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| Over 20,000 still not resettled |
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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) says 26,721 Internally Displaced People (IDP) have been identified by the Ministry of Resettlement as still requiring resettlement. The vast majority of these IDPs are unable to return to their places of origin because their homestead and agricultural land continues to be used by the Security Forces.
NRC, which formally announced it was moving out of Sri Lanka in June this year, says there are significant humanitarian needs in the North and paramount obstacles for durable solutions for the I
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| Partisan Amnesty International Targets Sri Lanka |
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Reuters reported recently that Amnesty says Sri Lanka represses dissent to consolidate power.The report stated that Amnesty International said that the Sri Lankan government is intensifying a crackdown on critics in order to tighten its grip on power, and urged the Commonwealth countries not to hold a summit there in November. But the Media Minister of the Sri Lankan government Keheliya Rambukwella accused Amnesty International of being in the pay of supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), once known as the most
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| Kachchatheevu is ours says Douglas |
| 2013-05-11 |
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Tamil Nadu has no right to demand Kachchatheevu, for it belongs to Sri Lanka as per an earlier agreement, Sri Lanka’s Traditional Industries and Small Enterprises Development Minister Douglas Devananda has said.
His statement comes in response to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s recent demand that the Centre retrieve a small island ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974.
Last week, the Tamil Nadu Assembly passeda resolution in this regard, in the wake of “continued violent attacks, torture and arrest o
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| Court orders full probe on mass grave |
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The Matale Magistrate today ordered a full investigation on the Matale mass grave and instructed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to submit a comprehensive report to court by the end of this month.
The Magistrate also ordered the CID to record statements from who had claimed that their relatives were believed to have been buried at the site.
The lawyer appearing on behalf of the petitioners, Sunil Watagala, said that the Magistrate had also ordered a DNA test on th
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| Sri Lanka's HRC officials visit detained Muslim politician in hospital |
| 2013-05-11 |
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The Commissioner and officials from Sri Lanka's Human Rights Commission (HRC) have visited the detained leader of the Muslim Tamil National Alliance and former Deputy Mayor of Colombo Azath Salley in hospital.
The group of HRC officials had visited Salley, who is currently under detention, at the Colombo National Hospital.
HRC Commissioner Dr. Prathiba Mahanamahewa has said the Commission was in the process of investigating the complaint lodged by Salley's daughter, Ameena Salley and the Commission would prepa
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| Peace and harmony cannot be established in Sri Lanka by words spoken alone - COSMOS UK |
| 2013-05-11 |
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The Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organizations United Kingdom (COSMOS UK), is the umbrella body of not less than seventeen leading organizations of the overwhelming majority of Sri Lanka Muslims in the UK.
COSMOS UK views with serious concern the arrest and detention of Mr. Azath Salley, former deputy mayor of Colombo, leader of the Muslim Tamil Alliance and National Unity Alliance.
According to media reports and information from other sources reaching us Mr. Salley is arrested and detained under the prevention of t
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| CPA Calls For The Repeal Of The PTA In Its Present Form |
| 2013-05-11 |
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With the recent arrest and detention of opposition politician Azath Salley, Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) has once again come under critical scrutiny. The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and other civil society groups have condemned the use of the PTA to stifle dissent and reiterate this call yet again, urging for its repeal and replacement as set out below.
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| Sakvithi allowed bail with a fine of Rs 5 lahks and two sureties with Rs 50,000/ each |
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The Sakvithi who was in a Rs One billion fraud given bail
Sakvithi Ranasinghe who had played out for more than 3000 persons amounting to Rs one billion who was jailed for a fraud of Rs one billion has been given bail by the Gangadawila Magistrate.
To give him bail he was ordered to pay a sum of Rs 5 lahks as a fine and two sureties for Rs 50 lakhs each. He had been ordered to report to the CID every month.
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| 20 Peradeniya students suspended for ragging |
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Twenty students of the Peradeniya University have been temporarily suspended for a period of 3 weeks over a ragging incident, the Ministry of Higher Education said.
The university’s administration had conducted a disciplinary inquiry regarding the incident while a group of students had protested against it by surrounding the Vice Chancellor’s office.
The suspension comes less than a week after 6 students of the University of Ruhuna were suspended also in connection with a ragging incident.
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| GMOA warns against granting RMPs Rs. 4,000 phone allowance |
| 2013-05-11 |
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The Government Medical Officers’ Association yesterday warned the government against granting the Rs 4,000 telephone allowance sought by the Registered Medical Practitioners.
GMOA media spokesman Dr. Navin de Soysa the association had decided to send a letter of protest to President Mahinda Rajapaksa stating that the RMPs were not eligible for the privileges enjoyed by MBBS qualified doctors.
He said if the government went ahead and granted the RMPs’ demand, the GMOA would be forced to take strong trade
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