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Tamils ordered to vacate lodges in Pettah
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EEELamaya
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 1 Jun 2007 07:17:35 GMT Report for Abuse
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'We need to sort this out now,' a young major told me. 'We can't leave it for the next generation.'
Too bad buddy, VP's son had joined the battle... so, if GOSL does not give a solution, this will go on to next generation! |
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 1 Jun 2007 07:18:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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WHAT ABOUT SUICIDE BOMBERS !
they get midnight white van rides
PERA |
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 1 Jun 2007 07:24:30 GMT Report for Abuse
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This is interesting.....
First Global Peace
Index ranks 121 countries
Norway tops list, U.S. comes in at 96, India 109, Lanka 111 and Russia 118
WASHINGTON, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -The first study to rank countries around the world according to their peacefulness and the drivers that create and sustain their peace was launched today. The Global Peace Index studied 121 countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe and its publication comes one week before the leaders of the world's richest countries gather for the G8 summit in Germany to discuss issues of global concern. |
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This is a tactical mistake and we should not give authority to an OIC in a police station to deal with national security issues.
We can use these lodges to catch LTTE cadres comming to colombo. We could use Karuna cadres or pay some money to lodge owners to give info about suspicious people staying in lodges, catch them on the spot. Now we have lost the oppertunity. |
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This is a tactical mistake and we should not give authority to an OIC in a police station to deal with national security issues.
We can use these lodges to catch LTTE cadres comming to colombo. We could use Karuna cadres or pay some money to lodge owners to give info about suspicious people staying in lodges, catch them on the spot. Now we have lost the oppertunity
I can see a SRI LANKAN with BRAIN. :-) |
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1 Jun 2007 07:29:05 GMT Report for Abuse
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We can use these lodges to catch LTTE cadres comming to colombo. We could use Karuna cadres or pay some money to lodge owners to give info about suspicious people staying in lodges, catch them on the spot. Now we have lost the oppertunity.
these tactics were already there, its now more than clear thats some tamils in colomobo willingly or unwillingly help these monstors.... |
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1 Jun 2007 07:41:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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Does an OIC of a police stations have authority to give direction to withdraw people?????? I dont think so
I think this OIC has exceeded his authority. He should have consulted the national security center before he acted his own without knowing the overall stratagy. We need tamils come to colombo, we need tamils to live in south. then why we need to restrict??? of course 95% people are innocent and only 5% may be working for LTTE and we should catch this 5% at any cost. and if we close lodges these 5% will disappear.
These lodges are the prime source of information. we can get better information from here than from unmanned aerial plane. But we should use them effectively. |
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KOTUGODA, Sri Lanka (AFP) - One of the world's biggest solid tyre makers is trying to double its turnover and turn Sri Lanka into a key exporter of rubber products.
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Raw rubber has been the country's second largest export commodity after tea, but a Belgian-Sri Lanka joint venture is trying to re-invent the way wheels are made and make the island a global hub for tyres.
Solideal Loadstar is one of Sri Lanka's best kept secrets and its biggest exporter, accounting for just over two percent of the nation's near seven billion dollar export earnings.
'In the world market, we now control 20 percent in the solid tyre and about five percent in the industrial tyre markets,' chairman Nihal Jinasena told AFP.
'Any fool can make a tyre,' said Jinasena, whose family controls 40 percent of Solideal Loadstar. 'What is difficult is to keep innovating, penetrate markets worldwide and to support your sales.'
Loadstar's closest rival in the global solid tyre market is Sweden's Trelleborg, said the firm's joint managing director, Koenraad Pringiers, whose family controls 60 percent of the Sri Lankan company.
The 250-million dollar firm is now working with top management consultancy McKinsey and Company to fine tune operations and ensure a firmer grip on the global tyre market.
'We want to double our turnover in three years. To do that we need to attract new talent to the company who can transform our vision to bigger things,' said Jinasena.
Loadstar makes industrial and construction tyres, rubberised tracks, wheels and rims at its Sri Lanka facility, catering to buyers in the United States, Europe, Australasia, Africa and the Middle East.
Working across five plants situated close to rubber producing areas in Sri Lanka, the company turns out about 6,500 tyres daily for heavy equipment firms such as Caterpillar, JCB, Komatsu, Fiat, Yale and John Deere.
Loadstar is also making rubber tracks to replace the steel traction chains used in heavy earth-moving equipment.
The company's 7,000 staff produce one of the biggest construction tyres in the world, with a diameter of seven feet (two metres) and weighing about 800 kilograms (1,760 pounds).
'These giant construction tyres are very costly to make due to high labour involvement because it is made using manual methods,' Jinasena said.
At this plant in Kotugoda, 18 kilometres (11 miles) from the capital Colombo, the male-dominated workforce handles complex machinery to make all sizes of solid and air-filled tyres.
Another plant nearby uses around 48,000 tonnes of steel annually to churn out heavy duty steel rims to fit customer designs.
Manufacturers such as Toyota, Nissan and Komatsu prefer to buy fully assembled wheels with flaps, tubes and tyres that can be directly used in their vehicles.
'This single source helps them to cut back on inventory,' explains Jinasena.
The company scoops up 40 percent of Sri Lanka's annual production of 100,000 tonnes of raw rubber. It also imports about 15 percent of its rubber needs. Tyre exports fill 700 containers each month.
'Our business has grown steadily over the years and we have kept our word with buyers despite the ups and downs associated with investing in Sri Lanka,' said Pringiers.
Pringiers, whose father Pierre teamed up with the Jinasena family to start the business in 1984, looks after marketing.
'The ethnic conflict here has not slowed down our orders,' he said, referring to the Tamil separatist conflict, which has claimed more than 60,000 lives since 1972.
'People keep asking us if its safe to live here, invest here and I say 'yes'. We have had no problems. There are always risks associated with any business and you need to work around them,' he said. |
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http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=34267
UN role in Sri Lanka 'inescapable': rights group
New Delhi, June 1: The need for UN monitoring of human rights violations in Sri Lanka is 'inescapable', a leading rights body has said, warning that the global community was getting disgusted with Colombo.
In one of its most scathing commentaries on the deteriorating situation in Sri Lanka, the University Teachers for Human Rights (UTHR) said: 'The need for international (UN) monitoring is inescapable.'
It said the 'present anarchy, the prevalence of unchecked human rights abuse and the humanitarian catastrophe in the east have principally their roots in one simple fact - the absence of process...
'Today most killings are by state agents or by persons, under duress or otherwise, acting on behalf of the state... The situation begs international monitoring.'
In the past, UTHR released statements appreciating state terrorism. What happened to UTHR now?
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 1 Jun 2007 07:47:04 GMT Report for Abuse
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| 1) Tamils ordered to vacate lodges in Pettah
Every one in lodges not from the city were asked to vacate
TAMILnet coverted it to TAMIL ordered to vacate this was TAMIL selvams idea i guess.
2) The ELAMAYS want to live in Colombo in large numbers and the Sinhalayas not to live in kilinochi.
he he
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