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| Indian MEA wants PM at CHOGM |
| 2013-11-05 |
As pressure mounted from within the Union Council of Ministers seeking that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh skip the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo later this month, the Indian External Affairs Ministry has recommended that he should go, the Hindu newspaper reported.
In view of India’s “paramount security and strategic interests” in and around Sri Lanka, a senior MEA official told The Hindu, India’s national interests dictate that the Prime Minister should repres
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| WikiLeaks: LTTE Stored Weapons At Hospitals – ICRC To US Mission To UN “ |
| 2013-11-05 |
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On the LTTE, de Maio said that it had tried to keep civilians in the middle of a permanent state of violence. It saw the civilian population as a ‘protective asset’ and kept its fighters embedded amongst them. De Maio said that the LTTE commanders, objective was to keep the distinction between civilian and military assets blurred. They would often respond positively when ICRC complained to the LTTE about stationing weapons at a hospital, for example. The LTTE would move the assets away, but as they were constantly shifting these ass
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| Rathupaswala: The river of tears |
| 2013-11-05 |
Thousands of families in the village of Rathupaswala are still facing a major crisis over their basic and life-saving need of drinking water – more than a month after the issue stormed into the national and international headlines following an attack on innocent people by an yet unidentified armed group.
Last Tuesday a group of villagers were given an opportunity to tell their horrifying story on a TV programme, and what came out was a river of tears with conflicts within conflicts, confusion wi
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| Macrae refused Indian visa |
| 2013-11-05 |
The Nobel Prize nominated director of the film No Fire Zone: the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka has expressed concern and surprise over the fact that it appears he is being denied a visa to attend the premiere of his own film in Delhi on November the 7th.
He issued a statement expressing his “deep concern” over the delay in issuing him with a visa, adding: “I know that the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the last few months of the civil war in Sri Lanka are a matter of considera
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| Gota’s Claim On Appointing Retired Army Officers To Civil Service |
| 2013-11-05 |
The Secretary Defence has pointed out that the demand for the replacement of the Governor Chandrasiri was not justified merely because he is a retired Army Officer. He has pointed out that Colin Powell a retired U.S Army General was appointed as the Secretary of State in USA.
A better comparison is perhaps General Douglas Mac Arthur who commanded the Pacific Forces that defeated the Japanese. He was appointed as the Commander of the Military Occupation and carried out extensive reforms of the structure of the Jap
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| Free air travel for foreign scholarship students |
| 2013-11-05 |
In a bid to encourage more foreign student participation, the Higher Education Ministry has decided to offer free return air tickets to foreign students seeking enrolments in local state universities under the 100 scholarship programme, officials said yesterday.
The decision has been taken since only sixty per cent of the opportunities afforded to such students had been utilised so far. The government has taken a policy decision to offer scholarships to 100 students from different countries to follow various unde
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| CHR statement on expulsion of IFJ members |
| 2013-10-31 |
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Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and Centre for Human Rights and Research (CHR) Sri Lanka are deeply concerned about the expulsion of International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia Pacific Director Jacqui Park and another representative who were conducting a workshop organized by the Free Media Movement (FMM.)
Sri Lankan Immigration Department claims that they were asked to leave the country for conducting a media workshop while arriving in Sri Lanka on tourist visas. Meanwhile FMM states that the two IFJ
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| TNA to submit HR report to British PM |
| 2013-10-31 |
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is expected to submit a detailed report on the human rights situation in the North and East and on the Alliance's stance with regard to the Tamil issue, during the TNA's meeting with British Prime Minister, David Cameron, who is expected to visit Jaffna during his visit to Colombo next month.
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| UK TO BE PUT ON NOTICE ON STUDENT MURDER |
| 2013-10-31 |
The External Affairs Ministry yesterday called for a comprehensive report on the killing of a Sri Lankan Student in Yorkshire, England.
The Ministry has informed the Sri Lankan mission in London to look into every detail with regard to the murder and the steps taken by the British Government to investigate it.
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| Congress Core Group discusses CHOGM, seeks all-party meet on Telangana |
| 2013-10-31 |
The Congress Core Group discussed at length on Wednesday whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) next month in Colombo: union foreign minister Salman Khurshid and National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon were called in to brief the members of the Core Group on the issue.
This comes against the backdrop of a resolution passed recently by the Tamil Nadu government in the state assembly, demanding that India “completely boycott” the CHO
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