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Con cop unmasked after 26 years Thursday, 6 September 2007 - 8:47 AM SL Time A man who conned is way through 26 years as a cop and even managed to have his son employed by the Sri Lanka Police as a Constable while using all the perks a policeman enjoys, such as free travel passes and over all that the respect of his neighbours, was unmasked on Tuesday by the Matugama Police, when he was at his residence at Meegahatenne.
The last position he held in his bogus police domain was Sub Inspector attached to the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), where he was not expected to be in uniform. However, he had a different type of uniform. He was genuinely employed as a security guard for a long period in a company in Modera. He was drawing a salary of Rs 17,000 a month as a security guard and dutifully handed over the money to his wife inserted in a police pay packet 
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NGO poll: 84% approve Sri Lankan government`s war strategy Wednesday, 5 September 2007 - 8:19 PM SL Time A whopping 84% have approved the war strategy of the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL), according to the latest opinion poll conducted by NGOs in Sri Lanka.
The latest study reveals that `as many as 84 percent of the respondents?. agree that the government should concentrate on militarily defeating the LTTE and recapturing all the territory controlled by the LTTE,` says the National Peace Council which conducted the poll with the MARGA Institute. The poll also said that `89 percent believe that the LTTE will continue as a guerilla force and be a threat to peace and security even after suffering a comprehensive military defeat.` Predictably, 99 percent agreed `that the prevailing state of war should be ended as early as possible and security restored in all parts of the country.`
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12 Muslim houses torched in Akkaraippatu Wednesday, 5 September 2007 - 10:24 AM SL Time A gang of ten Sinhala thugs armed with sharp instruments entered through the borders of Oluvil, and Pa`l`lakkaadu and set fire to 12 Muslim homes in Ashraff town in Akkaraippattu police division in Amparai district Monday evening around 6:00 p.m., local residents said.
The mob rushed into the Muslim area and after chasing out the occupants set the houses on fire and fled from the scene. The occupants of these houses are homeless and are seeking help from the local NGOs to provide the basic necessities and shelter. Tension grips Ashraff town, and the victims fear for their lives. The mob had threatened the residents and warned that the area was the Holy Land of Sinhalese and no one else should live in the area. Police had commenced investigation but no arrests have been made, Akkaraippattu police said.
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Findings Reveal Situation Far Less .. Saturday, 8 September 2007 - 4:29 AM SL Time Statistics pertaining to nutrition levels in Sri Lanka, a country whose resources have been severely taxed by a long drawn out conflict for almost three decades, when compared to other countries beset by conflict and even those free or relatively free of terrorist attacks such as those launched by the LTTE, indicate that the situation is far from alarming, a recent study by the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) shows. The SCOPP study maintains that terms such as `malnutrition` and `protein deficiency` when used uncritically, and predicated on information that is either inaccurate or incomplete can be dangerous and can compromise the overall efforts of authorities to minimize inconveniences and ensure the maintenance of acceptable health standards.
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Navy camps for Silavathura, Mullikulam Saturday, 8 September 2007 - 4:28 AM SL Time Silavathura: As the ground troops are consolidating their positions in Silavathura, Arippu and Kondachchi, the Navy is planning to establish two Navy camps in Silavathura and Mullikulam to provide security for the fishing community. Navy Spokesman Commander D.K.P. Dassanayaka said the two Navy detachments will be established tomorrow. `Fishermen south of Mannar underwent immense hardships at the hands of the LTTE as they used the innocent fishermen to smuggle goods to LTTE held areas,` Commander Dassanayaka added. The passes issued for the fishermen were misused by LTTEers disguised as fishermen to launch attacks on the Navy, The establishment of Navy camps is also expected to minimise threats on Colombo specially the Colombo Port as the Navy can block Tiger movements along the Western coast with the monitoring of LTTE sea movements following the installation of radars.
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Sri Lanka military says it seized explosives, rifles in former rebel stronghold Saturday, 8 September 2007 - 4:27 AM SL Time Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Sri Lankan soldiers recovered a haul of weapons and explosives on Friday, including 680 mortar bombs, from a village in the east seized earlier from separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, the Defense Ministry said. Soldiers searching Tharavaikulam village, a former rebel nerve center in eastern Batticaloa district, found 53 assault rifles and about 65,000 bullets, an official at the ministry`s information center said on condition of anonymity in line with policy. He did not provide any further details. The military cleared the Eastern Province of insurgents in early July gaining total control of the province for the first time in 13 years. Since then, soldiers have found large quantities of arms and explosives believed to have been hidden by the guerrillas before they fled.
