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  • ‘Colombo is removing witnesses to the coming carnage’

    Jan 06
    The presence of SLMM has been a major factor in containing Rights abuses in the NorthEast, says Tamil parliamentarian.
  • Bomb blasts in Sri Lanka capital, minister killed
    A Sri Lankan government minister was killed this Tuesday in a powerful roadside bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tigers, followed hours later by a powerful blast in the heart of the capital Colombo, police said.
     
    D. M.
  • Misery and fear in Jaffna
    ‘Anyone can come into your home and kill you, or shoot you while you are out on the street.’ ‘The authorities maintain that the Tamils of Jaffna are all members of the Tigers’
  • False passports and war crimes – the Karuna saga continues
    While the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Britainb, Ms. Kshenuka Senewiratne, toils hard to extricate the Government of Sri Lanka from the diplomatic bungle it made in issuing a diplomatic passport under false name to fugitive Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna, human rights organizations accused Karuna of "war crimes," and urged British Government to try him in Britain.
  • UN monitoring mission essential to curb rights violations in Sri Lanka- HRW
    Human Rights Watch (HRW) officials currently touring the United States lobbying for a UN mission to monitor human rights violations in Sri Lanka, told the Chicago Public Radio that their current focus is on the "shocking" disappearances and killing in Sri Lanka where the Sri Lanka Government has done "shamefully little" to investigate the cases.
  • Time Line

    30 August- Sri Lanka Immigration Department issues diplomatic passport to Karuna under the false name of Dushmantha Guawadena on the orders of top authorities.

    05 September- British Embassy issues British visa on the travel document on false name on Third Party Notice (TPN) by Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry: Mr Dushmantha Gunawardene's designation was Director General, Wild Life Conservation Department.

  • Sri Lanka reprimands western envoys
    Sri Lanka's militaristic government said last week it had hauled in the envoys of countries calling for UN human rights monitoring of the island's dirty war against the Tamil Tigers, AFP reported.

    The ambassadors of the United States, the European Union, France, Korea and Sweden were summoned for a dressing down by foreign ministry secretary Palitha Kohona, AFP quoted the ministry as saying.
  • Sri Lanka ticks off UNESCO and UNICEF
    Sri Lanka last week continued its hostile stand against UN institutions by charging UNESCO of issuing ill-advised statements and summoning and telling off the UNICEF country representative for meeting the LTTE’s political head.
  • Pakistan to step up assistance to Sri Lanka
    The Pakistan Government is considering another US $31 million military assistance to Sri Lanka for its fight against the Tamil Tigers, apart from the US $ 50 million assistance to the Sri Lankan Government to purchase military hardware.

    The announcement was made Pakistan Foreign Minister Inam ul Haque when he met a visiting Sri Lanka media delegation in Islamabad.
  • India bolsters Sri Lanka air defences
    An Indian defence delegation visiting Sri Lanka has offered assistance in the form of "joint air-defence exercises" to face any threats posed by the aerial capability of the Tigers, press reports in Colombo said.

    India which has stepped up its military support to the Rajapakse administration in recent months sent a high level delegation to Colombo to review the ongoing bilateral defence cooperation.
  • Indian intelligence, not LTTE, targeted Pakistan envoy
    Pakistan’s former High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Basheer Wali Mohammed said in Islamabad last week that he had "convincing evidence" that a powerful regional intelligence agency, rather than the Tamil Tigers, was behind the August 2006 bid to assassinate him in Colombo.
  • Sri Lankan government passes war budget
    The Sri Lankan government managed to pass its war budget in the third and final parliamentary vote on Friday December 14. To do so, it depended on the support of the (ultra-Sinhala nationalist) Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), which came to the rescue of the shaky ruling coalition by abstaining rather than voting against the budget, as it had done in the second round.
  • Terror reigns in the East

    As Army-backed paramilitaries run amok terrorizing the Tamil and Muslim communities of the east, the Sri Lankan government is arming tens of thousands of Sinhalese, reports said this week.

    The Sri Lankan government is stepping up the militarization and Sinhala colonisation of the eastern districts of Batticaloa and Amparai with the arming and settling of tens of thousands of civilian militia in the region, reports said.

  • Russia and India to sell arms to Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka met with Indian and Russian delegations last week on possible arms purchases including air defence weaponry as clashes with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) escalate.

    Defence officials from India and Russia held separate talks with Sri Lankan authorities on improving systems used against the low-flying Czech-built Zlin Z-143 operated by the LTTE.
  • Heavy flooding displaces thousands in East
    Over 30,000 people in eastern Sri Lanka have been displaced by flash floods following incessant rains in eastern Sri Lanka earlier this week.

    The hardest hit have been thousands of Tamil people who had earlier been displaced by Sri Lankan military offensives and the Muslim community.

    The eastern districts of Batticaloa and Amparai, a largely flat agricultural area which was hard hit by the 2004 tsunami, has taken the brunt of the north-east monsoon shower.
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