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Nov 1, 2007 (AFP) – Judging by Sri Lankan government accounts of Tamil Tiger dead after decades of fighting, there should hardly be any rebels left. Yet the guerrillas keep on fighting, and apparently dying in large numbers — pointing either to an unlimited pool of combatants or a government wish to boost morale by […]

GENEVA, Oct 30, 2007 (AFP) – The UN’s top torture expert, Manfred Nowak, said on Tuesday that torture — including beatings, asphyxiation and burning — was becoming “routine” during counter-terrorism operations in Sri Lanka.Violence has surged on the island since a Norwegian-arranged truce began unravelling in December 2005. Nowak said in statement on his mission […]

Oct 31, 2007 (LBO) – A media rights body has called for an open inquiry in to the shooting of an online journalist in Colombo, days after government withdrew the license of a radio station and politicians verbally attacked news websites.Although the Free Media Movement (FMM) does not have any evidence to blame any party […]

Oct 31, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka imposed censorship on war reporting a week after Tamil Tiger rebels carried out a devastating attack on the country’s air force, a government notice showed Wednesday.President Mahinda Rajapakse used tough emergency laws to ban the publication of any information on military operations as well as procurements, a gazette […]

Oct 31, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka has imposed blanket censorship on war reporting, officials said Wednesday, a week after a devastating attack on its air force, but is reconsidering the move following media protests.The government then came under fire from media rights groups after saying it would like to hire hackers to stop the […]

Oct 30, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan security forces killed 13 more Tamil Tiger rebels in fresh clashes across the north of the island, the defence ministry said Tuesday. Troops killed 10 rebels during an overnight attack along the military defence lines in the Jaffna peninsula, the ministry said in a statement. It said one […]

Oct 29, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers are developing a sophisticated tax collection system to raise funds from the Tamil diaspora for its war that appears to rival that of legitimate governments in efficiency, new research shows. The Tigers are developing a system in Europe, where much of the Tamil diaspora resides, in […]

Oct 28, 2007 (AFP) – At least 22 Tamil Tiger rebels and soldiers have been killed in overnight clashes in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said Sunday. Security forces claimed killing 20 Tamil Tiger rebels and injuring 11 in fighting across northern areas in the past 24 hours, placing troop losses at two dead. […]

Oct 28, 2007 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger rebels had clear “inside information” ahead of a devastating attack that virtually wiped out the Sri Lankan government’s fleet of spy planes, a report said Sunday.In a report in the island’s Sunday Times newspaper, defence analyst Iqbal Athas said up to 27 elite rebel fighters were able to […]

COLOMBO, Oct 25, 2007 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger rebels have dealt a serious blow to Sri Lanka’s intelligence gathering with a devastating suicide attack that destroyed virtually its entire fleet of spy planes, observers said Thursday.Tiger guerrillas, who were widely regarded as being on the defensive, turned the tables Monday with a suicide strike that […]