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Tigers in worst truce violation, a day after ceasefire anniversary
LAcNet Special Correspondent in Colombo,
22:30 SLT, Sunday February 23, 2003.
A tensed situation between the government and the LTTE
has arisen in the eastern province when seven Tiger
carders, who established a roadblock in the government
area, refused to lay their arms to police today at
around 3 pm.
The Tigers were armed with T-56 weapons and a pistol
and threatened to commit suicide by swallowing cyanide
in the even navy personnel there moved to arrest them.
Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission sources said that the
situation was under control when the two parties
reached a on the spot settlement, but reports from the
east said the tension is continuing even at 9.30 pm.
The incident occurred a day after the first
anniversary of the signing of the two parties, but it
appears it is the worst violation of the truce by the
LTTE.
Published: Sun Feb 23 11:37:47 EST 2003
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Sri Lanka union battles "peace dividend" reforms
Yahoo Singapore,
February 24, 9:45 AM .
A powerful Sri Lankan trade union is fighting to block economic reforms the government hopes will attract foreign aid as a "peace dividend" if it succeeds in ending the island's 19-year ethnic war. "We have kept the labour reforms in check," said S. Amarasinghe, secretary of the 80,000-member Inter-Company Employees Union which is backed by a Marxist party in parliament.
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Published: Sun Feb 23 23:51:34 EST 2003
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Protests bring life to a standstill
Gulf News,
February 23.
Life in the north and eastern provinces was crippled yesterday as Tamils staged protest campaigns saying that they were not satisfied with the progress of the implementation of the ceasefire MoU signed with the government a year ago.Front organisations of the Liberation Tigers if Tamil Eelam (LTTE) urged people to raise black flags, keep shops closed, and brought transport to a standstill in the eastern Ampara and Batticaloa districts while in the northern Jaffna peninsula the protest campaign was carried out until 10am.
In Ampara, the groups put up road blocks, burnt tyres and disrupted traffic bringing life to a standstill.
The protests were launched on the grounds that the MoU had not been sufficiently implemented while the government had failed to keep to the promises made during the peace talks.
Pro-LTTE groups in leaflets distributed said that they had called for the protest as they were not satisfied with the progress of resettlement of displaced persons, assistance to war victims and failure to carry out rehabilitation programmes.Batticaloa wore a deserted loo
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Published: Sun Feb 23 04:50:16 EST 2003
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