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Sri Lanka seize 18 vehicles in Jaffna area carrying explosives
May 28, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lankan police Sunday detained the drivers of 18 vehicles trying to smuggle explosives across a de facto frontier post into the government-controlled part of the Jaffna peninsula, officials said.The private vehicles were stopped at the Muhamalai checkpoint after dogs sniffed out plastic explosives during a routine check, a military […]
Mine blast inside Sri Lanka wildlife park kills seven
May 28, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lankan authorities Sunday found the mutilated bodies of seven local tourists believed to have been killed by an explosion in a wildlife sanctuary near a conflict zone, police said.Five of the bodies could be identified — two women and three men — while the remains of two others were […]
Norway peace envoy says ‘major crisis’ looming in Sri Lanka
NEW DELHI, May 27, 2006 (AFP) – Norway’s top peace envoy to Sri Lanka, Eric Solheim, said Saturday a major crisis was brewing in the tropical island and that it could be headed back to full-scale civil war. Norway was committed to its role as facilitator despite the problems in the situation, he said. “We […]
EU likely to put Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers on its terror list Monday
VIENNA, May 27, 2006 (AFP) – The European Union is expected to put Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers on its list of terrorist groups next week, a spokesman for the EU’s Austrian presidency said Saturday. The Palestinian group Hamas, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the armed Basque separatist group ETA are on it.The EU move, […]
Goodie Bag
May 27, 2006 (LBO) – Investors off-shoring business to Sri Lanka will get special tax breaks from the Board of Investment, under a revamped incentive list out in a few weeks. Sri Lanka is trying to pry away some of the business for Business Process Outsourcing(BPO) and other Information Technology enabled services away from neighbouring […]
World press chiefs tackle terrorism and Internet rise
EDINBURGH, May 27, 2006 (AFP) – Journalism in the modern, high-tech age and the perils of reporting on terrorism will be the key topics thrashed out at the International Press Institute’s annual world congress, which opens here Sunday. The three-day conference in the Scottish city brings together some 450 participants from 60-odd countries to tackle […]
Sri Lanka could be heading for war: Norwegian envoy
May 27, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka could be heading back to all-out war, the top Norwegian envoy to the island warned Saturday, saying the peace process was more difficult than he had believed. Erik Solheim made the comments in New Delhi after his deputy, Jon Hanssen-Bauer, met the head of the rebel Tamil Tigers […]
” looming in Sri Lanka
NEW DELHI, May 27, 2006 (AFP) – Norway’s top peace envoy to Sri Lanka, Eric Solheim, said Saturday a major crisis was brewing in the tropical island and that it could be headed back to full-scale civil war. Norway was committed to its role as facilitator despite the problems in the situation, he said. “We […]
Norway seeks fresh talks in Sri Lanka to save truce
May 27 (AFP) – Peace broker Norway Saturday asked Tamil rebels and the Sri Lankan government to attend a meeting next month to discuss the role of Scandinavian monitors observing a troubled ceasefire, rebel sources said.The SLMM last week asked for more monitors to boost its 60-member unarmed force. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil […]
‘s Tamil Tigers on its terror list Monday
VIENNA, May 27, 2006 (AFP) – The European Union is expected to put Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers on its list of terrorist groups next week, a spokesman for the EU’s Austrian presidency said Saturday. The Palestinian group Hamas, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the armed Basque separatist group ETA are on it.The EU move, […]