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Britain probing visa racket in Lanka, suspends official
Press Trust of India,
Colombo,Sunday, March 30, 2003.
British High Commission here has suspended one of its officials for his alleged involvement in a visa racket in Sri Lanka, even as a police team from London began probing the case, press reports said here today.
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Published: Sun Mar 30 15:32:17 EST 2003
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ASK LAKSHMAN!
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A Q&A with Sri Lanka's Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
ANSWERS 1-9 NOW AVAILABLE.
We are pleased to introduce Mr. Lakshman Kadiragamar, former Foreign
Minister of Sri Lanka, as the 11th guest in our series of Q&A
sessions. Presidents Counsel and Member of Parliament, Mr. Kadiragamar
is currently the special adviser on Foreign Affairs to the President
of Sri Lanka. Send in your questions to Mr. Kadiragamar and receive
his answers here.
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IT'S NOT CRICKET, STUPID, IT'S COMPUTERS, LOVELY COMPUTERS
Fulbright Scholar Brings Computers to Urban Disadvantaged Children in
Colombo, Sri Lanka.
By Chulie de Silva, Colombo.
You would think on a warm Saturday morning, children in Sri Lanka
would be watching a cricket match and cheering on their heroes. No,
not in Kew Road, Slave Island, a multi-ethnic enclave just five
minutes away from the exclusive Trans Asia Hotel in Colombo's central
down town area. The cricket match played on at the Malay Cricket Club,
on Saturday 25, January but thirty children were flocked round five
computers in a little rectangular room of the Vocational Training
Center (VTC) run by the Sri Lanka Malay Association's (SLMA) Rupee
Fund. [More...]
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Vaiko's speech an act of terrorism: Centre
The Hindu,
MARCH 29..
The Central Government has submitted in the Supreme Court that the MDMK leader, Vaiko's speech made at a public meeting, near Madurai, in June last constituted an act of terrorism under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).In its counter-affidavit to Mr. Vaiko's petition challenging the constitutional validity of POTA, the Centre said, "the petitioner has been drawing support for LTTE, a banned terrorist organisation" which was responsible for the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi. And "the words flowing from the petitioner constitute an act of terrorism" under POTA.
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Published: Sat Mar 29 21:49:08 EST 2003
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European Monitors Probe Sri Lanka Attack
Associated Press,
Fri March 28, 2003 21:01 EST .
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) European peace monitors in Sri Lanka - said Friday there was no conclusive evidence to show that separatist rebels were behind an attack on a Chinese fishing boat that killed 17 people. ``This is a serious crime and a terrorist act ... (but) there is no verifiable information to conclude that either the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam or the Sri Lanka - navy were responsible for the attack,'' said Hagrup Haukland, deputy head of the Norwegian-led peace monitors. ``If both parties are not responsible then obviously there is a third armed element operating in the area who needs to be hunted down, disarmed and charged,'' Haukland said. He did not elaborate. Pirates are not known to operate in the area. The European mission, which is monitoring a cease-fire between the government and rebels, handed over its inquiry to both sides Friday. The government is conducting a separate investigation. The government and the rebels signed a truce on Feb. 22 last year, ending 19 years of fighting that has killed nearly 65,000 people. Both sides are set to meet on April 24 to discuss how to avoid sea battles that have posed the greatest threats to the peace process.
Published: Sat Mar 29 08:59:40 EST 2003
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