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Controversy over truckload of UNICEF biscuits in Sri Lanka ends
Friday, 1 February 2008 - 7:52 PM SL Time
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A UN Children s Fund (UNICEF) consignment of high-protein biscuits impounded by police a week ago on suspicion that it was going to the rebel Tamil Tigers has been released today.
The detention of the consignment, destined for malnourished children in northern Sri Lanka, came at a time of heightened security and scrutiny in the north as fighting between government forces and Tamil Tigers intensified.
The container with its driver and his assistant were stopped at Madavachchiya town, 150km from the capital, Colombo on 26 January. The truck driver had no papers to clarify the ownership status or destination of the goods.
Police sources from Madavachchiya said initial investigations have revealed that high protein biscuits of this kind are used by combatants as rations, the Government Information Department stated in a release on 28 January.
IRIN had established that the 39,000 packets of high protein biscuits (known as BP100 and manufactured by the Norwegian company Compact AS) were being transported by UNICEF to Kilinochchi in northern Sri Lanka at the request of Deputy Provincial Director of Health Services in Kilinochchi T. Sathyamoorthi.
All relevant clearance was obtained before they [the biscuits] were moved from Colombo, Sathyamoortthi said. I can t say why the driver forgot the papers, but the biscuits were for an ongoing programme, Sathyamoorthi said.
Sathyamorrthi said authorisation had been obtained from all the relevant authorities to transport the biscuits, and that the health authorities had been distributing the biscuits in the Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu districts, both of which are under the control of the Tamil Tigers, since June 2007.
The beneficiaries were to be breast-feeding mothers and malnourished children - part of the Nutrition Rehabilitation Programme for Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition in the North and East, according to UNICEF.
The programme was launched in March 2007 by the Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition after two surveys in 2006 and 2007 found high malnutrition rates among children in the north and the east.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=76523
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kankun
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 1 Feb 2008 13:57:20 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Almost every NGO'S gone home but I had seen the UN trucks around Mahiyangana area... |
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 1 Feb 2008 13:58:34 GMT Report for Abuse
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Alright then..
Hope periyadores in the area do not high jack the biscuits. |
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 1 Feb 2008 14:00:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Next time they need to send Weight Watcher's Biscuits to Velu. |
Robins
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 1 Feb 2008 14:03:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Every Boru noise the racists make about LTTE is good publicity about the racism in SL!
Keep going guys, you guys are really paranoid to the extreme!
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ajan
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1 Feb 2008 14:07:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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this is what i reported at the day.
Srilankan evil Government block childrens food that was heading to north.
Monday, 28 January 2008 - 9:52 PM SL Time
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this is what i reported today.
VictoC ry assured II ( warning Do not look at the picture if you are not from warzone or not experianced Mahinda chintana )
Friday, 1 February 2008 - 7:56 PM SL Time
http://www.tamileditors.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2035&Itemid=1
Many sinhala reaers here maybe horrifird to see one of their soldier in this state.
a young and beautiful guy have long life ahead of him had to die thisway?
for many of you this kind of pictures you are seeing for first time. and we tamils come from wartorn area where we had lived and faced shell attacks from camps,navy attacks and air attacks everyday.
we had seen this kind of horrific things for real. seen person dieing and died.
i have seen my fellow students got killed.
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this is what i reported when GOSL said Praba got injured.
Put Poster telling Prabaharan Injured in Air Raid so Noone Look at My Air Rides.
Monday, 17 December 2007 - 5:48 PM SL Time
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when mahinda son join navy
this is what i said.
' smooth sail to foreign land with Peoples money'
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when mahinda got elected his appointment of sarath ponseka,gotabaya,ratnasree this triple trouble i said war is imminent.
war will start once the stocking is done.
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read my page to get the information you need
Edited By - ajan - 1 Feb 2008 14:20:27 GMT |
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 1 Feb 2008 14:09:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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Norway is regretting why they gave political asylem to so many coolies. They have the same problem in Denmark.
MANNAR: A TOTAL OF NINE TIGER TERRORISTS, unable to face the resistance of striking troops now raging in the WANNI and MANNAR sectors, surrendered to the troops at MURUNKAN roadblock this morning (01) and last evening (31).
Those nine Tigers of 61, 52, 35, 32, 28, 27, 24, 23 and 17 years of age were fighting against the troops in MANNAR and WELIOYA sectors at the time they decided to give up LTTE and run away. Eight of those terrorists were in the jungles surrounding MANNAR committing atrocities against the troops, taking part in the most recent attacks. The remaining one has jointly launched attacks in WELIOYA against the troops, according to their confessions.
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 1 Feb 2008 14:14:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Well my question is, every one who supports the LTTE says there are no beggers and unemployment in Tiger held areas.
And now they say the mothers and children are under nourished. I though the sun goat was capable of feeding the Tamils who are trapped/living in these areas??????
Who should I believe now. They can bring in enough weapons for the cause, how come they are not capable of taking care of their men and women????
I always say, this is good for the retarded men/women who does not want to use their brains to add one and one together.
Ratata giya kalak. |
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1 Feb 2008 14:21:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ajan:
tamileditors lieing man. Dont swallow punnakku that fast. Here is the original article where the picture was taken from. This guy died in Iraq, not in Mannar. And this guy died in 2006.
Compare the two photos.
http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2006/06/the_medias_bloo.html
http://www.tamileditors.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2035&Itemid=1
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ajan
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1 Feb 2008 14:23:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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Diplomat , who told you LTTE bring wepon?
did you not read LTTE spokesman comment.
SRilankan government are our suppliers of wepon.
couple of months ago srilankan government was to supply some planes to LTTE but with some technical problem it could not be materialsed. |
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1 Feb 2008 14:24:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ajan:
Tamileditors taking you and other followers for a ride. Picking up photos from Iraq warzone and publishing as SL stories. |
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