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Sri Lanka: LTTE repulse the Sri Lankan military advance in Mannar PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 31 August 2007
thumb_242The LTTE has seized the dead body of a Sri Lankan soldier and an assault rifle. The military operation began with heavy artillery and motor fire towards the LTTE positions. The LTTE units engaged in a strong retaliation lasted for several hours.
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Sri Lanka: Tamil trader shot dead in Kanthalaai PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 31 August 2007

A Tamil trader was shot dead by unidentified men at about 8.30 p.m. on Wednesday inside his shop at Kanthalaai, about 40 km off Trincomalee town along Trincomalee Kandy highway. The victim has been identified as Nadarajah Sukumar, 34, father of two children and a resident of Killinochchi.

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Sri Lanka: Govt to check report on Eritrean support for LTTE: Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 31 August 2007
thumb_anurayapaCabinet Spokesman and Minister of Mass Media and Information Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be asked to take up the issue of alleged links between Eritrea and the LTTE.
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Sri Lanka: Amnesty International calls on Sri Lanka to end the atrocious practice of forced disappearances PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 31 August 2007
thumb_241The rights group said that this practice is a grave human rights violation and a crime under international law. The Amnesty International in a statement issued to mark the annual commemoration of the disappeared urged the Sri Lankan government to put an end to the enforced disappearances in the country.
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Sri Lanka: TNA says census in the east has sinister motives PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 31 August 2007

thumb_240sn_tna_logoThat this would “deprive” the people’s right to vote. The Tamil National Alliance parliamentarians said on Thursday that while 250,000 people are displaced and are languishing in refugee camps the Sri Lankan government is conducting a census that would deprive the community of its voting rights.

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Sri Lanka: Media watchdog urges European and American embassies to save Athas PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 31 August 2007
thumb_235after a column he wrote exposing corruptions in a defence deal. Reporters sans frontiers in a press release issued on Wednesday urged European and US Embassies to take their utmost effort to save the life of Iqbal Athas.
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