Sri Lanka will hold large-scale civilian and military independence day celebrations in the capital next month despite fears of Tamil rebel attacks, officials said.
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COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka will hold large-scale civilian and military independence day celebrations in the capital next month despite fears of Tamil rebel attacks, officials said Sunday.
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COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka will hold large-scale civilian and military independence day celebrations in the capital next month despite fears of Tamil rebel attacks, officials said Sunday.
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J.R. Jayawardena’s Government claimed that the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution passed in August 1987 fulfilled the promises made in the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, to ‘devolve power’ on the Tamil people. Liberation Tigers dismissed the legislation outright, and said it allowed “perpetuation of the domination, oppression and exploitation of the Tamil masses by the racist […]

COLOMBO: Britain has called for an urgent ceasefire in Sri Lanka to enable the country to find a negotiated political solution to the ethnic conflict.
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The forward movement by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers Saturday afternoon intending to attack the sentry towers of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam (LTTE) in Mukamaalai area was beaten due to stiff resistance by LTTE fighters, LTTE sources from the Northern Front Line said.
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TENNIS: Mahesha Seneviratne is to lead Sri Lanka’s four-member team for the Federation Cup (Asia/Oceania Group III) to be staged in Bangkok, Thailand from January 28 to February 3. Sri Lanka is competing in this event since 2001.
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Jan 19, Colombo: In the wake of escalating violence in Sri Lanka, the Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a ‘recommendation to Russian citizens to refrain from trips to Sri Lanka’.
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Jan 19, Colombo: Former Squadron Leader of the Sri Lanka Air Force Nishantha Gajanayake, who is the main suspect in incidents of abduction and extortion of Tamils and Muslims, was released along with three other suspects by Colombo Additional Magistrate Ravindra Premaratne yesterday.
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Jan 19, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister, Rathnasiri Wickramanayaka said country’s armed forces had been given full freedom to carryout their duties to wipe out the terrorism from the country, without any interference from politicians.
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