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COLOMBO (AFP) — The Sri Lankan government on Friday called for the expulsion of staff of the United Nations children's fund, accusing them of overstepping their legitimate functions, the foreign ministry said.
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Fifteen, member group of masked men, Wednesday early morning on November 21, 2007 forcibly entered the printing press of the English weekly papers Sunday Leader, Morning Leader and Irudina Sinhala weekly and set fire damaging printing machines and copies of newspapers printed ready for distribution, according to the sources in Colombo.
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Condemning the attack on the Sunday Leader press as a brazen criminal act, Colombo’s Anglican Bishop the Rt. Rev. Duleep de Chickera in a hard-hitting statement yesterday warned that the continuing trend to silence the independent media had reached dangerous proportions.
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Wijedasa Rajapakshe, the COPE chairman who crossed over to the opposition benches from the government during the budget debate has sent a letter of demand to the editor of ‘Silumina,’ the government run Lake House newspaper claiming Rs. 500 million as damages for allegedly “insulting” him through an article.
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The JVP in parliament yesterday urged the government to temporarily shut down the UNICEF Kilinochchi office alleging that the UN Children’s Fund was planning to distribute ‘combat rations’ to LTTE cadres.
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A Tamil journalist, Arthur Wamanan, working in the Sunday Leader English weekly Thursday filed a Fundamental Rights Violation petition in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka seeking the court to declare his arrest and detention on October 24 was illegal. On October 24, Mr. Wamanan was taken into custody by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) personnel, based on a telelphone complaint by the Sri Lankan Minister of Enterprise Development following his article exposing Mr. Wijeratna of misappropriating government funds.
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Sri Lanka reversed its decision on supporting the suspension of Pakistan from the Commonwealth, after admitting that its foreign minister was unaware of the government's official policy. The cabinet presided over by Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake met in emergency session to reiterate its position that it does not support the suspension of Pakistan from the Commonwealth,Deputy Foreign Minister Hussain Bahila said.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned an arson attack on a publishing house in Sri Lanka today that destroyed the printing press of three newspapers critical of the government. At least 12 unidentified masked men stripped publishing staff of their cell phones at gunpoint before starting the blaze and fleeing the scene in the early hours of the morning as one of the three papers went to press, according to Free Media Movement spokesman Sunanda Deshapriya. The press in Ratmalana, a suburb of the capital of Colombo, was located in a high security zone tightly controlled by Sri Lankan government security forces.
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National Peace Council (NPC) of Sri Lanka has termed the attack on Sunday Leader printing press as an appalling incident. In a media release on Thursday the NPC deplored the increasing frequency with which newspaper staff are being targeted in this kind of violent attack.
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one month after their stunning attack on the Anuradhapura airbase on October 22 and destroyed or damaged over 26 aircrafts, the Tamil Tigers release a video clip of the Attack. Mr. Velupilliai Pirapharan, the leader of the Tamil Tigers, later conferred Awards of Valour for Tiger cadres who excelled in their performance in the Anuradhapura operation against the Sri Lankan airbase.
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A group of unidentified men riding in a motorbike hurled petrol bombs at the house of former minister Sripathi Sooriyaarachchi, who broke away from the SLFP. The attackers hurriedly fled away after hurling petrol bombs when security guards of the residence, located at Austin Place, Borella in Colombo, opened fire at them, Police said.
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