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Minister's secretary shot dead
[ BBC ] [ 01:34 GMT, Mar. 28, 2006 ]
Senior Minister Maithreepala Sirisena’s private secretary has been shot dead in the boder village of Manampitiya in Polonnaruwa district. GD Dharmasiri has been returning home late night after attending local government election meetings with the General Secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Minister Sirisena. Police say that Dharmasiri who had gunshot wounds to his head was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Polonnaruwa hospital. No more details available at the moment.
Sri Lankan Rebels Say Government Disinterested in Truce Pledges
[ Bloomberg ] [ 02:07 GMT, Mar. 28, 2006 ]
Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said the government is showing ``disinterest'' in pledges made in Geneva last month to support a 2002 cease-fire. ``If parties fail to carry out the commitments made, then one has to question the utility of having another round of talks,'' S.P. Thamilchelvan, the political chief of the Liberation Tigers, said yesterday after meeting members of the international truce monitoring mission, according to TamilNet. Sri Lanka's army and the LTTE have accused each other of escalating attacks since the February meeting in Geneva. The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission said two days ago the violence threatens peace talks scheduled to be held in Swiss city April 19-21.
Sri Lanka woos Muslims to join army
[ AFP ] [ 10:22 GMT, Mar. 28, 2006 ]
Sri Lanka's military has begun recruiting Muslims to protect villages of their community in the island's restive east, the defence ministry said. A spokesman said the recruitment drive was launched in the district of Ampara where there is a heavy concentration of Muslims, the second largest minority here after Tamils. "We are not raising a Muslim regiment," the spokesman said. "The idea is to recruit from among the local community to deploy them in the same area to protect the villages." The Sri Lankan military is overwhelmingly made up of the Sinhalese majority.
In Memory of Maamanithar Joseph Pararajasingam
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 17:02 GMT, Mar. 28, 2006 ]
A “formidable human rights defender” and a humanitarian Joseph Pararajasingam was responsible for the formation of the Red Cross Society in the Batticaloa district and was later a founding member of the NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights. From the time he entered Parliament he helped to uncover alleged human rights violations committed against the Tamils by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces in the NorthEast and in other parts of the country. He was responsible for filing the highest number of petitions of over 2000 of them to the committee appointed by the then government to look into the arrest, torture, and detention of Tamil youths for the period from 1984 to 1987.
[ BBC ] [ 01:34 GMT, Mar. 28, 2006 ]
Senior Minister Maithreepala Sirisena’s private secretary has been shot dead in the boder village of Manampitiya in Polonnaruwa district. GD Dharmasiri has been returning home late night after attending local government election meetings with the General Secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Minister Sirisena. Police say that Dharmasiri who had gunshot wounds to his head was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Polonnaruwa hospital. No more details available at the moment.
Sri Lankan Rebels Say Government Disinterested in Truce Pledges
[ Bloomberg ] [ 02:07 GMT, Mar. 28, 2006 ]
Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said the government is showing ``disinterest'' in pledges made in Geneva last month to support a 2002 cease-fire. ``If parties fail to carry out the commitments made, then one has to question the utility of having another round of talks,'' S.P. Thamilchelvan, the political chief of the Liberation Tigers, said yesterday after meeting members of the international truce monitoring mission, according to TamilNet. Sri Lanka's army and the LTTE have accused each other of escalating attacks since the February meeting in Geneva. The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission said two days ago the violence threatens peace talks scheduled to be held in Swiss city April 19-21.
Sri Lanka woos Muslims to join army
[ AFP ] [ 10:22 GMT, Mar. 28, 2006 ]
Sri Lanka's military has begun recruiting Muslims to protect villages of their community in the island's restive east, the defence ministry said. A spokesman said the recruitment drive was launched in the district of Ampara where there is a heavy concentration of Muslims, the second largest minority here after Tamils. "We are not raising a Muslim regiment," the spokesman said. "The idea is to recruit from among the local community to deploy them in the same area to protect the villages." The Sri Lankan military is overwhelmingly made up of the Sinhalese majority.
In Memory of Maamanithar Joseph Pararajasingam
[ TamilCanadian ] [ 17:02 GMT, Mar. 28, 2006 ]
A “formidable human rights defender” and a humanitarian Joseph Pararajasingam was responsible for the formation of the Red Cross Society in the Batticaloa district and was later a founding member of the NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights. From the time he entered Parliament he helped to uncover alleged human rights violations committed against the Tamils by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces in the NorthEast and in other parts of the country. He was responsible for filing the highest number of petitions of over 2000 of them to the committee appointed by the then government to look into the arrest, torture, and detention of Tamil youths for the period from 1984 to 1987.