SIM card details registered during search operation

[TamilNet, Sunday, 29 June 2008, 09:03 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army and the Police, while conducting a joint search operation in Wellawatte, a Tamil suburb of Colombo, on Saturday registered details of mobile phone numbers and the serial number of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards. Meanwhile, many of the civilians taken for inquiries are yet to return, the residents said.
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Jaffna student reported missing in Colombo

[TamilNet, Saturday, 28 June 2008, 11:47 GMT]
A 20-year Tamil youth from Jaffna, staying with his aunt in Wellawatte in Colombo, has been reported missing since June 26, according to complaints lodged with the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) and International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) by relatives.
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A'laveddi Tamil youth missing in Dehiwala

[TamilNet, Saturday, 28 June 2008, 11:43 GMT]
A 21-year Tamil youth from A'laveddi in Jaffna district, working in Colombo for nearly a one year, has been reported missing since June 24, according to complaints lodged by his sister with the Dehiwala Police, Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) and International Committee of Red cross (ICRC), sources said.
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Sri Lanka appoints Jayantha Wickremaratne as new IGP

[TamilNet, Saturday, 28 June 2008, 11:41 GMT]
Jayantha Wickremaratne, senior Deputy Inspector General of Police, has been appointed 31st Inspector General of Police (IGP) of Sri Lanka with effect from July 1. He is to assume office on July 2. The incumbent IGP Victor Perera is to retire from service on June 30th, sources in Colombo said.
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Weerawansa, Pillayan discuss alliance

[TamilNet, Saturday, 28 June 2008, 10:04 GMT]
Wimal Weerawansa, a pro-government politician who heads a breakaway faction of the Sinhala extreme nationalist JVP, Saturday morning held discussions with Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, the leader of the paramilitary-cum-political party TMVP, who was recently installed by Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling UPFA as the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province, to reach a 'common understanding' and to form a 'common political front', informed sources in Colombo told TamilNet. Meanwhile, JVP sources, when contacted with the news, described the move as 'alliance of puppets.'
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Young SLN recruit commits suicide in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Saturday, 28 June 2008, 06:33 GMT]
A 23-year-old Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) recruit, enlisted six months ago, shot himself to death Wednesday night at Allaippiddi, in the islets of Jaffna. The young recruit left a letter saying that he was deceived by his recruiters and brought to the north and that he was not granted leave to go home.
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Kaithadi Tamil youth abducted in Colombo

[TamilNet, Friday, 27 June 2008, 14:53 GMT]
A Tamil youth Subramaniam Vaseeharan, 21, was abducted Thursday night while staying in a lodge located along Kathiresan Road in Colombo, according to complaints lodged with the Kotahena Police by his relatives.
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FMM: State media level dangerous allegation against Press Institute

[TamilNet, Friday, 27 June 2008, 12:41 GMT]
Colombo based media watchdog, the Free Media Movement (FMM), on Friday expressed serious concern against a false story planted in the Sri Lankan state controlled newspaper, 'Dinamina', a paper considered as one of the mouthpieces of the government, leveling dangerous allegations against Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) and a group of journalists who participated in a journalism course in Denmark. The story alleged that the SLPI had sent members connected to LTTE under Journalist label. The FMM has demanded the Sri Lankan media minister to extend a formal apology to the Sri Lankan Press Institute (SLPI) and the journalists who participated a journalism training course in Denmark.
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Slain Maheswaran’s associate knifed to death

[TamilNet, Friday, 27 June 2008, 09:53 GMT]
Unknown men killed Friday around 1:40 a.m. knifed to death a close associate of late T. Maheswaran, former Sri Lanka minister and United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian for Colombo district at his residence on Wyman Road in Jaffna, police said. The victim was making arrangements for a memorial event that was to be held in Nalloor Thurkkaa Ma’ni Ma’ndapam Friday in remembrance of late Maheswaran who was slain on 01 January in Colombo.
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Heavy fighting in Vavuniyaa front

[TamilNet, Thursday, 26 June 2008, 14:33 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) officials in Vanni told reporters Thursday that their fighters confronted the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) from 8:30 a.m. till 3:20 p.m. at Paalamoaddai in Vavuniyaa claiming that 8 SLA troopers were killed and 24 wounded in repeated clashes. Meanwhile, the Sri Lanka Army officials in Colombo claimed that their troops have brought Periya Madu in Maanthai West of Mannaar district, under their control.
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Jaffna student reported missing in Colombo

