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Tamil journalist comes under acid attack Thursday, 16 August 2007 - 8:53 PM SL Time Thinakkural journalist K.P. Mohan was admitted to the Accident Ward of the Colombo National Hospital after an unidentified gang threw acid at him yesterday afternoon, just weeks after he was allegedly harassed and assaulted by a group of Airmen.
Mr. Mohan was reportedly returning from the hospital after treating a wound in his elbow that was operated last week, when he came under attack around 1.30pm yesterday. A speeding trishaw had approached him near the hospital square and a person in it had thrown acid at Mr. Mohan and fled the scene. Out of pain Mr. Mohan had run to the accident ward and was immediately admitted and treated. A close family member said the victim had burn injuries on the side of his face, an arm and the back. His condition however is not known to be critical. 
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Holmes factually correct - UN Thursday, 16 August 2007 - 4:44 AM SL Time The United Nations says that Undersecretary John Holmes had all along maintained that humanitarian aid workers in Sri Lanka are at risk.
Speaking to Sandesaya, the spokesman to the UN Secretary General, Farhan Haq said that Sri Lanka in the year 2006 was placed second worst country in the world for humanitarian work. `The Undersecretary is factually correct`, he said. This is mainly because seventeen humanitarian workers were killed in a single incident in Muttur, said the spokesman Haq. Meanwhile the Sri Lankan Highways minister, Jeyaraj Fernandopulle this morning described the United Nations Undersecretary John Holmes as a terrorist. At a news briefing, Mr Fernandopulle also accused Mr Holmes, the UN undersecretary general for Humanitarian Affairs of taking a bribe from the Tamil Tiger rebels.
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LTTE leader `Thiyagan` killed: Army Wednesday, 15 August 2007 - 5:01 AM SL Time Sri Lanka`s military on Tuesday claimed that the third seniormost leader of the `LTTE`s rudimentary naval wing` Chandrasekaran Pillai alias Thiyagan was killed along with five senior cadres on Monday in an intense sea battle in Pulmodai.
According to the Defence Ministry, the Navy, in a pre-dawn confrontation off Nayaru, destroyed an LTTE attack boat when the latter attempted to evacuate its cadres stranded in the jungles north of Trincomalee. `Intercepted radio transmission among the LTTE cadres has revealed that two self-styled `Lt. Colonels` of LTTE identified as Thiyagan alias Chandrasekaran Pillai and Sodilingam Nishanthan alias Kanyanthambi, one self-styled `Captain` named Sewandan Arulsuryan alias Agasur, and three self- styled `Second Lieutenants` named Lylan Anushan alias Sembulwanan, Eswaranthan Waran alias Olinivan, Sasikumar alias Ahalkadal had been killed in the incident.`
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No Immediate Crackdown On Lodges, A.. Friday, 17 August 2007 - 10:53 AM SL Time The Defence Ministry yesterday gave an assurance that there would be no fresh crackdowns on lodges in Colombo after the recovery of powerful explosives in one of them on Wednesday. However, the Daily Mirror learns that individual petitioners residing in `Ideal Lodge` where the explosives were found have been pressurized to withdraw their Fundamental Rights cases against their unlawful eviction on July 7. `We have a reasonable suspicion that yesterday`s findings have given impetus to the pressure tactics used on these petitioners,` Civil Monitoring Commission (CMC) Convener, Parliamentarian Mano Ganeshan said. `We are still collecting information about it, but we have received initial reports saying that there is covert pressure on these petitioners,` he added.
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Prison Officer Remanded For Abusing.. Friday, 17 August 2007 - 10:52 AM SL Time A prisons officer was arrested and remanded on charges of sexually abusing his 7-year-old daughter, the police said. Bite marks on the child`s cheek, led to the arrest after the JMO of the Karapitiya hospital had compared the marks on the child with the teeth of the suspect and found they matched.