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Interim injunction against UNP leader Saturday, 8 September 2007 - 4:32 AM SL Time Colombo District Judge Sisira Ratnayake yesterday issued an interim injunction preventing UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe from suspending 11 UNP Members of Parliament from their memberships of the Working Committee of the UNP who joined the Government and assumed duties as Ministers. The Court issued the order until the end of this case. The Court issued the enjoining order preventing the suspension of Karu Jayasuriya, G. L. Pieris, Bandula Gunawardana, Rajitha Senaratne, Milinda Moragoda, Gamini Lokuge, Neomal Perera, M. M. Musthafa, Mano Wijeratne, P. Dayaratne and Hemakumara Nanayakkara from the UNP working Committee by means of a letter dated February 7, signed by Wickremesinghe.
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Ready to relinquish post if MPs want: Speaker Saturday, 8 September 2007 - 4:30 AM SL Time Speaker W.J.M. Lokubandara told parliament yesterday he was highly worried about what happened in the House the previous day and under these circumstances was prepared to step down if the members requested him to do so. Causing ripples of laughter among government members, UNP MP Mahinda Ratnatilake said during the commotion two ministers had crawled up to him from behind the Speaker`s chair and tried to pull down his sarong. In the altercation that followed Mr. Ratnatilake also had his shirt torn apart. Parliamentary proceedings on Thursday were marred by rowdy scenes which began when the UNP and JVP members trooped into the Well of the House shouting slogans to protest the five Finance Bills being taken up for electronic voting.
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New tax bills passed after `punch up` Friday, 7 September 2007 - 10:55 AM SL Time The five bills presented by the Sri Lankan government on tax and fiscal amendments were passed in the parliament on Thursday with 106 MPs voting in favour and 81 voting against it. Major opposition UNP leader Ranil Wickramasinghe opposed the electronic system of voting arguing that it was not declared earlier in party meetings. Speaker of parliament suggested that the voting can be done in the traditional system but a major opposition from JVP members of parliament created a chaos in the premises. The aim of the bills is said to be introduced to increase the state revenue introducing more taxes. The dispute ended up in a punch up between the members of different parties.
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Opposition: Tax bills passed illegally Saturday, 8 September 2007 - 4:34 AM SL Time The opposition parties in Sri Lanka have questioned the legality of passing five tax bills amidst MPs protesting against the way the vote was conducted. The main opposition, United National Party (UNP), insisted that the five bills on tax and fiscal amendments were passed illegally on Thursday. Chief Opposition Whip Joseph Michael Perera urged speaker WJM Lokubandara to convene a party leaders` meeting in the parliament to resolve the matter.
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US $500m bond: a debt repayment? Friday, 7 September 2007 - 10:54 AM SL Time International donors are growing increasingly concerned over the future allocation of Sri Lanka`s US$500million bond. World Bank Country Director for Sri Lanka Naoko Ishii yesterday speaking with the Daily Financial Times said she hopes the `Sri Lankan government will spend the [US $500million] bond on infrastructure instead of using it as another form of debt repayment.` The budget deficit currently stands at 8% of GDP amounting to approximately US$1.76 billion. Analysts observed that the budget deficit is expected to fall gradually in 2007-11, reaching 6.4% of GDP in 2011. Despite her concerns, Ms. Ishii firmly stated her understanding in why the government may opt to choose other appropriation schemes: `I can understand why the Sri Lankan government may be tempted to use the bond towards recurrent payments because of the budget deficit and capital expansion being squeezed a lot.`
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Maldives calls for tourism tie up Wednesday, 5 September 2007 - 10:28 AM SL Time Sri Lanka and the Maldives will jointly promote the emerging tourism markets like China, said the visiting Maldivian Deputy Minister of Tourism, Abdul Hameed Zakariyya. Speaking after the formation of a Sri Lanka Maldives Joint Task Force on Tourism at Sri Lanka Tourist Board yesterday he said that both countries have different produces to offer and a duel destination packages could be easily marketed. The Deputy Minister said that while Sri Lanka offer nature culture, adventure, the Maldives offers beach. `We are not competitors and hence a two way destination package could be easily offered,` he said. Lanka offers attractive Ayurveda therapy. The Minister also said that many Maldivian Hoteliers are keen to invest in Sri Lanka. `Already an investor had leased a land in the eastern province to construct a hotel,` he said. In addition, universal hotels in the Maldives too are looking at investing in Sri Lanka.