[TamilNet, Thursday, 26 June 2008, 13:19 GMT]
A student of St. John’s College, Jaffna, selected to Sri Jayawardnepura University is reported missing since Wednesday from Wellawathe, a suburb of Colombo, where he was staying with his aunt, according to complaint made by her to Sri Lankan Deputy Minister for Vocational Training and Industrial Education, P. Rathakrishnan.
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3 expatriate Tamils arrested in Colombo

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 14:33 GMT]
Kollupittiya police arrested three expatriate Tamil family men returning after many years abroad 18 June in kollupittiya, according to a complaint lodged with Sri Lankan Deputy Minister for Vocational Training and Industrial Education, P. Rathakrishnan, by the sister of one of the arrestees, sources in Colombo said. Police said that the arrests were made on a tip received by them that one of them was in possession of fake hundred dollar bills.
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White powder scare closes Colombo U.S. Embassy

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 14:05 GMT]
United States Embassy officials in Colombo ordered complete closure of the embassy after mysterious white powder in a paper container was recovered in the visa section Wednesday 11:00 a.m., sources in Colombo said.
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Janaka Perera promises victory for UNP in provincial election

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 11:12 GMT]
"As I have demonstrated in the battlefield, I will also show my organizational ability in the elections," said Major General (retd) Janaka Perera, sources in Colombo said. Mr Perera has been nominated by the main opposition United National Party (UNP) as the chief ministerial candidate for the North Central Provincial Council (NCPC).
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Time for Tamil Nadu to Act

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 20:04 GMT]
The negative approaches of the International Community towards the Tamil cause in Sri Lanka and towards the Tamil diaspora are allegedly more due to the Indian attitude than due to pressure from the Colombo government. How to expect the IC to back the masses facing genocide, when their brethren in India are not voicing for them? Voicing is not merely holding rallies and making speeches. They will not be counted in an international forum. What about the Tamil Nadu Assembly passing a resolution, upholding the right to self determination of the Eezham Tamils, and announcing a policy of supporting it, confining to the purview of the Indian constitution and laws, opines columnist Chivanadi.
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Colombo court reserves order in Tissanayagam case

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 04:20 GMT]
Colombo Chief Magistrate Monday reserved his order for June 30 on the application made by counsel for journalist J.S.Tissanayagam and two others that continuous detention by the Terrorism Prevention Unit exceeding thirty days under the Emergency Regulations is a violation of law, and pleaded the court to transfer the suspects to remand prison immediately, legal sources said.
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STF exposed in Batticaloa killings: TNA MP

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 01:07 GMT]
The indiscriminate shooting on Sunday by Special Task Force (STF) troops of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) resulting in the killing of two civilians and injuring three others in Ka’luthaava’lai, Batticaloa demonstrates the 'barbaric behaviour' of STF, Batticaloa district Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian T.Kanagasabai Batticaloa district said in a press communiqué released Monday.
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India helping Colombo to perpetrate genocide on Tamils, accuses Vaiko

[TamilNet, Monday, 23 June 2008, 14:39 GMT]
In a letter to the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, Vaiko, General Secretary of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), accused India of “equipping the Sri Lanka Government to help its war machine to perpetrate genocidal attacks against the Tamils...throwing to winds the farsighted foreign policy adopted by Pandit Nehru and Mrs. Indira Gandhi,” and urged the Prime Minister to not participate in the SAARC Conference.
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Insurance salesman shot dead in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Monday, 23 June 2008, 04:29 GMT]
Unidentified armed persons shot dead a Tamil person employed by Trincomalee branch of a private sector life insurance company in Trincomalee town Sunday night around 7.50 p.m., police sources in Trincomalee said. The company is headquartered in Colombo.
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Janaka Perera to be UNP defense spokesman

[TamilNet, Sunday, 22 June 2008, 09:38 GMT]
The main United National Party (UNP) leadership has decided to appoint Major General (retd) Janaka Perera as the defense spokesman of the party. Janaka Perera, after retirement from the Sri Lanka Army, served as the High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Australia and Indonesia. Informed sources further said that the party had also decided to name him as its candidate for the post of Chief Minister for the North Central Provincial Council.
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