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Nacholibre
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 9 Jul 2008 09:16:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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Tigress,
I hear that the following are not striking tomorrow.
Transport, education, Health, ports, customs, post and telecommunications, estate labourers, airport and aviation, Electricity board..
I am not sure but I got the news. |
tigeress19
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 9 Jul 2008 09:17:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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Come to Colombo or South first, and then talk.....
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then go to vanni and then talk........
the colombo resident reports...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=aRDjQszRCRNk&refer=india
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Thalaivar
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 9 Jul 2008 09:17:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thalaivar,
r you sure he is not the same person?
how do you know???
name is different.
Mr. N. Nanthakumar,
age 36, father of three-month-old baby girl.
So these information is enough for people with common sense to understand whether both are same or different.
Edited By - Thalaivar - 9 Jul 2008 09:19:28 GMT |
Sinthaka
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9 Jul 2008 09:18:11 GMT Report for Abuse
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then go to vanni and then talk........
Vanni is in Sri Lanka
Come to Sri Lanka first!
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Iran sends missile test warning
Iran test-fires its longest-range missile - capable of hitting Israel - in a clear warning against US and Israeli pressure. |
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the colombo resident reports...
Sri Lankans May Turn Against War Strategy, Defense Analysts Say
By Shani Raja
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka's government needs to deliver on its vow to cripple the rebel Tamil Tigers this year or lose support for a conflict that is slowing economic growth, defense analysts said as labor unions plan a general strike tomorrow.
''People say they'll suffer the hardships as long as the government can finish the war,'' said Iqbal Athas, a Colombo-based correspondent for Jane's Defence Weekly. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's ''military machine has yet to be badly dented'' and the group may have at least 10,000 fighters.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government pledged to defeat the LTTE in the northern Wanni region this year after evicting them from the east a year ago. The Tamil Tigers operate from jungle bases in the north, where they repulsed a major army offensive in the late 1990s.
Pressure on the government to negotiate with the rebels may build if military operations stall. Workers in ports, transport and agriculture are among those planning to strike tomorrow over cost of living increases after consumer prices in the capital, Colombo, rose the most in at least four years and at the fastest pace in Asia.
The war is weighing on the economy, Sri Lanka's Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal said last week at a business forum. The International Monetary Fund has said the nation's economic outlook ''depends critically'' on an end to the civil war.
Spending Slump
Economic growth slowed for the first time in a year in the first quarter as the escalating violence, including bomb attacks in Colombo, curbed spending, while consumer prices in Colombo rose 28.2 percent in June from a year earlier, the statistics department said at the end of last month.
''People are expecting the war to be over sooner rather than later,'' said Pramod De Silva, editor-in-chief of the state-run Daily News. ''They will welcome either a military or a political solution as soon as possible.''
The military's efforts to control terrorism in the north have allowed people in the south to consider strike action, Rajapaksa said in comments yesterday, the newspaper reported. Some groups are using the stoppage to ''gain political mileage,'' he said.
Losing control of Eastern Province was the worst defeat suffered by the LTTE in its 25-year struggle for a Tamil homeland in the north and east of the island nation. The Tigers will have a hard time regaining the region, Athas said. Sri Lanka has a 100,000-strong army.
Northern Bases
The Tamil Tigers are confined to just two northern districts in Wanni, Sri Lanka's Defense Affairs Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said in a telephone interview from Colombo. The government is on course to delivering a major blow to the ''terrorists'' this year, he said. ''Everything is going according to our strategies and plans.''
The Tamil Tigers have lost the ability to fight as a conventional army after being weakened by recent government offensives, Army Chief Sarath Fonseka said earlier this month. The military is making progress toward eliminating the Tigers by mid-2009, he told reporters.
The war may have reached a stalemate, said Athas. Attacks are on the rise in all three ''cleared'' eastern districts, Batticaloa, Trincomalee and Amparai, and the Tamil Tigers have been ''periodically'' targeting the northern Jaffna peninsula, mostly under the government's control.
Attacks in South
The rebels have also launched attacks on civilians in the Sinhalese-dominated south of the island, demonstrating that they can operate deep within government territory.
Last year, the rebels showed they had developed an air capability, using light aircraft to bomb a military base near Sri Lanka's main international airport. The air wing consists of five propeller-driven aircraft, the military says.
The military has targeted Tamil Tiger leaders since taking over the Eastern Province, killing the group's political chief, its military intelligence leader and the head of the naval unit, known as the Sea Tigers. The LTTE accuses the air force of bombing civilian areas and says the land and air attacks amount to genocide.
The LTTE said last September that any peace process must be based on a homeland for the Tamil people, in the same way the ethnic-Albanian majority in the former Serbian province of Kosovo gained independence. Tamils make up 11.9 percent of Sri Lanka's 20 million people, according to the 2001 census.
War Reporting
Sri Lankan journalists are facing increasing attacks over their reporting of the conflict, according to Amnesty International. Hundreds of local reporters and cameramen protested outside Rajapaksa's home last week demanding an end to a spate of killings and assaults on journalists, Agence France- Presse reported.
Some journalists fear a crackdown if the victory promised by the government doesn't materialize.
''The media has come under very staunch criticism for expressing views which are not of the government,'' said Athas. ''Anybody who doesn't tow the line is called a traitor. You can draw the inference on what's going to come.''
A journalist and member of the British High Commission staff were assaulted in Colombo last week. The U.S. embassy condemned the attack and other recent violence against journalists.
Alleged human rights violations against journalists by the government are being ''blown totally out of proportion,'' Rambukwella said. The sources of such allegations are largely non-governmental agencies with LTTE sympathies, he added.
To contact the reporter on this story: Shani Raja in Sydney at sraja4@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: July 8, 2008 21:50 EDT
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9 Jul 2008 09:19:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty is right then. Ur one orifice is damaged by sutha..:-)
Looks like Berty's Orifice cleaner is here!
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9 Jul 2008 09:20:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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Tigs,
This one's for you...from Uthr
The pro-LTTE stance of a large section of Tamil expatriates has been callous without any real concern for the people and morally repugnant.
Edited By - Sinthaka - 9 Jul 2008 09:21:08 GMT |
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