Category: Politics

March 2, 2008 (AFP) – A government soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack carried out by Tamil Tiger guerrillas Sunday in northern Sri Lanka, the army said.Casualty figures provided by both sides differ vastly and cannot be independently verified since the government bars journalists and human rights workers from frontline and rebel-held areas. […]

Mar 01, 2008 (LBO) – Another mediaman who filmed a confrontation between state TV workers and a minister who stormed the station’s newsroom has been threatened by gangsters, a media rights body said. Assistant camera news director Priyal Ranjith Perera had been threatened by a four-member gang who came to his residence and appeared to […]

March 1, 2008 (AFP) – A police officer wounded in a suicide bombing died in hospital Saturday, a hospital spokesman said as Sri Lanka’s defence ministry claimed security forces had killed 45 rebels in fresh fighting.The policeman died of his injuries a day after being caught in a huge blast detonated by a suspected Tamil […]

Feb 28, 2008 (LBO) – A bomb exploded during a search operation in the Kotahena area of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo Friday morning, injuring four police officers and three civilians, police said. There has been intense fighting in the Mannar area on the northwest of the island in recent weeks. The capital is under tight […]

Feb 29, 2008 (LBO) – A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber triggered a bomb during a search operation in Colombo’s Kotahena area and a pistol and ammunition had been recovered in subsequent search operations, the military said. There has been intense fighting in the Mannar area on the northwest of the island in recent weeks. Updated […]

Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) – A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday injuring seven people as police moved in to search his house in the Sri Lankan capital, police and military officials said. Casualty figures provided by both sides differ vastly and cannot be independently verified. The government bars journalists and human […]

Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) – A powerful explosion ripped through a house in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo early Friday, police said, adding that at least seven people were wounded.“At least seven people were taken to hospital after the blast,” a police official at the scene said. The blast came as the authorities had stepped up […]

Feb 28, 2008 (AFP) – Two bombs left at least eight civilians dead in guerrilla-held territory in northern Sri Lanka, Tamil rebels said Thursday as the defence ministry reported killing nine militants.Casualty figures provided by both sides differ vastly and cannot be independently verified. The government bars journalists and human rights workers from front line […]

Feb 25, 2008 (AFP) – At least 36 Tamil Tiger guerrillas and five Sri Lankan government soldiers have been killed in fresh fighting in and around rebel-held territory, the island’s defence ministry said Monday. War planes bombed a suspected Tamil Tiger naval base in the district of Kilinochchi on Sunday, inflicting heavy damage, the ministry […]

Feb 24, 2008 (AFP) – A suspected Tamil rebel suicide bomber killed two rival militants in eastern Sri Lanka on Sunday, officials said, as the government stepped up security in the capital to prevent new attacks. The suspected suicide attacker crashed his motorcycle into another motorbike carrying two members of a breakaway rebel faction in […]

Feb 23, 2008 (AFP) – A bomb went off in a bus in a Colombo suburb on Saturday, wounding at least eight people, a hospital official said. Passengers were evacuated from the bus in the town of Mount Lavinia after the crew raised the alarm over a suspicious parcel left inside the vehicle, Sri Lankan […]

Feb 23, 2008 (LBO) – A bomb exploded in a bus in Mount Lavinia, a suburb south of the Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo Saturday, police said. The office of Sri Lanka’s police spokesman said at least two bus passengers were injured. Passengers had discovered the bomb and most of them were already out of the […]