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Tigers recruit 7,763 new cadres since cease-fire
Bandula Jayasekara in Colombo,
SLT 9.00 a.m Wednesday 15 January.
Latest intelligence reports states that The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE) have recruited 7,763 new cadres since the signing of the cease-fire
agreement in February last year bringing the total strength of the LTTE to
16,000. Analyst say that this is disturbing news for the government and
that if the current trend continues the LTTE is likely to double its present
cadres strength in two years time which means a standing army of around
30,000 an increase of 250% of their strength. According to news reports
Anton Balasingham has warned that the LTTE in possession of much more
advanced weapons, especially modern artillery which has caused great concern
among the security forces specially with regard to the issue of the High
Security Zones. A senior diplomat told The Lanka Academic that he could
confirm that the LTTE also received 6 arms shipments during the ceasefire.
Tigers have already demanded that Tamil police officers in the North and the
East should quit and join the LTTE Police. Yesterday SLFP Parliamentarian
Mangala Samaraweera showed an advertisement published by the LTTE in a Tamil
daily registered in Sri Lanka, calling for people to join the LTTE' police
force. He questioned how could the government allow this type of
advertisements to be published in newspapers registered with the government
Published: Tue Jan 14 22:07:55 EST 2003
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ASK DR. SWAMY!
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Dr. Subramanian Swamy
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The Lanka Academic is delighted to announce its next guest in its
series of Q & A sessions: Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President,
Janata Party, India. We are indeed gratified by his appearence at The
Lanka Academic to answer questions from our readers.
We hope our readers would avail themselves of this opportunity to
educate themselves on the Indian perspective on the on-going peace
process and the other developments in all spheres of politics
with respect to India and Sri Lanka.
Submit your questions for Dr. Swamy and view his answers here. As usual, we will forward your questions to him
in batches and will post the answers as they arrive.
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Diplomatic blunder by the Foreign Ministry-Annan is Angry!
Bandula Jayasekara in Colombo,
SLT 8.00 a.m Wednesday 15 January.
The office of the United Nations Secretary General has expressed regret that
the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry announced the visit of UN Secretary-General,
Kofi Annan to Sri Lanka even before the dates were confirmed. According to
the Daily Mirror today Foreign Ministries announcement that Annan would
visit the island even before the dates were confirmed is seen as an
undiplomatic move by the Secretary-Generals office. According to the News
report an Assistant to Mr. Annan has first contacted Sri Lankas Ambassador
to the UN in New York C. Mahendran and informed him that the
Secretary-General was only considering a visit to Sri Lanka and requested
him to contact Colombo in this regard.
Published: Tue Jan 14 21:10:00 EST 2003
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Sri Lankan President issues threat to sack PM
ProLog,
COLOMBO, Jan 14 (AFP) .
Sri Lanka's cohabitation crisis worsened Tuesday with President Chandrika Kumaratunga issuing a thinly veiled threat to sack her Prime Minister over the handling of the Norwegian-backed peace talks with Tamil rebels. Kumaratunga in a live television phone-in interview accused Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of pursuing a peace bid with Tamil Tiger guerrillas without keeping her informed.
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Published: Tue Jan 14 19:42:55 EST 2003
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England crash to defeat
