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COLOMBO (SNM) -- Just over 30, 000 unemployed Sinhalese youth joined the Sri Lanka Army during the first 11months of 2007, Military Spokesman "Brigadier" Udaya Nanayakkara told the media on Friday. He added that country wide recruitment drive would continue till December 20, as the army is still short of personal.
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People outside the North and East and the border areas have enjoyed comparative peace for some years now. Perhaps, the quietest period were the years following the signing of the Ceasefire Agreement. Even then, there were occasional flare-ups but they were quickly contained.
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In a shocking revelation the Daily Mirror has learnt that some 150 well armed and trained Muslims youths have increased their activities in certain areas of the east. The situation has worsened with the break away of Pillayan from Karuna Amman a few months ago. Reports said that one time close associate of Karuna, one Suresh – a Muslim paramilitary leader who was with the LTTE when Karuna was with the Wanni faction a few years ago had joined Pillayan.
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The Sri Lankan government has strongly protested a recent statement made by the UN high commissioner for human rights. In a letter to Louise Arbour, Sri Lanka's minister in charge of the subject Mahinda Samarasinghe says he is 'puzzled' as his government is 'taking definite steps' to address the issues raised by Arbour.
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People of Vanni paid their last respects to two of the three media personnel of Voice of Tigers (VoT) who were killed in the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombing on the radio station in Kilinochchi on Tuesday. People, both male and female, of all ages paid respects to the remains of Ms. Iasaivili Chempiyan and M. Suresh Limbio whose mortal remains were kept at Kilinochchi Cultural Hall at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday.
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What happened from 1990 to 2001? Was Devananda the real killing machine who propelled the turf wars in the city of Toronto? We heard the gunshots, mothers crying over the dead, informants working with police officers, witnesses being silent and Canadian bureaucrats being on the Sri Lankan government and ENDLF payroll. The heat of the war back in Sri Lanka hit Canada and the Western American streets and suburbs for 10 straight years.
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COLOMBO (SNM) -- From his bed in Singapore, the injured leader of the paramilitary EPDP group gave an interview to the government mouthpiece Daily News and other Sinhala media on Friday. The gunman-cum-politician vowed to return to the island, and continue with aiding the Sri Lankan military in its campaign of killings and forced disappearances of Tamils.
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How much value should Tamils attach to the words of those, be it countries or international institutions, which do not attach any value whatsoever to our lives? My comments are in relation to the spate of bomb attacks that have left more the forty people this week.
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The Sri Lankan government on Friday said it was not contemplating banning the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Keheliya Rambukwella, the minister of foreign employment and the government's defence spokesman, told reporters that the government is not contemplating a ban that can close the door for peace.
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The fighters of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Thursday morning foiled a bid of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) to advance in Kilaali and Mukamalai north Front Defence Line (FDL) positions, according to sources near northern FDL areas. Both sides exchanged heavy artillery shells and mortar fire during the skirmishes.
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Two students in Jaffna are reported missing in Jaffna for last two days. Parents of two students have lodged formal compliant with Human Rights Commission offices in Jaffna in connection with their missing. According to complaints the students are: Kantharuban, 17, from Puloly West, Point Pedro, and a GCE (O/L) student of Velaayutham Vidyalayam and Thiyagarajah Gopinath, 19, from Vaddukoddai SouthWest, student of Vaddukoddai Central College. Parents said the two students have disappeared in the last two days and they are fearing that they have been by the Intelligence wing of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), sources said.
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