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Sri Lankans face murder trial after tsunami robbery
[ Reuters ] [ 11:37 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
Two Sri Lankan men accused of grabbing a gold chain from a woman caught in the 2004 tsunami before letting her be swept to her death will be put on trial for murder, officials said on Friday. Police said the two men had been in prison since January 13 last year on charges of theft, and would appear in court later this month. Solicitor General C.R. de Silva decided to charge them with murder after watching a video of the incident.The video, widely shown in Sri Lanka after the disaster, shows Mapalagamage Ruwan and Ajith Kumara standing on the roof of the bus station in Galle, where hundreds drowned, as flood waters sweep through. They appear to pull 23-year-old Dineti Deshika from the water, grab a golden necklace and then let her fall back into the raging torrent. Her body was found when the waters receded.
A Temporary Reprieve
[ Outlook ] [ 12:31 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
When the new Mahinda Rajapakse government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam agreed to hold another round of talks in Geneva between April 19 and 21, there was a collective sigh of relief, but how long will this troubled peace last? Nineteen million Sri Lankans heaved a collective sigh of relief when the new Mahinda Rajapakse government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam agreed to hold another round of talks in Geneva between April 19 and 21, at their meeting at the same location after a three-year hiatus. Despite a four-year ceasefire, (it was signed on February 22, 2002, four years to the day when last week’s talks commenced), talks have been stalled since April 2003, when the Tigers pulled out after being shut out at a donors’ meeting in the US.
Japan advises Sri Lanka protagonists to 'be more practical'
[ Kyodo ] [ 12:32 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
Japanese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Akio Suda urged the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels to take a more practical approach to the ongoing peace process "rather than tirelessly arguing on a formula or conditions." Suda, speaking at a news conference Thursday at his residence, also warned that Sri Lanka should not take hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid for granted and made clear that future assistance will depend on the government tackling policy inconsistencies and reform delays. Japan is by far Sri Lanka's single biggest aid provider and has been so for many years. "Development and peace building have to go hand in hand, and the Japanese government remains most willing to support both," Suda said, according to reports in local newspaper that front-paged the story.
SLA tightens its noose on Jaffna students
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 12:33 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
Directors of the five education zones in Jaffna as well as other senior education officers in Jaffna were called for a special meeting with the SLAFs chief of Jaffna Maj Gen Chandrasri at the Palaly military camp. At this meeting Chandrasri instructed the Directors and other officers that students must not be permitted to take part in protest marches demanding Tamil rights. He told the meeting that students must be involved in their education and not in protests. A group of students from Chavakachcheri Hindu College in Jaffna who were returning from an education tour to Kilinochchi were harassed by the SLA at the Muhamalai checkpoint.
Sri Lankan truce monitors probe rebel claim of government arrests
[ AP ] [ 14:11 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
European cease-fire monitors said Friday that they are investigating a complaint by separatist Tamil rebels that five of their members were arrested by the Sri Lankan government in violation of a cease-fire agreement. "We have received a complaint and we are now investigating," said Hagrup Haukland, who heads the 60-member mission, without elaborating. The Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam said they have submitted fresh evidence to the monitors to confirm that five members, who went missing Feb. 25, were arrested by Sri Lankan soldiers. "Our organization has lodged a fresh complaint based on evidence through eyewitnesses," rebel official S. Elilan was quoted as saying in the pro-rebel Web site TamilNet.
President Mahinda Rajapakse Is Wrong
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 14:31 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
Mahinda Rajapakse is wrong when he says a UK style regime of extensive devolution is the maximum he is prepared to concede to the Thamils and nothing more – this under his so called “maximum devolution under a unitary state” concept. It’s a great pity that Mahinda Rajapakse is living in another world far away from reality. How could anyone negotiate with a man who has only a tenuous connection to reason? It is becoming more and more evident that there is a yawning and ever widening gap between the day-dreamer that is Mahinda Rajapakse and his “followers” and the Thamil demand rightly defined by the LTTE as a political settlement that’s guided by three cardinal principles that of “Homeland, Nationhood and Self-rule”.
