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Tight security has been imposed in and around parliamentary complex located in Jayawardhanapura. Several roads leading to the parliamentary complex have been banned for traffic Thursday morning for one hour and in the evening when parliament concludes its session for the day. The security measures have been taken as the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is scheduled to table his fourth Budget for the year 2009 in parliament Thursday morning in the capacity of Finance Minister.

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Deep Penetration Unit detonated a Claymore mine targeting a tractor, killing a 49-year-old mother of three, P. Packiyaluxmy, Wednesday morning at 9:10 a.m., according to medical sources in Mullaiththeevu hospital. The woman was killed on the spot and the body was brought to Mullaiththeevu hospital.

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About fifteen Tamil youths were taken into custody in a cordon and search operation conducted by the Sri Lanka Army and Sri Lanka Police in Aluthmawatte (Muhaththuwaram) area in Colombo city from Tuesday morning till evening the same day with the help of masked men. This was the first time in recent days the public witnessed masked men with the SLA and the Police in the search operation.

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A 48-year-old Tamil civilian, who was residing in Wattala in Colombo with his family for the last 20 years, has been reported missing since October 29.

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9 Tamil civilians, most of them permanent residents of North and East, who had been working in business establishments in Gampaha town in the Western Province, were taken into custody by the police and Sri Lanka Army in a dusk to dawn cordon and search operation that concluded Wednesday. Police alleged that the 9 persons had ‘failed to prove satisfactory reason for their stay.’

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Two Tamils from Jaffna, temporarily residing in Puththa’lam, were abducted Tuesday from their houses located along Noor Mosque Road in Puththa’lam by unidentified armed persons, who arrived in white van. They are permanent residents of Maanipaay in Jaffna district, according to complaints lodged with the Puththa’lam police by their relatives.

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The historic victory of Barack Obama in the presidential elections of the United States of America, bestowed on to him by the people of America, heralds a paradigm shift in world affairs. “The new hope is that the International Community will recover from the psychological sickness of the ‘paranoia of terror,’ which will in turn induce recovery of economy, human rights and peace in the world,” said Selvam Adaikkalanathan, Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian from Vanni, welcoming the victory of Mr. Obama.

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The historic victory of Barack Obama in the presidential elections of the United States of America, bestowed on to him by the people of America, heralds a paradigm shift in world affairs. “The new hope is that the International Community will recover from the psychological sickness of the ‘paranoia of terror,’ which will in turn induce recovery of economy, human rights and peace in the world,” said Selvam Adaikkalanathan, Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian from Vanni, welcoming the victory of Mr. Obama.

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Unidentified armed men lying in ambush shot and killed two Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) Karuna faction men riding on a motorcycle along Chiththaa’ndi Murukan Koayil Veethi, Wednesday around 5:00 a.m, in Ea’raavoor police division in Batticaloa district. The killers escaped from the site located 500 m from Murakkoddaancheanai Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camp.

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Ten Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) commandos were killed Tuesday night around 9:15 p.m., when the group of STF personnel were counter-ambushed by an elite commando unit of the Jayanthan brigade of the Tigers, according to Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam Batticaloa Command on Wednesday. The counter-attack took place at Koappaave’li on Badulla Road.

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