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Sri Lanka: 2 Tamil labourers abducted in Colombo

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Two Tamil labourers working in a shop along Galle Road in Dehiwala in Colombo were abducted by a group of persons dressed in police uniform Monday night. The gang arrived in a white van and forcibly took Muthukumar Selvakumar and Palaniyaandi Shanmugarasa from the shop, according to complaints lodged by the owner of the shop with the Dehiwala Police and humanitarian organizations.

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Sri Lanka: 3 Tamil youths arrested in Kandy

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Three Tamil youths were taken into custody by the Kandy Police Monday evening on receipt of information that they had been taking photograph of the Kandy Teaching Hospital. They had been residents of Ampaarai and Kalmunai, police sources said.

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Sri Lanka: Hassan Ali takes oaths as UNP national list parliamentarian

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Hassan Ali, general secretary of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Tuesday morning took oaths as a main opposition, United National Party (UNP) national list parliamentarian before the Speaker, W.J.M.Lokkubandara in the parliament when it resumed its sitting.

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Sri Lanka: Congress-led coalition in India manages victory in confidence vote

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ruling UPA alliance on Tuesday scored victory in the confidence vote in the Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha) in favor of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, enabling the ruling coalition to proceed with the nuclear agreement. The UPA secured 275 votes in 541 seat Lok Sabha, securing four more than the half-way mark.

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Sri Lanka: Congress-led coalition in India secures victory in confidence vote

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ruling UPA alliance on Tuesday scored victory in the confidence vote in the Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha) in favor of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, enabling the ruling coalition to proceed with the nuclear agreement. The UPA secured 275 votes in 541 seat Lok Sabha, securing four more than the half-way mark.

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Sri Lanka: SLA launches large scale cordon, search in Thenmaraadchi

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) launched a large scale cordon and search operation from Tuesday morning till evening covering areas west of A9 Jaffna-Kandy road blocking all the roads leading to the main road, local residents said. Residents were not allowed to leave their homes during the search.

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Sri Lanka: Youth shot dead, 2 injured in SLA shooting in Jaffna

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers opened fire on three youths Tuesday around 1:00 a.m killing one and injuring the other two, along Loaddan Veethi, Maanippaay in Valikaamam, according to the report submitted by Maanippaay police to Mallaakam magistrate court. Police claimed that SLA soldiers on road patrol had opened fire on the youths when the youths tried to run away when ordered to stop. The injured youths are admitted for treatment in Jaffna Teaching Hospital.

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Sri Lanka: 2 civilians shot dead in two separate incidents in Jaffna

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Three unidentified armed men shot and killed Tuesday around 9:00 a.m a trader in front of his shop at Karaveddi in Vadamaraadchi while in a separate shooting two unidentified gun men arriving on a motorcycle shot and killed an employee of a video rental shop in Yoakapuram area in Urumpiraay around 10:30 a.m,.

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Sri Lanka: Looming humanitarian crisis in Vanni

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

45,338 additional persons have been displaced in Mannar, Vavuniyaa, Ki’linochchi, and Mullaitivu districts, due to the shelling and aerial bombardment by th Sri Lanka Security Forces in the last four weeks, adding to the Internally Displaced People (IDP) population of 107,048 in Vanni, said a report released by the Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO). The report warned that the restrictions imposed by the Government of Sri Lanka to humanitarian agencies to attend to the IDP needs have created conditions for an imminent humanitarian crisis in Vanni.

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Sri Lanka: Tamil youth abducted in Kalmunai

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Unidentified armed men arriving in a three-wheeler abducted Friday night a Tamil youth from his house in Kalmunai in Kalmunai police division in Ampaa’rai district, according to the complaint lodged with Kalmunai police by his mother.

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