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Unidentified armed persons came in a vehicle had abducted an eighteen year old Tamil girl while she was staying with her relatives at Ka'n'niyaa, a Tamil village located in Uppuve'li police division, Sunday night according to a complaint lodged with the Uppuve'li police.
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The Sri Lankan government on Saturday turned down fresh calls of the United Nations and leading international human rights organisations to set up UN field operations for monitoring the human rights situation in the island country.
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Two parliamentarians of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in Oslo on Friday accused international community of not being neutral in condemning incidents of attacks on civilians in Sri Lanka. Batticaloa district parliamentarian S. Jeyanandamoorthy and K. Sivanesan of Jaffna district had a meeting with the Norwegian Special Envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer.
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Justice Nissanka Udalagama, Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry, on Friday said that delay in bringing amendments needed for smooth functioning of the commission, inquiring into major cases of human rights violations, is undermining the credibility of Sri Lankan government.
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The fighters of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Friday morning foiled an attempt of Sri Lankan Army (SLA) soldiers to advance into LTTE territory in Manalaaru, Kokkuththoduvaay. LTTE sources from Manalaaru said the SLA soldiers made an attempt around 9:30 a.m. to enter the LTTE territory, but faced stiff resistance from the Tigers. At one stage, the government soldiers were compelled to retreat. The details about casualty were not available but different sources confirmed that leg of one SLA soldier was blown away.
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15 civilians were killed and 23 wounded when a Sri Lanka Transport Board bus was caught in a Claymore explosion Wednesday around 8:00 p.m. at Abimanagama near Dhammanawa in Kebitigollawe division in the Anuradhapura district, 23 km southeast of Vavuniyaa, police said.
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The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), a think-tank based in Colombo, on Tuesday filed a Fundamental Rights (FR) violation petition in the Sri Lanka's Supreme Court challenging mass arrests of Tamils without any valid reason and reasonable suspicion.
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The United States has agreed to help Sri Lanka improve human rights situation and strengthen the military justice institutions in ensuring the accountability within the military. The US ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert Blake said this at a human rights seminar held for the Sri Lankan Army Battalion Commanders in Colombo.
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Sri Lankan former cricket captain and UPFA Parliamentarian, Arjuna Ranatunga, has had an exclusive discussion with UNP Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe on Tuesday evening, according to reliable sources. Sources said their talks mainly concentrated on the stance Mr. Arjuna Ranataunga would take at the vote of the third reading of the budget.
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Unable to control spiralling inflation rates, Sri Lanka has decided to change the way it measures inflation to ensure that it does not pass the 20pct barrier. Sri Lanka's Finance Ministry has formulated a brand new index called the CCPI(N) based on consumption patterns in 12 urban centres within the Colombo metropolitan.
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) reported of direct confrontations within the vicinity of the Yala jungles on Tuesday afternoon. Both sides said the skirmish took place at around 5pm. SLA said that around ten LTTE cadres were confronted and of them five were injured. "Security forces are on the trail," the SLA statement added.
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