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| News - Monday, 15 March 2010
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| Survey reveals how Tigers threw untrained children into Vanni battle - Sunday, 14 March 2010 A survey conducted by the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation has revealed that several thousands of children were forcibly recruited by the LTTE and thrown into battle in the last two years of the war. Interviews conducted with over 11,000 detainees on a Justice and Law Reforms Ministry directive have indicated that children were deployed on the Vanni front without proper training. read more ...
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| Norochcholai Phase Two begins Thursday - Investment to top US $ 891 m - Sunday, 14 March 2010The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) will commence phase II of the Norochcholai coal power plant next Thursday. The project was estimated to be completed in three phases. But with the encouraging economic atmosphere the CEB is now planning to complete the project in two phases. The total capacity of the Norochcholai coal power plant will be 900 megawatts (MW), a spokesman for the CEB told read more ...
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| Sri Lanka garners support against U.N. probe - Sunday, 14 March 2010UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11, 2010 (IPS) - Sri Lanka, which won a grueling decades-long battle against one of the world’s most ferocious terrorist organizations last May, has scored a diplomatic victory in its ongoing war of words with the United Nations. The largest single political coalition has, in a rare rebuke, lambasted Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his decision to appoint a panel of experts to advise him on "accountability issues" relating to post-conflict Sri Lanka, where the country’s military has been accused of human rights violations and alleged war crimes. read more ...
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| Sri Lankan Tamil party drops separatist demand - Sunday, 14 March 2010 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka's main ethnic Tamil party on Friday dropped its demand for an independent state and said it is ready to accept regional self-rule, following the defeat of separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in a 25-year civil war. The Tamil National Alliance, which backed the rebels, said in its platform for April 8 parliamentary elections that it would accept a "federal structure" in the north and east provinces with power over land, finance, and law and order. The platform was released Friday. read more ...
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| Indian experts in Sri Lanka with Jaipur Foot - Saturday, 13 March 2010Sri Lanka's separatist war finally over, Indian experts are in the island nation to provide the Jaipur Foot, artificial legs known to be cosmetically and functionally close to the human limb. Nineteen skilled technicians of the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), makers of the famous Jaipur Foot, are camping in northern Sri Lanka to give away the artificial limb to about 1,000 amputees for free. read more ...
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| Indian experts in Sri Lanka with Jaipur Foot - Saturday, 13 March 2010Sri Lanka's separatist war finally over, Indian experts are in the island nation to provide the Jaipur Foot, artificial legs known to be cosmetically and functionally close to the human limb. Nineteen skilled technicians of the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), makers of the famous Jaipur Foot, are camping in northern Sri Lanka to give away the artificial limb to about 1,000 amputees for free. read more ...
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| Moragoda says LTTE rehab efforts on track - Move to permit ex-combatants to live with their familie - Saturday, 13 March 2010An internationally backed effort to rehabilitate over 10,000 LTTE cadres in government custody is on track with an ambitious plan to set up special rehabilitation facilities to allow families of the detained to live under one roof. The first such facility is expected to be established in ‘Zone 5’ of Menik farm bordering the Malwattu Oya. The government intends to set up similar facilities in Trincomalee, Jaffna and Batticaloa as part of its overall plan to help ex-LTTE combatants resume civilian life. read more ...
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| Lankan woman honoured by US State Dept. - Friday, 12 March 2010 Jansila Majeed of Puttalam on Wednesday received the 2010 Woman of Courage award from US First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a function held at the US State Department in Washington. The Woman of Courage award is given to women who have shown exceptional courage and leadership in advocating human rights and women’s equality. read more ...
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| ‘Customs duo took money from Prabhakaran to clear lethal cargo’More arrests likely - Thursday, 11 March 2010Two Customs officers now in custody for their alleged involvement with the LTTE have revealed that they got millions of rupees from the LTTE to clear without checks the outfit’s lethal cargo. A high ranking police officer attached to the Terrorist Investigations Department (TID) told The Island, yesterday that those Customs men had secured the support of some lower rankers in the department and the police believe that they shared the spoils at the expense of national security. read more ...
