News vom 25.09.2005

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JVP, JHU deals stand between Mahinda and minorities
[ Daily Mirror ] [ 01:18 GMT, Sep. 25, 2005 ]

Political events since the commencement of the peace process have amplydemonstrated yet again that the Sri Lankan State neither has the will nor the ability to engage the Tamils in a collaborate effort, whether it is to address the urgent humanitarian needs of the Tamil people or the larger peace process.Instead of negotiating with the LTTE in good faith, the Sri Lankan State continues to undermine the collective will of the Tamil people. This situation places the Tamil people in a state of utter desperation.The Tamil people earnestly desire a peaceful resolution of the Tamil national question in a manner commensurate with the suffering they have long endured, andwhich satisfy their legitimate aspirations in a just and durable manner. The Tamil people earnestly appeal to the international community to use their good offices to ensure such a solution. If the Sri Lankan State continues to be intransigent regarding the resolution of the Tamil national question, the Tamil people will have no other alternative but to urge the international community to explicitly endorse the Tamil people's struggle for self-determination.


Tsunami aid in wrong hands in Sri Lanka: Auditor General
[ PTI ] [ 13:22 GMT, Sep. 25, 2005 ]

Wide spread corruption has been detected in the distribution of foreign and local tsunami aid in Sri Lanka, the country's chief auditor said today. Large scale misappropriation was found in the north-western, southern and eastern regions, Auditor General Sarath Mayadunne said commenting on a report in Sunday Island daily which said that he had blown the whistle on corruption. "Yes, the figures mentioned in the newspaper report are correct," Mayadunne said adding that he will publish his Interim Tsunami Aid Audit Report this week after having presented it to members of parliament last week. He said he could not say what percentage of the aid money had been siphoned off, but believed the numbers were large.


Let's disarm the army... and play rugby
[ Sunday Leader ] [ 14:13 GMT, Sep. 25, 2005 ]

What will you do about Somay wanting to disarm the army darling? I mean to say how impractical. We'll be having out of work Majors General with bayonets up their posteriors swarming the diplomatic missions like flies to honey. And what will the diplomutts in the service do? And the upshot? They will be up in arms. It seems to me dear that the red chaps are trying to achieve through legitimate means what they couldn't achieve in the terror era. You remember the terror era darling? The time when your friends Wee Wee and Somay and their ilk went about smiting everybody on the hip and on the thigh. Not to mention cutting off the heads of many a bloke. Reminded the paradisians of the worst excesses of the French revolution. Anyway if you may recall Somay and his henchmen in 1990 were sending out ultimatums and putting up posters and doing a thorough propaganda job like they are now doing for you.


Policemen in LTTE custody to be released on Tuesday?
[ Sunday Observer ] [ 14:24 GMT, Sep. 25, 2005 ]

The fate of the three Police Officers including a Sub- Inspector of Police and two police constables attached to the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) currently being held by LTTE cadres will be decided when they will be taken before the LTTE courts in Killinochchi on September 27, Police said. Northern Range DIG, Mahinda Baddewela said LTTE Political Wing leader Tamil Chelvan was told that the police had informed the LTTE area leader and the Bishop of Mannar before entering the LTTE held area with two Catholic priests to apprehend the British paedophile Michael Smith hiding in the Wanni jungles. They were detained on the pretext of collecting information on LTTE activity. Meanwhile it was learnt that several Tamil Members of Parliament who met the LTTE hierarchy had explained to them the purpose of the policemen's visit to Silavathurai. It is learnt that the police party were able to video tape the activity of Michael Smith inside the jungle. A compact disc containing the activities of British paedophile Michael Smith is to be handed over to the LTTE shortly.


Canada: Scarborough brothers killed in hit-run - police might treat case as homicide
[ The Toronto Star ] [ 16:37 GMT, Sep. 25, 2005 ]

Police are considering laying homicide charges against the hit-and-run driver who killed two Scarborough brothers on an industrial street near the University of Waterloo.Soumiyan, 19, and Chandrasegar (Chandru) Nagulasigamany, 21, were pronounced dead in hospital after being run down early Friday morning; a 20-year-old Waterloo man who was walking with them has been released from hospital. Autopsy results are expected from the coroner's office in Hamilton tomorrow. A police spokesman said those results could push investigators to treat the case as a homicide rather than an accident.Police said they were called to a disturbance on Dearborn Place at about 1 a.m. on Friday. Heinzel of Waterloo Region police downplayed reports that they might have died as a result of an argument that began at the nearby Revolution Night Club on Marsland Dr.
 
SLHRC calls explanation from SLA

SLHRC calls explanation from SLA
[ BBC ] [ 21:04 GMT, Sep. 25, 2005 ]

National Human Rights Commission in Sri Lanka (SLHRC) has called upon the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) to report within 14 days on restrictions imposed upon the Tamil fishermen in Jaffna. The SLHRC has made this request upon receiving a complaint by the fishermen in Velvetithurai, Jaffna, on the restrictions imposed by the SLA for fishing around High Security Zone (HSZ), Jaffna. SLHRC Jaffna co-ordinator Rohitha Priyadarshana told BBC that the fishermen made a complaint that the SLA is insisting Tamils need to get a special permit before going on fishing in the HSZ waters. According to the SLHRC, the fishermen are prepared to use the national identity card as forms of identification. However, a separate pass for Tamil fishermen is discriminatory, according to Velvetithurai Fishermen's Organisation. The SLHRC co-ordinator said that hindering a livelihood amounts to a human rights violation.
 
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