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British charity finds misuse of funds
Gulf News,
February 13.
Colombo: Britain's Charity Commission the state body monitoring charities has expressed concern that the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) had consulted the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in determining allocations of funds.
The Charity Commission spokesperson Sarah Jones said investigations had revealed that the TRO in Sri Lanka might have liaised with the LTTE in allocating funds.
She said the commission had made its finding after some of its accountants probed the work of the TRO in Sri Lanka and in Britain, tracing specific transactions, The Sunday Times in Colombo reported.
A report on the findings states that in September 2000, the commission received complaints that the TRO in Britain was supporting terrorist activity by transferring funds to Sri Lanka in support of the LTTE, which is proscribed in Britain under its Terrorism Act of 2000.
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Published: Sun Feb 12 21:26:51 EST 2006
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Foreign advisors may jeopardise Lanka s negotiating position
newkerala.com,
February 12, 2006, 10:25EDT.
Colombo: US experts hired by Sri Lanka to advise its peace delegates are "too liberal" and "too pro-Tigers" that it could jeopardise the island nation's negotiating position during upcoming talks with the rebels, a state-run newspaper said today.
"Two Harvard specialists who were coaching the Sri Lankan peace team could place the country's position in danger of falling into the hands of Tigers even before talks open on February 22," the Sunday Observer reported.
The government had brought down experts from the Harvard Negotiation Project, a US think tank, to help the
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Published: Sun Feb 12 10:26:14 EST 2006
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Amnesty seeks end to jungle law in Sri Lankan east
NewKerala,
February 12.
By M.R. Narayan Swamy, New Delhi: Amnesty International has sought an effective human rights mechanism to end rampant lawlessness in eastern Sri Lanka for which it has blamed both the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and its breakaway Karuna faction.
In a sweeping indictment of armed Tamil groups as well as Sri Lankan authorities, the rights body has documented widespread human rights abuses that have sparked a climate of fear and insecurity in the districts of Batticaloa, Amparai and Trincomalee.
In a report released early this month, Amnesty said although the 2002 ceasefire pact between Colombo and the Tamil Tigers had been violated right from the start, "since February 2005 they (violations) have escalated in number and are now taking place on an unprecedented scale".
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Published: Sun Feb 12 14:14:52 EST 2006
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