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Court rejects confession under torture[TamilNet, Tuesday, 26 June 2001, 12:50 GMT]The Eastern High Court in Trincomalee Friday acquitted the accused in the murder four years ago of former Trincomalee District Parliamentarian M.E.H.Maharoof. The accused had been in remand at Kalutara prisons for the four years. "I acquit the accused as I cannot accept his confession made to the police voluntary and also due to contradictory and inconsistent evidence led by the prosecution," said High Court Judge Mr.A.N.Ramachandran in his order delivered Friday. Full story >> Driver, schoolboy missing in Mannar[TamilNet, Tuesday, 26 June 2001, 02:04 GMT]The Mannar Citizens’ Committee Monday received four complaints about two disappearances and two arrests. Arumugam Thevarajah, 40, a driver who went to the Sri Lanka Army's pass office in Mannar town on 18 June to obtain a temporary resident permit to stay in the suburb of Panankattikottu, did not return home and is missing since then, according to a complaint lodged by his sister Kanapathipillai Thevanayagi. A fifteen-year-old student in Mannar has also been reported missing since 13 June. Relatives who fear that he might have been arrested and detained have sought the Citizens’ Committee’s assistance to trace him. Full story >> Girl raped in Police checkpoint[TamilNet, Monday, 25 June 2001, 15:23 GMT]Three Policemen on duty at a checkpoint in downtown Colombo were arrested Monday for gang raping a girl in the early hours of the morning on Sunday. The girl was returning from work with a boy when she was stopped at the Police checkpoint near the Central Theatre in Maradana in downtown Colombo around 4.45 a.m. The Policemen had allegedly gang raped the girl after forcing her inside their checkpoint by threatening her that they would arrest and detain her on suspicion that she is a spy of the Liberation Tigers if she refused to get into the bunker. Any member of the Sri Lankan security forces regardless of his/her rank can arrest anyone if she/he has “reasonable ground” to suspect that the person has links with the Liberation Tigers under the provisions of the Emergency Regulations (18.1). Full story >> Tigers deny shutting down civilian crossing[TamilNet, Monday, 25 June 2001, 11:50 GMT]The Voice of Tigers radio said in its morning news broadcast Monday that the Liberation Tigers denied a Sri Lanka army report that they had closed the main crossing point to the Vanni. No lorries from the Vanni came to the crossing point for civilians and international humanitarian agencies at Piramanaalankulam, 28 kilometres west of Vavuniya, on Saturday. The SLA Saturday issued a statement that claimed the lorries had not come because the LTTE had closed the crossing. “We are not aware of any disruption in the normal operation of the Piramanaalankulam checkpoint. The question of lorries coming from or going to the Vanni is a matter that comes totally under the purview of the Government Agent, not us”, the press officer of the ICRC, Mr. Harasha Gunawardene, told Tamilnet Monday, referring to the SLA statement which quoted the ICRC as saying no lorries had come from the Vanni on Saturday. Full story >> LTTE claymore kills seven SLA in Jaffna[TamilNet, Monday, 25 June 2001, 09:09 GMT]Seven soldiers were killed and twenty-two injured when a Sri Lanka army truck was hit by a claymore mine set off by the Liberation Tigers in Madduvil, about 25 kilometres east of Jaffna town around 1.20 p.m. Monday, military sources in the peninsula said. Casualties could rise as several soldiers in the truck were wounded seriously, they said. Full story >> Two youths shot dead in Jaffna[TamilNet, Friday, 22 June 2001, 20:29 GMT]Two youths were shot dead by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers near Thankaaval Pillayar temple in Nallur, a suburb of Jaffna town, around 4 p.m. Friday. The army said they were members of the Liberation Tigers. The area was sealed off and thoroughly searched by the soldiers following the incident. Full story >> Tamil parties sign no confidence motion[TamilNet, Thursday, 21 June 2001, 13:28 GMT]Three Tamil parties in Sri Lanka’s Parliament signed the no confidence motion against the ruling People’s Alliance government in Sri Lanka Thursday. The Tamil United Liberation Front, the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation and the All Ceylon Tamil Congress which together have nine seats in the legislature. However, a spokesman for the radical Marxist Janata Vimukthi Peramuna which has ten seats, and hence holds the key to the numbers manoeuvring in the Sri Lankan Parliament, said Thursday that it would announce its decision on Saturday. Full story >> Rauff Hakeem removed from cabinet[TamilNet, Wednesday, 20 June 2001, 03:05 GMT]Mr. Rauff Hakeem, senior minister and the leader of the main coalition partner of Sri Lanka's ruling People's Alliance government, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress was removed from the cabinet, state media announced Wednesday morning. He was stripped of his cabinet portfolio on the directions of the President, Sri Lankan government sources said. Meanwhile the Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament ruled Wednesday that the Supreme court has no right to overule the national legislature on the question of impeaching the Chief Justice. Full story >> Troops move amid protesting students[TamilNet, Tuesday, 19 June 2001, 12:42 GMT]More than five hundred undergraduates of the Eastern University held a protest demonstration Tuesday morning demanding the release of one of their colleagues who was arrested and detained by the Sri Lanka army in Vavuniya last Friday 15 June and objecting to the military entering and searching the campus on 14 June. Students stood on either side of the