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*Baby selling* case postponed.
Thursday, 1 December 2011 - 11:27 PM SL Time
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Colombo (AsiaNews) - The first hearing in the case of Sister Eliza, Missionary of Charity accused of `selling children` from her hostel for single mothers_day.jsp' class=black>mothers (Prem Nives, pictured), has been postponed to 15 December. Scheduled for today, the judge accepted the police request to allow time to conduct further investigations. Responding to figures close to the religious who condemned `unclear` newspaper reports, the judge stated that `the media should work with responsibility.` Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Diocese of Colombo, Fr. Joseph Benedict, said that the Church `is taking action`, but has not yet issued any official statement. And according to different personalities of the Catholic world, this very silence `is causing untold worst harm to the Sisters of Mother Teresa, giving way to useless speculations in the tabloid press.`
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SRI LANKA: Investors sought for shuttered garment plants
Friday, 2 December 2011 - 6:45 PM SL Time
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The Sri Lankan government is seeking investors for a number of shuttered garment factories.
The government took over 37 enterprises in November through a new law called the Revival of Underperforming Enterprises and Underutilized Assets Act. Of these enterprises, the majority, (around 19) are out-of-business apparel and related factories located inside and outside free trade zones.
`These factories had been closed down for some time. But the government could not take them over because although the land was on lease from the government, the buildings and assets belonged to the companies,` said Mr A Sukumaran, chairman of the JAAF, Sri Lanka`s apparel industry representative body.
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TNA - colombo talks breakdown.....
Monday, 5 December 2011 - 5:34 PM SL Time
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TNA urges government to honour mutual agreement reached and not to place new impediments
Full text of statement released by Tamil National Alliance, Dec 3, 2011
At the Bilateral talks between the TNA and the government delegation on the 16th of November the parties identified the issues to be discussed and agreed upon in evolving a political solution.
The parties agreed on the specific order in which these issues were to be discussed and for this purpose scheduled four meetings, on the 1st, 6th, 14th, and 15th of December 2011. Thereafter, a time-table setting out these dates and issues was also circulated.
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Sri Lanka court orders to apprehend Scotia Prince ferry
Monday, 5 December 2011 - 11:25 PM SL Time
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Dec 05, Colombo: A Sri Lankan court has issued a warrant today to apprehend the Scotia Prince ferry that was hauling passengers from Tuticorin port of India to Colombo port.
Acting on a petition filed by a South Indian company, the Colombo High Court ordered the Sri Lanka Port Authority to detain the passenger ferry currently docked at the Colombo Port.
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Prageethh...... missing due to `chemical weapon probe`
Thursday, 8 December 2011 - 5:12 PM SL Time
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Prageeth missing due to `chemical weapon probe`
Prageeth Ekneligoda is missing since 24 January, 2010
The main reason for the disappearance of a journalist is an investigation he carried out on the alleged use of chemical weapons by Sri Lanka forces, says his wife.
Sandhya Ekneligoda, the wife of the disappeared political columnist and cartoonist Prageeth, says his husband went missing after he published a piece on his investigation and informed diplomats over the issue.
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Abductions escalate in North, families urged to approach Co-Chair Ambassadors in Colombo
Friday, 9 December 2011 - 9:17 PM SL Time
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[TamilNet, Friday, 09 December 2011, 09:51 GMT]
21-year-old Tharsan Kannuchamy, who was earlier released after detention by the Sri Lanka Army following Vanni war, has been reported missing since Monday this week, according to a complaint lodged by his family with the SL Police in Chu`n`naakam in Jaffna. Mr. Tharsan was last seen leaving for work to a shop in Jaffna from Uduvil, where his family has recently settled after living in the nearby town of Chu`n`naakam. SL Police and Red Cross declining to take complaints, helpless human rights workers now advise family members of the abducted to report matters to the Ambassadors of the Co-Chair countries that are accountable to the war and post-war in the island.
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Lanka war panel clears military of civilian deaths
Saturday, 17 December 2011 - 3:22 AM SL Time
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COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan government commission`s inquiry into the conduct of the island`s civil war has cleared the military of deliberately targeting civilians in the final stages of the conflict.
In a 400-page report presented in parliament on Friday, the commission said it was satisfied the military`s strategy had given the highest priority to protecting the civilian population.
The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) was created by President Mahinda Rajapakse in May 2010, a year after the military`s victory over separatist Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Sri Lanka: Report Fails to Advance Accountability
Saturday, 17 December 2011 - 7:32 PM SL Time
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New York) The report of the Sri Lankan government`s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) disregards the worst abuses by government forces, rehashes longstanding recommendations, and fails to advance accountability for victims of Sri Lanka`s civil armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. The serious shortcomings of the 388-page report, which was posted on a government website on December 16, 2011, highlight the need for an international investigative mechanism into the conflict as recommended by the United Nations Secretary-General`s Panel of Experts in April.
