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War Criminal Is A War Criminal Race Should Not Matter. Deport the SOB and His Family.
Tuesday, 3 July 2012 - 12:08 PM SL Time
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One of Sri Lanka`s top naval officers has fled to Canada but federal officials are refusing to accept his refugee claim on the grounds he was complicit in war crimes during the troubled island`s long civil war against Tamil rebels.
Nadarajah Kuruparan was Commodore of the Sri Lanka Navy, third in rank behind the Admiral, when he retired in June 2009 just weeks after his forces helped defeat the separatist Tamil Tigers in a conflict that left untold civilians dead.
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We do not like to call ourselves a donor. We call it development partnership because it is in the framework of sharing development experiences.
Wednesday, 4 July 2012 - 2:35 AM SL Time
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NEW DELHI, July 2: After surviving on international aid for decades after becoming independent in 1947, India is now become a major aid-giver thanks to its trillion dollar economy. And it has set up its own international aid agency with a corpus of $15 billion, to be spent over the next five years.
Called Development Partnership Assistance, (DPA), the agency is similar to USAID and Britain`s Department for International Development (DFID). Set up in March this year, it is controlled by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), and headed by PS Raghavan, an additional secretary in the ministry.
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Wonder Of Asia. Heading to be a mentally sick nation.
Friday, 6 July 2012 - 11:09 PM SL Time
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All through the years(Ceylon) Sri Lanka was thought of as a country that has high standards of decency, civilized and well disciplined, but since 1977 disorder, violence, corruption, injustice of power and tyranny of wealth is so widespread that in the near future it will paralyze the life in this country.
No democracy can survive with out law and order. The moral standards of our politicians, police force, army, criminals, and legal system are living examples. The cause for this state of affairs is the failure to provide moral leadership.
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Sri Lanka`s Legal System.
Saturday, 7 July 2012 - 5:19 AM SL Time
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The police obtained a court order today for the burial of the remains of Nimalaruben , the Tamil political prisoner in the general cemetery , Mahara immediately, without the body being released to his relatives. Nimalaruben died following attacks launched by the STF soldiers at the Vavuniya prison. The court order was obtained by the Ragama police from the Ragama magistrate .The STF soldiers who earlier went to Vavuniya prison to control the protests staged by the prisoners , had launched a ruthless attack on the political prisoners including Nimalaruben.
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Sinhalese Pay The Price For Allowing Rape To Be Used As A Weapon Against Tamils.
Monday, 9 July 2012 - 9:12 PM SL Time
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A soldier attached to Welikanda army camp was arrested by Welikanda Police around 6.45 this morning, for sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl.
Police Media Unit stated that the girl was going to school, when a soldier on civic dragged her off the cycle she was paddling and raped her.
The perpetrator was captured by a group of private bus passengers who had witnessed the incident and was later handed over to the respective army camp.
They have also lodged a complaint about the incident to Welikanda Police, who later arrested the soldier who was apparently fleeing the camp.
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`I`m definitely asking people to rise up,` and `overthrow the government by democratic methods,`
Tuesday, 10 July 2012 - 2:48 AM SL Time
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July 09 (Telegraph) Outlining his return to active politics after he was released from jail in May following pressure from the United States, Gen Fonseka sought to scotch speculation he had struck a deal with the government to keep a low political profile.
Instead he launched a bitter attack on President Rajapaksa, whom he accused of persecuting his family and terrorising opponents, and pledged a new campaign to topple his government. `I`m definitely asking people to rise up,` and `overthrow the government by democratic methods,` he said.
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Move Towards Sustainability To Create The `Miracle Of Asia`.
Wednesday, 11 July 2012 - 12:33 AM SL Time
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Dr Loka Underpala was delivering the keynote address at the Seminar on `Sustainable Corruption` to the Sri Lanka Association for International Confusion.
Dr Underpala: `Sustainability is a Western invention, as always. But as you are well aware, for Third World advancement we must beat the West at their own game.
Great thinkers of contemporary times such as Jean Paul Sartre, Franz Fanon, Gunadasa Amarasekera and Wimal Weerawansa have maintained that we must get rid of the inferiority suffered by our colonised ancestors. Dependency Complex of the colonialised people, Fanon said.
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Sustainable Corruption
Thursday, 12 July 2012 - 2:51 AM SL Time
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Buddhist monks in the Jaffna town collect money by visiting to the houses of people and shops in the Jaffna district.
People stated yesterday group of Buddhist monks arrived in a trishaw collected money at Kathuriyar road in the Jaffna district.
Buddhist monks stated they collect money to provide food for poor children residing in the temple.
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Back In The News Again.
