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Sri Lanka Allows Rupee Drop to Boost Exports, Central Bank Says Email | Print | A A A By Anil Varma Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka is allowing the rupee to decline at a faster pace, responding to exporters’ demand for a weaker currency to help weather the global economic slump, the central bank said. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka this week scaled back intervention aimed at stemming the rupee’s decline, Nandalal Weerasinghe, the chief economist based in Colombo, said in an interview. Foreign-exchange reserves are being exhausted and now may be enough to pay for less than three months of imports, according to Asian Development Bank estimates. Exports f…

Where have all the assassins gone? Gamini Dissanayake, R. Premadasa, D.M. Dassanayake, N. Raviraj and T. Maheswaran By Dilrukshi Handunnetti and Arthur Wamanan In the history of assassination politics in Sri Lanka, it is not just the frequency of the gory murders alone that had helped create an appalling record but also the absence of credible investigations leading to the apprehension of criminals. The criminality in the country has experienced a steep increase since the war broke out in 1983 which by now has paved the way for a culture of impunity to take root, with offenders of all levels going unpunished. Furthermore, if the law enforcem…

தென்கிழக்கு இலண்டனில் தீவிபத்தினால் இலங்கையைப் பூர்வீகமாகக் கொண்ட ஒரே குடும்பத்தைச் சேர்ந்த இரு பெண்களும் இரு குழந்தைகளும் பலி. ஆங்கிலத்தில் வந்த பிபிஸி செய்தி Bexleyheath: Two women and two infants die in house fire Image caption, Police have made no arrests Four members of the same family, including a boy and girl, have died in a house fire in south-east London. Two women and two infants were rescued from the first floor of the property on Hamilton Road, Bexleyheath, at about 20:30 GMT on Thursday, but all four died at the scene. …

Plan B By Amal Jayasinghe 15 January 2006 19:01 hours Jan 15, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka plans a new security force in the capital to deal with possible attacks as concern grows for a fragile ceasefire with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, police said Sunday. Heavily-armed troops and police have been visible in the city of 650,000 in recent weeks, in line with tighter security following clashes between troops and rebels in the country's northeast, police Deputy Inspector General Pujith Jayasundara said. Jayasundara, who is in charge of security in the capital, said the police department was in the process of raising a specially-trained unit of a f…

Tamil Guardian 07 February 2007 President Rajapakse with Sri Lankan troops in Vaharai on Feb 3, 2007. Photo TamilNet. Buoyed by the Sri Lankan military’s capture, over the past six months, of large tracts of territory from the Tamil Tigers, President Mahinda Rajapakse said the LTTE could come for talks with his government – if it laid down its arms first. Destroying the LTTE – “fighting terrorism” – is the centre piece of President Rajapakse’s policy on the ethnic question. He made it clear that the military campaign would continue in his address at Sri Lanka’s 59th Independence Day anniversary celebrations and in comments a day earlier, made …

2ND LEAD [TamilNet, Thursday, 21 June 2007, 15:59 GMT] Unidentified attackers triggered a claymore device Thursday around 5:45 p.m., killing three Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers and seriously wounding one at Eechchamoaddai coastal road area in the High Security Zone, 500 meters from Jaffna city. The SLA troopers were returning in a tractor to the main base at Eechchamoaddai after distributing food to their fellow men posted along Jaffna-Kandy road and Main street when the attack took place. Sri Lanka Army officials in Colombo said 3 SLA troopers were killed and one seriously injured in the attack. The injured trooper has been rushed to Palaali military hosp…

Around 50 civilian passengers were killed and more than 30 wounded when a civilian bus was attacked by Claymore mine near Kebitigollawe, 23 km southeast of Vavuniya, Thursday around 7:50 a.m., medical sources said. Wounded passengers were rushed to Kepitigollawe and Anuradhapura hospitals. tamilnet

Country cannot afford any more external borrowing - Bandula If India reschedules its loan for SL, other countries will follow We will face the real debt crisis in 2025 Debt soared to Rs.13 trillion during Yahapalanaya regime There is an economic risk involved in raising foreign currency loans It is always better to opt for internal borrowings despite impact on inflation Education tourism vital as a development strategy For a year, some 20,000 Sri Lankans go abroad for higher education Sajith is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea UNP will suffer the most humiliating defeat at general election …

