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Latest 10 TamilNet reports from Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka: 101 complaints of abductions made to SL police in 7 months
Sri Lanka police have received 101 complaints of abductions since January to the end of July in various parts of Sri Lanka and 93 of them are related to ransom demands, SL police spokesman Preshantha Jayakody told media in Colombo.
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Sri Lanka: Fate of teenage students disappeared during war on Vanni remains unknown
At least a thousand of the persons disappeared during Sri Lanka governments war on Vanni are students below the age of eighteen and their families, mostly mothers, have begun a desperate search for their children gone missing after arrest by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) at the end of the war, Education Department sources in Kilinochchi said. Sri Lanka government has failed to disclose the particulars of the teenage students who had either surrendered or been arrested while humanitarian organizations responsible for tracing persons disappeared have no information on them, the sources added.
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Sri Lanka: SLA appropriates uprooted civilians villages in Vanni
Occupying Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Vanni has declared the villages of Mayilvaakanapuram and Kumarasaamipuram in Kilinochchi district not allowed for resettlement as they had been reserved for SLA use, sources in Kilinochchi said. 140 uprooted families of the two villages brought to be resettled two months back after detention in Vavuniyaa SLA camp by Sri Lankan civil authorities have not been allowed to resettle in their properties.
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Sri Lanka: Mano Ganesan condemns Siyatha attack, urges IGP to investigate
Leader of Democratic Peoples Front (DPF) and Convener of Civil Monitoring Commission, Mano Ganesan, has unequivocally condemned the arson attack on the Siyatha Media Network studio in Colombo on Friday morning. In a statement released Friday, Ganesan, while condemning the attack in the strongest of terms, noted that the incident had taken place in the very heart of the city location in close proximity to the major political and military installations of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka: Intestines of nurse killed in Vealanai exhumed, sent to Colombo JMO
The intestines of the family consultant nurse Saravanai Tharsika alleged killed by Sinhala doctor Priyantha Senivaratne in Vealanai hospital, removed after post mortem examination in Jaffna Teaching Hospital and buried in Koddadi cemetery before her body was handed over to her family, were exhumed Friday in the presence of Oorkaavatturai magistrate and Jaffna Judicial Medical Officer (JMO) and sent to Colombo JMO on request, sources in Jaffna said.
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Sri Lanka: Armed men set fire to TV station in Colombo
Twelve armed men clad in black uniforms forcefully entered the private
TV channel Siyatha TV office and assaulted the security guard and set
fire to the station and caused severe damage to the equipment on
Friday at 1.30 am. The station belongs to former Chairman of the Sri Lanka
Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Mr. Priyantha Kariyapperuma. Mr. Kariyapermuma was earlier a close associate of Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa, but he was sacked from his post week before the presidential election by the SL President.
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Sri Lanka: Trial in white flag case against Fonseka to begin on September 27
Editor of the Sunday Leader, Frederica Janz, is one of the twenty
witnesses summoned to give evidence before the Sri Lankan High Court Trial-At-Bar
which is to begin on September 27 into the white flag case against
former commander of the Sri Lanka Army Sarath Fonseka. Major General Shavendra Silva and Sri
Lankas Representative to the UN in Geneva Kshenuka Seneviratne are
among the other witnesses noticed to appear in court on September 27.
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Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka rules against TRC injunction on Shakthi TV
The Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka ruled against the Tele Communication Commission injunction on Shakthi Television, the Tamil channel of MTV (Pvt) of Maharajah Organization, to continue telecast in Jaffna peninsula from 1 January 2010, in favour of a petition filed by Shakthi, sources in Jaffna said. MTV (Pvt) is a leading concern that had been attacked many times in Colombo by supporters of Sri Lanka government and Shakthi TV journalist Shakthi Theva had been beaten to death in Jaffna by unidentified persons. Its telecast tower in Jaffna Veerasingam Hall had been smashed by unknown persons in the past, the sources added.
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Sri Lanka: Development crimes, Norway and Tamil diaspora
While the West is hoodwinking Tamils with war crimes investigations, what takes place in the island in full swing with the abetment of those who abetted the war are development crimes, demographic crimes and cultural crimes to complete genocide. The balance tilted by the international community has now placed Eezham Tamils to face several armies: an occupying army, settlement army, a retrogressive cultural army and the development army. Meanwhile, some Tamil individuals argue that diaspora should stop prioritising politics, but should reconcile to subordination and engage in rehabilitation, without realising that it is they who have imperceptibly fallen into a vicious political agenda of the oppressors, commented a social activist responding to development circles in Norway advocating the diaspora to engage in development accepting a questionable Sinhala NGO as the monitor.
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Sri Lanka: Malwatte Chapter Chief Incumbent visits newly erected Buddhist temples in Vanni
The Chief Incumbent of Malwatte Chapter, Most Venerable Thippaduwaave Sri Sumangala thera, accompanied by Buddhist priests visited Vanni Wednesday where he worshiped in the Buddhist temples newly erected by occupying Sri Lanka Army (SLA), sources in Vanni said. Thursday, the Chief Incumbent participated in an event in Nelliyadi Maththiya Makaa Viththiyaalayam in Vadamaraadchi and distributed learning materials to the children of war affected areas of Vadamaraadchi and Thenmaraadchi. This visit is counted as the first by a Chief Incumbent of Malwatte Chapter to Jaffna after many years, sources in Jaffna said.
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