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Thailand Deports Top Ltte Arms Smug.. Thursday, 16 August 2007 - 4:50 AM SL Time Three top LTTE suspects who were under detention in Thailand for attempting to smuggle weapons to Sri Lanka in 2003 were deported to Sri Lanka on Tuesday and are now in CID custody, well informed sources revealed to the Daily Mirror yesterday. When contacted, a CID official confirmed that the three Tiger operatives, involved in a major gun smuggling ring in Thailand, were brought to Sri Lanka and were being interrogated on LTTE operations in Thailand. The Daily Mirror also learns that the three suspects objected to being deported to Sri Lanka. However they were deported following pressure from the Sri Lankan government. The ICRC was expected to visit the suspects in CID custody. Three LTTE operatives, identified at the time as Sujit Gunapala (27), Sasiljaran Teverajah (27) and Satiepawan Arseawatap (34), were arrested in the Ranong province in Thailand on May 12, 2003 with 10 Glock pistols and three HK Mark 23 pistols in their possession.
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APRC is dead, says UNP Friday, 17 August 2007 - 10:57 AM SL Time After the Tuesday meeting of the All Party Representative Committee (APRC) on Constitutional Reforms was abruptly halted and adjourned indefinitely due to demands from Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) members, and failed to `finalise a draft report by today to keep to a deadline set by the United National Party UNP,` the opposition UNP spokesperson said the `APRC process is dead in the water,` the Morning Leader reported in the Wednesday edition. `The sudden decision to move for an adjournment yesterday came following representations made by the JHU to the President Monday night. The SLFP and MEP representatives to the APRC, Minister Vishwa Warnapala and Nalin de Silva, had informed Chairman Tissa Vitharana that the proceedings had to be adjourned in keeping with a request made by the President,` the Morning Leader said.
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LTTE ban in Australia in the offing Friday, 17 August 2007 - 10:56 AM SL Time Sri Lanka is pushing a blanket ban on the LTTE in Australia and efforts towards this goal are progressing, Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told a news conference yesterday. Announcing a top international counter terrorism conference which will be hosted in Colombo from October 18 to 20 at the BMICH, the Minister said the Government was working on the Australian ban but it was unreasonable to expect the proscription to come into force overnight. He termed the recent arrests of LTTE operatives and key fund raisers across the globe from West to East as an outstanding achievement of the Government`s foreign policy, responding to a query if the Government was happy with the progress it has made after the assassination of former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar.
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UNP says criticism aimed at JHU monks, not Maha Sangha Friday, 17 August 2007 - 10:54 AM SL Time The main opposition UNP yesterday pointed out that it had only criticized the JHU monks and not the Maha Sangha in the country as a whole. Party media spokesman Gayantha Karunatilake told a news conference the UNP and its leadership had great respect for the Maha Sangha who preserved the Sambuddha Sasana for more than 2500 years. However, Mr. Karunatilake said the UNP levelled political criticism at the JHU monks who promised to create a new political culture for the good of the country, but had been acting in a manner not in keeping with their status. `Some people including the JHU had tried to misinterpret what party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said as an attack on the Maha Sangha in a bid to mislead the people and discredit the party.
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Holmes undermined Lanka`s goodwill Thursday, 16 August 2007 - 4:54 AM SL Time Regretting the statement by UN Humanitarian Chief to Reuters that Sri Lanka was one of the most dangerous places for aid workers, Highways Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle said it was unfortunate that he forgot that there were still a large number of aid workers including those of the UNICEF, serving in the North and the East. Fernandopulle said Holmes undermined the State`s goodwill exhibited through the ready facilitation of his trip to the North and the East for him to get a first hand account of the ground situation there. `Most of the aid workers in the North and the East are Tamils, some of them are LTTE sympathisers. This is a known fact,` the minister said adding that anyone who helps the cause of terrorists should be regarded as a terrorist.