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| India, Sri Lanka sign $67.4 m Line of Credit - Thursday, 11 March 2010India and Sri Lanka on Wednesday signed a Line of Credit agreement for $67.4 million to fund the second phase of upgradation of the Southern Railway Line from Colombo to Matara. A statement by the Indian mission here said that the agreement was signed by P. B. Jayasundera, Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Planning, and Prabhakar Dalal, Executive Director, Export-Import Bank of India, in the presence of Ashok K. Kantha, the High Commissioner of India in Colombo. read more ...
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| Customs officials who worked for Pottu Amman arrested - Wednesday, 10 March 2010The police investigating covert LTTE operations in the city and its suburbs have arrested two Customs officers for their alleged involvement with LTTE intelligence chief Shanmugalingam Sivashankar alias Pottu Amman. Acting on information elicited from an LTTE operative, the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) took them into custody. Government sources told The Island last night that the suspects had met Pottu Amman in the Vanni in 2004 read more ...
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| Sri Lankan Government, USAID, Partners Hand Over New Livelihood Equipment to Former LTTE Combatants - Wednesday, 10 March 2010 The Sri Lanka Country Director of USAID and Sri Lanka's Commissioner General for Rehabilitation today handed over equipment to help over 550 former Tamil Tiger combatants to start new civilian jobs in eastern Sri Lanka. The handover in Batticaloa, which included canoes, pumps, engines and tool kits for rice paddy cultivation and fishing, was part of a USAID-funded IOM pilot project to help reintegrate the demobilized former rebels into civilian life. read more ...
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| Refugee was Tigers `agent' - Tuesday, 9 March 2010A SRI Lankan refugee being held on Christmas Island with her two young children after ASIO declared her to be a security threat worked for the legal system run by the Tamil Tigers. The Australian has learned that the woman, who was rescued by the Customs vessel Oceanic Viking in October, lived and worked in the Vanni district in Sri Lanka's north, which was controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. read more ...
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| Tourism action plan for Eastern Province - Tuesday, 9 March 2010A Tourism Development Action Plan for Eastern Province has been implemented by the Tourism Ministry aiming to boost the tourism sector in the province. This Action Plan has been signed by a three member committee of the Sri Lanka Tourism Board. The Tourism Ministry will take steps to organise 24 projects which are in the Action Plan into operation. read more ...
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| LTTE fund raising in Germany led by cadre trained in Vanni He visited Lanka during CFA - Monday, 8 March 2010Among six LTTE operatives, including three German passport holders arrested in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia last Wednesday (March 3) for extorting money from Tamils living in Europe, particularly Germany, is Vaheesan alias Vijikanendra (34), who had received weapons training in the Vanni during the Norwegian brokered ceasefire agreement between the then UNP-led United National Front (UNF) government and the LTTE. read more ...
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| India assures Sri Lanka support for IDP resettlement - Monday, 8 March 2010 India today assured Sri Lanka of its support in resettling nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians displaced by the civil war in the island-nation and pushed for a political settlement when Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo.Rao met Rajapaksa over lunch at Janadhipathi Manidiraya and congratulated him on his landslide victory in the Jan 26 presidential polls. read more ...
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| - - Friday, 2 October 2009Humanitarian Assistance to IDPs in Sri Lanka from New Zealand read more ...
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| - - Sunday, 5 April 2009Patriotic Sri Lankan expacts pays tribute to valiant troops read more ...
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| - - Friday, 27 March 2009Promoting LTTE Terrorism in New Zealand - SCOOP.CO.NZ read more ...
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| - - Saturday, 14 March 2009Genocide and Cyanide - Both LTTE favourites; True face of LTTE terrorists read more ...
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| - - Saturday, 14 March 2009Tamil Tiger Terrorists Carry Out Suicide Attack At Muslim Religious Festival read more ...
