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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 strategic victories.
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The nation, like the individual, is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice, and devotion. A heroic past, great men, glory (by which I understand genuine glory), this is the social capital upon which one bases a national idea. To have common glories in the past and to have a common will in the present; to have performed great deeds together, to wish to perform still more - these are the essential conditions for being a people.
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ANURADHAPURAM (SNM) -- A nurse who was brutally raped by an injured soldier, whom she was looking after at the Anuradhapura General Hospital, committed suicide on Monday. The victim Nayana Dissanayake, 26, was found dead on the floor, at her living quarters by her husband.
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Visiting Sri Lankan president Mahinda RajapaksA, in a meeting with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Monday, said his country supports Iran-s inalienable right to use nuclear energy. According to Foreign Ministry Media Department report on Monday, in the meeting, Mottaki presented a report on the latest situation of Iran's peaceful nuclear program, active cooperation with International Atomic Energy Agency( IAEA) and (IAEA Chief) ElBaradei's report to the IAEA Governing Council.
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The Sri Lankan defense ministry has instructed all armed forces land, sea and air to stay alert for foiling the attacks carried out by the LTTE on or after the Heroes Day celebrations. The LTTE and the Tamils in Eelam and around the world commemorate the dead fallen heroes as a Great Heroes Week. The celebrations will conclude with the speech of LTTE supremo V. Pirapaharan in the evening on November 27 what he will deliver from any undisclosed location.
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Tharisanam Tamil TV, number one Tamil Television Channel amoung Tamil diaspora around the globe today announced, "..due to hundres of requests from tamil community around the world, Tharisanam TV will be, Free to Air till 28th Nov 2007 Mid Night." For more details viewers are asked to contcat,
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Civilian settlements in Puthukkudiyiruppu and Kilinochchi in Vanni on Monday came under aerial attack of Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF). Local sources said the attacks that were carried out in five sorties that left 13 houses damaged. The first attack was made in Puthukkudiyiruppu between 5:00 p.m. and 5:20 p.m. while the second attack was carried out by three SLAF bombers from 5:30 p.m. to 5:50 p.m. in Jeyanthinakar, a suburb of Kilinochchi town, damaging seven houses.
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The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) has created the 59th division with three brigades to fight against the Tamil Tigers in the North and East of Sri Lanka. The 59th division is the third division added to the army within the last two years.
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LONDON (SNM) -- Asian Tribune editor/owner KT Rajasingham's silence on the face of serious allegations put forward by the Sunday Leader newspaper is essentially admittance of guilt by the 76 year old web editor, Dr Jayadevan says. "Instead, vulgar and threatening campaign beyond journalistic ethics has been carried out by K T Rajasingam to side tract and to mislead the issues. When his dilly dally dancing with the President was exposed, he went out of the way to sling mud on the media writers," according to Dr Jayadevan.
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1. Available UN Provisions
The Charter of the United Nations empowers the Security Council to determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and to make recommendations, or decide what measures need to be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42 of the Chapter VII of the Charter, to maintain or restore international peace and security. These provisions allow the Security Council to intervene militarily or non-militarily in affairs of member States when there is a threat to peace by the actions of these States.
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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 separatist guerrillas, who were ejected from the east in July and lost their political chief in an air raid earlier this month.
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