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LTTE demands army withdrawal from Tamil areas HindustanTimes, March 3. At a massive rally signifying a ‘Tamil Upsurge’ in Vavuniya on Friday, the LTTE upped the ante by demanding the withdrawal of the Sri Lankan armed forces from the ‘traditional homeland’ of the Tamils in the North and East of the island, and the dismantling of state-sponsored Sinhalese colonies there, media reports said. Supposedly organised by civil society and over-ground Tamil political groups, the rally was actually directed by the cadres of the LTTE. More... Published: Sat Mar 2 19:15:07 EST 2002

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Solheim Finalising Truce Monitoring Mission Saroj Pathirana in London. Saturday 02/03/02 1935 GMT Norwegian government’s official peace envoy on Sri Lanka Erik Solheim is finalising the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), the body which oversees the cease-fire agreement signed between the government and the Tamil Tigers...

President Herself invited Norwegians- Justice Minister Saroj Pathirana in London. Saturday 02/03/02 1840 GMT It was the President Kumaratunga who initially invited Norwegian government to facilitate the peace process between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE, a senior minister said...

Cease-fire monitors arrived in Sri Lanka Leo de Lile in Colombo, 1.00 pm, SLT, March. 02, 2002. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, in right shakes hands with retired Mjr...

JVP Provoking Sinhala Masses Against Tamils- Madampagama Assaji Thero Saroj Pathirana in London. Saturday 02/03/01 1725 GMT Peace is not a cup of poison for the Mahasanga (Buddhist monks) as some opportunist politicians pointed out, a leading Buddhist monk said...

Norwegian general begins Lanka truce monitoring Times of India, SATURDAY, MARCH 02 . A retired Norwegian army general arrived in Sri Lanka Saturday to start monitoring a ceasefire between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels, officials said...

Commonwealth heads urge unity against "terrorism" Yahoo India, march 2. Commonwealth leaders agreed at their summit in Australia on Saturday to expel any member state that aided, financed or harboured terrorists...

3 Asians nations represented in ICC Referees' panel Yahoo India, March 2. The International Cricket Council has shed its image of being biased in favour of the white Test-playing nations and included three Asian countries on its new elite panel of International Match Referees...

Norwegian Gen. in Lanka as deal faces storm The Hindu NUS, Colombo, March 2. (PTI). A former Norwegian Army General who will head a mission in Sri Lanka to oversee the truce between the Government and LTTE arrived here today, amidst political opposition to the role assigned to Oslo in the ceasefire agreement, officials said...

Sri Lankan president urges review of landmark ceasefire Yahoo Singapore, Friday March 1, 12:59 PM. Sri Lanka's president demanded a review on Friday of a Norwegian-brokered truce between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, saying Oslo had gone too far in trying to end a conflict that has killed 64,000 people...

Elections for seven local government authorities to be postponed Waruna Karunatilake in Colombo, 1908 slt 01.03.02. Elections for the seven local government authorities are to be postponed and will be held after March 20th...

U.S. Secretary Colin Powell Calls Prime Minister Wickremesinghe to Express American Support US Embassy - Sri Lanka, 02 March 2002. Colombo, 1 March 2002: The American Embassy announced today that Secretary of State Colin Powell called Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on March 1 to express strong American support for the recently signed agreement establishing an indefinite cease-fire between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE...

Love's labour lost for Sri Lankan cross-dresser MSNBC, march 2. A young Sri Lankan woman has filed for divorce three months into her marriage after discovering her husband was really a woman, a newspaper reported on Friday...

Ceasefire boost for Sri Lanka tourism Telegraph UK, March 2. SRI Lanka could become a popular holiday destination again - if a ceasefire signed between the newly elected government and Tamil Tiger rebels successfully ends 19 years of conflict...

Sri Lanka's Energy Minister Resolves to Solve Power Crisis Nothern Light, Friday, March 01, 2002 11:20 PM EST . COLOMBO, Mar 2, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lankan Minister of Power and Energy Karu Jayasuriya said on Friday that he would resign if the current power crisis is not resolved by June this year, The Island newspaper reported on Saturday...

