Sri Lanka’s ongoing conflict, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives, has seen an increasing number of civilian disappearances. The government and the Tamil Tigers blame each other.
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Liberation Tigers Military Spokesman, on Sunday, said the Tiger forces have reconsolidated four Forward Defence Line (FDL) localities surrounding the Kudumpimalai area after 36 hours of heavy fighting with the Sri Lankan forces in which the Tigers lost 10 fighters at the forward positions in Palaamadu and Maavadi Oadai. Meanwhile the Sri Lanka Army has […]

Source: Reuters COLOMBO, June 10 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s government said on Sunday it regretted evicting of hundreds of minority ethnic Tamils from the capital this week on security grounds and promised it would not …
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The deteriorating human rights situation in Sri Lanka is fuelling support for a long-pending European Union (EU) resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council, a British government note to UK members of the EU parliament says. The briefing came as the EU last week issued the most strident international condemnation of the […]

Sri Lanka’s government plans to recruit 50,000 more soldiers, the Sunday Leader newspaper said this week. The paper quoted Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse telling a cabinet meeting on Wednesday June 6 that unnecessary government expenditure has to be avoided to fund the expansion of the Army.
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Japan has no immediate plans to follow the lead of several other donor countries and freeze aid to Sri Lanka, the country’s Special Peace Envoy Yasushi Akashi was quoted as saying at the end of his four-day visit to the island Saturday. The envoy said whilst he had been depressed when he arrived Tuesday, he […]

Chief Government Whip Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle yesterday told Parliament that the UNP was atte..
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Japan`s peace envoy Yasushi Akashi yesterday told a Colombo news conference that the LTTE had no sig..
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Dialog will increase its aggressive focus in expanding its services to reach every Sri Lankan citize..
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