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Tamil Tigers: defence demands Dutch judges step aside
Tuesday, 4 October 2011 - 1:01 AM SL Time
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Dutch lawyer Victor Koppe demanded on Monday that the panel of judges be removed from the case against 5 Sri Lankan men. They are accused of supporting the Tamil Tigers (LTTE), listed since 2006 by the European Union as a terrorist organisation.
Dutch prosecutors have asked for jail sentences between 10 to 16 years against the men for allegedly aiding the rebel movement from the Netherlands, including collecting funds.
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Tempers fray in Dutch Tamil Tiger case
Wednesday, 5 October 2011 - 10:44 PM SL Time
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As the Dutch prosecution of five alleged members of Sri Lanka`s Tamil Tigers continued into its third week, the defence lawyer for one suspect demanded a new trial in an unusually bad-tempered day in court.
By Richard Walker in The Hague
Defending Srirangam R, Victor Koppe asked for the promise of a 30-minute extension to the day in order to guarantee the completion of his 200- page presentation. After the judge denied that request, the issue escalated, with interpreters not being able to keep up with an increasingly pacey verbal delivery from the defence benches. Koppe accused the trial Judge of being more interested in finishing on time than in the arguments that this meant he lacked impartiality, and applied for a new trial.
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Sri Lanka police arrest more than 125 in run-up to local elections
Thursday, 6 October 2011 - 6:21 PM SL Time
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By BNO News
COLOMBO (BNO NEWS) -- More than 125 people have recently been arrested for violating Sri Lanka`s election laws in the run-up to the local government elections, officials said on Tuesday.
Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Election Security, Gamini Navaratne, said that police have arrested 127 people for election law violations. At least 97 complaints of election law violations have been reported so far, including 60 regarding illegal propaganda activity, the Colombo Page reported.
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UK Cautions Sri Lanka
Sunday, 9 October 2011 - 2:20 AM SL Time
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The British government has cautioned Sri Lanka saying that as host of the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the government must demonstrate its commitment to upholding the Commonwealth values of human rights, good governance and the rule of law.
Lord Wallace of Saltaire, a government whip in the British House of Lords, said that Sri Lanka must address long-standing issues about accountability and reconciliation after the recent conflict, the Hansard of the House of Lords said.
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Chinese moves in Maldives worry India
Monday, 10 October 2011 - 7:59 AM SL Time
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NEW DELHI: Alarm bells are ringing afresh in the Indian security establishment over renewed efforts by China to expand its footprint in Maldives , even as New Delhi and Beijing continue with their strategic shadow-boxing all across the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
With China poised to establish a full-fledged embassy at Maldives, strategically located southwest of India astride major sea lanes in IOR, officials say Beijing has stepped up its `lobbying` to bag a couple or more of crucial development projects in the 1,190-island archipelago.
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Liam Fox orders probe into his own behaviours....Indian SC reserves order on plea to probe Chidambaram s role.
Tuesday, 11 October 2011 - 7:36 PM SL Time
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The Supreme Court today reserved for final orders a plea to probe the role of Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G case while the government expressed apprehension that any further investigation ordered on the basis of incomplete facts may destabilise the system .
In a direct criticism of the Supreme Court`s open-court hearing of the 2G case, on the applications of the NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), and Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy against Chidambaram, the government said it was counter-productive and caused irreparable loss .
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Ban Ki Moon speech.
Thursday, 13 October 2011 - 12:14 AM SL Time
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( October 12, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon waiting and waiting for response from Sri Lankan Government on Human Rights Accountability in Sri Lanka.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took a harsh tone Monday towards the Sri Lankan Government, describing that he has been, waiting and waiting for a positive response to recommendations made by his Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka. His remarks were made in an exclusive press meeting with Norwegian Foreign Media on 10 October.
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Liam Fox is gone: Sri Lanka`s lost a friend
Saturday, 15 October 2011 - 8:12 PM SL Time
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Liam Fox is gone: Sri Lanka`s lost a friend
Friday 14 October 2011
Jonathan MillerForeign Affairs Correspondent
.In the wake of Dr Fox`s resignation, foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller reveals the links with private interests that allowed Dr Fox to run what some called `a shadow foreign policy`.