Minister Karu Jayasuriya says he will resign if the power crisis is not resolved by end June. Waruna Karunatilake in Colombo, 1905 slt 01.03.02. Power and Energy Minister Karu Jayasuriya re iterated today that he would resign from office if the current power crisis is not resolved by end June...

JVP burns copy of ceasefire accord gulf news, march 1. The Marxist-nationalist People's Liberation Front (JVP) publicly burnt a copy of the ceasefire agreement signed between the government and the LTTE at a mass rally on Thursday night and said Sri Lanka had been turned into a colony of Norway in the process...

US, EU back Lanka truce agreement The Hindu NUS, Colombo, March 1. (PTI). The United States and the European Union have backed the ceasefire agreement between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE, and hoped both the parties would arrive at an amicable political solution to the island nation's ethnic problem...

Kadirgamar calls on Jayalalithaa The Hindu (Southern States), Saturday, Mar 02, 2002. The visiting senior Adviser to the Sri Lankan President and former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Island, Lakshman Kadirgamar, called on the Chief Minister-Designate, Jayalalithaa, at her Poes Garden residence this evening...

Lloyds of London withdraws insurance surcharge on ships and aircraft arriving in Sri Lanka Waruna Karunatilake in Colombo, 1902 slt 01.03.02. Lloyds of London has informed the Sri Lankan government that it has decided to withdraw the insurance surcharge imposed on ships arriving at Sri Lankan ports and on aircraft landing at the Colombo International Airport...

India, U.S. ticked off Kumaratunga over truce remarks: minister IANS/Yahoo, February 28. India and the U.S. were among several countries that ticked off Sri Lanka President Chandrika Kumaratunga for saying she could scuttle a landmark truce with Tamil Tiger rebels, a senior minister said Thursday...

Lanka Now Norway's Colony Says JVP Daily Mirror, March 2, 2002. The JVP yesterday held a mass protest rally against the ceasefire agreement between the government and the LTTE...

Thousands swarm Vavuniya for self-determination rally TamilNet, March 1, 2002:GMT:16:50. More than thirty thousand people gathered in Vavuniya town Friday afternoon for the Pongu Thamil upsurge rally and cultural program...

Third India-Sri Lanka carrom test in Mumbai on March 8 Yahoo India, Friday March 1, 9:15 PM. The third India-Sri Lanka carrom test for men and women would be organised by the Maharashtra Carrom Association (MCA), under the auspices of the All India Carrom Federation (AICF), at the Andheri Sports Complex here on March eight...

'Norway's role in truce undermines Lanka's sovereignty' Press Trust of India, Colombo,Friday, March 01, 2002. Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has said that the nature of the role assigned to Norway in monitoring the truce agreement with LTTE compromised Sri Lanka's sovereignty and demanded amendments to recast Oslo's role...

Ceasefire in Sri Lanka - A Radio Interview with Frances Harrison, BBC correspondent in Colombo, Sri Lanka; David B.S. Jeyaraj, freelance journalist in Toronto, Canada; and Chandra de Silva, Professor of History at Old Dominion University. The Connection, February 28. There is a pause in one of the bloodiest civil wars of the last twenty years...

Sri Lankan President Not to Attend Commonwealth Meeting Xinhuanet, 01 March 2001. Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga will not attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane, Australia which is scheduled to commence on Saturday, the official Daily News said on Friday...

India should bring LTTE to negotiating table' Hindu, 01 March 2002. India could help in the current Sri Lankan peace process by nudging ``the LTTE to the negotiating table and keeping them there,'' the senior adviser to the Sri Lankan President, Lakshman Kadirgamar, said today...

Swedish civilian observers to Sri Lanka Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Sweden, February 28. The Government decided today to commission the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to recruit a maximum of six civilian observers to send to Sri Lanka...

Facts on Norochcholai coal power project CDN, 01 March 2002. Several letters and articles from eminent Consultants and Advisors appeared in the news print...

Ethnic heart op divide BBC South Asia, Friday, 1 March, 2002, 01:48 GMT . South Asian patients are less likely to receive treatment for coronary artery disease than white patients , research suggests...

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