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UNP accuses SL Government of Jaffna poll sabotage
[ TamilNet ] [ 19:15 GMT, Nov. 14, 2005 ]
The main opposition United National Party (UNP) Monday charged that the Sri Lanka government is trying to disrupt a just and fair presidential poll in the Jaffna district by sending nearly three hundred Sri Lanka Army (SLA) deserters to the district. Brigadier Sarath Munasinghe, former spokesman for the SLA, addressing a press briefing Monday said that the government has obtained the support of a leading activist of the para military Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) to sabotage the poll in Jaffna district. The main contest for the executive presidency is between Mr.Ranil Wickremasinghe, UNP and Opposition Leader, and the Prime Minister Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse.
Police arrest second suspect in Dearborn Place homicide
[ WRPS ] [ 00:25 GMT, Nov. 15, 2005 ]
Homicide investigators continue to actively investigate the deaths of Soumiyan Nagulasigamany, 19 years, and Chandrasegar Nagulasigamany, 21 years both of Scarborough, Ontario. Early this afternoon, regional police in partnership with the Vancouver City Police Department arrested Edwin Rasanayagam, 19 years of the City of Toronto at a residence in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was arrested without incident. As part of the large scale investigation, police obtained a Canada wide arrest warrant on November 10, 2005 for Edwin Rasanayagam charged with two counts of 2nd Degree Murder and two counts of Attempted Murder in relation to alleged offences in the Dearborn Place incident.
Pro-rebel student group calls on minority Tamils to boycott Sri Lanka election
[ AP ] [ 04:34 GMT, Nov. 15, 2005 ]
A student group with ties to Sri Lanka's feared insurgents called for minority Tamils to boycott Sri Lanka's presidential election, widely seen as a referendum on the country's faltering peace process. Groups linked to the Tamil Tigers have for weeks urged Tamils to stay away from the poll. But the students' announcement Monday was the first call for an outright boycott - and a possible sign of the insurgent's displeasure with the direction of the peace talks. "As far as the Tamil people are concerned, both candidates from the main parties are chauvinists," said a statement from the University Students' Union at the University of Jaffna, in northern Sri Lanka.
Key issues in Sri Lanka's presidential election
[ Hindustan Times ] [ 04:35 GMT, Nov. 15, 2005 ]
In the Sri Lankan presidential election of November 17, political mobilisation is being shaped by a variety of factors and a wide range of issues. These relate to questions of the identity, security, survival and economic development of ethnic and religious groups; Sri Lanka's unity and integrity; the LTTE's attitude; pan-ethnic matters relating to governance and economic development; personal attributes of the two principal candidates; and the effectiveness and credibility of their grassroots level political organisers. The election has brought to the fore issues of ethnic and religious survival. One of the principal candidates, Mahinda Rajapaksa of the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), is directly or indirectly mobilising support on the issue of the identity, progress and survival of the majority community -- the Sinhala Buddhists. They are about 70 per cent of Sri Lanka's population of 20 million.
[ TamilNet ] [ 19:15 GMT, Nov. 14, 2005 ]
The main opposition United National Party (UNP) Monday charged that the Sri Lanka government is trying to disrupt a just and fair presidential poll in the Jaffna district by sending nearly three hundred Sri Lanka Army (SLA) deserters to the district. Brigadier Sarath Munasinghe, former spokesman for the SLA, addressing a press briefing Monday said that the government has obtained the support of a leading activist of the para military Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) to sabotage the poll in Jaffna district. The main contest for the executive presidency is between Mr.Ranil Wickremasinghe, UNP and Opposition Leader, and the Prime Minister Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse.
Police arrest second suspect in Dearborn Place homicide
[ WRPS ] [ 00:25 GMT, Nov. 15, 2005 ]
Homicide investigators continue to actively investigate the deaths of Soumiyan Nagulasigamany, 19 years, and Chandrasegar Nagulasigamany, 21 years both of Scarborough, Ontario. Early this afternoon, regional police in partnership with the Vancouver City Police Department arrested Edwin Rasanayagam, 19 years of the City of Toronto at a residence in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was arrested without incident. As part of the large scale investigation, police obtained a Canada wide arrest warrant on November 10, 2005 for Edwin Rasanayagam charged with two counts of 2nd Degree Murder and two counts of Attempted Murder in relation to alleged offences in the Dearborn Place incident.
Pro-rebel student group calls on minority Tamils to boycott Sri Lanka election
[ AP ] [ 04:34 GMT, Nov. 15, 2005 ]
A student group with ties to Sri Lanka's feared insurgents called for minority Tamils to boycott Sri Lanka's presidential election, widely seen as a referendum on the country's faltering peace process. Groups linked to the Tamil Tigers have for weeks urged Tamils to stay away from the poll. But the students' announcement Monday was the first call for an outright boycott - and a possible sign of the insurgent's displeasure with the direction of the peace talks. "As far as the Tamil people are concerned, both candidates from the main parties are chauvinists," said a statement from the University Students' Union at the University of Jaffna, in northern Sri Lanka.
Key issues in Sri Lanka's presidential election
[ Hindustan Times ] [ 04:35 GMT, Nov. 15, 2005 ]
In the Sri Lankan presidential election of November 17, political mobilisation is being shaped by a variety of factors and a wide range of issues. These relate to questions of the identity, security, survival and economic development of ethnic and religious groups; Sri Lanka's unity and integrity; the LTTE's attitude; pan-ethnic matters relating to governance and economic development; personal attributes of the two principal candidates; and the effectiveness and credibility of their grassroots level political organisers. The election has brought to the fore issues of ethnic and religious survival. One of the principal candidates, Mahinda Rajapaksa of the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), is directly or indirectly mobilising support on the issue of the identity, progress and survival of the majority community -- the Sinhala Buddhists. They are about 70 per cent of Sri Lanka's population of 20 million.