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| Executed Sri Lankan maid's mother refuses Saudi money |
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The mother of a Sri Lankan maid beheaded in Saudi Arabia for murder has rejected offers of cash from Saudi well-wishers following an outcry over the execution, a local newspaper said Friday.
"I will not accept any gifts from the Saudis or the Saudi government which murdered my daughter," Rizana Nafeek's mother, Saiyadu Farina, told the Lankadeepa newspaper according to an excerpt of an interview on its website Friday.
Sri Lankan newspapers say she has received cash offers exceeding two million rupees (
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| Interim injunction issued against Shan Wickramasinghe |
| 2013-01-19 |
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The Colombo District Court today issued an interim injunction against TNL and Shan Wickremasinghe preventing them from publishing any defamatory article on Dilith Jayaweera.
An enjoining order was initially issued on November 16, 2011 preventing TNL TV and Isira Radio, and its chairman Shan Wickremasinghe from causing any defamatory publications against Dilith Jayaweera.
It was given consequent to an action instituted by Dilith Jayaweera at the District Court of Colombo.
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| No mercy for traffic law breaking police officers |
| 2013-01-19 |
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Police Chief N.K. Ilangakone in a directive issued to all senior Police officers, ordered that all Police officers who break traffic law be dealt with prevailing laws.
A senior police officer from the police headquarters said the step had been taken after publication of photographs of offending Police officers in uniform.
“Media reports attached with six photographs were sent to the awareness of the officers along with the order,” he said.
“Engaging in conversations via mobile phones, absence of
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| Hasitha Madawala assassination suspects remanded till Jan. 31 |
| 2013-01-19 |
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People with posters and placards, demanding justice, gathered near the Mahara Magistrate’s Court yesterday as the suspects in the Hasith Madawala assassination case were produced there. Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha chairman, Prasanna Ranaweera, who was among the protesters, alleged that Mervyn Silva’s stooges killed Hasitha Madawala, a member of the Kelaniya PS.
He claimed that the suspects had been plotting to kill persons who sided with him (Ranaweera).
The first victim was Hasitha Madawala, wh
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| Bloody ivory for temples; Lanka violates international conventions |
| 2013-01-19 |
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Sri Lanka will suffer a major loss of face in the eyes of the international community if the “blood ivory” from Kenya confiscated by the Customs last year is released to Buddhist temples including the Dalada Maligawa through the Presidential Secretariat, conservationists warned this week.�
Condemning reported instructions by the Presidential Secretariat in a letter to the Customs that the 359 elephant tusks be handed over to it to be donated to temples, conservationists questioned whether the authorities were ign
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| Bodu Bala Senā and Buddhism’s militant face in Sri Lanka |
| 2013-01-19 |
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One of the first things I had to do in the new year was to firmly remind my (Lankan) Facebook friends to avoid posting or tagging me to any anti-Muslim rhetoric that is growing in an organized manner. A systemic and sequential anti-Muslim campaign is taking place in many parts of the island (as we observe now) largely mobilized by a Saṅgha led lay organization called Bodu Bala Senā – BBS (or Forces of Buddhist Power). While we are unaware of the legal status, finding sources and possible powerful political backing,
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| Nine refugees in hunger strike in TN, arrested |
| 2013-01-19 |
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Police arrested nine Lankan Tamil refugees at the Chenkalpattu Government Hospital in Tamil Nadu yesterday, on charges of attempting to commit suicide.
The nine Lankan Tamil refugees were admitted to the hospital, as their condition had deteriorated, following the hunger strike they had staged demanding that they be released from the special detention centres that had been set up to interrogate them on their involvement in militant activities.
The refugees denying any involvement in militant activities
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| Mervyn’s ‘fate’ to be decided by SLFP CC |
| 2013-01-19 |
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United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) general secretary Susil Premajayantha said yesterday that Minister Mervyn Silva’s role in Kelaniya will be decided at a Central Committee meeting of the SLFP.
He said this when journalists asked whether Silva will be arrested and if someone else will be appointed to the post of organizer for Kelaniya, vacated by Silva following Hasitha Madawala’s murder.
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| SB to award schols to Rizana’s sisters |
| 2013-01-19 |
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Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake has expressed willingness to award scholarships to the two younger sisters of Rizana Nafeek, who was executed in Saudi Arabia recently.
This was disclosed at the general meeting of the Kandy Municipal Council, on Wednesday 16 afternoon, by the former mayor and present council member Raja Pushpakumara, who said he had contacted the Higher Education Minister.
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| A Radical And Innovative Asian Theologian Passes Away |
| 2013-01-19 |
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A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission
ASIA: A radical and innovative Asian theologian passes away
Fr. Tissa Balasuriya OMI, a Sri Lankan Catholic priest who once came to the attention of the world due to his excommunication by Rome which was later lifted, passed away yesterday in Colombo. He had been unwell for some time and was 89 years of age at the time of his death.
He was a trained economist and was ordained as a priest in 1953. He worked in many capacities such as the rector of the Aquinas Universit
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