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Women's belts off to ease Sri Lanka truce tension
ProLog,
COLOMBO, Feb 16 (AFP) .
Scandinavian truce monitors announced Sunday that the Tamil Tiger rebels had agreed to order their women combatants to remove leather belts which had raised the ire of Sri Lankan soldiers. Mobs led by Tiger rebels clashed with government forces in the northern peninsula of Jaffna four days ago after a government soldier forcibly tried to remove the offending guerrilla belt from one of the Tiger women combatants.
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Published: Sun Feb 16 17:20:05 EST 2003
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ASK DR. SWAMY!
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Dr. Subramanian Swamy
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ANSWERS 1-24 NOW AVAILABLE
[HERE]
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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LTTE order transporters to deposit 50,000 in Eelam Bank
Bandula Jayasekara in Colombo,
SLT 8.00 a.m Monday 17 February.
All Vehicle owners and drivers who transport goods to the North have been
asked to deposit Rs 50,000 per vehicle in the Eelam Bank of the LTTE
according to a news report. The report says that the LTTE has ordered the
vehicle operators to deposit the money and keep in the possession of the
driver the passbook to prove that they have deposited the money. According
to the report the LTTE have warned that transporters who failed to follow
their instructions would not be allowed to enter the areas controlled by the
LTTE. The vehicle owners have made a strong protest against the new order
and threatened not to transport goods to areas under LTTE control if the
matter is not resolved soon. The transporters undergo much difficulty to
deliver goods from Colombo via the A9 due to checking at four points by the
Army and the LTTE, two points each. The entire consignment is offloaded,
checked and reloaded at each point. While the Army checks the vehicles for
banned items the LTTE checks are done for the purpose of taxation. Already
goods being transported to LTTE area are taxed at rates ranging from 5% to
25% and all vehicles in the LTTE areas are required to pay a vehicle
registration tax. In addition all passengers traveling to the Jaffna
peninsula in private vans via the A9 road are subjected to a unit tax of Rs
350 per passenger.
Published: Sun Feb 16 20:51:29 EST 2003
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Villagers assault LTTE bodyguard
Bandula Jayasekara in Colombo,
SLT 7.45 a.m Monday 17 February.
A group of villages at Panichankerni in Valachenai has assaulted the
bodyguard of a LTTE area leader and later released him. The villages had
released the bodyguard after the local leader pleaded with the villagers.
The incident had taken place after the bodyguard assaulted a villager when
the villagers protested in front of the LTTE checkpoint against the LTTE,
for purchasing the prawns caught by the fisherman in the area for low
prices. Panichankerni is an uncleared area and most of the villagers are
engaged in prawn fishing. The local LTTE leader has promised now to discuss
the matter with the villages. The fishermen in LTTE controlled areas are
asked to contribute part of their income irrespective their income level.
Published: Sun Feb 16 20:49:57 EST 2003
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