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Sri Lanka: Torture of Boosa Tamil detainees alleged
Colombo High Court Judge Wednesday directed the prison authorities to produce three of the four Tamil suspects in Chandrika Kumaratunga attempted murder case before Colombo Judicial Medical Officer for medical examination
when their lawyers submitted to court that they were subjected to torture and inhuman treatment by police officials in Boosa detention camp, legal sources said.
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Sri Lanka: 2 Muslim youths arrested in Matara
Matara Police Wednesday night arrested two Muslim youths who are residents of Sammanthurai in eastern province. They are being detained until Sammanthurai police verifies their background and the authenticity of their identity cards, police sources said.
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Sri Lanka: JHU files court action against giving 300 tsunami houses to Muslims
A petition seeking interim order to stop the distribution of three hundred houses constructed in Deegavapi area in Ampaarai for tsunami affected Muslim families has been filed in the Supreme Court by Venerable Ellawela Methanananda Thera , a parliamentarian of the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) and
six others from the Deegavapi Restoration Association, legal sources in Ampaarai said. The houses have been constructed by the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) under the tsunami rehabilitation project.
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Sri Lanka: 5 Tamils arrested in Minuwangoda
Five Tamil youths taken into custody in a cordon and search operation conducted in Minuwangoda Monday from dusk to dawn are still being detained in the police station and being interrogated, media sources said. The arrested youths are residents of other districts, and were visiting Minuwangoda when they were detained.
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Sri Lanka: Pillayan sworn in as CM for Eastern Province
Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, the de-facto leader of the paramilitary-cum-political party, the TMVP, was sworn in as the Chief Minister for Eastern Province as M.L.A.M Hisbullah, who was competing with Chandrakanthan for the CM post, announced that he and two of his elected associates had decided to function separately. Mr. Hizbullah, who claimed that the swearing-in was unconstitutional boycotted the swearing-in ceremony which took place at the Sri Lankan Presidential Secretariat around 6:30 p.m. in front of the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Sri Lanka: 'India gives full blessings to eliminate LTTE,' says SL Prime Minister
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka, in a special interview to Thinakkural, a Colombo based Tamil daily, on Friday, claimed that the Indian government had given "full blessings" to the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa to "eliminate the LTTE." Mr. Wickramanayaka further proclaimed that there was no "ethnic conflict" in Sri Lanka. "The LTTE should lay their arms down if they want peace talks. We are not prepared for talks with them in the meantime," he further said.
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Sri Lanka: ICRC receives dead body of LTTE cadre in Mannaar
The ICRC on Friday received a dead body of an LTTE cadre from Mannaar hospital to be transported to LTTE controlled area after Mannaar magistrate's inspection, Police said.
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Sri Lanka: Family man reported missing in Peasaalai, Mannaar
Armed men riding in a white colour van, on Thursday abducted a 34-year-old Tamil civilian, T.M. Francis, at Nadukkudaa in Peasaalai around 3:25 p.m., according a complaint made by the relatives of the missing person, who is a family man.
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Sri Lanka: SL Police Sergeant shot dead in Mannaar
A Sri Lanka Police Sergeant was shot and killed while he was engaged in duty inside his Sector 08 in Murungkan in Mannaar district Friday around 10:30 a.m., Police said.
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Sri Lanka: Muslim three-wheeler driver beaten to death in Akkaraippattu
Police in Akkaraippattu Friday morning recovered the dead body of a 27-year-old Muslim person, beaten to death at Periyavaaykkaal in Aalangku'lam, a Tamil area in Akkaraippattu police division. Three persons had hired him for a three-wheeler trip, Thursday night, Police said. Tension prevailed in Aalangku'lam following the episode.
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Sri Lanka: Police constable shot dead in Kalladi, Batticaloa
Unknown gunmen riding in a motorcycle shot and killed a 32-year-old Sri Lankan Police Constable, W. Asanka, at Kalladi in Kaaththaankudi police division Friday around 10:00 a.m., Police said.
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Sri Lanka: Bomb explosion targets Police bus in Colombo, 10 killed, 95 wounded
A three-wheeler fitted with a bomb rammed into a bus carrying riot control police personnel, few hundred meters away from the Sri Lankan Presidential Secretariat, Friday noon, killing 10 persons, 7 policemen and 3 civilians, and injuring 6 Sri Lanka Army soldiers, 30 policemen and 59 civilians. The explosion has taken place on Lotus Road inside the High Security area near the Hilton Hotel. 12 wounded policemen were in critical condition, according to medical sources in Colombo hospital.
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Sri Lanka: SLA, SLN conduct joint war rehearsals in Jaffna seas
Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) sailors from Karainagar Naval base and Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers stationed along the northern coastal areas, have been jointly conducting large scale war exercises in the seas off the coast of Jaffna peninsula in Valigaamam North High security Zone (HSZ) for the past few days supported by attack air crafts of Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF), civil sources in Jaffna said.
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Sri Lanka: Tamil fisherman shot, killed in Kalkudaa
Unidentified armed men following a fisherman in Paddiyadichcheanai area in GTZ village of Kalkudaa within Kalkudaa police division in Batticaloa district, shot him at close range Wednesday night 9:15 p.m.and fled the scene, sources said.
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Sri Lanka: SLA cordons off, searches large areas of Vadamaraadchi
In the aftermath of the assassination of Maheswari Velautham, an advisor of Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP ) leader Douglas Devandanda at her residence at Navi'ndil near Nelliyadi in Vadamaraadchi in Jaffna Tuesday, the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers conducted a massive cordon and search operation Thursday in the vicinity of her residence.
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Sri Lanka: 3 Tamil youths abducted in Trincomalee
Three Tamil youths were abducted by unidentified men in three separate incidents in Thampalakaamam, Kanthalaay and Thirukadaloor in Trincomalee district Wednesday night, according to complaints lodged with the police and the Trincomalee regional office of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) by their relatives.
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Sri Lanka: Tamil woman shot dead in Trincomalee
A Tamil woman was killed and her husband sustained serious injuries when unidentified persons fired at them when they were in their house in Kanniyaa village in Uppuve'li police division in Trincomalee district Wednesday night.
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Sri Lanka: Eastern CM swearing-in put off
Sri Lanka's President had initially decided to appoint Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillaiyan, the de-facto leader of the paramilitary-cum-political party, the TMVP, as the Chief Minister for Eastern Province, informed sources in Colombo said. However, due to strong objection from Muslim ministers supporting M.L.A.M.Hizbulla for the post, there were discussions on the issue at Temple Trees till late Thursday evening. The swearing-in ceremony scheduled for Friday has been postponed, sources said.
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Sri Lanka not fit to be in UN Rights Council- Tutu
"With a terrible record of torture and disappearance, Sri Lanka doesn't deserve a seat on the UN human rights council. It should be voted out," says the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, in a comment that appeared on the daily Guardian, U.K., May 15th edition.
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Sri Lanka: 19 Tamil Nadu fishermen blindfolded, attacked by SLN for 5 days
Nineteen Indian Tamil fishermen, including two 15-year-old boys, arrested by the Sri Lanka Navy in the Historical Waters of Palk Strait last Friday were blindfolded, attacked and interrogated by the SLN for 5-days and handed over to the Police and brought to Mannaar Magistrate's Courts Thursday. T.J. Prabahkaran, the magistrate, allowed the Police application to remand the fishermen into police custody for 7 days, legal sources said.
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