Friday, 13 July 2012 - 2:39 AM SL Time
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Lanka e news is in receipt of information with evidence that the story that did the rounds that three prison officers were held to ransom on June 28th by prisoners of the Vavuniya prison is an absolute lie , and was one that was concocted by the Rajapakse regime and given publicity by its media in order to most wickedly devastate the fast unto death that was staged by prisoners inside the prison.
Now it has become necessary to challenge the Govt. to reveal the names of the three prison officers who were held captives . If truly there was such an incident , the Vavuniya prison officers should first inform the Vanuniya police at least over the phone. The prison should have called for police assistance. There is no record of any such complaint in the Vavuniya police records.
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Increase in crime is a media canard Weerawansa
Friday, 13 July 2012 - 7:29 AM SL Time
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The police are investigating a shocking case of a rape victim being raped again by a law enforcement officer and a three wheeler driver.
The police have arrested Sergeant Ajith Vithana of the Nawalapitiya police for allegedly raping a 15-year-old school girl last week. The police also arrested a three wheeler driver Samiwel Ragunathan for raping the fatherless child.
Sources said that the son of a wealthy person and a three wheeler driver had abducted the girl on July 4 and taken her to two restaurants, where they raped her over two days. Subsequently, they had left her in the Nawalapitiya town, threatening her not to divulge anything to police. Having received a call regarding the rape victim, Sergeant Vithana, who was in charge of the emergency unit, had rushed to Nawalapitiya town.
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Sexual Predaors Look For Opportunity And Not Race.
Friday, 13 July 2012 - 11:50 PM SL Time
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A soldier attached to the Ambepussa army camp has been remanded over allegations he molested a 6 year old child.
The soldier, identified as Athula Kumara, had molested the child near her home in the Kotawehera area last morning.
Following a police complaint over the incident the soldier was arrested and produced in court today and remanded by the judge.
Investigations had revealed that the soldier had molested another girl in 2010 and there was also a pending case against him at another court.
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PAW DA BUDDHA.
Saturday, 14 July 2012 - 3:31 PM SL Time
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The Chief incumbent of a temple in Hiripitiya was arrested on Wednesday and remanded till July 19 by the Kurunegala Magistrate on Thursday over a series of offences, Police spokesman said yesterday.
Superintendent Ajith Rohana said that the suspect monk had been in the temple for 12 years as chief incumbent and the special Crime Unit of the Wellawa Police in Kurunegala acting on a tip off, raided the IT centre of the temple and discovered it to be a centre for criminal activities.
The raiding party armed with a search warrant had found three IDs of the monk with three different names, a driving license under one of his names, software to print forged Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 currency notes and three pornographic movies, he said.
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IS Mervyn Silva`s Son Entering Politics?
Tuesday, 17 July 2012 - 5:39 AM SL Time
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The Eksath Jathika Bhikku Peramuna today revealed that close relatives of six leading politicians including the husband of a Minister, sons of a Minister and a Deputy Minister were to contest the forthcoming provincial council elections despite assurances given by the ruling UPFA that relatives of politicos would not be allowed to contest this time.
Addressing a press conference in Colombo its General Secretary Ven. Thiniyawala Palitha Thera requested the people of the North Central, Sabaragamuwa and Eastern Provinces not to vote for relatives of politicians contesting the upcoming elections.
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See Our GDP Is Growing.
Wednesday, 18 July 2012 - 12:12 AM SL Time
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July 17, 2012 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has launched a 10-year sovereign bond with order books opening in Asia on an initial price guidance of 6.125 percent, sources familiar with the issue said.
Last year Sri Lanka launched a bond with a slightly higher price guidance. In the secondary market Sri Lankan bonds have been trading at a premium to issue price in recent months.
Sri Lanka is aiming to raise a billion US dollars from the bond, a part of which will be used to repay a maturing 500 million US dollar bond in October, officials said earlier.
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Rape and molestation were now `the favourite pastime of mid-level politicians`. - Sarath Fonseka
Thursday, 19 July 2012 - 11:47 PM SL Time
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A 13-year-old girl in Sri Lanka has identified four men including a local government politician who she says were involved in gang-raping her in the south of the country last month.
It is one of a series of alleged rapes, especially of children.
Such cases have recently been reported in alarming numbers - police say 700 minors have been victims since January.
No-one has been tried, but suspects in several cases are politicians from Sri Lanka`s governing UPFA coalition.
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Sri Lanka`s envoy must be recalled
Friday, 20 July 2012 - 2:47 AM SL Time
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Fairfax senior correspondent Daniel Flitton reported on July 18 that the AFP had dropped an investigation of war crimes into the Sri Lankan High Commissioner, former Admiral, Thisara Samarasinghe.
