Category: Politics

July 31, 2007 (AFP) – Three soldiers died in a bomb attack in northern Sri Lanka Tuesday, while the military said it had uncovered a new Tamil Tiger weapons cache in the island’s east.The three security personnel were killed by a roadside bomb set off by suspected rebels in the northern peninsula of Jaffna Tuesday, […]

July 30, 2007 (AFP) – When India and Sri Lanka signed a peace pact two decades ago it was hailed as a landmark that could end Asia’s longest running civil war. But since then, the bloodshed has only got worse. The 1987 accord envisaged the disarming of Tamil Tiger separatists by India, which had armed […]

July 28, 2007 (AFP) – The Sri Lankan naval said Saturday it had destroyed at least two suspected Tamil Tiger boats off the island’s northwestern coast, killing at least six rebels.Naval patrol craft intercepted the boats, believed to belong to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), off the coast of Mannar, navy officials said. […]

July 26, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court said on Thursday it would hear an appeal challenging the eviction of nearly 400 minority ethnic Tamils from Colombo by authorities in an anti-rebel drive.The court fixed a formal hearing for November. The three-judge bench granted “leave to proceed” in a case filed against the police […]

July 26, 2007 (AFP) – Thousands of opposition activists and ruling party dissidents took to the streets of the Sri Lankan capital Thursday in protest against human rights violations and high living costs.Supporters of the main opposition United National Party and a group of ruling party dissidents led by former foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera marched […]

July 25, 2007 (AFP) – The death toll in a bomb attack against a military convoy in northern Sri Lanka rose to 12 as a wounded soldier died in hospital on Wednesday, police said.The Tigers have been fighting for a separate state for minority Tamils for 35 years, a conflict that has claimed more than […]

July 24, 2007 (AFP) – At least 10 Sri Lankan government soldiers were killed and eight others wounded Tuesday when their military convoy was hit by a huge roadside bomb laid by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels, officials said.The victims, almost all off-duty soldiers, were travelling through the northern district of Vavuniya, close to the frontline […]

July 24, 2007 (AFP) – At least 14 Sri Lankan government troops were killed in Tamil Tiger attacks in the north of the island Tuesday as the capital was put on red alert over fears of more rebel bombings, officials said.At least 10 soldiers were killed when their military convoy was hit by a huge […]

July 24, 2007 (AFP) – Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a powerful roadside bomb in northern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, targeting a military convoy and killing at least 14 people, police said.The latest attack came as security was stepped up in the capital Colombo amid fears of bomb attacks by the separatist rebels. The […]

PHNOM PENH, July 23, 2007 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger rebels are still getting weapons smuggled from Cambodia, which are fuelling spiraling unrest in Sri Lanka, a security journal reported.“Cambodia is one of the most significant single sources of weapons for the insurgent group,” Jane’s Intelligence Review said in a report published online last week, without […]

July 23, 2007 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan aid worker employed by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) was shot dead on Monday in the besieged government-held northern district of Jaffna, the charity said. “We are very shocked by this terrible event,” DRC representive Charles Macfadden said in a statement, adding that his group was unaware […]

July 23, 2007 (AFP) – At least nine Tamil Tiger guerrillas and a civilian were killed in fresh violence in Sri Lanka, the military and the rebels said Monday.Government forces shot dead four members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) along the de facto border separating their areas of control in the Jaffna […]