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| SPUR NZ News Letter - Friday, 6 February 2009
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| LTTE Abuses Against Civilians in the Vanni - Friday, 6 February 2009
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| - - Thursday, 5 February 2009LTTE must release the civilians held by them as a human shield read more ...
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| - - Sunday, 28 September 2008Chronology of Suicide Bomb Attacks by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists in Sri Lanka read more ...
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| - - Friday, 15 August 2008E-Petition to Save Sri Lanka from the terrors of a fascist read more ...
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| - - Friday, 9 May 2008A document exposing LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists Prepared by SPUR (NSW) read more ...
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| - - Tuesday, 29 April 2008Appeal for Stronger Sanctions against Tamil Tiger Terrorism read more ...
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| - - Sunday, 27 April 2008“One Million Hits” milestone reached by the SPUR New Zealand web site read more ...
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SPURNZ Media Release - LTTE Terrorists target civilians for slaughter with impunity read more ...
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| - - Tuesday, 8 April 2008SPUR Media Release - Safeguard Democracy in Sri Lanka – Unite to Eliminate LTTE Terrorism. read more ...
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| - - Friday, 4 April 2008SPUR NZ Media Release - Documentary Film "My Daughter the Terrorist " by Norwegian Film maker read more ...
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| - - Thursday, 20 March 2008NZ SPUR - Salutes, Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur C Clarke - The Truly Great Friend of Sri Lanka read more ...
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| - - Wednesday, 27 February 2008Responses to Concerns of International Community on Sri Lanka - Media Release SPUR- New Zealand read more ...
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| - - Sunday, 24 February 2008Chronology of Suicide Bomb Attacks by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists in Sri Lanka read more ...
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| - - Friday, 22 February 2008News Release by NZ SPUR - Tamil Tigers attack a Catholic Church in Mannar read more ...
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| - - Sunday, 17 February 2008SPUR Media Release - Tamil Tigers must be made to pay for desecrating Catholic churches read more ...
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| - - Monday, 4 February 2008SPUR Media Release - LTTE’s path to Democracy – Bus Bomb at Dambulla read more ...
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| - - Sunday, 3 February 2008WAPS letter to Ms Louise Arbour - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights read more ...
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| - - Thursday, 31 January 2008SPUR Media Release - Madu Bomb - Desperate LTTE cause civilian carnage to grab international sympathy read more ...
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| - - Saturday, 26 January 2008SPUR Media Release - Ethnic cleansing of the Sinhalese by Tamil Tigers must be stopped.. read more ...
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| - - Thursday, 17 January 2008SPUR Media Release - LTTE terrorists greet the end of Sri Lanka CFA by slaughtering civilians read more ...
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| - - Tuesday, 15 January 2008SPUR Rejects the Statement made by Nordic Ministers read more ...
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| - - Sunday, 13 January 2008FBI - LTTE is the Most Dangerous Terrorist Outfit in the World read more ...
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| - - Friday, 11 January 2008 Joint Media Release by SPUR in Australia and New Zealand - A Requiem for a Ceasefire Agreement read more ...
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| - - Sunday, 6 January 2008A list of atrocities committed by the LTTE on Tamils, whom the LTTE say have to be "liberated" read more ...
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| - - Saturday, 15 December 2007Whitehall 'whitewashes' LTTE terrorists again - By : Nimal LIYANAGE read more ...
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| - - Sunday, 9 September 2007Military ethics and the responsibility of the soldier read more ...
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| - - Thursday, 23 August 2007The Limits of State Sovereignty: The Responsibility to Protect in the 21st Century - Eighth Neelam Tiruchelvam Memorial Lecture, International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo, 29 July 2007 read more ...
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| - - Wednesday, 11 July 2007Liberal MPs, Dan McTeague & Albina Guaneiri on Sri Lanka. read more ...
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Prabakaran should be held responsible for the deaths of over 70,000 people in Sri Lanka - V.Anandasangaree
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