“On 18 July 2006, when I had visited the Community hall project site I was stopped by the Army near the Kodikamam Army camp in Point-Pedro road. I had my Sri Lanka Army issued ID and National Identity Card (N.I.C.) with me. They took those."
“When the British came to Ceylon in 1796 there were three distinct kingdoms. The British made it one country for purposes of administrative convenience.”
“If they can’t guarantee their safety, it means they cannot accept us, and then it’s not only the safety it is also the working conditions for the Swedish, Finnish and Danish members.”
“Yet if this is the argument, then every civilian who has not been resettled would add to the CFA violations by the government and the numbers would far exceed those of the LTTE.”
‘Yes, I would like to meet (Mr.) Pirapaharan,’ Akashi said in a 90-minute interview to IANS at his office in the heart of Tokyo. Describing the Tamil leader as a ‘man of conviction’ Akashi said: “Only he (Pirapaharan) can take the most difficult decisions.''
Several international media watchdogs warned last week that free expression conditions in Sri Lanka appear to be deteriorating amidst escalating violence in the country, which claimed the life of another journalist on 2 July 2006.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead freelance journalist Sampath Lakmal de Silva after abducting him from his parents’ home in Borallasgamuwa.
'We know the complexity of the political problems any party would normally come across during a period of transition or a change from one party to another''.
