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SRI LANKA: Thousands flee conflict-hit north
Wednesday, 25 March 2009

 COLOMBO (IRIN) - Thousands of civilians escaped fighting in the north over the weekend, according to official sources, as the UN warned of deteriorating conditions for those still trapped in the combat zone.

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Sri Lanka accuses aid groups of supporting war
Tuesday, 24 March 2009

By Scott McDonald  

 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka's military on Tuesday accused "a vicious coalition" of international aid groups of harboring terrorists and seeking to prolong the island's civil war for economic gain. 

The military has come under increasing international criticism as it pushes to end the decades-old war with the Tamil Tiger rebels, who are pinned in a shrinking war zone in the island's northeast.

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Most UN member states against lifeline for Tigers
Tuesday, 24 March 2009

By Easwaran Rutnam  

Most member states at the United Nations are against any move which will give the LTTE a lifeline while it continues to hold civilians as human shields, diplomatic sources at the UN told Daily Mirror yesterday.

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Sri Lanka to host telecom forum in April
Tuesday, 24 March 2009

 Sri Lanka will host an international telecom forum of network standardization in April together with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Union (CTO), Telecommunications Regulatory Commission director General said.

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Why battered Tigers are suing for peace
Tuesday, 24 March 2009

In 2006, a haughty LTTE turned its back on a delegation the government sent to Geneva to have talks with the outfit. A few months later, Prabhakaran resumed war by launching terror attacks on the armed forces personnel and the police and capturing the Mavil Aru anicut. In his heroes' day speech in November 2005, a few days after the installation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Prabhakaran had promised to plunge the country back into a bloodbath. He kept on claiming until a few months ago that he would turn the tables on the military and achieve his goal of separation in spite of a string of crushing defeats.

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Sri Lanka’s Ambassador Jayatilleka chosen as Coordinator of the UNCTAD Asian Group
Friday, 20 March 2009

 The Ambassador / Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka was unanimously chosen as the Coordinator of the Asian Group of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) today, taking over from Indonesia.

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LTTE shoot fleeing ‘Grama Niladhari’
Tuesday, 24 March 2009

Chaminda Perera  

The Grama Niladhari of Oddusudan lost his life when he attempted to enter the cleared area along with his relatives and neighbours after LTTE terrorists started firing at them.

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'Govt. committed to safety of civilians'
Monday, 23 March 2009

 Secretary General, Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process in Sri Lanka and Secretary, Ministry of Human Rights and Disaster Management, Professor Rajiva Wijesinha in an interview with The Sunday Leader attempts to set the record straight in relation to Sri Lanka being accused of war crimes and other violations of human rights. Excerpts:

 

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Sri Lanka is engaged in a legitimate military and humanitarian operation: DSG Kodagoda at the UN
Monday, 23 March 2009

 In a right of Reply exercised by Sri Lanka during the debate under item 4 on Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention at the 10th Session of the Human Rights Council, on 23 April 2009, Mr. Yasantha Kodagoda, Deputy Solicitor-General, Attorney-General’s Department made  the following statement:

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INGOs, NGOs to be allowed access
Monday, 23 March 2009

By Kelum Bandara 

 

 The Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services Ministry is expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NGOs and INGOs to allow them access into welfare camps and villages in Vavuniya and implement humanitarian projects.

At present only UN agencies and the ICRC have been allowed access to these places without restriction.

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Surrender First, Talks Later - LTTE Told
Monday, 23 March 2009

Colombo (Asiantribune.com): Sri Lanka Government flatly rejected an appeal by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for unconditional talks.

Earlier, B. Nadesan, the Political Commissar of the Tamil Tigers called for an urgent ceasefire, saying the Tigers would enter negotiations with the government "without pre-conditions". He has made this appeal in an interview with the Sunday Times published from the United Kingdom.

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Sri Lankan military says 1,200 flee war zone
Monday, 23 March 2009

By Scott Mcdonald, Associated Press Writer

 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Nearly 1,200 civilians have fled fierce fighting in northern Sri Lanka as government troops capture more territory from Tamil Tiger separatists, the military said Sunday. 

About 1,055 of the civilians, including 380 children, reached military-held areas over the last 24 hours near Puthkkudiyirippu, where battles between government troops and the rebels have been raging for weeks, military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara said.

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For the first time in decades, the Tigers may be tamed
Monday, 23 March 2009

By Nirj Deva 

 Three years ago, Sri Lanka elected Mahinda Rajapaksa as president because he pledged to take the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the guerrillas who have been fighting for 25 years to carve out an independent homeland for the country's Tamil minority. Many well-meaning people saw Rajapaksa's promise as warmongering, and, even as Sri Lanka's army has been pressing toward victory, urged him to negotiate with perhaps the world's most fanatical terror organization (the Tamil Tigers, it should be recalled, virtually invented the cult of the modern suicide bomber.)

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British Parliamentarians Promoting Tragedy
Monday, 23 March 2009

I rarely watch television in Sri Lanka, but in the long lonely nights in Geneva, when I am too tired to write yet another critique of some silly assault on the Sri Lankan state, I find myself looking for English language programmes. Recently I have been struck by the number of British television dramas dealing with terrorism. Many of them feature police teams fighting for decency as well as the British way of life, sometimes battling politicians who are engaged in all sorts of wicked deals.

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Tamil Tigers 'finished', says former leader
Sunday, 22 March 2009

 • Rebels in Sri Lanka said to have lost 90% of fighters  

• Aid agencies fear for fate of civilians in north-east 

Randeep Ramesh in Colombo

  
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a rebel army that has fought a 25-year civil war against the Sri Lankan state, is "finished", having lost more than 90% of its fighters, the group's former military commander said yesterday.
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Terrorists versus Civilians
Sunday, 22 March 2009

 It seems as though every man and his dog is worried about Sri Lankan civilians. Opening a newspaper without running into a statement expressing concern at their fate is almost impossible now, and not only in this country. Our civilians are on the minds of the entire world community, apparently from Great Danes to Yorkshire Terriers, and words of concern just keep flooding out of their mouths.

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Jonathan Kay: A response to my (many, many) Tamil-Canadian critics …
Friday, 20 March 2009

by Jonathan Kay

  

Jonathan Kay

 

 Yesterday, I put up a blog post (subsequently re-purposed into an editorial) denouncing the pro-Tamil-Tiger protestors who were part of the demonstration that paralyzed downtown Toronto on Monday.

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UN clarifies controversial Geneva statement
Friday, 20 March 2009

 The UN Headquarters on Wednesday (18) asserted that it did not have the exact information to be able to reach even an estimation of civilian casualties, when questioned about the controversy over the casualty figure in Sri Lanka. 

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Civilian cross-overs exceed 47,000: over 5,000 arrive during last six days
Friday, 20 March 2009
Ananda Wedaarachchi  

 The number of civilians who crossed over to Government controlled area was 47,241 up to date, Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said.

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Sri Lanka to take note of Holmes’ views - Kohona says diplomats satisfied with camps
Friday, 20 March 2009

By Sunil Jayasiri and Sandun A Jayasekera

 The government yesterday said it had taken note of the recommendations put forward by the United Nations Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs, Sir John Holmes, on his recent visit to the island recently.

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