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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
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Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) officials told media in Kilinochchi that a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) unit that was lured into a booby-trapped minefield in Mullikkulam in Mannaar abandoned its ground movement Wednesday around 3:30 p.m. Meanwhile, a group of SLA soldiers engaged in setting up Claymore mines in the area were counter-attacked by the Tigers.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
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Abrogation of the CFA by the Government of Sri Lanka has removed the
only reporting body of human rights and humanitarian law violations
that take place in Sri Lanka, said K. Sivapalan, a senior
attorney-at-law from Trincomalee, addressing four hundred participants,
mainly members of the Tamil diaspora, who participated in a march
carrying torches towards the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo, expressing
solidarity with the Tamils in the homeland Wednesday evening.
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
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Amnesty International, in a press release issued on Wednesday said
it was gravely concerned that the end to the Ceasefire Agreement
between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam today will lead to an increase in hostilities that will result in
a dramatic rise in indiscriminate attacks against the civilian
population. The Human Rights watchdog called on all parties in the
conflict to comply with their obligations under international law to
protect civilians and urged the international community to support the
call to establish an independent, international monitoring presence on
the ground without delay.
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
In a press statement issued by the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission
(SLMM), the Nordic Monitors whose functions were terminated by the
unilateral termination of the CeaseFire Agreement (CFA) by Sri Lanka
Government, Maj.Gen Solvberg, the Head of Mission, thanked the GOSL and
the LTTE for inviting SLMM to serve them, and said "Future heroes in
Sri Lanka will be those who recognize the complexity of the situation,
and prove able to manage this complexity in a way that reduces rather
than increases human pain, fear and hopelessness – those capable of
respecting people with different perceptions, and bringing them
together."
Full text of the press release follows:
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
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The Embassy of the United States of America, in a press release said
it strongly condemned the attack on a civilian bus. Expressing
condolences to the victims and their families, the U.S. statement said
the targeting of civilians serves to foster fear and cause further
suffering among the Sri Lankan people. Only a political solution to the
country’s conflict offers a way out of the current cycle of escalating
violence.
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
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27 civilians, including 3 school children, were killed and 63
wounded in a Claymore blast that targeted a bus in Helagama in Buttala
DS division in Monaragala district in Uva Province at 7:35 a.m.
Wednesday, Police said.
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