So why did Liam Fox jump now, having toughed it out for days? Was it the growing revelations about how his friend Adam Werritty was funded?
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Pot calls the kettle black
Sunday, 16 October 2011 - 6:03 AM SL Time
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WikiLeaks Rajapaksas Are Uneducated And Uncultured Rascals Cbk
CBK - Fonseka came from a Buddhist extremist background, he seemed more honest than Rajapaksa
President Kumaratunga found the Rajapaksa family involvement in politics very distasteful and called them `uneducated and uncultured rascals.` She worried that the political climate since her term, had become vindictive and threatening and that Rajapaksa had `muddied the thinking` of masses. The US Ambassador wrote to Washington.
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Sri Lankan envoy `war crimes` ....SRI LANKA NAVY ATTACK MULLIVAIKAL HOSPITAL .
Sunday, 16 October 2011 - 9:00 PM SL Time
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SRI Lanka`s high commissioner to Australia, former navy Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, should be investigated for war crimes, a brief before the Australian Federal Police says.
The submission, from the International Commission of Jurists` Australian section, has compiled what a source has told The Age is direct and credible evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Witnesses - former Sri Lankan residents now living in Australia - can attest to the crimes, the source said.
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Sri Lankan diplomat named in war crimes brief
Monday, 17 October 2011 - 10:12 AM SL Time
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Updated October 17, 2011 12:39:48
Sri Lanka`s current high commissioner to Australia has been named in a submission containing allegations of war crimes.
The submission handed to the Australian Federal Police by the Australian chapter of the International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) contains allegations about war crimes committed in 2009 during the final stages of the Sri Lankan government`s bloody war against Tamil Tiger separatists.
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Calls to suspend Sri Lanka from Commonwealth
Monday, 17 October 2011 - 5:58 PM SL Time
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Peter Lloyd
Updated October 17, 2011 20:33:53
Mr Samarasinghe, pictured in 2010, has rejected the allegations.
Map: Australia
Less than a fortnight before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (GHOGM) in Perth, there are calls for the Commonwealth to suspend or even throw Sri Lanka out of the organisation.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has confirmed it is considering whether there is sufficient evidence for a war crimes investigation against the country`s top diplomat in Australia - former Sri Lankan navy chief Thisara Samarasinghe.
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Heroin trade between pakistan and srilanka..
Wednesday, 19 October 2011 - 5:50 AM SL Time
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Customs staff recovers 16 kilogrammes heroin
KARACHI: Pakistan Customs` Drug Enforcement Cell (DEC), Karachi Airport Unit, on Tuesday claimed to have recovered 16kg fine quality heroin being smuggled to Sri Lanka. Custom official Qamar Thalho said that the DEC staff intercepted a 41-year-old Pakistani passenger Syed Akhtar Hussain Qadri, who was reported at the International Departure Hall of the Jinnah International Airport to board Air Lanka`s flight UL-184 for Colombo. The passenger, a frequent traveller, was carrying a large consignment of mechanical gears packed in four large luggage bags. Surprisingly, the gears were given a dirty untouchable look by pasting black grease, which is normally not done in case of exporting goods. This aroused suspicion of the Customs staff and as such one piece of the gear was dismantled with great difficulty, which revealed that contraband heroin has artfully been concealed inside hollow cavity made especially for the purpose. Consequent upon this discovery, the entire consignment was subjected to thorough examination, which required making special arrangements for cutting the metallic parts for retrieving the drug. This difficult task ultimately led to the recovery of 16kg fine quality heroin from 520 mechanical gears. It may also be added here that earlier on Oct 13, the DEC had arrested another frequent travelling passenger Muhammad Asad following recovery of 1kg heroin from his possession which he had concealed in wafer chocolates and lollypop balls. Consequent upon recovery and seizure of contraband narcotics, accused passenger Qadri has been arrested and a prosecution case under Control of Narcotics Substances Act, 1997 has been registered. Further investigations were in progress. staff report
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Dutch court sentences five for backing Tamil Tigers
Friday, 21 October 2011 - 10:19 PM SL Time
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Five ethnic Tamil men were sentenced to prison terms of up to six years by the District Court in The Hague. They were found guilty of Tamil Tigers: terrorists or freedom fighters Dutch court to decide
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The prosecutors also alleged money laundering and incitement to violence. The men were charged of overseeing an international criminal and terrorist organisation involved in arson, bombings and murder, and prosecutors had demanded sentences of up to 20 years in prison.
