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Tigers blame army for civilian deaths Friday, 29 February 2008 - 4:07 AM SL Time The Tamil Tigers say Sri Lanka`s military set off two roadside bombs in a rebel controlled area in Wednesday, killing eight civilians.
A spokesman for the military denied they`d carried out the attacks. Fighting is continuing between the rebels and government forces in the past few days. Clashes on the island has intensified since the government pulled out of a ceasefire with the rebels earlier this year. The Tamil Tigers say the attacks on civilians took place seven hours apart in two locations in the area they control in northern Sri Lanka. According to a statement on the rebels website both the bombs targeted people travelling in trailers being pulled by tractors. The Tigers said eight civilians were killed and they blamed the Sri Lankan army. 
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Sri Lanka Army Captures Sluice Gates of Sinnaodaippu Thursday, 28 February 2008 - 9:17 PM SL Time Sri Lanka Army soldiers advancing into terror defences in Mannar today (February 28) achieved a tremendous success against LTTE terrorists by establishing the domination over the area of Sinnaodaippu in the North of Giant Tank today. According to the latest military reports received from Mannar battlefront troops have been able to capture an important sluice gate in the area along with a fortified bunker and a trench defence of the terrorists.
According to the defence sources in the area, Sri Lanka army infantrymen backed by artillery, launched the first assault at the terrorists` defence line around 10.a.m. and were able to beat off the terrorists by 11.45.a.m. The ground troops have reported that 20 terrorists were killed during the confrontation. However, the overheard radio transmissions of LTTE have revealed that only 14 cadres were killed during the first assault. During the subsequent search, troops have found six T-56 riffles.
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Sr Lanka Tamils must ask for what is reasonable and accept their role in the conflict Thursday, 28 February 2008 - 12:39 PM SL Time One of the important, and valid messages contained in Satheesan Kumaran`s message, published in the Midweek review if The Island of 20th February is that we need bridge-building among the different communities. But he observes it in the breach.
Hurling accusations does not help. He claims, `The ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka between the Sinhalese and Tamil-speaking has been a creation by the Sinhala leaders`. Then Kumaran proceeds to attack Theravada Buddhism, and gives advice to Buddhist monks. He says `Irresponsible words of politicians in Colombo will only add fuel to the flames of destruction engulfing Sri Lanka politically, economically, militarily, culturally and socially, rather than educate communities on the importance of co-existence.` He goes onto claim `what Sri Lankan politicians really want is to create a society of voiceless citizens remote-controlled by a bunch of politicians.`
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LTTE op. claims he came to sue Govt. for destroying his ship Friday, 29 February 2008 - 9:22 AM SL Time Muttusamy Ilango alias Samy, one of the top undercover LTTE international operatives, arrested recently in a Colombo lodge, had confessed that he was responsible for several illegal operations such as abducting businessmen and extorting funds for the terrorist outfit besides running arms shipments and drug smuggling, a police special investigation team source told The Island. Apart from the ship that was destroyed in an attack by the Sri Lankan armed forces, he owns a number of other ships he told investigators. Explaining his presence in Colombo, Ilango, a Sri Lankan domiciled in Singapore, said he met the leader of the LTTE suicide bombing training group in Singapore and was convinced that he should help the LTTE. He had arrived in Sri Lanka with the intention of filing a lawsuit against the government to claim compensation for the destruction of one of his ships.
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LTTE s frustration very clear - Sri Lanka`s Military Thursday, 28 February 2008 - 12:00 PM SL Time Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkrara yesterday said the duplicity and frustration of the LTTE was now very much evident following the heavy defeats in the East and the on going offensives in the Mannar and Vavuniya theatres with the Tiger propaganda machine carrying out false propaganda to hoodwink the international community. Nanayakkara said that a pro-Tiger website, www.tamileditors.com, on 30 January displayed the photograph of a youth it claimed was 25-year-old N. Kumara, whose mutilated body had been found on the outskirts of Mannar. But, the Military spokesman said, the identical photograph was portrayed on a website, www.world.mht, two years ago claiming that the youth in the photograph was killed in the Iraqi war and belonged to the Haditha tribe.
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Anyone in Sri Lanka with unauthorised weapons will be arrested - Defence Secretary Wednesday, 27 February 2008 - 10:11 AM SL Time Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has asserted that the Police have been given strict directives that no one, other than the law enforcement authorities, should be permitted to carry weapons in the East, and that anyone else found in possession of a weapon would be arrested. He had made this declaration at a meeting with the UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, Ms. Angela Kane, when she attended the meeting of the Consultative Committee on Humanitarian Assistance (CCHA) on Monday, a media release said. According to the release, the defence secretary had told Ms. Kane that a security plan for the East had already been implemented, with increased police presence to ensure a peaceful election. There are 800 candidates contesting the upcoming elections and two police officers have been allocated for the security of each candidate. The individual candidates can decide whether to take advantage of the security offered.