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Airport unions to appeal to HRC over mobile phone ban Thursday, 16 August 2007 - 4:51 AM SL Time Several trade unions in the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) are planning to go to the Human Rights Commission against what they described as a discriminative order by the Airport and Aviation Authority (AAA) banning ordinary workers from using their mobile phones within the Airport premises. BIA authorities implemented the new rule claiming that the customs have found that many smuggling rackets and other frauds have been carried out with the support of the BIA employees. But the unions strongly denied the allegation and said that it was baseless because the ordinary airport workers have no access to facilitate such rackets. A union representative said the ban was totally discriminative and violated human rights because it was imposed on ordinary workers leaving out the executives such as duty managers and superintendents.
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Satellite technology for development Wednesday, 15 August 2007 - 5:19 AM SL Time Sri Lanka will use satellite technology for the development of several sectors. India has come forward to provide the required facilities. India has, within a very short period, achieved rapid development on satellite technology. A delegation, including Director of the Indian Aeronautics Research Centre A B Aiyer met President Mahinda Rajapakse and had discussions on this matter. Views were exchanged at length on increasing productivity in the educational, health, agricultural and disaster management spheres through satellite technology. Mr. Aiyer assured India`s full support in this respect. Ministers Anura Priyadharshana Yapa and Prof. Tissa Vitharana, India`s High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Alok Prasad and President`s Secretary Lalith Weeratunge were present.
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Parliament Vs Parliament Friday, 17 August 2007 - 11:01 AM SL Time A decision by the party leaders to appoint 26 Parliamentary Select Committees (PSCs) to probe the alleged corruption in state institutions highlighted in a COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises) report has irked COPE Chairman Wijedasa Rajapakshe, MP. He has, as we reported yesterday, registered his vehement protest against that move in a strongly worded letter to the Speaker. He is of the view that there is no constitutional provision for the appointment of temporary PSCs to inquire into the findings of a permanent PSC. He considers it a breach of parliamentary tradition and likens it to the appointment of another supreme court to inquire into the decisions of the existing Supreme Court. What if the party leaders are not satisfied with the findings of the PSCs to be appointed to probe the COPE report? Will another set of PSCs be appointed to inquire into their findings? Probes cannot go on until the cows come home with no action being taken against those who are allegedly responsible for widespread corruption in the state sector. Most of all, the purpose of having set up a watchdog mechanism in the form of the COPE will be lost if its reports are to be subjected to further investigations.
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Don`t hold children to ransom! Thursday, 16 August 2007 - 4:54 AM SL Time Teachers` unions are threatening to boycott the GCE (A/L) paper marking unless their grievances are redressed forthwith. Union leaders claim that a meeting they had with President Mahinda Rajapaksa the other day came a cropper as the core issues were not taken up and they were referred to a committee appointed by the Ministry by way of a time buying tactic. About 12,000 teachers take part in the evaluation of the A/L answer scripts annually and the unions claim 10,000 of them are their members. The unionists also accuse the Commissioner General of Examinations of trying to sabotage their protest by engaging ` in paper marking, a charge that the Commissioner has denied. The consternation of teachers is understandable, as the rectification of their salary anomalies is long overdue and the government does not seem keen to address the issue with a view to sorting it out once and for all. It has taken recourse to its favourite `committee method`, which is nothing but a dilatory tactic as the teachers rightly point out. Perhaps, there is hardly anything in this country that is abused more that the various committees that politicians promptly appoint at the first sign of trouble for their convenience. (Committees, cynics say, function just the way a person eases himself: They sit, deliberate for a while and then drop the matter with a report!) The unions may be justified in claiming that they are being pushed to extreme action. The government cannot wish away the problems that need to be discussed and solved without further delay. President Rajapaksa of the (ill-fated) Workers` Charter fame, we thought, would be able to handle labour disputes in a better way. After all, it is he who told this newspaper in an interview, when he was the Minister of Labour, that in a labour dispute neither the workers nor the employers won. Both lost, he said, as their institutions suffered. Now, Mr. President, as the CEO of this country, it is time for you to practise what you preached as Minister of Labour.
