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Sri Lanka sets date for first post-war polls
Friday, 26 June 2009 - 12:12 AM SL Time
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Sri Lanka on August 8 will hold elections for the first time since declaring victory over the Tamil Tigers last month, the government said on Thursday.
The local government polls will take place in Jaffna and Vavuniya, two cities that were at the periphery of the territory controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for most of the 25-year separatist war.
The upcoming elections are aimed at entrenching a civilian administration in an area wracked by war for decades.
Both municipalities last held elections 11 years ago, and the election date will coincide with a provincial-level poll in the southern province of Uva, the Elections Department said.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa`s ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance coalition has won all six of the provincial polls held since May 2008, which were seen as a test of support for his war effort and possible early presidential polls.
Besides Uva, only two more provinces have not voted, Rajapaksa`s native Southern Province and the Northern province which was almost entirely controlled by the LTTE.
Sri Lanka on May 18 declared victory over the LTTE, and later said founder Vellupillai Prabhakaran was killed.
That effectively ended the LTTE`s struggle to create a separate state for minority Tamils, which began in the 1970s and erupted into civil war in 1983.
Local government elections are held every four years while Provincial council elections are held every five years, but elections in the north and east have been repeatedly postponed because of continued fighting since 1998.
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Ramz
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 25 Jun 2009 17:33:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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Paving way for stability!
I don't think so,,,, elections won't bring us stability for sure,,,,
we need some elections in north,,, but not in south,,,, GoSL should not go unnecessary elections in South,,,,, |
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 25 Jun 2009 17:56:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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Future is looking good.
Cornish surfers off to Sri Lanka
Around 40 surfers from Cornwall are heading to Sri Lanka for a special UK Pro Surf Tour Champion of Champions contest that starts on 1 July.
Surfers will travel to Aragum Bay, renowned as one of the best point breaks in the world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/8116689.stm
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 25 Jun 2009 17:58:11 GMT Report for Abuse
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People accepted burning issues and they wanted the govt to go ahead and wipe out LTTE.
Sri Lankan people are not dumb.
as 13th amendment is going to stay, some of the provincial councils should be dissolved and amalgamated to make maximum of 05 provincial councils.
225 parliament should be cut drastically. So, every MP does not have to live in Colombo.
Edited By - AnuD - 25 Jun 2009 18:01:02 GMT |
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25 Jun 2009 18:01:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sri Lankan people are not dumb. IF properly handled all two full terms can be used.
Early elections means no self-confidence
Or may be MR does not wish to give ever interfering IC to breathing space. Keep hammering while the iron is hot. |
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25 Jun 2009 18:15:01 GMT Report for Abuse
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I wonder why 300000 of Makkal Padayans and LTTE cadres inside the barbed wire camps were in a hurry to leave the camps.
Millions of rupees & 100kgs of gold recovered with military items
(Lanka-e-News, June 24, 2009, 4.25 PM) The SL Army troops recovered 100kgs of Gold and cash 6.5 million rupees (Rs.6491000.00) in a search operation conducted in the Pudukuduirippu, Mullattivu area yesterday |
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Before the 2009 May, they were called Maaveerar families and Makkal padayans.
Now, they are called Tamil - IDPs. |
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25 Jun 2009 18:19:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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Vatican has it's own bank to lend $ 1.9 billion TO GOSL.
Yet, GOSL give money to the Church.
SRI LANKA Catholic churches get government cash grants
June 25, 2009
COLOMBO (UCAN) The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has welcomed cash grants from the government to develop church facilities in the country.
'The Church is thankful to the government for its donations to restore places of Catholic pilgrimage,' said Bishop Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris of Kurunegala. Two shrines have been awarded grants in his diocese.
St. Anne's Shrine is to build a new hostel for priests and the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu is to construct hostels for pilgrims.
President Mahinda Rajapakse handed over the first in a series of checks to Kurunegala and Colombo dioceses, that will total almost 7 million rupees (US$61,000), at a June 1 ceremony in Colombo.
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Vatican has it's own bank to lend $ 1.9 billion TO GOSL.
Yet, GOSL give money to the Church.
This is peanuts compared to what is channeled to the Buddhist Temple.
Still I don't like this. If the Church starts taking money from the govt it is going to be under obligation and will not be able to be impartial. This at a time when the newly appointed bishop is a personal friend of MR.
The govt destroys the churches in the north and gives peanuts to kurenagala. Normally when you give peanuts you get monkeys, only time will tell whether the church in the south is run by monkeys. |
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| Hak hak i can see few peelam cry babies waiting for the destruction of sri lanka? hikz did you guys get the peelam yet? lolz |
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