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Parents of Sri Lanka`s war heroes to receive 25% of pension Saturday, 1 March 2008 - 2:50 AM SL Time Additional Defence Secretary Sunil S. Sirisena last week said that parents of security forces personnel who have laid down their lives for country s defence will receive 25% of the pension and other allowances will be paid to their widows. This will be effective from 21 November 2007 Sirisena said. Parents of bachelors who died in action received the full pensions and other allowances. The parents hitherto receive only a part of the compensation that the wives of the forces personnel were entitled to (Rs. 50,000) and that only if their monthly income was less than Rs. 2,000 he said. `If the widows of forces personnel killed in the war wish to re-marry they are entitled to 10 years pension as a lump sum`, he said. These decisions were taken on the recommendations made by Committee comprising the Tri Services Chiefs, representatives from the Public Administration and Home Affairs Ministry and the Finance and Policy Planning Ministry he said.
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Sri Lanka hands over rebel bodies Wednesday, 27 February 2008 - 10:17 AM SL Time Hospital officials in the northern Sri Lankan town of Anuradhapura say they have handed over the bodies of 14 Tamil Tigers to the Red Cross. They say the rebels were killed in recent fighting in the Welioya area east of the town. Hospital officials say the Tigers have handed over the bodies of three Sri Lankan soldiers so far this month. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) passes on the corpses to both sides so that they can be buried.
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Sri Lanka sliding into humanitarian nightmare- Geneva Group Wednesday, 27 February 2008 - 10:16 AM SL Time Pointing out that the number of civilian deaths has jumped sharply after the election of Rajapakse Government and that `the present government displays little appetite for peace,` Director of Small Arms Survey in Geneva, Robert Muggah, in an article appearing in Canada`s The Star, recommends that if Sri Lanka rebuffs pressure to abandon military solution `U.S. and the EU could consider withdrawing the country from the General System of Preferences,` U.N. should appoint a special envoy to start documenting under-reported armed violence, and U.N. should use article-99 to take up the issue in U.N. security council. `Much like previous administrations led by Jayawardane, Premadasa or Kumaratunga, Rajapaksa claims that a military solution to the LTTE question is within his grasp. The current government differs in one important respect: It has dropped all pretense to negotiate a political settlement,` Dr Muggah writes.
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Sri Lanka to extend English medium education to AL classes in public schools Friday, 29 February 2008 - 4:09 AM SL Time Students of government schools in Sri Lanka are to be given the opportunity to follow their advanced level studies in English medium. The Cabinet of ministers today approved a proposal submitted by the Minister of Education, Susil Premjayanth, to extend the opportunities for advanced level students in arts and commerce streams to pursue studies in the English medium in schools where teachers and other facilities are available. The bilingual programme, started in 2002 for Grade 6 classes upwards had continued to the A/L classes in the science and mathematics streams. The first batch under this programme took the A/L examination in English in 2007. So far approximately 4,000 students from 115 schools have benefited from this scheme. Education Ministry plans to train 500 school teachers in collaboration with universities in the form of weekend courses to facilitate English medium education.
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Oil hits new peak Thursday, 28 February 2008 - 12:01 PM SL Time Oil prices set a new record high above 102 US dollars a barrel yesterday. Light, sweet crude for April delivery reached 102.08 dollars on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) for the first time as investors turned to energy investments to combat a weakening dollar. Oil is closing in on its inflation-adjusted peak, as a slumping dollar on lacklustre U.S. economic data triggered a surge across commodities markets. An inflation-adjusted peak of $102.53 was seen in 1980. Dealers said it is also attributed to strong heating fuel demand in Europe and the United States. The cold spell and signals from OPEC that the group will not raise production at its meeting next week also added support to crude s gains.
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Big overseas demand for Sri Lanka`s Yellow fin tuna Tuesday, 26 February 2008 - 7:46 AM SL Time Sri Lanka has reaped profits from the migratory yellow fin tuna fish exports during the past three years and an increase in the domestic price can be experienced in the coming months, as there was a high demand for it in the export market, Minster of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Felix Perera told The Island yesterday (25). `We are exporting this special variety to Japan and the European markets but we still do not have the proper mechanism to get the maximum catch out of this resource. Only around 20 to 24 Board of Investment approved firms export this variety of tuna fish,`the minister said. He said though there were around 2,600 fishing vessels, only 300 have the capability to catch yellow fin tuna. The Fisheries Ministry s two long line vessels too had helped to increase the fish harvest.