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Probe all `secret deals`! Wednesday, 15 August 2007 - 5:19 AM SL Time There seems to be no end to the revelations of secret deals between the southern politicians and Prabhakaran! Leader of the Up-country People`s Front and Minister P. Chandrasekaran has, according to the state media, said he is privy to a secret deal that the UNP negotiated with the LTTE before the 2005 Presidential Election. He has, we are told, offered to divulge more information about it, should the need arise. Mr. Chandrasekaran`s claim comes at a time when the Mangala-Ranil alliance is stepping up pressure on the government to divulge what it describes as a secret pact between President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Prabhakaran, who, the UNP claims, was paid for organising a polls boycott in some parts of the North and the East to facilitate President Rajapaksa`s election.
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Ananda Sastralaya win Vidura College Invitation cricket Friday, 17 August 2007 - 11:03 AM SL Time Ananda Sastralaya cruised to a five wicket win over Vidura College in the final of the Vidura College Invitational Under-13 Cricket Tournament played at Ananda Sastralaya ground, Kotte on Wednesday. Having restricted Vidura to 128, the Kotte lads knocked off the target in 24 overs with five wickets in hand. Chasing the modest target, Ananda Sastralaya were in deep trouble when they lost the openers with just 18 runs on the board. However, Vidura`s jubilation didn`t last long as Oshadi Herath and Shalinda Lakshan added a valuable 60 stand for the third wicket. Oshadi Herath with 31 and Shalinda Lakshan with 33 eased off the troubles of Ananda Sastralaya. Shalinda Lakshan was later adjudged the Best Batsman of the Final. With the Kotte lads cruising to victory, Pasan Ranasinghe managed to bring some life to the game and some respect to the losing side as he managed three quick wickets. Bowling just three overs late in the innings, Ranasinghe conceded just four runs. Ranasinghe was adjudged the Player of the Series.
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Sri Lankans triumph after initial jitters Thursday, 16 August 2007 - 4:59 AM SL Time Kaushal Lokuarachchi and Gayan Wijekoon stitched together a gritty 66-run partnership to lift Sri Lanka A to a thrilling win in a low-scoring game against India A at Nairobi. India were restricted to 102 runs before Sri Lanka, at one stage stuttering at 40 for 6, were guided home by the pair. Irfan Pathan had earlier top-scored with 44 to lift India from an equally calamitous 30 for 7. He later combined with Pankaj Singh to slow the chase, but 102 was never enough to defend. The chase started sedately, before Sri Lanka were rocked by a triple strike. Pathan trapped Dilruwan Perera leg-before in the seventh over with one that kept low Pankaj Singh prised out Malinda Warnapura before Irfan struck again in the ninth over. A promising 19 for 0 turned to 24 for 3 and India had stormed their way back into the game.
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Nalaka bids adieu to rugby Thursday, 16 August 2007 - 4:55 AM SL Time Former Sri Lanka Sevens rugby Captain and Knady Sports Club play maker and who is well known as the master crafter kicker Nalaka Weerakoddy will hang his boots after an illustrious career as one of the finest ruggerites of all time after the finals of the Clifford Cup this Saturday. In an exclusive interview with The Island Nalaka who has announced his premature retirement said that `I call it a day after a long career well over 12 years and walk away as a contented man` Nalaka who stared his career rugby as a 11 year old at Kingswood College went on to captain his school team in 1995 was also picked up to be the deputy skipper of the Sri Lanka under 19 team added that `He started his club rugby at Kandy Youth SC and later joined CR & FC where he was part of the champion teams from 1996 to 1999 until he returned to Kandy in 2000. There onwards it was triumph after triumph where am happy that I was able to make a valuable contribution to the team and be part of the tripple champion KSC uninterrupted for many years`
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