Sinhala regime playing role similar to Israel By: Dr.Vickramabahu Karunaratne Courtesy: LakBima News - November 11, 2007 Rajpal of Lakbimanews says "I was the editor of a Lake House newspaper. The moment I started carrying stories about the abductions of Tamils in Colombo, while also front paging the success of the forces in the war front, they threw me out of my job. Of course Tamils are not people under Rajapaksa. If you talk about them as if they were people, you would be out of your job. That is nothing though. If you are Tamil- you could lose your life too, but who cares? Which son of a bishop says Chickera is wrong?" It is a heroic statement. …

Tamil National Leader Hon. V. Pirapaharan's Interview Velupillai Pirapaharan, leader of the Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam, tells Anita Pratap. Q: What made you opt out of a conventional system and spearhead a liberation movement which you knew would be outlawed? A: The democratic parliamentary system, or what you refer to as the conventional political system in Sri Lanka, has always tried to impose the will of the majority on the minority. This system not only failed to solve the basic problems of our people but, in fact, aggravated our plight. For decades, the repression by the state has made the life of our people miserable. The non-violent democra…

SL Intelligence, paramilitaries responsible for Manipay, Kodikamam killings - NESOHR [TamilNet, January 25, 2006 01:07 GMT] NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights (NESOHR) in the case histories of Manipay killing of three members of the same family and the killing of a 15 year old youth in Kodikamam, released this week, provides details of involvement of Sri Lanka Intellligence operatives and paramilitary cadres belonging to Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) in the killings. With several Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers wearing black bands covering their faces, clearing Kanagasabai Road leading to Bojan's family, nine members of EPDP paramilitaries scaled …

PK Balachandran Colombo, February 4, 2007|20:31 IST sri Lanka President, Mahinda Rajapaksa announced on Sunday that the 500 MW power coal fired power project to be set up in collaboration with the National Thermal Power Project (NTPC) of India would be located in Sampur, an area in eastern Sri Lanka captured by the Sri Lankan forces from the LTTE in September last. Rajapaksa referred to this venture in his Independence Day speech. "The Norochcholai and Upper Kotmale Power Plants, the Sampur Coal Power Plant, the Moragahakanda Maha Samudra, the New Airport at Weerawila, expanding the Port of Colombo to twice its capacity, new railways and expr…

A Little Thing Called Love Author: Anonymous Love is a many splendored thing, they say, And I believe it when you looked my way, Out of the blue, things seemed to happen By chance or destiny, is the question. Living my life so long, without knowing your existence, Then came a day we felt each others presence, Guess what's meant to be will always find a way, Love creeps into hearts and decides to stay. A love so exquisite, yet so intricate, In a world of only "you and I" A love we can't even demonstrate, A secret we have to keep for life. I love you, honey, and its from my heart, I hope you know that youre no beggar from the …

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கா வே பாலக்குமார் குறிப்பிட்ட தயான் ஜெயதிகவின் முக்கியாமன கட்டுரை- தற்போதய மகிந்த அரசின் போர் யுக்தியைப் புரிந்து கொள்ள உதவும். DEATH OF A THOUSAND CUTS DAYAN JAYATILLEKA April 22 Get this: the founding year of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was 1976. Its precursor the Tamil New Tigers was formed in 1972, but the LTTE, the Liberation Tigers, Viduthalai Puligal, was born in 1976. That makes this year, 2006, the 30th anniversary of the LTTE. If anyone thinks that Mr Prabhakaran is going to let that go uncelebrated by some major, if not historic exercise, he or she does not understand such struggles and movements. This would be the year that Prabhak…

There have been a host of theories surrounding Mr Woolmer's death Scotland Yard detectives have told Jamaican police that the former Pakistan cricket coach, Bob Woolmer, was not murdered, the BBC understands. The apparent verdict follows work by a UK Home Office pathologist, who flew to Jamaica to probe Mr Woolmer's death. A UK newspaper has reported that Jamaican police are to announce that Mr Woolmer died of natural causes. Mr Woolmer was found dead in his hotel in Jamaica on 18 March after Pakistan's first-round exit from the World Cup. Days later Mark Shields, Jamaica's deputy police commissioner, announced at a news conference that the 58-year…

Who is to blame to wreck peace talks, Sri Lanka or TTs? MIL, Jun 22, 2006. Dr. Raj Baldev The head monk of a Buddhist temple has contradicted a Sri Lankan government report that the Tamil Tigers attacked his temple as per BBC. As per other sources close to head of a Buddhist Temple, the statement of Sri Lanka that Tamil Tigers attacked the temple was unauthentic; probably their motive was to abet the public against them. By issuing misguiding statement, Sri Lanka cannot win the hearts of the Tamil Tigers and so the peace talks might not mature and it goes against the collective interests of Sri Lankan govt., the people and the Tamil Tigers. Sr…

