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Prabhakaran s diary found in Sri Lanka
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 16 Jun 2009 12:21:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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The diary contains vital information including an LTTE plan of an attack on the Independence Day celebrations in 2008.
Details of all other attacks carried out by the LTTE during the year had also been recorded in the diary, investigators said.
It seems writer of Mahawansa back home to write another fiction???
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 16 Jun 2009 12:24:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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always alion
the man was keeping the drugs to give to ltte /for the last one month
The suspect, Selvanyagm Balachandran is the owner of Neelam Pharmacy at Perera Lane , Wellawatta.
The TID seized 32 varieties of medical items worth Rs.2.4 million which were to be handed over to the LTTE, he further said.
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Defence authorities have rejected a request by British and Norwegian diplomats in Colombo, Sri Lanka to allow them visit the Jaffna peninsula, 'Divaina' reports. It has been revealed that the reason behind this request was to visit IDP camps in Jaffna, the newspaper says. It adds that government has learnt that Norwegian media has recently accused the Sri Lankan government of not providing adequate facilities for the displaced persons.
By resfusing their request to visit there, GOSL reinforces what Europe says. |
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16 Jun 2009 12:27:47 GMT Report for Abuse
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so sorry lanka
A Sri Lankan government investigation into human rights abuses during its war with Tamil Tiger rebels has been disbanded with more than half of its cases unresolved, an official said Tuesday.
The decision came as the government brushed off demands for an international investigation into the final ferocious battles of the war, which ended last month after the military routed the rebels in an offensive the U.N. says killed more than 7,000 civilians.
Human rights groups accused the military of shelling civilian areas and said the rebels held hundreds of thousands of people as human shields, shooting those who attempted to flee.
A presidential commission of inquiry was established two years ago under intense international pressure to investigate earlier claims of abuses in the war. It was assigned 16 cases of alleged abuses by both sides, including the 2006 execution-style slaying of 17 aid workers for the French organization Action Against Hunger.
Nissanka Udalagama, a former Supreme Court justice who chaired the commission, said it had only completed work on seven of the assigned cases by the time its mandate expired Sunday. Extensions had been routinely granted in the past, but not this time. Instead, the commission was dissolved, he said.
'We ran out of time,' he said. 'If we had gotten another year, probably we could have done it.'
It was not clear why the inquiry was ended.
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16 Jun 2009 12:30:30 GMT Report for Abuse
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Human rights groups have been particularly critical of the last months of the war, where they say both the government and Tigers showed a wanton disregard for human life with between 10,000 and 20,000 people killed during this period alone.
The military has been accused of continuously using heavy artillery to shell a tiny strip of land where Tigers were trapped along with hundreds of thousands of civilians, while rebels were accused of holding civilians hostage and using them as human shields. Both parties have rejected the charges.
However, the government remains under pressure to recognize calls both domestically and internationally for accountability and transparency, with the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon saying earlier this month that any credible accusation of human rights violations should be investigated.
But according to a report published last week by the London-based human rights group, serious human rights violations have been occurring in the Indian Ocean Island for many years. |
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16 Jun 2009 12:33:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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as sorry lankans still busy talking about prabha/tamils have moved on
Sri Lankan rebel group the Tamil Tigers say they are forming a 'provisional transnational government' to pursue self-rule for the Tamil minority.
In a statement released from an unknown location, a Tigers' spokesman said the new body would advance what he said was the next phase of the struggle.
The move comes almost a month after the government declared it had finally defeated the Tamil Tigers, or LTTE.
Rebels had fought for decades for a Tamil homeland in the island's north.
At the end of the conflict, most of the group's leaders were dead and many of its supporters in the Tamil diaspora confused and humiliated.
The announcement came in a statement by Selvarasa Pathmanathan, one of the few senior Tigers still alive and the movement's head of international relations.
He announced plans to set up what he called a provisional transnational government of Tamil Eelam, or the Tamil homeland.
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16 Jun 2009 12:37:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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just hope that this provisional govt is manned by the best and most able from the tamil diaspora
they should be made up of tamils who even opposed the ltte. |
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16 Jun 2009 12:41:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Our Forced slaughterd the surrendered Top Tigers in Royal style :)))))))) |
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provisional govt
This must be an OLD CARD, which is never materialized due to VPs dictatorship. Now, the same idea is going to hunt remaining elements of LTTE.
Simply, this is an indirect help for GOSL to identify the potential danger and keep the lid tighter. |
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