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Now Tigers had halt the SLA advance,

The Heroic and valiant carders from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have succeeded in routing the entire racist homophobic SLA and halting their advance in Naachchikkudaa (which is not taking place anyway).

BBC apologise for error

The office of the Ministry of Export Development and International Trade say the BBC Sinhala.com had misquoted the minister G. L. Peiris in an article published on the 5th of September.
In a letter written to the Editor of the BBC Sinhala Service by the private secretary to the minister it say,

It has been brought to my notice that your website posted on Friday, 5th September 08, contains the following caption Minister admits rights violations

Your website then continue as follows Minister in charge of Investment Development Professor G. L. Peiris told BBC Sandeshaya that the international community should understand the context in which these abuses taking place.

I wish to state categorically that the Hon. Minister did not at any time state or imply that human rights violations are being committed by the government of Sri Lanka. Your statement to the contrary is entirely false and mischievous and made with malicious intent .

You are kindly required to retract your false caption and report, and to give necessary publicity to this statement .

Yours faithfully,

Sampath Dissanayake,
Private Secretary to the Hon. Minister of Export Development and international Trade.

Editor s note

In the above mentioned article published on Friday 5th of September 2008 with the headline, Minister admits rights violations the writer had misquoted the minister. We retract the article and unreservedly apologise to the Honourable minister G. L. Peiris and to our readers.

The error was made unintentionally due to writer s misinterpretation of the statement made by the minister.

Priyath Liyanage
Head of Sinhala Service.
06 September 2008