03.10.2014 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s domestic probe into the disappearance of thousands of civilians during and after the island’s ethnic war is being undermined by serious translation errors, a group of activists said Thursday. Testimony before the presidential Commission of Inquiry was marred by glaring mistakes in translating questions from English-speaking investigators to ethnic Tamil witnesses, the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) said. Sittings this week have been affected by errors that could undermine the quality of testimony before the commission, the CPA said, adding that witnesses were photographed by men said to be military intelligence officers. …

அமெரிக்க அதிபர் பராக் ஒபாமா இந்தியா வந்து சென்றதைப் பற்றி நாம் பெருமையாகக் கருதிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறோம். ஆனால், அமெரிக்க மக்கள் அனைவரும் ஒரு தமிழரைப் பற்றி வியப்பாக பேசிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள் என்றால் நமக்கு பெருமை சேர்க்கும் விஷயம்தானே! அந்தத் தமிழர் பெயர் கே.ஆர். ஸ்ரீதர். இவர், சாதாரண தமிழர் அல்ல.. மின்சாரத் தமிழர். சற்று பீடிகையாக இருந்தாலும் மேலே படியுங்கள்... நீங்களும் பாராட்டத் தொடங்கி விடுவீர்கள்... உலகம் முழுவதும் மின்சாரப் பற்றாக்குறை என்பது தவிர்க்க முடியாத நிலையாகிவிட்டதால், மின் உற்பத்தியை எவ்வாறு அதிகரிக்கலாம் என அனைத்து நாட்டு வல்லுநர்களும் தீவிரமாக யோசித்துக் கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள். ஆனால், ஒருவர் தனது வீட்டுக்குத் தேவையான மின்சாரத்தை வீட்டில் வைத்தே உற்பத…

World Bank, ADB, UN representatives to meet LTTE Political Head [TamilNet, January 31, 2006 01:21 GMT] Representatives of multilateral donor agencies, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP and IMF, will travel to Kilinochchi on Friday to discuss with the leadership of the Liberation Tigers issues related to the rehabilitation, reconstruction and development activities in the NorthEast, according to LTTE officials in Kilinochchi. Mr. Peter Harrold from World Bank, Mr. Alessandro Pio from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Mr. Jeff Taft-Dick, acting UN Coordinator, and Mr. Mr. Luis Valdivieso, representing IMF, are scheduled to meet Political Head of the Libera…

By Simon Gardner COLOMBO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - There is no way Sri Lanka's government will be able to crush its Tamil Tiger foes, and giving wide political autonomy to minority Tamils is the only answer, a leading European counter-terrorism expert says. With near daily land and sea clashes, ambushes, bombings and air raids amid a new chapter in a two-decade civil war that has killed around 70,000 people, the government is now taking the war to the rebels with offensives to drive them from territory they control. But the tactic is flawed and cannot solve an ethnic conflict that has killed around 5,000 people since early 2006 alone, said Dr. Gerard Chaliand, former …

Mortar attack prompts search operation in Morawewa Soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) with police Tuesday morning conducted a combined cordon and search operation in Morawewa area located about 24 km Northwest of Trincomalee along Trincomalee-Anuradhapura road. The operation followed a mortar attack on the SLAF camp located in Morawewa by LTTE cadres Tuesday early morning, security sources said. Military sources in Colombo said there were no casualties on the security side in the mortar attack and that the Government forces had successfully retaliated the attack

Source: Reuters By Rob Taylor COLOMBO, March 27 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has launched a mystery poster campaign inviting would-be Tamil Tiger suicide bombers to phone a government helpline in exchange for 10 million rupees ($92,000) and a new life overseas. "Why should you die with a scattered body?" the red-and-yellow posters, placed in Tamil-dominated areas of the capital, Colombo, asked readers contemplating becoming members of what the rebels call elite "Black Tiger" suicide squads. "You also were born to live. Why should you carry bombs?" the posters said alongside a fuzzy black-and-white photograph of a suicide bomber's severed head. Sri Lanka's …

By M.R. Narayan Swamy, IANS, [RxPG] New Delhi, Feb 25 - Describing the situation in Sri Lanka as 'serious', the US envoy to the island nation has warned against attempts to underestimate the Tamil Tigers and asserted that they cannot be defeated militarily. Ambassador Robert Blake also said in a telephonic interview from Colombo that his country 'respectfully disagreed' with those in Sri Lanka who feel a military solution was possible to end the dragging Tamil separatist campaign. The ambassador, who took charge in September 2006, made it clear that only devolution of powers that satisfy the 'legitimate aspirations' of the Tamil minority could be the basi…