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| SUSPECT SHOT AFTER ASSAULTING POLICEMAN |
| 2012-12-10 |
A person was injured and hospitalized following a shooting carried out by police officers in the Girandurukotte town, after he allegedly assaulted a policeman.
Two officers had attempted to arrest the man for suspicious behavior last night when he attacked one of them with a club.
He was later injured in the shooting and admitted to the Mahiyanganaya Hospital.
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| Army insists Tamil girls not forcibly recruited |
| 2012-12-10 |
The army today insisted that Tamil girls in the north are not being forced to join the army and that those recruited have access to their families.
Army spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya said that that reports to the effect that the Northern Commander had gone from house to house and forcibly recruited girls was false.
“As outlined earlier the recruitment process was a pure voluntary recruitment which was open to all female citizens living in the north who are of that age gr
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| PSC continues with the fake inquiry - AHRC |
| 2012-12-10 |
On 6th December, Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake and her legal team walked away from the PSC inquiry after clearly stating that she had no faith in it. Subsequently, she has written to the Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa through her lawyers and clearly set out that the PSC does not qualify in terms of the constitutional requirements to conduct an inquiry for the removal of a Chief Justice as a genuine tribunal. Such a tribunal must be an impartial judicial body, as her lawyers have clearly said. They have annexed the proposed constitution fro
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| Sri Lanka is descending towards a lawless State - Global Tamil Forum |
| 2012-12-10 |
Global Tamil Forum (GTF) strongly deplores the attack, by members of the Sri Lankan security forces on Jaffna University students staging a peaceful protest, on Wednesday November 28th and calls for the immediate release of four Tamil students subsequently arrested by the Terrorism Investigative Division (TID) on trumped-up charges and remain in custody.
The peaceful protest was staged after Sri Lankan military and police raided the campus and intimidated students who were commemorating Tamil Remembrance Day, the
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| AUSTRALIAN OPPOSITION TO STRIKE NEW DEAL WITH SRI LANKA ON BOATS |
| 2012-12-10 |
Australia’s opposition Immigration spokesman Scott Morrison has vowed to dramatically ramp up regional deterrence measures by striking new bargains with Sri Lanka and Indonesia following Labor’s failure to stop the boats by reintroducing offshore processing.
Mr Morrison also said today that he was unconvinced the permanent facility planned for Nauru would suffice over the long term, particularly once refugee assessments had been conducted.
Acknowledging the problem of boat a
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| 16 SRI LANKAN ASYLUM SEEKERS SENT TO MANUS ISLAND |
| 2012-12-10 |
Seven asylum seeker families have been sent to the makeshift detention centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea by Australian authorities.
The group of 20, made up of 16 Sri Lankans and four Iraqis, is the third batch of asylum seekers sent to PNG.
They left Christmas Island and arrived early on Saturday morning in PNG, escorted by Australian Federal Police, immigration, medical and children’s services staff and interpreters.
The latest transfer brings
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| North or South We Have To Recognize That We Are The Keepers of Our Brothers and Sisters |
| 2012-12-10 |
The recent tensions in Jaffna between university students and security personnel, in which a student protest was baton charged, a journalist assaulted and some students arrested and detained, centres around the freedom to remember the dead; whether loved ones, friends or heroes.
It is reported that the students lit lamps to remember the dead. In this act they participated in a universal rite, practiced by billions over centuries in homes, cemeteries, places of worship and places where death has o
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| Report Of The Committee On A New Chapter On Fundamental Rights |
| 2012-12-10 |
On the eve of International Human Rights Day, Colombo Telegraph is pleased to publish the report of the committee appointed by Mahinda Samarasinha, then Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights, to draft a new Chapter on Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of Sri Lanka. The committee was appointed consequent to a decision of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Human Rights, the implementing arm of the Permanent Standing Committee on Human Rights. The report was presented to the Government in November 2009 but was not published. T
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| Army around Jaffna University withdraws |
| 2012-12-10 |
Military personnel serving at the Jaffna University complex had been withdrawn at a request made during a meeting on Tuesday (4) by the Vice Chancellor (VC) to the Commander, Security Forces Headquarters - Jaffna (SFHQ-J).
A meeting between Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe, Commander, SFHQ-J and representatives of university dons including the VC took place on Tuesday (4) on the recent spate of politically-motivated violence inside and around the university directed against the Police.
Jaffna C
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| Yet another Kahawatte killing – this time it’s a male victim |
| 2012-12-10 |
Two Police teams are investigating the killing of a 33-year-old bachelor in Kotakethana, Kahawatte. Kotakethana, in the Ratnapura disctrict, has been the scene of a series of killings of women, going back to 2008.
The body of Ukwattage Abeya Priyantha was found on the Opatha road at around 11 p.m. on Friday. A Special Investigation Task Force team found bloodstains in an isolated house close to where the body was discovered. It is believed that the victim Priyantha had been killed in the house.
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