Category: Politics

June 26, 2006 (AFP) – Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels deployed a motorcycle riding suicide bomber to kill Sri Lanka’s number three army officer, Major General Parami Kulatunga, in a suburb of Colombo Monday.June 15, 2006: Blast rips through bus full of civilians, killing 64 and wounding 80. Tigers deny involvement. The Sri Lanka military responds […]

COLOMBO, June 26, 2006 (AFP) – One of Sri Lanka’s most senior army generals was assassinated Monday in a powerful bomb attack just outside the capital Colombo, police and hospital officials said.Major general Parami Kulatunga was driving along a main highway when his car was hit in an explosion that killed three others and wounded […]

PANNIPITIYA, Sri Lanka, June 26, 2006 (AFP) – Blackened body fragments littered the highway and gardens of this Sri Lankan suburb after a suspected Tamil Tamil suicide bomber Monday assassinated a top Sri Lankan general. The burnt hulk of Major General Parami Kulatunga’s car lay askew near a ditch, its passenger side caved in completely […]

June 26, 2006 (AFP) – A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber assassinated the Sri Lankan army’s deputy chief of staff Monday, dealing another blow to the island’s unravelling peace process. Major General Parami Kulatunga, the army’s number three, was driving on a main highway in a Colombo suburb when police said the bomber rammed his […]

June 25, 2006 (AFP) – A tense calm has settled over Sri Lanka as the government and Tamil Tiger guerrillas await a decision from peace broker Norway that could make or break the fragile truce keeping the island from all-out war, analysts say. Norwegian diplomats who have struggled to bring the two sides together will […]

June 24, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka on Saturday said the Tamil Tigers had laid down a “hostile deadline” after the rebels said European Union (EU) nations should quit the nation’s truce monitoring mission within one month.The rebel demand, made after the EU officially branded the Tigers a terrorist group, would force out 37 of […]

BANGALORE, India, June 24, 2006 (AFP) – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday urged dialogue and cooperation for solving the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka that has claimed more than 60,000 lives since 1972. “We are for the unity and integrity of Sri Lanka,” Singh, who was on a visit to this southern IT hub, […]

June 23, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo was thrown into panic Friday after sonic booms caused by jet fighters were mistaken for bomb blasts off the coast, the military and police said.Defence Ministry spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe said Israeli-built Kfir jets were on a training mission and may have broken the sound barrier causing […]