[ Reuters ] [ 11:37 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
Two Sri Lankan men accused of grabbing a gold chain from a woman caught in the 2004 tsunami before letting her be swept to her death will be put on trial for murder, officials said on Friday. Police said the two men had been in prison since January 13 last year on charges of theft, and would appear in court later this month. Solicitor General C.R. de Silva decided to charge them with murder after watching a video of the incident.The video, widely shown in Sri Lanka after the disaster, shows Mapalagamage Ruwan and Ajith Kumara standing on the roof of the bus station in Galle, where hundreds drowned, as flood waters sweep through. They appear to pull 23-year-old Dineti Deshika from the water, grab a golden necklace and then let her fall back into the raging torrent. Her body was found when the waters receded.
A Temporary Reprieve
[ Outlook ] [ 12:31 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
When the new Mahinda Rajapakse government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam agreed to hold another round of talks in Geneva between April 19 and 21, there was a collective sigh of relief, but how long will this troubled peace last? Nineteen million Sri Lankans heaved a collective sigh of relief when the new Mahinda Rajapakse government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam agreed to hold another round of talks in Geneva between April 19 and 21, at their meeting at the same location after a three-year hiatus. Despite a four-year ceasefire, (it was signed on February 22, 2002, four years to the day when last week’s talks commenced), talks have been stalled since April 2003, when the Tigers pulled out after being shut out at a donors’ meeting in the US.
Japan advises Sri Lanka protagonists to 'be more practical'
[ Kyodo ] [ 12:32 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
Japanese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Akio Suda urged the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels to take a more practical approach to the ongoing peace process "rather than tirelessly arguing on a formula or conditions." Suda, speaking at a news conference Thursday at his residence, also warned that Sri Lanka should not take hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid for granted and made clear that future assistance will depend on the government tackling policy inconsistencies and reform delays. Japan is by far Sri Lanka's single biggest aid provider and has been so for many years. "Development and peace building have to go hand in hand, and the Japanese government remains most willing to support both," Suda said, according to reports in local newspaper that front-paged the story.
SLA tightens its noose on Jaffna students
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 12:33 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
Directors of the five education zones in Jaffna as well as other senior education officers in Jaffna were called for a special meeting with the SLAFs chief of Jaffna Maj Gen Chandrasri at the Palaly military camp. At this meeting Chandrasri instructed the Directors and other officers that students must not be permitted to take part in protest marches demanding Tamil rights. He told the meeting that students must be involved in their education and not in protests. A group of students from Chavakachcheri Hindu College in Jaffna who were returning from an education tour to Kilinochchi were harassed by the SLA at the Muhamalai checkpoint.
Sri Lankan truce monitors probe rebel claim of government arrests
[ AP ] [ 14:11 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
European cease-fire monitors said Friday that they are investigating a complaint by separatist Tamil rebels that five of their members were arrested by the Sri Lankan government in violation of a cease-fire agreement. "We have received a complaint and we are now investigating," said Hagrup Haukland, who heads the 60-member mission, without elaborating. The Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam said they have submitted fresh evidence to the monitors to confirm that five members, who went missing Feb. 25, were arrested by Sri Lankan soldiers. "Our organization has lodged a fresh complaint based on evidence through eyewitnesses," rebel official S. Elilan was quoted as saying in the pro-rebel Web site TamilNet.
President Mahinda Rajapakse Is Wrong
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 14:31 GMT, Mar. 3, 2006 ]
Mahinda Rajapakse is wrong when he says a UK style regime of extensive devolution is the maximum he is prepared to concede to the Thamils and nothing more – this under his so called “maximum devolution under a unitary state” concept. It’s a great pity that Mahinda Rajapakse is living in another world far away from reality. How could anyone negotiate with a man who has only a tenuous connection to reason? It is becoming more and more evident that there is a yawning and ever widening gap between the day-dreamer that is Mahinda Rajapakse and his “followers” and the Thamil demand rightly defined by the LTTE as a political settlement that’s guided by three cardinal principles that of “Homeland, Nationhood and Self-rule”.