Thangarajah was the victim of a premeditated killing.
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Professor Samaranayake will fill a page in Lanka`s history Monday, 11 June 2007 - 8:00 AM SL Time Sri Lanka National Sciences Academy President Professor Arjuna Aluwihare issuing a condolence message on the death of Professor V.K. Samaranayake states: It is with sadness that I, on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences and in a personal capacity, have to add my comments to the many that will be made about Prof. Samaranayake - who was at the time of his untimely demise Chairman of the ICT agency (ICTA) in Sri Lanka-formerly known as CINTEC. I last saw him a few weeks ago-active again on our Council and involved in ideas we had of strengthening Information Technology use in rural areas of this country. Professor Samaranayake was the President of the National Academy of Sciences during 1998-1999. He was an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science of the University of Colombo and the founder Director of the University of Colombo, School of Computing (UCSC). He served the University system for a continuous period of 43 years following his graduation from the same university. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Science.
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Public-private deal to send goods to Jaffna Monday, 11 June 2007 - 7:59 AM SL Time Deputy Secretary to the Treasury and Essential Services Commissioner General S.B. Divaratne has initiated a public private partnership with the Federation of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka Business for Peace Initiative (FCCISL-BPI) to reactivate the conflict affected private trader network in Jaffna. Arrangements have been made to ship over 7,000 freight tons of essential goods and hardware items, through four shipments to Jaffna with the assistance of the Government Agent of Jaffna and the Chamber of Commerce and Industries of Yarlpanam. It is the Government`s wish to reactivate the private sector to facilitate the availability of essential goods in Jaffna at a reasonable price, Divaratne said.
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Dialog islandwide coverage with 2000 base stations Sunday, 10 June 2007 - 1:30 PM SL Time Dialog will increase its aggressive focus in expanding its services to reach every Sri Lankan citizen. It will offer a combination of services including GSM, State-of-the-Art 3G, CDMA fixed line and Wi Max broadband internet services, said Chief Executive of Dialog Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya in an exclusive interview with The Island on Friday. He was commenting on the agreement signed with the Broad of Investment (BOI) by the Chairman of Dialog Telekom Ltd and Telekom Malaysia Bhd, Tan Sri Dato` Ir Muhammad Radzi bin Haji Mansor on Thursday to invest Rs. 33 billion in Sri Lanka`s telecommunications and media sectors, over the next two years. Dialog now becomes Sri Lanka`s largest investor with a total investment of over Rs. 90 billion. The investment will be targeted at a large scale expansion of services across all regions of Sri Lanka. Among the infrastructure investments expanded will be the company`s GSM and 3G mobile networks, introduction of state-of-the-art value added services and the establishment of broadband transmission networks across the island based on Fibre Optic and microwave transmission technologies.
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Protecting human rights: Why not go the whole hog? Monday, 11 June 2007 - 8:04 AM SL Time The Tamils living in the Colombo lodges must be heaving a sigh of relief. What they experienced on Thursday could be likened to a Dickensian paradox. On the one hand, they were forcibly removed from the city at the behest of some harum-scarum elements in the defence establishment. On the other, in the very city where they were subjected to barbaric ethnic violence and denied justice twenty seven years ago, their ordeal led to their rights being recognised and solidarity pledged with them. The Supreme Court (SC) interim order, in response to a petition filed by the Centre for Policy Alternatives, which deserves credit for its timely action, to immediately halt the forcible evictions pending the final determination of the petition, is of great import for more than one reason. The apex court has brought down the defence bigwigs a peg or two and indicated to them that the sky is not the limit in carrying out counter terrorism operations to ensure public safety. They ought to realise that they cannot act like bulls in a china shop. Restraint is called for.
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Sheep, goats and wolves Sunday, 10 June 2007 - 1:35 PM SL Time It will be useful for readers to juxtapose in their minds two separate pieces we run in today`s newspaper - one by our much-admired columnist, Tisaranee Gunasekera, on the evictions from Colombo lodges of hundreds of Tamils and the other a speech that Martin Luther King made many years ago powerfully advocating U.S. disengagement from the Vietnam war. The connection between these two articles is that they both deal with the plight of the poor. It is the poor who are dying on both sides of the lines in this war that has dragged on now for three decades and it is the poor who were roughly woken up in the pre-dawn hours last Thursday, summarily bundled into buses virtually at gunpoint and driven off to destinations in the north and east.
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A painful blunder! Saturday, 9 June 2007 - 4:52 AM SL Time The war for dismembering this country is not confined to the North and the East. It is being fought in many other places, both here and abroad, especially in Colombo, where the political leadership and the national economy are targeted. Ridding Colombo of LTTE cadres is therefore a sine qua non for defeating terrorism. All over the world, capital cities are the prime targets of terrorists and countries battling terrorism are compelled to adopt extraordinary measures to protect them. In dealing with an elusive enemy, the police and the armed forces are at a distinct disadvantage. Terrorists are omnipresent and can pose as civilians as long as they are not caught in flagrante delicto. Even the democratic role models like the US and the UK have had to adopt draconian measures to keep terrorists at bay. The British police have orders to shoot terror suspects in the head slap-bang with no questions asked.
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Army women set new track record Monday, 11 June 2007 - 8:05 AM SL Time One Sri Lanka record was established and two new meet records were shattered on the final day of the Mobitel Relay Carnival at the Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday. The Sri Lanka record was established in the Medley Relay for Open women and the Army team set the new record. The race run for 800 metres, 400 metres, 200 metres and finally the 100 metres was completed in a new time of 3 minutes, 42.48 seconds. They finished ahead of the Air Force team and the Navy team finished third. They finished the relay with a gap of only seconds apart. A. Ratnayake MMV set a new meet record in the 4 x 200 metres relay for girls under 18 years. They completed the event in 1 minute, 47.44 seconds. St. Joseph`s Girls College, Kegalle finished a close second and Sumana Balika MV, Ratnapura was third.Rajasingha MMV, Hanwella also established a new meet record in the 4 x 200 metres event for boys under 16 years. They ran in a new time of 1 minute, 37.14 seconds.
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63rd Bradby in Kandy today Saturday, 9 June 2007 - 4:53 AM SL Time Today will resemble Derby Day in England, the fillies in the stands showing off better than the foals in the arena. This display will be the 148th match and the first leg of the 63rd Bradby Shield encounter between Trinity College and Royal College at Bogamabara stadium in Kandy. Bradby with its long history and the glamour that the event spawns has created great enthusiasm among all quarters of the public and today`s event is no exception. One cannot come out with pre declarations in respect to the result in a Bradby Shield game due to its uniqueness and the exceptional manner in which the two teams display their talents and particularly both Trinity and Royal gear up to this game with great enthusiasm in order to seize the honours.
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Newspaper`s audio file contradicts Vaughan`s account Friday, 8 June 2007 - 8:53 AM SL Time The newspaper England captain Michael Vaughan accused of misquoting him placed an audio excerpt of its interview with Vaughan on the Internet Thursday, contradicting the cricketer`s assertion that his remarks about a teammate were blown out of proportion. Although Vaughan insisted that he, rather than all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, had played a major role in the team`s failure to reach the World Cup semi-finals, The Guardian had quoted him as saying that an incident involving `Freddie` Flintoff`s drinking exploits had damaged team morale. He was quoted as saying, `You have to be honest: the `Fredalo` incident did affect the team. It did affect morale,` referring to Flintoff being found on a pedalo, or paddleboat, at 4 am in the morning after their opening group match defeat against New Zealand in St Lucia.
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