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Sri Lanka May Delay First Debt Sale, Investors Say (Update2) By Sam Nagarajan Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka may delay its first overseas debt offering as global credit markets slump and a conflict between government forces and Tamil rebels escalates, fund managers said. ``All bets are off in a situation where investors are generally looking to decrease risk in their portfolios,'' said Joel Kim, who manages the equivalent of $10 billion at ING Investment Management in Hong Kong. ``They need to wait for better market conditions.'' A delay to the $500 million sale would thwart the government's efforts to seek cheaper funding for building roads and …

[size=4][size=5]An officer in the Sri Lanka Army, who fled to Canada and claimed he was ordered to plant explosives at the home of an outspoken opposition politician, is raising new questions about military abuses committed during the island nation’s long civil war.[/size][/size] [size=4][size=5]Captain Ravindra Watudura Bandanage, 38, deserted after flying to Toronto in October 2009.[/size][/size] [size=4][size=5]He has since told Canadian immigration officials he was aware of torture and other crimes carried out by government forces against minority Tamils.[/size][/size] [size=5]Testifying at his refugee hearing, he said a colonel ordered him to place bomb…

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CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF Air Chief Marshal Donald Perera, accompanied by Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka flew to Jaffna Friday (13) in the aftermath of the confrontations between government forces and LTTE terrorists in MUHAMALE. Both military chiefs met Jaffna Security Forces Commander Major General G.A. Chandrasiri, Divisional Commanders, Brigade Commanders and Unit Commanders to review existing contingency plans and other areas that led to high casualty rates among soldiers. தகவல் தந்தது சிறீலங்கா இராணுவ இணையத்தளம்.

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Saddam must be hanged within 30 days:- Court. Iraq's highest appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein's death sentence and said he must be hanged within 30 days for the killing of 148 Shiites in the central city of Dujail. The sentence "must be implemented within 30 days," chief judge Aref Shahin said. "From tomorrow, any day could be the day of implementation." On Nov. 5, an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam to the gallows for ordering the 1982 killings following an attempt on his life. Under Iraqi law, the appeals court decision must be ratified by President Jalal Talabani and Iraq's two vice presidents. Talabani opposes the death penalty but h…

Haukland's parting salvo draws Rajapaksa ire Situation Report - by Iqbal Athas The outgoing Head of Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), retired Norwegian Brigadier Hagrup Haukland, who leads the team of Nordic citizens tasked to monitor the Ceasefire Agreement between the Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had some parting words of wisdom to Sri Lankans. Just a week ago, he told Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa that the Sri Lanka Army cannot win the war with Tiger guerrillas. He opined that unlike Al Qaeda, the LTTE was not a terrorist organisation. They were freedom fighters, he declared. Those words ca…

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LTTE Are Genuine Freedom Fighters. Dr-Lalith Kotelawala. They have done great service to their people and you can't brand them as pure terrorists as they are genuine freedom fighters. That is the structure that needs to be discussed.The current policy of the government is a hit-back policy and that is an Israeli policy. I don't think it's right. Mahatma Gandhi said that the eye-for-an-eye, a-tooth-for-a-tooth policy makes the world blind and toothless. And it will only keep escalating.We can't ask them to disarm in order to sit down and talk while we hold onto our arms. Things must be left as they are and we must talk about devolution, federal state or autonomy. …

Tamil Canadians fear for Sri Lankan homes SARAH ELTON From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Tamil Canadians who arrived as refugees from Sri Lanka's civil war fear they will lose the homes they left behind after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam announced last week that they will seize expatriates' property. In a Voice of Tigers radio interview that was widely published in Tamil community papers last week in Toronto, an LTTE legal official with the nom de guerre Sudar revealed the plan to take over property belonging to Tamils who left more than 10 years ago and redistribute it to the landless. "It's quite draconian," said one Toronto Tamil who believes …

A red alert has been sounded over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in India, particularly Tamil Nadu, following a warning from the Interpol, days after US intelligence agency FBI listed the Tigers as the most “dangerous outfit and deadly extremist group in the world”. “This is not just because of the FBI statement. We have realised that the LTTE infiltration has increased, at least by three times, in the region. They also seem to be developing networks for communication besides discretely raising money and support for their plans,” a senior intelligence officer said. மேலதிக செய்தி http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/01/21/sec01.asp

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Sri Lanka: a paradise lost? By Irfan Husain AS THE fighting in Sri Lanka’s unending civil war has intensified, there has been a steady erosion in civil rights and democratic values. President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government, bent on crushing the LTTE, the Tamil militant group, has not been above using emergency powers to silence dissent. The latest victim of this authoritarian tendency is Keith Noyahr, a highly respected journalist and associate editor of The Nation. As he was about to open the gate to his house in Colombo at 9pm last week, a white van pulled up behind his car, a couple of men bundled him in, manacled him in handcuffs, and sped away…

Tamils ordered to vacate lodges in Pettah [2ND LEAD] Tamil owners of 68 lodges in Pettah (Peaddai) Police Division in Colombo have been instructed by the Police Officer in Charge of Pettah to immediately expel around 5000 Tamil tenants from Northeast and Upcountry, currently staying in 68 lodges in Pettah, to their "native places" within 24 hours before the military is deployed to forcefully transport the inmates. Chief Inspector Jayaratne, the OIC, Thursday evening summoned the owners of the lodges on short notice to convey the warning, lodge owners told media. Tension prevails in Pettah as Tamil parliamentarians were trying to get in touch with the Sri Lankan govern…

