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More than 10,000 students, coming from all the states of India marched to the Indian parliament on Friday in New Delhi, pressing educational demands including a 10 percent allotment of state expenditure on education. Political observers find great significance in the highlight of Eezham Tamil issue as a demand in this all India student rally. This is their only demand outside of the purview of education. The agitation took place against a backdrop of Sri Lankan president ruling out the possibility of stopping the war in the island, while on a visit to New Delhi on Wednesday. Even the Indian Prime Minister who received him hasn?t said anything on stopping the war, according to news reports.

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Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), a local-NGO attending to the relief needs of the more than 320,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), including the 90,000 tsunami and previously affected, in Mullaiththeevu and Ki’linochchi districts, said shortage of nearly 40% basic essential food for the IDPs have to be urgently met through local production, while embargo by the Sri Lankan government on building materials have left 60% of the refugees without adequate shelters, in a report issued this week.

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6,749 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) deserters were arrested and 1,500 of them had been sent to prison after court martial. Inquiry is being conducted against the remaining, according to Sri Lankan military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, who held a media briefing on Thursday. 15,000 soldiers have deserted ranks till January this year, according to recent media reports. A period of two-weeks amnesty for deserted soldiers of the SLA to return for duty in battle front expires on Saturday.

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Armed men who came in a white van abducted an ex-member of Kalpiddi Piratheasa Chapai (Pradeshiya Sabah) at Naavatkaadu in Kalpiddi village in Puththa’lam district Wednesday evening around 6:00 p.m., according to complaints lodged by the victim’s relatives with the Police. The victim is J. Clarence, a 45-year-old father of four.

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Three Tamil civilians were arrested in a cordon and search operation conducted by the Sri Lanka Navy and police in areas Ammaathoaddam and Pa’l'livaasal-thu’rai in Kalpiddi village in Puththa’lam district are still detained in the Puththa’lam police station and being subjected to interrogation by the police intelligence unity, civil sources said.

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Armed men who arrived in a white van abducted Tamil youth from his house in Neriyaku’lam in Cheddiku’lam in Vavuniyaa district.

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Two TMVP paramilitary personnel, Madan and Mani of Kiraan, were killed inside the Pankudaave’li camp of the paramilitary in Karadiyanaa’ru in Batticaloa Thursday night around 8:30 p.m., Police said. Seven paramilitary personnel were reported missing with weapons, according to the Police.

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A private secretary of Pillayan and another person were shot dead while they were traveling in former TMVP spokesperson Asad Moulana’s car at Oruwala in Athurugiriya in Nugegoda of Colombo district Friday around 11:30 a.m., Police said. The slain key operative, an associate of Pillayan was identified as Kumaraswami Nandagoban alias Ragu. Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna, since his deportation back to Sri Lanka from UK, has been demanding the removal of Ragu from the TMVP.

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