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Tamil Diaspora community in the UK is preparing to remember thousands of their fellow men and women who died in the ethnic conflict in the island of Sri Lanka. Remembrance ceremonies are expected to be held world-wide on Tuesday, 27 November.
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The Sri Lankan government should release an official figure of the number of military personal killed fighting the Tamils over the past 25 years, Dr Jayadevan has demanded. Writing in a leading British newspaper, Dr Jayadevan lambasted international media for continuing to quote 70, 000 as the number of people killed in the war.
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A sub-inspector and a constable of the Sri Lanka Police were killed in a claymore mine explosion, 4km north of Kalavanchikudi in Batticaloa district. The explosion is thought to have been triggered by cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at around 11am on Saturday morning. In May this year, the Sir Lankan military claimed to have fully conquered the region that was under LTTE administration for over a decade.
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Sri Lanka's minority Tamil community has begun commemorating nearly 20,000 of their men and women who were killed fighting for an independent homeland. Five days of traditional remembrance events began on Friday and are set to conclude on Tuesday evening when the Leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lights the "flame of sacrifice".
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At least two international workers of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have been expelled from Sri Lanka for their part in a protest against the country's military. UNICEF Country Chief Phillipe Duamelle was called to the foreign ministry on Thursday, where officials "expressed serious concern" over the agency's participation at the public protest held in June.
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Minister Anura Bandaranaike, having left the Rajapaksa Cabinet in a huff several moons ago, chose to call the government a ‘Carnival of Clowns’. He rejoined the same Carnival later on. However, one cannot but agree with him on his considered view of the government.
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Members of the Sri Lankan parliament belonging to the opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA) on Friday appealed to India and the rest of the international community to see that the Sri Lankan government ensured the safety and freedom of MPs.
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This war is waged with a vengeance because its ultimate objective, implicit in so much of what the President and his government does and says, is more than just the complete eradication of the LTTE – it is to establish a totalitarian Sinhala, Buddhist regime in the guise of a benevolent dictatorship which does not want to kill you, but will in an instant if you question it too much.
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Hindustan Times of November 17, 2007 announced that fifteen former commanders of the three Sri Lankan armed forces jointly met President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo on Friday and discussed the grave military and political situation in the country.
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We are seriously concerned about the deteriorating security situation and various incidents reported from return areas in eastern Sri Lanka. Around 250 displaced people, who returned to their villages of origin in the Trincomalee district a few weeks ago, after fleeing escalating violence in 2006, fled their homes again this week back to welfare centres in Batticaloa district after serious security incidents in their villages.
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The LTTE on Thursday showed respects to the parents of martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the birth of Tamil Eelam at a school in Allampil of Mullaitheevu. The LTTE cadres and the people in the North and East of Sri Lanka have begun celebrating the week of heroes through observance of various programmes that, among others, include showing respects to the fallen heroes and their parents, speeches, music and cultural events.
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