highway carrying placards and crying slogans as Sri Lanka army soldiers who had arrived in an armoured vehicle stood at the main entrance of the university. Full story >> Batticaloa gets 'Writing on the wall'[TamilNet, Sunday, 17 June 2001, 16:19 GMT]Sri Lanka army soldiers nonchalantly pass by the large writings on the wall in Vathaarumoolai, 19 kilometres north of Batticaloa. The attitude surprises visitors and locals alike because these are larger than life graffiti of the Liberation Tigers which began appearing since early last month in many parts of the Batticaloa district's coastal region which is controlled by the Sri Lankan security forces. Some have been sprayed very close to army camps on Batticaloa coastal highway. Full story >> SLA detains Eastern University undergrad[TamilNet, Saturday, 16 June 2001, 17:30 GMT]An undergraduate of the Eastern University was arrested and detained by the Sri Lanka army for questioning Friday in Vavuniya. A group of ten undergraduates of the Eastern University returning from the Vanni were taken for questioning at the SLA entry point in Piramanaalankulam Friday morning. Nine undergraduates were released from the SLA Goods Shed camp after interrogation. But Mr. Selvarasa Suntharalingam was detained for further investigations at the 21-1 Brigade of the SLA in Vavuniya, Human Rights Commission sources in Vavuniya said. Full story >> Twelve SLA wounded in attack and own fire[TamilNet, Saturday, 16 June 2001, 16:53 GMT]Six Sri Lanka army soldiers who were lying in ambush were wounded in Sector Eight on the Vavuniya-Mannar highway when the Liberation Tigers attacked them late Friday night around 11.40 a.m. military sources said. Six troopers of an SLA ambush party were injured when an SLA road clearing patrol opened fire them, mistaking them for Liberation Tigers, in the general area of Kalmadu, west of the A9 junction at Thaandikkulam near Vavuniya town Friday morning around 6 a.m. Full story >> Claymore kills LTTE's eastern political leader[TamilNet, Friday, 15 June 2001, 21:21 GMT]The leader of the political wing of the Liberation Tigers for the Batticaloa and Ampara district was killed in a claymore mine blast Thursday around 11.30 a.m. at Vaathakkalmadu in Nallathanni Odai, about 36 kilometres south west of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka army sources in the eastern town said. They claimed that the Batticaloa-Ampara district's political wing leader, Nizaam, was killed when the claymore blast hit the motorbike on which he was riding with a colleague Thursday morning. Full story >> ICRC war surgery seminar in Colombo[TamilNet, Friday, 15 June 2001, 21:10 GMT]"Since its establishment 138 years ago, the main goal of the ICRC has been to assist and protect, as a neutral intermediary, the victims of armed conflict. The ICRC bases its mandate on rules of international humanitarian law, the rules of war, which it has helped to develop and promote, and which have culminated in the four Geneva conventions and their Additional Protocols. The Geneva Conventions have been ratified by 189 states (including Sri Lanka) , which makes these humanitarian provisions the most widely recognised body of international law" said the head of Delegation, ICRC Colombo, Ms. Isabelle Barras, in her welcome address at the 2-day 'seminar on War Surgery' which opened in Colombo Friday. Full story >> Judge slams PTA, ER laws[TamilNet, Thursday, 14 June 2001, 21:16 GMT]"The Prevention of Terrorism Act and the Emergency Regulations restrict the human rights enshrined in the 1978 Constitution of the country. Human rights violations occur daily in some way or other," said Mr.T.L.O.Manaf, Trincomalee Additional District Judge addressing a one-day workshop on Human Rights Thursday, organized by the Eastern Rehabilitation Organization under the sponsorship of the Canadian High Commission in Sri Lanka. Full story >> SLA troops search Eastern University[TamilNet, Thursday, 14 June 2001, 03:12 GMT]The Sri Lanka army cordoned off and searched the eastern University campus in Vanthaarumoolai, 18 kilometres north of Batticaloa, from early morning Thursday. Soldiers barred university staff who reported to work in the morning from entering the campus. Sources said that the army began searching the Eastern University premises following a clash between an SLA ambush party and a group of Tigers in the early hours of the morning around 1.30 p.m. at a crossing point close to the campus, sources said. Full story >> Call for permanent UN rights office[TamilNet, Wednesday, 13 June 2001, 11:17 GMT]"The report of the Presidential Commission that inquired into the disappearances taken place in the northeast of country is still in the cupboard. We do not know when that report will be implemented. Justice delayed is justice denied" said Attorney-at-Law Kasinathar Sivapalan, and a human rights activist, presiding over a function held in Trincomalee on Tuesday to publish the Tamil edition of the Human Development Report-2000, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Full story >> Jaffna hospital a human shield - doctors[TamilNet, Monday, 11 June 2001, 21:31 GMT]"The Jaffna hospital has been a human shield since 1996. As such the use of some of its buildings and passages is still prohibited. Our reasonable request to remove the Sri Lanka army camp near the Jaffna hospital in consideration of the safety of its patients and staff and to declare it and its environs as a demilitarised zone under the supervision of the ICRC has not been heeded until this day", said Medical officers in Jaffna who went on a protest strike along with their colleagues in the north and east of Sri Lanka Monday. Full story >> ICRC course for senior army NCOs[TamilNet, Monday, 11 June 2001, 18:53 GMT]
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