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Rajapakse accepts Court summons, asks US to confer immunity
Sunday, 18 December 2011 - 5:58 PM SL Time
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After avoiding service for more than 9 months, and despite statements by Colombo that Sri Lanka`s President Mahinda Rajapakse is not answerable to US Courts, Rajapakse-appointed counsel from the lobby firm of Patton Boggs filed a motion with the District Court of District of Columbia for `enlargement of time to respond to the complaint` related to the legal action, 11-cv-00235, by three Tamil plaintiffs sponsored by Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), a US-based activist group. Legal observers expressed surprise at the filing, which, in addition to effecting waiver of service, also attempts to set the time window for response pleading tied to a discretionary act by Judge Kotelly on seeking view of the US State Department.
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TNA demands international mechanism for accountability in Sri Lanka
Monday, 19 December 2011 - 7:12 PM SL Time
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Calling upon the international community to establish a mechanism for accountability to bring to book the perpetrators of war crimes during the last stages of Eelam War that ended in May 2009, The Tamil National Alliance on Monday said that the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission report categorically fails to effectively and meaningfully deal with issues of accountability.
Recalling that many Tamil civilians, direct victims of the war, deposed before the LLRC, TNA leader R. Sampanthan said that the findings of the LLRC offend the dignity of these victims.
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Sri Lankan leader accuses US of unfair criticism
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 - 9:32 PM SL Time
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The Associated Press
Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011 | 6:59 a.m.
Sri Lanka`s president has accused the United States of unfairly singling out a government war commission for criticism after it cleared the military of deliberately targeting civilians during the country`s civil war.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa`s office said he told newspaper editors Tuesday that the U.S. is demanding that Sri Lanka immediately settle war accountability issues, while not criticizing other countries that have been much slower in dealing with similar post-conflict situations.
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Rights group: Tamil women exposed to abuse
Wednesday, 21 December 2011 - 9:57 PM SL Time
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AP) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Ethnic Tamil women in Sri Lanka`s former war zones face abuses including sexual violence, trafficking and forced prostitution, an international human rights group said Wednesday.
The Brussels-based International Crisis Group said there have been credible allegations of sexual violence against women in those areas at the hands of both security forces and men from their own communities.
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Lanka Govt rules out TNA demand for police powers
Thursday, 22 December 2011 - 10:18 PM SL Time
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Colombo, Dec 22 (PTI) The government today turned down the demand of Sri Lanka``s main Tamil party TNA for police powers to provincial governments, amid decentralisation talks in a bid to find a political settlement to the grievances of the minority ethnic community.
`Police powers cannot be given and will not be given.
There are reasons why they cannot be given,` Cabinet spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told reporters here.
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Briton killed in srilanka tourist resort
Tuesday, 27 December 2011 - 6:17 PM SL Time
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Published on Tuesday 27 December 2011 12:03
A Briton has died after being attacked on Christmas Day while on holiday in Sri Lanka.
Kuram Shaikah Zaman, from Manchester, was killed in the tourist resort of Tangalle.
A friend who asked not to be named said Mr Zaman was on leave from his job in the Gaza Strip, where he worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross as a physical rehabilitation programme manager.
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China gets approval for Afghanistan oil exploration bid
Wednesday, 28 December 2011 - 2:12 AM SL Time
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China has gained potential access to millions of barrels of oil after it won approval for oil exploration and extraction in Afghanistan.
The country`s cabinet approved a deal to allow China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to develop oil blocks in the Amu Darya Basin.
The basin is estimated to hold around 87 million barrels of oil.
The deal comes as China is looking to expand its oil resources in wake of a growing domestic demand.
`The Afghan cabinet has ordered mines minister Wahidullah Shahrani to sign an oil exploration contract for Amu Darya with China National Petroleum Corporation,` Afghanistan president`s office said in a statement.
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Living in fear: Sri Lanka`s Tamil women,.....MR blames Tamil political parties for delay.
Wednesday, 28 December 2011 - 11:50 PM SL Time
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It`s been two-and-a-half years since the end of Sri Lanka`s war against the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Though the government claims to have restored peace in the Tamil-dominated Northern and Eastern provinces, much progress remains to be made. A recent report released by the International Crisis Group (ICG) highlights insecurities of Tamil women in the island country.
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Sri Lanka `wheelchair tax` condemned by UK charity
Friday, 30 December 2011 - 10:35 PM SL Time
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The head of a UK charity that sent a consignment of wheelchairs to Sri Lanka has condemned the decision to impose customs duties of over $8,000 ( 5,180).
Peter Thompson, of the Yorkshire-based PhysioNet charity, said the shipment for Tamil war victims also took more than three months to clear customs.
The Sri Lankan authorities said the delay was because paperwork for the shipment was not properly completed.
They said all shipments arriving in Colombo are subject to duty payments.
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India SL Joint Working Group on Fishing to meet in January
Saturday, 31 December 2011 - 5:18 PM SL Time
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The India Sri Lanka Joint Working Group on Fishing will meet in Colombo on January 13 and 14 to address various issues relating to fishing by the two sides in the narrow Palk Straits and the Gulf of Mannar.
An Indian delegation comprising senior state and central government officials will arrive in Sri Lanka to conduct discussions on resolving the nagging issue of each other`s fishermen crossing the territorial waters.
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