Samarasinghe joined the Sri Lankan navy in 1974 and retired in 2011, after his appointment to Australia became known. Samarasinghe was Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan navy in 2009 when the navy carried out the shelling of Tamil women and children in a safe zone designated by the Sri Lankan defence force, in the north of the country, at the end of the civil war between the Tamils and the Sinhalese.
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War Crimes Have No Statute Of Limitation.
Saturday, 21 July 2012 - 2:37 AM SL Time
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Hungarian authorities have put a 97-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect, Laszlo Csatary, under house arrest.
He is number one on the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center`s wanted list and is accused of assisting in the murder of 15,700 Jews.
Mr Csatary was taken in for questioning on Wednesday.
He has denied the accusations against him. State prosecutor Tibor Ibolya said: `One of his arguments in his defence is that he was obeying orders.`
Mr Ibolya said Mr Csatary was accused of a `war crime committed by unlawful torture of human beings`, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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Famous Son To Stick To Business For The Time Being.
Tuesday, 24 July 2012 - 4:23 AM SL Time
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SLFP General Secretary, Minister Maithreepala Sirisena, had claimed that the kith and kin of the coalition politicians would not be given nominations to contest the forthcoming provincial council elections, but 23 relatives of the ruling party politicians were contesting on UPFA ticket, the JVP claimed yesterday.
Addressing a media conference at the party`s Pelawatte head office, JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva said that the majority of government politicians` relatives were contesting in the Kegalle District.
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`No political patronage for criminals`
Wednesday, 25 July 2012 - 2:13 AM SL Time
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Colombo: Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has defended the government against allegations that political patronage to criminal elements had led to rising level of crime.
Responding to increasing criticism that ruling party politicians and criminal elements had been given political patronage, Rajapaksa said such allegations were not true and police were doing their job in a free manner.
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Why Are People Running Away From The Miracle Of Asia?
Thursday, 26 July 2012 - 2:52 AM SL Time
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SUMITH Balapuwaduge knew he was being watched, and suspected the police would come for him one day. Some months earlier, he had been forcibly returned to Sri Lanka from Australia with his brother Indika, their claims for political asylum having been rejected.
Indika never even made it out of Colombo airport and was jailed straight away. So when the police van came and parked on the sandy road outside his home, Sumith came peaceably, his wife insists to the front door.
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Sounds Like The Justice System Of A Banana Republic.
Saturday, 28 July 2012 - 2:43 AM SL Time
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An order issued by the Tangalle High Court on Julampitiye Amare in April this year has come under scrutiny by members of the legal fraternity.
While giving due respect to the court, the order issued by the judge in relation to Amare on an attempted murder case in the Middeniya Police Division in Weeraketiya is atrocious and would not help the development of the law.
High Court Judge Chandrasena Rajapaksha on April 23, 2012 has released Amare on previous bail when he had appeared before court after absconding for seven years and ordered him to observe Ata Sil and made to surrender two T56 weapons in his possession in open court.
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According To Gota and Wimal Its the Media That Is The Problem.
Tuesday, 31 July 2012 - 1:11 AM SL Time
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COLOMBO, Jul 30 2012 (IPS) - It was the ghostly silence that struck him hardest as he walked through the Colombo suburb of Kirulapone the day after the lifeless body of a six-year-old girl had been discovered floating in a filthy canal, Kumar de Silva, a well-known local media personality, told IPS.
The autopsy report later revealed that the child had been raped by a 16-year-old relative and his two friends, and then dumped in the canal, where she drowned.
It was a ghost town, as if nothing had happened, de Silva told IPS. I just could not take the silence any longer.
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She Will Join MR For The Right Price.
Tuesday, 31 July 2012 - 3:35 AM SL Time
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Hirunika Premachandra, daughter of the late Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, says she will decide on her future political ambitions after the court rules on Duminda Silva and his alleged involvement in the murder of her father.
Hirunika said that she would meanwhile contest the next parliamentary election.
She also said that she would decide whether to contest a future election with the government or the People`s Party (PP).
Hirunika says parliamentarian Duminda Silva is the main suspect over her father`s death and if she joins the government at this point it will look bad on her.
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Miracle Of Asia or Paridise For Pedophiles?
Wednesday, 1 August 2012 - 6:05 AM SL Time
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It is red alert in Sri Lanka as incidents of violence, rapes and child abuse continues to grow: from January 2012, 975 cases were registered by the police and 20 thousand complaints received by the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA). One of the last episodes that made headlines, concerns a 13 year old girl, victim of a gang rape by four men. One of these was an official of the Tengalle, and another, a businessman, owner of several hotels. Despite the young girl identifying her attackers, no one has been arrested.
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