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Over 26,000 Candidates to Contest Sri Lanka's Local Elections Nothern Light, Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:01 PM EST . Over 26,000 candidates from 28 political parties and 245 independent groups will contest for 4, 394 positions in 311 local government bodies in 23 districts in Sri Lanka on March 20, according to the Elections Department. Elections for two other districts, Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu in the north of the country, will be held on March 25. There are 10,512 youths among the 26,312 candidates as a 40 percent participation of youth is mandatory according to the election law. More... Published: Sun Feb 10 23:46:15 EST 2002

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Prabha ready to give up Eelam? Two LTTE top rungers against move Daily Mirror, 11 February 2002. LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakharan has reportedly decided to give up the demand for Eelam and settle for a federal solution but the decision is being opposed by some other top rungers of the group, according to well informed sources in the Wanni...

Chandrika must sign truce: Prabhakaran The Hindu NUS, Colombo, Feb. 10. (PTI). LTTE leader V Prabhakaran will not sign a proposed ceasefire agreement with Sri Lanka, unless President Chandrika Kumaratunga herself signs it on behalf of the Government...

Sri Lankan Refugees to Return From India xinhuanet, 11 February 2002. Over 6,000 Sri Lankan refugeeswho migrated to neighboring India due to the protracted ethnic warin the north and east of the country will return to the island as the government and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels are observing their unilateral ceasefire, the state-run Daily News said on Monday...

Draft Sri Lanka pact calls for Nordic monitors Yahoo India, February 11. Scandinavian monitors have been proposed in an agreement that would enforce a ceasefire in Sri Lanka and lay the groundwork for direct peace talks to end nearly two decades of ethnic war...

Sri Lanka truce hits snag: Report Times of India, 10 February 2002. Norway's attempts to hammer out a formal truce between the Sri Lankan government and Tiger rebels has hit a new snag over the issue of who is to sign the document, a press report said Sunday...

Ratwatte denies charges Gulf-News, 11 February 2002. Former deputy defence minister, Gen. Anuruddha Ratwatte, who was grilled by detectives for reportedly denying any knowledge about a massacre of 10 youth on the day of elections, has claimed that he believed that a faction, opposed to the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, could have carried out the attack...

Extract of MOU Sunday Times, 10 February 2002. The salient features of the draft Memorandum of Understanding between the government and the LTTE...

In the garden of good and evil The Globe & Mail, 11 February 2002. Globe correspondent PAUL KNOX travels deep into a region that has been off-limits to the outside world for almost a decade...

Sri Lankan Tamil held for murdering wife The Hindu (Southern States), 11-02-2002 . CHENNAI, FEB. 10. A middle-aged Sri Lankan Tamil and his sister were arrested by the police today, in connection with the murder of his wife six months ago...

Cabinet of Ministers expanded CDN, 11 February 2002. The Daily News reliably learns that the Cabinet of Ministers will be expanded shortly with the following seven Non-Cabinet Ministers being promoted to Cabinet rank...

Blackout to increase to six hours Island, 11 February 2002. Power cuts are likely to be extended to six hours per day due to the water levels in the catchment areas around the hydro power generating plants dropping by 21 per cent, Ceylon Electricity Board sources said...

Injured Lara wants to retire Yahoo India, 11 February 2002. Former West Indies aptain Brian Lara, who holds the records for the highest scores n tests, has said he would like to retire from international ricket if he felt he was becoming a liability to the national eam but expressed his desire to play for another five years...

Probe ordered into dropping of names Gulf_News, 10 February 2002. The ruling United National Front (UNF) government in Sri Lanka has ordered an inquiry after members of a coalition party for next month's local elections were dropped from the list of candidates, nearly causing the collapse of the two-moth-old government...

Thondaman has his way The Hindu - Nirupama Subramanian , 10 February 2002. The leader of the Ceylon Workers' Congress and Minister for Housing and Plantation Infrastructure, Arumugam Thondaman, gave the ruling United National Front a scare on Friday by resigning from his Cabinet post following a dispute with the party leadership over nominations for the March 20 local government elections...

A "Working Group" in Melbourne to assist North - East peace process David Nallainathan - Melbourne, 10 February 2002. Some Tamil and Sinhalese community leaders in Melbourne have gathered to form a working group (WG) to assist the Peace Negotiations currently being launched by the Sri Lankan Government and LTTE...

Fight for Tamils' rights: Nedumaran The Hindu (Southern States), 11-02-2002 . TIRUCHI, FEB. 10. The Tamil Nationalist Movement leader, P...

Ratwatte responds to summons Gulf_News, 10 February 2002. Former deputy defence minister Gen. Anuruddha Ratwatte yesterday responded to summons from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), which was once under him, to answer questions about his involvement in violence, including murder...

Colombo working on draft accord Gulf-News, 10 February 2002. Sri Lankan leaders were yesterday still working on a draft agreement put forward by Norway to enforce a mutual ceasefire between government security forces and the Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels...

Sri Lanka police quiz ex-minister over massacre Yahoo/Reuters, February 10. Thousands of protesters gathered on Saturday at the scene of a December massacre of 10 Muslim opposition supporters in central Sri Lanka as police questioned a former government minister over the killings...

NPC calls for Concrete Actions towards a political solution Saroj Pathirana in London. Saturday 09/02/02 1815 GMT Sri Lankan based peace movement National Peace Council (NPC) urged the authorities to start a genuine peace process stepping beyond a mere cease-fire agreement...

Oslo team leaves with draft cease-fire agreement TOI, 10 February 2002. Sri Lankan government and the LTTE have moved closer to an agreement on an indefinite cease-fire after a Norwegian peace delegation gave final touches to a draft accord at a meeting with government representatives here, officials said...

New guidelines on Tamil prisoners BBC South Asia, Saturday, 9 February, 2002, 16:44 GMT . The Attorney General, Kamala Sabasan, told a group of activists that people charged with a failure to provide information about a terrorist activity would have their cases reviewed...

Sri Lanka inches closer to cease-fire MSNBC, Colombo,Saturday, February 09, 2002. Norwegian diplomats finished two days of talks on Friday aimed at ironing out a pact that could pave the way for direct talks between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels...

Clarification from JVP re: peace protest JVP - Committee in UK, 10 February 2002. We write to point out an error in the article published in your web site under the title 'London anti-peace protest failure' by Saroj Pathirana, where it was claimed that the JVP had jointly organised a protest that was held in front of the Sri Lankan High Commission in London on the 4th February 2002, with a Sinhala communalist party...

Mano goes solo Daily Mirror, 09 February 2002. In a surprise move Colombo district UNP MP Mano Ganeshan has submitted a list of candidates to contest the Colombo Municipal Council on the Democrtatic Workers Congress ticket...

US Navy Commander visits Sri Lanka The Hindu NUS, Colombo, Feb. 8. (Reuters). The Commander of the US Navy's Seventh Fleet arrived in Sri Lanka today on a tour of the region...

Rights board gives employers 'warning call' National Post, February 5. In a ruling that may prompt some employers to re-examine the way they conduct job interviews, Air Canada has been ordered to compensate a Toronto man who was denied employment because of his ethnicity...

Sri Lanka's premier weathers first crisis - COLOMBO Kyodo News, 10 fEBRUARY 2002. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has successfully weathered the first political crisis faced by his two-month-old coalition government sparked by a dispute with a minority ally over seat-sharing at next month's local elections...

Indian, Pakistani umpires excluded from ICC panel Yahoo India, 09 February 2002. Pakistani and Indian umpires have been excluded from the International Cricket Council (ICC) panel of umpires which would be launched from April 1...

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