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Sri Lanka police find five bodies in marsh near capital
Associated Press,
Sat March 3, 2007 04:30 EST .
- - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Sri Lankan police found five bodies in a marsh near the capital, Colombo, a policeman said Saturday. Unexplained killings have increased in Sri Lanka - since early last year, when hostilities resumed between government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas after a Norway-brokered 2002 cease-fire began to falter. The truce now exists only on paper, and about 4,000 people have died since late 2005. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as the Tigers are formally known have fought the government since 1983 to create an independent homeland for the country's ethnic minority Tamils following decades of discrimination by the majority Sinhalese. About 65,000 people were killed before the cease-fire was signed.
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Published: Sat Mar 3 10:24:37 EST 2007
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Sri Lankan housemaid tells of systematic abuse in Saudi Arabia
WSWS,
march 3.
Tens of thousands of Sri Lankans are driven by financial need and poverty to become contract workers in the Middle East. Their conditions are appalling. Many are treated as slave labour and abused, mentally and physically. A number have died in unexplained circumstances. The Sri Lankan government, concerned above all to protect a lucrative source of foreign exchange, has taken no action to defend its citizens.
According to a report by the Information Department in Colombo, 64.5 percent of the 1.5 million Sri Lankans employed abroad are women. In 1986 the proportion was only about a half of it, at 33 percent. Most are employed as housemaids or are involved in other menial forms of work. The World Socialist Web Site recently interviewed one housemaid who described at length the exploitative conditions she was forced to endure.
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Published: Sat Mar 3 20:23:44 EST 2007
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Two Lankan soldiers killed in LTTE attack
indiatimes.com,
3 Mar, 2007 .
COLOMBO: At least two Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and two others injured when Tamil Tiger rebels attacked an army patrol in the island's northeast, military officials said on Saturday.
The rebels attacked the troops at Morawewa on Friday night. The Tigers also carried out a grenade attack against a police post, wounding two constables, the officials said.
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Published: Sat Mar 3 03:38:27 EST 2007
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We have lost a great mathe-
matician, engineer, scientist, an old timer
of SLNet/LAcNet and a former LAcNet director. Pubudu Dayawansa (Daya)
was instrumental in carrying out many LAcNet projects. He was
responsible in setting up "Colombo Calling" a website that was
designed to carry weekly articles from Sri Lankan Academic community
and Human Rights activists. [
