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LTTE warns rivals political group
Dawn,
COLOMBO, April 1.
The Tamil Tigers (LTTE) has reacted strongly to the statement of the President of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), Mr Anandasangari, that he would contest the forthcoming local government elections independently. The LTTE issued a 'final' warning to the TULF president, to resign from his post. An understanding signed by the LTTE and the other political parties allows all political campaigning to tilt in LTTE's favour.
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Published: Tue Apr 1 23:25:13 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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S.Lanka rebels deny attack on navy ship -monitors
Reuters,
April 1.
Tamil Tiger rebels havedisavowed an attack on a Sri Lankan navy ship that left atleast two soldiers injured in the latest clash to mar effortsto end 19 years of civil war, truce monitors said on Tuesday.Nordic monitors who oversee a truce signed in February 2002said Soosai, the naval head of the Liberation Tigers of TamilEelam, told them the rebels were not involved in Monday'sattack, in which small arms fire from a fishing boat targeted aship ferrying troops.
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Published: Tue Apr 1 10:52:12 EST 2003
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Deva slams the Monitors
Bandula Jayasekara in Colombo,
SLT 6.00 p.m Tuesday 1 April.
EPDP leader Douglas Devananda slammed the Sri Lanka Monitoring Missions
handling of the incident in connection with the attack on the Chinese
trawler recently. In a hard-hitting letter to the head of SLMM Maj Gen
Trygve Telefsen, the EPDP leader says that the SLMM is handicapped without
access to LTTE controlled areas and that SLMM has no access to the ports
controlled by the LTTE. Devananda questions how the SLMM could give an' open
verdict' on the incident without proper access. He accused the Monitors of
indirectly absolving the LTTE of the crime and for suggesting that it could
have been a terrorist act committed by some other armed group belonging to
Sri Lanka. Devananda reminds the monitors that the LTTE is the only armed
group in Sri Lanka today, which could move about with impunity in the seas
of Mullaitivu. The EPDP leader says that a comprehensive inquiry would have
clearly pointed to the LTTE as the perpetrators of this terrorist act. Devananda
says, " The fact that the affected party was not the government of Sri Lanka
does not mean that the issue could be dealt with lightly and swept under the
carpet with an open verdict." Douglas Devananda says that he is alarmed by
the speculative remarks made by the SLMM spokesman to a local TV station
today that other Tamil groups could have been responsible even for the
attack on Lanka Muditha carrying soldiers yesterday. The EPDP leader also
says that the conclusion arrived by the SLMM and the speculative remarks
would further embolden and encourage the LTTE to engage in many more
terrorist acts in the future with impunity.
Published: Tue Apr 1 07:14:03 EST 2003
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