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Channel 4 Sri Lanka documentary cleared by Ofcom
Monday, 24 October 2011 - 7:17 PM SL Time
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Ofcom received 118 complaints about the documentary `Sri Lanka`s Killing Fields`, which saw the Foreign Office repeat calls for an independent investigation of alleged war crimes
Posted: 24 October 2011 By: Rachel McAthy
Ofcom has ruled that a Channel 4 documentary, `Sri Lanka`s Killing Fields`, which generated 118 complaints, did not breach its rules on impartiality, offensiveness and misleading material.
The documentary, which was shown on Channel 4 in June and was said to show `executions, atrocities and the shelling of civilians`, prompted the Foreign Office to repeat calls for an independent investigation of alleged war crimes during the 2009 military operation in Sri Lanka.
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Indictment filed against Sri Lankan leader
Tuesday, 25 October 2011 - 5:31 AM SL Time
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A Sri Lankan-born Australian citizen who has filed an indictment for war crimes against the Sri Lankan president says the leader should be held accountable for the `massacre of thousands`.
Arunachalam Jegatheeswaran said he filed an indictment against President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday.
Mr Rajapaksa, who is due to be in Perth on Tuesday for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), has been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country`s civil war.
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Australian Attorney General rejects war crimes charges against Sri Lankan President
Wednesday, 26 October 2011 - 5:20 AM SL Time
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Oct 25, Perth: Australia`s Attorney General has refused to allow a court to proceed with case filed against Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa charging him with war crimes.
The Attorney General in a statement issued by his office has said that he would be in breach of international laws if he allowed the case filed by a Sri Lankan born Tamil citizen of Australia to proceed.
Under the International laws the heads of governments and diplomatic missions are provided legal immunity.
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Australia backs tougher Commonwealth stand on human rights
Wednesday, 26 October 2011 - 7:43 PM SL Time
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Updated October 26, 2011 22:57:09
Australia`s foreign minister Kevin Rudd is backing calls for the Commonwealth to take pre-emptive action against member nations that breach human rights.
But he says the Commonwealth`s suspension of Fiji shows it is prepared to act against undemocratic states.
Mr Rudd`s hosting a two-day meeting of foreign ministers ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in the West Australian capital, Perth.
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Sri Lanka says war crimes allegations `propaganda`
Thursday, 27 October 2011 - 2:34 PM SL Time
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PERTH, Australia Sri Lanka`s government on Thursday sought to dismiss war crimes allegations as propaganda from its defeated rivals, as it came under further pressure ahead of a Commonwealth summit.
A spokesman for Sri Lankan President Mahendra Rajapakse described the heavy focus on the issue in the lead-up to Friday`s gathering of leaders from the 54-nation Commonwealth bloc in the Australian city of Perth as `unfair`.
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From the pariah to the pinnacle - Sri Lanka turns tables at CHOGM
Friday, 28 October 2011 - 2:38 AM SL Time
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Perth, 28 October, (Asiantribune.com):
The motley lot who failed to call the shots at CHOGM has been exposed. They have been uncovered as LTTE supporters in the guise of Tamil human rights defenders omitting to tell the unsuspecting Australian public that they in fact were supporters of a brutal terrorist oraganisation that could be labeled as the mothers_day.jsp' class=black>mother and grandmother of the worst kind of human rights abusers in the history of Sri Lanka.
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Now a beauty contest for rural men, women
Monday, 31 October 2011 - 6:28 AM SL Time
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Madurai: It promises to be a catwalk with a difference! A beauty pageant here will feature rural men and women take the ramp in their traditional Tamil attire of sari and dhoti. The novel contest `Nam Namathu Bhoomi` (we and our land) is to be organised by the district administration exclusively for rural men and women in various age groups including 30, 50, and 80, officials said today.
`It will not be like Miss Madurai or Miss Madras contest where the traditional dress and make-up and the identities of the Tamil culture are not given importance. Our contest will give importance to the local attire, local way of dressing,` an official said.
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