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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
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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.
Rights groups, opposition lawmakers, the U.S. and peace broker Norway roundly condemned the expulsions, calling them `blatantly discriminatory,` divisive and likely to increase tension in the war-torn nation.
The Supreme Court ? responding to a petition appealing for the Tamils` fundamental rights ? moved to quell the furor on Friday by ordering the expulsions stopped.
The court also said those evicted must not be prevented from returning to Colombo, said M. A. Sumanthiran, a lawyer for the Center for Policy Alternatives, an independent think-tank, which filed the petition. The next hearing on the petition will be June 22.
On Thursday, senior police officer, Rohan Abeywardena said the Tamils were expelled because they had no valid reason to be in Colombo.
Others felt the action was dangerous.
`Nothing could be more inflammatory in Sri Lanka`s polarized climate than identifying people by ethnicity and kicking them out of the capital,` Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement Friday.
`The government has every right to take action against individuals who are reasonably suspected of committing a crime, and to take security measures when there are threats to the public,` Adams said. `But that doesn`t mean it can arbitrarily discriminate against a whole group of people.`
The U.S. Embassy issued a statement calling for the evictions to stop and urging the Sri Lankan government to make public the destinations of those removed and ensure their safety and well-being.
Norway`s embassy said the expulsions were a violation of international human rights law.
Hundreds of protesters rallied in Colombo against the evictions on Friday, and called for the protection of Tamil rights.
Tamil rebels began fighting in 1983 for the creation of a separate homeland for the country`s 3.1 million minority Tamils in the north and east, following decades of discrimination by successive Sinhalese majority governments.
Some 70,000 people have been killed in the more than two decades of conflict.
Meanwhile, soldiers and insurgents clashed in eastern Batticaloa district Friday, military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe said, adding that 10 guerrillas were killed and 11 soldiers wounded.
Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan confirmed there was fighting but did not have casualty details.
In Wennappuwa, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Colombo, police recovered nine bodies that had been dumped, Lt. Col. Upali Rajapakse, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Unexplained killings have increased in Sri Lanka since hostilities escalated in December 2005.
Also, Sri Lanka`s air force bombed the rebels` Iranamadu air facility, said air force spokesman Group Capt. Ajantha Silva. The facility is in northern Kilinochchi district, and reportedly has an air strip.
Details of the damage were not immediately available.
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ajan
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8 Jun 2007 16:44:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sinhalese have short memory , if you tell them the mathana mutha storry todayafter two weeks they will ask who is mathanamutha.
you need to repeat the story every two weeks to remind this folks.
mathanamutha generations of sinhalese always go for bad option , not a wise option. just like mathana mutha.
as i have said many time
Srilanka: Goat
Constitution : Clay pot
when goat stuck into the clay pot mathana mutha tried and tried he could not get the goats head out.
he tried staving the goat so that goat loose weight (A9,Fishing Ban etc)
goat has suffered.
it is obivious to break the pot and let the goat go free.
but mathana mutha cut goats head to keep the pot safe.
when he cut the head the head fell into the pot .
goat died , the pot is stained and he could remove the goats head out.
then he had to break the pot to remove the goats head.
now his goat is dead and the Clay pot is broken into pieces.
if he was wise break the pot and let the goat go free , then the goat wouldnt have suffered.
whatever it says mathanamutha tried in hundreds of years ago and failed.
many generations again the same mindset.
Moral of the story is to break the constitution for all srilankans to live freely,
it should have done long time ago so that noone would have suffered.
but fueling ethnic devide will fuuel the conflict for long time to come.
10year old would remember the day were pushed out of the hotel and thown out on the street.
Tamileelam is the only answer.
within 168 hours 28 people tamils are murdered and 9 tamils are abducted.
its not known if some of the people are evicted from colombo lodges.
it was my worse fear that they abduct people in whole busses and kill them in large numbers, sinhalese animals have already killed 300,000 tamils.
Edited By - ajan - 8 Jun 2007 17:13:24 GMT |
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8 Jun 2007 16:46:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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SL court orders? Joke! Court is just only for name.
clashes in east kill 10 rebels
Still east is not liberated?
Edited By - chinthanaya - 8 Jun 2007 16:48:19 GMT |
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8 Jun 2007 16:50:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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Chinthanaya,
Are you part of Mahinda Chinthanaya then? Seems its working er :))
Have a slice of bread with butter on it than MC. :))
JRJ
Edited By - JRJayawardena - 8 Jun 2007 16:51:00 G |
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8 Jun 2007 16:52:04 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sinhalese have short memory , if you tell them the mathana mutha storry todayafter two weeks they will ask who is mathanamutha.
you need to repeat the story every two weeks to remind this folks.
Of course Ajan, It was not their fault. God created sinhala community as such. We can't really blame them for something they don't realise.
The funny part is Mahedhanamutha was the first sinhalese introduced to me through the school books. |
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8 Jun 2007 16:53:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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It is very unfortunate that these types who are champion human right & fundamental right fighters have overlooked for soooooooo long the plight of muslims evicted from the East North & the North/West..............
This is just hidden opposition politics & NGO's beneath crocodile tears .
They just don't like the Prez's face so all ganged up with Norwegian money spoon feed the tigers.
All could gang up to fight the Prez but it will take a hard act to crack him.......
Tomorrow, the Supreme Courts is going to order that Wanni be opened and all the Ngo's, IC and Press are going to make a hue & cry. Prabakaran is going to cry foul........ |
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In Wennappuwa, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Colombo, police recovered nine bodies that had been dumped, Lt. Col. Upali Rajapakse, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Unexplained killings have increased in Sri Lanka since hostilities escalated in December 2005.
its definitely a free for all in SL. What used to be geneally confined to the North east is now common everywhere.
They just don't like the Prez's face so all ganged up with Norwegian money spoon feed the tigers.
Court Orders can be stopped - Remember what happened with 'Helping Hambanthota'!! :) :). Im just waiting to see how fast MR will move to stop the courth order. When it was his own RajaPASSA on line - he moved faster than lightening to stop a court investigation. Now lets see if he uses his exec powers! :) :)
Sri Rohana Mahinda RajaPASSA is the BEST LEADER we have ever had!! :) :)
Edited By - anizam - 8 Jun 2007 16:57:26 GMT |
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8 Jun 2007 16:55:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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Why a court order? Do they have powers over the security
system?Not that I am for the govt. It is a police problem
and the police should thought about the consequences before deportation.
It was a very bad mistake by the police force.For all I know the defense ministry gave the orders and now the police has to face the music.
This is SL now. |
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