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Throwing the baby out Saturday, 1 March 2008 - 2:50 AM SL Time Our national trait for throwing the baby out with the bath-water is truly remarkable. At times, we even throw out the baby and retain the bath-water. Then, we throw up our hands in horror and desperately look for the baby down the drain. When the UNP opened up the economy in 1977, it threw caution to the winds. Instead of discarding the outdated economic policies selectively and adopting new ones to keep pace with the changing world, it debilitated the state enterprises post-haste and drove most of them to an economic mass grave. Then, in 1994, the SLFP the very party, responsible for running a closed economy from 1970 to 1977, began from where the UNP had stopped to make sure that the existing state ventures were done away with.
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Gender equality Tuesday, 26 February 2008 - 7:49 AM SL Time A UN study shows there is presently a drastic drop in development funding particularly towards the Asia Pacific region due chiefly to gender related discrimination in the many spheres of activities in these nations. Among other things the study calls for an increase in the sphere of development assistance specially targeting gender equality and women`s empowerment. According to an inside page article we carried yesterday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has also complained that global commitments on gender equality and empowerment of women in various international fora focusing on the role women have yet to be implemented. The study reveals that the Asia Pacific region alone is losing between 42 billion and 47 dollars annually because of women`s limited access to employment opportunities and another 16 billion to 20 billion dollars annually as a result of gender gaps in education.
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Believe it or not! Sunday, 24 February 2008 - 9:19 AM SL Time Last week s revelation in parliament that a news conference organized in connection with Livestock Awards Ceremony has cost all of a million rupees will surely merit inclusion in Bob Ripley s ``Believe it or Not. Given the way that inflation is galloping with a cup of tea in a boutique costing Rs. 20, a million bucks may be worth less than it seems to be and millionaires today maybe dime a dozen in a country where a laksapathiya merited wide esteem not so long ago. But is it possible for a government institution to spend that kind of money on a mere news conference? Readers may well wonder whether it was a champagne and caviar affaire with hundreds of invitees and gifts for participants with special sound and lighting effects thrown in for the television cameras. According to what Chief Government Whip Jeyaraj Fernandopulle had told the House, the Livestock Awards extravaganza, it was obviously much more than a mere tamasha favoured by our politicians and political patronage seeking officialdom, had cost Rs. 24 million. No doubt Fernandopulle, who nowadays has to pull out most of the government s chestnuts out of the fire, was right when he said that livestock was an important subject and productivity in that sphere had to be incentivised and rewarded. But spending Rs. 24 million on an awards ceremony takes not just the cake but the whole bakery.
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Pathirana fails to save Lanka Thursday, 28 February 2008 - 12:04 PM SL Time A brilliant unbeaten 97 from all rounder Sachith Pathirana could not save Sri Lanka as they bowed out of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Under 19 World Cup following a close eight run defeat against England on the Duckworth and Lewis scoring method in their Play Off semifinal fixture worked off at the Royal Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Pathirana produced his best innings of the tournament to help Sri Lanka pile up a competitive 241 runs from their 50 overs after being put into bat. However England produced an equally good batting display to reach a formidable 204 for 3 before heavy rain halted the game in the 45th over. The dashing left hander who is also in contention for the Player of the Series award hoisted two sixes and struck five boundaries while collecting his runs from just 91 deliveries. Pathirana also put on 92 runs for the fifth wicket with skipper Ashan Subasinghe from 18 overs.
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Sri Lanka`s Tour of shame Wednesday, 27 February 2008 - 10:14 AM SL Time Sri Lanka s cricketers completed what will go down in history as the worst ever tour of Australia in the context of the players who made up the team as the curtain virtually came down on them with defeat against India at the Bellerieve Oval in Hobart yesterday. When the tour party returns in shame in a few days, the Sri Lankans will still be in the spotlight making headlines for the wrong reasons as they gear to play for something else in neighbouring India where making money will be far easier than winning matches. First it was a case of playing for the country and now it s also money which means the focus will be on another venture. How the current Sri Lanka cricket board president Arjuna Ranatunga will handle issues from now on will be the million dollar question.
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Sharma fined for row with Symonds Tuesday, 26 February 2008 - 7:57 AM SL Time Indian fast bowler Ishant Sharma has been fined over an incident with Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds, prompting fears of another fallout between the feuding teams. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has again called on both sides to bury their differences and focus on playing the game after Sharma pleaded guilty to breaching the sport`s code of conduct. The lanky paceman was fined 15 percent of his match fee from Sunday`s tri-series one-day international in Sydney after he celebrated Symonds` dismissal by crudely pointing the batsmen to the dressing room in a heated exchange. Sharma was reported by the on-field officials Daryl Harper and Tony Hill as well as the third umpire Bruce Oxenford and charged with a level one offence.
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