A youth was shot dead after being assaulted by unidentified persons at Pandaariku’lam in Vavuniya police division Wednesday night. His body was recovered Thursday morning close to the Maadasamy Temple in Pandaariku’lam village along the bund road with gun shot injuries and assault wounds.
Sri Lanka: Youth assaulted, then shot dead in Vavuniyaa
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments
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Sri Lanka: A youth assaulted, shot dead in Vavuniyaa
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments
A youth was shot dead after being assaulted by unidentified persons at Pandaariku’lam in Vavuniya police division Wednesday night. His body was recovered Thursday morning close to the Maadasamy Temple in Pandaariku’lam village along the bund road with gun shot injuries and assault wounds.
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Sri Lanka: Indian Prime Minister to meet TNA leaders
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh arrived at Katunayake International airport at 12:45 p.m, Friday to attend the 15th SAARC conference. He was received by Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake and given a red carpet welcome. Later he was escorted
by the Indian special guard forces to the helipad and flown to Colombo in an Indian helicopter.
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Sri Lanka: Tamil student abducted, in Kalmunai
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Unidentified armed men arriving in a white van Wednesday around 10:00 p.m at the house of a sixteen-year-old student in Kalmunai police division in Ampaa?rai district, abducted him, according to the complaint made by his mother to Kalmunai police.
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Sri Lanka: Armed men demand abductee handed over to them, in Batticaloa
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Unidentified armed men had abducted a 15-year-old boy on 20 July 2007 after the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) offensive in Vaakarai and had released him on 18.04.2008. The boy, abducted again on 24 June 2008, was shot at on 21 July 2008 and admitted to Batticaloa Teaching Hospital with gunshot injuries on the same day, according to complaints made to Vaakarai, Vaazhaichcheanai police stations and Batticaloa Human Rights Commission (HRC).
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Sri Lanka: Armed men abduct 5 civilians, release 4, in Ea?ravoor
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Armed men clad in military uniform, arriving in a white van, abducted five men Thursday around 8:15 p.m at Third Kurichchi area in Ea?raavoor police division in Batticaloa district, according to complaints lodged with the police by the relatives. Four of them were released after being interrogated in the Kalladi office of the paramilitary-cum-political party, Thamil Makkal Viduthali Pulikal (TMVP).
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Sri Lanka: Extortion threats to Tamil businessmen on rise in Colombo
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Extortion threats to Tamil businessmen in Colombo and its suburbs by intimidation through phone calls have been stepped up during the recent weeks, Sri Lankan Deputy Minister and Parliamentarian of the Upcountry Peoples’ Front (UPF) P. Rathakrishanan, has complained in a letter to Inspector General of Police (IGP), Jayantha Wickremasinghe, citing numerous complaints made to him and the police. The threats are being issued with visible caller ID at a time when Sri Lankan Defence ministry has implemented stringent measures on telephone usage.
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Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa ‘pardons’ Arumugam Thondaman
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa has pardoned Minister Arumugam Thondaman, from the suspended jail sentence and fine imposed by Nuwara Eliya Magistrate Tuesday for the contempt of court. The Nuwara Eliya Magistrate sentenced Thondaman Arumugam with two others on Tuesday morning and the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa pardoned only Mr. Thondaman on Tuesday evening, media sources said.
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Sri Lanka: Supreme Court orders holds detention more than 90 days illegal
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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court, in a ruling on Fundamental Rights violation petition, held Wednesday that Sri Lanka Police violated the law by keeping an arrested person in custody for more than ninety days, and ordered the police to transfer the suspect immediately to remand prison. Three member bench of the Supreme Court made the order at the conclusion of the preliminary inquiry in the FR violation filed by Counsel Gowrisankari Thavarajah on behalf of Thiyagarajah Mohanaruban, a resident of Wellawatte, legal sources said.
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