Bomb attack on Nittambuwa bus kills at least five. COLOMBO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a bomb in a bus in western Sri Lanka on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding 30, the military said, as fighting raged in the north and east of the island. Around 80 people were aboard the bus when the blast occurred in the town of Nittambuwa, 36 km (20 miles) north of Colombo, during evening rush hour. "It was a bomb inside the bus, very powerful, the bus caught fire," said military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe. "The Tigers are targeting civilians." He said the bomb was place beneath a passenger seat. There was…

Is Tamil Blood Cheap in the Eyes of Indian Government? TAMIL TRIBUNE, April 2007 (ID. 2007-04-u1-a-x) (This is an update to Reference 1 that discussed the killings of Tamil Nadu fishermen by Sri Lankan Navy and Indian Government's refusal to take any effective action to stop it or even register a diplomatic protest with the Sri Lankan Government.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pakistan Maritime Security Agency shot and killed a fisherman from northern India, twenty-one year old Shantilal Mangal, off the coast of Gujarat on Monday February 13, 2006. Indian External Affairs Ministry called Pakistan's…

In this land of the most compassionate Lord Buddha….. Sinhala Buddhists who believe this land belongs to the most compassionate Lord Buddha and constitutionally calls it the "Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka", sing with pride "In wisdom and strength renewed / Ill-will, hatred, strife all ended / In love enfolded, a mighty nation / Marching onward, all as one / Lead us, Mother, to fullest freedom." as their National Anthem. And….. in this compassionate, democratic Buddhist land enfolded with love, in wisdom and fullest freedom, media is forbiden to raise a dissenting voice. Media is forbidden to criticise the "law" of the ruling regime. The media is for…

Sri Lanka military vows to ‘annihilate’ LTTE in east then north [TamilNet, Thursday, 04 January 2007, 14:02 GMT] After taking control of the eastern province in the next two months, Sri Lanka’s military will recapture the areas held by the Liberation Tigers in the north of the island, the Army (SLA) Chief said this week. On Wednesday Lt. Gen. Fonseka visited the Army headquarters in the island’s east to set the military strategy in motion. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=20807

At UN, Sri Lanka Briefing Now Set for Friday, As Editor Arrested in Colombo Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN: Exclusive UNITED NATIONS, February 26 -- A UN Security Council briefing on Sri Lanka has now been scheduled for Friday, February 27, Inner City Press has learned. Three days after the spokesperson for the UN's top humanitarian John Holmes told Inner City Press that "there is no request for a Council briefing," and a week after the Council's president, Yukio Takaso, said "there is no strong request" anymore, a Permanent Five Council member told Inner City Press on Thursday morning that the Sri Lanka briefing is set for Friday. …

Tamil Women Appeal to Human Rights Commission Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 1:58 pm Press Release: TamilNet The Appeal to Human Rights Commission Two young women from Malusandi in Vadamaradchi have lodged complaints with the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission on 02.01.2006 about attempted rapes by the Sri Lankan armed forces. The women said that on 01.01.2006 the Sri Lankan armed forces cordoned the area where their home is located and while several soldiers were standing watch outside their home some of the soldiers entered their home and attempted to rape the two women. The two women have fought off the offenders and managed to escape. Jaffna penins…

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January 3, 2008 (1:30 p.m. EST) No. 2 STATEMENT ON THE POSSIBLE ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE IN SRI LANKA The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, issued the following statement following developments in Sri Lanka: “Canada deeply regrets the decision of the Government of Sri Lanka to withdraw from the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement. “Withdrawal from this important agreement will make the search for a durable political solution more difficult, and only increases the likelihood that the incidents of violence being carried out by both sides will increase. “We remain deeply concerned about the impact of the escalating violence on civilians, …

The LTTE defense spokesperson Ilanthirayan speaking about the allegations made by the Government of Sri Lanka re the two bomb blasts on Friday and Saturday said, “Government of Sri Lanka is trying to blame the LTTE for the two bomb blasts in the south of the island on Friday and Saturday. This is a baseless allegation made without any evidence to support it. GoSL attempt at blaming the LTTE is aimed at discrediting the LTTE”. “This is a feeble attempt by the GoSL which stands accused of horrendous and repeated crimes against humanity carried out against the Tamil people in the Tamil homeland”, Ilanthirayan added.

De regering van Sri Lanka laat een onderzoek instellen naar de dood van vijf jonge Tamil-mannen maandag in de noordoostelijke havenstad Trincomalee. Militairen zeiden dat zij om het leven zijn gekomen nadat een granaat ontplofte die zij bij zich droegen. Zij zouden volgens de militairen met de Tamil Tijgers van plan zijn geweest hun konvooi in een hinderlaag te lokken. Volgens mensenrechtenorganisaties had het leger het vuur op de mannen geopend. 'Wij constateerden bij een bezoek aan het mortuarium dat ze in het achterhoofd zijn geschoten', zei woordvoerster Helen Olafsdottir van de Nordic Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission. 'Een aantal van hen bleek schotwond…

Questions raised on Colombo Harbour attack Feb 04, Colombo: The news report on an attempted terrorist attack on the Colombo Harbour on January 27 has created a controversy as media and civil society have questioned the credibility of the reporting. Three boats belonging to attackers were reportedly destroyed by the Sri Lanka Navy and one laden with explosives was said to have exploded, causing minor damage to a ship sailing nearby. However, neither debris from the boats nor corpses of the attackers have been found as in the Galle harbour attack. Harbour Police reported to the Colombo Magistrate Court that no evidence has been found on the identity of …