Tag: Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka bomb attack kills 16 in capital
Nov 28, 2007 (LBO) – At least 16 people were killed and 37 wounded in a bomb blast in a crowded shopping district in a suburb south of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo Wednesday evening, police and hospital officials said. The attack, which the Defence Ministry said was carried out by the Tamil Tigers, occurred […]
Sri Lanka, rebels ready for war: analysts
Nov 28, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka appears set to slide back into full-scale war with both the Tamil Tigers and the government washing their hands of a tattered truce, analysts and diplomats say.In an annual policy speech broadcast Tuesday from the rebel-held north of the island, Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran said trying to […]
UN calls for action to stop climate change catastrophe
Nov 28, 2007 (LBO) – The United Nations Development Program says climate change has become the central challenge of development. UNDP has just released its Human Development Report in which Sri Lanka is ranked 99 out of 177 countries. This is a message from UNDP administrator Kemal Dervis Climate Change and Development: The central challenge […]
Sri Lanka suicide bomb attack in capital Colombo
Nov 28, 2007 (LBO) – A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew herself up Wednesday morning in front of the office of a minority Tamil political party in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, the Defence Ministry said. It gave no other details. The blast came a day after a speech by Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran […]
Sri Lanka vows to kill Tamil Tiger leader
Nov 27, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s government has marked the birthday of Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran with a vow to kill him.The island’s powerful defence secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, said Colombo now had the upper hand in the long-running conflict, with the elusive guerrilla chief limited in both his movements and ability to score […]
Flying Oil
Nov 27, 2007 (LBO) – Lanka IOC, a unit of Indian Oil Corporation, had applied to supply aviation fuel at a proposed new airport in southern Sri Lanka, a top official said. “We have applied to the government to provide aviation fuel at the new Weerawila airport,” Lanka IOC managing director K Ramakrishan told LBO. […]
Sri Lanka clamps down on Unicef
Nov 27, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s government on Tuesday slapped restrictions on the United Nations children’s fund over allegations the organisation has been helping Tamil Tiger guerrillas.Seventeen Sri Lankan employees of the French charity Action Against Hunger were murdered near Trincomalee in August 2006. The island’s foreign minister told parliament that UNICEF supplies being […]
Sri Lanka jets bomb Tamil Tiger radio
Nov 27, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has bombed the radio station operated by Tamil Tiger guerillas Tuesday, the island’s defence ministry said, as the group’s leader was due to make an annual policy speech. The radio station which broadcasts on VHF bands was based in the Tiger stronghold of Kilinochchi in the northern Wanni […]
Sri Lanka Tamil Tiger leader slams foreign powers, vows to hit back
Nov 27, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran Tuesday accused the international community of abandoning its efforts to find a peaceful solution to the island’s ethnic problem and vowed to hit back at government forces. Prabhakaran, in his annual policy speech, maintained his demand for a separate state for minority Tamils […]
Sri Lanka getting hooked on debt, economists say
Nov 27, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s government is becoming addicted to debt and putting at risk the country’s future, private sector economists said. “We’re on a slippery slope of debt,” says Harsha de Silva, an economist at the LIRNEasia think tank. “If it continues the country is going to crash land. The economy will […]
Sri Lanka Tamil Tiger chief to rally for war: observers
Nov 26, 2007 (AFP) – The leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers will give his annual policy speech from a jungle hideout this week, with observers predicting a rallying call to arms as the island slides back into all-out war.The reclusive Velupillai Prabhakaran will be speaking at the end of a difficult year for his […]
Sri Lanka bombs Tamil Tiger-held north: ministry
Nov 25, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan war planes bombed the Tamil Tiger-held north Sunday, with the government claiming it destroyed a satellite communications centre but the rebels saying only civilians were killed.The air strike hit an area just outside the rebels’ political capital of Kilinochchi that was “also a clandestine meeting place for LTTE […]