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The State Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), D. Pandian, on Monday wrote a letter urging the Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to act swiftly to end the war in Sri Lanka. Noting that the LTTE has responded positively for the public call from the CPI to spell out their stand in unambiguous terms to the call for ceasefire, Mr. Pandian said urged Manmohan Singh to use his good offices to impress upon Mr. Rajapaksa to stop the war and agree for a ceasefire. Meanwhile, reports in Colombo said Mr. Rajapaksa has left Colombo to attend the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit, to be held in New Delhi.

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Deep Penetration Unit (DPU) infiltrators triggered a Claymore mine in Nedungkea’ni, northeast of Vavuniyaa, inside Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) held area in Vanni, killing a father of one Monday morning, initial reports said.

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Powers devolved under the 13th amendment to provincial council are being taken away by the central government by issuing gazette notifications and circulars. The provincial council has no power to transfer even a police constable, lamented Mr.M.L.A.M.Hisbullah, a Minister in the Eastern Provincial Council in an exclusive interview to the weekly edition of the leading Tamil daily Virakesari published from Colombo.

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The husband of the woman shot and killed Sunday in Nalloor identified her body as belonging to his wife, Srirangan Sumathi, 27, a mother of two children in Jaffna Teaching Hospital, sources in Jaffna said. Sumathi had been abducted by unknown armed men who had taken her to a deserted place along Naayanmaarkaddu Veethi where they shot and killed her, sources in Jaffna said.

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A 27-year-old male from Palaali Road, Kantharmadam, Jaffna sought
protection with Human Rights Commission (HRC) Jaffna Monday.

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Sri Lanka’s government rejected a ceasefire with the LTTE on Monday, again demanding the Tigers surrender or be destroyed. “The government will not go for a ceasefire with the LTTE. We will not have any form of discussion with the LTTE. We have already told them to lay down arms and there is no change in our stand,” Agriculture Minister Maithripala Sirisena told Parliament, Reuters reported.

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Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) Ampaa’rai command has claimed that 2 Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) commandos were killed in a mine attack in Kagnchikudichchaa’ru jungle Monday noon.

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Two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers, who were on a road patrol on Panku’lam main road in Trincomalee district, were killed when a Tiger ambush unit attacked them at 6:10 a.m. on Saturday, according to a media release from the LTTE in Trincomalee.

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