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Japan under pressure over Sri Lanka aid
TOKYO, May 26, 2007 (AFP) – An international human rights group is lobbying Sri Lanka’s top donor Japan to exert greater pressure on the island nation to address spiralling violence. But Tokyo said it has no plans for now to slash aid and follow the lead of Sri Lanka’s former colonial ruler Britain and Germany, […]
Slipping In
May 25, 2007 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka unit of the Indian Oil Corporation is planning to boost its 13 percent share in the island’s lube business after getting the government nod to enter the licensed industry, the company said Friday. The company said the secretary of Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Petroleum and Petroleum Resources […]
Sri Lanka backtracks on opposition to French FM
May 24, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka distanced itself Thursday from opposition to Bernard Kouchner, who was named by the European Union to monitor human rights on the tropical island and is France’s new foreign minister.Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said he was not against Kouchner, even though the troubled island’s ambassador-designate to Geneva […]
Oil Numbers
May 24, 2007 (LBO) – Lanka IOC, a unit of the Indian Oil Corporation has posted higher profits in the March quarter helped by a provision write-back and supply of refined products to the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation. Lanka IOC posted net profits of 874 million rupees in the 3-months to March (344.7 million rupees in […]
Sri Lanka navy held Delft islet in Jaffna attacked by Tamil Tigers
May 24, 2007 (AFP) – Heavy clashes erupted Thursday between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels on a remote islet off Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna peninsula, military sources said.Government troops and Tamil rebels have been locked in combat following the breakdown of a 2002 Norwegian-arranged truce. Nearly 5,000 people have died in the last 18 […]
Tamil Tigers strike Sri Lanka capital, naval base
May 24, 2007 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger rebels blew up an army bus in Sri Lanka’s capital Thursday, killing at least one soldier, just hours after the guerrillas said they had also stormed a naval base and killed 35 sailors. The escalation in violence came days after the Tigers, who have been fighting for a […]
Sri Lanka warplanes bomb Tamil Tiger targets
May 22, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed a suspected Tamil Tiger training facility inside rebel-held territory on Tuesday, the defence ministry said.Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in the latest surge of fighting that began in December 2005, according to the defence ministry.Warplanes hit an area south of Mankulam, about 300 kilometres […]
Four dead in fresh violence in Sri Lanka
May 21, 2007 (AFP) – Four members of Sri Lanka’s security forces were killed and five wounded in separate attacks by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday, the defence ministry and police said. A mine that targeted troops travelling in a tractor in the northern district of Vavuniya killed two soldiers and injured four others, […]
‘s Tamil Tigers abducted us, say Indian fishermen
CHENNAI, India, May 20, 2007 (AFP) – Eleven southern Indian fishermen who went missing in March returned at the weekend alleging that they had been abducted at sea and kept captive by Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels. The Tamil Tiger rebels rely on small ships and boats to smuggle black market weapons to the northern […]
Six killed in Sri Lanka fighting
May 20, 2007 (AFP) – Six people were killed and 10 others were wounded as government troops traded fire with Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka’s war-torn north, the defence ministry said Sunday.Security forces beat back an attempt by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to break through the frontline at Muhamalai in Jaffna […]
Sri Lanka rebels say no peace talks until fighting stops
May 20, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s separatist Tamil rebels on Sunday vowed never to return to peace negotiations unless the government halts a military campaign against them. . The leader of the political wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), S. P. Thamilselvan, said attacks by government forces would not force them […]
Five family members massacred in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, May 19, 2007 (AFP) – Five family members, including two boys aged four and eight, were hacked to death on Saturday in a town just outside the Sri Lankan capital in what police said may have been a family feud. Unidentified attackers killed K. W. Tillakaratne, 36, his wife, their two children and the […]