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A question of reputation Friday, 7 September 2007 - 10:56 AM SL Time One of our readers who had been away for a while yesterday afternoon inquired about a story doing the rounds that we had brought Parliament into disrepute through a headline in The Island. He wanted to know whether there was any truth in the story. We told him that whoever thought so ought to be a real nincompoop who urgently needed some schooling. His inquiry prompted this comment. Our reader wholeheartedly agreed with us when we told him that if any institution, state or otherwise, had deteriorated so much that children couldn`t visit it any longer because of filth and fisticuffs being freely exchanged by the guardians thereof, some of whom lacked even the basic educational qualifications required for the recruitment of sanitary labourers in the state sector, carried firearms sans permits, committed murder and fraud and abused their privileged position to shower pay hikes and perks on themselves at the public expense, it had the same reputation as a whorehouse and the question of its image being sullied didn`t arise at all. We also pointed out that corrupt administrators through their shady deals with either local or foreign organisations gave such institutions an impetus on their journey down the Gadarene slope. The situation became far worse, we told him, if lonely women happened to be in top positions sleeping and conspiring with privileged stud bulls, who had a penchant for jumping in with both feet to oblige any administrative or secretarial fille de joie, to silence the scribes who exposed their corrupt deals, through intimidatory tactics.
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Problem of being SB Wednesday, 5 September 2007 - 10:30 AM SL Time Former SLFP heavyweight and present UNP National Organiser S. B. Dissanayake is obviously at the end of his tether. He is being forced into an uneasy cohabitation with his political enemies. Hence, his diatribe against his former boss turned bete noire Chandrika Bandaranaiake Kumaratunga, who has now joined forces with the UNP to topple the government. She will, he has said, certainly ruin the UNP. In taking up that position, he has flown in the face of his leader Ranil Wickremesinghe`s decision to make her a partner in his oust-the-government campaign.
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Aren`t children`s lives precious? Saturday, 1 September 2007 - 8:21 AM SL Time UNICEF is reported to have taken umbrage over the exposure by the government of the identities of some LTTE child combatants. It is doubtful whether the spin doctors of the government are au fait with the international standards as regards reporting on those unfortunate children. Or, they may have thrown caution to the winds in a bid to gain some mileage by exposing the LTTE`s cruelty to children in the on-going propaganda battle. The identification of child combatants is an offence which is perhaps second in severity only to their forcible conscription in that, once their identities are exposed, they have to live with the stigma attached to their past for the rest of their lives even after rehabilitation. They shouldn`t be made to suffer for no fault of theirs.
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Kingswood rally to down St. Sylvester`s Saturday, 8 September 2007 - 4:30 AM SL Time After being deadlocked at nil all at half time fancied Kingswood College produced a stunning second half comeback to gain a shock 7-5 win over archrivals St. Sylvester`s and booked a quarterfinal slot in the Singer-SriLankan International Sevens tournament`s schools event on the opening day of the competition here at the Nittawela Stadium, in Kandy yesterday. The second half was also closely fought out, but Kigswood managed to lead the game. Prop forward Gayan Rathnage broke away from the scrum at Sylvester`s 10 metre line and touched down at the right corner. This was converted by Roshan Weeraratne. But the Sylvestrians counter attacked in the dying minutes and their fly half S. M. Rajakaruna went over for a try. Their place kicker however failed the conversion from a difficult angle and the Kingswoodians gained victory by a mere two points. Kingswood will now meet their other home town rivals Dharmarajah in the Cup quarters which is scheduled to be played today at 4.00 p.m. Meanwhile the other Cup favourites defending Singer SriLanka schools cup champions St. Anthony`s, last year`s runners - up Isipathana and inter schools champions St. Peter`s managed to win their all group matches and thus entered the cup quarters.
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Murali in line for Test Player of the year Award Friday, 7 September 2007 - 10:57 AM SL Time Sri Lanka`s Muttiah Muralitharan was short listed for the Test Player of the year award in the ICC Awards 2007 which will take place on September 10 at the Sandton Convention Centre, Sandton, Johannesburg. The other nominees for this award are Kevin Pietersen (England), Ricky Ponting (Australia) and Mohammad Yousuf (Pakistan). In addition Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardena and his Australian counterpart Ricky Ponting are the sole nominees for the Captain Of the Year award. Meanwhile the teams short listed for the Spirit of Cricket Award are Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
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Thomian Gunasinghe stars on first day Wednesday, 5 September 2007 - 10:29 AM SL Time Two records were lowered and one meet record was equalled on the opening day of the Milo sponsored Sir John Tarbat Senior Athletic Championship commenced at the Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday. Ruwan Gunasinghe of S. Thomas` College, Mount Lavinia impressed in the Under-16 boys` long jump erasing a ten year old meet record established by Ashan Randika Fernando of Joseph Vas College Wennapuwa ten years ago. Fernando`s record of 6.64 meters was established in 1997 and that fell when Gunasinghe cleared a distance of 6.84 meters. Later, Gunasinghe stretched his dominance to track events completing the Boys` Under-16 200 meter semi final in 23.8 seconds. Earlier he clocked 23.7 in the 200 meter heats. Sonali Kumari Weerasekara of Sewamuktha Kandaura MV, Sewagama accounted for the other record to fall as she cleared a distance of 36.77 meters in Girls` Under-20 Discus Throw. Incidentally she erased her own record of 36.55 meters established last year.
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