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US condemns Sri Lanka Tamil evictions from capital
June 8, 2007 (LBO) – The United States Friday condemned the eviction of ethnic Tamils without jobs from Colombo, and asked the government to reveal where they were taken. Sri Lanka’s police say the move was aimed at blocking Tamil Tiger guerillas from infiltrating the capital, setting off explosions and engaging in other subversive activities. […]
Sri Lanka president raps police chief, invites Tamils back
June 8, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s president Friday criticised his police chief for evicting hundreds of minority Tamils from the capital and ordered them to be brought back immediately, an official said.Sri Lanka’s main opposition said the move was similar to what Hitler did to the Jews in the early days in Germany.President Mahinda […]
Rights groups accuse Sri Lanka over evictions
June 8, 2007 (AFP) – Human rights activists accused Sri Lanka’s government Friday of imposing a “collective punishment” on its minority Tamil community after forcing hundreds of them out of the capital. Activists and opposition politicians said the expulsions from Colombo, a measure the government said was to prevent Tiger terror attacks, had added to […]
‘s embattled east
June 7, 2007 (AFP) – A top Japanese envoy to Sri Lanka met with officials and aid workers in the island’s embattled eastern region Thursday following talks with President Mahinda Rajapakse on the tattered peace process.Yasushi Akashi’s visit to the lagoon district of Batticaloa came on the same day that two murdered Red Cross workers […]
Japanese peace envoy in talks with Sri Lanka president
June 6, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse held talks in Colombo Wednesday with a top Japanese envoy on the future of the island’s peace process following bloody recent clashes, officials said.Rajapakse held closed-door talks with Japan’s Yasushi Akashi at the president’s tightly-guarded Temple Trees residence and the peace envoy later had discussions […]
Divine Intervention
June 6, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state electricity utility warned that power cuts would be imposed if monsoon rains do not come in the next two weeks to boost its hydro storage capacity. It engineers have warned the media last month that another unsuitable 300 MegaWatt thermal plant is being forced on the utility […]
Train blast in Sri Lanka wounds four
June 6, 2007 (AFP) – A bomb exploded under a passenger train in Sri Lanka’s embattled east on Wednesday, wounding at least four people, military officials said.A mine buried along the track went off as the train was at Navaladi in the the coastal district of Batticaloa, a military official in the area said by […]
Think tank IPN calls writers for a free society to participate in the Bastiat Prize
June 06, 2007 (LBO) – The international Policy Network (IPN), a London based think tank, is calling for writers who promote institutions for free society to take part in their annual competition. IPN’s Bastiat Prize for Journalism had been inspired by the 19th-century French philosopher and journalist Frédéric Bastiat. Last year writers from 49 countries […]
Sri Lankan Red Cross stops work for slain colleagues
June 6, 2007 (AFP) – Red Cross offices across Sri Lanka stopped work Wednesday as a mark of respect for two colleagues gunned down last week.Sri Lankan Red Cross workers Sinnarasa Shanmugalingam and Karthekesu Chandramohan were abducted in Colombo on Friday and murdered by armed men claiming to be police. They were working in the […]
Bunker Oil
June 05, 2007 (LBO) – Lanka IOC, a unit of the Indian Oil Corporation, has started a marine bunkering operation by supplying diesel to ships off the east coast of the island, an official said.“We made a humble beginning using our facilities in Trincomalee by offering bunkering services selling diesel oil to two vessels a […]
UN chief blasts killings of Sri Lankan Red Cross workers
UNITED NATIONS, June 4, 2007 (AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon condemns the killings of two Red Cross employees in Sri Lanka and demands a thorough police investigation, his office said Monday. “The Secretary General condemns the brutal killings of two workers of the Sri Lankan Red Cross and …demands a thorough investigation by the […]
Sri Lanka blast kills senior police officer
June 5, 2007 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger rebels set off a roadside bomb in eastern Sri Lanka Tuesday, killing a senior police official in an attack that coincided with a visit to the area by the US ambassador, the military said.A police chief inspector was killed and his sub-inspector wounded when they were ambushed at […]