Category: Politics

June 26, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s military Monday announced it will bring back tighter security measures across the country following the assassination of a top army general by a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber. Security forces will re-activate all measures that were in place before the February 2002 ceasefire between the government and the […]

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 26, 2006 (AFP) – The assassination of a top army general Monday was aimed at sabotaging Sri Lanka’s peace process, President Mahinda Rajapakse said.Police have blamed the suicide bomb attack that killed Major General Parami Kulatunga and four other people, including the bomber, on the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Rajapakse said […]

June 26, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s main hospital here received an anonymous warning phone call shortly before the assassination of a top army general Monday, a spokeswoman said. The caller, who spoke in halting Sinhalese, said hospital staff would carry out a “superior job” and that the hospital would have “more work than usual,” […]

June 26, 2006 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger guerrillas Monday warned that Sri Lanka would descend into full-scale war if peace broker Norway quit, as the killing of a top army general ended a week-long lull in violence. Tiger political wing leader S. P. Thamilselvan told the tamilnet.com website that war would be “unavoidable” if Norway […]

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 […]