BBC,Thursday, 21 February, 2002, 14:06 GMT .
The Sri Lankan Government and Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to a permanent ceasefire as part of a Norwegian initiative to end almost two decades of civil war.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe has signed a memorandum of understanding drawn up by Norwegian negotiators which puts an indefinite truce in place.
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Five killed in Sri Lanka town before PM's visit MSNBC,22 February 2002.
At least five people
were killed in a shootout in the northern Sri
Lankan town of Vavuniya on Thursday, hours
before the prime minister was due to arrive there...
Sri Lankan navy clashes with Tiger rebels CNN,February 21, 2002 Posted: 2:47 AM EST (0747 G.
Heavy fighting has broken out between Tamal Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan navy in the deep seas off northeast Sri Lanka...
This is not the first truce violation -G.L.Peiris Saroj Pathirana in London,Thursday 21/02/02 1650 GMT.
The government forces and the Tamil Tigers earlier also engaged with truce
violations after the cease-fires announced by both parties, a senior
government minister said...
Lankan Navy engaged in fierce gun battle with LTTE indiainfo,21 February 2002.
: A major sea battle erupted between the Sri Lankan Navy and Tamil Tiger rebels on February 21, killing a Naval officer and wounding six others just as peace broker Norway was set to clinch a truce, officials said...
Lanka, Tigers to sign truce Gulf-News,22 February 2002.
The Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger militants agreed to a historic open-ended
ceasefire yesterday, with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe set to sign "a letter of
exchange" today after both sides reached an understanding in the Norwegian-backed
peace process...
Norwegian team scripted new peace pact? The Hindu - D.B.S. Jeyaraj,22 February 2002.
The Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam are expected to jointly ratify the memorandum of
understanding drafted by Norway to bring about a permanent ceasefire
between both parties, informed sources disclosed...
Sri Lanka to Finalize Ceasefire Agreement With Tamil Tiger Nothern Light,Thursday, February 21, 2002 4:00 AM EST .
COLOMBO, February 21, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lanka said on Thursday that the government and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels are to sign an agreement on permanent ceasefire within next two days...
Prabakaran's extradition still being pursued: CBI chief The Hindu (International),Friday, Feb 22, 2002 .
The LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabakaran, remains a wanted man in India and the request for his extradition is pending with the Sri Lankan Government, a senior Indian official said here...
Lankan opposition complains of political witch-hunt Gulf-News,22 February 2002.
The main opposition party in Sri Lanka has accused the government of engaging in a
'political witch-hunt' of its members in a bid to scuttle the campaign for next month's
local polls...
Norway clinches historic truce in Sri Lanka Times of India,22 February 2002.
Norway clinched a historic open-ended ceasefire in Sri Lanka on Thursday hours after Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces fought a fierce sea battle that killed at least three sailors, sources said...
Lanka detains 9 Indian fishermen South Nexus,COLOMBO, Feb 21.
Nine Indian fishermen have been detained by the Sri Lankan Navy for poaching in the country's waters, officials said on Wednesday...
Norway will help finalise venue for talks: Fernando The Hindu (International),21 February 2002.
Sri Lanka today sought to allay apprehensions about
its fledgling peace process running into problems over the venue for
proposed talks with the LTTE, saying Norwegian peace facilitators
would sort out such problems...
Sri Lanka's war zone on different time, same booze Yahoo India/Reuters,21 February 2002.
MANKULAM:Different time, different laws, same booze.
Welcome to Tiger Territory, a vast swathe of northern Sri Lanka where separatist rebels show a defiant difference -- even down to the clocks -- while running a government administration set up and still partly funded by their enemy...
Anuruddha remanded but hospitalized Frederica Jansz in Colombo,2.45 p.m. SLT Wednesday February 20.
Former deputy defence minister Anuruddha Ratwatte was remanded this morning
until March 4, 2002 by the Teldeniya magistrate, Preethi Inoka Ranasinghe
on three charges...
Ratwatte held in custody for 12 days Gulf-News,21 February 2002.
The powerful deputy defence minister in the government headed by President
Chandrika Kumaratunga, who was arrested late on Tuesday, was remanded in custody
for 12 days after being produced before courts on charges of conspiracy, aiding and
abetting the massacre of 10 Muslim youth on election day last year...
Chandrika blinks in cohabitation row NDTV/MSNBC,february 20.
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has backed off from a major stand-off with her uneasy cohabitation government and agreed to a cabinet appointment she had blocked for over two months...
Food ration crisis in Sri Lanka BBC South Asia,Wednesday, 20 February, 2002, 14:53 GMT .
It has emerged that up to 700,000 internal refugees in Sri Lanka have been without food rations for more than two months because of rivalry between the country's two main political parties...
Sri Lanka to extend truce if accord is delayed MSNBC,21 February 2002.
Sri Lanka said on Wednesday
it would extend a month-long unilateral truce if a
Norwegian-brokered peace process failed to
produce a formal ceasefire pact with Tamil Tiger
guerrillas this weekend...
Nafed nodal agency for wheat exports to Sri Lanka Yahoo India,20 February 2002.
The National Agricultural Marketing Federation (Nafed)
has been named the nodal agency for wheat exports to
Sri Lanka...
Destiny Smiles On Teardrop Isle Outlook India,february 20.
When in 1997 the Sri Lankan army tried to open the main highway from the northern city of Vavuniya to the Jaffna peninsula, it only managed to embroil itself in the bloodiest military operations in the 20-year-old separatist war the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (ltte) have been waging...
Cricket - ICC bows to BCCI, defers referees' meet Yahoo India,20 February 2002.
Succumbing to the
Board of Cricket for Cricket of India (BCCI) and the
Asian Cricket Council (ACC), the International Cricket
Council (ICC) today postponed the scheduled meeting of
its Referee's Commission...
BBC,
Thursday, 21 February, 2002, 14:06 GMT .
The Sri Lankan Government and Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to a permanent ceasefire as part of a Norwegian initiative to end almost two decades of civil war.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe has signed a memorandum of understanding drawn up by Norwegian negotiators which puts an indefinite truce in place.
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