Category: Politics

WASHINGTON, April 7, 2008 (AFP) – The Tamil Tigers, a Sri Lankan rebel group responsible of killing about 4,000 people in the past two years, have quietly established a US presence to help finance their separatist campaigns, The Washington Times reported Monday. Citing various US government sources, the newspaper said the organization was trying to […]

April 07, 2008 (LBO) – The United States, European Union and Canada have condemned Sunday’s Tamil Tiger suicide bombing which killed a Sri Lankan minister, saying only a political solution, not violence, would ensure peace. “The United States denounces this vicious and reprehensible terrorist attack on civilians in the strongest possible terms,” a US embassy […]

April 6, 2008 (AFP) – A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed Sri Lanka’s highways minister as he opened a marathon Sunday in an attack that left 11 others dead and nearly 100 wounded, police and officials said. . Senior minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, 55, was killed in the town of Weliveriya outside of the capital […]

April 04, 2008 (LBO) – A split in Sri Lanka’s Marxist-nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is emerging with moves to oust its firebrand spokesman Wimal Weerawansa, party insiders said Friday. But Weerawansa said he had not been informed of a decision to remove him, amid reports that the party’s central committee has voted to replace […]

April 04, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers have entered the contest in provincial council elections in the east with a last-minute filing of nomination papers through a proxy party, media reports said. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) political wing, the People’s Front of Liberation Tigers (PFLT) submitted nominations for the polls […]

April 03, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party says it is starting a protest campaign against rising prices after inflation in the country hit a new record. “The whole of 2007 we saw increases in prices. Daily the prices increased,” UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe told a meeting of the party’s women’s […]

April 3, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lanka Thursday announced that key local government elections will be held next month in an area that was last year wrested from rebel control after months of heavy fighting.The elections commission said voting for the Eastern Provincial Council will be held on May 10. Security forces established control over […]

April 02, 2008 (LBO) – Three members of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), a minority Sri Lankan political party, have resigned their parliamentary seats to contest the forthcoming provincial council poll in the eastern province. . The party has a strong base in Eastern Sri Lanka where a sizable population of Muslims live. SLMC leader […]

April 1, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lanka accused Tamil Tiger rebels of shelling a state-run hospital on Tuesday as fighting across the northern front lines reportedly left at least 35 rebels dead.The hospital in Mannar district was partially damaged by heavy artillery from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the defence ministry said, adding […]

April 1, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lanka accused Tamil Tiger rebels of shelling a state-run hospital on Tuesday as fighting across the northern front lines reportedly left at least 35 rebels dead. The hospital in Mannar district was partially damaged by heavy artillery from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the defence ministry said, […]

April 1, 2008 (AFP) – At least four men were killed and another 56 injured Tuesday when lightening struck a military training facility in eastern Sri Lanka, police said.The victims were on a training exercise when they were struck in the district of Polonnaruwa, 216 kilometres (135 miles) east of here by road, police said. […]

CHENNAI, India, March 30, 2008 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan film-maker has ended up in hospital after making a damning film on the Tamil Tigers and trying to have it processed in a studio in a Tamil-majority region of neighbouring India.Thushara Peiris was set upon by a furious mob outside Gemini Studios in Chennai, capital […]